Year 63 of Konoha—a special year.
In the original story, Naruto, Sasuke, and the others had all graduated that year and become genin.
Then Naruto and Sasuke remained genin for the rest of their lives...
And this year, after being tormented by all manner of bizarre Puppet Corpses that seemed to change every month, the civilian ninja finally graduated!
It was not because they had passed the test. The claim that passing the test would allow early graduation had merely been a carrot the village dangled before them.
The village's true intention had simply been to expose those children to demons early, so that if they suddenly encountered one while carrying out a mission, they would have a better chance of surviving!
Originally, the Ninja Academy students graduating and becoming genin had been the most important event of the year.
But this year, something even bigger happened!
The Third Hokage stepped down!
He passed the position of Hokage to his disciple, Hyuga Hinata!
Hyuga Hinata was no stranger to the villagers. She had always been incredibly adorable, and there was no one in the village who did not like her.
But then, all of a sudden, they heard that Hyuga Hinata had become Hokage...
It was... rather sudden.
So... when they saw Miss Hinata in the future, should they start calling her Hokage-sama instead?
Unlike the commoners within Konoha, the prominent clans had noticed this coming long ago and were not overly surprised.
After all, the Third Hokage had not concealed his intentions at all. He had practically announced outright that the Fifth Hokage would be Hyuga Hinata.
But they had not expected the day to come so soon!
After the Third Hokage proposed that Hinata succeed him as the Fifth Hokage, almost all of the village's jonin agreed.
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