Chapter 375: Avoid Becoming the Second Rope Tree

Moreover, they are a village that likes to stir up trouble and engage in war.

This major event is a great opportunity for the Cloud Ninja Village.

Therefore, the village can rely on war to gain more benefits.

Why is the Cloud Ninja Village desperately developing its military strength?

Isn't it just to make yourself powerful enough to gain more benefits?

It’s just that the ninja world has entered a relatively stable period of development, so there aren’t many opportunities.

And now the opportunity has come.

The war between the Mist Village and the Sand Village that could break out at any time is the best opportunity.

Ai nodded slightly, agreeing with this statement.

If the Mist Village and the Sand Village really fight, it will indeed be an opportunity for the Cloud Village.

Not to mention the distant future, the Cloud Village could take advantage of this opportunity to stir up some trouble on the sea and annex some of the commercial shipping lanes of the Mist Village.

In the past, there have been many frictions between the Cloud Village and the Mist Village over commercial shipping routes.

Now the opportunity has come. Once the Mist Village is caught up in a war, its control over commercial shipping routes will continue to decline.

This is an opportunity for the Cloud Village, and they can even take the opportunity to attack the Mist Village's naval forces.

Fortunately, although he agreed, Ai did not lose his mind.

Just because he has a bad temper doesn't mean there is something wrong with his IQ.

At this time, taking advantage of the opportunity to stir up trouble can indeed bring certain benefits.

However, compared with the potential threat from Akatsuki, this little benefit seems insignificant.

Unless the benefits are big enough to make him interested.

"Let's observe the situation first."

Ai did not make any statement.

On the other side, the Iwagakure was also in the same situation and a high-level meeting was held.

The Iwagakure Village remained the same, showing no signs of participating in the war, nor lowering its surveillance of the two villages.

Whether it is Ōnoki or Ai, a little bit of war benefits cannot impress them.

Unless the benefits are so great that they cannot refuse, only then will the Iwagakure and the Kumogakure consider getting involved.

A questioning announcement from the Mist Village was released.

The Mist Village directly announced this matter, and the news quickly spread in the ninja world through various channels.

The country and the village were shocked when they heard the news.

No one could believe that such a big thing happened in the Kingdom of Wind.

Is this an attempt to start a war?

The Sand Village is crazy.

The news from the outside world was spreading like wildfire. After the news spread, Konoha also chose to announce it.

As expected, it was like a depth charge, directly knocking down quite a few people.

Countless villagers were discussing the matter, and some were even spreading rumors that a war was about to break out.

However, the fate of these people is usually to be invited by the police department to have tea and calm down.

In more serious cases, the Anbu would come to their homes to talk to them personally.

The atmosphere in the border camp has changed a lot.

Luckily, Jiraiya wasn't the type to add to the pressure so easily, so aside from tightening up the guards and increasing the patrols quite a bit, he didn't ask for too much.

Jiraiya brought Naruto to the camp and with a wicked grin, he threw Naruto to the patrol team and asked them to take Naruto on patrol so that he could experience the atmosphere of war.

Although the war did not break out, the state of preparation for war made the atmosphere in the camp very tense.

When performing their duties, the patrol members also pay special attention to any movement on the border.

Throwing Naruto into the patrol team will undoubtedly train Naruto's discipline and allow him to grow quickly.

This was something Jiraiya had thought of a long time ago, otherwise he would not have come to the border in person to take charge and also asked to bring Naruto over.

Naruto, who was used to being lazy, felt very disappointed when he was thrown into the patrol team.

This kind of strict requirement that even requiring him to walk a few more steps made it a little difficult for him to adapt.

"Grandpa Jiraiya, why don't you increase my training? I really don't want to go on patrol. It's so annoying. If I take a few more steps, I'll be scolded. If I look at what's in the bushes, I'll be scolded too. It's so annoying."

The captain of Naruto's team is a special jonin with a strict and old-fashioned personality, so he has strict requirements on Naruto's every word and action.

The result of such harsh conditions was that Naruto was in excruciating pain.

He is a carefree, restless and curious person. Before he grows up, this kind of personality would be a headache for anyone.

As a result, he was directly put into the patrol team with the most stringent regulations. It would be strange if he could adapt to it.

Not to mention Naruto, even if Sasuke was thrown over, he might not be able to adapt in a short time.

"No."

Jiraiya firmly rejected Naruto's request and reminded him:

"Naruto, if you want to grow enough, you have to feel the atmosphere of war. I asked you to join the patrol team to train you. Your captain is very strict and old-fashioned, but only such strictness and old-fashionedness can teach you some survival skills on the battlefield."

Jiraiya had no intention of backing down on this matter.

No matter how much Naruto begged him, it was useless, even if he threw a tantrum and acted like a spoiled brat.

Jiraiya was also afraid that he would be soft-hearted and cause Naruto to become the second Rope Tree.

Orochimaru attached great importance to his disciple Nawaki, but because of his excessive emphasis, he was not too strict with Nawaki. The result was that Nawaki was killed by an explosive tag on the battlefield.

If Nawaki was not so curious, and had just sat there doing what he was supposed to do, not running around, and had been following Orochimaru closely, the incident of being blown up by the detonating tag would not have happened.

As a result, Tsunade was heartbroken by the death of Nawaki, and Orochimaru has been feeling guilty ever since.

Naruto's personality is very similar to Rope Tree, so Jiraiya has always been worried that he will become the second Rope Tree.

Therefore, strict requirements are inevitable.

"But the old guy is clearly targeting me. He will teach me a lesson no matter what I do."

Naruto was anxious.

Who wouldn’t be curious?

If you look a few more times you'll be scolded, if you take a few more steps you'll be scolded. They keep repeating these rules all day long, all about survival experience, you can't touch this, you can't touch that, it's so annoying.

"Grandpa Jiraiya, I......"

Naruto, who has not yet given up, wants to continue persuading Jiraiya, hoping that Jiraiya will change his mind.

But when he raised his head, he found that Jiraiya was staring at him with a stern look that was absolutely impossible under normal circumstances, and his expression was surprisingly ugly.

"You just said that Captain Sambar is an old guy? Is he targeting you?"

Uh...it feels a bit off.

This was the first time Naruto saw Jiraiya with such an expression and eyes when facing him.

You know, in the village, no matter what mistakes he made, Jiraiya would not care too much. He would just laugh it off, and then educate him afterwards, and tell him not to make the same mistake again, and that would be it.

And now Jiraiya looks a little scary.

Naruto swallowed nervously and carefully shrank his neck:

"Grandpa Jiraiya, are you okay?"