Reborn Naruto, I rolled my eyes to the sky

When we returned to the carriage and horse shop in the northeast corner of the city, Mako had already prepared our luggage and was ready to set off. We placed the specialty items we bought on the carriage, said hello to the owner of the carriage and horse shop, and prepared to set off.

Miss Mako held her daughter and said goodbye to her father: "Father, Yingzi and I will return to Konoha soon. You don't need to worry about the safety of the three ninjas. You should take care of yourself."

The old man watched his daughter and granddaughter get on the carriage and put their luggage away: "Don't worry about me, I'm in good health."

After that, he turned to the three of us and said, "I will leave my daughter to the three ninjas. Please be sure to send them back to Konoha safely."

Minato smiled and assured, "Don't worry, we will definitely send Miss Mako and Xiao Yingzi back to Konoha safely."

In addition to the three of us, as well as Mako and Eiko sitting in the carriage, there was a coachman who saw that we were all ready, so he harnessed the carriage, waved the whip, and set off on the journey back to Konoha.

Due to the speed limit of the carriage, we naturally cannot return to Konoha within a day at a speed of a thousand miles a day. It will probably take us about two or three days, just like the time it took us to get here.

However, the return journey was much easier. There were not a dozen large carts that required us to look after. All we had to do was follow a carriage, and it did not interfere with my daily practice.

The return journey was also very peaceful. Miss Mako usually stayed in the carriage and rarely showed up to avoid any trouble. However, her daughter Yingzi was very interested in Xiaohua and often came out to tease her.

It's strange to say, as a psychic tiger cub, although Xiaohua didn't stick to Eiko and play like an ordinary kitten, he didn't mind Eiko's teasing, and even let Eiko stroke it like a kitten, which was a treatment that neither Minato nor Shinichi had.

However, these do not affect my daily practice. The practice of the twelve Earthly Branches' fundamental seals has been engraved in my daily life. My body's state is automatically adjusted with the change of time. I no longer need to deliberately make seals and meditate to assist in practice. This has also allowed my strength to enter a period of rapid growth. After all, walking, sitting and lying down are all forms of practice.

The same is true for the practice of the Eight Gates. With the continuous practice of the Open Gate and the Rest Gate and the improvement of my own physical fitness, I have now completely opened the first two gates. The Open Gate and the Rest Gate no longer exist for me, and these two places are no longer places that restrict the flow and burst of my chakra.

Now I am trying to fully open the Gate of Life and the Gate of Injury. In fact, with my current physical fitness, opening the sixth gate is not a problem. The Gate of Life and the Gate of Injury can be opened easily.

However, there is still some distance to completely remove the restrictions of these two gates on chakra, so I did not waste time on the way back to Konoha and practiced hard. After all, looking at the current situation in the ninja world, the outbreak of the Second Ninja World War is just around the corner.

Time passed slowly as the carriage moved forward and we practiced daily. It took us less than two days to finally reach the edge of Konoha. The Konoha Forest and the barrier were already in sight. We didn't encounter any danger along the way. Although the situation in the ninja world was tense, it was relatively calm in the center of the Fire Country and the surrounding areas of Konoha.

Through the Konoha barrier and the patrol guards in the village, we sent Miss Mako to her home and went to the mission hall to report the completion of the mission.

The mission hall was still as busy as when we left. Since it was an escort mission, we only needed to report to the person in charge to complete it. The ninja in front of the counter recorded the three of us names and mission levels, and then ended this C-level mission.

Seeing that it was already afternoon, the Ninja School should have been over. If there were no special circumstances, Ling, Kushina and Nono should be practicing in the open space in the Konoha Forest.

The three of us then headed towards the Konoha Forest, carrying the specialties we brought back from the capital of the Land of Fire. As expected, Kushina and the other two were indeed practicing there.

Ling was seen assuming the Hyuga Soft Fist stance, constantly blocking Kushina's attacks from all directions. However, as the saying goes, "If you defend too long, you will lose." In addition, Kushina's chakra amount far exceeds that of people of her age, and soon Ling felt the pressure increasing dramatically.

Nono was older than Ling and Kushina, and her experience and vision were also better than theirs. She gave instructions from the side: "Ling, your soft fist cannot be used for defense only. You need to make use of the characteristics of the Hyuga clan's chakra and target Kushina's acupuncture points and chakra flow. Otherwise, you will not be a match for Kushina with just physical skills and chakra confrontation."

Ling also had a lot of grievances but couldn't express them in words. After all, she had just started practicing the Hyuga Gentle Fist and was not very proficient yet. Moreover, her opponent was a ninja like Kushina with huge chakra, which was exactly the kind of opponent that the Hyuga Gentle Fist didn't like very much.

In fact, Hyuga Gentle Fist prefers to face opponents such as illusion-type ninjas and ninjutsu-type ninjas, which involve pupil power and chakra flow and deformation. Relying on the insight of the Byakugan and the destruction of chakra by Hyuga Gentle Fist, defeating the opponent is not a problem.

As for opponents who rely on huge amounts of chakra and physical skills to fight, Hyuga's gentle fist is not inferior, but it does not have any obvious advantages. They can only rely on their own abilities.