Naruto and Sasuke are doing nothing; Madara and I will set an example.

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“Huh…” The air suddenly froze.

Obito stiffly turned his face and was shocked to see Konan's face, which had been torn into pieces like paper.

"!" Obito's first reaction was to use Kamui to escape, just like before.

Unexpectedly, his good brother Afei spread out his vine-like body without saying a word and wrapped him up inside.

Xiao Nan: "Both of you should just die..."

"Ah ...

After a loud bang, screams filled the air.

Deidara, on patrol, perched in the air, watching the parabola traced across the sky, starting from the South District Tower.

"What, is Paper Lady paying homage to my art again? But lately, she seems to be doing it quite a lot."

Leaning against the tower window, Ban couldn't help but clap his hands and laugh: "Hahahaha, I really love it here!"

"We'll have to ask Kakuzu for funding again to repair this tower."

Xiao Nan clapped her hands and walked forward, looking at Chen with her amber eyes. She smiled gently and said, "It's a promise, you can take it."

"Thank you." Chen placed his palm on Xiao Nan's shoulder, his left pupil gleaming with a vermilion light.

— Twin flowers.

"Crackling and popping...!"

Chapter 66 Bo's Family, The Worst Birthday Party

Night falls in Konoha Village, at the home of Hokage Naruto Uzumaki.

Today is Himawari Uzumaki, the little princess of Konoha, turning ten.

It should have been a time of joy and laughter.

However, due to Naruto's recent experiences, a shadow has been cast over it.

Hinata, Boruto, and Himawari all sat silently in their dining chairs, heads bowed, without touching their chopsticks.

"Ha, hahaha~." After a long while, Boruto clenched his fist and laughed, breaking the dull atmosphere.

"Boruto." "Brother."

Under Hinata and Himawari's watchful eyes, Boruto cupped the back of his head and said with a relaxed and nonchalant expression, "Even if this hadn't happened, Dad probably wouldn't have come back. It's become a routine over the years~."

He took the birthday cake and lit the candles.

"Let's not wait for Dad to come back, let's blow out the candles and sing 'Happy Birthday'!"

"Ding-dong!" Just then, the doorbell rang.

"Who is it? And of all times?" Boruto was already forcing a smile, but this untimely and jarring doorbell made him feel instantly annoyed.

"Ah!" The scene he saw after opening the door left him stunned on the spot.

Naruto, with his bandaged right hand gripping the doorframe, grinned at him and said, "Yo~."

Boruto was overjoyed: "Dad, didn't you go to that Shikkotsu Forest with Uncle Sasuke before dawn?!"

Naruto asked in surprise, "How did you know about this?"

"Ah." Realizing he'd let something slip, Boruto quickly changed the subject: "No, it's nothing, don't worry about such a small thing. Come on in, Mom and Himawari are looking forward to it!"

"Ah, okay." Naruto could tell that Boruto was trying to brush him off, but he no longer had the energy to argue.

He forced himself to go inside despite his exhaustion.

As soon as Boruto closed the door behind him, Himawari jumped into his arms.

"Dad, weren't you injured? You should be resting in the hospital. Why did you come back... Waaah, I'm so happy!"

Looking at the little girl in his arms, who was crying and rubbing her eyes, Naruto smiled guiltily and stroked her fluffy hair.

"It's just a minor injury, it's nothing serious, Dad is very strong!"

Hearing this, Hinata bit her lip in distress. She could see clearly with her Byakugan that Naruto's chakra was extremely weak and he probably couldn't even use Shadow Clone Jutsu.

Naruto-kun needs to go to bed and rest right now...

She was about to speak when Naruto shook his head and gestured for her to be quiet, so she pretended to be nonchalant and took the coat that Naruto had taken off.

The family of four came to the dining table.

"Wow! That's a feast! Have the candles been lit?"

Boruto plopped down in his high chair, hugging the back of his arm, and said, "Hmph, we just thought Dad wouldn't come back like usual! We just wanted to get through the motions quickly!"

"Hahaha." Naruto scratched his head and laughed, "Let's skip the formalities tonight! Let's go through it with a bang!"

He personally crowned the sunflower with a birthday crown.

Then we clapped our hands and sang a cheerful birthday song with her.

The father and daughter leaned their big faces close together and blew out the candles on the birthday cake.

Boruto looked at the smile on Naruto's face and smiled from the bottom of his heart.

You stinky old man, you did a good job this time.

"Let's eat cake~." Naruto started to cut the cake.

"Wait a minute." Boruto suddenly had a good idea. He ran to the TV cabinet in the living room and found the camera that he hadn't used in a long time.

He excitedly ran back to the restaurant, put down his equipment, arranged four dining chairs in a row along the edge of the table, and then went to the empty seat behind the table, skillfully set up the camera tripod, and mounted the camera.

"Dad, Mom, today is Sunflower's tenth birthday, which is very special. Let's take a picture to commemorate it!"

"Wow! That's great! Brother is so thoughtful!" Sunflower clapped her hands in response.

"Wow! He truly lives up to his reputation as my son!" Naruto gave him a thumbs up.

Hinata was concerned about her husband's condition, but didn't want to spoil the child's fun, so she suggested a compromise: "Boruto, let's skip the photography, just take one picture as a memento."

Boruto thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "Alright! If we're going to take a picture, it has to be a high-quality one! Dad, you hold the cake and sit next to the sunflower!"

"Okay!"

Naruto picked up the cake and sat down. Himawari sat to Naruto's left, hugging his arm and resting her little face against his shoulder.

"Mom! Go to Dad's right!"

Hinata moved over: "Is that so?"

"Slightly to the right, leave me some space!"

Boruto gave instructions while standing on a stool to adjust the camera distance and then set it to time-lapse mode.

"Okay, start the countdown, ten seconds, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five... Keep smiling! Dad, relax your expression, that's it!"

Once he confirmed that the scene in the camera was the moment he wanted, Boruto jumped off the stool, quickly flashed in front of the camera, squeezed into the empty space left by Hinata, put his arm around Naruto's left shoulder, and struck a pose with a bright smile!

Boruto silently counted in his mind: How happy I am! Let's record these unforgettable moments of our family together!

Huh...? Suddenly, he felt the shoulders supporting him go slack!

Yu Guangzhong: His father's figure fell from the dining chair...

"Snap!" "Thump!"

The crisp click of the shutter and the dull thud of the camera hitting the ground blended perfectly together.

The birthday cake, a complete mess, and the unconscious Naruto were perfectly combined.

"Husband!!" "Dad!!" Mom's exclamation and my sister's sobbing voice blended perfectly together.

Boruto's heart and the ice at the bottom of the abyss have perfectly merged together.

Naruto was helped upstairs by Hinata.

Half an hour later, Shikamaru knocked on the door, and Hinata greeted him at the door.

"Is Naruto asleep? There's something I need to ask his opinion on."

"Excuse me, is this something very important?"

"Regarding the Chunin Exams, a village whose name I've never heard of before suddenly submitted an application, and I'm a little unsure of what to do."

After weighing the options, Hinata made the decision for Naruto.

"I'm sorry, Shikamaru-kun, Naruto isn't feeling well right now. He fainted while we were eating..."

"Oh? He fainted again? Is he alright?"

"Please don't worry, he's fine and is resting now."

"Ah, that's good, that's good." Shikamaru gripped the corner of the brown paper document bag tightly, thinking: The qualifications of the Dark Ninja Village are in accordance with the procedures, but their sudden appearance at this critical juncture feels a bit strange.

According to regulations, applications for the Chunin Exams from qualified ninja villages cannot be rejected unless the Hokage himself objects.

Oh well... there are only three genin participating anyway, we'll just have to keep an eye on them.

Shikamaru said, "Understood. Let Naruto rest well these next few days. I will help him with some tasks within my authority."

"Thank you so much, Shikamaru-kun." Hinata bowed in gratitude.

Boruto, leaning against the wall of the corner corridor, gripped the metal plate under his right sleeve tightly.

"The Chunin Exams, hurry up and come! I can't wait to finish what I promised that four-eyed guy. Then, I'll find Uchiha Chen, use the power of scientific ninja tools, and blast that guy to smithereens!"

Time flies, and it's already July 10th.

The day of the Konoha Chunin Exams.

Yamato then accepted the summons of Chen.

"Lord Shadow, do you really want me to lead the team? Once the people of Konoha recognize me, it's no laughing matter."

"That's exactly why I'm here. I'm here to give you an extra layer of insurance, an insurance that will absolutely not be discovered."

Yamato stepped forward with trepidation.

Dust placed his hand on his shoulder, activated Twin Flowers, and first synchronized himself completely with Yamato.

Then, the Twin Flower was used on 'himself'.

"Crackling..."

After the earth-shattering mutiny.

Yamato touched her vanished Adam's apple, clutching her chest as she stammered in shock and shame, "Oh my god, this, this kind of thing, I, I..."

"Crackling sounds!" Dust dispelled the twin flowers and unilaterally reverted to itself.

“This was something that couldn’t be done in the past, but I was able to do it because of the annihilation of the icchantikas.”

"Yamato, during the Chunin Exams, you will be called 'Nadeko'."

Nadeshiko looked around with her beautiful eyes and asked, "And you? You're also bringing your family, right? In what capacity do you plan to attend?"

Chen turned and left.

"You'll find out in time."

Chapter 67 Exam Day, Leaving the Dark Shadows

6:15 AM on July 10th.

Inside the Samui family's mansion.

At the dressing table, Samui was applying makeup to Xue'er.

The Chenguang couple stood to the side; they had been dressed up as a British aristocratic couple by Samui.

Chen wore a black top hat, a monocle over his right eye, a fake beard, and was leaning on a walking stick.

She was wearing a white wide-brimmed hat and a light, breathable white long dress.

That's right, Chen had no intention of using the twin flowers to transform into someone else's body to attend the Chunin Exams.

If he can't even use his own body to take the kids out to play, then he's really failed as a shadow.

As for disguising himself, it was for two reasons: first, to have fun, and second, to avoid causing unnecessary trouble.