Naruto: The Abstract Strategist of the Akatsuki

Chapter 92 Mr. Sasuke, I'm going to die

"Really?"

"Sasuke, you...you can't be serious?"

Upon hearing Naruto's words, the others stood up one by one and looked at Sasuke in surprise.

As Sasuke's teammate, Naruto definitely understands Sasuke better than they do, so this statement is certainly not unfounded.

"Are you out of your mind, you bottom-of-the-barrel guy? What crime have I committed that you'd actually defect?"

Sasuke thought to himself, "Naruto shouldn't have this kind of wisdom," but he remained calm on the surface.

Sasuke's words made perfect sense, and the others immediately felt relieved and sat down.

"Yeah, Sasuke didn't steal the Scroll of Seals, so why would he defect?"

"Naruto, what are you thinking about?"

"..."

At this moment, Naruto didn't make any more casual remarks as usual. Instead, he looked at Sasuke with serious eyes and pounded his chest with one hand: "Sasuke, I... I can feel how you feel. When you're sad, my heart aches too."

Good grief, the Valley of the End's confession has been leaked ahead of schedule?

Hearing Naruto say that, Sasuke smiled with relief, but the smile quickly faded as soon as it appeared: "Then you've misjudged the bottom of the class. I have no reason to defect. I just want to go out and improve my strength, and help you out while I'm at it."

"Really? But the way you're saying it, it sounds like you're still planning to defect?"

Naruto was skeptical.

"idiot."

Sasuke pointed at Hinata, "Then does her sister count as a defector? And Jiraiya at the gate, the current Hokage, they weren't in the village before, they've been traveling for a long time, right?"

"Hmm, that seems to make sense. Hehe, I guess I was overthinking it."

Naruto touched his head and smiled.

"idiot."

"Then I'll leave it to you, Sasuke. How about we take action tonight?"

"Okay, but you have to follow my instructions."

"no problem!"

The two reached an agreement.

Everyone else, except Choji, stopped using their chopsticks and left them hanging in mid-air.

Ino, who was eavesdropping above the barbecue restaurant, was taking notes when she overheard Sasuke and Naruto's conversation and was stunned.

Isn't the way these two are talking and speaking a bit too outrageous?

I always felt that this kind of scene only appeared in romance novels.

"wrong."

When romance novels were mentioned, Ino suddenly thought of something terrifying.

There are some classic scenes in romance novels, such as the female protagonist accidentally falling and landing on top of the male protagonist, and then kissing him.

And Naruto and Sasuke, they too, were once watched by the entire class...

Ino buried her face in her hands, muttering to herself, "No wonder they didn't invite Sakura, so that's why..."

Having had her worldview shaken, Ino returned to the medical department in a daze.

"Ino, you're back! How did you do?"

Sakura saw Ino return and hurriedly went to greet her.

"Um."

Ino nodded expressionlessly.

"What happened? Why do you look like that?"

Sakura immediately became worried.

"There are two pieces of good news and one piece of bad news."

Ino slowly walked over and sat down. "First of all, you don't need to worry about anything. Nothing happened over there. Secondly, you don't need to worry about Naruto liking you anymore."

"Huh? Why? And what's the bad news?"

Sakura was puzzled. If nothing happened over there, why was there bad news?

"Naruto will be your rival in love from now on."

"oh."

"..."

"ah???"

Sakura snapped out of her daze, picked at her ear, and asked, "Ino, what did you say?"

"It's true, you have to accept this cruel fact."

Ino recounted what she had seen and heard at the barbecue restaurant.

"What are you talking about? And is that even the important thing? We need to tell Lady Tsunade about this right away!"

After hearing this, Sakura's attention was entirely focused on Sasuke's decision to leave the village.

"Wait! Do you want Sasuke to hate you?"

Ino grabbed Sakura's hand. "Sasuke wants to become stronger, and Naruto supports him, but you betrayed him, ruining his plan to leave the village. Do you think you still have a chance to beat Naruto?"

"..."

Sakura was speechless.

Why does it sound like she's actually starting to compete with Naruto for Sasuke?

However, Ino's words do make some sense; it's true that you shouldn't report them.

Meanwhile, the barbecue party ended.

According to Sasuke's plan, he would leave the village tonight, and Naruto would search for him in the village tomorrow morning before leaving to catch up with him.

After Naruto left, Jiraiya went out of the village again to chase after Naruto.

However, before leaving the village, Sasuke went to the Hokage Building and threw a letter onto the Hokage's desk through the window.

He certainly didn't want to be caught up.

The best way is to expose Naruto.

After leaving the letter, Sasuke leaped across the rooftops and left the village, disappearing into the night.

"Sasuke is definitely suspicious."

Not long after Sasuke left, Naruto poked his head out of the Hokage's office window, easily climbed in, and took the letter.

Walking on the deserted streets of Konoha, Naruto opened the letter.

Seeing Sasuke's ruthless revelation of his plan to leave the village, Naruto gritted his teeth: "Sasuke, what...what are you trying to hide?"

"Luckily, Naruto Uzumaki is smart. We need to hurry back and wake up the perverted sage so we can set off immediately..."

Naruto clutched the letter tightly and turned to go find Jiraiya.

"Huh? What's that sound?"

Naruto looked around in confusion. Why did he think he heard someone calling out?

"ah------"

The calls were getting closer.

"what?"

Naruto finally found the source of the sound and looked up, only to see a dark, round butt.

thump.

Naruto felt dizzy and disoriented after being sat on in the face, and even wondered if he was hallucinating. He thought, "Why does it smell like Sasuke? Uh oh, who attacked Naruto Uzumaki?"

thump.

Just as Naruto was about to make a move, something else landed on him.

This time it seems he landed headfirst, hitting his lower body.

"Awooo—"

Naruto let out a piercing scream and fainted.

"It's over, Mr. Sasuke, I'm going to die!"

"It's alright, calm down, keep your voice down, and be careful not to let the night patrolling ninjas hear you..."

"Don't calm down, Sasuke! You're bleeding! Quickly use your invincible Sharingan to think of a solution!"

"..."

zizi.

A flash of lightning streaked across the sky.

The unconscious Naruto twitched twice, was scorched by the lightning release, and the bleeding was successfully stopped.

"...Sasuke-san, I feel like I'm completely finished this time."

"Don't worry, he has the physique of the Uzumaki clan and the power of a tailed beast, he'll recover quickly. Let's send him home now, and we'll talk again tomorrow..."