Tobirama Senju: You're young, but you're quite the flirt!
Izuna Uchiha: Yeah, yeah. Kids these days really do mature early!
Hashirama Senju: But the Group Leader really is quite handsome! It's only natural for a young girl to be interested in him, right? After all, his looks are only just a tiny bit worse than mine!
Mito Uzumaki: Hashirama, can you have even a little shame?
Hashirama Senju: Mito, am I not handsome?
Mito Uzumaki: Handsome, handsome. You're the most handsome.
Hashirama Senju: Hehe! I knew I had to be the most handsome!
Madara Uchiha: When it comes to shamelessness, Hashirama, I, Madara Uchiha, acknowledge you as the strongest!
Makoto Ito raised an eyebrow when he saw Madara Uchiha's words. Shouldn't Might Guy have been the first one to hear that line? Yet now it had gone to Hashirama Senju! That was pretty interesting...
Tobirama Senju: But seriously, Group Leader, you moved fast! At such a young age, you're already preparing to find yourself a wife!
Makoto Ito: Uncle Hizashi was the one meddling! We clearly loved each other! We were a match made in heaven! He insisted on breaking us apart—how could I possibly agree to that?
Besides, when it comes to finding a wife, I've always believed that the quick-handed get one, while the slow-handed get nothing. Got it?
Madara Uchiha: Good grief. When it comes to finding a wife, I, Madara Uchiha, acknowledge you as the strongest!!!
Makoto Ito: Thanks for the compliment!
Madara Uchiha: Good grief! You're shameless enough! Even without this Chat Group, you probably would've made something of yourself someday!
Madara Uchiha: You can't really blame him for getting angry! You're trying to court his niece, after all! How could he not be angry?
Makoto Ito: Um, has it occurred to any of you that I might actually be the one getting pursued?
Madara Uchiha: This...
Tobirama Senju: This...
Izuna Uchiha: This...
Hashirama Senju: The Group Leader is so handsome, so it's normal for him to be pursued, right? Just like me—I was so handsome that Mito used to pursue me!
Tobirama Senju: ???? Big brother, can you have even a little shame?
Madara Uchiha: Hashirama is just as shameless as ever!
Izuna Uchiha: Truly shameless!
Mito Uzumaki: Shut up, you idiot!
Makoto Ito ignored the foolish Hashirama Senju and continued.
Makoto Ito: Besides, dating at the Ninja Academy is a Konoha tradition! You know, a long, long time ago, there was a legendary ninja named Minato Namikaze. He dated someone at the Ninja Academy, and in the end, he successfully became Konoha's Fourth Hokage!
Tobirama Senju: So you mean he became the Fourth Hokage because he started dating early at school?
Makoto Ito: I think that's how it was...
Hashirama Senju: Perhaps there really is some connection...
Tobirama Senju: Enough, big brother. Stop talking! Could you stop showing off that bizarre intelligence of yours?!
Even though everyone had somehow wandered onto the topic of Minato Namikaze and his wife, neither Minato nor Kushina had any intention of joining in. Through the shared vision, they had seen the figure they had longed for day and night—Naruto Uzumaki.
Naruto, sitting in the classroom, could not stay still for even a moment. He looked left and right, chatted with Shikamaru Nara for a while, then goofed around with Kiba for a while!
From time to time, he made exaggerated gestures and let out strange laughs, trying to draw other people's attention.
Minato Namikaze: Th-this... is Naruto? After all these years without seeing him, he's already grown so much? And that golden hair is exactly like mine!
Kushina Uzumaki: Yes, Minato! Naruto has grown so much! More importantly, look—he seems so happy! And he has some good friends around him too! That pineapple-haired kid seems to be from the Nara Clan, and the one on the other side seems to be from the Inuzuka Clan?
Minato Namikaze: Yes, it seems the Third Hokage took very good care of Naruto!
Makoto Ito could not help baring his teeth when he saw their conversation...
Did those two even hear what they were saying?
Very happy? Lots of good friends around him? The Third Hokage took great care of him? Could they point out which one of those things had anything to do with Naruto?
It seemed none of those things had anything to do with Naruto at all, did they?
But it had to be said that Naruto really did seem rather happy at this moment...
No wonder the two of them had misunderstood!
After all, Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki did not know that, in all of Konoha, Naruto probably only had this handful of friends: Shikamaru, Kiba, Choji, and himself...
Because Makoto's original body had also been a Dead Last, and because he shared Naruto Uzumaki's experience of losing both parents, his original body had never shown any disgust toward Naruto Uzumaki. He could even often play together with Naruto Uzumaki...
Madara Uchiha: This brat... if this old man's senses aren't wrong, that's the Nine-Tails' chakra, isn't it?
Hashirama Senju: That's right, this old man sensed it too! It really is the Nine-Tails' chakra! So he's this generation's Nine-Tails Jinchuriki?
Tobirama Senju: I have to say, Fourth Hokage, you were truly ruthless! You actually let your own son become a tailed beast's Jinchuriki?
Minato Namikaze: As the Hokage's son, Naruto bore this responsibility from the start! It's just that Kushina and I... sigh...
Seeing Minato Namikaze's words, Makoto Ito silently cursed in his heart... What a fucking idiot!
Minato Namikaze could absolutely be called an outstanding Hokage! He had even devoted his own life to this village!
But was Konoha truly worthy of his sacrifice?
Makoto Ito found it hard to imagine whether Minato Namikaze would turn dark if he later learned the truth of everything—if he learned what kind of life Naruto had lived all these years.
After all, the deeper one's love had been before, the deeper one's hatred would be after turning dark...
However, at this moment, Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki were immersed in the joy of seeing Naruto.
Meanwhile, in a corner of the classroom, a boy in blue sat quietly. The fan crest of his clan was displayed on his back. He rested his chin in his hands, his expression gloomy...
Mikoto Uchiha: Sasuke! That's Sasuke! Fugaku, do you see him? That's our son, Sasuke!
Fugaku Uchiha: Mm... I see him!
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