Naruto: Start By Punching Trees And Shocking Kurama!

Kahiko frowned slightly, then suddenly burst into laughter.

"Hahaha! Who can say for sure?"

"Maybe a thousand years ago, our ancestors were the same person."

The old man just glanced at Temujin for a few seconds, then turned his attention to Naruto.

Because Nerugui had once again climbed onto Naruto's shoulder.

This made the old man sigh inwardly with disappointment.

Naruto pressed his lips together but didn't respond.

Because…

In a sense, what the old man said is true.

After all, the history of the shinobi world could all be traced back to a certain Otsutsuki on the moon.

However, Kahiko might not have expected that Temujin had the royal blood of the Gelel Empire flowing in his veins.

"Your power... is extraordinary."

"Why not join us in fulfilling our great ideals?!"

Temujin had been reviewing the battle just now, only to find that the power used by the yellow-haired man were unlike anything he'd ever seen.

And he also hadn't sensed any trace of Gelel's Stone energy from him.

Remembering that the yellow-haired guy was very interested in the 'Utopia', he couldn't help but try to recruit him.

Shikamaru's eye twitched when he heard that.

'Wait...'

'Is this guy serious?'

'Inviting Naruto to join them is basically inviting a wolf into the sheep pen.'

Shikamaru had a sinking feeling that if Naruto actually went with them, he'd somehow turn the whole situation into a disaster.

It was already clear that this group wanted to plunge the world into war.

So if Naruto gets involved again...

Shikamaru didn't even want to imagine the consequences.

Naruto glanced at the armored boy and was somewhat speechless.

'You kid, don't you have any awareness of being a prisoner?'

'You've already been captured, yet you still want to win us over to build some bullshit Utopia?'

'Not to mention whether the Great Shinobi Villages will agree, even the Cult Mechanicus and the Scientific Truth Society will have to jump out and judge you first.'

'And that wasn't even the end of it.'

'Maybe Obito and Black Zetsu would drag the Akatsuki into the mess too.'

'But…'

'Following this kid back would be a good way to get to the mastermind quickly.'

When Sakura saw Naruto's rolling eyes, she instinctively shuddered and then quickly moved away from this guy.

She suddenly had a very bad feeling in her heart.

"Fine!"

"I'll see for myself what kind of 'peace' you're talking about!"

Naruto suddenly stood up and declared loudly, scaring Shikamaru so much that he almost kicked the yellow-haired delinquent.

'Damn it!!'

'Didn't I tell this bastard not to cause trouble before we set off?!

Shikamaru felt exhausted.

All he wanted was to complete this mission, and drag this weird armored kid back to the village. As for the war, he would leave it to the beloved Hokage to deal with.

"Naruto..."

"Maybe we should just drop it."

"This isn't our fight."

Shikamaru thought about it and tried to persuade Naruto to return. Sakura beside him nodded, indicating that Shikamaru was right.

"How can you guys be like this?"

"Look at him!"

Seeing his teammates started objecting, Naruto's stubbornness flared up instantly.

He pointed at Temujin and spoke righteously, "Look at him!"

"He's fighting for world peace!"

"Now look at you two!"

"One just wants to go back and play with Scientific Ninja Tools, and the other just wants to laze around at home."

"If everyone is like you, wouldn't the future of the Shinobi World be doomed?"

Naruto clasped his hands behind his back like a disappointed elder scolding his good-for-nothing grandson, his words dripping with exasperation.

When Temujin heard these words, his pupils trembled wildly, and his heart surged with emotion.

'This guy is actually the same kind of person as me!'

'That's great!

'Haido-sama will definitely be overjoyed to meet him!'

Sakura, on the other hand, covered her mouth, also shocked by these words.

Because she suddenly remembered that Naruto's original dream had been world peace...

'I didn't expect that Naruto could still maintain his original intention after going through so much?!'

Even the old man Kahiko chuckled and looked at Naruto with newfound admiration in his eyes.

'This yellow-haired kid was truly something else.'

Naruto's Talk-no-Jutsu was very effective, and he made everyone momentarily dazed, but Shikamaru remained awake.

He picked at his ear, pried open his dead fish eyes, and said lightly, "If anyone else said this, I would believe it..."

"But from you, a former Cult Leader..."

"Shut up!"

"That was an accident!!"

"Sakura-Bro can vouch for me!"

Naruto seemed to have his tail stepped on, and he became furious on the spot and kept winking at Sakura.

This mission was his chance to redeem himself.

'I, Uzumaki Naruto, can also be the savior of the Shinobi World.'

Sakura's expression froze and her face turned ashen in an instant. She always felt that Shikamaru was also talking about her.

"Shikamaru, stop judging our Team 7 by our past."

"It was all just a series of unfortunate events!"

Shikamaru opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but when he caught sight of Naruto holding a rod in his hand and Sakura pointing her Scientific Ninja Tool at him, he wisely shut his mouth.

Otherwise, he was really worried that he would be silenced by these two guys.

Temujin and Kahiko didn't pay much attention to their bickering.

They felt the things like cults are just jokes among friends.

After all, how could a bunch of teenagers possibly be involved with something like that?

Under Naruto and Sakura's 'friendly persuasion', Shikamaru finally stopped voicing objections.

"Hey, Temujin."

"Let's go. Take me to meet your leader."

"I'm really looking forward to it."

Naruto showed him a very trustworthy smile and personally untied him.

When Temujin saw the smile on the guy in front of him, he suddenly remembered his old comrades.

'They used to smile like that too...'

'But sadly...'

They couldn't fuse with the Gelel's Stones, so they had to settle for being ordinary soldiers working toward their shared dream.

"Alright!"

"Haido-sama will be very happy to see you!"

Temujin grinned stupidly with his fist clenched.

Naruto curled his lips, not knowing what to say.

'With this level of IQ...'

'If you were a girl, I could scam you seven or eight times in one night.'

'No wonder you had no idea that Haido was the one who murdered your father.'

'Now, you even call him Haido-sama.'

'You are already sold, but you still help count the money.'

Even Shikamaru, who didn't know the full story, thought this guy was very naive.

'Doesn't this kid know not to trust others easily when he is out?'

'Especially the yellow-haired one is very untrustworthy!'

Temujin stretched his limbs, not caring at all that Naruto had just bound him in an extremely humiliating position.

"Please follow me, everyone."

With that, he dashed off toward his base. Naruto handed the ferret back to the old man and motioned for his teammates to follow.

About half an hour later, the three Konoha's Shinobi saw a hundred-meter-high mechanical fortress.

And to their shock, the thing was moving, crushing mountains and shattering boulders in its path.

This is the first time Shikamaru has seen such a strange thing.

Then, he asked the two people beside him again in a suspicious tone.

"You two..."

"Are you sure this thing isn't something your evil cult created?"

Naruto: "..."

Sakura: "..."