One Slap KO, Medical Room Locked!

"Naruto Uzumaki! Have you lost your mind? You seriously injured a classmate!"

Iruka flew into a rage.

The entire class fell silent.

Naruto shook his slightly numb palm and shrugged indifferently. "Iruka-sensei, that was self-defense. He charged at me with bloodshot eyes. I couldn't exactly stand there and let him beat me to death, could I?"

Iruka trembled with fury, yet found himself speechless.

On the ground, several members of the Hyuga Clan branch family hurriedly lifted Neji and carried him to the medical department.

Before leaving, his Byakugan remained fixed on Naruto. Deep in his eyes was not hatred toward a stronger opponent, but an overwhelming inferiority complex born from being completely crushed as a man.

It hurt too much!

The feeling of having his pride mercilessly trampled was ten times worse than the handprint on his face.

"We'll investigate what happened today later! For now, everyone gather on the training field!"

Suppressing his anger, Iruka announced, "We'll proceed with the final taijutsu combat assessment before graduation!"

The sunlight on the training field was blinding.

With one hand, Sasuke Uchiha threw a boy over his shoulder and slammed him to the ground. He coldly adjusted his collar before turning and leaving the field.

"Ah! Sasuke-kun is so cool!"

Sakura and Ino's screams nearly blew the roof off.

Naruto folded his hands behind his head and looked over the crowd as if watching a monkey show.

They were screaming over fancy but useless moves like that?

Once I build my harem in the future, I'll show you what a true Shinobi World bulldozer looks like.

"Next match, Naruto Uzumaki versus Kiba Inuzuka!"

Iruka called out loudly from the roster.

With Akamaru perched on his head, Kiba leaped into the center of the field. He grinned at Naruto, revealing two sharp canine teeth.

"Hey, dead-last. You must've used some underhanded trick to beat Neji earlier, right?"

Kiba rolled his wrists with contempt written all over his face. "You're unlucky to run into me. Ten seconds. That's all I need to send you crawling back into the dirt."

The boys around them immediately began cheering him on.

Naruto slowly walked over to stand opposite Kiba, too lazy even to assume a fighting stance. Smiling faintly, he said, "Ten seconds? That's too long."

"You sure talk big!"

A vicious glint flashed in Kiba's eyes as his hands rapidly formed seals. "Beast Mimicry Ninja Art: Four Legs Technique!"

Wild, beastlike chakra enveloped his body. Dropping onto all fours like a crazed starving wolf, Kiba pounced straight at Naruto's face with a howling rush of wind.

His claws gleamed coldly beneath the sunlight, moving so fast that even ordinary genin could barely follow them.

Naruto remained where he stood, neither dodging nor evading.

He did not even refine any chakra.

After fusing with the Perfect Sage Body, his flesh, bones, and muscle fibers had already undergone earth-shaking changes. Beneath every inch of skin lurked tyrannosaur-like power.

The instant Kiba's vicious claws were about to tear open his throat, Naruto raised a hand.

With a casual grab, he firmly caught Kiba by the wrist.

The motion was like an adult restraining a little mutt baring its teeth and claws.

Kiba's sneer froze on his face, and his pupils suddenly contracted.

He desperately tried to pull his arm back, only to discover that Naruto's seemingly ordinary hand was like a steel vise. He could not budge it in the slightest.

"I told you, ten seconds is too long."

Naruto left those words lightly hanging in the air.

With a twist of his wrist, he swung his free right hand in a half-circle and delivered a solid, vicious slap across Kiba's face.

Slap!

The explosive sound of flesh tearing through the air erupted.

Overwhelming force burst through Kiba's body like a landslide and tsunami.

Before Kiba could even scream, he and Akamaru atop his head were sent flying more than ten meters away.

With a thunderous boom, boy and dog smashed heavily into the blue-brick wall at the edge of the training field.

Large sections of plaster cracked apart, and spiderweb-like fractures spread across the wall.

Kiba was embedded deep in the crater, his eyes rolled back and foam spilling from his mouth as he passed out on the spot.

The entire field fell deathly silent.

A light breeze swept several fallen leaves across the field. Other than ragged breathing, there was not a single sound.

Sasuke Uchiha, who had been posing coolly with his hands in his pockets, suddenly tensed up. He stared fixedly at that brilliant blond hair, his eyes filled with shock and disbelief.

Sakura covered her mouth in terror, her legs trembling uncontrollably.

"W-What kind of joke is this? That was Naruto?"

One boy swallowed hard.

"He one-shot Kiba? Without even using ninjutsu, just pure strength?!"

Iruka's hand holding the roster shook like a sieve. After stammering for a long while, he finally found his voice. "N-Naruto Uzumaki wins!"

In the following matches, no one managed to display anything even remotely close to Naruto's strike.

Even Sasuke's clean and efficient shoulder throw seemed bland and flavorless compared to the terrifying violence of Naruto slapping Kiba Inuzuka away.

Then came the system prompt: "Claim first place in the entire field through an overwhelming stance."

In his mind, the cold mechanical voice arrived right on schedule.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for claiming first place in the entire field through an overwhelming stance. Mission perfectly completed!]

[Mission reward issued: the first three gates of the god-tier taijutsu "Eight Gates" (Opening Gate, Gate of Rest, Gate of Life)!]

[Favorability Radar function successfully activated!]

A surging flood of muscle memory and chakra circulation routes poured madly into his mind.

Naruto secretly clenched his fists, clearly sensing that a ferocious beast capable of tearing apart mountains and rivers seemed to be lying dormant within him.

As long as he wished it, he could release it at any moment.

Very strong, but not strong enough.

Too lazy to pay attention to the gazes around him that mixed reverence and fear, he directly raised his hand. "Iruka-sensei, my stomach hurts a little. I'd like to go to the medical room and get some medicine."

Without waiting for Iruka to nod, he turned and left.

The assessment and humiliating his opponents had only been a side matter. He had not forgotten the soft and delicate little Byakugan girl still lying in the medical room.

That young lady of the Hyuga Clan had "accidentally" seen his greatest secret. This debt had to be settled properly behind closed doors.

At the entrance to the medical room, Naruto paused before the door and silently called out, Radar.

A simple interface immediately appeared in his mind. Beside Hinata's name, a number flickered: 67.

Not low, but not enough.

The corner of his lips lifted slightly as he pushed the door open and entered.

Inside the medical room.

A faint scent of disinfectant lingered in the air.

On the hospital bed, Hinata's long eyelashes trembled slightly before she finally slowly opened her eyes.

As her consciousness gradually returned, the overwhelmingly shocking sight she had witnessed before passing out uncontrollably surged into her mind once more.

That terrifying thing that had utterly overturned her understanding of life over the past fourteen years, that uniquely male, overwhelmingly aggressive proof of manhood.

"Ah—"

Hinata let out an extremely weak whimper and abruptly pulled the blanket over her flushed face.

Her heart raced as though a little deer were wildly crashing around inside it. Even the air she exhaled seemed scorching hot.

Naruto-kun, he... he actually...

She was so embarrassed that she wished she could find a crack in the ground and crawl into it. Yet deep in her lower abdomen, there was a faint softness she did not even understand herself.

Just then, the sound of the doorknob turning rang out.

Click.

Hinata's entire body stiffened. Like a startled rabbit, she timidly revealed a pair of Byakugan from the edge of the blanket.

The one who entered was none other than the culprit who had thrown her heart into chaos and embarrassed her to the point of nearly fainting—Naruto Uzumaki.

Even worse, after Naruto entered the room, he did not walk toward the bed. Instead, he reached back and pushed the door shut.

Click.

He locked the door.

Then he reached out and pulled down the blinds over the window.

The sunlight outside was completely blocked out, and the already quiet medical room instantly darkened.

In the enclosed room, only the clearly audible breathing of the two of them remained.

A wicked smile curled across Naruto's lips. Like a wolf king inspecting his prey, he slowly approached the hospital bed.

His body, fused with the Perfect Sage Body, recklessly gave off an intense masculine aura so thick it was almost suffocating.

Hinata only felt her legs go weak. She wanted to retreat, but realized even the strength to move her body had been drained away.

"N-Naruto-kun... wh-what are you going to do?"

She stammered, her voice soft as water.

Naruto stopped beside the bed and stretched out his arms, bracing them against the pillow on either side of her head.

His tall body directly enveloped her in shadow, and his aggressively warm breath rushed toward the tip of her nose.

"A lone man and woman alone in a room, with the door locked."

Naruto lowered his voice. His deep blue eyes locked tightly onto Hinata's panicked Byakugan, his tone carrying an extremely dangerous tease.

"Hinata, what do you think I want to do?"

He slowly lowered his head, his lips nearly brushing against her ear. "Earlier in the classroom... you activated your Byakugan and saw something you shouldn't have, didn't you?"