Naruto making these fancy Flying Thunder God marks wasn't just for fun. Well... not just for fun.
For example, if he went on a mission and passed by some interesting place in the future, Naruto could change the mark to "Naruto was here" and leave it on a landmark, then bring Hinata to play there when he had time.
Of course, this behavior is uncivilized tourism, and children should never learn it.
Or, for example, if he seized the opportunity to leave "Your mother is dead" on an enemy during a fight, it would both mark them and serve as a taunt, killing two birds with one stone. What a genius idea.
Moreover, Naruto had a grand plan: he intended to have his Shadow Clones run all over the world, leaving Flying Thunder God marks every so often, and then use latitude and longitude to mark them. That way, Naruto could obtain a ninja world teleportation map.
Then, combined with Naruto's Kagura Shingan mini-map for precise positioning, wouldn't that... allow him to open a logistics company?
Uzumaki Express, guaranteed delivery!
Sealing Technique perfectly packages for you, Flying Thunder God Technique realizes ultra-long-distance delivery for you, and Kagura Shingan solves the last kilometer for you!
Uzumaki Logistics Company, the best choice for the logistics industry!
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Back at the training ground, an excited Naruto added a hundred kilograms to his weights and started running around the training ground, first running ten kilometers to celebrate, as carefree as a husky.
The Nine Tails in the Sealing Space yawned boredly. He used to think Naruto was quite interesting, but when this kid learned the Shadow Clone Technique, the Nine Tails was even more amazed—so humans could die so happily, so humans could commit suicide over such trivial matters, so humans could strike such poses.
Having seen the Shadow Clone JOJO poses, the Nine Tails now looked at Naruto's main body with nothing but disdain. This kid was so boring. What was the point of running laps? Why didn't he perform a handstand while drinking water, then choke himself to death for the old man to see?
After a while, Naruto, who had finished running, was covered in stinky sweat. After catching his breath, he hurriedly left the training ground to order some special Kunai.
Entering Konoha's largest ninja tool shop, Naruto looked around and didn't see the little girl with the bun hairstyle. He wondered if this shop was opened by Tenten's family.
Naruto took out Minato's Kunai as a sample, saying that he wanted to order a hundred first, urgently.
The boss's mouth was grinning from ear to ear. He recognized it at a glance. Wasn't this the Hokage's special Kunai? He had made it many times and was very familiar with it.
Walking out of the ninja tool shop, Naruto touched his shriveled little frog wallet and couldn't help but sing: "The blue-faced Dou Erdun stole the imperial horse~ The red salary is not enough to spend~"
No wonder it's the arms business, it's so damn expensive!
"Kid, there's Shukaku's aura."
"Huh?" Naruto stopped, the mini-map activated. About two blocks away, there were four clusters of Chakra, one large, one medium, and two small, moving together. It seemed to be Gaara and his siblings plus their Jonin leader.
The Nine Tails sat up: "Go beat him up."
Naruto refused: "Don't be silly, they came to participate in the Chunin Exams. It's not appropriate for me to beat him up for no reason, it might turn into a diplomatic dispute."
"You would consider such things?" The Nine Tails was surprised. Wasn't this kid impulsive? How could he be so cautious?
"I might be mischievous, but it's not good to screw over my dad. We can't live like Boruto." Boruto was worthy of being Sasuke's disciple, doing everything on a whim. As long as I act on a whim, my dad won't be able to guess what trouble I've caused.
"Who is Boruto?" The Nine Tails found the blind spot.
"It is said to be a non-flammable substance that will extinguish Amaterasu even if thrown into it." Naruto explained nonsense in a serious manner.
The Nine Tails glared at him, saying things that a fox couldn't understand again.
Naruto forcibly returned to the topic: "That's not important. Anyway, when we meet during the exam, there will be a legitimate reason to beat up Shukaku."
"..." Unable to beat up Shukaku for a short time, the Nine Tails felt bored and lay back down: "I want to eat grilled meat."
"..." Naruto took out his deflated wallet, tearfully created a Shadow Clone, and handed over the last few bills to it. Nine Tails, controlling the clone, happily headed straight for the barbecue restaurant.
Naruto, watching its cheerful back, summarized a philosophy of life: a man without money is not worthy of raising a Fox Spirit.
Back at the training ground, Naruto told Kushina the news that the One-Tail Jinchuriki was coming to participate in the Chunin Exams.
Kushina's expression was grave. If it were just the One-Tail Jinchuriki, she would be confident in handling it herself. The problem was that if Sunagakure Village really had any intentions, it wouldn't be as simple as sending out the One-Tail Jinchuriki. When the time came, Konoha would suffer considerable casualties. She had to discuss it with Minato.
Naruto's face was also solemn, because he couldn't figure out how the Kazekage dared to do this. He didn't know if Orochimaru was involved in this matter, but even if he was, how could he dare to mess with Konoha?
The Uchiha clan hadn't been wiped out, the Third and Fourth Hokage were still around, and Jiraiya had returned to the village. Was he looking for a beating? Would he dare to attack Peace County even if he was given a regiment?
Of course, Naruto couldn't understand, because he was playing with open cards, but Rasa wasn't. He only knew that Konoha was very strong, and if they really fought, they would most likely suffer losses, but he didn't know exactly how strong they were.
In fact, Rasa himself was also feeling uneasy. He didn't want to cause trouble. Who would be willing to risk their lives if they could develop smoothly? But Rasa was suffering. Sunagakure was originally poor, and there was a shortage of everything except sand in the desert. The Land of Wind daimyo also withheld their Sunagakure Village's funding from time to time.
This forced him, the Fourth Kazekage, to personally use ninjutsu to pan for gold to subsidize the village. The Kazekage lineage had a magnetic release secret technique.
The Fifth Kazekage, Gaara, controlled ordinary sand, the Third Kazekage controlled iron sand, but the Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, was powerful, controlling gold sand. When that guy fought, there was wealth and glory all over the ground. Anyone who was killed by him could definitely be called a glorious burial.
Unfortunately, panning for gold was only a temporary solution. Over time, gold would become less and less valuable. In order to find a way to get some benefits, Rasa had to take a gamble. If he succeeded, everyone would be happy. If he failed, he could take the opportunity to cry to the daimyo:
Konoha is already so strong, yet you still deduct our funding. What if the Land of Fire wants to start a war in the future? Wouldn't we be beaten easily?
Anyway, at most, he would lose some manpower, which wouldn't be too much of a loss no matter how he calculated it.
And just when Rasa had ideas, the famous ninja world internet celebrity, the Sannin, Orochimaru, approached him, saying that he wanted to take revenge on Konoha.
This was really like getting a pillow when you were dozing off. As everyone knows, Orochimaru had been hunted down by Konoha before, so it was reasonable to want revenge, so the two hit it off.
This was exactly the first encounter at the Sunagakure Village entrance, where a lifetime was ruined by a single mistake.
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