Chapter 691: A Figure
Noah settled down peacefully in Konoha. All in all, he had been rather lucky.
Noah had made the right choice. The baby whose body he had possessed truly had lost his entire family, and even his distant relatives were basically all gone.
Moreover, Noah's name was extremely difficult to trace, because the village registration records had been thoroughly scrambled by the Nine-Tails. Finding anything in them was practically an arduous task.
Even the landlord who had known the family of the baby Noah possessed had unfortunately died—the landlord had lived next door, and his fate had been even worse. That house had completely collapsed.
Just like that, Noah was promptly sent to an orphanage. As for his name?
Noah used a few little tricks to keep his name as Noah. Although it sounded rather like a name used by people from the Land of Clouds, it was not particularly conspicuous.
Noah, who had just become a baby, was quite helpless as well. The orphanage at that time was hardly comfortable. The main reason was that the Nine-Tails' rampage had affected a great many civilians, creating an enormous number of "war orphans."
"No wonder so many ignorant villagers would hate Naruto in the future. It wasn't his doing, but humans tend to take their anger out on others. That kid really is unlucky."
Naruto's future days would not be easy, and Noah's current situation was not much better. He wondered whether he was about to experience orphanage life all over again.
However, Noah soon discovered that he did not seem to need to go through that experience again. The body he had chosen was indeed very young, and because the Nine-Tails' rampage had shattered so many families, Noah was eventually adopted by an old man who had