"School... how was it?"
After returning home, Itachi sat in the hallway and chatted with his younger brother.
"Didn't you find it boring?"
"You can't really put it that way..."
Six-year-old Sasuke stammered.
Itachi seemed to immediately understand what his younger brother was thinking.
"Did you make any friends?"
"I don't want to be friends with that guy... No matter how he is in other areas, he's simply no good at Ninjutsu, academics, or even Taijutsu!"
Sasuke immediately shouted.
That guy...
In Uchiha Itachi's mind,
the image of a blonde-haired boy flashed by for an instant.
Then...
the blonde-haired boy turned into... a blonde-haired girl.
Because the incident had happened so suddenly,
people couldn't help but pay attention.
Naruto Uzumaki had become Naruto Uzumaki Clone.
Anyone with a normal mind
could guess that the two were actually the same person.
--Of course, that was under the premise that they knew the truth.
For example, Itachi, who was an ANBU ninja,
knew that Naruto Uzumaki was the son of the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze.
As for everyone else...
Such as low-ranking ninja and ordinary villagers...
and even children like his younger brother Sasuke,
they knew nothing about the grudges of the past.
The question was,
when Naruto Uzumaki became Naruto Uzumaki Clone,
was it Transformation Technique... or something else?
That was something Itachi couldn't understand.
"Are you talking about... Naruko?"
A moment later, Itachi calmly spoke that name.
"Huh?"
When Sasuke heard that unexpected name come out of someone's mouth, his eyes widened.
"That, that guy is no good at anything! And she always provokes me... I clearly never did anything to her, but she keeps saying she can't stand the sight of me... What an annoying pest!"
Second Pillar didn't know
that Naruto Uzumaki Clone still retained some of her