Morning.
Naruto's front door was suddenly pushed open violently, and Naruto, with an anxious expression, quickly rushed out of the house.
"Damn it! I'm going to be late!"
Naruto, with bread in his mouth, leaped from the second floor, then did a flip and quickly landed on the rooftop. For Naruto, who had been training for several months, this series of movements was fluid and smooth.
Running quickly, Naruto, who was leaping over a rooftop, inadvertently glanced at the alley below and immediately stopped.
That girl... she seems to be his classmate?
In the alley, a timid-looking girl was fearfully backing away step by step. Three bratty kids were surrounding her, pointing and looking at her eyes.
A snot-nosed brat asked with a face full of curiosity, "Hey, boss, what's up with her eyes? They look really scary."
The leading boy was momentarily stumped by the question, then said indifferently, "Hmph, she's probably a monster. How could a normal person's eyes be like that?"
As civilian children, they had no idea, or rather, had never had the chance to see the Hyuga clan.
The girl before them was the Hyuga clan's eldest princess.
Naruto, who was originally thinking of checking out the situation, heard the leading boy's words. His face immediately darkened. After a long time, he heard that word again.
You see, after Naruto started training with Shinji, he went to the homes of all those kids who used to dare to call him a monster, one by one and beat them up.
This led to the adults, although restrained by Hiruzen's strict orders, still being hostile towards him. But Naruto didn't care, after all, he couldn't make everyone like him.
Shinji had taught him this, there was no need to care too much about what others thought.
It's just that, even though it was a little girl being called that now, Naruto was particularly displeased. This girl was clearly very cute. Her eyes were white, and her face was round. Moreover, she was his classmate.
Thinking of this, Naruto flipped and jumped down from the rooftop. He landed firmly, standing steadily between the girl and the three brats, and said, "You guys, three boys bullying one girl, don't you think that's going too far?"
The leading boy was startled by Naruto suddenly jumping down and shouted exasperatedly, "What's it to you? You whiskered monster!"
"Gasp—"
The faces of the two boys who were about to pull back their boss, immediately turned pale.
Their boss had just moved from a remote area and, due to his physique, had become the new leader in their neighborhood.
The leading boy didn't know who Naruto was, but the two of them did. After all, they had once been sought out and beaten up by Naruto.
"Heh, so, you're pretty brave, huh?"
When Naruto heard the boy standing in front address him like that, the displeasure in his heart reached its peak.
The leading boy, hearing Naruto say this, thought he was praising him and swaggeringly rubbed his nose.
"Of course, who around here doesn't know me, the little tyrant?"
He didn't notice at all that the two brats who were originally following him were already close to retreating to the entrance of the alley.
The two brats, whose faces were already pale, immediately turned and ran without hesitation. If they didn't leave now, they would definitely get beaten.
As expected, the two boys who had just run out of the alley heard the screams coming from their new boss. Both were so scared that their steps faltered, and they quickly sped up their escape.
In the alley, Naruto was a little speechless, looking at the boy lying on the ground, holding his nose and wailing desperately. He hadn't expected that with just a light punch, this guy would start crying like this.
Although his already not-so-good-looking nose had been crooked by Naruto's punch, Naruto felt that he hadn't even vented enough.
However, seeing the boy like this, Naruto felt awkward continuing, and just said coldly, "If you keep wailing, I'll beat you up."
Hearing this, the brat immediately got up and quickly fled the alley.
Seeing that they were gone, Naruto then turned to look at the girl behind him and asked, "Are you okay?"
After speaking, Naruto extended his hand and helped up the girl who had been so scared by his sudden jump that she had squatted down on the ground.
"I... I'm fine, thank you."
Hinata shook her head slightly with a timid expression after getting up, a touch of red on her cheeks. After all, her hand was currently being held by Naruto.
"Wow, your eyes are so beautiful!"
It was only then that Naruto saw the eyes of the girl in front of him.
He only had a slight impression that Hinata was a classmate of his, but he hadn't really looked at her directly before.
Hearing his sudden praise, Hinata was momentarily stunned, then looked at Naruto with some surprise and asked, "You're not scared of my eyes?"
The reason she had just been surrounded was because these three boys had seen her eyes when she was trying to figure out her location.
"Why would I be scared? They're clearly very beautiful?"
Naruto said this in a completely nonchalant tone, a little confused as to why his classmate would ask such a strange question.
If Shinji were here at this moment, he would have to sigh and acknowledge that he was indeed the son of the Fourth Hokage, Minato. The father and son's talent for charming girls was equally good.
Could something like this possibly be hereditary?
Naruto extended his hand and formally introduced himself, "My name is Uzumaki Naruto, and we're in the same class."
Hinata, who was still immersed in Naruto's previous words, was taken aback and looked up with a bit of disbelief. She naturally knew Naruto. After all, Naruto, who had the strongest presence in the class, was hard not to notice. But she was the most invisible presence in the class. She hadn't expected Naruto to actually remember her.
"Um... my name is Hyuga Hinata, thank you very much for today."
Naruto, on the other hand, patted his chest nonchalantly and said with great confidence, "I'm someone who's going to become Hokage, you don't need to thank me for something like this."
His confident tone, and that figure like the morning sun made Hinata's eyes tremble as she looked at Naruto, her heart suddenly captivated by this figure.
Such a warm feeling...
I wish I could be as confident as Naruto.
After Naruto finished speaking, he saw Hinata in front of him spacing out. He waved his hand in front of Hinata's eyes and asked, "Hey, are you lost?"
Hinata snapped back to reality, only to feel her recently cooled cheeks heat up again. She nodded, her voice extremely soft. "Mm."
Naruto, having received a reply, scratched his head. He was in a hurry to get to the training ground.
He asked, "Where's your home? Do you know?"
Hinata said, "It's the Hyuga clan compound. I accidentally got separated from my family just now, so I'm also looking for it."
Hinata was a little confused. She rarely went out, so she didn't quite remember how to get back.
Hearing 'Hyuga clan', Naruto also gave up, because he didn't know where that was either.
Naruto, who was originally troubled, punched his left palm with his right fist and said loudly, "That's right. Let's go to Shinji-sensei, he should know."
Hinata, momentarily taken aback by Naruto's words, asked doubtfully, "Huh? Shinji... sensei?"
"Yeah, Hinata, hurry up."
After speaking, Naruto took Hinata's hand and quickly headed towards the training ground. This time he didn't jump around on the rooftops, after all, Hinata behind him might not be able to keep up.
(End of Chapter)
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