The next morning, news spread that Jiraiya was appointed as the deputy commander of the Ninja Army.

With the letter of commission, Jiraiya quickly mobilized the team to bid farewell to Tuan and set out to return to the border to join the large army. The war has begun, and there are often minor frictions on the border. Although the real battlefield has not been fully opened, it should not be far away.

The small team that was rushing seemed a little silent. From waking up in the morning to Jiraiya returning with the team, Naruto seemed very quiet throughout the whole process, so quiet that everyone around him felt the depression on him.

You should know that Naruto is very good at the optimist school's sunny personality and everyone in the team. His strangeness quickly attracted everyone's attention and infected everyone's emotions.

What's wrong with this?

Didn't you do well yesterday?

Could it be because of the deputy commander?

Shikamaru's confusion was the same as many people around him, but he knew much more than others. Since yesterday when Maruseki Kosuke was removed from the position of deputy commander by Danzo, he guessed that Naruto would go to Danzo to explain the matter privately, but now from the person who led the team to Jiraiya, the matter has not been negotiated.

"Naruto-kun, are you unhappy?"

While resting, Hinata couldn't help but look at Naruto beside her and asked carefully.

She cares more about Naruto than everyone here, and is more willing to speak out.

Naruto shook his head, forced himself to hold up and smile and pinch Hinata's face: "It's okay, I just didn't sleep well last night."

Not being shy because of Naruto's intimate actions in public, Hinata looked at Naruto with her big eyes open, stretched out her hand and held Naruto's palm and pinched her: "You can tell me anything you have, I will help you, no matter what, I will stand on your side."

She is not a fool. She has been with Naruto for so long, and she can tell whether the other party is really okay or pretending to be fine at a glance.

Obviously, Naruto is in a low mood now, and is a low point he has never seen before.

When he was rejected by villagers in the village before, Hinata had never seen Naruto show such an expression.

But she didn't know what was going on with Naruto. As his girlfriend, Hinata could only say that she would stand by his side unconditionally.

Feeling the care coming from Hinata, warmth emerged in Naruto's heart, but because of her concern, he thought of more things, and extremely complicated emotions surged into his mind, which made him inexplicably irritated.

A conversation with Uncle Tuan yesterday made him unable to sleep all night after he went back. The entire battle process appeared in his mind at all times. Even the scenes that he had analyzed themselves that had never happened were constantly echoing in his mind, and it also included the scenes of Hinata dying because of his impulse.

His momentary impulse will kill many people.

"I'm fine." Naruto shouted irritably, pulled his hand out of Hinata's palm and turned away from everyone's sight.

Only Hinata was left standing there, holding her hands up, staring at the disappearing back of the other party.

There are not many other countries of fire, but there are many trees and forests.

Now they are far away from the town and do not take the official road because they are rushing to travel, so the sections they pass through are all the undeveloped deep forests.

The rest time is only half an hour, and half an hour has to take a lunch and rest for a while before setting off. After Naruto left the team, he sat alone under a big tree. He buried his head in pain and pulled his hair with both hands.

Whenever he saw his companion's face, he couldn't help but flash his fantasy in his mind. Because of his death, this feeling was not good for someone who valued love and friendship.

"You little brat, a girl as good as Hinata is so cold. You didn't see her sad after you left just now." Jiraiya's heartless voice frightened Naruto, and he looked up in the sound, and found that the other party was resting on the branch of the big tree where he was.

"Master, can you not follow me so secretly?" Naruto shouted in anger. He was so embarrassed that he stayed away from the team just to prevent his weak side from being seen by others, but he was still seen now.

"I didn't follow you, but I think this location is good. It's neither sunlight nor the branches are too hard to make me lie down comfortably." Jiraiya said yawning, his body shaking up and down with the branches, looking very leisurely and lazy.

Hearing Jiraiya's words, Naruto curled his lips and wanted to get up and leave to find a new seat, but after hesitating, he sat down again.

"You little brat, you're not old and you look like you're worried."

Judging from his appearance, I knew that the other party had something to say to him.

"Master, you said...how did I behave yesterday?" Naruto hesitated for a moment, raised his head and asked Jiraiya.

"Expression? What's the performance?" Jiraiya shook her body and bounced upside down, no longer lying flat on her face to face the top, but instead turned upside down and hugged the branch and looked at Naruto below.

"that is..."

Naruto wanted to explain, but was inexplicably upset and didn't want to recall what happened during the previous mission. He shook his hand and said, "It's okay, I'm a little hungry, so let's go back to the team to eat something."

As he said that, he was about to stand up, and then something was hit on the head. When he looked down, he realized that it was a ninja bag containing military food balls.

"You really can eat it. You just finished the allocated military ration balls on the first day of your journey? No, I still have a lot, you can just take it."

Picking up the ninja bag on the ground, Naruto looked up and met Jiraiya's cunning look.

Everyone has one of the ninjas bags, and Naruto has one, so don’t be on his waist now, and he hasn’t eaten the vegetarian pill inside.

"Oh... I know you're still thinking about the battle yesterday, Lord Danzo told me." Jiraiya jumped down from the branch and sat under the tree with him.

Naruto lowered his head and was silent. Since the master was asked by Uncle Tuan to guide him, he would definitely tell him everything about last night, which he had never expected before.

"Actually... according to the mission process mentioned by Lord Danzang, I actually think your performance is already acceptable at your age. At least I made no fewer mistakes at your age than you, and I have never faced the real tailed beast." Jiraiya comforted, "I just think Lord Danzang has too high expectations for you. There are not so many geniuses in this world. It is good that you can not escape under that situation!"

"Yes...but it's all because of me that everyone is in a dangerous situation with me." Naruto said carefully, mainly because this issue was the one that made him care about.

"But it is also because of your help that Lord Danzo and I can cross tens of millions of miles to support you through reverse psychics, right? If you choose to retreat calmly, in that case, Xiao Li and Senior Kusuke will definitely die, but now because of yours, both of them have survived."
Chapter completed!