Undercurrent of Konoha

At this time, a delicate and jade-like palm suddenly appeared and firmly grasped Cardo's right wrist.

"Take your dirty hands away from me..."

The gentle and handsome boy who was standing in front of Zabuza's bed just now seemed to have changed into a different person, and turned into a ferocious beast that chose and devoured people.

"Ugh...you!"

There was a heart-piercing pain on his wrist, and Cardo's body was soaked in cold sweat in an instant. The arrogance he had just evaporated in an instant, like a balloon that had been inflated and burst. It was so ridiculous.

"choke!"

"choke!"

There were two crisp sounds of drawing a sword.

The boy swayed and suddenly appeared between the two samurai. The other hand gestured like lightning and held the handles of the two samurai swords at the same time.

The tip of the katana was tilted up, and the sharp blade hit the vital points of the necks of the two samurai.

All this happened in a flash of lightning. The two warriors' eyes widened, their muscles stiffened, and they stood there without daring to move at all.

Because, as long as the young man moved his finger slightly, the blade would pierce their throats, and there would be two more evil ghosts in the world who deserved their crimes.

"Bai...you don't need to take action..."

Zabuza said slowly.

The aura of the young man Bai's whole body suddenly changed. He changed from the ferocious beast that just chose people to devour him, and turned back into a gentle and beautiful young man.

His smile is sweet and moving, with a deep dimple on each cheek.

There were two faint blushes on her fair cheeks.

Even a woman who is as gentle and lovely as a flower can't help but feel ashamed when she sees such a pure, beautiful and spotless young man.

Cardo and his two men didn't even dare to say a harsh word, so they turned around and fled.

"Now, it's not the time to kill Cardo... If it causes a commotion... my injuries haven't healed yet... I'll have to be hunted down again."

Bai smiled lightly, his smile was like a spring breeze that could melt all the cold and hard things in the world.

"I understand, let's just endure it."

……

Deep in a small forest.

Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura were lying on their backs on the grass, all looking ashen and miserable.

Heiji slowly walked among the crowd, looking at the three people curiously with his big, innocent eyes.

"Ha! Heiji, why are you here?"

Uzumaki Naruto jumped up from the ground excitedly and wiped the dust from his face, which made his entire face even more filthy.

"What are you doing?"

"Climbing trees! This is what Kakashi-sensei taught us. We can practice our chakra control ability! Look at me!"

Uzumaki Naruto sniffed proudly and suddenly ran quickly towards the big tree in front of him.

One step, two steps, three steps...

Naruto Uzumaki stepped hard on the trunk of a large banyan tree more than ten meters high. His body and the trunk were at a ninety-degree angle, and he was climbing up quickly with only the strength of his feet.

Seeing that he was still less than two meters away from the top of the tree trunk, Naruto only needed to hold on a little longer before he could climb to the top of the tree.

"Crack-!"

Naruto stepped forward with his right foot and stepped hard on the tree trunk, crushing the bark and forming a shallow pit in the trunk.

However, the stickiness formed by chakra between the soles of his feet and the tree trunk suddenly disappeared without a trace, and Naruto's body fell from the sky.

Just now, in order to show off his abilities in front of Heiji, Naruto used all his strength in this tree climbing performance, leaving no room for himself.

When he fell, he had no time to adjust his body shape. He fell directly on his head and feet, which was extremely dangerous.

Heiji instantly concentrated chakra on the soles of his feet, slightly bent his legs, and kicked hard on the ground.

"rub"!

Heiji stood up from the ground and jumped seven or eight meters high. He stretched out his hand and gently grasped Naruto's ankles that were kicking around, and straightened his body in mid-air.

Suddenly changing positions in mid-air, Naruto was still a little dazed until his feet landed safely.

"Yeah! Heiji is great!"

Haruno Sakura clapped her hands happily.

(In fact, Haruno Sakura's true thoughts in her heart are: If Heiji is nosy, Naruto, a pushy guy, should suffer a lot.)

Uchiha Sasuke looked at Heiji coldly and remained silent.

Although Heiji's action of jumping up to save people just now seemed ordinary, the precise control of chakra he showed at that moment had reached a level that the three people in Team , including him, could not match.

"Heiji, try climbing a tree with your feet like Naruto."

Sasuke finally couldn't suppress the shock and curiosity in his heart and said calmly.

"I'm afraid I can't do such a difficult practice..."

Heiji looked at the tall tree more than ten meters high and felt uncertain.

"Yes, Heiji is so soft and weak, and he was an ordinary person not long ago, and he just awakened chakra..."

Uzumaki Naruto looked at Uchiha Sasuke and argued dissatisfiedly.

"Shut up! Naruto! Let him try! His control of chakra should be far superior to ours!"

Sasuke roared at Naruto, turning around to look at Heiji, with a hint of hostility in his eyes.

Uchiha Sasuke has always been the undisputed No. 1 among the students who graduated from the ninja school in this period, and he is the one who leaves the second place far behind!

Heiji was just an ordinary person not long ago, but now he showed strength above him, which had deeply stung the pride and honor in Sasuke's heart.

"I must become the distant first! I must keep getting stronger and stronger! Otherwise, I will never be able to kill that man and avenge the entire Uchiha clan in this life!"

"Then...I'll give it a try..."

Heiji ignored Uchiha Sasuke's hostility and tried to lift one right foot and stepped on the tree trunk in front of him.

Chakra instantly gathered at the soles of his feet with his thoughts, and Heiji's whole body suddenly turned sideways, like a steel nail being firmly driven into the trunk of a tree.

One foot of Heiji stepped on the tree trunk and turned his body sideways. The other foot was still hesitating in the air, not knowing where to land.

After hesitating for a moment, Heiji lifted his other foot up and landed on the tree trunk.

Then, Heiji dispersed the chakra on the sole of his first foot, detached it from the tree trunk, slowly lifted it up, and then landed steadily higher on the tree trunk.

Gradually, Heiji became familiar with this method of climbing trees.

The trick is to first condense the chakra on the sole of one of the feet, fix the body on the tree trunk, wait for the other foot to step on it and fix it on the tree trunk with chakra, and then disperse the chakra of the previous foot. Keep climbing.

After a while, Heiji's footsteps became more and more brisk and skillful. Walking on the tree trunks was like walking on flat ground.

Soon, Heiji was no longer satisfied with walking horizontally on the tree trunk. He directly stepped on the branches protruding from the top of the tree with his feet, and stood head-down on the treetop.

"Sure enough, I still prefer the feeling of being upside down... The whole world from this perspective seems particularly pleasing to the eye..."

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