Naruto: Fox and Cat

"Sure enough, I feel like I've been here before~~" Ying Luofeng walked along the coastline, and only now did she remember this island that she had been to before.I remember that I came here because Wu was looking for some medicinal herbs.

After walking for a while, she found a path going up. "As expected, it's better to find Naruto and the others. It's a bit boring to wander alone."

In order to take a shortcut and turn into a cave, she groped forward. After all, she had walked here before, and she seemed to have encountered interesting creatures here before.

"Huh...huh..."

A slightly heavy breathing sound came from the not-so-dark cave, and then there was the sound of stones being crushed by something.

Ying Luofeng, who had good night vision, saw a huge silhouette hidden in the shadow not far away, and while paying attention to its movements, she walked towards the bright light in the distance.

"Roar!!" The three- to four-meter-long behemoth knew there was an intruder. After roaring, it rushed towards her. Its green eyes looked strange in the dark light.

She jumped up nimbly to avoid the body that it hit directly, and when she fell down, she hit it on the head hard, knocking it out without mercy.

There was a loud "bang" sound, and the huge object hit the ground so hard that it even shook the ground slightly.And in the raised dust, it was completely silent.

"It seems that I used a little too much force. I don't know if I killed it..." Ying Luofeng, who jumped to the ground, checked the big guy and found that it was a rare lizard with a red body.

"Well... I remember Wu said that such a lizard is called..." Ying Luofeng vaguely remembered that her sister, who was obsessed with creating various medicines, once mentioned such a creature, but now she can't think of it. Name, "That name... I remember it is... Super... Xiaoqiang?... Earth Dragon?? Ultraman... Monster... what on earth is it..."

Ying Luofeng couldn't remember the name Wu mentioned before, but she remembered that it seemed to be a very useful medicinal material.

"But since it's been beaten to death, let's drag it out first to see if it's any use..." After deciding, she grabbed the huge lizard's tail and directly pushed the big guy, which weighed more than 300 kilograms, not far away. Drag it away from the hole.

When she was about to reach the entrance of the cave, she seemed to vaguely see a figure flashing across the light, moving at an extremely fast speed like a phantom.

"?", Ying Luofeng was a little confused, slowed down and asked, "Naruto? Is that you?"

No one answered, only the occasional breeze blew through the cave entrance, as if it was just an illusion.

"Well..." Suddenly, there was a stabbing pain in her head. Ying Luofeng frowned and stretched out her hand to press her head, then shook her head to wake herself up.

In the darkness deep in the cave, a pair of formidable eyes suddenly appeared. The right eye was the blood-colored Sharingan eye, while the left eye was the weird spiral-shaped Rinnegan eye.

Time passed by, and there were no people in the cave. Only a red jade pendant cooled the temperature in the dim light...

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"Ah! Aren't they all the same?" Naruto, who was called to pick herbs, held up two herbs that looked very similar but were still very different upon closer inspection. He tried his best to look at them with his eyes wide open, but In my own eyes, it still looks exactly the same.

"Please, this is obviously very different, okay?" Ino rolled her eyes helplessly and raised the correct sample in her hand again, "I told you that the leaves only have six petals, and the flower color is light blue."

"Aren't they all the same blue?" Naruto held up one of the herbs with dark blue flowers.

"That's dark blue, right?!!"

"Ah!!" Naruto rolled in a circle on the grass and said with a puffed face, "If I had known that I would have followed the wind for a walk just now, it would have been the best thing to do!"

"Then it must be that Sister Feng feels annoyed that you are always clinging to her, right?" Ino smiled. She was in a very good mood ever since she got the news from Sakura Luofeng that Sasuke was doing well now.

"What?? Feng would never say that!!" Naruto immediately retorted excitedly.

"Then you should complete the task seriously now." Ino handed him the newly picked herbs, "Here, take this as a sample."

"Aren't they all the same..." Naruto wanted to compare the one he handed her over with the one he pulled out, but he still couldn't see the difference.

"When a war begins, wounded people will appear no matter what. In order to treat the wounded, this task is essential." Ino explained seriously.

Sakura looked around and didn't see many herbs. "But even though Tsunade-sama said this is a treasure house of herbs, it's hard to find them."

Choji asked, "Do you want to look somewhere higher?"

"That's right. After all, we still need to find the ingredients for the Bingliang Pill. No amount is too much." Sakura nodded, and then took the lead to continue climbing, preparing to take a look around the top of the mountain.

Ino and Choji also walked up, rummaging through the grass for useful herbs.

Naruto stared at the sample that Ino gave him, and suddenly opened his mouth to bite the flower. After chewing it for a while, his expression changed, "It's so bitter!!"

After forcing himself to swallow it so that he could completely remember the taste, Naruto immediately began to look for herbs with flowers that had the same taste. When he saw a similar one, he took a bite of the flower of that plant.

"Ah! It's the Vitality Carrot!" Choji saw with sharp eyes a pile of rocks growing a bunch of the herbs he wanted, and immediately ran towards it.

"What? Isn't it there?" Sakura also breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to go over to help.

But just when they were about to get there, three kunai were suddenly thrown over from a distance, blocking them directly between them and the pile of carrots.

"Wait a minute!" After raising his hand to ask the person following him to stop, Dingci looked warily towards the direction where Kunai was flying, "Who?!"

There were three young ninjas standing at a higher place in the distance.The middle one is carrying a long abacus behind his back, and standing on either side of him are a pair of shorter twins.And on the forehead protectors of the three of them is the word "Shang"

"I'm sorry, we discovered the carrot over there first." The young man standing in the middle said. After looking at their forehead protectors, he said, "Looking at your forehead protectors, they should be Konoha ninjas."

Sakura frowned and looked at them, and asked in a deep voice, "Who are you?"

"As people from a big country, they don't care about the unknowns from small countries like us." The young man jumped down first, and the twins also jumped down and squatted on both sides of him.

"I am Jounin Bunt, the one on the right is Corgi, and the one on the left is Sada." Bunt briefly introduced, and then explained their purpose, "We heard that the war was approaching, so we came to this island. Gather herbs.”

Naruto, who had eaten several flowers, just came over now. He put his hands behind his head and said angrily, "I'm telling you, why can't I find them all? It turns out you took them all."

"Yes, we have collected more than half of them. But if this is the case, it will be very difficult for you, right?" Bunt said with a smile, and then gestured to the Corgi on the right.After being instructed, he immediately handed over his bamboo basket filled with medicinal herbs.

Thinking that they were going to give it to them, Sakura immediately said gratefully, "Thank you so much. I would like to express my gratitude to you on behalf of the Ninja Alliance."

"Are you all satisfied? Then~" The smile on Bunt's face was unclear. He suddenly took out the abacus behind his back and pulled out a number. Then he stepped forward and showed them, "Then each bunch of How about just charging this price?”

Sakura and the others were all surprised by this sudden movement. They didn't know what it meant.

"Ah, Konoha's distinguished guests are really demanding. Let me learn from you~~~" Bunt once again took a look at the abacus and showed it to them, "Then what's the price like~~"

Sakura came back to her senses now, frowned and asked, "You still want to collect money?! Isn't this given to us?"

This time it was Bont's turn to be stunned for a moment, then he shrugged and said angrily, "Please spare us. If you don't do this, it will be difficult for small countries like us to survive. But if Konoha refuses to buy it, Daimyos from other countries will definitely be happy to do so. After all, it’s not just ninjas who get injured in war~"

Seeing his profiteer-like appearance, Ino also shouted, "You guy! You understand this and still do business with us?!"

"You also charge money to do tasks, right?! After dividing the levels, you mark the price~" Bunt proudly saw their faces darken, and then said with a smile on his face, "I'm sorry, but please understand. . After all, our small country also needs funds for self-defense.”

Immediately afterwards, Corgi and Sada ran to the pile of carrots and began to collect the best carrots in unison and without mercy.

And Sakura and the others could only watch helplessly as the energetic carrots were pulled up one by one and then collected.Sakura looked at Bunt and the others who were unyielding, and whispered helplessly, "What should I do? If this continues, there is no way to complete the mission..."

"Sand... rustle..."

Suddenly, there was the sound of heavy objects being dragged on the ground from the other side of the mountaintop, and it was obvious that they were coming towards them.

"No...it can't be some ghost..." Naruto, who was very afraid of those supernatural creatures, trembled and stood in front of him with the two herbs he had just pulled out.

"Please, where did the ghost come from in broad daylight?" Sakura said angrily, but she was also wary of the inexplicable voice.

A few seconds later, the owner of the sound appeared in front of everyone.Her long black hair fluttered in the wind, and her black sleeveless skirt made her look very smart.

And most importantly, the red creature that was several times larger than her that she was dragging with one hand was impossible to ignore.

Ying Luofeng, who came here slowly dragging a pet for a walk, noticed with confusion that they were looking at her with puzzled eyes. After looking back, she directly raised the thing in her hand.

"Wow!! Big red lizard in the mountains!!!" Ino's eyes instantly lit up, and after cheering, she rushed forward, "Sister Feng, you are really awesome~~~~~"

"??", Ying Luofeng was even more puzzled, but now she looked at the big lizard in her hand and cursed somewhat depressedly, [I can't even guess a word of this guy's name correctly...]

"Wind~~" Naruto suddenly floated over and looked curiously at the lizard in her hand that was several times her size, "Where did you find this?"

"I just walked into the cave to take a shortcut, so I grabbed it. I don't know if it's useful." Sakura Luofeng smiled and put the lizard aside. After seeing Ino's shining eyes, she thought to herself He nodded in agreement, "Well, it seems quite useful."

"This is a super useful medicinal material. It can be made into great military food pills~~" Ino said with a smile and stretched out his hand to hug her. "Sure enough, Sister Feng is the best~~"

"As long as it's useful to you, it should still be alive." Ying Luofeng smiled, and then looked at those Shang Yin.

"Ouch~ Isn't this Miss Feng??" Bunt immediately ran up with the abacus with a smile, and looked around, "Huh? Where is Miss Wu? Isn't she here?"

"Wu is not here, have you collected any useful medicine again?" Ying Luofeng just smiled softly, and then looked at the medicine box they placed there.

"There are a lot of medicinal materials this time. If Miss Wu is here, she will definitely be very satisfied~" Bunt smiled and narrowed his eyes, as if he saw the financial owner.

Seeing how familiar they were, Sakura couldn't help but ask, "Do you know each other?"

Ying Luofeng explained with a smile, "To be precise, my second brother and Wu are familiar with Shang Yin. I only came into contact with Shang Yin when I occasionally went out with them."

"Miss Feng's second brother?" Bunt was stunned for a moment, then suddenly trembled and looked around suspiciously, "Mr. Yu isn't here, is he?"

"No, the second brother is busy with other things."

"That's great..." Bunt breathed a big sigh of relief. After all, every time they did business with that guy with a foxy smile, they suffered miserably and could only barely keep the cost.

But when doing business with Wu, it is completely mutually beneficial.Wu Dan, who possesses ultra-high pharmaceutical technology, uses the medicinal materials provided by Shang Yin to make high-priced pills. In exchange, she can get rare and high-priced or large quantities of herbal medicines from Shang Yin.

But if the calculation is more accurate, that guy Wu will definitely benefit.After all, the raw materials are given by others, and she can use those raw materials to create new medicines. In the end, she can harvest a lot of herbs for free.

For Shang Yin, making pills would be several times more expensive than basic herbal medicines. Apart from labor costs, it was not a loss at all.