“In that case, stay shut up forever.”
Mizuki lowered his voice significantly, as if squeezing the words out from between his teeth.
His hand had already reached for the Ninja tool pouch behind his back.
Naruto stood two steps away without retreating, as if he had long expected the other party to take this step.
“Teacher Mizuki, what you are doing right now will only make things worse.”
“Shut up!” Mizuki abruptly pulled out a Kunai and thrust it straight at Naruto’s throat.
“I was kindly helping you, but you fail to appreciate good intentions!”
The Kunai slashed through the air, carrying a sharp sound of wind.
Naruto slightly tilted his body, and that Kunai grazed past his collar.
Mizuki’s pupils abruptly constricted.
He had used his full strength for this strike.
An ordinary Genin wouldn’t have had time to react at all.
“You…”
“Teacher Mizuki, your movements are too slow.”
As Naruto spoke, his right hand had already lifted up, extending his index finger.
Binding Magic!
Several golden ropes appeared out of thin air in the air, tying Mizuki up securely.
For this kind of relatively simple magic, Naruto could already cast it without needing a staff.
“You demon fox… What kind of Ninjutsu did you use?!”
Mizuki stumbled and fell to the ground, feeling both shocked and terrified.
The sound was quite loud, and the people over by the Ninja Academy gate all turned their heads, gathering their gazes in this direction.
Several parents stopped in their tracks, and a woman holding a child frowned and looked over this way.
Several students who hadn’t left yet also turned their faces, their eyes carrying surprise and curiosity.
Naruto stood in place without moving, revealing a faint smile toward Mizuki.
“Teacher Mizuki, what did you just call me?”
Mizuki’s lips trembled slightly.
That phrase ‘demon fox’ had slipped out just now, shouted too hastily.
The gazes of those parents and students had begun to change, with some starting to whisper to each other as murmurs drifted continuously toward this side.
“Isn’t that Teacher Mizuki?”
“Is he arguing with ‘that person’?”
“I think I heard him say something just now… demon fox?”
Hearing the murmurs of that group of parents, a layer of cold sweat broke out on Mizuki’s back.
His face turned flush red, desperately trying to break free from those golden ropes.
Yet the more he moved, the tighter the ropes squeezed.
It couldn’t be undone with the E-rank Ninjutsu ‘Rope Escape Technique’!
The parents around began to gather closer.
Someone took half a step forward, then shrank back.
Several people whispered to each other, their voices lowered very much.
“Naruto.” Seeing this, Mizuki lowered his voice, his tone carrying a trace of final struggle, “Let me go quickly, let’s have a good talk…” This chapter was taken from novelping.com without permission.
Naruto stood two steps away, looking down at Mizuki without moving.
Mizuki clenched his teeth tightly.
He was, after all, an elite among the Chunin, and also a teacher at the Ninja Academy.
He was more than familiar with the Chakra flow of various Ninjutsu, yet these suddenly appearing ropes lacked any trace of Chakra aura.
It was neither Ninjutsu nor genjutsu.
The more calmly he thought about this matter, the more that fear inside Mizuki welled up.
Unknown things were even more frightening than known formidable enemies.
Right at this moment, a voice came from overhead.
“What are you doing?”
A figure jumped down from above the streetlamp, wearing a dark tight-fitting suit, an animal mask, and crossing their arms in front of their chest.
This person landed between Naruto and Mizuki.
The eyes beneath the mask swept over Mizuki on the ground, then swept over Naruto, and finally stopped on those golden ropes.
This Ninja’s strength was very high.
Naruto lowered his right hand, and those golden ropes instantly scattered, turning into points of light that vanished into the air.
The Anbu’s gaze lingered for two seconds on the spot where those points of light disappeared, and then stared at Naruto.
Naruto stood in place and said in a calm tone, “Teacher Mizuki asked me to go steal the sealing scroll.”
“I felt something was wrong with this and wanted him to go with me to see Grandpa Hokage to make things clear.”
“He was about to make a move on me.”
After listening, the Anbu turned to look at Mizuki, the gaze penetrating from beneath the mask being extremely cold.
“Mizuki, is this true?
Do you know your crime?”
Mizuki had already crawled up from the ground, sweat droplets sliding down his chin as he spoke urgently, “Lord Anbu, listen to me…”
“This brat has issues!” He pointed a finger at Naruto, “He used a strange power to trap me; it’s not normal Ninjutsu at all!”
Halfway through his words, he lowered his head to look at his own body…
Then he froze in a daze.
Not a single golden rope was left.
The Anbu took a step forward, their tone sinking even lower: “I am asking you whether the sequence of events narrated by Uzumaki Naruto is true.”
Mizuki’s pupils abruptly constricted.
He didn’t answer, choosing instead to turn around and run.
The Anbu’s eyes narrowed slightly, their figure flashing as they appeared via body flicker right in front, raising their right hand and extending their index finger.
Paralysis Jutsu!
Mizuki’s body instantly stiffened, his feet still maintaining a running posture, his entire person standing rigidly in place.
Without pausing, the Anbu punched Mizuki in the abdomen.
“Ugh!”
Mizuki arched his back and knelt down, letting out a muffled groan from his mouth, his face flushed red as he curled up on the ground holding his stomach.
The Anbu glanced down at him, then bent down, grabbed Mizuki’s back collar with one hand, and lifted him up. You are reading on g.com, the official source.
“If you have anything to say, go tell Hokage-sama.”
Having said this, the Anbu took Mizuki and gradually walked far away.
Naruto stood in place, watching that direction for quite a while before withdrawing his gaze.
The surrounding parents were still looking at him, those gazes containing curiosity, vigilance, and something indescribable.
Naruto ignored them, lowered his head, and turned to walk in the direction of home.
After arriving home, he hurriedly entered the mental space-time.
The surroundings were still dim.
The surface of the sewer water reflected faint light.
The Nine-Tailed’s eyes were half-open and half-closed; seeing Naruto enter, it didn’t even raise its head.
“You’ve come.”
Naruto raised his head, looking at that huge orange-red fox behind the iron cage, and only then asked nervously: “Even though you didn’t admit it back then, I’ve already guessed it.”
“You must be the Nine-Tailed demon fox that destroyed the Village twelve years ago, right?”
Behind the iron cage, there was silence for two or three seconds.
Then the Nine-Tailed grinned, its smile carrying a thick sinister air.
“That’s right, I did it.”
Naruto’s body paused slightly, his throat feeling a bit dry as he asked in a hoarse voice: “Then why are you inside my body?”
“Who are my parents?”
The Nine-Tailed flattened its ears backward, raised its head slightly, and something flashed within its golden vertical pupils.
“Your father is the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze.”
“Your mother is Uzumaki Kushina.”
Naruto’s breathing stopped for a moment.
The Nine-Tailed continued speaking, its voice a bit lower than before: “Twelve years ago, a mysterious man wearing a mask attacked Konoha.”
“This was the fuse for everything.”
Speaking to this point, it paused, not continuing with the rest of the content.
Being manipulated by the Mangekyo Sharingan was not such a glorious matter.
Naruto stood in front of the iron cage with his eyes lowered, his expression unclear, only the golden stray hairs in front of his forehead swaying slightly.
Just at this moment, a sound came from the real world.
“Thump, thump, thump.”
Naruto opened his eyes, walked over quickly, and pulled open the door.
The sunset at the doorway had already turned orange-red.
An old man was standing outside the door.
Wearing a white haori, the Hokage hat on his head pulled down very low, revealing a face full of wrinkles yet gentle.
It was precisely the Third Hokage.
“Naruto.” Looking at the blonde youth before him who was both familiar yet unfamiliar, the Third Hokage spoke kindly, “I heard that some things happened just now at the academy gate.”
“Can you let me in to sit for a bit?”
Naruto stepped aside from the doorway and tilted his head slightly toward inside the house.
“Come in.”