As soon as Naruto left his house dressed in mourning attire and stepped onto the main street, he immediately heard the prompt in his ear.
[Ding! Received 1 point of Negative Emotion Points from a Konoha Villager!]
Walking down the entire street, Naruto was shocked to find that he had already reaped 500 Negative Emotion Points.
Is this the power of mourning clothes?
Faced with the cold gazes and violence of the villagers, Naruto not only didn't feel angry at the moment, but even wanted to laugh a little.
Soon, Naruto walked out of the Konoha Bustling District and came to a path with relatively sparse crowds.
In less than fifteen minutes, Naruto arrived once again in front of the main gate of the Uchiha Clan Compound.
However, before he even reached the spot, Naruto saw that a graceful figure had already been waiting for a long time-wasn't it the Black-Clad Twin-Tailed Girl Sasuke, carrying a flower basket and wearing mourning attire?
"Yo, you're early," Naruto said with a smile.
"Hmph, you're the one who's late."
Sasuke didn't say much; after all, the fact that Naruto could agree to her request this time was already out of consideration for friendship.
"Keep up."
With that, Sasuke carried the flower basket and turned to walk toward the vast Uchiha Fiefdom.
Seeing this, Naruto hurriedly followed.
Just like that, a Black-Clad Twin-Tailed Girl and a blond-haired boy also dressed in black gradually disappeared into the Uchiha Clan Compound.
However, right at that moment, several black shadows rustled out of thin air from the surrounding large tree canopies.
"Captain, it's that kid again."
The Captain looked at the disappearance of Naruto and Sasuke, frowning as he said, "Follow them."
"Heh."
Possessing the Insightful Vision, Naruto naturally knew that Root Surveillance Ninja were lurking around, but there was nothing he could do about it right now.
Besides, these ninjas were primarily monitoring Sasuke.
Soon, Naruto followed Sasuke into a large forest.
"Sasuke, is your family's Graveyard Cluster here?" Naruto asked curiously.
"Mn." At this, shadows gathered in Sasuke's eyes. "Naruto, thank you for being able to accompany me this time."
"It's no big deal."
Seeing Sasuke's low mood, Naruto offered a brief reply and walked in silence.
The two followed the path through the large forest for another twenty minutes or so, and after passing through the marks of artificial chopping, they stepped straight into an open area in the center of the forest.
Densely packed temporary stone monuments made of wood immediately appeared before their eyes.
Looking out, there were a full two to three thousand of them.
Naruto sucked in a sharp breath at the sight. In his previous life's original story, he only knew that Itachi had teamed up with Obito to slaughter his clansmen, but the exact number of Uchiha clansmen brutally murdered that night had always been a mystery.
Yet today, when he saw the dense small mounds of earth, he finally understood Sasuke's hatred for Itachi.
Naruto felt appalled in his heart, while Sasuke walked steadily forward carrying the flower basket in complete silence.
It seemed that all of this had been rehearsed countless times in her mind, or perhaps she didn't want to reveal her vulnerable side in front of Naruto, so Sasuke appeared unusually quiet at the moment.
The two grave mounds on the front left of the Uchiha Graveyard Cluster were, unsurprisingly, those of Sasuke's mother and father.
Seeing this, Naruto also paced forward to catch up.
Feeling the surveillance gazes falling from the surrounding tree canopies from time to time, Naruto grew increasingly disgusted with the political methods of the Konoha High Command.
Sasuke knelt on the ground and took out a White Candle as well as the pre-prepared White Bouquet.
"Father, Mother... Sasuke has come to pay respects to you."
Naruto stood beside Sasuke, but his attention wasn't on Sasuke's memorial rites; instead, he looked at the hundred grave mounds situated further forward.
If one didn't look closely, it was really hard to spot anything unusual.
In other words, before the Uchiha Clan Massacre, the entire Uchiha Clan only had a little over a hundred ninjas who had awakened the Sharingan?
Naruto firmly memorized the positions of these grave mounds, then withdrew his gaze.
"Father, Mother, rest assured, I will definitely avenge you. I will kill her with my own hands."
After three days and nights of torment, although Sasuke was trying her hardest to conceal it here, tears still couldn't help falling as the time to leave approached.
Hearing this, Naruto felt calm in his heart.
In his previous life, even though Kishimoto spent heavy ink whitewashing Uchiha Itachi, it could never wash away the fact that he slaughtered innocent clansmen.
In the Shippuden original story, in order to whitewash Itachi, Kishimoto not only repeatedly offered far-fetched reasons for Itachi's massacre of the clan, but no matter how it was explained, the ordinary people of the Uchiha Clan compound should never have become the objects of sacrifice.
Nine-ninths of the Uchiha Clan were ordinary people, and there were only a little over a hundred ninjas who had awakened the Sharingan.
The so-called seizure of power was merely the plotting of a little over a hundred ninjas, but the result was that the entire Uchiha clan had to be buried with them-did those ordinary Uchiha clansmen want to rebel, too?
"Sasuke, grieve no longer. I believe you will definitely achieve the wish in your heart."
Hearing Naruto's comforting and encouraging words, Sasuke finally stood up reluctantly.
"Father, Mother, when I have time, I'll come to see you again."
With that, Sasuke wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes before turning to follow Naruto away.
And everything that happened here was recorded in the registry by the Root Surveillance Ninja throughout the entire process.
The weekend two days passed quickly. Because of their experiences and personalities, Naruto and Sasuke had almost no friends among their peers.
Coupled with their previous agreement, the two of them were practically inseparable these past two days of the weekend.
Time passed quickly, and before they knew it, it was Monday afternoon after school.
After school, not only Naruto and Sasuke walked in the direction of Ichiraku Ramen, but many classmates and parents from the Ninja Academy also helplessly walked in the direction of the Ichiraku House.
Why?
That's right, it was Naruto's marketing strategy.
During the previous two days, Naruto went to Ichiraku Ramen every day to teach Hongle the culinary preparation techniques for Ichiraku.
The two of them truly lived up to being Konoha's famous culinary artists, both holding unique insights into cuisine.
Therefore, under Naruto's deliberate guidance, their skills also improved drastically.
And over the two days, Naruto hadn't let Hongle's three apprentices sit idle, either.
First, he had Hongle get a large number of flyers, even going so far as to have Ichiraku and Hongle recruit young part-time workers to distribute flyers.
That was right, taking advantage of the momentum of the Peerless Noodle winning the title of Konoha's top noodle dough, they wildly promoted the one-of-a-kind Secret Barbecue.
Naruto had often distributed flyers while working part-time in college in his previous life, and he was quite familiar with various marketing pitches on flyers.
And just like that, merely displaying a bit of his methods enticed the children of the Ninja Academy to scramble one after another to taste the barbecue they were so curious about, alongside the world's number one noodles, the Peerless Noodle.
The Peerless Ramen and the never-before-heard Unique Flavor Barbecue appeared together, and this trend, driven by interested parties, swept directly across the entire youth demographic of Konoha like a wave.
Seeing many children from the Ninja Academy heading toward the Ichiraku House along with their parents, Naruto immediately grabbed Sasuke's hand and ran forward at a brisk pace.
Before long, Naruto brought Sasuke to the Ichiraku House.
However, when the two of them arrived at the Ichiraku House, they saw that a long queue had already formed.
Quite a few lucky youths who had bought the Unique Flavor Barbecue let out cries of exclamation from time to time.
It seemed this was the first time in their lives they had ever tasted such a unique flavor.
"Oh god, I thought the flyer was a lie, but this taste... is peerless."
"Boss, reserve ten more skewers!"
On the open space surrounding the Ichiraku House, compact and exquisite seats were almost fully set up, and at that moment every single table was packed with people.
This situation directly resulted in customers eating ramen having nowhere to sit and thus choosing to take it to go or temporarily switch to barbecue.
"My goodness, it started this early?"
Looking at the long queue formed at the entrance of the Ichiraku House, the corners of Naruto's mouth formed a smile.
If things kept going at this scale, acquiring those precious props in the system might no longer be a dream.
"Let's go, Sasuke."
With a smiling face, Naruto immediately grabbed Sasuke and rushed into Ichiraku Ramen.
After the two of them entered Ichiraku Ramen, the large contingent from the Ninja Academy arrived shortly after.
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