In Konoha, the Ninja Academy was bustling that day.
The annual graduation exam had arrived. Today would determine whether the children at the Ninja Academy could become ninja.
After such a long period of peace, the younger generation had long since forgotten that becoming ninja meant going to the battlefield to fight enemies to the death. All they knew was that becoming ninja would let them carry out the Will of Fire taught by the Third and become honorable Konoha Genin.
"Hehehe, don't worry, Mom! I'll definitely become a great ninja! And someday, I'll become a great Hokage just like Grandpa Third!"
Inside the Sealing Space, Kushina slapped the crimson cage imprisoning the Nine-Tails in displeasure.
"What are you saying? What are you saying?! Have you forgotten everything I told you? There's nothing good about that old man. Naruto, even if you want to become Hokage, you should become a Hokage like your father."
"But Mom, what kind of person was my dad, anyway? All I know is that he was the Fourth Hokage. They don't really tell us at school what kind of person the Fourth Hokage was."
Naruto scratched his head.
The Ninja Academy's textbooks mentioned the First, who founded the village, the Second, who founded the Ninja Academy, and the Third, the strongest Hokage since Konoha's founding.
The Fourth Hokage received only a couple of brief lines, saying that this young Hokage had sacrificed himself for the village.
As for why he had sacrificed himself, there was no specific explanation.
Still, Naruto had learned a little from what the villagers said.
The Fourth Hokage had died because of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox's attack, and many other people in the village had died because of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox as well.
For a long time, he had thought