Minato reached out and pressed Naruto's head, ruffling his Little Blondie hair that was the same style as his own, and said with a wry smile, "Where did you get so many strange ideas?"
"It's only natural, I thought you would tell me about 'Thirty Minutes to Teach You Cultivation' or something like 'Bo Feng Hou Xiong's Complete Guide to Cultivation'..."
"There's no such thing," Minato said helplessly, "Seeing how you are, you don't plan to rest quietly, so I'll give you a special mission."
"What special mission?"
"A tracking mission. I want you to find opportunities to monitor four people during the afternoons of today and the mornings of tomorrow. As long as you stay within a hundred meters of them and aren't discovered for thirty minutes, you'll succeed."
"Who am I tracking?" Naruto had a little bit of confidence in his stealth skills. Although he wasn't very good at hiding, he had Kagura Shingan.
This thing can not only be used for perception, but also to hide his Chakra. It is difficult for ordinary sensory ninjas to find him through Chakra.
Minato said, "Tsunade-senpai, Jiraiya-sensei, Kakashi, and... Kushina."
"Pfft, tracking them, is this hell-level difficulty?" Even if they are in Konoha Village and their vigilance is not so high, it is not something that Naruto's three-legged cat stealth skills can handle.
"As long as you succeed with one, there will be a reward."
"What kind of reward can you give me?" Naruto squinted his eyes. He doesn't have any Ninjutsu he wants to learn right now. He has also saved a lot of pocket money in the past six months since becoming a Special Jonin, and doesn't think Minato can give him any reward that would excite him.
Minato blinked and smiled brightly, "How about not pursuing your responsibility for repeatedly taking people out of the village without permission during this time?"
"..." Naruto was silent for a while, then shouted, jumping up and down, "You are using your position for personal gain, Hokage-sama!"
"So you want me to put righteousness before family, how about fining you all your mission rewards?" Minato pretended to be thinking,
"Speaking of which, I still miss the embarrassed look on my son's face when he hesitantly came to me to ask for pocket money..."
Naruto grabbed Minato's chin: "I'll take this mission."
...
Regardless of whether Minato wanted to test Naruto's qualities as a ninja, or simply find something for him to do, now that he had accepted it, Naruto decided to do it seriously.
First of all, squatting at their door for half an hour while they are sleeping definitely doesn't count, and giving them a heads-up beforehand is also cheating.
But besides sleeping, there are other times when their vigilance is lowered.
For example, Jiraiya when he is gathering material, Kakashi when he is reading a book, and Kushina when she is bargaining. At these times, the difficulty of hiding in the dark to monitor them should drop sharply.
So Naruto's chosen target is... Tsunade.
Because Naruto sensed that Tsunade's Chakra had just left the Izakaya, Tsunade's perception ability in a drunken state should be negative, right? Plan successful!
Naruto acted immediately, skipped over a few rooftops and landed silently a few hundred meters away from Tsunade, then transformed into an unremarkable passerby and followed Tsunade.
Tsunade staggered for a while, then moved her feet and turned into a small alley. She also poked her head around to observe the surroundings, and only pushed open a small door and squeezed in when she was sure there was nothing unusual.
Naruto was puzzled, why is she being so secretive?
He followed her, imitating Tsunade's actions to push open the small door, and then with a thud, his forehead hurt and he flew out.
This familiar force, Naruto knew it was Tsunade's flick on the forehead without even looking up, and he couldn't maintain the Transformation Technique and returned to his original appearance.
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"What, it's Naruto, I thought Shizune had followed me," Tsunade crossed her arms, supporting her 106cm, and asked:
"Why are you following me?"
"Tsunade-neechan, couldn't you be a little gentler?" Naruto rubbed his forehead as he stood up, complaining.
Then, he suddenly noticed that Tsunade was speaking so fluently and asked in surprise, "You're not drunk?"
"Of course, how could I d... if I were drunk?" Tsunade stopped herself, her eyes darting around a bit.
Changing the subject, she said, "So why are you following me anyway? Did Shizune send you?"
Naruto replied, "It's a test my dad gave me, to try and follow a few people and see if I can avoid being discovered, in case something bad happens."
"Then I declare you a failure, you can leave," Tsunade said, eager to get rid of Naruto, not in the mood to ask Minato why he would have Naruto do such a thing.
Naruto wasn't so easily fooled, staring into her eyes, "Were you about to say you came here to gamble? I don't remember Konoha having any legal casinos."
"What gambling..." Tsunade came over to pat the dirt off Naruto, and even used Medical Ninjutsu to help soothe and reduce the swelling on the bump on Naruto's head.
Naruto pushed her away in disgust, reeking of alcohol. The novels that wrote about beauties having a fragrant body odor and sweat were all lies, they would also have the stench of sweat and alcohol.
Tsunade said pitifully, "Naruto, you don't know how hard it is for me, in the past six months or so, I don't know what the Military Police Force is up to, but all the black casinos, big and small, in Konoha have been shut down, leaving only this one seedling!"
Naruto remained unmoved, "So?"
"So can you help keep it a secret, at least let me finish gambling this one time! I finally pretended to sneak out for a drink to fool Shizune!"
Worried that Naruto wouldn't agree, Tsunade blinked her big eyes and added, "I'll split the winnings with you, or give them all to you!"
...Is there any more unreliable pie in the sky than this? So you deliberately got drunk and pretended to be drunk to fool Shizune?
Poor Shizune-neechan should be hugging Tonton right now, dealing with the things she left behind! Sakura Bro might have been roped in as well.
Naruto looked at Tsunade, who was already quite old but still acting cute to beg for gambling, and felt that it was unlikely to get her to quit her gambling addiction of half a lifetime: "Then I'll tell the Military Police Force after you've lost all your money."
"Good boy!" Tsunade happily slipped into the door of the casino.
Naruto estimated Tsunade's savings and the speed at which she lost money, feeling that reporting her in ten minutes would be giving her face, right?
At that time, the righteous Konoha Military Police Force, after careful planning, would shut down the underground casino, recover the stolen money, and return it to the deceived elderly—although Tsunade looked young, she was indeed an old woman over half a century old.
Then Naruto began to think about why he was exposed. He had clearly hidden his Chakra well, and the Transformation Technique had no flaws. Was it just because Tsunade was extra cautious because she had a guilty conscience?
That's a bit of a stretch...
Naruto waited until the time was almost up, and went to the Military Police Building as a warm-hearted Chaoyang masses, and then chose Jiraiya as his next target.
There was no way, Kakashi was with Guy, not knowing whether they were training or competing, Naruto didn't want to challenge the Blue Beast's intuition.
And Kushina was training her students—it would be too stupid to deliver food specifically during the Reconnaissance Squad's training.
He had no choice but to choose the old pervert who was honestly staying in the office.
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