The greatest clan in Konoha, as Naruto saw it, soon met its end.
A few days later, Naruto heard a shocking piece of news.
The Uchiha clan had been wiped out!
When he first heard it, Naruto simply couldn't believe it.
That was the Uchiha clan, Konoha's greatest clan.
So many Three Tomoe eyes, and that bizarre Mangekyo.
How could they have been exterminated?
At first, Naruto treated the news as a joke. But when he expanded his senses, he clearly noticed that a huge section of the Uchiha clan compound had been emptied out.
Even so, Naruto still couldn't believe it. Maybe they had all gone traveling?
This was Konoha's strongest clan, filled with powerful figures and countless geniuses. How could they be wiped out so easily?
Yet over the next three days, Naruto never saw Sasuke, and the Konoha Police Force that he usually saw on the streets seemed to have vanished as well.
Thinking back on that rumor, Naruto truly felt that something was wrong.
Could it be real?
Naruto had no reliable source of information. He hadn't seen the old Hokage for two months, and children's words couldn't be fully trusted either. In the end, he could only ask his clone to investigate.
Konoha's social butterfly, the old-man clone, immediately brought back the news: it was true. It was really true.
Naruto's jaw nearly hit the floor.
What about Sasuke? Could he have died too?
That couldn't be right, could it?
Naruto wore an expression of utter disbelief. Could it be that the "What Is Gay" from his memories wasn't an Uchiha?
Thankfully, after searching around, Naruto found Chakra marked as Sasuke's at Konoha Hospital.
Fortunately, the protagonist was still alive.
But the Uchiha clan had been exterminated. Wiped out within the village itself.
This world was too absurd!
Something so absurd had actually happened for real. Was there anywhere in this world that was even remotely safe?
Glancing at the forty-odd Revival Coins lying coldly in his inventory, Naruto felt slightly reassured.
Looking up at Sasuke, who sat at his desk with a cold, indifferent expression, Naruto didn't know what to say for a moment.
After more than two months of interacting with him, Naruto had discovered that Sasuke didn't match his appearance at all. He was actually pretty easy to get along with and had a decent personality. The coolness and coldness were merely his passive traits.
Sasuke must have been hurting badly.
Naruto had once thought that, as a protagonist, Uchiha Sasuke probably wouldn't grow up without a hitch.
He just hadn't expected Sasuke to receive a script like this.
The author was too ruthless.
His entire clan had been wiped out!
That was even crueler than those protagonists who casually slaughtered entire families.
Naruto had only heard of such things among the ten cruelest tortures in his previous life.
Besides, this was even worse than exterminating a clan. An entire surname had been erased, leaving only one person behind.
This had been Konoha's most prominent surname.
In his previous life, if someone said they wanted to kill every person in the country surnamed Wang...
Were they tired of living?
Who was the culprit?
Naruto suddenly began to care about that. The culprit had to be very strong. The Uchiha clan—how many Three Tomoe users did they have? How many Mangekyo users? Yet they had been wiped out so easily? This person might very well become a powerful enemy for him in the future.
The whole of Konoha seemed unwilling to speak of the matter, but a wanted poster for a rogue ninja exposed the mastermind behind the clan's destruction.
Itachi Uchiha!?
Naruto immediately looked like an old man staring at a phone on the subway.jpg.
How could it be him?
Wasn't he Sasuke's beloved older brother, the Uchiha clan's eldest son, the Uchiha's genius ninja?
Why him? Naruto thought about it for ten days and ten nights but still couldn't understand.
In the end, he could only write this person's name down in his little notebook.
Relatives, friends, girlfriends, even parents—he had slaughtered them all.
There was no doubt about it. This guy was absolutely ruthless.
If Naruto saw him in the future, he'd better stay far away.
This incident caused a huge uproar and had far-reaching consequences. As a complete "outsider," Naruto had only seen the surface of it. Still, the matter seemed to end there.
The village deliberately suppressed discussion of it. Only Sasuke, the lone surviving seedling, continued to remind people that it had happened.
As for Sasuke, the lone seedling, all they could do was turn a funeral into a celebration. Congratulations on joining the Starting Point Orphanage and beginning his mad sprint down the road of becoming a protagonist.
At the same time, Naruto decided he wouldn't collect "protection fees" from Sasuke in the future. Sasuke was simply too miserable.
Naruto was very curious about what would happen next to Sasuke, the protagonist.
This was the protagonist's path to becoming stronger. If Naruto could learn even a little from it, or even copy the same path of growth, then with his SSSSSS Talent, the future would be bright once he activated this cheat.
After all, Sasuke was the protagonist. He couldn't possibly work hard his entire life and still end up weaker than Naruto was now, right?
Still, there was no need to rush.
Even Sasuke, the protagonist, was still in school. Naruto only needed to observe his every move each day.
Naruto checked the time. It was still early, so he could head upstairs and sell some chips.
More than two months had passed, and Naruto's business territory had expanded to other classes and even other grades. This world was too crazy. It wasn't just the old man—Naruto himself had to work hard and make more money. The Eternal Mangekyo was simply too expensive.
Meanwhile, Choji and Shikamaru arrived a little late today. Mainly because Shikamaru had encountered a black cat blocking the road, and then he lost his way on the road of life.
Actually, Shikamaru simply didn't want to go to school today. He wanted to skip class.
Choji spent a long time persuading him before finally talking Shikamaru out of it.
Choji had his own reasons too. In all of Konoha, only his good friend Naruto sold chips at the cheapest price, only half the price outside. If he didn't come to school, even his chips wouldn't taste as good!
Although Shikamaru had once said behind Naruto's back that Naruto's chips must cost very little to make, otherwise he couldn't possibly sell them so cheaply.
But Naruto's own explanation made sense too. Chips growing on trees took time, and watering and fertilizing them all cost money. This price was already very fair.
Speaking of Naruto, Choji had nothing but envy for his good friend's skill at grilling fish and his ability to summon chips.
If only I could summon chips someday. This thought had already become Choji's obsession.
In short, after Choji's persuasion, the two unanimously decided to call Naruto and skip class together.
It definitely wasn't because they craved a bite of Naruto's unbeatable grilled fish. Definitely not!
When they arrived at the classroom, neither of them saw Naruto. After asking someone, they learned that he had gone upstairs to sell chips.
The two had planned to wait, but then a commotion came from upstairs.
"They're fighting!"
"They're fighting."
A scout ran in from outside and shouted.
"Who is fighting?"
"Naruto is fighting Dubon and his group from the fourth grade!"
Hearing this, Choji immediately stood up and ran upstairs.
"Choji!"
Shikamaru called after him, but couldn't stop him at all. Thinking of Naruto's grilled fish and his friendship with Choji, he could only grit his teeth and follow.
As soon as they reached the second floor, they found a chaotic scene. More than a dozen people were locked in battle.
Amid the chaos, Choji saw only a small figure darting up and down among a group of older children, as agile as a monkey, striking any enemy who approached him with light, dragonfly-like movements.
"Naruto, I'm coming!" Choji roared as he joined the fight.
Shikamaru shouted, trying to stop him. "Hey, Choji!"
Watching Choji get swallowed by the crowd, Shikamaru felt a headache coming on. Was this something Choji could just jump into? Which of these older students wasn't stronger than him?
Then, smack—
A shoe flew out and hit him in the face, sending two streams of blood from his nose.
"What a pain."
Shikamaru tightened his hair and joined the fray with a resolute gaze.
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