I'm not that Uzumaki Naruto

Chapter 24 Sometimes Change is a Positive Thing

The afternoon sunlight penetrated through the gaps in the shade, forming beams of light among the trees, and the dust that is usually difficult to see clearly floated slowly in these beams of light as if they had life.

A group of horned deer with tree branch-like antlers lying on a relatively open grassland. There are many young deer in the deer group. They are leaning against the doe. Extra stubborn.

Occasionally, there are a few ethereal chirping of birds in the woods, which makes the woods seem more quiet and silent.
Whoosh~whoosh.
Suddenly there was a discordant sound in the woods, and the herd of deer lying on the grass stood up immediately, neatly, like a well-trained team, and the trumpet-like ears under the antlers stood up alertly at the same time, like It's eavesdropping on what's going on around you.

Swish!Swish!
Two black shadows suddenly flashed across the tree trunk not far from the grass.

The tidy herd of deer immediately fled in fright, and soon disappeared without a trace.

"Naruto! Let's stop here, I'm exhausted, it's almost five o'clock, and the forest of death is ahead!"

Suddenly, a figure who was slightly behind stood on the tree trunk and let out a tired voice.

"Oh? Shikamaru, this is the forest of death you mentioned earlier?"

The figure in front stopped when he heard this, his golden hair was particularly conspicuous in the sunlight.

At this moment, the two figures one behind the other on the tree trunk in the forest are Naruto and Shikamaru.

"Well, I can't go any further, me? Naruto you!"

Shikamaru, who was talking, suddenly saw Naruto wave one hand, and a kunai shot towards him.

Shikamaru's body flashed immediately before he finished speaking, and while avoiding the kunai, he also shot a kunai at Naruto.

This is the ninja's instinctive counterattack.

But what happened next made Shikamaru's pupils shrink, because he saw that Naruto was hit by the Kunai he shot without dodging.

Bang!
Just when he was a little panicked, Naruto, who was hit by Kunai, fell back and suddenly turned into a piece of wood at the moment he landed.

Shikamaru's expression immediately relaxed, and then he turned his eyes to the other direction and said in surprise: "You have already learned the substitute technique!"

"What's strange about this, it's just a basic three-body technique." Naruto who appeared on another big tree calmly glanced in a certain direction in the distance and replied, "You guys from the Konoha clan Haven't people already mastered these things that the ninja should get started with?"

Moonlight Gale began to move away the moment he saw him use the substitute technique.

Shikamaru shook his head and didn't speak. He has mastered the substitute and transformation techniques himself. The avatar technique can only create controllable incorporeal avatars, which are non-physical and meaningless.

Most of his energy was spent on practicing the family's secret arts, because his father told him that he could learn shadow clone in the future.

But the three-body technique for getting started is actually not easy.

Naruto has only practiced for how long, and the information he got from the third Hokage is very clear. Naruto clearly only got the ninjutsu scroll last night.

And Naruto has never accepted anyone's guidance.

"Let's go, didn't you say that you want to introduce a friend to me today?" Naruto reminded him with a flash of eyes when he saw that Shikamaru was silent.

A tangled look flashed across Shikamaru's face and he said, "It's no problem to find him, but do you have any money with you?"

"Money?" Naruto said with a playful look in his eyes, "Can you buy friends with money?"

"Absolutely not!" Shikamaru straightened his face, and then said with a painful expression, "He just prefers to eat, and I'm afraid I don't have enough money with me."

Naruto's heart moved, it turned out that Shikamaru was talking about Choji.

Because the mirror world needs to collect data, he is also going to get to know more people.

Especially the characters related to the Naruto plot, he wanted to see if he could confirm some of his conjectures about the rules of data collection in the mirror world.

Choji is one of Konoha's twelve little powerhouses.

Naruto's mind flashed the plot about Choji and said: "It is necessary to take money when you go out, let's go, I am very interested in this friend."

Early this morning, just after Naruto had breakfast, he walked to the first floor when he found Moonlight Hayate standing invisibly next to the chair he sat on last night.

Naruto walked to the chair with a natural expression and picked up the scroll. In front of the moonlight blast, he sat on the chair and carefully read the substitute and clone techniques on the scroll several times.

He pretended to be very strenuous to practice the clone technique in the room, and deliberately failed many times during the period, and he did not successfully perform the clone technique until after lunch.

At this time, he muttered something about going to Shikamaru, and the fellow Moonlight Gale immediately left quietly.

Kurama and Namikaze Minato in the sealed space were a little puzzled, why they said to find Shikamaru in front of Moonlight Hayate.

Naruto explained that he was actively arranging for Shikamaru to appear in front of him at the right time and place for the third Hokage.

Otherwise, where can I find Shikamaru?

He has never been to the Nara family, but he has the patience to inquire all the way.

But the Three Generations of Hokage may not have this patience.

He just gave the Third Hokage a convenient opportunity to arrange, and only after letting them arrange it, Shikamaru will take the initiative to come to him.

Sure enough, the situation was as expected by Naruto, and he soon met Shikamaru by chance.

As soon as Naruto walked to the door of Ninja Mandiando, Shikamaru found him at the intersection, and Moonlight Hayate followed him stealthily.

Because he used his real body to walk around the village yesterday, Naruto didn't use the transformation technique when he went out today, although it made him turn heads a lot along the way.

Besides, how can Shikamaru greet himself after using the transformation technique.

After seeing Shikamaru, Naruto said that he wanted to try his skills, Shikamaru readily agreed, and the two went directly to the forest where they met for the first time.

But when Shikamaru first met, he said that he wanted to introduce him to a new friend, but he never saw anyone. He thought that the third Hokage had arranged for him and was waiting.

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Naruto Office.

"Are you sure Naruto has mastered the avatar and substitute techniques?"

The Third Hokage sat on a chair and asked Moonlight Gale with a solemn expression.

Moonlight Hayate took out a small notebook and turned it over, and returned with a serious face: "Yes, but the target is not going well when performing the avatar technique, and the frequency of ninjutsu failures is very high, but the substitute technique is in the confrontation with Shikamaru. During the practice, it was successfully cast once.”

It seems that the Five Elements Seal has worked, and things are going well. Naruto can no longer control Chakra well.

Thinking of this, the Third Hokage nodded when he heard this, and then he asked again: "Shikamaru offered to take Naruto to meet new friends, did he refuse?"

"No!" Yueguang Galefeng turned the pages of the small book in his hand and said, "When the target heard that he wanted to meet other people, he acted a little expectant."

"Huh?" Third Hokage's gaze narrowed, and he ordered after thinking for a moment, "Go back immediately and continue monitoring!"

Something is not right.

Naruto's temperament after coma seems to be a bit different from before.

However, Renzhuli is willing to form fetters with the people in the village, which is what he is happy to see happen.
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"Hi, I'm Choji"

After leaving the forest, Shikamaru took Naruto straight to the door of the snack shop, and immediately found Choji Akimichi.

A stunned little fat man was wearing a white T-shirt with the word "food" printed on his chest.

"Hi, Shikamaru said you like potato chips"

Naruto took out a bunch of snacks with both hands and handed them to Choji.

"Yeah!" Akimichi Choji's eyes lit up, and he took all the snacks that Naruto handed over to his arms and began to unpack them. Under Naruto's slightly surprised eyes, he quickly wiped out one bag after another in his mouth. Pack of snacks.

Embarrassment flickered on Shikamaru's face, Choji was so easily tempted by snacks, which made him worry that Naruto had opinions on Choji.

"Thank you!" Choji put his hands on Naruto's shoulders after eating the last bag of potato chips, and said enthusiastically, "You are Shikamaru's friend, and that is my friend!"

'Start collecting data.'

The moment the voice appeared in his mind, Naruto patted Choji's arm with one hand, and sure enough, data could be collected from Choji.

'The data collection is complete. The current data integrity is 8%, please complete the data as soon as possible! '

"Well, I'm Uzumaki Naruto, nice to meet you!"

When Naruto spoke, the expression on his face was extremely sincere.

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In the dark night, Naruto was sitting on the bed at this time studying the changes in the mirror world after the data was updated. The result was almost the same as before. He guessed that the data integrity was too low.

But he was basically sure that the objects of the data collected by the mirror world had a lot to do with the plot characters he knew well.

But there is a problem that he doesn't understand. The third Hokage is also a character with a lot of plot weight in Hokage. Why can't data be collected from him.

"Naruto, aren't you afraid to arouse the suspicion of the third generation because you are so different today?"

While Naruto was meditating, Namikaze Minato's words resounded in the spiritual world.

As soon as Naruto's consciousness turned to the sealed space, he looked at his father calmly and said, "Oh? Father, you think I'm a bit abnormal?"

Namikaze Minato said with a complicated expression: "I just think you have become a little aggressive today, and I'm afraid that the third generation will treat you again"

"Change itself is a positive thing. I just control myself to change in a favorable direction. There will be more and more such changes in the future."

"As for the third generation"

When Naruto said this, his gaze became very dangerous.

"I believe that I will be able to find a reasonable explanation for the three generations of Hokage that I am monitoring in real time."

"I just suddenly expanded my circle of friends"

"Isn't this exactly what he expected?"

(End of this chapter)