I'm Not That Uzumaki Naruto!
Chapter 55

Learning to Face One's Fears

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"I-I'm not scared."

Sasuke instinctively wanted to argue, but the moment he looked up, he saw Naruto staring at him with an icy expression. His indifferent gaze pierced him like a sharp sword, as if a bucket of cold water had been dumped over his head, leaving him unable to utter a complete sentence.

That look gave Sasuke an indescribable sense of pressure. The hands gripping his kunai gradually began to tremble, and he lowered his head, not daring to look again.

"Looks like Itachi Uchiha was right." Naruto gently shook his head. "This is the extent of your capacity."

Sasuke's heart trembled. An uncontrollable sense of humiliation immediately surged through him. He tightened his grip on the kunai again, and when he looked up, his eyes were already bloodshot.

"I'm not scared. Huh? You!!"

Sasuke swallowed the words that had reached his lips, because he saw Naruto fall straight off the edge of the cliff right in front of him. His pupils contracted, and he hurried several steps to the cliff's edge to look down.

He saw Naruto, plummeting at high speed, repeatedly driving his kunai into the cliff face to slow his descent. A few breaths later, Naruto had vanished from sight.

A powerful wave of dizziness hit him. Sasuke struggled to lean back and swallowed, raising the kunai in his hand as he fell into deep thought.

"Haha! Naruto, that Uchiha brat definitely won't dare jump!"

The moment Naruto landed, Kurama's voice emerged from the Sealed Space. Its nine enormous tails swayed continuously behind it.

For some reason, it seemed rather excited.

"I also think he'd be better off not attempting this." Minato Namikaze spoke with a grave expression. "After all, his upbringing was completely different from Itachi Uchiha's back then. They may be the same age,

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