The peace talks between Konoha and Kumogakure ended smoothly under Hiruzen Sarutobi's personal supervision, and Konoha received enormous war reparations.
The good news became known to everyone in an extremely short time.
Hiruzen Sarutobi once again cemented his title as the strongest Hokage.
Natsume suddenly remembered the Konoha Crush Plan from the original story. When he and Orochimaru fought, not a single person stepped forward to help.
Even Might Guy was stopped by Kakashi Hatake.
Perhaps the reason was that, in their hearts, Our Hokage is invincible. There's no way he could lose.
"Big Brother!"
Natsume stopped walking.
Not far away, Naruto Uzumaki was waving at him.
His face was filled with happiness.
But because of his appearance, the nearby villagers immediately avoided him.
The originally bustling street instantly became deserted.
Natsume secretly thought that he could bring Naruto Uzumaki along whenever things got crowded in the future.
This was far more intimidating than shouting, "The boiling water's here!"
Naruto Uzumaki's smile instantly froze. He apologized, saying, "I'm sorry, Big Brother."
"Why care about what other people think?"
Natsume smiled indifferently. "If you care about that, you lose yourself."
"Everything Big Brother says makes a lot of sense, but sometimes I can't understand you."
A hint of contemplation showed in Naruto Uzumaki's eyes, but after a moment, he foolishly scratched his head and said this.
"It's fine. Once you start school, you'll understand after reading more books."
In his previous life, Natsume had always thought Naruto Uzumaki suffered because he had never studied properly.
Without anything but talk, he couldn't come up with any concrete solutions. Everything would be useless.
Leaving his strength aside, Naruto Uzumaki was pretty average as a Hokage.
He was certainly hardworking, but without any wisdom, he was just busying himself pointlessly.
"The Hokage Grandpa says