Naruto Uzumaki felt like his friends were about to pull some kind of prank on him?!
That pissed him off!
"Ah—this..."
"Uh—"
The group looked away and changed the subject.
"Ah! Right! Teacher Kurenai told us to gather!"
Kiba suddenly remembered something.
"R-right! Teacher Asuma told us to gather too!" Choji also remembered something.
"Na...ruto?"
Hinata snapped out of her daze at that moment.
It seemed she had heard something about not being a girlfriend?
Hinata let out a small sigh of relief.
"Hinata, we need to gather. Let's go!"
Kiba and Shino were calling for her.
"Big Sister, are you okay?" Little Sparkle's voice came from beside her.
"Mm... yeah. Sparkle, why are you here? Right, why did I feel like you had... grown up before?"
It felt rather strange.
It seemed Sparkle had grown up and even gotten white hair?
"Hinata, we're leaving without you!" Kiba called out.
"Ah—yes! I'll go first, then."
Hinata bowed to Ino, nodded to her younger sister, then hurried away.
Little Sparkle stood there alone, somewhat bewildered. She simply left too—the strange woman had probably only wanted to lure her away.
The crowd scattered like birds and beasts, leaving only Naruto Uzumaki and Naruko standing there in disarray.
"Those bastards!" ×2.
The two of them were furious, but there was nothing they could do.
This situation was a little too overpowered.
Girlfriend and all that...
Naruto Uzumaki and Naruko looked at each other.
Then they both shook their heads.
"No, no, no!"
"Ahem." Naruto Uzumaki said seriously, "Anyway, just say you're my distant cousin..."
"Why do I have to be the younger sister?" Naruko grumbled.
"Um, should we go ask Grandma Tsunade?" Naruto Uzumaki asked Naruko.
"But how would we explain it? Even though this doesn't seem to be my original Konoha... I