The tall man with pink hair, green eyes, and a five-pointed-star hairstyle carried food in one hand as he animatedly told his wife about something funny that had happened a couple of days earlier.
"Get out! You're not welcome here!"
A commotion broke out in the shop up ahead.
A blond boy was driven out by the owner.
The boy calmly brushed the dust off himself, then held out his right hand.
"If you won't sell me anything, give me my money back."
"Tch, who knows where a demon... brat like you got that dirty money!"
The owner had been about to call him a Demon Fox, but remembered the rumors and changed it to brat.
"Grandpa Third Hokage gave me that money! I won't let you call Grandpa Third Hokage's money dirty!"
Unexpectedly, that made the boy furious. He looked around, found a small stone, and threw it at the owner's face.
The owner's expression changed instantly when he heard that the money had come from the Third Hokage.
Still, he blustered on. "You must have used your demonic tricks to bewitch the Third Hokage!"
He threw the money he had intended to pocket onto the ground.
"Take your filthy money and get lost!"
The boy wasn't angry at seeing the owner throw his money on the ground. He deftly picked it up, blew on it, then turned and left.
Mebuki Haruno leaned over to whisper to her husband.
"That boy, with the blond hair and whiskers on his face. Is he the Demon Fox from the rumors?"
Kizashi Haruno watched Naruto walk away. People on either side avoided him like the plague.
"Don't just believe what everyone says. They're only rumors."
As he spoke, Kizashi Haruno grinned goofily and pointed at his hair.
"Didn't people say my hair