Konoha's Peerless Peerless

Chapter 26 Old Friends
Out of Kakashi's sight, Lan jumped off the roof of the building, and after landing on a half-kneel, he turned his gaze to the front.

It was a street he used to pass by often, looking at the various stalls on the street, Lan couldn't help showing a hint of memory in his eyes.

I remember that when he entered the ninja school for the first time, he, like those ordinary civilian children, was eager to extract chakra and become a ninja.

He thought he would become a ninja if he entered the ninja school, but the reality gave him a slap in the face. From the moment the chakra was extracted from the last place in the class, Lan was already in despair.

From that day on, no matter how hard he tried and how good his grades were, he could never get rid of the contempt of his peers and the ridicule of those adults.

He clearly remembered that those people mocked him. Amidst the abuse, Lan became older and older. Because he couldn't extract Chakra, he stayed in the lowest grade until he was persuaded to leave.

Thinking of his previous experience, Lan smiled wryly, and when he was about to go to the dumpling shop to buy some dumplings, a female voice came from behind him.

"Lan...is that you?"

Hearing the sound, Lan couldn't help turning his head, only to see Uchiha Izumi with long hair and a forehead guard standing with two Shinin who also wore a forehead guard.

Lan was in the same class as Quanmei at first, but because of Chakra, he had no choice but to separate. During that dark time, Quanmei was one of the few people who did not mock him.

Seeing that the person she saw was Lan, Quan Mei told her teammates goodbye and trotted to Lan.

She glanced at Lan with a smile, and couldn't help feeling sad when she saw the ninja bag on Lan's body.

"Are you still playing ninja games..." Izumi's voice had a hint of sympathy.

Lan followed Izumi's gaze to see her ninja bag, smiled and shook her head before replying, "No, I haven't been playing ninja games since the moment I left the ninja school."

"Then why are you still wearing a ninja tool..." Quanmei hesitated, she was afraid that her words would hurt Lan's heart.

"Bring it because I'm a ninja now." Lan said relaxedly, nothing is easier than sharing happiness with friends.

"Ah? What did you say? You're not sick, aren't you extracting..." Quanmei didn't finish her sentence.

Lan looked at Quanmei, blinked his eyes, and then turned the chakra on his body into a chakra coat to show it.

The moment Chakra appeared on Lan, Izumi covered her mouth in surprise. When she graduated and became a ninja, she even inquired about Lan, only to find out that Lan was banned because she could not extract Chakra. expulsion.

Unexpectedly, Lan was able to extract Chakra now, and the amount of Chakra was quite a lot.

Quanmei was shocked.

Seeing that Quanmei was shocked, Lan smiled and put away the chakra.

I thought Quanmei would recover after putting away Chakra, but she was still in a daze. In order to wake her up, Lan had no choice but to stretch out her hand and shake it in front of her eyes: "Hey~ Don't be dazed, I have already put away Chakra. Woke up."

"Ah!" Quanmei cried out in a low voice, and after waking up, she looked at Lan with joy and asked excitedly, "How did you extract the chakra? When did you extract it?"

"Three months ago." Lan answered her with a smile.

"Three months ago!" Quan Mei couldn't help exclaiming again, and said in disbelief: "How come, your Chakra has become so much in just half a year, just kidding, if I read correctly, your Chakra I'm afraid Carat has surpassed Genin."

"Well, my Chakra has already reached the level of Chunin a month ago." After telling Quanmei about her situation, Lan asked with a hint of a smile: "By the way, how are you and Itachi doing now? , Did that brother-in-law maniac confess to you?"

Hearing Lan talking about her sweetheart, Quan Mei's face turned red, and after she stretched out her jade hand to freeze her red face for a while, she sighed and said, "Alas—what else can he do? In addition to the task, it is his annoying younger brother, I really can't figure out how he can be so stupid, I used the money I earned from accepting the task to buy materials to make rice balls for him last week, and guess what happened."

"What? Did he lose your rice ball?" Lan asked.

"No." Quanmei shook her head and denied Lan's guess, and then said helplessly, "That idiot of his actually gave his idiot brother the rice balls I worked so hard to make."

"Ah——" Quanmei couldn't help but clenched her fist and hammered the air fiercely, as if the cloud of air was Uchiha Itachi and his younger brother Uchiha Sasuke.

Hammering Quanmei suddenly stopped as if she had been cast a hold spell.

Lan saw that Quanmei stopped suddenly, so she asked with concern: "What's the matter? Why did she stop suddenly."

Before she finished speaking, Quanmei's face turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Seeing that Quanmei's face turned red, Lan was sure that it was not because of herself. If she guessed correctly, she should have seen Itachi.

Standing on the spot, Lan turned around, and as expected, in front of a takoyaki stall, Uchiha Itachi in black ninja outfit was leading Uchiha Sasuke in Uchiha casual clothes to buy takoyaki.

The moment Lan looked at Itachi Uchiha, Itachi turned around in doubt. Itachi, who was holding a bamboo stick and eating takoyaki, saw Lan and Izumi, his expression froze, and he swallowed the takoyaki in a hurry. He planned to leave with Sasuke, who was happily eating takoyaki.

Just as he got up, Lan stretched out his hand and shouted, "Hey—Itachi, don't rush away, come over and chat."

Hearing Lan calling him, Itachi had no choice but to walk over with Sasuke who didn't know what was going on.

"Lan, Quanmei, long time no see." Itachi said stiffly.

"Hi, my next Uchiha Sasuke."

Sasuke saw that his brother was greeting the unknown stranger and the annoying older sister, so he put on a cold face and pretended to be a common courtesy. The Uchiha clan is a big family, even if they don't like it, they can't be rude.

"Hello." Lan gave a slight salute to Sasuke, then looked at Itachi who was in a trance, and asked, "How are you doing?"

Seeing Lan asking himself, Itachi would be overwhelmed, blushed and glanced at Izumi, who was already steaming shyly, then straightened up and said to Lan: "It's okay, the Chunin haven't had any particularly troublesome tasks recently, So it's pretty relaxing."

"Relax..." Lan narrowed his eyes and said, then raised his head to look at Itachi and said, "That's pretty good, there are not many leisurely days."

"Yeah." Itachi sighed.

Just when he was about to continue chatting, Sasuke tugged on his clothes with an annoyed look on his face.

Looking back and seeing the unhappiness on Sasuke's face, Itachi understood what Sasuke was thinking. Sasuke never liked him being with strangers.

With a slight sigh in my heart, I stretched out my hand to hold Sasuke's little hand, said goodbye to Lan and Izumi, and then led Sasuke to leave.

Watching Itachi go away, Lan turned around and prepared to continue chatting with Quanmei, but just as he was about to turn around, the originally not so noisy street became chaotic.

"Look, that demon fox is coming."

"Why does it come here? Doesn't it come out in the middle of the night?"

"Damn it, it's really bad luck. I really don't understand why Hokage-sama didn't kill this yellow-haired monster."

After Naruto Uzumaki, who was wearing old orange clothes, walked over, the merchants and civilians who were originally kind began to curse as if they had changed their faces.

Hearing the swearing and insulting sound, Lan's eyebrows could not help but wrinkle.

Seeing Lan frowned, Quan Mei, who had just recovered from her shy state, asked with concern: "Lan, what's wrong with you?"

"I'm fine." Lan looked at those civilians who were cursing in disgust.

It's still the same as before, those people only know how to insult others and seek superiority from others, stupid Konoha villagers, do you know that the demon fox you hate is the child of the fourth generation that you once loved most.

"Stupid." Lan said coldly, looked at Naruto with his head down sympathetically, and planned to leave.

Just when he turned around, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a wooden sculpture with only the upper body in Naruto's hand.

Wait, that wood carving looks familiar.

Lan stopped and looked carefully at the dirty wood carving in Naruto's hand, and then realized that the wood carving was actually his work.

But how could my woodcarving be in the hands of Naruto?I remember that he never came to buy wood carvings.

Lan rubbed his chin, his eyes widened as soon as he recalled, and remembered, that wood carving seemed to be the one broken by Kimura Xinliang, it seems that Naruto picked up that wood carving.

If that's the case, then give the kid a hand.

Lan sighed in his heart, and then he was about to step forward and lead Naruto out of the street.

Just when Lan got up, Quanmei held Lan in puzzlement and asked, "What are you going to do?"

"Don't you think that child is very similar to me?" Lan said with a blank face.

"It's very similar...it's just him..." Quanmei hesitated.

Seeing that Quanmei hesitated, Lan shook her head and asked, "Do you also think he is a demon fox?"

"No, only ordinary people think he is a demon fox, but I don't think you should approach him. After all, he is Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. If you approach him easily, I'm afraid..." Izumi whispered.

"It's okay, I'm not afraid." Lan waved his hand, then went through the crowd and grabbed Naruto who was bowing his head.

Seeing someone grabbing him, Naruto trembled at first, he thought Lan was going to beat him like others, just when he was gritting his teeth and ready to be beaten, Lan said indifferently: "Come with me."

"Hmm..." Naruto responded in a daze, and was dragged away by Lan to leave the crowd.

Seeing Lan leaving, Quanmei got up and followed after hesitating for a while.

(End of this chapter)