Chapter 11: Kurenai Yuhi's Disguised Protection
Hearing Naruto's words, Kurenai Yuhi almost lost control of her tears again. She quickly composed herself and gave Naruto a flirtatious glance.
"What are you thinking! These fish are your thanks to me, so of course I'm taking them back to savor slowly! Come on! Now I'm going to test you and see if you really recognize all those words."
"Oh! Okay!"
Seeing Naruto agree, Kurenai Yuhi smiled, stood up to take the grilled fish, and led the way.
And Naruto still kept his head down, following Kurenai Yuhi's footsteps.
It was unclear whether Kurenai Yuhi did it intentionally or unintentionally.
Kurenai Yuhi brought Naruto to the Konoha Ninja Library.
After borrowing a book, Kurenai Yuhi led Narutoout of the library, but as they walked, she said to him: "Anyone can enter this library. There are many books inside, like Strategy Battle Manuals and simple Medical Ninjutsu. They are all here. If you have nothing to do normally, you can come here to read. No matter who it is, you must not make a noise; you must remember this."
Naruto also roughly understood what Kurenai Yuhimeant. If no one was teaching him normally, he could come to this library; as long as he didn't damage the books, he could read whatever he wanted.
But hearing the last part, Naruto almost laughed out loud; Kurenai Yuhi was already starting to find ways to protect him.
Naruto and Kurenai Yuhi soon arrived at a deserted place. Kurenai Yuhi handed the book to Naruto and asked him to read it once.
Naruto took the book nonchalantly and began to read it carefully.
However, as he read, Naruto felt something was off because this book recorded some common knowledge of Ninjutsu and the elemental interactions of basic Ninjutsu.
Halfway through, Naruto looked up at Kurenai Yuhi.
Only to see Kurenai Yuhi smiling gently and nodding at him.
"You've learned well! Keep up the hard work."
"Thank you, Big Sister! I still don't know your name."
Kurenai Yuhi smiled and shook her head, saying: "You'll naturally find out my name when you're supposed to. Let me take you back!"
Naruto shook his head and said: "No need! I know the way home; I can go back by myself! Goodbye, Big Sister!"
After saying that, Naruto tried to run away in a flash.
Seeing Naruto leave, Kurenai Yuhi immediately pulled back the expression on her face and went to report to the Third.
Hiruzen Sarutobi listened to Kurenai Yuhi's report and nodded, saying: "You did very well! You may leave!"
"Yes, Lord Third!"
Originally, Kurenai Yuhi wanted to say that five hundred ryo a month might not be enough for Naruto, but for some reason, she didn't say it.
Actually, if five hundred ryo were given to an ordinary family, it would be quite enough for a month.
As long as they bought ordinary rice, flour, and common vegetables to cook at home, it would not only be enough but also have some left over.
But Naruto was no ordinary person, which was why five hundred ryo wasn't enough.
Returning home, Naruto took out the Uzumaki Clan's Chakra Refinement Technique.
Perhaps because Naruto had the Uzumaki Bloodline, he was very compatible with the Uzumaki Clan's Chakra Refinement Technique. One refinement session produced ten times the Chakra he had refined before.
The next day:
After waking up, Naruto signed in as usual!
"Ding, congratulations to the host for obtaining the Uzumaki Bloodline. Use it?"
"U-...!"
Halfway through his sentence, Naruto quickly asked the system: "Did you just say Uzumaki Bloodline?"
"Yes, host!"
"You can even get bloodlines from signing in? Then can the Uchiha Clan's bloodline be signed in as well?"
"Correct, host! The stronger the host, the wider the range of items obtained from signing in. In the future, you might even sign in the Ōtsutsuki Bloodline! Please keep up the effort."
Naruto didn't expect this sign-in system to be linked to his own strength.
Looking at the virtual screen displaying whether to use the Uzumaki Bloodline, Naruto pondered for a while and then said: "Use the Uzumaki Bloodline!"
"Ding, Uzumaki Bloodline used successfully!"
As soon as the system finished speaking, Narutofelt a sense of fullness in his cells; his entire body seemed to be revitalized, and his Chakra volume increased significantly.
"This Uzumaki Bloodline is incredible! No wonder they could establish an independent nation. With this Chakra volume, as long as I learn some large-scale Ninjutsu and Sealing Jutsu, this would definitely be the second-largest ninja village!"
Naruto sighed and asked the system: "Is my current Chakra volume as much as Kakashi's?"
"Ding, the host's current Chakra volume is on par with Kakashi's."
With a mischievous grin, Naruto said: "I'm now a man with one 'Ka'!"
After being silly for a while, Naruto began to wash up. While looking in the mirror, he saw his hair had turned red; he knew this was the symbol of the Uzumaki Clan.
"System, can this red hair of mine be changed?"
"Ding, yes!"
"Change it back to the previous color!"
"Ding, the host's hair color has been changed!"
Naruto watched as the hair in the mirror slowly turned from red back to its previous yellow.
It wasn't that Naruto disliked red hair, but given the current situation in Konoha, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Danzo Shimura, and the others wouldn't allow even the slightest anomaly, especially since he was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
After washing up and eating breakfast, Naruto did the same as yesterday: running for exercise, drinking Spirit Spring water three times in between, and running until he fainted.
With yesterday's example, Naruto wasn't afraid that no one would take him home after he fainted.
Sure enough, before long, the white-haired Anbusent Naruto home.
This time, Naruto didn't wake up immediately after returning home. By the time he woke up again, it was already noon. As usual, he used a Shadow Clone to watch the house while his true body entered the Spirit Spring Space, drank the spring water, and after eating and drinking his fill, sat cross-legged to refine Chakra.
For the upcoming period, Naruto had already made a plan: running and exercising in the morning, going to the library to read in the afternoon, and refining Chakra at night.
As for the Shadow Clone in the Spirit Spring Space, with the newly added knowledge, whether it was learning Sealing Jutsu or re-developing Ninjutsu, it had new ideas and directions.
This led to significant progress in the Lightning Release Body Strengthening Technique he had thought of before, though it hadn't been successful yet.
Just as Naruto was about to head out to study as usual, the Third came to his door again.
Naruto felt a bit of dislike seeing Hiruzen Sarutobi, but he still greeted him with a smile, saying: "Grandpa Third, you're here!"
"Yes, little Naruto, have you been doing well lately?"
In his heart, Naruto let out a torrent of abuse at Hiruzen Sarutobi: 'Don't you know if I'm doing well? You monitor me twenty-four hours a day and even peek at me with a Crystal Ball, what are you playing dumb for!'
But on the surface, he was still all smiles, saying to Hiruzen Sarutobi: "Quite well! I've been very busy lately! It's just that learning feels too slow. If only I could split into a dozen or twenty versions of myself to learn together, that would be great."