Naruto put his hands on his hips, looking at the ant colony dozens of meters away, and shouted, "How will you return to the Ant Nest?"
Of course, the ant colony wouldn't answer him, which made Naruto very conflicted. The correct answer was 'with a smile or in silence.' The ant colony was silent now, so could that be considered matching the code?
If he couldn't figure it out, he wouldn't think about it. Naruto turned his head and said, "The code doesn't match. Sasuke, a big Fire Release!"
Tenten didn't understand Naruto's operation: "What kind of code are you trying to match, and why are you matching codes with ants..."
Ziyang Hua also didn't understand Naruto's way of thinking, looking at Sakura with a suspicious gaze, and asked, "Is he... really strong?"
Sakura stammered, squeezing out a sentence: "...Very strong, in every sense of the word."
Sasuke stood out and quickly formed hand seals: "Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation!"
Naruto wasn't idle either, using a Kunai to cut his finger—he always felt it was too difficult to bite his finger open with his teeth, he couldn't bring himself to do it:
"Summoning Jutsu!"
A red Toad holding an iron fork in one hand and a shield on its back appeared at Naruto's feet.
Naruto patted Gamaken's head and greeted him in a Chinese style: "Have you eaten?"
"Not yet." Gamaken seemed to suddenly remember something, saying, "Although I am clumsy, I won't eat you again."
Naruto was covered in black lines. Why did this Toad bring up the one thing he didn't want to talk about? He stomped his foot on its head: "Don't mention that last time. Look at those big ants in front, are they enough for you to eat?"
Gamaken looked at the dark mass of ants behind the flames spewed out by Sasuke, seriously considering his appetite, and replied, "Too many, I can't eat them all."
It was quite tiring to talk to an honest Toad. Naruto sighed: "Alright, then you go process the ingredients first. Should I call Gamabunta and the others over too?"
"Okay, although I am clumsy, I still have no problem dealing with ingredients." Gamaken kicked off with his hind legs and jumped into the high sky, then landed heavily in the ant colony, flattening a large area, sweeping with his fork, and slamming with his shield.
Naruto jumped down from Gamaken's head, taking advantage of the blood on his hand not drying, and used the Summoning Technique in the air, the ancestral secret technique: "Summoning: Vendor Crushing Technique!"
Nine Tails in the Sealing Space twitched his eyelids. He was familiar with this move and really wanted to jump out and bite those Toads to death.
Gamabunta and Gamahiro landed in the middle of the ant colony, flattening a large area. Even Gamakichi and Gamaryu were called over by Naruto, squatting on Gamabunta's head to join in the fun.
Looking at the mountain-like Toads, Ziyang Hua was shocked: "So strong!"
Gamabunta sized up the surrounding environment and said, "So it's the Fourth Hokage's son. Summoning us in such a dry place will be very troublesome for me."
Naruto explained with a smile, "Hahaha, didn't we encounter a lot of fresh ingredients? I wanted to invite you to have a meal. Gamaken said he couldn't eat them all by himself."
Gamabunta took a puff of smoke and said, "Looks pretty good. You little kids go down first, we'll go collect the ingredients. Let's go, Gamahiro!"
Gamahiro picked up his twin swords: "Understood!"
Naruto beckoned to Gamakichi and Gamaryu, jumping in front of the pile of ants roasted by Sasuke's Fire Release: "Come, come, come, try this pile that's been roasted."
The two "little" Toads, already two meters tall, happily each picked a big ant to taste.
Gamakichi: "The heat control isn't very good."
Gamaryu: "Some places are burnt."
Naruto grinned and shouted back, "Sasuke, did you hear that? You still need to practice your Fire Release!"
Sasuke's mouth twitched, really wanting to punch Naruto in the face. Was he practicing Fire Release to roast bugs for Toads to eat?
When the Mount Myoboku Three Ruffians appeared on the battlefield, the fate of these ants was already sealed. The shift from predator to prey happened so quickly, all thanks to a Little Blondie who wanted to treat them to a meal.
In the end, the fresh ant corpses piled up like mountains. Gamakichi poked Naruto with a finger and asked, "Naruto, can these be deep-fried?"
"I don't have a pot that big..." Naruto said, a little embarrassed, then suddenly had an idea. "Gamaken's shield is quite suitable. The shape looks like a bowl no matter how you look at it."
Gamakichi happily said, "I can borrow that from Uncle Ken. Uncle Ken is simple-minded and easy to talk to, but what about the stand? Should I steal Dad's and Uncle Hiro's short swords?"
"Uh... you two would get beaten to death." Naruto thought for a moment, then suddenly remembered a certain salted fish. "I can send Kakashi-sensei to Mount Myoboku. He's great at using Earth Release Barrier, and he even sculpts dog heads on it."
Gamaryu, being simple and cute, raised his hand and asked, "Um... can you sculpt toad heads..."
...
Ziyang Hua watched as the ants that had treated them as food ultimately became someone else's food, feeling somewhat complicated. "This is the power of the Summoning Jutsu. I must master even more powerful Summoning Jutsu in the future!"
As for Tenten, listening to the conversation between Naruto and the Toads, she felt there were too many things to complain about and didn't know where to start. Speaking of which, is it really okay for you to keng your own teacher like that?
After the Toads had their fill and finished their work, Naruto provided them with a takeaway service, which should be enough for them to eat for a few days.
After finishing up, Naruto asked, "What do you plan to do? Wait here or travel with us for a while?"
"I have a way to find my companions." Ziyang Hua took out the Earth Scroll and handed it over, saying, "Thank you for saving me. This should belong to you."
"We don't need it. Tenten, do you want it?" Naruto refused.
Tenten also didn't want to accept it. "I don't want a scroll obtained like this. Neji and Rock Lee wouldn't agree either. Let's just have a good fight when we meet later!"
"Is that so?" Ziyang Hua smiled. These people from Konoha didn't seem to have the ugly faces of ninja from a great nation at all.
"It won't be so easy next time!" Ziyang Hua put away the scroll and left on her own.
Naruto activated his mini-map and pointed. "Neji and Rock Lee are in that direction, heading over here. Shall we escort Tenten for a while?"
"Eh? Is that okay?" Tenten was a little embarrassed.
"It's okay. It's quite dangerous to be alone in this kind of desert." Sakura and Sasuke didn't object.
Sure enough, Neji and Rock Lee rushed over, covered in dust:
"Tenten!" *2
Tenten happily waved at them. "Neji, Lee!"
Neji asked with concern, "How are you? Are you alright?"
Tenten shook her head. "Thanks to Naruto and the others!"
"Thank you very much!" Rock Lee shouted loudly while bowing ninety degrees.
"You're welcome!" Naruto waved his hand, indicating it was nothing. If Tenten and his future brother-in-law get together, then he'd have to call her sister-in-law. They're all one family.
After a brief chat, the two teams separated. Naruto and the others continued to head towards the stronghold, while Neji and the others set their sights on a nearby team, intending to snatch their scroll.
The next day passed relatively peacefully. On the third day of the exam, a change finally occurred.
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