Naruto's Diary (2)

June 25th, Shocking!

Today I bought a big bag of water balloons, preparing to start the first stage of practicing the Rasengan. I originally intended to try and create the Rasengan with one hand, so I was prepared for a long session, but I succeeded in less than an hour!

As expected of me! (Just kidding, it's probably because I practiced with Nine-Tails Chakra before.)

Then, just as I was about to start the second stage, Sasuke suddenly appeared out of nowhere and hesitantly asked what I was doing, saying he had been observing me for a while.

Is this version of Sasuke this idle?

Thinking I should get rid of him quickly, I casually said, "You should be focusing on familiarizing yourself with your Sharingan and achieving the three-tomoe soon." Sasuke's eyes widened, and he started repeatedly asking me how I knew.

What can I say? I can't exactly say I read the original story, can I?

Then, inspiration struck, and I said that I learned all of this from Teacher Kakashi's book.

Doesn't Kakashi always carry a book around? On the surface, it looks like a romance novel, but it actually contains tips on using the Sharingan. He put a cover on it to avoid suspicion.

Then Sasuke walked away, lost in thought... Uh, I hope Boss is okay.

June 26th, I 'accidentally' met Hinata near the training grounds. I enthusiastically invited her to Ichiraku Ramen, but on the way, whenever I got a little too close, Hinata's face would turn bright red, looking like she was about to faint.

This is difficult! If we can't even have physical contact, how can we have a relationship? It seems I'll have to make long-term plans and slowly desensitize her.

Then she proceeded to wolf down over ten bowls of ramen...

I thought the big appetite was an anime-only original setting? Does this ninja world follow the anime's settings? Or perhaps both the anime and manga?

Let's get out of here, I'll go find my Tenten instead.

I found her family's ninja tool shop. First, I offered to help organize the ninja tools, and then came the classic move of accidentally touching her hand while tidying up, getting very close to her body, and so on.

The Chinese girl's hands are so smooth, and I got to touch them, hehe~

Tenten seemed quite shy, but she didn't resist too much.

It shouldn't take too long to win her over, right?

On my way home that evening, I ran into Sakura buying groceries. She casually asked if I wanted to come over for dinner, and I readily agreed. I ended up eating with her family.

After dinner, we chatted for a while about the plot direction, and then she said she was feeling a bit homesick.

Seeing her in such a low mood, I said, "You tried 6,000 times to defeat the Valkyrie at level one with no damage back then, so this little difficulty of missing home should be nothing for you!"

Then she corrected me, saying it was 6,231 times...

I'm tired, going home. This is boring.

June 27th, Kakashi finally introduced the three of us to the Chunin Exams. Thinking about how Iruka might kidnap Moegi later, I preemptively took Konohamaru's trio out into the wilderness and then beat up the assassin who arrived.

Huh? I feel like the assassin was here to rescue them?

But Iruka's test should have been passed. Afterwards, I told Konohamaru that his ninja awareness wasn't up to par. If I had been a bad guy in disguise today, you would have really been in trouble. I fined him a meal at Ichiraku Ramen.

Konohamaru was quite annoyed with me, so I promised to teach him Shadow Clone and Harem Jutsu later, and he finally relented.

In the evening, I met Iruka, who also wanted to treat me to ramen. He spent a long time asking about my recent situation.

Ah, my Iruka, my true father!

Another day of free ramen~

June 28th, more ninjas from outside Konohagakure began to appear, and I started consciously taking Konohamaru and the others away from the village to train in the forest.

I can't guarantee that new Transmigrators won't infiltrate.

Showing off in front of Temari... I'll save the opportunities for public displays of power for later.

During this time, I've also observed Konohamaru. There's no sign of him being possessed, so is it possible that all the Transmigrators arrived in the ninja world at the same time?

Or perhaps Transmigrators arrive in batches?

Sigh, I hope it's not the latter.

After writing the last sentence, Naruto read the diary from beginning to end, then tore it into pieces and scattered them in different places.

July 1st.

Naruto and Sakura met fifteen minutes early near the Ninja Academy.

According to the original story, Ibiki was in charge of the first phase. Naruto, who had planned to simply submit a blank paper and pass, was doused with a bucket of cold water by Sakura.

"You think Ibiki might not be the chief examiner for the first stage?" Naruto asked in shock.

Sakura, with faint dark circles under her eyes, said solemnly, "I only thought of it last night as I was about to fall asleep. Ibiki might be busy interrogating Haku and Zabuza during this time, so he might not be able to spare the time to be in charge of the exam."

"But... he might not be too busy either."

"Well, it's just a possibility."

Sakura paused and then added, "Actually, I don't really care how the exam is conducted. In the end, Shikamaru is the most likely to pass, but that's not the main issue. The main issue is the Transmigrators."

"There's no helping it. If even Orochimaru could get into the Chunin Exams, what's to say about a Transmigrator?"

Naruto pinched his throbbing brow and asked, "By the way, did your right eyelid twitch today?"

"No."

Hearing this, Naruto let out a sigh of relief.

Naruto had only recently heard about Sakura's right eyelid twitching whenever something bad was about to happen.

"He's here. Watch what you say."

Naruto followed Sakura's gaze and saw Sasuke approaching with a grim expression.

A few days ago, he had specifically asked Kakashi for a copy of Icha Icha Paradise, which made Kakashi suspect he might be going through puberty.

Is this little bro not seeking revenge anymore, but flying instead?

After Sasuke pleaded his case, Kakashi reluctantly admitted that it really was... it was that kind of... ah, it's hard to explain!

In any case, it definitely had nothing to do with the Sharingan!

To ensure Sasuke didn't leave empty-handed, Kakashi did offer him a few pointers on using the Sharingan and even told him about the origin of his eyes.

Sasuke slowly clenched his fist, looking at Naruto with a hint of hesitation.

If I beat up Naruto, Kakashi did share some useful stuff. But if I don't, I feel bothered.

"Naruto, I'm looking forward to it," Sasuke said in a low voice, "to having a proper fight with you!"

Naruto tilted his head. "Okay, I won't use the Nine-Tails' power against you."

"You!" Sasuke felt mocked.

"Really, I can't just beat you to death," Naruto widened his eyes. "You're an Avenger, right? How can an Avenger be beaten to death by a teammate?"

Sasuke laughed in anger and immediately declared he wanted to spar with Naruto.

However, before Sasuke could even roll up his sleeves, a young girl's sharp cry came from the distance:

"Naruto!"

Tenten, Neji, and Rock Lee were slowly walking over. Tenten, in particular, had a smile in her eyes when she saw Naruto.

Naruto thought, This is bad.

He stiffly turned to Sakura beside him.

She was staring at him coldly, pulling gloves out of her pocket.