It's better to be a rebel ninja than to be a Hokage

When Naruto woke up, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon.

Once a person is energetic, he will feel hungry.

Naruto didn't have lunch in the first place, and he fell asleep as soon as he got home.

I bought a box of red bean paste dumplings at a restaurant, ate them while walking, and slowly walked towards the Ninja School.

Walking into the classroom, just as Naruto expected, Hatake Kakashi had not arrived yet.

The other graduates in the classroom had already been taken away by their respective class-leading jonin, and Haruno Sakura and Uchiha Sasuke were the only ones left in the originally lively classroom.

Sakura and Sasuke looked over at the same time when they heard the door being pushed open.

"……Naruto."

"Humph."

The person who pushed the door was not the jonin teacher they thought, and Sakura and Sasuke's reactions were also very interesting.

Sakura greeted him softly. Perhaps because Naruto had rejected her at noon, Sakura lowered her head after greeting him and did not dare to look at him.

Sasuke, however, was his usual self and let out a cool "humph".

"Hey, good afternoon!"

Naruto greeted back.

There were exactly two dumplings left in the box, and he handed the box to Sasuke first.

Sasuke glanced at Dango, then at Naruto: "I don't eat sweets."

I have the impression that this is the case.

Naruto shrugged and handed the box to Sakura, "Would you like some Sakura?"

"Sakura?"

Haruno Sakura was surprised by how Naruto addressed her.

"Don't you like me calling you that? Then I'll call you Haruno."

"No, it's not. I'm just a little surprised that you would call me that, Naruto."

Sakura hurriedly stopped Naruto from calling her Haruno again and reached out to take a dango.

She thought things weren't going well between her and Naruto.

That's what little girls are like.

Naruto had previously rejected her invitation for team discussion, and she began to have all sorts of wild thoughts and worries.

But then again, out of the three people in Team 7, only Sakura fits their age group now.

Naruto goes without saying.

Although Sasuke during this period was a little immature, the tragic experience did happen to him in real life.

Naruto stuffed the last remaining dango into his mouth.

He thought to himself that next time he would just buy half a box of dumplings.

——Sasuke's question came at this time.

"Why are you late?"

Sasuke's eyes were fixed on Naruto.

Naruto swallowed the dango slowly, and said frivolously, "The jonin teacher in charge of our class hasn't arrived yet."

"You sound like the jonin sensei is bound to be late, so what are you going to do if the jonin sensei isn't late?"

"Two, stop quarreling..."

Sakura stood up nervously and tried her best to mediate the strange atmosphere between Naruto and Sasuke.

Naruto and Sasuke stared at each other in silence for a moment before he spoke, "Sorry, I won't do it again next time."

He wouldn't argue with a kid.

He slept from noon to afternoon and had a great time.

So what's the point of apologizing? Apologies are worthless anyway.

Sakura and Sasuke were both stunned when they heard Naruto's apology.

When did the gloomy, fierce Naruto who always looked like he wanted to keep strangers away suddenly disappear?

Probably about two years ago...

"You really have changed a lot, Naruto."

Sasuke couldn't help but speak out what was in his mind.

Sakura beside her felt the same way.

Naruto just smiled and said nothing.

The fact that Sasuke behaves like this now shows that although he has pain and hatred in his heart, he is still positive and has aspirations for the future.

Although he verbally compared the other two members of the three-member ninja team to a burden, he still showed the necessary concern.

Sasuke's change occurred in the subsequent Chunin Exam.

He met a group of strong enemies of his own age and found that he was not a unique genius.

Naruto's rapid growth also made Sasuke question his own growth speed for the first time.

Uchiha Itachi appeared in Konoha again.

It further intensified Sasuke's realization of the tragic reality of his situation.

And thus left Konoha.

If Naruto could guide him on the sunny path from now on.

Sasuke, who is kind-hearted by nature, probably would not be stimulated by seeing Itachi and be easily lured away by Orochimaru.

After all, in the original work, Kakashi's few words made Sasuke think for a whole day in the tree, and he almost gave up the idea of ​​revenge.

but……

Naruto wasn't going to do that.

After the Chunin Exam, Sasuke was taken out of the village by the Sound Four.

This is the best time to defect as deduced from Naruto's own defection plan.

Why did they keep Sasuke in the village if they didn't kill Danzo? Was he to have his eyes gouged out?

It would be better to let Sasuke follow the same trajectory as in the original work. By then, maybe Naruto won't even have to deal with Danzo himself.

Naruto had already seen Uchiha Shisui's Sharingan two years ago.

Naruto currently has no means of dealing with this.

Just leave it to Sasuke. After all, the best way to deal with the Sharingan is to use the Sharingan to fight the Sharingan.

"I'm so sorry. I just met a pregnant cat on the way here and I went to deliver her baby."

In the classroom, the silence between the three people was broken by the voice of the fourth person.

A ninja in his twenties walked into the classroom wearing a green vest of Konoha Ninja, long silver hair, a black mask, and his left eye covered by a forehead protector.

Among the jonin of Konoha, Kakashi Hatake can be considered an elite.

Naruto had already seen him the night of the Book of Sealing incident.

However, Kakashi's opening remarks did not receive a response from Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke.

"Um--"

Kakashi put his hand under his chin and expressed his first impression of the three people: "You guys are pretty annoying!"

"..."

When a guy who was several hours late said this, he really felt like he had been wronged.

The rooftop of the Ninja School.

Kakashi sat on the rooftop railing and started a meeting with the rest of Team 7 that was several hours late.

"Please briefly introduce yourselves so that I can get to know you better."

Kakashi said: "Things I like, things I hate, interests and dreams."

"Let me demonstrate to you."

Kakashi looked at the three people sitting side by side in front of him, spread his hands and said: "My name is, Hatake Kakashi."

After saying this, Kakashi stopped talking.

The three of them waited for a while, and Sakura asked, "Um... Kakashi-sensei, where are the rest of the introductions?"

"I don't want to tell you."

"..."

"Okay, it's your turn to introduce yourself!"

"I'll go first."

Naruto said:

"My name is Uzumaki Naruto. I don't dislike anything, so I like most things. I have many interests, and I can't list them all in a short time, but my dream is--"

Naruto looked up and met Kakashi's gaze: "To become a Hokage who surpasses all the previous Hokage!"

Naruto has been telling this kind of lie for two years, and even when facing Kakashi, he doesn't feel any pressure to lie.

The answers given by Sakura and Sasuke afterwards were not much different from what Naruto remembered from his previous life.

The only difference might be that the answer to what Sakura hates has changed significantly.

From originally hating "Naruto", he now hated "being treated like a child by his parents".