Naruto: Naruto's Uchiha girlfriend is too arrogant

Chapter 600 Familiar Yet Strange

"..."

"The daughter of the Hokage?!"

Satsuki pointed at Sakura, her mind buzzing like a machine suddenly overloaded. "Her?"

Satsuki's gaze swept over Sakura's face several times. Something was wrong. How could Sakura be the Hokage's daughter? Shouldn't the Hokage's descendant be Naruto Uzumaki?

"Surprised? You ran into the central figure on your first visit to Konoha." Kiba had his hands in his pockets, leaned back slightly, and held his chin high. He completely assumed that Satsuki and Naruto's shock was because they "met the Hokage's daughter in Konoha," rather than because of the mind-blowing fact that "the Hokage's daughter is actually Sakura Haruno."

Just as Satsuki's brain was still struggling to process the explosive information that "Sakura is the daughter of the Hokage," she noticed that Kiba's voice suddenly changed tone.

"...Wait for me. Okay, okay, sweetie, we'll be home soon."

Ya lowered his head, his voice unusually gentle for a burly man with red face paint and an inability to control his volume. His chin shrank into his collar, his gaze fixed on Ya's chest.

Zuo Yue followed his gaze and saw a head suddenly pop out from inside Ya's collar... a round, small cat head with pointed ears, big eyes, and fluffy white fur.

Its mouth was slightly open, emitting a soft "meow-meow" sound.

Ya raised his hand, ran his fingers through the white fur on the kitten's head, and stroked it gently.

His lips curled into a wide smile. "How is it? Isn't it cute?" His voice carried an eagerness to praise it. "This is my best partner—Aomaru!" he shared joyfully, stroking the cat's head as his fingers slid from the round little head to its chin.

A cat? Satsuki received another piece of bad news. Wasn't Kiba's partner a dog? Aren't dogs and cats generally not supposed to have a particularly bad relationship? One sniffs out enemies, the other squints in the sun, one is as loyal as a shadow following its owner, and the other is as aloof as if the whole world owes it a few fish.

How could Kiba go from being a dog lover—no, the kind of dog lover who "loves Akamaru so much that he can eat from the same bowl with him"—to a cat lover? And the title of "best partner" was given to a cat? Akamaru would cry. If Akamaru existed in this world, it would definitely cry.

Before Zuoyue could sort out these chaotic thoughts, Ya spoke up excitedly again, his tone even more excited than before.

"Hey, are you guys interested in getting a cat?" His eyes sparkled as he looked at Naruto and Satsuki. "Cats are such soft, warm creatures, with little noses, big eyes, and fluffy fur—they're practically the cutest creatures in the world!"

"It's wonderful to be able to become a Cat Master!" His voice was completely sincere, like a vow made to one's faith.

"...The dog..." Zuo Yue opened her mouth, her voice a little dry. She wanted to ask, "Where is the dog?" But before she could finish her question, another figure suddenly became excited.

"There are bugs!"

Shino's body jerked backward, and he quickly pulled something out of his pocket... it looked like an insecticide bottle.

Shino aimed the bottle of insecticide at the air and pressed down hard with his thumb—"Hiss—" A pungent smell immediately filled the air.

"Cough cough! Seriously! Here we go again!" Ya's voice came from the pungent white mist, filled with obvious dissatisfaction and complaint.

He quickly pressed Qingwan's head back into his collar, covered the kitten's ears with his palm, and covered his mouth and nose with his other hand, curling himself up into a ball.

"Hey! Couldn't you have told me beforehand? This stuff can really damage your sense of smell!"

"Feel sorry."

Shino's voice came from the other side of the white mist. His fingers were still on the insecticide nozzle, ready to press it again at any moment. "But I really can't stand the bugs."

"Can't stand insects?" Satsuki's voice held an incredulous tone, as if asking, "Are you kidding me?" "Aren't you a ninja from the Aburame clan?"

Satsuki raised his voice slightly, reminding Shino of his identity—the Aburame clan, renowned in the ninja world for their insect control techniques. Every member of the clan has been dealing with insects since they can remember, and keeping insects inside their bodies is their tradition and their way of being.

Satsuki understood. Something was really wrong with this world. Sakura, who had never been interested in Naruto, had become a lovesick girl who fell in love with him at first sight, and inexplicably became the Hokage's daughter.

The dog lover, who used to dote on Akamaru and even share a meal with him, has now become a cat lover who can't resist cats. His partner has changed from a dog to a cat.

Shino, who loves insects like her own life and treats them like family, becomes a poison master who hates insects the most.

However, the biggest problem that Satsuki couldn't understand was that Shino's fighting power relied entirely on the insects, right? The Aburame clan's insect control technique involves injecting chakra into the insects to manipulate them for attack, defense, reconnaissance, and tracking.

Without the insects, Shino is like a swordsman whose scabbard has been emptied, holding nothing in his hand and having no weapon. How can he fight?

"You recognized me. That's right, I'm an outcast in the family."

"Furthermore, I cannot understand the training method of the clan's ninjas, which involves raising insects on their bodies, because I hate insects the most."

"So how did you become a ninja?"

"Relying on poison."

"poison?"

"Yes." Shino nodded. "With a deep-seated aversion to insects, I began to research various poisons."

"Insecticides are just the most basic kind. I also have neurotoxins that can paralyze an enemy's entire body, inhibitors that can stop chakra flow, contact poisons that can spread through the air, and those that can dissolve in water..." He began to list them one by one...

"..."

Satsuki felt she should say something, but she really didn't know where to begin. However, she took a deep breath and shook the tangled mess of thoughts out of her mind. Forget about cats, insects, or the daughter of the Hokage, she had only one purpose for coming here.

"Um..." Satsuki took half a step forward, "Do you know a girl in Konoha named Uzumaki Naruko?"

"...Uzumaki?" Ya frowned slightly upon hearing the surname. "No. I don't know anyone with that name, and I've never heard of them before."

"What?" Satsuki's voice suddenly rose. Wasn't her condition that "Naruto Uzumaki lives entirely in a girl's world"? How could Kiba not know Naruto?

"You really don't recognize him? Think about it again?" Zuo Yue asked anxiously.

"Even if you say that..." Kiba felt a little uncomfortable under her gaze, "I do know and have heard of someone named 'Naruko'... but I don't know Uzumaki..."

He was halfway through his sentence, his tongue still lingering on the word "vortex," when suddenly—

"What are you guys doing here?"

A voice cut in from the other end of the street, cold, harsh, and devoid of any warmth; it sounded more like an interrogation than a question.

Shino, Kiba, and Sakura all stiffened at the same time.

Satsuki and Naruto looked in the direction of the sound.

A person stood under the streetlight. Black hair, black eyes, fair skin, delicate features, cold and aloof, every line exuding a coldness that kept people at a distance.

He was practically a carbon copy of the young Sasuke from the previous world, except that he had suddenly grown up, as if someone had pressed the fast-forward button, compressing those ten-plus years into a single moment.

His gaze didn't fall on Kiba, Sakura, or Shino, but went straight to Naruto and Sasuke.

"It's Sasuke..." Kiba's voice squeezed out of the tense air. He took his hands off Aomaru's back and put them back in his pockets, trying to appear as relaxed as possible. "Seriously, don't get so worked up, we're just chatting."

Sasuke ignored Kiba and kept his eyes on Naruto and Satsuki.

"I've never seen either of you in the village. Who are you?"

"Oh, don't worry, they're just here for tourism..." Ya said.

"Shut up." Sasuke interrupted Kiba's words and continued the interrogation.

"You two are ninjas, right? But ninjas from outside the village need to obtain a certificate to enter Konoha. Show me your credentials."

Naruto was taken aback. Qualifications for joining the village? He had grown up in Konoha and no one had ever told him about such a thing as "qualifications for joining the village."

You can come and go from Konoha like it's your own home; who would ask you for proof of your credentials? But Sasuke wasn't joking; his hand was already on the hilt of his sword.

Naruto glanced at Satsuki, and Satsuki glanced at him back. Their eyes met, conveying the same thought: This Sasuke, why does he act like a policeman?

"You two don't seem to know what that is." Sasuke's voice grew colder. He pushed the tsuba (handguard) up a little more with his thumb, revealing a small section of the blade. The silvery-white metal reflected a cold light under the streetlight. "Looks like you two will have to come with me."

Naruto frowned slightly. "Let's go somewhere? Where to?"

"Uchiha Police Force"