Sakura's Little Thoughts

After watching Haku leave, Furen hurried to the Dazna family home, where Kakashi and the others had arrived.

At Dazna's Home.

You might not believe it, but Furen's shadow clone was currently entangled by Dazna's daughter, Tsunami, making it quite difficult to escape…

Ever since Tsunami saw Furen, she seemed entranced, clinging to him incessantly.

"Tsunami-san, could you let me practice alone for a while?" Furen said with an apologetic smile.

Tsunami hesitated for a moment, then reluctantly left after putting down a fruit platter she had prepared for him.

"Furen-kun, I'll also work hard to become a ninja!" Tsunami called out as she walked away.

Once Tsunami's figure completely vanished, Furen's shadow clone let out a puff of smoke and dissipated, while Furen's real body jumped down from a tree, looking thoughtfully at the fruit platter Tsunami had brought.

Logically speaking, with Tsunami being so infatuated with him, her favorability should have appeared in the system, but unexpectedly, there was no favorability for Tsunami. It seemed the system had certain requirements for women regarding favorability.

"Why didn't her favorability show up in the system?" Furen shook his head and headed toward the room where Kakashi was resting.

According to the information his shadow clone brought back, Kakashi had already deduced that Zabuza was pretending to be dead and had shared the next plan.

Let the four of them from Team 7 train well!

After he regained the ability to move freely, Kakashi led Furen and the others to a dense forest.

"Now we'll start training!" Kakashi announced.

"Yes!" Naruto exclaimed excitedly. "What jutsu are we training today, Kakashi-sensei?!"

"We're not training any jutsu today. You have only one task," Kakashi pointed to a nearby tree.

"Climb the tree!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Kakashi demonstrated for Team 7. "Unlike what you might think, you cannot use your hands to climb."

Still not fully healed and leaning on crutches, Kakashi stepped onto the tree as if walking on flat ground, steadily ascending.

Once he reached the highest branch, hanging upside down like a bat, Kakashi said, "Gather your chakra to your feet, and let your body stick to the tree trunk. Climb up slowly."

"That looks easy!" Naruto, who was eager, immediately ran to a nearby tree, trying to climb.

However, he fell with a thud after just a few steps.

"Hmph." Sasuke snorted in defiance, also attempting to climb the tree, but the result was the same; he fell after just a few steps.

Kakashi smiled upon seeing this and then turned his gaze to Furen, who had been silent.

Recalling that during the previous battle, Furen had already been able to walk on water, it was clear that climbing a tree would be a piece of cake for him.

"Furen… I'll leave Naruto and Sakura's training to you," Kakashi said as he jumped down from the tree and disappeared.

Once Kakashi left, Furen looked at Sakura.

Naruto and Sasuke were clearly at odds, so he only had Sakura left.

"Sakura, do you need my help?" Furen approached Sakura.

Having overheard Kakashi's instructions to Furen, Sakura was already overjoyed, though she still nodded demurely.

"Please, Furen."

"Hmm… how can I help you…" Furen rubbed his chin in thought, then suggested, "How about I take you up the tree so you can feel how to control your chakra?"

"I'll do whatever you say, Furen." Sakura nodded.

With her consent, Furen wrapped his arms around Sakura and stepped onto the tree first, distributing chakra to his feet.

Sakura, suddenly being hugged and taken up the tree, felt Furen's warmth against her back, making her feel as if she might melt.

"Furen… Furen is holding me!"

Sakura screamed in her heart.

With a smile, Furen spoke, "Sakura, focus. Keep your chakra steady on your feet…"

"Okay." Sakura followed his instructions.

Furen carried Sakura up and down the tree, teaching her throughout the day.

In truth, Sakura had already learned how to climb trees; she just wanted to be held by Furen, which was why it took her the whole day to master it.

Knowing this, Furen wouldn't expose her.

As evening fell and Sakura headed back first, a notification pinged.

Ding.

Sakura's favorability towards you: 1%

Hearing this, Furen was puzzled.

"Why is it only such a small increase?"

Furen opened the system panel, and to his surprise, Sakura's favorability had reached 91%, just 9% away from being able to draw again.

"System, what's going on?" Furen asked.

System: "After reaching 90%, favorability becomes very difficult to increase. I hope the host continues to work hard."

"Just 1% at a time? Is it really that hard to raise?" Furen frowned.

System: "When favorability reaches 100%, there will be a special achievement. I hope the host continues to strive."

Furen thought for a moment and then understood. After all, 100% favorability would imply a strong desire for a relationship, and achieving that level wouldn't be easy.

"Sakura's 100% favorability draw might yield something like the 'Shadow Clone Jutsu' of S-rank…"