Konoha: Naruto Returns from Sekiro

"Next, Uzumaki Naruto..."

Hearing his name, Naruto walked down from the last row slowly, and looked at the classmates in the classroom from the corner of his eye, they were sparse, and they had already walked a lot.

Walking into the examination room next door, the examiner was very familiar with him. Iruka and Mizuki were both his teachers.

"The assessment content is the clone technique, let's get started." Iruka looked at the boy not far away, with mixed feelings in his heart.

As a child who also experienced bitter cold, he could better understand the feelings of Naruto, but he also understood why the villagers would 'persecute' a child like this, because he once attributed the death of his parents to this child.

But he understands better that the nine-tailed demon fox is the nine-tailed demon fox, Uzumaki Naruto is Uzumaki Naruto, and he teaches Uzumaki Naruto, an innocent child.

To be honest, he was worried that the child would not be able to bear the suffocating rejection. He was not sure that an adult would be able to resist it.

But Naruto's child's growth was completely beyond his expectation.

Just like plum blossoms born from the bitter cold, the harsh living environment seems to have become his nourishment.

Maturity, stability, perseverance, and kindness to others... These words, which should be applied to adults, are used to children without any obtrusiveness.

Of course, there are some shortcomings. There seems to be some problems with this child's language expression ability.

But every time I think of Naruto's living environment, Iruka can only sigh helplessly.

"Is it okay? Teacher?" Naruto asked again. Among all the teachers, Iruka was the only one who was unbiased, and he respected him more. However, it was more or less unjustifiable for his thoughts to wander during the exam.

"Huh?! Yes, you passed." Iruka turned around, looked at the two identical Naruto, coughed twice and nodded slightly, "Come here and get your forehead protection."

Iruka stood up and put the forehead protector on Naruto's head with his own hands. Looking at the big boy in front of him, he nodded with satisfaction, "Naruto, you have grown up."

Naruto looked at the sunny boy in front of him, with a few lips, and finally he could only find two words from the nearly exhausted vocabulary, "Thank you."

"From now on, I will be a ninja on my own, go!" Iruka patted him on the shoulder.

After Naruto went out, seeing that Iruka still didn't look away, Mizuki couldn't help coughing twice and reminded: "Teacher Iruka, should we continue the assessment?"

"Oh! Sorry Mizuki-sensei!" Iruka smiled awkwardly.

"It's okay. Mr. Iruka seems to be very fond of that child. There are so many people, but you only wore a forehead protector for that child. Although Naruto's grades are good, he doesn't seem to be the top student, right?"

"Other children have their parents to help them, but Naruto only has me to help him."

"As expected of our excellent teacher."

"That's ridiculous, let's call the next student in."

"Next……"

……

It was already noon when I returned to the apartment where I lived alone.

After simply making some food, Naruto sat cross-legged on the bed and began his daily required course - meditation.

Meditation was a habit from his previous life. The profession of ninja requires a high degree of concentration at all times. If he is not careful, he will lose everything. Meditation can make him more concentrated and keep his brain in a clear state.

Tick ​​tock!

When he opened his eyes again, he was already in a dark sewer.

[Come in again. 】

Except for being a little surprised when he came in for the first time, Naruto was almost familiar with this place.

For example, if you walk a few meters further and turn left, you will see an iron fence several meters high. As long as the nine-tailed demon fox inside sees him, he will pat the fence and yell at him:

"Little devil! Come here, let me tear you to pieces!"

On the side is a child who stops crying at night.

Of course, there will be different times, for example, now, Naruto patted the iron fence and yelled at the resting fox inside:

"How do you sleep at your age?"

boom!

Nine Tails slammed its paw on the iron fence, so much that it admitted that this lump was the most disgusting.

"Little devil, believe it or not, I will tear you to pieces!"

"Huo! He's not very capable, but his tone is not small!" Naruto grinned, and for some reason, his mouth was particularly powerful when facing this fox.

"Today, we are standing here, if you can touch me, I will lose!"

"Come! Take two steps forward!" Kyuubi's tone was like an evil ghost crawling out of hell. If eyes could kill, I believe the fox's eyes had killed him hundreds of times.

After daily saliva spraying each other, one person and one fox had a halftime break.

"Hey! Big fox, we have been arguing for so many years and we haven't gotten to know each other yet. What's your name?" Naruto patted the fence and asked inside.

"My name is Uzumaki Naruto... it should be this name now, and maybe it will be this name in this life."

"..."

"Hey!!" Naruto stood up and patted the fence hard, "Don't be so disrespectful. After all, we have known each other for so many years!"

"..."

"Isn't there no name?" Naruto frowned, and waved his right hand, "It doesn't matter, the name is just a code name, do you want me to pick one for you?"

"..."

"Hey! Just tell me if you want it?!"

"..."

"Squeak!" He kicked on the fence.

"..."

Naruto:"……"

After confirming that there was no gain as usual, Naruto sat cross-legged and continued to meditate.

What he didn't notice was that the moment he closed his eyes, Kyuubi also raised his eyelids slightly, his huge vertical pupils silently staring at the boy a column away.

after an hour.

Naruto finished today's meditation, looked up at Nine Tails with eyes still closed, and was about to exit the spiritual space.

"Aren't you afraid of me?"

"It's rare," Naruto paused and looked at the big fox in front of him in surprise. Seeing that he was about to explode his fur, he quickly answered his question.

"Who do you think I am? Afraid?"

Just a joke, he has never seen any big scenes before, the thousand-year-old white snake, the big one can wrap around a mountain, it is scary enough, he cut it down; the dragon born from the cherry tree can give people the power of immortality, bull, what's the matter? It wasn't that she was beaten to tears by him; what kind of shrew in Shuisheng village has a lot of opinions about playing with neither human nor ghost, so she really wouldn't be frightened by a fox that grew a little bigger and looked so dizzy.

And seriously, apart from his bad temper and poisonous mouth, this big fox has a good overall appearance.

It's sizzling!

There was a sound of goosebumps. Following the sound, it turned out that it was Jiuwei who was sharpening his claws.

"Anything else?" Naruto asked.

"I'm leaving!"

"..."

"I really have to leave!"

"..."

"I really have to leave!"

"roll!"

"Okay!"

Seeing the disappearing figure, Kyuubi also slowly closed his eyes.

In reality, Naruto opened his eyes and smiled slightly, arguing with Kyuubi is one of the few pleasures he currently enjoys.

"The ingredients seem to be running out, it's time to restock."

Get up, put on your clothes, and leave with the door.

But the direction he was going was not the commercial street, but the woods outside the village.

It is not impossible for him to go to Commercial Street. People are always forgetful. Because of his long-term self-sufficiency and long absence, the people on the street have almost forgotten what he looks like. At most, they only remember this person.

These things were not just guesswork on his part. No one recognized him the last time he went to buy seasonings.

But he still tries to avoid entering crowded places.

If someone recognizes him, he will be upset and the other person will be upset.

It is still practical to go hunting in the wild and collect wild vegetables. After all these years, I have never seen him starve to death outside.