Listening to Naruto’s thoughs, Kakashi couldn’t help but glance back at Naruto again.
Two-Pillars?
Deidara?
This Two-Pillars should be Sasuke, but who is Deidara?
Kakashi searched through his memories but couldn’t figure out who this Deidara was, so he shook his head and stopped thinking about it.
Soon, he carried Naruto to an oden shop.
“Naruto, I’ll treat you to oden today!”
Kakashi was very generous, and Naruto immediately perked up.
After being tortured for so long, he finally got to taste a little sweetness.
After the two entered the shop, they ordered a large amount of food.
As soon as it was cooked, Naruto began eating voraciously.
After eating and drinking his fill, the two parted ways at the entrance of the shop.
Naruto limped home.
Although every step caused pain throughout Naruto’s body, he was still in a good mood.
After all, he had once again enjoyed a delicious meal at Kakashi’s expense.
But suddenly, Naruto stopped in his tracks and remembered something.
His expression immediately became ugly.
“Damn it! That bastard Kakashi! After torturing me, he first gave me a lecture to distract me, then treated me to oden, all so I would forget what happened before! How could things be that easy! Bastard!”
Naruto stomped his feet angrily, but it was merely helpless rage.
Kakashi was already gone, and no matter how angry Naruto was, there was nothing he could do.
In the end, after shouting for a while, he could only let the matter go.
…
The next day, Naruto arrived at school, still limping.
After reaching his seat, he carefully and gently sat down.
Anyone who didn’t know better might have thought he had hemorrhoids.
He had originally thought that because he had the Nine-Tails, his recovery ability was extremely strong, and his injuries weren’t serious to begin with.
He had even been able to walk home by himself yesterday.
But after waking up, good grief, the muscles throughout his body felt as if they had been completely worn out.
They were sore and painful, even worse than yesterday.
Even the simple act of sitting down pulled on all the muscles throughout his body, making him grimace in pain.
“Naruto-kun, what happened to you?”
Hinata immediately noticed that something was wrong with Naruto and asked with concern.
Naruto obviously couldn’t say that he had been tortured by Kakashi, so he could only force a smile at Hinata.
“It’s nothing. I just got bitten by a dog after school yesterday.”
“Bitten by a dog? What kind of dog could bite you?”
Hinata had witnessed Naruto defeat her guard.
Although her guard wasn’t particularly strong, he was still a genuine Chunin.
Someone capable of defeating a Chunin could never be injured by an ordinary dog.
As soon as this was mentioned, Naruto immediately thought of Kakashi, gritting his teeth with hatred.
“A white ninja dog with its fur standing straight up. It can use Lightning Release.”
“A white ninja dog? And it can use Lightning Release?”
Hinata blinked and tilted her head in thought, but after thinking for a long time, she still couldn’t figure out whose ninja dog was like that.
At this moment, Inuzuka Kiba happened to walk past.
Although it was only the beginning of the school year and the classmates were still unfamiliar with one another, Naruto had slept through the entire class yesterday, been punished by having to stand, and been kept after school, so he had already been remembered by the entire class.
Kiba was naturally one of them.
Seeing such a dejected Naruto, Kiba casually slapped Naruto on the back.
“Yo! Naruto, what happened to you? Don’t tell me it’s because you were kept after school by Iruka-sensei yesterday and got scolded by your parents when you went home?”
“Hiss~~”
Naruto sucked in a sharp breath from the sudden slap.
He struggled to raise his head and glared fiercely at Kiba.
“My parents died a long time ago. Don’t bother me if there’s nothing going on.”
Kiba’s carefree expression froze on the spot.
He awkwardly withdrew his hand, not knowing what to do for a moment.
“Ah… I’m, I’m sorry. I didn’t know.”
Naruto rolled his eyes and ignored Kiba.
Kiba felt that he had said the wrong thing and quickly walked away, returning to his seat.
Hinata didn’t say a single word from beginning to end, but her gaze remained fixed on Akamaru, who was lying on Kiba’s head.
“White… ninja dog, fur standing straight up…”
The class bell soon rang.
Naruto had already fallen asleep.
Although his entire body hurt, sleeping together with the Nine-Tails’ power could accelerate the recovery of his injuries, so he was even sleepier than usual today.
Iruka was still teaching this class.
Because Kakashi had already spoken to him yesterday, Iruka didn’t care about Naruto sleeping.
However, Iruka was still so angry that the veins on his forehead bulged, and the chalk in his hand was crushed to pieces.
“Inuzuka Kiba!”
Iruka let out an angry roar.
Kiba shuddered and hurriedly sat up straight, but it was already too late…
It turned out that aside from Naruto, Kiba had also been sleeping.
In fact, Kiba had only lain down because he saw that Naruto was sleeping without being reprimanded.
But just as he fell asleep, he heard Iruka’s furious shout.
“I-Iruka-sensei…”
“Get out and stand at the door!”
Kiba instinctively stood up.
Just as he was about to raise his leg, he saw that Naruto still hadn’t woken up, and immediately became indignant.
“Iruka-sensei, why am I the only one? I refuse to accept this!”
“You dare talk back! Get out!”
Iruka directly threw the chalk in his hand, but Kiba remained stubborn and didn’t move.
“I refuse to accept this! Naruto is sleeping too! Why am I the only one who has to go outside?!”
“You!”
Iruka was rendered speechless.
Of course, Iruka could say that Naruto had someone specially assigned to teach him, but the consequence of saying that might be that the feeling of unfairness, which originally belonged only to Kiba, would spread to everyone in the class.
Once that happened, his authority as a teacher would suffer greatly.
One had to know that there were members of various clans among the students here.
If things became serious, Iruka would definitely be the one to suffer.
After thinking it over several times, Iruka could only sigh.
“Ah~~ Forget it. Sit down. Don’t let this happen again.”
Iruka waved his hand and continued teaching.
Although Kiba sat down, his expression was extremely displeased.
The sense of imbalance in his heart remained strong.
Moreover, just now, he felt that he had escaped punishment because of Naruto, so how could he let it go?
Damn it!
We’re all students, so why can this guy openly sleep during class?
After the class bell rang, Iruka said goodbye and left the classroom.
Kiba had been feeling frustrated throughout the entire lesson.
Although this matter essentially had nothing to do with Naruto, every time he saw Naruto sleeping soundly, he remembered being scolded by Iruka.
Now that class had finally ended, Kiba could no longer hold himself back and walked over to Naruto’s desk.
“Hey! Naruto!”
Because he was suppressing his anger, Kiba’s tone was extremely unpleasant.
Anyone could tell that he had come looking for trouble.
However, Naruto wasn’t woken up.
Seeing Naruto continuing to sleep soundly, Kiba became even more furious, his face turning red.
“Bastard!”
Kiba swung his fist toward Naruto’s desk, wanting to wake Naruto up.
But before his fist could land, a fair hand caught it, producing a “slap” sound.
For a moment, the entire classroom fell silent.
The one who had intervened was actually Hinata.