Rock Lee was stunned. When he opened his eyes, he only saw Naruto holding his hands behind his head and looking at him with big white teeth and a bright smile. He didn't look as sleepy as before.
"Eh?"
"What did you think it was? There's no need to be so polite between friends, just say it out loud."
Naruto chuckled. Rock Lee looked at him and felt that his vision was blurry. He couldn't help but wipe his eyes with his hands and kept shouting thank you.
"Naruto! Rock Lee! You two are so noisy while standing still... huh? Sasuke-kun Are you here?"
The door of the classroom opened with a swipe, and Iruka leaned out with an angry face. However, before he could teach the two disobedient students a lesson, he saw the figure coming from Corridor.
And Naruto, who had noticed the other party a long time ago, turned around with a smile and said hello, "Hey, Sasuke! You finally came to school!"
He still looks like a cool guy in a dark blue short-sleeved bottoming shirt and shorts, with an indifferent and distant expression on his handsome face, but there is a slight change in his eyes when he looks at Naruto.
"Hmm..." Sasuke responded softly, then looked away at the two idiots standing still, nodded to Iruka and entered the classroom.
"You two, come in too." Seeing Sasuke return to his seat without saying a word, Iruka's anger was mostly gone, and he greeted Naruto and Rock Lee.
In the following class, Naruto forced himself to hold on to his energy. With the assistance of Hinata's countless finger nudges under the table, he finally managed to hold on without falling asleep and successfully survived Iruka's class.
As the get out of class ended, Naruto fell down in the classroom and fell asleep.
This made Sasuke, who was standing up and originally planned to come over to ask Naruto, sat back down again.
[That night, the back of Naruto that I vaguely saw was an illusion or...]
Sasuke's eyes were full of contradictions, but before he could think about it, the students next to him were already looking at him and whispering something.
[These people...]
Ever since he woke up, whenever he was in the village or just passing by, he could hear people talking about the incident of the Uchiha Clan, and casting glances behind him. Some were curious, some were sympathetic, some were panicked... Their voices and eyes were surrounding Sasuke. This was a situation he had never experienced before, making him extremely uncomfortable and irritable. Could it be the same in school later?
"Sasuke-kun..."
Just when Sasuke was lost in thought, Tenten, who was wearing two Bunheads, and a group of classmates gathered around. Then, with Sasuke's slightly indifferent eyes, he took out a small box and handed it over.
"This is?"
Sasuke was stunned.
"This is everyone's thought. Although it is not much, it was all put together by the classmates." Tenten, as the female representative, showed a bright and lovely smile.
"Yes, Sasuke-kun, we don't know what to say in this situation, but you have to work hard!"
"I have supported you from the beginning, and even now I believe you can defeat Naruto!"
"Hinata, Neji, and Naruto have been telling us these past few days..."
"Idiot, why are you bringing this up?"
Amidst the crowd's pushing and noisy, Sasuke got a general idea. Looking at the box on his desk, which was not a large amount of money, Sasuke turned his head silently and looked at Neji who was pretending to look at the scenery, and Hinata who was consciously holding Notebook to fan Naruto who was sleeping with his face covered.
"Thank you." Sasuke said sincerely, but his voice was soft and inaudible.
As the sun set, Naruto finally got some sleep in school. Finally, he cheered up after school and pulled Rock Lee along with Neji, Sasuke and at the school gate. After Hinata made a brief introduction, he mentioned. "Hinata and I went home after school today if we had something to do. Neji, please take Rock Lee to Training Ground!"
However, Neji, who has become accustomed to appearing next to them for some time, heard Naruto's words. His body tensed up immediately, and he said seriously, "Unfortunately, I have something to do today and have to go back to the Family immediately, so I left first."
After saying that, before Naruto could even react, Neji disappeared in front of everyone at the fastest speed in his life.
"Ah, this... what about you Sasuke?"
"It's not convenient these days. I need to find a place to live first." Sasuke glanced at Naruto, then turned around and left.
"Okay, then Rock Lee I will take you to Training Ground. It seems that you are the only one today." Naruto looked at Rock Lee with some embarrassment.
"It's okay. Training alone is also a sign of youth. I'm completely used to it!" Rock Lee showed a very fighting spirit. He didn't think much about it. After all, everyone had serious things to do. If he really hated himself in the first place, Naruto wouldn't have brought him here.
And when you are the only one exercising, isn't that the moment when you strive to surpass yourself?
Thinking of this, Rock Lee had fire in his eyes!
"Oh, oh." Even Naruto was shocked by Rock Lee's enthusiasm and optimism.
With everything arranged in place, Naruto finally brought Hinata to his room.
"Excuse me..." Although he knew it was Training, Hinata still seemed very reserved the moment he stepped into the door and said softly.
Then she looked at Naruto's home curiously. From her high emotional intelligence point of view, this home can only be described in one word -
It's clear at a glance.
"It's okay, just treat it as your own home... Oh, Hinata, your family has a lot of rules, so just treat it like Training Ground!" Naruto was quite relaxed. As soon as he came back, he threw his small schoolbag and other things on the bed, and then sat down cross-legged.
"Well, Naruto-kun, what exactly do you want me to do?" Hinata withdrew his gaze and looked at Naruto, who was in a meditation posture.
"Oh, it's very simple, come on." Naruto pulled out a wooden stick from somewhere from the side of the bed. It was as thick as an arm, handed it to Hinata, and then said seriously, "As long as you see that I have been motionless for more than an hour, hit my head hard with the wood until I wake up!"
"Eh?" Hinata took the stick and looked at the stick, then looked up at Naruto with a confused look on his face.
What does it mean? What kind of new Training method is this, so difficult to understand?
"You must hit me hard. I thought about it. By the way, I must wear Chakra to attach it. Hitting me this way will hurt more and be more effective, so please!" Naruto clasped his hands together and reiterated, then closed his eyes and calmed down.
When he opened his eyes again, the familiar railing and Nine-Tails appeared in front of him again.
It's still the pure white and beautiful Inner World, but this time there are groups of Natural Energy of different sizes floating in front of Nine-Tails.
"Are you ready, Naruto!" Nine-Tails looked at Naruto, grinning.
"Oh, come on!" Naruto clasped his hands, as if he had been looking forward to it for a long time, "I'm ready, eh! I'm so excited, the killer trick, Sage Mode!"
"Okay, I don't want to talk nonsense anymore, let's get started!" Nine-Tails waved his paw, and a ball of Natural Energy flew towards Naruto, directly wrapping Naruto, and then...
"Bang!"
The next second, Naruto, who had an expectant expression, turned into a stone statue with his hands clasped in fists.
"Ale?"
This was Naruto's last thought, and then his consciousness fell into a blank.
It's like really turning into stone.
"Did you fail? But it's normal." Nine-Tails murmured...
"After all, I have told him the solution a long time ago. After an hour, the body will be beaten. No matter what state the spirit is in, it can be forced to wake up naturally, and then start over." Nine-Tails looked at the mental stone statue of Naruto., muttering to himself, adjusting the size of the Natural Energy group in front of him, "I don't know how to teach Sage Mode, so I just try out the upper limit that Naruto can bear. This should be the right thing to do."
Above Naruto, who turned into a stone statue, Minato Energy Cluster, who acted as a light source, was still sleeping, but as Nine-Tails finished speaking, he was still shaking uneasily.