Chapter 109: Chapter 109: Naruto Who Is Studying Seriously
[Naruto's Home]
Naruto, who was lying on the table, rubbed his eyes and yawned to wake up.
"Ugh… did I fall asleep?", Then Naruto shivered, and apologized in his mind, 'I'm sorry, Uzumaki, I fell asleep.'
["It's okay, keep getting up to learn the characters."]
'Oh oh! Okay!'
Hearing that Uzumaki wasn't angry, Naruto happily got up and continued learning to recognize characters.
After entering school, apart from those from the ninja clans, the other students were just as unfriendly to Naruto.
In daily life he was also lonely and without support, no one had expectations of him, and no one cared what he did in school.
Even Iruka now hadn't yet emerged from the shadow of his parents' death.
So whether Naruto listened in class didn't matter, as long as he didn't cause trouble during class.
In Kushina's test of Naruto, she found that Naruto's knowledge base was about the same as a sieve.
Not only did he not recognize many of the characters that had been taught, but the characters he wrote were also extremely ugly.
He didn't know simple arithmetic either, and as for other books given to Naruto, Naruto hadn't read them.
Now that Naruto was at home, Kushina urged Naruto to start learning to recognize characters.
Naruto hadn't been in school for very long, so the bad habits hadn't had time to take root.
Being urged and cared for for the first time, Naruto was also studying very seriously.
He had a feeling that he didn't want to disappoint Uzumaki.
And Uzumaki told him that if he studied seriously, later he could tell him more about his parents' matters.
This gave Naruto even more endless motivation.
As Naruto wrote, Uzumaki suddenly spoke, ["Naruto."]
["If you finish recognizing all the characters taught in this book, I'll tell you your identity, and why you're being bullied."]
Naruto trembled all over.
He widened his eyes, somewhat incredulous, 'Really?'
After being bullied for so many years, now he would finally know the truth.
["Have I ever lied to you? But you only have three days."]
After Uzumaki finished saying this, its voice faded away.
After Naruto called out twice more, Uzumaki didn't respond again.
He knew that Uzumaki was gone again.
He probably wouldn't be able to talk to him until tomorrow.
"Three days huh?", Naruto's eyes gradually became determined.
'I must do it!'
He opened the book and began, according to the method Uzumaki taught him, to read while writing.
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[Hokage Office]
The Third Hokage looked at the report in his hand, Uchiha Rengoku had gone to the school and showed his face in various classes.
Then didn't do much else.
But Rengoku stuffed a student into the ninja school, named Karin.
This person wasn't in Konoha's registry, obviously had just recently been brought in by Uchiha.
Now the relationship between Uchiha and Konoha was very tense, of course Uchiha wouldn't report these things.
Originally stuffing a student into the ninja school was just a trivial matter.
But with Karin it was different.
The wine-red hair was a very obvious characteristic of the Uzumaki clan.
'Could it be they want to seize the Nine-Tails on Naruto?'
In the eyes of someone with deep thoughts, every move of the Uchiha was full of hidden meaning.
Let alone it was Rengoku, the most troublesome among the Uchiha.
The Third pondered as he picked up the pipe by the table and took a puff.
"What is Naruto doing now?"
The ANBU below immediately answered, "After he wanted to install a TV and DVD player last time, now he watches movies at home every day."
"Occasionally reads books, hasn't done anything else."
Although Naruto hadn't been mischievous recently, the Third didn't think too much of it.
Because whatever Naruto did every day, whoever he met, ANBU had it all monitored.
He just thought Naruto had become obsessed with movies is all.
But actually, although movies were playing at Naruto's home, Naruto wasn't watching at all, they were all for Kurama to watch.
Naruto thought Uzumaki wanted to watch too, so he obediently complied.
Temporarily putting Naruto's matter aside, the Third slowly exhaled a mouthful of smoke, "Have you found out where the Uchiha sent people?"
ANBU replied, "The Uchiha people split into two parts, one part went north."
"The other part didn't hide their tracks, they went to the black market."
"A large number of black market missions were taken up by the Uchiha."
The Third deeply inhaled a puff of smoke, 'The Uchiha clan really doesn't play by the rules.'
He had planned to put pressure on the Uchiha through missions.
But the Uchiha directly didn't play along, went to take black market missions on their own.
The reason the black market is the black market is because most of the missions there can't see the light of day.
Now the Five Great Ninja Villages weren't at war, they couldn't issue missions to attack other ninja villages in the village.
So these missions could only be issued through the black market.
The grudges between the Five Great Ninja Villages and a bunch of small ninja villages were countless, missions were as many as the hairs of an ox.
After all, no matter how big your country is, how many people do the Uchiha have?
The missions simply couldn't be finished.
Moreover the black market was very welcoming towards elites and experts who could quickly complete missions.
The Uchiha were willing to lower themselves to do shady work, the black market also let them pick the more profitable ones.
And supported them as much as possible with intelligence.
Wasn't this much better than doing dangerous missions in Konoha?
It was normal for ninjas to take private jobs in the black market, all the big ninja villages turned a blind eye.
As long as you didn't take missions targeting your own village.
The Third Hokage was really worried the Uchiha were specifically taking missions to snipe Konoha.
"Can you find out what missions they took?"
The Third asked.
ANBU replied, "The black market keeps things very secret, we can't find out for now."
"Probably need two more days before we have news."
"Mm…", The Third pondered.
The black market was indeed stricter, after all, leaking missions randomly would cause big chaos.
"How's Kakashi?"
Kakashi with the Sharingan was Konoha's rising star.
But without the Sharingan Kakashi…
"Kakashi has recovered, but Kakashi without the Sharingan has regressed a lot in strength."
"Tests show Kakashi's strength has dropped by half."
Hearing ANBU's answer, the Third Hokage was a bit worried.
Now he didn't have many great generals under him, although Kakashi had severe PTSD, his talent was good. He was a good piece on the board. He didn't want to give up on Kakashi.
But now they in Konoha still coveted the Uchiha's Sharingan and want the Uchiha clan to give the Sharingan to Kakashi. Might as well go to Danzo instead.
"What's Danzo up to recently?"
After Danzo was demoted, he had been hiding in the Root base.
Apart from asking for a sum of money before, he hadn't made a sound these past two days.
The Third Hokage knew that as long as Danzo didn't speak, he was definitely up to something.
"There's little intel from Root, on the night our Konoha was attacked, they were also infiltrated."
"Just the specific loss is unclear."
The Third Hokage really hadn't expected that when it was chaos outside, there were still people taking advantage of the fire. Infiltrated Root base and probably even succeeded.
As they spoke, a figure flipped in from outside the window.
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