Delivery

Chapter 110: Delivery

After Kushina left, Kiba didn't

stay long and returned to his cabin immediately. Upon returning, Kiba frowned.

For some reason, he didn't feel the joy of becoming Tsunade's disciple at all.

As the strongest medical ninja in

Naruto, Tsunade was first-class in both strength and medical ninjutsu—absolute

Kage-level strength.

Moreover, her Strength of a Hundred Seal

technique could be considered second only to the First Hokage's self-healing

abilities. Strictly speaking, it should be the best medical ninjutsu. The First

Hokage's self-healing ability wasn't precisely a jutsu but an inherent ability

that stemmed from his immense vitality and chakra, something only he could

wield.

"But why? Tsunade, one of the Sannin, the

future Fifth Hokage, and the strongest medical ninja, wants to teach me medical

ninjutsu, yet I'm not happy at all?" Kiba frowned, punching a wooden stake as part of his

daily training.

"Boom!"

Kiba's punch cracked the wooden

post with a "click,"

creating a split.

At this moment, Kiba came back to

his senses, glanced at the damaged stake that had just been erected a month

ago, and then looked at the other stakes.

"This stake can't hold up anymore. I have to

get some more."

Kiba stopped training, muttered to himself, then picked up the ax placed in the

cabin and walked towards the woods.

About half an hour later, two new

wooden stakes were erected behind the cabin. Kiba put down the ax with a

thoughtful look on his face.

He was still wondering why Tsunade

wanted to teach him. She might even accept him as a disciple, teaching him

everything, including the Strength of a Hundred Seal technique, enhancing his

strange power further under her guidance.

"This kind of situation is generally

celebrated, right? With the guidance of a famous teacher like Tsunade and the

development of the injury mode, there's no problem in self-protection during

the Third Shinobi War. This has always been a problem I've worried about—like a

sword hanging above my head. This should solve it."

"But why am I not happy at all?"

Kiba continued his daily training,

the thoughtful look on his face growing more intense.

After he finished his daily

training and made up for the previous few days, night had fallen and the sky

was full of stars. Yet, he still couldn't figure it out.

It was a strange feeling he had

never encountered before.

Why?

This question remained unresolved

in his mind as he drifted off to sleep.

Kiba slept soundly this time, and

when he woke up, birds were chirping outside the window, and the warmth of the

sun spread from the quilt to his body.

Kiba yawned, wiped his eyes, then

got out of bed, washed up as usual, and took last night's extra-large Konoha

steamed bun from the small stove. He turned off the fire, closed the door, and

left the cabin.

While gnawing on the bun, Kiba

walked to the meeting place thoughtfully.

He was still struggling with the

feeling of being taught by Tsunade but not feeling excited or happy at all.

Soon, he arrived at the gathering

place, and Hirohiko had already arrived. Yukina seemed to follow Namikaze

Minato directly for practice and didn't come to the meeting place, possibly at

a different location set by Minato.

Kushina, Tsunade, and Jiraiya had

also arrived. Seeing two of the legendary Sannin, who were famous throughout

the ninja world, surprised Hirohiko. Doubts and apprehensions flashed in his

eyes, along with a touch of excitement.

It's that smile again.

Kiba frowned slightly.

At this moment, the smile on

Kushina's face could only be described as intellectual, making her look like an

intellectual and beautiful woman.

However, Kiba felt that this smile

was somewhat off... It was a smile he had never seen before.

In his previous life, he had been

an isolated existence in junior high school and high school. He had no friends,

not even a deskmate. He sat alone in the corner of the classroom, near the back

door.

There were only two things he

could do every day between classes and during breaks—reading books, novels, and

comics, and observing people, though it was more like watching people in a

daze.

Kiba didn't know if he was envious

of conversations, longing for attention, or envious of having friends. But

after years of observation, he gradually became able to make vague judgments

based on people's expressions and movements. He could determine if a person was

in a good or bad mood and roughly infer their intentions.

He could see the look of disgust

his classmates had for him after hearing bad things said about him. He could

see the complacent look of the person who slandered him, a kind of arrogance

that seemed to influence others.

Kiba could distinguish between a

happy smile, a sad smile, a surprised smile, and a relieved smile. But

Kushina's smile seemed like a happy and reassuring smile.

However, he always felt a strange

sense of dissonance.

Kushina, what's wrong?

It may have been a conditioned

reflex or a habit developed from observing people for more than ten years.

Besides often entering a state of deep thought, Kiba sometimes unconsciously

entered a mode of inferring mood and intentions from others' expressions.

However, it was the first time he

was so entangled like today.

Seeing that Kiba had arrived,

Kushina got straight to the point and introduced Tsunade and Jiraiya to them.

"This is Tsunade-sama, and

this is Jiraiya-sensei," Kushina introduced. "They are powerful

ninjas, and they will train you in the future."

Although Kushina was not Jiraiya's

disciple, due to her relationship with Namikaze Minato, she habitually called

Jiraiya "teacher."

And Jiraiya was used to it. After

all, this girl had a very good relationship with Namikaze Minato. When he

taught Minato and his team ninjutsu, Kushina would come over and bring them

some delicious food.

According to her words, "This

is made for Minato, but I'm sorry to see that you don't have anything to eat,

so I made some for you too."

Although Kushina's personality had

been a bit awkward and she wasn't very frank with them, Jiraiya was still very

happy to have such a female disciple, even though she wasn't officially his

disciple.

Now seeing that Kushina had grown

up and taught such excellent disciples as Kiba, Hirohiko, and Yukina, he was

quite happy.

Although he was a little surprised

that Kushina found him to be Hirohiko's sparring partner, he was actually a

little happy in his heart.

After the introduction, Kushina

handed over the right to speak to Jiraiya and Tsunade. Tsunade and Jiraiya

didn't waste time and asked Hirohiko and Kiba to follow them to the practice

site.

Watching Kiba and Hirohiko leave,

Kushina looked at the empty assembly area, where traces of ninjutsu and

taijutsu remained on the ground.

The smile on the corner of

Kushina's mouth slightly faded. She looked up at the blue sky and white clouds

and stretched again.

Now I'm free. What should I do?

The intellectual smile that made

Kiba feel a strange sense of dissonance reappeared on her face.

Then, she left the assembly point.