Chapter 88

Chapter 88

Naruto waited by the fire for a long time before Hongye came over from the creek with some water droplets still on her body. Naruto pointed to the other side of the fire and said, "You're still wet. Go dry yourself by the fire first, or you'll catch a cold." Hongye walked to the other side of the fire and sat down, holding the coat she had just washed in her hand. She held it up to the fire, trying to dry the clothes.

As the fire swayed, Naruto began to look at Hongye. Her long red hair fell over her shoulders, her eyebrows were neither thick nor thin, neither long nor short, her skin was white, and her big watery eyes made her look pleasing to the eye. Occasionally she smiled, and her mouth curved into a perfect arc, which matched her not-too-high nose bridge. Although she was sitting there, Naruto could see that her figure was not the hot type, but rather average. Although Naruto did not have those thoughts, he could not help but ask, "Hongye, how old are you?"

Hongye was a little surprised that Naruto suddenly asked such a question, but she answered honestly: "I'm already seventeen years old." Naruto could see from Hongye's eyes that her attitude towards Naruto was closer than before, and there was no such barrier. Naruto also began to talk to her about many things, and slowly, as the topic became more and more in-depth, Hongye also began to talk about her life experience.

It turned out that her parents were both members of the Uzumaki clan, and they were on a mission when the village was destroyed. On their way back, they received news that the Uzushio Village had been destroyed, so they never went back. Later, they lived a secluded life outside, and their days were pretty good. Later, she was born, and the family lived an ordinary life, as if this ninja world no longer had anything to do with them.

Unfortunately, this kind of ordinary life was destined not to last long. One day, something on her father's body suddenly glowed. Hongye noticed that the glowing thing was a jade carved with a vortex pattern. At that time, Hongye felt it was magical and wanted to ask her father to go over to play. Unexpectedly, her father, who had always been very accommodating to her, seriously rejected her. That night, her father disappeared. She and her mother waited at home for three whole months, but her father did not show up. Finally, her mother took her away from their secluded place. Along the way, her mother slowly told her all these things. Unfortunately, her mother was unwilling to say why her father came to this place. Until they were about to get here, a shipwreck occurred.

After hearing Hongye's life story, Naruto suddenly had a hunch that this might have something to do with this mission. Naruto repeatedly asked Hongye, but he still didn't get any valuable information. Seeing Hongye's tired look, Naruto didn't ask any more questions. The two of them rested in the newly built wooden house. Hongye was really exhausted and fell asleep as soon as she fell down. After closing the door, Naruto created some wooden clones and sneaked into the surrounding woods to prevent any accidents.

After arranging everything, Naruto planned to go out at night to collect intelligence to see if he could find any valuable information. Naruto had a hunch that there must be something wrong with the place where people lived. Using earth escape and wood escape, Naruto approached here quietly. Although Naruto was very careful, the place was very small. Naruto used wood escape to almost monitor all places. Naruto found that the people living here were all ordinary people, but what Naruto didn't understand was why these people didn't communicate with each other and were unusually indifferent to outsiders.

Naruto could only eavesdrop on their conversations, but he could hardly get any valuable information. Finally, one of Naruto's clones overheard a conversation between a couple who usually loved to talk. From their conversation, we could basically know the reason. It turned out that a group of people came here not long ago. They greeted them warmly and asked them a lot of questions. Until they said that an earthquake had just occurred on the island. The epicenter was in the jungle on the east side of the island. Few people usually go there because some strange things often happen there, and no one dares to go there.

These people first asked about the situation on the east side of the island in detail, and then warned everyone not to tell anyone about this matter, otherwise they would be killed. Anyone who wanted to resist was killed on the spot. Seeing that this group of people was very powerful, everyone dared not resist anymore, and they didn't even dare to speak when they were outside. This made the talkative couple feel very depressed, and they could only complain constantly at home at night.

After receiving this news, Naruto was sure that there must be ninjas here, and according to the news he had received in Konoha, the east side of the island was where the Uzushio Village was. Naruto released his clones here and quickly rushed to the east side of the island. Although this place is not big, it was a country's territory before, and the distance from here to the east is not close. Naruto drove at his fastest speed, but it still took a long time to arrive. If it were an ordinary ninja, it would take longer. If he took a rest, it would probably take until dawn to arrive.

Arriving here, Naruto approached carefully. Although it was at night, Naruto could still see the ruins of the Uzushio Village with the faint moonlight. Although trees have grown on the ruins now, the general outline can still be seen. Naruto slowly approached with the help of Wood Release. However, the area of ​​the ruins is not small, and Naruto still has to pay attention to the group of ninjas from before. Naruto did not find anything until dawn. Naruto knew that he could not be impatient about such things. When he did not get reliable information, he still had to hide his whereabouts.

Naruto made a mark here, and then returned to the previous hut, taking some game with him on the way. When Naruto returned to the hut, Hongye was still sleeping. When she heard Naruto open the door, Hongye woke up immediately. At this time, the sun had begun to rise. Hongye saw the game in Naruto's hand and said embarrassedly: "Uncle Huangtu has already brought the food back. Sorry, I slept too deeply. Um, um, let me do it." As she said that, Hongye took the game from Naruto's hand, went out to pick up some branches, and prepared to roast the game.

Naruto was tired after a night of work, so he lay down on the bed and took a look at the red leaves outside. Naruto suddenly felt that sometimes, it was more effective to act with companions than to act alone. However, these companions could not be a drag, and at least had to be able to protect themselves.

(End of this chapter)