Hey, isn't that Kakashi? Come sit for a bit and have a couple of dango?
Kakashi was wandering through the streets of Konoha when the shout made him stop in his tracks.
He turned toward the voice, his gaze slightly surprised.
Might Guy, Anko, and Kurenai were sitting inside a newly opened dango shop, waving at him.
The shop owner was Izumi Uchiha, one of the surviving members of the Uchiha Clan.
Standing at the entrance was someone handing out flyers, and wouldn't you know it, it was Naruto Uzumaki—the very target Third had assigned him.
Naruto lounged with his legs crossed like some old master, the flyers resting on his thigh while he did not so much as lift a hand.
A line of young girls stood before him, their eyes filled with hearts, their hands trembling as they accepted the flyers.
A question mark popped into Kakashi's mind.
Hadn't Third said Naruto spent all day in Shikkotsu Forest training in Sage Mode?
Ever since Naruto and Third had settled their terms, the fact that he was the Hero's Son had not leaked out in the village at all.
Compared to the old rumors about the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki flying all over the village, this level of media suppression was like heaven and earth.
Still, even though his identity as the Hero's Son had not been revealed, no one dared use the words "demon fox" to stab at his back anymore.
In order to make Naruto see the village as home, the children of his generation had long since stopped treating him differently.
The children who had once excluded Naruto had not actually known anything about the demon fox. They had merely absorbed the prejudices of the adults around them.
Over the past few years, Naruto had kept such a