[Hokage] One day to arrive

"Lihuo is not in a good mood today." Lihuo locked himself in the room as soon as he finished his meal today, making Lu Jiu, who has never paid much attention to these trivial matters, unavoidably a little bit concerned, and tilted his head to look at Lihuo's door said with certainty.

"Well, Naruto failed to graduate today." After thinking for a while, Yuan Weiyang confirmed that this is the only thing in the village at present, "The relationship between Lihuo and Naruto seems to be surprisingly good, I hope you won't be targeted because of it. "

Although he was a little concerned about the sons of the fourth generation of Hokage, but after so many years, Yuan Weiyang somewhat understood how delicate the situation of Naruto, who was a Jinchuriki and whose identity was hidden, was so delicate, so he never contacted Naruto himself, but It's not enough to interfere with Lu Jiu's contact with Lihuo and Naruto because of this kind of reason - anyway, these two people almost know what should be said.

However, Renzhuli failed to graduate, is it possible for the village to really let him stay in school like this, or become an ordinary person?

Nodding in understanding, Lu Jiu suddenly turned her head to look at the Ninja Hawk flying in from the window.Yuan Weiyang stood up with a serious face to obtain information from Ninja, and said to Lu Jiu after a long while: "I just received the news that Naruto stole the sealed book." As soon as the formal topic ended, he immediately showed a disdainful expression, " It’s probably another farce, I’m going to see how the third generation distributes tasks, Xiao Jiu, you should rest earlier.”

After Lu Jiu nodded to indicate that he understood, Yuan Weiyang left immediately.

But Lu Jiu stayed in the room and read for a while, but his face suddenly changed slightly. He stood up, walked to the window and looked towards the edge of the village.

For the first time in 12 years, he felt the aura of the nine-tailed demon fox. Although he once knew what happened to Jinchuriki from Yuan Weiyang, the seal on Naruto's body has always been tight. In addition to bringing superhuman energy and resilience, people have not been able to show it.

Although the power I can feel now is much weaker than when I first noticed the existence of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox 12 years ago, but...

Lu Jiu's expression calmed down slightly, and after the chaotic atmosphere outside the house gradually calmed down, she suddenly turned out of the window, and her figure disappeared into the night.

After being separated from Iruka, Naruto took off the forehead protector that originally belonged to Iruka and held it in his hand. He walked home in a daze, looking at his arm with blank eyes—abrasions and wounds. The scratches are the same as usual, and after all this time there is no trace at all.

It's also because I'm that... demon fox?

In fact, Naruto didn't care as much as he showed, especially when he was alone now, he, who has always been emotionally sensitive, couldn't help thinking wildly: "Ahaha... so annoying, if Neji knew that I have good physical strength If the quick recovery is due to this reason, I don't know what expression it will be..."

Although he spoke such relaxed words, Naruto's eyes were bewildered and sad.

"Who!" Naruto was thinking wildly, until a figure was standing in front of him, almost bumping into him, and then he jumped back quickly, but the guarded expression only appeared on his face for less than a second. After seeing the figure in front of him, he immediately raised his hand and grabbed the back of his head with a smile, "Hey——? Brother Lu Jiu, why are you here?" It seems that even after the Mizuki incident, Naruto is still the same as before.

Lu Jiu glanced at Naruto, but without speaking, stepped forward and raised his hand to touch the top of Naruto's head.

Naruto subconsciously wanted to dodge, but it was obvious that Lu Jiu's speed was not fast, but he couldn't dodge for some reason. The next moment, Naruto felt that he fell into a strange place.

The intertwined pipes are like a maze, and there is a darkness that does not know what is hidden in front of the eyes, and only the sound of water dripping occasionally sounds in the ear.

Naruto suddenly raised his head to look at Lu Jiu in a strange place that he had never seen before, with some indescribable sadness and anticipation in his heart - he didn't want to believe in the wrong person again, and was used by Mizuki once before Iruka-sensei has already been injured.And... the one in front of him was the first person who didn't see him as a monster when he was young, but just as an ordinary child!

But the Lu Jiu that Naruto saw was completely different from what he had seen before...

The silk-lined clothes with purple patterns on a white background and the light gold armor do not look bloated, but the still slender body is even more slender, showing a bit of cold chill in the luxury.The long black hair that had always been loose was now loosely tied behind the head with a silk ribbon that was also white with purple patterns, leaving only two strands of half-length forehead hair scattered on the side of the face.

It looks like a very powerful character at all, not like an ordinary person.

"Shadow body/body!"

Naruto jumped back subconsciously, trying to use the technique he just learned tonight, but unexpectedly, the seal was successfully formed, and there was no problem with the operation of Chakra, but there was no reaction at all... Seeing this, Lu Jiu The corner of his mouth curled up, grabbed Naruto's shoulder with one hand, and led him towards the direction of the strongest power without touching the ground.

"Hey... Hey! Where is this place? What did you do? Put me down!!"

Lu Jiu was not in a bad mood. It was only a matter of time before he rushed to Kyuubi at his speed, but he took a few minutes and said to Naruto: "In the space of my consciousness, power is not used like this. ,Naruto."

"Consciousness...space?" Naruto blinked, and subconsciously stopped struggling, but the next moment he felt his feet on the ground.

It turned out that a huge cage had appeared in front of the two of them at some point. In front of this cage, Naruto and Lu Jiu looked very small, but behind the bars of the cage, there was only darkness.

"Is it the nine-tailed demon fox? I think this should be the first time we met. You are much weaker than 12 years ago... Is it the reason why you are only half left?" Like a golden light flowing, looking at the huge figure in the cage through the heavy darkness.

"Nine...nine-tailed demon fox?!" Naruto almost jumped up, staring at the depths of the cage even if he couldn't see anything.

"I thought I had to be honest after being sealed." Lu Jiu's tone inadvertently carried a hint of sarcasm, "But... since I can think of a way to slowly erode the host's body and seal with my own power method, it shows that you are not without wisdom—then you should be able to communicate."

As Lu Jiu's cold voice fell, a pair of eyes bigger than Naruto's whole body suddenly opened in the darkness!

"What the hell are you...why did you appear in this brat's consciousness space?" Nine Tails' deep and hoarse voice carried the same ferocious meaning as before, but the two people present didn't seem to care.

Naruto didn't notice it, but at the moment when the nine-tailed demon fox opened its eyes, the golden light in Lu Jiu's eyes lit up slightly, and his body, like the nine-tailed fox, instantly stiffened.

Afterwards, the ferocity and refusal on Nine Tails seemed to have faded a little, and a slight arc appeared at the corner of Lu Jiu's mouth.

Taking advantage of the moment when Kyuubi opened his eyes, he pulled it into a deeper consciousness space and communicated. Obviously, the result obtained by Lu Jiu was quite satisfactory, so in a good mood, he reached out and touched Naruto's head and said: "You It's not the same as this fox, have you heard of Jinjuriki?"

Hearing Lu Jiu's first sentence, Naruto was a little happy, but he became puzzled when he heard the latter word, looked up at Lu Jiu and subconsciously repeated: "Renzhuli?"

Lu Jiu nodded, briefly explained to Naruto what he heard from Yuan Weiyang about Renzhuli, then continued after a pause: "Tailed beasts also have feelings, Naruto, since you never You have been with the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox since you were born, and if you can't separate now, try to get along well. After all, this guy is also part of your strength."

"Ah! Ah?" After receiving too many messages at once, Naruto, who is not good at using his brain, was a little panicked. He stared blankly at the huge red-haired fox with nine tails in the cage, but what he thought was ——I still have Neji, and Iruka-sensei... What about them, has this guy been alone in this place for 12 years?

It can't be called sympathy, but the anger in my heart caused by Mizuki and the villagers' mistreatment for 12 years has disappeared a lot.

Kyuubi didn't care how Naruto's mood changed, instead he looked at Lu Jiu and said sarcastically: "I really don't know what you are, but I can't live for a few years when I get close to these things, but I'm always afraid of what I don't understand and what you are. Human beings with great power will only have regrets in the future."

Lu Jiu sneered, and she didn't know if she had listened to Jiuwei's words, and her figure disappeared from the cage in an instant.Only Naruto and Kyuubi stared wide-eyed and didn't know what to say to each other.

The consciousness space was quiet for a long time, and suddenly Nine Tails slowly closed his eyes: "Little ghost, you are lucky, I will not do unnecessary things from now on. But... I want to get help from my power , you are not qualified yet."

After hearing Kyuubi's words, Naruto finally realized what happened, and quickly shouted: "Hey—wait a minute, I..."

However, Kyuubi didn't care what Naruto wanted to say, he flicked his long tail casually, and directly threw Naruto out of the consciousness space.

Same as before, but in the blink of an eye, Naruto was already standing alone at the place where he met Lu Jiu, but this time Lu Jiu was no longer around.Naruto scratched his hair thinking about what happened before, and he always felt that it was still messed up, and he didn't know what was going on, what to do?

——Ningji... When will you come back after completing the task?

Naruto yelled and squatted on the ground, melancholy thinking of his little friend.

"Naruto? Where did you go alone at this late hour?!"

Ning Ci hurried back to the village after finishing the task, but he received the news that his little friend failed to graduate... After hesitating for a while, he wanted to see Naruto, who has always been strong, but who knew he couldn't find anyone!

Waiting in front of Naruto's apartment for half a night, and finally waiting for my little friend to squat in the woods not far away, I feel crazy... Well, Neji doesn't want to say anything now, just want to put this unknown serious The guy scolded severely, but...

"...You are much better than those guys, even if you fail for a while..."

Looking at those clear blue eyes, he has always spoken mercilessly to others, fate or something, as expected, he still can't say it at all...

"No, Neji, look." Naruto showed Iruka's forehead protector to Neji as if offering a treasure, "I graduated successfully!"

Ning Ci frowned, and before he had time to say anything, Naruto suddenly pulled him up and ran towards his house, saying as he ran: "It's so late today, Neji, let's rest at my house! And there are a lot of things that happened tonight. I understand, Neji, you have always been smart, so help me analyze and analyze by the way!"

"Naruto! Wait..."