Konoha: This Sasuke is not too cold

It is getting late, at the entrance of the No. [-] training ground.

Hinata looked at Sasuke's leaving figure and opened her mouth, but in the end she didn't say anything and silently turned and left.

Along the familiar river embankment, Sasuke walked slowly towards home.

Under the river embankment, Uzumaki Naruto lay on the grass, looking at the sky in the distance in a quiet trance.

In the past year or so of school life, he was actually quite happy.

Unlike before, he was alone all day long.

He also had friends in school, which gave him some comfort in his lonely heart since he was a child.

In school, he can sleep in class with Shikamaru, and secretly eat snacks in class with Choji.

I also met a girl I like...

Thinking of Sakura, Naruto couldn't help but smile.

He still remembered that when he was six years old, a few days before he entered school, he was wandering out as usual, and ended up meeting his sworn enemies again.

Naruto was very impressed with those three guys.

In the past two years, Naruto had competed with the three of them many times, and most of the time it was a deadlock.

But this time, the three guys called a child who was two years older than him without any moral ethics.

In that sparring match, Naruto lost miserably against four.

When he was beaten to the ground, the angel in him appeared.

【Remembering】

It was a snowy day.

"Hey, let me tell you! It's too much for four to bully one!"

Sakura held the fried squid rings she just bought in one hand. She glanced at the little yellow fur who was beaten and lying on the ground, face down in the snow, and couldn't help but frown.

"You have a broad forehead, you'd better stay out of your own business!"

"#!"

Hearing the term "wide forehead", a vein jumped in Sakura's forehead.

Her white little fist was tightly grasped by her.

"Bang bang, bang bang!"

Sakura's father was a chuunin. Although he was injured in the war, he was lucky enough to survive. Because of the injury, he could not become a ninja, but he still cared about Sakura very much.

Sakura, who had been trained by her father since she was five years old, could easily beat up several children.

"are you OK"

Sakura squatted down, reached out and poked Naruto's head, and asked worriedly.

Naruto lay on the snow and was poked in the head by Sakura. He twisted his body unconsciously and then raised his head.

Seeing Naruto with a bruised nose and swollen face, and tears on his face, Sakura's eyebrows jumped, it was... so miserable.

"Thank you ~ Wuwuwu" Naruto, who was cared about for the first time, choked, his eyes painted wavy lines, looking at Sakura.

"How can there be such a perfect girl in the world! That pink hair, smooth forehead..."

"Eh~ Your eyes are so strange." Sakura felt a little numb when Naruto looked at her and took a step back.

"It doesn't seem like there's any big problem. I'll leave first. I'll give you this to eat." Looking at Naruto getting up from the snow, Sakura showed a bright smile and stuffed the fried squid ring she just bought into Naruto. He held it in his hand, then waved at him, turned and left.

Holding the still warm squid ring in his hand, Naruto stood there for a long time, then he held the squid ring tightly in his arms and ran back home quickly.

It was a pity that later, because Naruto was reluctant to eat the squid rings that day, the squid rings were broken the next day...

【End of memory】

"Ah! Damn it!" That was the first gift Sakura gave him!

Every time he thought about this, Naruto felt frustrated. What a precious first time, he was wasting it like this.

The beautiful princess rescued the handsome prince. This must be a marriage arranged by God. Naruto always felt this way.

Because after enrolling in school, he and Sakura were assigned to the same class. What a perfect coincidence. God must have favored him!

until......

"Dong dong dong!" Four shurikens flew out and hit the target perfectly.

"Uchiha Sasuke! Ten points!" Iruka announced Sasuke's score with joy.

Sasuke walked back to the crowd with his hands in his pockets, his expression indifferent.

"Wow! Sasuke-kun is so handsome!"

"Ah! Sasuke-kun is so cute!"

"Sasuke-kun! Look here!"

The noisy sounds of the girls made Naruto bulge in anger.

Because among the noisy girls, the one who took the lead in calling Sasuke so handsome was his angel...

What could the angel do wrong? The fault was only with the pretty boy who seduced his angel!

"Damn it! This cool guy with a paralyzed face!" Looking at Sasuke's calm back, Naruto muttered to himself.

Uchiha Sasuke, his lifelong love rival of Uzumaki Naruto!

From then on, Naruto and Sasuke were at loggerheads.

In school, where there is Sasuke, there is Sakura, and where there is Sakura, there must be Naruto's shadow.

In this way, a year of fighting and fussing has passed. Well, Naruto and Sakura have been fighting and fussing while Sasuke watched coldly.

Until... that happens.

I heard that the cool guy's brother with a paralyzed face killed his own people, leaving him alone.

Thinking of this, Naruto was a little confused.

He has no family, has no idea what this means, and cannot understand the sadness involved.

After all, he had never met his parents.

After that, Naruto never saw him again.

This should have been a happy thing. Since Sasuke disappeared, Sakura no longer ignored his absence as before, and would also chat and play with him.

This should have been a happy thing, but Naruto couldn't be happy.

"What happened to him?" In class, Naruto lay on the table and stared out the window in a daze.

Such days passed for about a month.

Until two days ago in the afternoon, there was a knock on the classroom door.

Naruto saw him again. Naruto's intuition had always been very keen. Compared with before, he had changed a lot.

What's the difference? That look, the look that flashed towards the classroom, was like a pool of stagnant water, without any fluctuation, like a...dead person.

"I don't want to be a ninja anymore"

"Teacher Iruka, I want to drop out of school"

These two sentences were deeply engraved in Naruto's mind.

Naruto lay on the lawn and looked up at the sky, recalling what happened during this period, his thoughts were a little complicated.

"Da da da"

Slight footsteps sounded on the path beside the river embankment above, and in Naruto's peripheral vision, a familiar figure slowly walked towards him.

"It's him! He's a cool guy with a paralyzed face!"