Nara Shikamaru and Akimichi Choji

Uzumaki Menma dragged his body, barely able to walk, as he left Root.

Today! No one could stop his determination to go out and have fun!

Because Root was built in a corner of Konoha, in an extremely remote area, it took a long time to walk to Konoha's main street.

When Uzumaki Menma sneaked out of Root before, he didn't think it was that far.

But now...

Uzumaki Menma felt that the road was really, really long.

Uzumaki Menma walked three steps and stopped two steps as he headed towards Konoha's main street.

When he reached the forest where he had previously met Naruto and Hinata, Uzumaki Menma was lucky enough to encounter Naruto, who was playing there alone.

Naruto saw Uzumaki Menma and shouted happily, "Menma!" Then he ran directly to Uzumaki Menma.

Uzumaki Menma glared at Naruto: "Don't run in front of me right now, it makes me nauseous! And hurry up and give me a hand, I really can't walk anymore!"

Naruto reached out to help Uzumaki Menma up, and asked suspiciously, "What's wrong with you? You look so exhausted."

Uzumaki Menma complained, "I've been scheduled to train starting today, and I don't have any strength left. It's really too much. How can the intensity be so high right from the start? It's trying to kill me!"

Naruto was very envious: "Menma, you've already started training? You must have learned a lot of powerful ninjutsu, right?"

"Bullshit! Ouch..."

Because he was too excited, Uzumaki Menma's sore muscles were pulled painfully.

"I haven't learned any ninjutsu at all, but I'm being forced to do physical training. I'm so weak right now because of that damn physical training."

Naruto scratched his head in confusion: "Then why did you come out to play when you're like this? Why aren't you resting at home?"

Uzumaki Menma said passionately, "I'm training so I can come out and play! Now that I've finally finished training, how can I be willing to rest! Naruto! Carry me to play!"

Hearing Uzumaki Menma's spirited words, Naruto agreed with great enthusiasm: "Okay! Let's go play then!"

Naruto carried Uzumaki Menma on his back and set off for Konoha's main street.

On Konoha's main street.

All the pedestrians avoided Naruto and Uzumaki Menma as if they were avoiding a plague.

But it could also be said that Naruto and Uzumaki Menma were strutting around Konoha.

"Menma, is there anything you want to play?"

Uzumaki Menma didn't know what to play for a moment, so he asked, "Naruto, what do you usually play?"

"Me? It's not really playing, it should be called pranks."

Uzumaki Menma's eyes lit up: "What kind of pranks?"

"It's graffitiing on Hokage Rock with paint. Do you want to play that? If you want to play, we can go to my house to get the paint first."

Naruto was also getting excited now. Graffitiing on Hokage Rock with Uzumaki Menma would definitely be more fun than doing it alone.

Uzumaki Menma nodded his little head frantically: "I want to play, I want to play!"

Naruto carried Uzumaki Menma back to his house first to get a few buckets of paint, and then rushed to Hokage Rock.

In front of Hokage Rock.

Uzumaki Menma and Naruto stood on the First Hokage Rock.

Because he was about to play a prank, Uzumaki Menma's waist didn't ache anymore, his legs didn't hurt anymore, and he was full of energy!

Uzumaki Menma held a bucket of paint in his left hand and a brush in his right hand, and shouted at Naruto beside him with full momentum, "Let's do a big job!"

Uzumaki Menma drew a circle on the left eye of the First Hokage Rock, and Naruto drew an X on the right eye.

Looking at each other's masterpieces, they both laughed.

Hokage Building.

In the Hokage Office, Hiruzen Sarutobi looked at Uzumaki Menma and Naruto, who were playing pranks and graffitiing on Hokage Rock in the Crystal Ball, and felt a throbbing in his temples.

Hiruzen Sarutobi took a puff of his pipe, rubbed his temples, and sighed:

"Sigh... there was only one before, and now there's another one. Those two little guys are really restless. I wonder who I should get to clean Hokage Rock later."

Two hours had passed.

At this time, the rock statues of the First and Second Hokage on Hokage Rock were already unrecognizable.

Now Uzumaki Menma and Naruto were graffitiing on the Third Hokage's rock statue.

Suddenly.

A childish voice rang out from the top of the rock statue.

"What are you doing?"

Uzumaki Menma and Naruto looked up at the same time. They saw two children who looked about the same age as them.

One had a pineapple head and droopy eyelids, making him look unmotivated.

The other was a rather cute little fatty, holding a bag of chips, eating while curiously watching them.

Naruto whispered to Uzumaki Menma, "Crap, Menma, we've been discovered. Should we retreat?"

Uzumaki Menma had already recognized who these two were.

Nara Shikamaru and Akimichi Choji.

Uzumaki Menma's eyes darted around, and he said to Shikamaru and Choji, "There are some blemishes on Hokage Rock. As people of Konoha, how can we turn a blind eye? So, we want to fix it up. Do you want to join us?"

Shikamaru gave Uzumaki Menma a dead fish stare.

He wasn't blind. If they were really fixing Hokage Rock, would they use colored paint like this?

They were clearly doing graffiti!

But it seemed pretty fun.

Shikamaru asked Choji, who was 'munching' on chips beside him, "What do you think? Wanna join, Choji?"

Choji dumped the remaining chips directly into his mouth and said, "Sounds pretty fun, Shikamaru. Let's join!"

Now the graffiti team had expanded from the initial Uzumaki Menma and Naruto to four people.

With four people doing graffiti, they quickly painted the four Hokage faces beyond recognition.

Just then.

Some adults below Hokage Rock discovered the masterpiece of Uzumaki Menma and the others and shouted, "You guys, stop! Don't run!"

Uzumaki Menma, Naruto, Shikamaru, and Choji looked at each other and said in perfect unison, "Run!"

Uzumaki Menma and the others ran through the streets of Konoha.

Several adults followed behind.

After running for a long time, the four ran out of the main street of Konoha and into the forest.

The adults gave up chasing them.

Uzumaki Menma and the others sat on the ground, panting heavily, and then they all burst out laughing.

Shikamaru got up and walked in front of Uzumaki Menma and Naruto.

"Nara Shikamaru."

Choji also introduced himself, "I'm Akimichi Choji."

"I'm Naruto! The future Hokage!" Naruto introduced himself energetically.

"I'm Uzumaki Menma, nice to meet you!"

Choji opened a new bag of chips and asked curiously as he ate, "Menma, Naruto, why is there such a big difference in your hair color?"

Uzumaki Menma explained with a smile, "It's normal for hair colors to be different. After all, we already have the same face and the same surname. It would be too much if we also had the same hair color."

Shikamaru and Choji stared at Uzumaki Menma and Naruto in astonishment.

When Shikamaru and Choji first saw Naruto and Uzumaki Menma, they thought they were brothers.

After all, except for the hair color, the two looked like they were cast from the same mold.

But they didn't expect that they weren't brothers.

The world is truly full of wonders.