Naruto's Exam

[In the bustling city, Shikamaru and his friends recall teaching young Yota about the dangers of crossing the neighborhood without permission. ]

"No one noticed me, except for one very unique boy."

"Who?"

Shikamaru shrugged: "I have a hunch..."

Choji agreed: "I feel the same way..."

Ino thought for a moment: "When we talked about strange children when we were young, perhaps we were referring to..."

Sakura was curious: "Hey, who is it?"

Naruto thought deeply, "A very unique boy? Why don't I have any impression of him... Could it be Kiba? He often brings his pet dog to school!"

Ya retorted: "How is that possible! I'm normal, okay!"

"No no no, not Kiba, Shino is obviously more unique, bringing a bunch of insects to school every day!"

Shino smiled bitterly: "Why do you say that, Naruto, because you are more..."

"While everyone was having lunch, the boy was the only one who was looking at the mural with a face on it, sitting on the monkey bars in the playground."

"It's Naruto!"

The scene switched, and a five or six-year-old Naruto was sitting next to the horizontal bar, staring at the Hokage monument.

Naruto looked confused: "????"

"How am I unique?!"

Minato Namikaze looked at the thin little Naruto in the image and felt heartbroken.

"Naruto, you should eat well."

He then felt guilty because in the video, the other elementary school students had their lunches prepared by their parents, but Naruto didn't, so he had to sit alone.

Watching his hungry son staring at the face on the stone tablet, Namikaze Minato blamed himself for not doing enough as a Hokage, and for not being a good husband or a good father...

"Naruto," Namikaze Minato said, "I really want to meet you."

Even he, a Kage-level ninja, prayed to the heavens, hoping to be resurrected, even if it was in the form of Impure World Reincarnation.

He wanted to make it up to Naruto, wanted to experience what it was like to be a father, and let Naruto feel the warmth of fatherly love.

He was sincerely grateful and envious of the man Iruka was.

"Yes, there is such a person," Ino knew Naruto at that time, "He is always alone and looks a little angry, making people afraid to approach him!"

Sakura comforted, "Is he okay? He always smiles when he looks at me?"

"Maybe only for you?" Ino speculated, "He likes you?"

Sakura had a headache: "Here we go again, the dreaded public discussion."

Sakura in the video felt the same way. When she heard that Uzumaki Naruto liked her, she quickly stepped back to express her rejection.

Naruto was disappointed: "Sakura..."

Seeing his son being unwelcome, Minato Namikaze could only smile awkwardly and politely.

The images prove that no possible object is left out of every public discussion.

Boys of the same period commented: "Sasuke is always cool, but he is surrounded by all kinds of girls, like a flower attracting butterflies."

"She's the most beautiful girl in our class, so it's normal for her to be attractive."

Sasuke almost tripped as he walked away.

Tenten complained rationally: "By the way, our class beauty is Neji, right? Neji?"

Ningji smiled bitterly: "Please spare me."

Others echoed:

"Ah, our class beauty is Hatake Kakashi."

Another nearly fall.

"Hmph! That big trouble!" A man hiding in a mysterious space was very unhappy.

"Our class beauty..."

"Uchiha Itachi, right? He was super popular at that time, with both male and female fans! He walked in front, and a group of boys were willing to be his younger brothers. He was quite handsome, hehe."

Itachi was helpless: “………………” Please let me go, thank you.

Uchiha Shisui couldn't help but laugh.

"Our class beauty... haha!" someone said while laughing.

A man in his thirties nearby asked, "Who is it?"

"Namikaze Minato."

"Minato Namikaze?" The man was unable to react for a moment.

The man suppressed his laughter and said, "Fourth Hokage-sama."

"puff-----!!!"

Minato smiled awkwardly but politely.

"Humph!" said an older, retired ninja, "Our class had Orochimaru, one of the Three Ninjas!"

“……” This topic is difficult to continue.

Most afraid of the air suddenly quiet.

Sarutobi Hiruzen broke the silence: "By the way, who is our class beauty...?"

Utatane Koharu: "Don't ask. You don't want to know."

Mitomon En: "That's right, just concentrate on watching the video."

Senju Tobirama was puzzled: "What riddles are they talking about?"

Afterwards, Yota disappeared, and the unsociable Naruto Uzumaki became the biggest suspect.

The lonely Naruto was suddenly surrounded by four or five children. Their accusing eyes made the little Naruto feel wronged and helpless: "What are you doing?"

"Give Yota back!"

Naruto defended himself: "I don't know this kid!" He pointed at the unconscious child, who really had no memory.

"If we really knew each other, it's impossible that we have no impression of it at all. It might be something that happened later." Shikamaru analyzed.

Naruto, who was being excluded in the image, snorted in dissatisfaction.

In the video, the usually timid Haruno Sakura decisively pulled Naruto up this time. Seeing that he was pretending to be stupid, she pulled him down from the horizontal bar and dragged him to Yota's residence.

"Hey, little girl, do you know that this is considered bullying your classmates?" An auntie couldn't stand it anymore and complained to Sakura.

Sakura waved her hand sheepishly, "I misunderstood Naruto then."

In fact, the entire village misunderstood Naruto.

Without these images, they might have misunderstood for another three or four years, or even not realized Naruto's true identity until after the Fourth Ninja World War.

Sakura might have been angry, so she took Naruto to Yota's residence and asked him indiscriminately where he hid Yota, and even suspected that Naruto had revealed Yota's affairs to others.

The hostile looks from the four people made Naruto's blue eyes seem to reflect the villagers who were maliciously isolating him.

"Naruto……"

"Who is Yota?" Naruto, who was about four or five years old in the image, lowered his head, "Why did you treat me like this for an outsider?!!"

"unacceptable."

"Weren't we the same before? We have no right to criticize others."

"Uh……"

The people of Konoha Village had nothing to say, but other ninja villages or civilian villages were inevitably displeased when they saw such a scene.

"What's wrong with the Konoha people? Isn't that the son of their village leader?"

"baffling!"

"Maybe it would be better to live in a civilian village?!"

"Perhaps it is this experience that makes him more able to understand the pain of human nature."

"Growing up in such an environment, you end up saving the world?"

"..."

In the video, little Naruto gets lost in the city park, but unexpectedly meets the "Yota" mentioned by others.

[“You know the ninjutsu of controlling the weather? How enviable. I haven’t even mastered the most basic clone and substitute techniques. Teacher Iruka is always teaching me a lesson.” Naruto whispered, feeling helpless and bitter: “You are an outsider, why are you loved by others? Look at me, I am always disliked…”]

City streets——

If people hadn't seen that Naruto could create thousands of phantom clones at will, they might really believe it.

A young street performer asked, "Is the phantom clone easier than the double act?"

The experienced street performer next to him answered: "You should know that the clone technique is the most basic skill, and Naruto's multiple phantom clones are A-level ninjutsu, and..."

"It was the first Hokage, Senju Hashirama, who was revered as the God of Ninja, who personally sealed this forbidden ninjutsu developed by his younger brother, the second Hokage, Senju Tobirama, into the Book of Sealing."

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[“I want to learn to whistle, too! That way I won’t feel lonely and it will lift my spirits!”]

[“Nothing to cheer up.” The young Naruto in the picture looked lonely, “Just a little entertainment.”]

[“I must learn!”]

[“Why are you learning this? There are people willing to play with you anyway!”]

Kiba: "Naruto, you're so jealous!"

"Oh! It's so annoying! They all forgot about me! Maybe this scene is fake!"

[Despite this, the little boy named Yota was indeed one of the few people who was willing to talk to Naruto when he was a child. They practiced whistling in the rain. Naruto blew an ordinary whistle, while Yota blew a miniature wind escape! ]

Everyone was stunned when they saw the picture.

A five-year-old Konoha kid can perform wind escape without any hand seals?

Konoha is indeed not simple.

A ninja village where even the fights between Genin can shake the world...

On the other side, in Konoha——

"Naruto, did you play with us then?" Kiba asked.

They remembered that Naruto was always rejected by adults during his childhood, and the ninja students of their generation also isolated Naruto.

Naruto stared at the screen in a daze: "No, you didn't even play with me at that time!"

He never had the chance to experience the kick-the-can game in the picture, which can only be played with friends.

"Oh, that boy was discovered by the Anbu!"

"Yes, it is unusual that someone from outside the village has not appeared for such a long time."

"But if that child with special abilities is caught, he will definitely be questioned by the Anbu about his purpose, right? It's strange in itself, why would he suddenly appear near Konoha, and he's just a child."

[“I’m alone again.” In the picture, young Uzumaki Naruto muttered to himself while sitting in a garbage dump.]

[“It’s six people, and a dog!” Shikamaru, Choji, Ino, Sakura, Kiba and others came to him and began to implement the plan to save Yota. ]

People watching the picture——

"How many kids can fight against Konoha's Anbu?"

"Maybe. After all, Konoha's Genin can fight in a shocking way."

"That makes sense."

[Just as the Anbu were preparing to torture Yota...]

The second generation Hokage saw that scene. The graffiti on the rock with him, his elder brother, the monkey, and the fourth generation Hokage were all written with various mischievous words by Naruto with paint...

"Fool, idiot..."

"Oh my god, the Yondaime has 'idiot' written all over his face!"

"This kid is so brave!"

Naruto: "..." He didn't know at that time that the Yondaime was his father.

Nara Shikaku rubbed his son's head, "This was your idea, right? Let Naruto use a prank to attract the attention of the whole village, and then..."

[On the screen, "The shadow imitation technique is successful!" Nara Shikamaru uses the shadow imitation technique to freeze the Anbu in place. ]

Just when everyone thought that Konoha's Anbu was too weak...

[In the scene, Shikamaru and the others are surrounded by four ANBU. ]

Shikaku: "Boy, are you underestimating the village's Anbu too much?"

[Anbu: "Anyone who may harm the interests of the village must not be spared, even if they are children. This child who has no village background may be a spy from another village."]

[“What a joke!!!” Naruto, covered in paint, rushed into the interrogation room of the Hokage Building and stood in front of Yota: “He is not a spy!”]

[“And too…”]

Naruto:"……"

[“Yota is my first friend!!!”]

Konoha's Genin: "..."

[Namikaze Minato: “…”]

In the picture, Naruto, who was trying hard to protect his friends from the Anbu, looked normal, but when he opened his mouth, everyone felt inexplicably sad.

Children aged five or six usually have one or two friends.

Well, except for Gaara.

Or rather, apart from the Jinchūriki...

[Naruto was knocked down by the Anbu, and the angry Yota knocked down four Anbu with purple lightning and fell unconscious.]

[Six people and a dog were running away with Yota and they fell into the river. In order to save Naruto and the others, the child named Yota died.]

[Before death...]

[Naruto and the others, who are about to lose their friend, take the blame and are unwilling to leave with Tai. ]

[“I’ll never see you again~” Yota said before he died: “Yota will never forget you, but you should forget Yota.”]

"This is a ninjutsu similar to the sealing jutsu, which seals that memory."

Naruto looked at himself in the picture, lost the memory of having friends, and returned to the lonely world again, feeling mixed emotions.

"Did I kill Yota back then?" Naruto thought to himself.

Senju Tobirama: "Look at his eyes, those are the eyes of the Impure World Reincarnation!"

"So he was dead from the beginning?