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Chapter 41
"Little Sakyo?"
"How did you get here?"
Due to inertia, Naruto's sudden stop wasn't clean—he went charging straight toward Sakyo.
Sakyo's cool facade cracked instantly. She flashed aside, and Naruto ended up hugging a thick tree branch to barely stop himself.
Sakyo looked at him indifferently, as if she'd already seen through his little trick.
Naruto, seeing his plan fail, quickly stood up and said to Sakyo: "Little Sakyo, your reaction speed is getting faster and faster."
Sakyo: "…"
At the same time, the system's notification sounded in Naruto's ear.
"Ding~ Mission 2 complete. Reward: Lightning-Style Chakra Activation, Lightning-Style Chakra Mastery."
A wave of power surged through him. Naruto couldn't help letting out a comfortable groan.
"Ah~ So good."
But that sound made Sakyo step even farther away, looking at him like he was some kind of pervert.
Naruto ignored her and spoke inwardly to the system: "Open the status panel."
"Ding~ Status panel opened."
────────────────── Host: Uzumaki Naruto Bloodline: Uzumaki Bloodline (Fully Activated) Chakra Natures: Wind (Mastery), Lightning (Mastery) Overall Rating: 2489 Jutsu: Clone Technique, Transformation Technique, Shadow Clone Technique, Earth Style—Earth Splitting Palm System Points: 4600 ──────────────────
[Note: The reason you can use Earth Style without Earth affinity is that every ninja has relatively balanced chakra inside them. Most people only have one nature that stands out prominently. While they can use other styles, the effect is much weaker. That's why the system says "activate" instead of "obtain." For an example, look at Kakashi the Copy Ninja.]
Naruto smacked his lips: "This boost isn't as insane as the last few times, but it's still pretty good."
Lightning-Style Chakra Activation and Mastery simply made the lightning chakra in his body more active. Previously, any Lightning Style he used would have been greatly weakened—now it was top-tier.
As for mastery, it was mainly about chakra control.
Nothing much to say there. Naruto's overall rating kept getting more and more exaggerated, with more and more "padding."
If he didn't learn a few proper techniques soon, the padding would only get worse.
Logically, with this status panel, dealing with one Root ninja should have been as easy as snapping his fingers—almost guaranteed.
But because Naruto didn't know many ninjutsu and had basically zero real combat experience, the Root ninja managed to survive this long.
Sakyo saw Naruto return to normal and finally asked: "Why did you attack that ANBU? Are you planning to defect?"
In the ninja world, plenty of jinchūriki had defected before—there were precedents. Sakyo thought it was highly likely.
After all… Naruto's life in Konoha was awful. He was treated like a street rat everyone wanted to beat, had to threaten vendors with a kunai just to buy things.
In a situation like that, Sakyo admitted that even she might not be able to endure the constant discrimination and rejection.
The thought that Naruto might defect made her feel a pang of loss.
If Naruto left, she'd lose one of her best friends—the only true companion she was willing to accept from the bottom of her heart.
However…
Naruto shook his head, looking at her in surprise: "What are you talking about, Little Sakyo?"
"How could I defect?"
"Konoha has you in it. I'm not leaving."
Sakyo: "Huh?"
Hearing those words, Sakyo subconsciously opened her mouth in shock.
What did Naruto mean by that?
Could it be… he was staying in Konoha because of her?
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