Even in the Original Story, the pairing of Sasuke and Sakura was full of plot holes.
After the battle at the Valley of the End with Naruto, given Sasuke's mindset at the time, he should have become a solitary loner.
From the first episode of Naruto to the end, viewers never saw a single moment where Sasuke liked Sakura.
He did not believe that the proud Uchiha Sasuke would force himself to couple up with someone he did not like.
The pairing of Sai and Ino made him spit blood even more.
Was it really because the Boruto: Naruto Next Generations new generation forcibly needed such a character for a forced ship? With Ino's high emotional and intelligence quotient in the Original Story, would she choose a dull Sai?
It was simply absurd opening the door to absurdity, absurd to the extreme.
Thinking about it carefully, the forced shipping was hammered home. Boruto and Inojin were the exact same age-what did that mean?
It meant that, damn it, Ino and Sai got married at almost the exact same time as Naruto in the Original Story. Did these two have any intersection or emotional development in the original Naruto?
How did they somehow surpass the romance between Hinata and Naruto to get married in the very same year?
Selling all kinds of nostalgia and bringing back deceased characters with Impure World Reincarnation was fine.
Yet that art style-if you didn't know better, you'd think Jiraiya grew wildly by several decades in the Netherworld after dying. What the hell kind of drawing was that?
If that was the case, why didn't Hashirama and Tobirama, who were summoned through Impure World Reincarnation multiple times, age at all?
On the contrary, to make way for new characters to enter, the relatively obedient Kiba Inuzuka and Konoha weapons supplier Tenten were directly written as empty-nested seniors, neither married nor having children.
To tell a joke, the ultimate straight male Rock Lee got married and had kids, yet Kiba Inuzuka and Tenten somehow remained empty-nested seniors...
And all of this happened because of a single person.
That's right, Uzumaki Boruto.
Without Boruto, Neji wouldn't have been written to death just to sublimate the romance between Hinata and Naruto.
Yes, after Naruto ended, media interviewed Kishimoto (the author of Naruto), and he himself stated that writing Neji to death was done to pave the way for NaruHina to marry.
Well, now look at this: traveling through time into this Naruto world, all the familiar people had their genders swapped. Hinata directly became a brother, so there was no Boruto. This was something Naruto never expected.
"Hahaha... This world is too crazy!!"
At that moment, Naruto was being pulled by the hand by Sasuke as they walked toward the Training Ground. Suddenly hearing Naruto laugh out loud, Sasuke also had black lines on her forehead and turned back to say, "You're as annoying as them."
Hearing Sasuke's words, Naruto was startled and pursued, "I surely couldn't have sent you a love letter too, right? That's impossible..."
Sasuke ignored Naruto, let out a soft snort, turned around, and kept walking.
Seeing this, Naruto let out a huge sigh of relief, figuring it probably wasn't like what he imagined.
The Naruto of this life was one of the few boys who hadn't pursued Sasuke.
About ten minutes later.
The two once again passed the main gate of the Uchiha Clan Compound, and the Root carriages and ninjas had all vanished.
Sasuke looked at the empty clan, the chill in her eyes beyond description. Compared to her loss of composure the first time, she was quite good at enduring this time around.
Then she pulled Naruto and walked briskly past the main gate of the Uchiha Clan Compound, as if she didn't want Naruto to see such a dilapidated clan.
Naruto also glanced over, and when he saw the Uchiha Clan Compound in complete disarray, looking like it had been through a robbery, he sneered inwardly, "Is this the dark side of Konoha?"
Passing the Uchiha Clan Compound, the two walked into a forest.
About ten minutes later.
Naruto saw an open space within the woods. All kinds of human-shaped targets and circular targets were available, and the surrounding trees were covered with marks pierced by various sharp weapons.
"Is this the throwing training ground for you and your sister?" Naruto looked at Sasuke and said.
Seeing objects brings to mind the person who used them, touching the scene evokes sadness.
Arriving here, Sasuke couldn't help but recall the memories of her older sister teaching her how to throw shuriken back then.
"Hmph."
Sasuke let out a cold snort, then walked on her own behind a large rock, and a canvas bag was pulled out by her.
Clatter, clatter...
The sound of metal clashing rang endlessly.
"They're all here."
Naruto took the canvas bag and opened it to take a look. What came into view were entirely non-reflective shuriken under the night sky and exquisitely crafted kunai.
Looking at Naruto's expression of pleasant surprise, Sasuke's heart felt as though it were being twisted by a knife.
The clan's belongings had been hauled away, and these shuriken and kunai should be the final heritage left behind.
Moreover, these weapons carried almost all the memories of her and her sister's childhood.
Yet she bore the honor of the Uchiha Clan; a loss was a loss. No matter how reluctant she felt, she wouldn't say anything.
Naruto raised his head to glance at the nervous and reluctant Sasuke at the side, then smiled and reached his hand into the canvas bag for the third time.
The three times brought out 11 kunai and 20 shuriken respectively.
These ninja tools only occupied a little over half of the canvas bag.
There were still quite a few left, enough for Sasuke's daily training use.
Naruto had obtained what he wanted, so he poured the ninja tools from the canvas bag onto the ground, put the selected ninja tools back inside, and slung them on his back.
"You... what are you leaving these for?"
Seeing that Naruto only took half, Sasuke asked.
"These are already enough to sell for 20,000 silver taels. Keep the rest for your training."
Naruto flashed a sunny smile, then thrust his right hand into his pocket. When he took it out again, an exquisite blue card appeared in his hand.
When he obtained this thing, Naruto had studied it carefully. It meant that a Chakra Expansion Card of the same grade could only be used once; multiple uses had no effect.
Today, he had successfully gotten shuriken and kunai from Sasuke that could be exchanged for banknotes.
His mood was also quite good, and Sasuke had provided him with a good deal of shock value today, so he might as well just give it away. Anyone familiar with Sasuke's personality knew that she was very aloof; unless she wanted to, no one could force her to say certain things.
"As thanks, I'll give this to you. When you get home later, find a place where no one else is, infuse your chakra into it, and you'll know what it does."
Looking at the blue card in Naruto's hand, Sasuke didn't have much interest.
However, the fact that Naruto was able to leave some ninja tools for her generated a sliver of favorable impression toward him, so she didn't refuse, taking it and putting it into her pocket.
"This is the first time I've accepted a gift from a boy."
Hearing this, Naruto smiled. "This isn't a gift; it's what you earned. Let's go, let's walk back together."
Sasuke glanced at the deathly silent clan, shook her head, and said, "No, I'm going to start training."
"Alright, then I'll head out first. See you at school tomorrow."
Naruto turned and left, waving his hand.
With Naruto's departure, the abyss-like pitch blackness immediately encroached upon Sasuke, making her inner loneliness even more profound. She even felt the urge to invite Naruto to stay and train together.
However, the proud Uchiha would not take the initiative to speak up, and could only watch Naruto's figure gradually recede until it vanished from her field of vision.
Once Naruto had completely disappeared, Sasuke squatted on the ground, organizing the shuriken and kunai.
"Is it really still because I'm too weak? She said the reason she didn't kill me was simply because I was too weak. If I can't even endure loneliness, what qualifications do I have to surpass her and kill her!"
Her eyes filled with hatred, the icy tone instantly caused the surrounding temperature to drop. Sasuke suddenly sprang up, leaped into the air, crossed her hands, and whipped them forward.
Instantly, ten shuriken transformed into ten black shadows in the air, whistling with a clang, clang, clang as they pinned themselves into the surrounding trees and the human-shaped targets.
Landing with elegance, Sasuke had a resolute look in her eyes. Her hands rapidly formed hand seals, a surge of chakra accumulated in her mouth, and her delicate lips parted slightly: Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
Immediately, a small-scale fireball smashed toward the distance.
"Naruto, three days from now, I will definitely defeat you completely!"
After saying those words, Sasuke picked up a kunai and began practicing close-combat techniques such as stabbing thrusts.
Swish, swish, swish...
At the same time.
Several black shadows on the treetops surrounding the throwing training ground quickly departed.
Two of them headed straight in the direction Naruto had vanished, while the other two streaked away in the opposite direction.
"Achoo!"
Naruto was happily carrying the ninja tools on his back as he returned when he suddenly felt his nose itch.
Just as he was about to say something, he was suddenly watched by two sharp gazes. These gazes were very familiar.
Naruto sneered inwardly. Sure enough, getting close to Sasuke at this time had made the Third Hokage and Danzo suspicious.
Before the two of them had reached the throwing training ground, he had already discovered the gazes of the monitoring ANBU and Root.
Yet when he and Sasuke separated, these gazes hadn't followed immediately, which was enough to show that for the previous period of time, they had been observing Sasuke.
"Damn it... when will this kind of surveillance ever end?"
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