Seeing the fierce look in Sasuke's eyes now that she had turned into a girl, Naruto could only comfort himself.
Although it was somewhat inappropriate to trick a girl.
Yet he desperately needed to activate the Golden Shovel Search function right now, so he had no choice but to stop being human.
With his mind made up, Naruto made an extremely suicidal gesture.
With a punchable expression, he slowly raised his right hand toward Sasuke, who was about to snap on the riverbank, and extended his middle finger.
Sasuke instantly burned with rage. Was this Dead Last asking for a beating?
She slowly stood up, her fists clenched, her cold eyes looking as though they wanted to devour the boy on the riverbank.
Yet before she could say anything, the boy actually spoke up on his own initiative, his tone so arrogant that she even wondered if something was wrong with her ears.
"What are you looking at?!"
Naruto provoked Sasuke as much as possible, otherwise it would not be convenient to make a bet; and without a bet, he could not get Sasuke to willingly take him to the Uchiha Clan Compound to loot for wealth, without which he could not use the system to improve himself.
"Looking at you asking for death!"
The voice of Sasuke, who had turned into a girl, was extremely pleasant to the ear, showing preliminary potential for an onee-san.
"Ha? I'm asking for death? Just you, Sasuke?"
Seeing Sasuke take the bait, Naruto immediately rushed down the riverbank, stepped onto the fishing platform by the river, and locked eyes with Sasuke, who was standing at the far end of the platform.
"Yesterday I was letting you win, but today... hmph."
Sasuke spoke with a confident look, her petite body leaning slightly forward, ready to strike at any moment.
"Stop!"
Just as Sasuke was about to make a move to teach Naruto a harsh lesson, Naruto raised a hand to stop her.
"If you're scared, get lost right now, or I'll beat you every time I see you!"
With that, Sasuke made to turn and squat back down, not sparing Naruto an ounce of face.
"Scared? And beat me every time you see me? Who gave you that courage, is it her?"
Naruto deliberately raised his volume. "I know you're the top student in the class, but I, Naruto Uzumaki, simply can't stand the sight of you. Since you look down on me so much, let's have another fight. If I lose, I'll never bother you again, but if you lose... heh-heh."
"I could never lose to Dead Last like you," Sasuke said coldly.
"Nothing is absolute. Don't be so confident. What if you lose?"
Naruto intentionally reminded Sasuke: Your sister, Uchiha Itachi, used to hold you in the palm of her hand, didn't she still turn on you last night?
Sure enough, the mention that nothing was absolute immediately touched a raw nerve in Sasuke.
The expression of extreme disdain she had previously worn in the face of Dead Last Naruto gradually grew grave.
The events of last night told her that there was no such thing as an absolute in this world.
Her former sister had been so good to her, had doted on her so much, and she had been so attached to her sister...
Yet merely after a single night, all her attachment to her sister had turned into a bone-deep hatred.
Seeing Sasuke's shifting expression, Naruto pressed his advantage.
"If I lose, I'll give you my treasured three limited-edition Ichiraku Ramen coupons. If you lose, you'll agree to three things for me. Do you dare accept?"
Looking at Naruto's punchable expression, Sasuke said coldly, "Fine. But if you can't go to school tomorrow, don't say I was the one who did it."
As Sasuke's words fell, she raised her index and middle fingers toward Naruto, proactively forming the Seal of Confrontation for their ninja battle.
Seeing that the haughty Sasuke had actually taken the initiative to form the Seal of Confrontation, Naruto slowly reined in his feigned punchable expression, extended his right hand, and likewise formed the Seal of Confrontation.
Although Naruto had previously taken the Cell Activation Potion and the Chakra Expansion Card, his strength had only improved by a small margin.
Yet facing Sasuke, who had been carefully tutored by Uchiha Fugaku and Itachi since childhood, he still felt a bit of timidity in his heart.
This was a weakness in his foundation, which could not be bridged with ordinary potions in a short time.
However, he only had this one chance. If he missed it, Naruto had no idea where he could scrape together 10,000 ryo in the near future.
Since his raw physical strength was insufficient, he would just have to rely on his calm combat mindset, which far exceeded that of a seven-year-old.
The two stood about five meters apart, each forming the Seal of Confrontation.
This scene was also being watched by two Anbu Elites not far away.
"Interesting. Dead Last is actually taking the initiative to provoke the class genius. How many moves do you say it takes for Naruto Uzumaki to go down?"
Clearly accustomed to monitoring Naruto, this Anbu Elite not only knew the two were classmates, but also had their grades at his fingertips.
"Boring. One move, probably."
Another Anbu was evidently quite displeased with drawing the assignment of monitoring Naruto.
Amidst their conversation, the battle below was hair-trigger close.
"Huh? This kid Naruto is quite capable, isn't he? He actually survived a move against Sasuke?"
These words instantly drew the gaze of the other Anbu.
"Well, look at that. This kid's movements are actually so fluid?"
"Interesting. Aside from our routine surveillance of him, have we ever actually seen him fight?"
"True."
The two of them immediately turned their full attention to the battle below.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
Sasuke truly lived up to being the genius of the Uchiha Clan's younger generation after Itachi.
Though she was a girl, her movements were clean and fluid, brimming with a sense of power. After activating her One-Tomoe Sharingan, every single one of Naruto's movements fell into her eyes.
As a fist magnified within her pupils, Sasuke tilted her head slightly while throwing a punch, striking Naruto squarely in the chest. Naruto's expression shifted slightly as he stumbled back three steps.
Naturally, Sasuke would not let go of such a fine opportunity to pursue. Capitalizing on her victory, her body transformed into a blur as she closed right in.
Immediately, a dense flurry of thump-thump-thump sounds rang out ceaselessly.
Watching anime in his past life, the details regarding Naruto and Sasuke's childhood sparring experiences had been merely superficial.
Moreover, because Naruto featured far too many flashbacks that always stalled right at critical duels, it was thoroughly aggravating.
Thus, whenever a flashback came up, Lin Mingren could not help but fast-forward, causing him to completely fail to imagine that a seven-year-old child in the Naruto World could be this formidable.
Oh, dear mother in heaven, not only is this girl's strength absurdly terrifying, but she's even awakened the Sharingan! My movements must all be caught by her.
Naruto was well aware of the Sharingan's traits: it could clearly perceive an opponent's movements and attack intentions, and at the Two-Tomoe Sharingan or Three-Tomoe Sharingan stages, it could even copy enemy ninjutsu like a bug.
Facing Sasuke's tempestuous onslaught now, Naruto could only keep his arms guarding his chest while his brain raced to think of countermeasures.
With the opponent's Sharingan assisting her, it was basically an insoluble problem unless his striking speed was fast enough that the One-Tomoe Sharingan could not capture it.
"Naruto, do you have any idea how weak you are? How dare you provoke me repeatedly?"
Seeing Naruto struggling bitterly to hold on, Sasuke was also slightly surprised.
Just yesterday afternoon, this person hadn't even been a match for a single move of hers. How could he possibly hold out for this long after just a single night?
The thought of a single night inevitably brought to mind the tragic state of her clansmen last night and the woman who had kept her awake all night. She hated it; she hated why her sister had been so merciless, and hated why she herself had been so weak in the face of her sister.
The more she thought of her sister Itachi, the sharper Sasuke's movements became.
With a single punch, she blasted away Naruto's defensive arms, followed immediately by a solid uppercut that landed squarely on Naruto's face.
"Don't hit the face, Sasuke! I'm mad now!"
As the pain in his cheek struck, Naruto feigned furious agitation, flailing his limbs as he charged toward Sasuke in a completely unmethodical manner.
Seeing this, Sasuke sneered and prepared to deliver the finishing blow.
Meanwhile.
The two Anbu Elites watching from afar both shook their heads.
"Driven to panic from the beating? His strikes are chaotic and disorganized. He's bound to lose."
"And here I thought he'd bring us some sort of surprise. As expected, Dead Last is still Dead Last."
Yet before those words could fully fade.
The scene unfolding below instantly caused the jaws of both Anbu Elites to drop.
"This..."
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I'll spare the words; dropping twenty thousand words right out the gate with this book release.
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