Team 7: Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, Uchiha Sasuke.
With Iruka's voice echoing from the classroom platform, the Ninja Academy's team assignments came to an end.
Unlike in the original story, Naruto Uzumaki had easily passed the Ninja Academy graduation exam. Naturally, he had not taken part in Mizuki's plan to steal the Sealing Scroll—a discarded spy Orochimaru had left behind in Konoha.
More importantly, without Naruto's involvement in the Sealing Scroll theft, the outcome was obvious. Mizuki had casually found a student who had failed the exam, only to be captured by the Anbu before he could even get through the door.
Mizuki had it even worse. He had never been particularly strong among the Chunin, and an Anbu member crippled him in a single move before taking him away.
Without all that, there was no heartfelt "confession" from Iruka to Naruto, no pivotal beginning that would have influenced Naruto's life throughout the entire story.
Although Naruto no longer needed the so-called recognition of others now that he had the Golden Silkworm Gu, that turning point could not be ignored.
From this moment onward, perhaps the entire fate of Naruto Uzumaki, the protagonist and child of destiny in the Naruto world, had changed.
Even if Naruto knew about it now, he would not stoop to doing something so beneath him. A Sealing Scroll of that level? How many powerful ninjutsu could it possibly contain? The techniques Naruto most wanted to learn were his father's Flying Thunder God Technique and his mother Kushina Uzumaki's Sealing Technique—the ninjutsu that should have belonged to him in the first place.
Of course, the Golden Silkworm Gu had told him everything about his parents.
"Why hasn't our jonin instructor arrived yet? He's seriously slow," Sakura complained faintly. After all the genin who had passed the