The three left Shino in a panic, sweating coldly as they breathed a sigh of relief.
"Captain Naruto, why are you afraid of bugs?" Tenyu asked.
Naruto froze. "I... I'm not afraid of bugs. I just don't want to hurt them. Like Shino said, they're so... cuuuute..."
Maki looked at him disdainfully. "Cowardly Captain Naruto."
"Bastards, weren't you two scared to death too?" Naruto roared, pointing at them.
He hadn't managed to recruit anyone, and had gotten scared instead.
"We?"
"We're not even three-year-olds yet. You're already a six-year-old," Tenyu and Maki said in unison.
Naruto's face instantly fell, his mouth pouting more than anyone else's.
Damn it, so what if they were two-year-olds!
No, he couldn't get angry at two-year-olds, ah!
Damn two-year-olds.
Naruto refused to admit defeat. He would never admit that he was worse than Kiba and Sasuke. He was the future Hokage.
Afterward, he went to find more of his classmates, hoping they could help him come up with ideas.
Unfortunately,
the others were not like Naruto, Shino, and the rest. The moment they saw him, they drove him out.
They simply did not welcome him.
Some even cursed him out, saying he could never become Hokage.
Tenyu and Maki followed behind Naruto, feeling that he was rather pitiful.
Unlike them, who only had to act cute and cling to the adults to make them happy.
Captain Naruto was truly hated by everyone, completely unlike the smiling Naruto who used to keep coming to their house to hang around.
The two of them were barely over two years old and did not think too deeply about it. They only felt that Naruto must be having a hard time.
They both had powerful senses and could feel Naruto's turbulent emotions whenever he encountered someone.
It seemed to