Trees Chapter 297 The Second Game Master, Thin Ice Bro

"Huh?"

"Konohamaru, where did you get so much money?"

Naruto looked the kid up and down, his tone full of suspicion.

When Konohamaru paid earlier, Naruto had clearly noticed the long string of zeros in his account balance.

Naruto's mind suddenly flashed back to the online dating scam that Konohamaru had done some time ago.

This made his heart tighten again.

‘Oh no!’

‘Did Konohamaru go back to his old ways?!’

When Tsunade heard what Naruto said, she immediately grabbed Konohamaru by the collar and lifted him up.

"Explain!"

"Where did you get your money from?"

"I don't see you paying taxes in the village."

Seeing this, Konohamaru's eyelids twitched and his back was drenched in sweat.

“Hahahaha… How is that possible!”

As he said this, he pointed at Asuma, who was smoking e-cigarettes at the front desk.

"I made all this money by helping Uncle Asuma sell the e-cigarettes."

Konohamaru wasn’t entirely lying, as he did help Asuma with that, but most of the money actually came from Yondaime Raikage.

There was no helping it, that old man just loved sending him money.

He couldn’t stop him even if he tried.

Naruto glanced at Asuma and felt that there was some truth to it. After all, Asuma was now the largest distributor of e-cigarettes for the Cult Mechanicus.

So it wasn’t unreasonable for Konohamaru to have that much money from helping him.

Tsunade stared at Konohamaru, who seemed a little guilty, and instinctively felt something was off.

But she didn’t call him out on the spot.

Who knows... she might find some unexpected surprises if she dug deeper.

"Alright, let’s have Konohamaru handle the streaming."

Tsunade's eyes lit up slightly, and she waved her hand as she make the decision, and also gave Konohamaru a look.

As if to say...

‘You don't want your Naruto Aniki to find out about your shady business, do you?’

‘Then, you should just listen to my arrangements obediently.’

Konohamaru was stunned for a moment, then instantly understood what the other party meant. He agreed immediately and did not dare to mention the money on him again.

"I’ll do it! I’ll do it!"

Shikamaru stood silently on the side.

He discovered that Tsunade and Konohamaru seemed to be hiding something from Naruto...

But adhering to the principle of ‘less trouble is better’, Shikamaru stood quietly with a fruit plate in hand, not daring to say a word.

"Alright, take me to Sasuke."

Naruto now feels that if he continues to stay in the village, he’d probably develop high blood pressure sooner or later.

So he decided to find Sasuke and return to the Akatsuki to continue their Biju Capture Plan.

"Ha! I know where he is!"

Konohamaru suddenly shouted and sprinted ahead.

This action caught Naruto and Tsunade off guard, and in the end, it was the waiter Shikamaru who led the way for them.

"Damn it!"

"One more round! How could I possibly lose to someone like you!”

In front of an arcade machine, Kiba's face was frighteningly pale, and the spectators around him were worried he might drop dead right there.

And the person sitting next to him was Sasuke.

Compared to Kiba’s exhausted state, Sasuke appeared to be very energetic and looked radiant.

"Hey, Kiba."

"If you’re not convinced......"

"We can take it outside later."

Sasuke took a sip of his drink, looking very smug.

Kiba clenched his fists tightly, feeling so frustrated that he was about to cough up blood.

He had originally come here to support Shikamaru’s business.

As a result, he happened to run into Thin Ice Bro...

Then, Sasuke forced him to sit at the arcade machine for three days and three nights.

At first, he was very unconvinced.

He thought to myself, ‘Even though I can’t beat you in real life, there’s no way I’d lose to you in a game, right?’

But just a few minutes after he sat down, he was defeated three times in a row by Uchiha Xiao Yan, the game character used by Sasuke.

No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t even scratch Sasuke’s character.

What's even more outrageous is...

Thin Ice Bro kept trash-talking the entire time, which made Kiba ask Shikamaru to buy him a bottle of blood pressure medicine.

"No more fighting!"

"I’ve got things to do at home."

Kiba's face darkened, and he stood up and was about to leave his seat.

Sasuke immediately became unhappy and untied the Heavy Xuan Ruler behind him and slammed it between the two of them.

The gesture seemed to be telling Kiba...

‘If you dare leave, don’t blame me for hunting you down outside the arcade.’

‘At that time, I will combo you in real life the same way I use Uchiha Xiao Yan to combo you in game.’

Kiba felt so miserable that he wanted to cry. At this moment, he swore in his heart that he would never call Sasuke ‘Thin Ice Bro’ again.

Just as he was about to beg for mercy from Thin Ice Bro, he caught a glimpse of yellow out of the corner of his eye.

‘Huh!?’

‘Naruto!?’

‘My savior is here!!’

Kiba turned his head and looked back in surprise, then shouted at the top of his lungs.

"NARUTO!"

When Sasuke heard Kiba suddenly calling his good brother's name, he turned around and found that it was indeed Naruto, so he immediately shoved Kiba aside.

"Yo, Naruto."

Sasuke let out a smirk.

He has been playing here for so long...

Apart from teaching Kiba a lesson, the rest of his time had been spent mastering the game, just so he could utterly destroy Naruto and wash away his past humiliations.

Sasuke had studied the game mechanics just as thoroughly as Konohamaru.

Aside from the Akatsuki’s members, the only other playable character was Yamato, the guy who built houses.

Plus, with his own exclusive character, Uchiha Xiao Yan, in the game, Sasuke was confident that if Naruto dared to sit down, he’d break him within three rounds.

"Let's go."

"Let’s go back to the Akatsuki to do a mission."

Naruto covered his face and sighed. His appearance was almost no different from Tsunade and Hiruzen before.

‘Damn it.’

‘I’m so tired...’

‘What the hell is wrong with everyone in this village?’

Upon hearing this, instead of nodding and leaving like he used to, Sasuke gestured to the seat beside him.

"Come on."

"Play one round first."

"If you win, I'll go with you."

When Naruto heard this, his fists immediately clenched.

"Yo yo yo, Naruto..."

"You’re not scared of losing, are you?"

Sasuke’s taunt instantly lit a fire in Naruto’s heart.

Naruto had originally planned to drag Sasuke away by force, ‘But if that’s how he wanted to play…’

‘Then I'll just have to teach him a proper lesson.’

"Bring it on!"

"Thin Ice Bro, do you really think I'm afraid of you?"

The moment that forbidden nickname left Naruto’s mouth, the impact was undeniable.

Kiba, who is hiding in a corner, flailed his arms excitedly and croaked out hoarsely, "HELL YEAH!!"

Sasuke merely raised his eyebrow slightly, looking completely unfazed.

Seeing him act so smug, Naruto immediately rolled up his sleeves and sat down.

"Alright, let’s go!"

"If I don’t beat you into the ground today, I’ll take your last name and call myself Uchiha Naruto!"

The two of them quickly started their match, and when the entire arcade saw the two people fighting, almost everyone stopped what they were doing and crowded around them.

However...

A few minutes later.

Shika Arcade was suddenly rocked by an earth-shaking roar from a certain yellow-haired guy.

"Damn it!"

"SHINRA TENSEI!!"

At the same time, Sasuke’s voice followed, "Okay, okay!"

"You can't afford to lose, huh?!"

"CHIBAKU TENSEI!"

At the same time, the hardworking Tobirama had just finished a day's work and stretched himself when he saw a massive explosion erupt outside the village.

"What the…!!"

"What’s going on!?"