Kana's question was more of a probe, she didn't expect Ryūka to agree just like that.
So, after Ryūka's straightforward refusal, she didn't press the issue.
After that, Naruto continued to lead them on their journey.
They'd visit a town during the day, having fun and exploring, and then spend the evenings with Kana, studying how to strengthen the Uzumaki Clan.
After a full five days, the four of them finally returned to the Land of Waves.
After settling everyone in the Land of Waves, Naruto left a Shadow Clone behind. His main body returned to Konoha, as he had been gone for a while.
Fortunately, the Shadow Clone also had the Nine-Tails helping with chakra refinement, so even after several days, it remained intact, and no one noticed anything amiss.
Also, there was good news: the Shadow Clones left at the Iburi Residence had finally finished training the Flying Thunder God Technique.
Now, Naruto's mastery of the Flying Thunder God Technique was no weaker than Minato's. He could use it without any startup or cooldown, and was capable of Flying Thunder God, Second Step, and Flying Thunder God, Guiding Thunder, as well as setting up the Flying Thunder God Barrier.
As for that Rasengan Flash Super Round Dance Howl Three Style, don't let the complicated name fool you; it was just the Flying Thunder God combined with a flashbang.
Essentially, he would use the Flying Thunder God to instantly teleport, adding the effect of a flashbang to blind the enemy, and then finish them off.
Enemies who could be fooled by a flashbang wouldn't be that difficult to deal with anyway.
For difficult enemies, adding a flashbang wouldn't make much of a difference.
So, from beginning to end, Minato's self-created technique was never really useful.
After Naruto absorbed the experience from his Shadow Clones and rested, he once again created a hundred Shadow Clones and had them work on developing the Wind Style: Rasenshuriken.
As for himself, he finally went to school like a good boy.
"Ugh! This is so boring!"
Naruto yawned, utterly bored, as he listened to some unknown teacher droning on and on at the podium.
Well, he admitted he regretted it. He shouldn't have come here to suffer.
What in the world was he even talking about?
Something about ninja songs and ninja opportunities... that when a large group of enemies is in chaos, it's a good opportunity to sneak in, and that ninjas needed to grasp the timing, which was when the enemy was tired and relaxed…
Damn it, he could roughly understand the meaning, but the sentences were disjointed; it was all nonsense.
Listening to this was worse than letting him talk about the glorious history of the Third Hokage, the greatest and strongest of all time… or rather, his glorious war history.
Then, not far away, Shikamaru was also yawning.
The two bored individuals' eyes met, and they couldn't help but start winking at each other.
Shikamaru: "What a coincidence, you're bored too?"
Naruto: "Yeah, let's skip class together!"
Shikamaru: "Alright, but we need a way to distract the teacher."
Naruto: "Of course, this is your job."
Shikamaru: "Ugh, what a pain!"
"Hey, hey, hey, Naruto, Shikamaru, what's going on with you two? Are you even listening to the lesson? And what are you two guys doing, winking at each other? Are you flirting?!"
On the podium, the teacher saw everything, and couldn't help but slam the table.
What a joke! He was teaching so vividly, even he was engrossed, and yet someone was still slacking off.
"Sensei, I have a question!" Shikamaru suddenly raised his hand.
The teacher frowned. "Ask quickly! But don't think I'll let you off the hook! After you're done asking, I'll make you stand at the back."
These two were the problem students of the class; the teacher felt no pressure in reprimanding them.
"Look here!" Naruto jumped onto the table at that moment and shouted, forming a hand seal, "Harem Jutsu!"
Poof!
After a puff of smoke, a naked, yet half-covered, fat woman with a seductive pose appeared. Her huge body almost collapsed the table.
Pfft—
Many people were captivated by Naruto and, upon seeing this scene, directly choked, their eyes instantly glazing over.
The teacher on the podium was even more dramatic, blood surging upwards, spewing out a large mouthful of blood and collapsing backward.
"Run!"
Naruto slapped the equally stunned Shikamaru hard and jumped out of the classroom window first.
Shikamaru snapped back to his senses and pulled Chōji beside him, following closely behind.
Of course, the last member of the truancy quartet was indispensable.
Inuzuka Kiba lagged a step behind but quickly caught up.
A few minutes later, the truancy quartet sprinted all the way to their usual hideout.
Everyone fell to the ground, then burst into laughter.
"Naruto, you were too much! Turning into that guy's wife… He's going to kill you next time he sees you," Inuzuka Kiba said, tears streaming down his face.
The scene had been so funny, he couldn't stop laughing.
That teacher's "wife," naked, was in the classroom, striking poses in front of his students. No wonder the teacher's blood pressure shot up and he fainted.
After laughing, Shikamaru complained, "He said to think of a way. I'd already figured it out—make him write the question on the blackboard, and we'd run when he turned around. But you had to do that, and now the teacher definitely hates us. Ugh, what a pain."
According to Shikamaru's plan, the teacher would still be mad.
But he wouldn't be too harsh on them, the bad students.
After all, in the teacher's eyes, these guys were hopeless.
But Naruto's antics had thoroughly offended the teacher, and the four truants were in deep trouble.
Naruto chuckled, "He was being so rude. He said we had to stand as punishment before we even did anything, so I just wanted to get back at him. Everyone knows it was me using the Transformation Technique, it's not like his wife actually ran around naked."
"Pfft..." Kiba, who had just stopped laughing, couldn't help but burst out again.
Shikamaru laughed and scolded, "You, you're even more cunning than before. If it were me, I definitely wouldn't let you get away with this!"
Chōji pulled out a few bags of chips from his pocket and distributed one to each of them, then said, "I think Shikamaru definitely wouldn't, because you hate trouble the most. You wouldn't bother with such a trivial matter."
Chōji's words left the others speechless. Was this really just a trivial matter?
That's right, in Chōji's eyes, nothing was important except food.
"Hehe, how about you lend me your future wife? I'm sure you wouldn't mind, right?" Naruto grinned, putting his arm around Shikamaru's shoulder.
"Get lost!" Shikamaru flipped him off.
Shikamaru took Naruto's words as a joke, naturally not paying any attention.
Moreover, he thought that the "use" in "let me borrow" was just for using as material for the Harem Jutsu.
Anyway, he didn't know where his future wife was yet, so there was nothing to borrow.
But how could he know that when Naruto spoke, what he was thinking was to borrow Temari away, and it was the kind of borrowing where he wouldn't give her back.
After all, friends are for stabbing in the back, and only women are the most important!
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