Hey, Call Me Brother-in-Law

"Where has that kid Naruto been these past few days?"

"Who the hell knows? Haven't they not seen him at school for days?"

"Did you hear? Another freak about as monstrous as Itachi Uchiha showed up at school. He stayed for one year, then graduated and left."

"Could it have been Naruto?"

"You trying to make me laugh to death? If he's that freak, I'll stand on my head and eat shit right here."

"Haha, true. That dead last Naruto can't even shake me off by a long shot. But Sasuke got seriously rattled and went to ask the Third old man if he could apply to graduate. They shot him down."

In a park in Konoha, the little gang of five school-skipping friends had been reduced to four.

Shikamaru, Choji, Shino, and Kiba wandered around while talking about how Naruto had not come to school for several days.

"Should we go take a look at his place?"

"Do you even know which way his front door faces?"

Shikamaru rubbed his head.

"He's pretty close with the Hyuga Clan. We can just ask Hinata."

Choji, who had been stuffing chips into his mouth, suddenly raised a hand and shouted in one direction.

"Look! Naru-to!"

Several heads snapped around in unison, their mouths dropping wider than the last.

Kiba's face froze on the spot.

"Kiba, isn't that your sister?"

Kiba Inuzuka nodded blankly.

"I think I just saw Naruto kiss your sister on the cheek. And she smiled."

"What's that? He didn't spare that Uchiha girl beside her either."

Shino, who had not spoken for a while, suddenly added.

"Could he not afford tuition and become some pretty boy your sister keeps?"

Kiba Inuzuka: "..."

"Get lost!"

Kiba charged over furiously.

"Stop! Naru-to! Stop right there!"

Naruto, Izumi, and Hana Inuzuka stopped walking and turned back with puzzled expressions.

Kiba slapped away the hand Naruto had placed on his older sister's waist.

"You bastard, where do you think you're touching?"

Naruto had a thick enough skin to grin and say it without hesitation.

"Come on, call me brother-in-law."

Hana Inuzuka's face flushed bright red.

"You're so annoying! What nonsense are you spouting in front of children?"

Kiba Inuzuka: "..."

(╯‵□)╯︵┻━┻!

"Big sis, this guy is the same age as me!!"

Naruto smiled as he pushed Kiba's arm aside.

"Don't make a fuss. Your brother-in-law is a proper Genin now, and I'm on the same team as your sister. The two of us are mutually in love... um... the three of us are mutually in love."

"We still have a mission to do. Your brother-in-law will bring you back some local specialties later."

Seeing his older sister flirt and bicker with Naruto with such a bashful look on her face, Kiba Inuzuka, still only half-grown, turned to stone. Even when Shikamaru and the others came over, he had yet to recover from the devastating blow.

Shikamaru looked disgusted.

"Women are such a pain."

Choji nodded as well.

"Yeah. They reach out and steal your food."

Shino's forehead was covered in black lines. Was this about food being stolen?! Couldn't they see Kiba had turned into a stone pillar?

Kiba Inuzuka turned his neck like a rusted bearing and forced out a sentence.

"So... Naruto is my brother-in-law now?"

Shino: "..."

Had all of you fed your emotional intelligence to dogs?! Was that really the fucking point?!

If Naruto had still been there, he probably would have sighed that the men in Naruto World basically all had negative emotional intelligence.

The girls, on the other hand, matured earlier than one another and were especially open about things. Hinata was the exception.

Just look at how Itachi Uchiha and Sasuke could provoke shrieks everywhere they went. A transmigrator like Naruto, born with the traits of a harem king, was like a fish thrown into the sea.

Naruto himself, however, did not acknowledge that title. He only wanted to give every girl a home. After all, there were simply too many hopelessly dense men in Naruto World...

That said, romance was nothing more than a side role to Naruto.

What mattered most right now was building up his strength.

He could not neglect taijutsu training for even a single day. Naruto had never forgotten just how terrifying the Eight Gates Released Formation was in his previous life. Those words, Night Guy, had set countless people's blood ablaze.

Unfortunately, that fire had ultimately been extinguished by an Ōtsutsuki Clan elbow strike, followed by a couple of stomps.

The other thing he needed to train was the Sharingan, and he had to do it in secret.

During his previous clash with the ANBU, Naruto had already clearly sensed a tiny delay between his body's reactions and the predictions in his mind.

Even without the Sharingan, that problem still existed.

That was why he had simply refused to trade blows with his opponent in taijutsu that time, instead crushing him outright with sheer Chakra reserves.

But if his opponent's strength rose another level and reached the threshold of Jonin, that tiny discrepancy could cost him his life.

Either his teammates would die, or he would.

There were countless formidable people in the Ninja World. Back when Naruto had stripped Nine-Tails Chakra from the Nine-Tails and activated Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, hadn't the Fourth Raikage A still beaten him senseless?

Even after activating Perfect Nine-Tails Jinchuriki Mode, if he encountered Obito carrying the Rinnegan or Madara Uchiha, they could still beat him so badly he would not know which way was up.

That was also why Naruto was desperately trying to become stronger.

It was not like he could live peacefully just by following Naruto's script. On the contrary, by middle age, even the Nine-Tails had activated Baryon Mode and died. Boruto: Naruto Next Generations made it clear from the start that the Seventh Hokage was already dead.

So after struggling for more than half his life—getting beaten up in the first half, working himself like an ox in the second—and finally straightening everything out, some former defeated enemy popped up and sent him straight to the grave.

Whenever Naruto thought of that, the switch for the darkness in his heart twisted tighter.

What fucking use was being a saint?!

Other than letting those villagers who had bullied you since childhood live comfortable lives, it was fucking useless!

By then, Naruto had already led the two girls to the place where missions were assigned. Their captain, Yamato, had long been waiting at the entrance.

"Let's go. The Third has assigned you a mission that suits you well."

Yamato smiled at the three of them.

The group nodded and stepped into the mission office.