Study materials?

Naruto's voice wasn't quiet, so the Nine-Tails naturally heard him.

At the name "Kurama," the Nine-Tails, who had been lying in his cage pretending to sleep and ignoring Naruto, instantly opened his eyes and fixed a fierce stare on the boy outside.

"Brat... how do you know my name?"

The Nine-Tails was deeply concerned that Naruto knew his true name.

In the entire Shinobi World, aside from the Tailed Beasts, the only person who knew the Nine-Tails' name was the Sage of Six Paths, who had vanished many years ago.

So how exactly had Naruto learned his name? The Nine-Tails desperately wanted to know.

Naruto smiled without answering his question. Instead, he walked over to Wolffy, who was roasting legs of lamb, picked up an enormous one, and tossed it toward the Nine-Tails.

The proud, prickly fox naturally wouldn't accept food Naruto threw him. At the very least, he wouldn't eat it in front of Naruto.

The Nine-Tails kept his bestial eyes fixed on Naruto, demanding an answer.

And Naruto? He simply left the Sealing Space.

Feeling that a little brat had made a fool of him, the Nine-Tails flew into a rage.

Naruto knew the Nine-Tails would be angry, but so what? He intended to keep the Nine-Tails in suspense. That was exactly how to handle a prickly fox like him.

In a few days, Naruto planned to watch the entire Naruto series with the fox and Wolffy.

He would show it to the Nine-Tails so the fox could face reality: Naruto wasn't his enemy, but a friend he could trust.

He would show it to Wolffy so he could understand the Hokage World and the situation Naruto was in.

Naruto's consciousness returned to his body. The game was still paused in front of him.

He checked the time on the computer and discovered it was already five thirty.

"Huh? The Anbu Deliveryman should've brought dinner by now! Why isn't he here yet?"

No sooner had Naruto finished speaking than someone knocked on the door.

Naruto thought the Anbu Deliveryman had arrived with dinner, but when he opened the door, he found him standing there empty-handed.

All Anbu wore masks, so Naruto couldn't see the Deliveryman's expression.

He only heard the awkwardness in his voice as he said, "Well... Naruto, I got an important last-minute mission, so... I didn't have time to buy your dinner!"

"But..." As he spoke, the Anbu pulled a meal voucher from inside his clothes and continued, "This is a voucher for ten bowls at Ichiraku Ramen. With this, you can get ten bowls of ramen for free! Each bowl even comes with an extra slice of chashu!"

Naruto said nothing to that. He simply took the voucher from the man's hand, then waved. "I'll go to Ichiraku Ramen tonight, then! You'd better get going on that mission of yours!"

With that, Naruto shut the door.

Naruto held no ill will toward these Anbu.

It wasn't just because they were all very competent delivery guys. Back when Naruto was still an infant, he had occasionally heard fighting outside.

During those fights, he had heard mention of a group called "Root."

He knew that Danzo had probably been acting behind the scenes, trying to abduct him.

These Anbu, who served the Third Hokage, had intervened, leading to those clashes.

After shutting the door, Naruto returned to his room, got dressed, and headed out.

Since it was winter, the sky was already growing dim, even though it was only six.

Naruto walked toward Ichiraku Ramen alone.

Once Naruto had left, Bluebird-the Anbu who had given him the voucher-quietly slipped into Naruto's room and carried off the powered-down laptop, along with the mouse, keyboard, and all the other peripherals.

Bluebird hadn't lied to Naruto earlier. He really had received a last-minute mission from the Third Hokage: to bring him Naruto's laptop.

Inside the Third Hokage's office.

Carrying the computer and its accessories, Bluebird knocked on the door and entered.

"Did you bring it?"

The Third Hokage smiled at the laptop in Bluebird's hands as he spoke.

"Yes, Lord Hokage."

As he spoke, Bluebird turned on the computer, copying what he had seen Naruto do.

Once it booted up, an assortment of icons appeared before the Third Hokage's eyes.

To him, all those flashy icons were honestly a little... dizzying.

The Third Hokage looked through the icons one by one.

His gaze settled on a folder named "Study materials."

"Study materials? If it's labeled as reference material, it must be something important!"

As the Third Hokage, he naturally understood the significance of "reference material."

As he spoke, the Third Hokage used the mouse to open the "Study materials" folder under Bluebird's guidance.

Inside was a huge collection of video files.

Had Naruto been there, he definitely would have urged the Third Hokage not to open any of the videos in that folder.

Because... he feared their contents might make the Third Hokage bleed so much that he died on the spot.

The computer Naruto had originally materialized was an exact copy of the one from his previous life.

Before falling ill, Naruto had naturally amassed quite a collection of torrents.

When he materialized his computer, that collection had come into this world along with it.

When Wolffy transferred the files, he hadn't limited himself to the games. He had moved every file onto the laptop Naruto was currently using.

The Third Hokage clicked on a random video.

It opened to reveal a woman wearing a kimono.

"Is this a movie?" the young man asked curiously as he watched.

The Third Hokage considered it for a moment. "It should be. These things called movies seem to be quite popular in the Land of Snow!"

Could it be... that someone from the Land of Snow has made contact with Naruto?

The Third Hokage was thoroughly puzzled.

If someone from another village had contacted their village's Jinchūriki, that was certainly no trivial matter.

It looks like I'll have to ask Naruto exactly what's going on tomorrow.

While the Third Hokage pondered this, the scene in the video began developing in a direction that made faces flush, hearts race, and blood surge.

As a series of lewd sounds came from the computer, the Third Hokage's face suddenly turned bright red. Then... two streams of blood shot from his nostrils.

"This... they're... this is too much..."

Seeing Lord Hokage felled by a mere movie, Bluebird immediately snapped the laptop shut.

Bluebird was panicking a little himself. If... if Lord Hokage died from blood loss after watching something like this... he wouldn't be able to escape responsibility either.

Lying on the floor, the Third Hokage plugged his still-bleeding nostrils with the handkerchief he carried, then said, "Where on earth did that brat Naruto get something so indecent?"

After speaking, the Third Hokage glanced at Bluebird.

That look sent a shudder through Bluebird. He immediately dropped to one knee. "Lord Third, I guarantee that no one from another village has contacted Naruto! Not just outsiders-even people from our own village haven't been in contact with him!"

Hearing this, the Third Hokage nodded. He trusted the abilities of the Anbu under his command.

"It looks like I'll have to go ask Naruto tomorrow!"

Bluebird breathed a sigh of relief at that.

"All right, you can go back!" The Third Hokage waved a hand, dismissing Bluebird.

Bluebird immediately began gathering up the laptop on the desk, intending to take it with him.

"Leave that here. Tomorrow... tomorrow I'll take it with me when I go see Naruto."

"Yes, sir," Bluebird answered, then vanished from the Hokage's office.

Only after Bluebird left did the Third Hokage open the computer again.

As he reopened it, the Third Hokage took a deep breath and tried to calm his racing heart.

The moment the laptop opened, the overwhelmingly provocative scene appeared again, and two powerful jets of blood blasted the handkerchief away from his nostrils.