“Kushina, find an empty seat and sit down.”
Once the brief disturbance ended, Ishida Yuu spoke.
There were three empty seats in the classroom now, all of them left vacant by students who had joined the medical ninja training class.
Kushina didn’t hesitate and walked straight toward Natsuki.
There was an empty seat right beside him—the one that had previously belonged to Yakushi Nono.
“Kushina, welcome to Class 2-A.”
Natsuki said with a smile.
“Thanks.”
After sitting down, Kushina smiled too and said, “Please take care of me.”
“If there’s anything you don’t understand at school, just ask me.”
Natsuki nodded.
The two of them chatted briefly, then class began.
Even though they were in second year now, the first lesson was still the Will of Fire.
[You have awakened the Naruto Uzumaki Template.]
Holy crap.
The plant kind.
Natsuki’s eyes widened on instinct.
Naruto Uzumaki was the protagonist of Naruto.
His bloodline and talent were practically cheat-level.
And he had actually awakened the Naruto Uzumaki template?
Was it because he had helped Kushina when she was being bullied?
Everyone knew that in the original story, the one who got bullied the most was Naruto Uzumaki.
Kushina had only been bullied by Onodera and a few others—not even ten people total.
But Naruto was different.
He was bullied by practically the entire village.
At that point, the number was impossible to count.
If it had been anyone else, they probably would have snapped long ago and gone full “the heavens are unjust, so I’ll slaughter them all.”
Natsuki took a deep breath and looked at the Naruto Uzumaki template with great anticipation.
[Name: Naruto Uzumaki.]
[Stage: Ninja Academy.]
[World: Naruto.]
[Rank: A-rank.]
[Ability One: Wind Attribute — Unlocked.]
[Effect: Gain a second chakra nature, Wind.]
[Ability Two: Sexy Jutsu — Locked.]
[Effect: Transform into a beautiful woman or handsome man to confuse the target.]
[Unlock Condition: Master the Transformation Jutsu.]
[Effect: Create a large number of shadow clones with independent awareness.
When dispelled, their memories and experience are returned to the original body.]
[Unlock Condition: Prevent Kumogakure from kidnapping Kushina Uzumaki.]
[Ability Four: Chakraton — Locked.]
[Effect: Possess four times Kakashi Hatake’s chakra.]
[Unlock Condition: Dominate the Ninja Academy and take first place in combat across the entire school.]
After reading through the Naruto Uzumaki template, only four words remained in Natsuki’s mind:
Terrifying beyond belief.
Even Naruto at the Ninja Academy stage was already an A-rank character template, and these four abilities absolutely deserved that ranking.
Especially Ability Three and Ability Four.
When Natsuki first saw that it was Ninja Academy Naruto, he had actually felt a little disappointed.
Because he remembered that Naruto had basically accomplished nothing at the academy and hadn’t even mastered the three basic techniques.
But after reading further, he realized that Naruto had in fact learned the Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu before graduating.
Just getting the Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu would already have made it worth it.
What he hadn’t expected was the extra surprise: Ability Four.
Four times Kakashi Hatake’s chakra—what kind of concept was that?
Kakashi was an elite jonin.
People always joked that he was “low on chakra,” but in reality he wasn’t weak at all.
He simply had more chakra than most ordinary jonin.
Then Natsuki suddenly remembered that in the original story, Kakashi had once said Naruto’s chakra was four times his own.
But he had also said that if Naruto weren’t suppressing the Nine-Tails, his chakra would be a hundred times Kakashi’s.
Natsuki didn’t feel disappointed at all.
Four times Kakashi’s chakra was already more than enough for him.
And if it had really been a hundred times Kakashi’s chakra, then the unlock condition would definitely have been absurdly difficult.
Natsuki rubbed his face and forced himself to calm down.
Then he started studying his new template.
Ability One couldn’t directly increase his power, but it was still very useful.
He already had Earth affinity, and now with Wind added on top, he would have two chakra natures.
If he worked hard enough, then just with Wind Release and Earth Release alone, he might be able to reach jonin level someday.
There wasn’t much to say about Ability Two—it was Naruto Uzumaki’s iconic Sexy Jutsu.
Even the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, could get hard-countered by it.
It was absurdly overpowered.
And its upgraded version could even work on Kaguya Otsutsuki.
Its unlock condition wasn’t hard either.
He just had to learn the Transformation Jutsu.
First year had taught the Substitution Jutsu.
Second year would teach the Transformation Jutsu.
He just had to wait.
Abilities Three and Four were the real focus.
The advantages of having a huge amount of chakra went without saying.
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And the Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu itself had enormous value.
In the original story, it was basically Naruto Uzumaki’s personal cheat.
It wasn’t just useful in battle—it could also be used for training, making it essentially a stacked experience multiplier.
The problem was that the unlock conditions for those two abilities were both pretty troublesome.
The unlock condition for Ability Three was preventing Kumogakure from kidnapping Kushina Uzumaki.
In the original story, because her chakra was special, she was targeted by Kumogakure ninja, abducted, and taken away toward Kumogakure.
After Konoha realized she was missing, they searched for her repeatedly but couldn’t find her.
It was only because Minato Namikaze noticed the trail of hair Kushina had left behind that he managed to locate her.
Natsuki remembered that the people who kidnapped Kushina were three Kumogakure jonin.
With his current strength, there was no way he could handle them.
Thankfully, he still had time.
The original story never gave the exact date of the kidnapping, but judging from the timeline, it was probably around the time they were graduating from the Ninja Academy.
And Ability Three, the Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu, could be postponed for now.
Because even if he unlocked it, he still wouldn’t have enough chakra to use it properly.
The real priority was Ability Four.
Only after obtaining a massive amount of chakra would his strength truly leap upward.
Its unlock condition was to dominate the Ninja Academy.
That wasn’t easy either, but it was still much simpler than taking on three Kumogakure jonin.
Minato had already told him before about the seven geniuses in the Ninja Academy:
Akimichi Choza, Nara Shikaku, Yamanaka Inoichi, Nawaki, Uchiha Mikoto, Hyuga Hiashi, and Hyuga Hizashi.
A year had passed since then, and the sixth-years, Hiashi and Hizashi, had already graduated.
He wasn’t sure whether they still counted.
Either way, he would figure out how to beat the other five first.
In any case, there was no need to rush.
For now, Natsuki’s main priority was still to fuse the Shiba Tatsuya template.
“Hi, I’m Minato Namikaze.”
After class ended, Minato, who sat in the front row, turned around and looked at Natsuki and Kushina.
“Mhm.”
Kushina responded coolly, not warmly at all.
Minato hadn’t spoken up to help when she was being mocked, so her impression of him was pretty mediocre.
In fact, that was how it had been in the original story too.
Before Minato risked himself to save her, Kushina hadn’t liked him at all.
She’d even looked down on him.
Minato looked a little awkward at her response.
But he really was in the wrong.
At that moment, he couldn’t help feeling a little regretful.
If he’d known, he would’ve spoken up like Natsuki and called out Onodera and the others on the spot.