Naruto: The rope tree is cold, can you save it?

Konoha, in a secluded grove.

Hatake Sakumo handed Chiba a bottle of drink and said calmly: "Chiba, I heard that you were targeted by some people in Sunagakure and almost couldn't come back?"

Seeing that Chiba was a little surprised, Sakumo smiled and said: "Don't be surprised. I have gone to the Sunagakure battlefield many times, and I have some news channels there."

"You are right, Senior Sakumo, there is indeed someone behind the scenes this time." Chiba whispered.

"This is exactly what I want to tell you, Qianye. Even if the trees are beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy them. I hope you can temporarily restrain your sharpness and don't be like me... Alas!"

As he spoke, Sakumo sighed heavily, then took out a pendant from his arms and handed it to Chiba.

"Senior Sakumo, is this...?" Chiba took the pendant and asked with some confusion.

"This is a token of my Hatake clan."

Sakumo said in a calm tone: "If something unexpected happens to me one day, I hope you can take care of Kakashi for the sake of past kindness."

Chiba clenched the pendant in her hand, her heart trembling: "Senior Sakumo, what happened? Is there anything I can do to help?"

Sakumo shook his head, changed the subject and said, "It's getting late. The Ninja School's assessment should be over. Let's go back."

……

Back home, Chiba felt a little heavy.

Without saying a word, he sat down cross-legged and began to perform the "Living Puppet Blood Refining".

Under the severe pain, Chiba's expression softened a lot, because this pain told him that his strength was constantly improving.

"Phew, it's still not strong enough..."

After a while, Qianye exhaled a breath of turbid air and ended his practice.

At this time, the door of Chiba's house was suddenly pushed open. Naoki put away the key and walked in with Tsunade.

"You brat, you've been back for so many days and you don't even come to me to tell me that you're safe. I have to come to you in person?!"

As soon as Tsunade entered the door, she walked up to Chiba angrily, grabbed him by the collar and yelled.

"Sister, you are not allowed to..."

"Um?!"

Naoki just wanted to stop Tsunade's violent behavior, but Tsunade just glared at him, and he immediately withered.

"I was wrong, Tsunade-sama."

Chiba took the initiative to hug Tsunade and buried his head in Tsunade's broad chest. He felt that his somewhat anxious mood calmed down instantly.

"Chiba, he actually took the initiative to hug me?!"

Tsunade's pretty face turned red and her body went limp. She couldn't care less about scolding Chiba and subconsciously raised her arms to hug Chiba.

"Hey, have you two hugged each other enough? You act like a couple you haven't seen for a long time."

After a while, the rope tree on the side couldn't stand it anymore and couldn't help but complain.

"what!"

The two of them just woke up from a dream and quickly let go of each other.

"I said, what happened to me just now? Chiba, why are you putting a bottle in your clothes when you have nothing to do?"

Tsunade's cheeks were burning. In order to ease the awkward atmosphere, she tried to change the topic, which made Chiba even more embarrassed.

"This is a special way of training. Well, Tsunade-sama, just wait for me and I'll take it out!"

Chiba fled back to the room and closed the door with a bang.

"Qianye, Qianye, you really deserve to die!"

Chiba splashed cold water on his face and whispered to himself in the mirror.

"Tsunade-sama is so kind to you, but you would actually have thoughts about her... She has always treated you as her own brother!"

Soon, Chiba regained his composure and walked out of the house.

"Tsunade-sama, Naoki, please stay and have dinner together tonight. I happened to buy a lot of vegetables today."

……

In the evening, Chiba prepared a table of food, and the three of them chatted while eating.

"Chiba, you know, I followed my sister on an A-level mission a while ago, and now I am a special jounin!"

As Naoki ate, he said with a smile: "When we get to the ANBU, you, a chuunin, have to hug this special jounin's thigh. Maybe I will be your new squad leader."

"Well, hasn't the Third Generation mentioned to you about our specific appointment?"

Chiba's face looked a little strange: "The newly established ANBU special operations team is led by me. You and Kosuke-senpai are both members of my team. Also, I have been promoted to Jonin."

"what?!"

Shengshu slammed the rice in his hand on the table and said angrily: "Didn't you just go on a simple mission? How could you be promoted so quickly? If there is a shady story, there must be a shady story!"

"A simple mission?"

Chiba snorted coldly and said: "I was involved in the civil strife of Sunagakure provoked by Shimura Danzo. Not only did I survive the melee on the battlefield where Kazekage and other strong men fought, I also persuaded Sunagakure to continue to form an alliance with Konoha. , you call this simple?”

"Excuse me, you are more awesome..."

After Naoshu heard this, he silently picked up the rice on the table and put it back into the bowl.

"Qianye, you have to be careful."

At this time, Tsunade said: "Shimura Danzo is a man who must retaliate. You have ruined his plan. After this crisis has passed, he will probably target you."

"Also, I received information that your bounty on the black market has now become thirty million taels." Tsunade said with a serious face.

"WTF?!"

After hearing this astonishing amount, people in Chiba were dumbfounded: "Wasn't it only fifteen million taels before? How come it was doubled?"

"It may be related to what you did in Sand Hidden Village. I'm afraid more than one person has added a bounty to you." Tsunade analyzed.

"Damn, you're so awesome, Chiba, the price of one of you is as much as that of an ANBU team!"

The rope tree on the side hugged Chiba and screamed excitedly. I don’t know what he was excited about. This is not the Pirate King.

Qianye didn't even care about the rope tree, and cold sweat broke out from behind.

Thirty million taels, this amount is a bit dangerous. Taking into account the inflation factor, his bounty has actually surpassed his love brother Asma!

"Mr. Kakuzu won't notice me, right? I seem to have reached his killing line..."

After Naoki and Tsunade left, Chiba became more and more panicked as she thought about it.

Even though Kakuzu is now a 69-year-old comrade, he can still blow his head off.

"No, I have to take some protective measures!"

Qianye took out a scroll hidden in the house and stuffed it into his arms. Only then did he feel a little safer.

This thing is an amulet that he has prepared for a long time, specially used to "deal with" Kakuzu. If he takes it out when he loses to Kakuzu, it may save his life.

……

The next day, Chiba went to the ANBU hall to report.

"Hello, sir, your code name is 'Thunder'. This is your equipment. You can take it away after you have checked it correctly."

At the window of the office hall, a masked woman bent down, took out a box, and pushed it in front of Chiba.

"Thunder? You are really good at naming. How do you know that I have all six attributes but lack the thunder attribute chakra?"

Chiba chuckled secretly, and after confirming that the equipment in the box was complete, he carried the box and came to the locker room belonging to their class.

After putting on the special combat uniform, putting on the silver-gray armor, and carrying the ANBU standard long sword on his back, Chiba's entire temperament became cold and stern.

"The only drawback is that wearing a mask will cover up my handsomeness...fuck!"

Chiba was looking pretty in front of the mirror. Unexpectedly, at this moment, the door to the dressing room was suddenly kicked open, which scared him so much that he almost had a myocardial infarction.

"Are you "Thunder", the newly established squad leader of zero class? "

The visitor also wore an ANBU mask and was obviously an ANBU member. He asked anxiously as soon as he came in.

"Yes, it's me." Chiba responded quickly.

"If there's an emergency, come with me!"

After saying that, the man turned around and ran towards the outside. Qianye hurriedly followed after seeing this.

"What's going on, man?"

Chiba asked as the two of them sped away from the ANBU.

The man was so worried that his voice was trembling: "The Kyuubi Jinchuuriki tied up the two brothers we were responsible for guarding and left the village privately."

"Now the Jinchuuriki is not far from the village... and went on a rampage!"