Obtained Earth-Style Wall

"Ah!"

Naruto and Sasuke cried out at the same time, then began vomiting violently.

"Sasuke's first kiss!"

Led by Sakura, the girls wailed in despair.

Naruto got a thorough beating too...

Ino, on the other hand, was unmoved. With a dreamy look on her face, she gazed at Chiye Jun.

"Jun, you're so naughty."

Damn it!

Ino had spotted me just now...

The final day of school came to an end.

At dusk, the setting sun stained the horizon blood-red, as if foreshadowing the bloodshed of their future ninja lives...

After leaving school and returning home, Chiye Jun finally summoned the mission panel and completed the check-in.

[Ding! Congratulations, host, for completing the story check-in. Reward: Earth-Style Wall]

The fifty-fifty Earth-Style Wall!

Although Chiye Jun had the passive White Bone Armor.

It only had a chance of appearing when he suffered a fatal injury.

Earth-Style Wall was merely a B-rank ninjutsu, but its effect was incredibly flashy.

That night, Chiye Jun entered the space and upgraded Earth-Style Wall to god-tier.

The next day.

The graduation exam officially arrived.

Chiye Jun passed without any suspense.

After receiving his forehead protector, he thought it over and ultimately tied it around his left arm, exactly like Shikamaru.

The other youths from the Exploding Heaven Gang who had passed were also extremely excited.

Naruto alone...

At that moment, the system issued another mission.

[Ding! Please complete the story check-in: severely injure Mizuki and raise Naruto's morale. Time limit: two days.]

Actually, when Naruto had taken his exam today, Chiye Jun had activated Super Sensory Technique.

The scene in the examination room was transmitted into his mind.

Mizuki had put on an act and pleaded for Naruto, but Iruka still rejected his request.

At the instant of that rejection, Chiye Jun caught the flash of secret delight in Mizuki's eyes.

At the time, he had thought:

You little punk, big brother's had his eye on you for a long time!

He had never expected the system to issue a mission that rewarded him for severely injuring Mizuki. Chiye Jun was overjoyed.

Outside the school, cheerful students and parents crowded together.

On a swing not far away, Naruto sat alone, sorrow and loneliness filling his eyes.

No home, no father or mother—only people's mockery and ridicule.

Two gossiping women discussed him:

"Looks like only that child failed."

"Hmph, he deserves it!"

"Yeah. It'd be terrible if someone like him became a ninja. After all, inside that child..."

"Hey, you can't say that!"

As Chiye Jun passed by, anger rose in his heart.

He hated gossiping women the most!

After thinking for a moment, he summoned Blackie, whom only he could see, with a wicked grin.

A few minutes later...

The enlarged Blackie ran back with two baskets in its mouth, both brimming with yellowish-brown filth mixed with toads, maggots, earthworms, and stink bugs.

Then it leaped into the air and overturned the baskets onto the gossiping women...

Seeing that, Naruto finally burst out laughing.

Chiye Jun walked over and draped an arm around Naruto's shoulders.

"Keep it up. You'll definitely become a genin, and soon!"

Naruto's gloomy face instantly brightened.

"Really? Then can you treat me to ramen? Oh, no, I still want to eat the braised chicken rice you make."

"Not today. I have something to do, but I'll definitely treat you another day!"

With that, he turned and ran off.

Because he knew Mizuki would soon appear near the swings...

As for the forbidden techniques in the Forbidden Scroll, Chiye Jun was interested, but he would never mindlessly follow Naruto to steal it and learn them.

The Forbidden Scroll was Konoha Village's most important scroll, practically a state secret!

Naruto, someone who could not even master a single Clone Technique, could actually take it away so easily?

And Naruto had the Nine-Tails inside him. Anbu surely monitored him at all times, just as Kakashi monitored Chiye Jun.

Could the theft of the scroll possibly go unreported to the Third Hokage?

Besides, was the Third Hokage's crystal ball just a decoration? Were the Anbu guards all useless?

Therefore, Chiye Jun guessed that it had all been deliberately arranged by the Third Hokage.

On one hand, he could improve Naruto's strength. On the other, he could remove Mizuki directly, killing two birds with one stone!

Of course, those were only his guesses.

"There are plot holes everywhere in the early stages of Naruto. AB never explained them clearly either, and readers can only speculate about many details, so there's no need to argue over details. The construction site is on break, so there's no need to argue, hehe..."

Thinking this, Chiye Jun laughed, then muttered:

"The Third Hokage truly went to great lengths for Naruto and trusted him in every way. But it was completely different for me."

Although he had become his disciple, Chiye Jun understood very well that this was merely a form of restraint.

The old man did not trust him completely.

After all, to him, Chiye Jun was full of unknowns and variables.

If he rashly stole the scroll or even learned forbidden techniques, the nature of it would be entirely different from Naruto stealing and learning them!

It might even make the Third Hokage and the council of elders suspect his intentions and motives!

Then his support in Konoha would collapse completely.

And Danzo would have leverage if he wanted to deal with him again...

"I already know Multiple Shadow Clone Technique. As for even more powerful things like Impure World Reincarnation, there's no way I could learn them just by looking once."

Naruto had practiced for quite a while before learning Multiple Shadow Clone Technique.

If Chiye Jun also spent time learning it, the Third Hokage would probably arrive with people before long...

"No rush. There'll be bread, and an awesome system won't treat me unfairly!"

Therefore, Chiye Jun remained rational and did not act rashly. He simply waited calmly for Mizuki to appear.

Before long, Mizuki appeared.

His face was piled with smiles as he pretended to care.

Very quickly, Naruto became excited, his face full of hope.

After Naruto ran off, the kindness on Mizuki's face was replaced by twisted viciousness.

Chiye Jun saw it all.

"As expected, he's a despicable ambitious man wearing the mask of a good person!"

"Today, I'll make you pay an even heavier price!"

As for how he could make a reasonable entrance, Chiye Jun had already planned it.

Night fell.

He left home and wandered the streets without purpose.

A sprinting figure appeared ahead.

Iruka!

"Chiye Jun! Why aren't you asleep in the middle of the night?" Iruka stopped when he spotted him.

"Teacher, I was too excited about becoming a genin today to sleep, so I wanted to go to my mother's grave and tell her..."

As he spoke, Chiye Jun's eyes seemed to redden.

Damn!

The drama king had taken over.

Although Chiye Jun had been a doctor in his previous life, he had only inherited his parents' wish.

His dream had been to get into the Central Academy of Drama and become an actor...

"Oh, then get some rest early!" Iruka said as he turned to leave.

Then he suddenly remembered something!

"Oh, right, Chiye Jun. You and Naruto are the closest. If he... did something bad, where would he usually hide?"

"Something bad? What did he do?" Chiye Jun deliberately asked.

Iruka said nothing, but under Chiye Jun's persistent questioning, he finally said vaguely:

"He stole the village's forbidden book."

Chiye Jun asked in confusion, "What is that? A book like Make-Out School?"

Iruka shook his head with a helpless smile. "You don't need to know the details. Just tell me, where would he hide?"

After pondering for a moment, Chiye Jun said, "From what I know of him, he should have gone to the forest."

"Alright!"

"Teacher, take me with you. Maybe I can help find him!"

Iruka hesitated for a moment before finally deciding, "Alright, come with me. Let's find Naruto quickly!"

The two quickened their pace and ran toward the forest...