Teacher Kurama Began Strictly Training His Student

The next morning, bright and early.

Naruto did something exceedingly rare—he went out during the day.

Even Hiruzen Sarutobi, who was working in the Hokage Building, nearly had his jaw drop when he noticed.

Over the past six years, Naruto could count the number of times he had gone out during the day on one hand.

Even when he did go out, it was usually at night.

And even then, his range of activity was never very large.

Hiruzen Sarutobi took two puffs of his pipe, watching Naruto's figure with great satisfaction.

It seemed the child had taken his words to heart...

"Kid, see that tree?"

Standing by the river, Naruto suddenly heard the fox's voice.

To keep his promise, Big Fox had dragged him out of bed before six.

It had even said something about how he was too weak to qualify as its Jinchuriki.

How rude!

Ever since coming to this world, he had always slept until nine.

Getting enough sleep without oversleeping—his schedule had been perfectly healthy.

Yet Big Fox had actually woken him up at six!!

Dragging his sleepy body along, Naruto briefly experienced the feeling of being a corporate slave in his previous life again.

He seriously suspected Big Fox was hungry...

Naruto, who had been woken up by Big Fox and summoned to the riverside so early in the morning, was seething with resentment.

Naruto even felt that if Evil Sword Immortal were standing before him right now, he would probably be invincible.

"Haah—"

"And then?"

Rubbing his sleepy eyes, he yawned and drifted toward the big tree step by step on unsteady feet.

Although Naruto was extremely unwilling, he knew Kurama was doing this to make him stronger.

And school was about to start...

He did not want to be the bottom of the class!

He had several cheat abilities, after all. If he actually came in last...

Naruto Uzumaki truly would not be able to accept that.

Besides, Kurama would not use Chakra to disrupt him now. Everything had started on easy mode.

If he did not take first place at school, Naruto would feel like he had let himself down.

"Kid! Did you fall asleep?!"

"Raise your fist and punch the tree!"

Naruto Uzumaki:?

Teacher Kurama's voice instantly snapped the distracted Naruto awake.

"Oh..."

Naruto glanced at the tree, raised his hand, and began punching it.

As for why he was punching the tree... he had no idea.

Anyway, Naruto felt that his understanding of this world was inferior to Teacher Kurama's, so he just had to obediently listen.

"Kid!!"

"Are you giving the tree a massage?!"

"Put the strength you use for grilling meat into it!"

Kurama watched Naruto's limp punches and was nearly angered to death by the brat.

So it simply raised its voice several octaves.

Hearing Kurama's thunderous roar, Naruto jolted in fright.

His drowsiness was scared away as well.

But he really had to complain about this...

Teacher Kurama was way too strict!

Naruto took a deep breath. Now fully awake, he was about to get serious!

He raised his fist and threw his first punch with all his strength.

Bang—

"Hiss—"

"That hurts!"

Teacher Kurama was satisfied with that punch, but Naruto's temples throbbed from the pain.

To avoid being scolded by Big Fox, he did not dare crouch down. He merely held the pose from his punch and remained completely still.

The worst pain he could endure in his previous life was kicking the corner of a table with his toe...

How could he possibly handle something like this?

He also realized that this world was not as easy as he had imagined.

Even if he was a Crown Prince with cheat abilities, without the determination to grow stronger, he would ultimately find it difficult to stand at the top of the world.

Kurama noticed Naruto's abnormal state but did not remind him immediately. Only after quite a while did it speak.

"Kid, continue!"

"Okay!"

Naruto steeled himself, gritted his teeth, and began pounding the tree.

Under his strikes, the tree continuously let out bang, bang, bang sounds.

Fresh Blood gradually dyed the bark red, even flowing down its surface onto the ground.

The first lesson Kurama taught Naruto was how to endure pain.

After all, the endurance of every strong person was beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

What ninja could not endure even the slightest pain?

It was not as if, during a fight, you could tell your opponent to wait after getting hurt and give you time to recover.

Of course, Naruto understood that principle too.

That was why he was especially attentive to Teacher Kurama's instruction.

He swore that he had never been this focused even when revising proposals in his previous life.

With every strike, blood and sweat splashed onto his face along with the motion of his fists.

At the same time came intense pain, along with an itchy numbness like ants biting him.

But as he kept punching, Naruto realized it did not seem to hurt as much as the first punch.

The amount of blood was gradually decreasing as well.

"Huh?"

"I recovered!?"

Noticing something strange, Naruto raised both fists before his eyes to inspect them.

He discovered that aside from some bloodstains, his hands had completely recovered from their previous injuries.

So that was it!

I get it!

It was the Uzumaki Clan's passive ability!

Naruto suddenly realized that the Uzumaki Clan's powerful healing ability had taken effect.

"Kid, what are you doing?!"

"Continue!"

Teacher Kurama could not stand seeing this brat slack off, so it reminded him in a deep rumble.

"Got it, Teacher Kurama!"

Relying on his healing buff, knowing he could not possibly train himself into trouble, Naruto began punching the tree even more vigorously.