At the Ninja Academy, Kakashi led the three of them—Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke—to the rooftop.
“Alright, let’s start with self-introductions,” Kakashi said, sitting on the railing and looking at the three of them.
“Self-introductions?
What are we supposed to say?” Sakura asked.
“Things like what you like, what you hate, your dreams for the future, and your hobbies.
That’s about it,” Kakashi said with a shrug, his tone lazy.
“Shouldn’t the teacher start first?” Naruto asked, feigning innocence.
“Me?
I’m Kakashi Hatake.
As for what I like and hate… I don’t feel like telling you that.
Regarding my dreams for the future…”
He paused for a long moment before continuing.
“As for hobbies, I have many.”
‘You might as well just admit you like reading your smutty books,’ Naruto thought to himself.
“In the end, we only learned his name,” Sakura remarked, looking at Naruto and Sasuke with a deadpan expression.
“Yeah,” both boys nodded in unison.
“Next, it’s your turn.
Let’s start with you,” Kakashi said, looking at Naruto.
“I’m Uzumaki Naruto.
I have a lot of things I like and a lot of things I hate.
As for my dreams… my hobby is training.” Naruto perfectly demonstrated what it meant to give someone a taste of their own medicine.
Kakashi’s face darkened with annoyance, then he looked at Sakura and said, “Alright, next.”
“Sakura Haruno.
The person I like is Sasuke.
I don’t have anything I hate.
My future dream is… and my hobby is reading.” Having spent so much time with Naruto, Sakura’s personality had changed somewhat; at least she now dared to express her preferences openly.
Sasuke’s mouth twitched, and Kakashi was rendered speechless.
He already had two problem children in his class; he figured the last one wouldn’t be very normal either.
“Alright, the last one.”
“Uchiha Sasuke.
I hate a lot of things, and I don’t really like anything.
My dream—or rather, my ambition—is to kill a certain man, and also, to defeat Naruto.
My hobby is training.”
Hearing Sasuke’s words, Naruto couldn’t help but turn and glance at him.
‘Good grief, do you hate me that much?
Reviving the Uchiha Clan isn’t even important anymore, you just want to beat me up, right?’
‘So, Naruto is much stronger than Sasuke?
Interesting, this kid.’ Kakashi gave a subtle glance at Naruto, who was still trying his best to act, and the corner of his mouth beneath his mask curled up involuntarily.
“Alright, you three are quite the unique bunch.
Very interesting.
Starting tomorrow, we’ll carry out missions.”
“What kind of missions?” Naruto asked with a goofy expression, giving a salute.
This cringeworthy acting made Sakura and Sasuke beside him want to curl their toes in embarrassment, and even Kakashi felt awkward enough to want to run away.
But there was no help for it; he had to play along with the performance.
“Let’s start with a mission that only the four of us can complete.”
“A mission only the four of us can complete?” Sasuke and Sakura’s curiosity was piqued by Kakashi.
“A survival exercise,” Kakashi said with a straight face.
The three of them went silent instantly, staring straight at Kakashi, which left Kakashi—who had already prepared his next lines—frozen in place, feeling awkward.
“Ahem, you guys… don’t you have anything to say?” Kakashi cleared his throat twice to cover the awkward silence.
“Huh?
We were waiting for you to continue, sensei,” Sakura said, tilting her head and looking at Kakashi with some confusion.
“…Fine, fine.
Out of the 27 graduates, only 9 will be successfully recognized as Genin.
In other words, this is a super difficult test with a failure rate of over 66%.”
Watching Kakashi try to intimidate them with a gloomy expression, Naruto and the others were left speechless.
“?
No, what’s with those expressions?
A 66% failure rate, you know.
Isn’t that scary?”
“Ah… so scary.
If we fail, we have to go back to the academy?
No way!” Naruto started shouting and making a scene, giving him the face.
“Ah… no way, I finally got into the same class as Sasuke-kun, I don’t want to go back to the academy!” Sakura also started acting all over-the-top.
“Ah… right, right, ah, forget it.” Even if Sasuke had been infected by Naruto’s virus, it wasn’t that severe; he really couldn’t pull off this kind of acting.
“…A bunch of brats, truly unlovable.
Forget it.
Meet at the training ground tomorrow morning at five.
Remember to bring your Ninja gear.
I will judge whether you pass based on the actual situation.”
Kakashi waved his hand helplessly.
Just as he turned to leave, he looked back and added:
“Oh, right, remember not to eat breakfast, or you’ll throw up.”
After saying that, he vanished from the rooftop, leaving the three of them to look at each other.
“Well?
You super idiot, your acting was terrible.
I bet he’s already caught on,” Sasuke said, elbowing Naruto.
“Isn’t that because you exposed me first?” Naruto rolled his eyes at Sasuke.
“Where did I expose you?” Sasuke asked, confused.
“Um, Sasuke-kun, you said your dream is to defeat Naruto.
Things that can be called dreams are usually things that are currently hard to achieve, so one can tell from that that Naruto’s strength is much greater than yours,” Sakura explained, raising her hand.
“…Uh, well, I didn’t think that much about it, I just said it in the moment.
What do we do now?” Sasuke scratched his head, feeling awkward.
“No big deal.
There’s a tactic called ‘counter-strategy.’ He knows I’m acting, and I know that he knows I’m acting, but he doesn’t necessarily know that I know that he knows I’m acting.
So, we can still catch him off guard tomorrow.”
Naruto adjusted his forehead protector, looking like everything was under control.
“…As long as you’re happy.” Sasuke covered his face, while Sakura asked:
“What do we do now?”
“We definitely can’t train today, otherwise it won’t be good if we’re discovered.
If we’re going to act, we have to do it all the way.
Let’s treat the rest of the day as a vacation.
Go find something to do.”
After saying that, Naruto slipped away, leaving Sakura and Sasuke looking at each other.
Having ditched his teammates, Naruto went home to change his clothes, then headed straight for the back door of the Hyuga Clan compound and pulled out a homemade bird whistle, blowing it.
At that moment, Hiashi, who was busy processing documents, heard the sound and nearly snapped his pen in anger.
‘This brat!
He doesn’t use the front door, he insists on going to the back.
Going to the back is one thing, but he even uses a secret signal?
Does he really think the Hyuga Clan’s Byakugan is just for show?
Does he really think I can’t see that massive, sun-bright lump of Chakra?’
In fact, a year ago, Hinata had told Naruto that Hiashi allowed him to come visit her.
It was just that Naruto was a bit peculiar; he enjoyed the feeling of sneaking around and using secret signals at the back door.
It was thrilling.
Not long after, a little girl with long hair snuck out of the back door.
Why is it you?
Where’s your sister?” Seeing that it was Hanabi who had snuck out, Naruto asked, puzzled.
“Big sister hasn’t come back yet.
Didn’t you go to the class assignments together?” Hanabi asked, also looking puzzled.
“That’s not right.
She left an hour earlier than me; she shouldn’t have been gone this long.” Naruto scratched his head, suddenly thinking of something.
“Could it be that they started the test today?”
“Test?
Test what?” Hanabi asked curiously.
“Nothing, you’ll know later.” Naruto waved his hand.
This was somewhat of a classified matter; better not to talk about it.
“Tch, brother-in-law is so stingy.” Hanabi pouted, looking displeased.
“Since your sister isn’t here, I’ll be going then.” Naruto turned to leave, but Hanabi grabbed the corner of his clothes.
“Wait, wait, wait, wait!
Brother-in-law, don’t go yet.”
“What?
What is it?” Naruto, having been stopped, turned his head to look at Hanabi.
“Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, take me out to play!” Hanabi looked at Naruto with stars in her eyes.
“Huh?
Why?” Naruto tilted his head, asking with some confusion.
“Oh, I train every single day.
I want to take a break occasionally, too,” Hanabi said, twisting a bit in embarrassment.
“…You’re skipping class again?
That’s not very good, is it?” Naruto glanced at the Hyuga compound and said carefully.
“What are you saying?
What kind of talk is that?
How can a Ninja’s business be called skipping class?
I’m just balancing work and rest.”
“Heh, let’s see if my old father-in-law believes that.”
“Oh, brother-in-law, please, you’re the best!
Pretty please!” Hanabi pressed her palms together, begging Naruto incessantly.
Naruto looked at the back door.
The old father-in-law hadn’t appeared for so long; he must have tacitly approved, right?
Probably?
“Alright, let’s go.”
“Yay!
Brother-in-law is the best!”
Hanabi was so happy she leaped onto Naruto’s back, then climbed up to sit on his shoulders, waving her hand and pointing forward.
“Let’s go!”
Naruto resigned himself to it, grabbing Hanabi’s feet to steady her, and strode forward.
“Snap!” The pen in Hiashi’s hand met its end.
Seeing through his Byakugan that the blond brat had kidnapped his second daughter, Hiashi was so angry he nearly went to fight him to the death, but he held back.
After all, he didn’t want a fox to suddenly pop out and run wild in their Hyuga home.
“Sigh, what a sin!”
“Oh right, Hanabi, did you bring money?
You know, your brother-in-law is dirt poor.” Walking halfway, Naruto suddenly looked up and asked.
“I brought it!
Don’t worry, all expenses today will be covered by yours truly!” Hanabi patted the pouch at her waist, speaking with great bravado.
“The Second Miss is generous!
Let’s go!”
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