Shinobi Exam: First Question, Why Was Akatsuki Destroyed?

After saying that, Naruto directly picked up the skill upgrade card from Nagato's loot drop.

He swiped with a swish.

[Congratulations. Upgrade Wood Release: Wood Dragon Technique (level 18). Able to summon a giant wooden dragon ...]

[Congratulations. Upgrade Wood Release: Wood Golem Technique (level 20) (level full).]

[Wood Release: Wood Golem Technique (level 20): Able to create a large wooden golem, control the golem and its wooden dragon to fight. Duration 5 minutes, cooldown 1 hour..]

"Wood Golem Technique!"

After watching the skill analysis, Naruto was thrilled; this was the jutsu he needed.

With a loud roar, his body instantly swelled.

No, it wasn't his body.

It was the ground. The ground under his feet was rapidly rising.

Huge logs appeared around his body, constantly being built and organized, quickly forming a huge wooden golem.

The wooden giant's proportions were exactly the same as Uzumaki Naruto's, and even its face, with its hair made of trees, bore a slight resemblance to Uzumaki Naruto.

On its right arm, there was a huge wooden dragon wrapped around it.

Saying that it was a wood dragon, Uzumaki Naruto couldn't help but think that its head looked a little like his own fox.

Uzumaki Naruto stood atop the wooden giant's head, his Akatsuki red cloud robe billowed with the wind as his body continued to rise.

Directly over Uchiha Sasuke.

Looking at the immediate changes, Sasuke was stunned.

He was completely dumbfounded.

He didn't expect Uzumaki Naruto could have smoothed out the gulf-like gap between them right under his nose.

'Fortunately, I still have Thunder God!'

Sasuke was relieved to realize that Uzumaki Naruto was no match for him! With a gleam in his eye, Sasuke drew his Susanoo's sword and charged straight at the wooden man Uzumaki Naruto had summoned.

In the blink of an eye, the two giants fought in the finals.

....

Boom!

Boom!

Hearing the roar of the battle ahead, Hyūga Neji looked a little grim.

The Jōgan was fully open, and the battle ahead of him was instantly captured in his eyes.

Looking at the horrific battle, Hyūga Neji didn't understand it. 'Why were these two guys with three health units on their heads so powerful?'

Hyūga Neji shook his head and sighed.

There were now five people left, and in addition to the two guys fighting, two others were hiding in this final area.

With this in mind, Hyūga Neji looked carefully at other places in the final area.

To his surprise, he didn't find traces of anyone.

Suddenly, there was a flash of dazzling light, Hyūga Neji was unable to react. In the next moment, his body had already appeared in the Hyūga clan's land.

[Congratulations. You have achieved the fifth-best score in the survival exam. Reward: Healing Card x1.]

[Healing Card: Use is limited to Hyūga Neji. When used, it would instantly heal any injuries.]

"I... I was eliminated?"

Only now, holding the Healing Card in his hand, did Hyūga Neji realize that he had just been killed in seconds while having five units of health!

But, his Jōgan didn't see anyone!

Hyūga Neji didn't look at his reward. Directly looking at the screen above.

...

At the moment, in Amegakure.

Uzumaki Nagato was looking at an enthusiastic Uzumaki Kushina with a slight headache.

Just now, when he returned to Amegakure, Uzumaki Kushina told him a silly sentence.

"Nagato-kun, do you want a wife? If you want one, I'll get one for you!"

Uzumaki Kushina looked at Nagato with a big smile.

She learned from Orochimaru that Nagato had studied under Jiraiya. That was to say, he was Minato's kouhai.

While the future had changed, and it was yet to be seen if Naruto would be Jiraiya's student, it's perfectly fine for Kushina to address Nagato as a junior from Minato's perspective.

Uzumaki Kushina knew that her son had suffered a lot in Konoha, and it was Uzumaki Nagato who brought him out of Konoha.

Therefore, she said nothing about the strange knowledge he had been teaching Naruto.

She was also a shinobi, and she knew that when the other party brought Naruto out, it was surely to use him.

He was teaching Naruto things to make better use of Naruto.

But even if she knew, she couldn't help it. She was dead and couldn't give Naruto a powerful refuge.

All she could do was to give Uzumaki Naruto and Uzumaki Karin all the sealing techniques she knew as much as possible, thus increasing Naruto's role.

'After all, being needed, or being more useful, might make Naruto's life better, right?'

'What's more, Naruto himself seemed to like those strange things.'

'But! But! But!'

Until just now, Kushina was completely stunned by Uzumaki Nagato's display.

She couldn't imagine, she couldn't understand, why Uzumaki Nagato would go to such lengths for her own son!

'Suicide in a survival exam!'

'He even... gave up the rewards that were within reach.'

'If he killed Naruto, he would get the rewards!'

If she hadn't known that Naruto was her son, she would have thought that Uzumaki Nagato was Naruto's real father!

At this moment, Uzumaki Kushina finally understood the magnitude of what Uzumaki Nagato was trying to achieve.

He wasn't trying to use Naruto at all. He was trying to get Naruto to approve of him, to trust him fully!

'That's terrifying!'

'This man's scheming was truly horrifying!'

'A conspiracy! This is a naked conspiracy!'

With the favor from him, both she and Naruto had to be grateful to him.

Kushina put herself in Naruto's shoes. Not to mention Naruto's, if she encountered that kind of treatment at Naruto's age...

Tsk!

'That was how I got myself entangled with that idiot Namikaze Minato back in the day!'

"Uh ..."

Uzumaki Nagato was still frozen. In the next moment, Kushina's voice rang out again.

"As you know, I have a student called Uzumaki Karin, who, like us, belongs to the Uzumaki clan."

"Originally, I thought she was the wife Naruto had found for himself, but then I realized that the little Hyūga girl was the one."

"Although I'm not a fan of the Hyūga clan, Naruto's choice is the one I will definitely support."

"So, Nagato, what do you think of Uzumaki Karin?"

Uzumaki Kushina frowned slightly, then quickly added.

"We are all Uzumaki clansmen, so it's your duty to pass on the Uzumaki bloodline."

"I'm Uzumaki Karin's teacher. If I am the matchmaker, she will definitely agree. But there's a little age difference between you two. Hmm..."

"She's a teenager now, and in another 4 or 5 years, she will be able to get married. Anyway, you still have to wait another 4 to 5 years... Maybe... You guys can get to know each other first in this time?"

Hearing Uzumaki Kushina's indecent words, Uzumaki Nagato instantly broke away from Kushina and disappeared in an instant.

"Want to run?"

Looking at the disappearing Uzumaki Nagato, Kushina smiled.

How could her first matchmaking job end in failure!?

With her perception fully opened, she instantly sensed Uzumaki Nagato's chakra and was about to move after him when Kushina suddenly stopped.

Feeling two familiar chakras in her memory, Kushina looked suspiciously in another direction.

"Uchiha Fugaku and... Mikoto?"

...

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