Naruto Uzumaki is a Rogue Ninja

"Naruto..."

"I'm fine! You have to try new things! As for drinking blood, this one time is enough. I'll go find some water later. The most important thing right now is barbecue! Eating!"

Adding more fuel to the dying campfire.

"Wind Release: Gale Palm!"

Naruto clapped her hands together, carefully controlling the power of the Gale Palm. The campfire, which had been about to go out, immediately flared up with tall flames, burning fiercely.

Naruto grilled a few pieces of bear meat. Even without seasoning, she was content to eat the fatty food while hungry.

Eating the grilled bear meat, Naruto patted her greasy hands.

She looked at Yakushi Nonō and Mikoto Uchiha lying on the ground. One was half-dead, the other unconscious.

"Shadow Clone Jutsu."

"I'm counting on you, my clone!"

"Leave it to me! My body!"

After the somewhat chuunibyou conversation, Naruto left the cave. A few miles away, she found a small river. Itching all over, Naruto immediately jumped into the river for a refreshing cold bath.

After bathing and drinking a few mouthfuls of river water, Naruto realized that in her impulsive departure from Konoha Village, she hadn't brought anything, not even anything to hold water.

A while later, Naruto returned, carrying a stone pot personally crafted by the Nine-Tails, filled with water.

Back in the cave, Naruto put down the stone pot. The shadow clone came over, looking at the water in the pot and swallowing its saliva.

"You've worked hard."

"Wait..."

Before the shadow clone Naruto could finish speaking, Naruto dispelled the shadow clone and placed the stone pot on the campfire, adding more firewood.

She didn't know when these two would wake up. She couldn't just leave them. One was my future ATM, and the other... hmm... why did I save her?

Naruto suddenly remembered that she gained no benefit from saving Yakushi Nonō!

Kabuto Yakushi had already turned evil. Someone who had doubted her own existence...

Naruto felt that Kabuto Yakushi needed the scourge of Izanami, but the plot had been mostly ruined by her. The Uchiha Clan had escaped their fated annihilation, and the destinies of Shisui Uchiha, Itachi Uchiha, and Sasuke Uchiha had also been altered by her.

If Orochimaru hadn't been beaten senseless by Itachi Uchiha, he wouldn't have gone to such lengths to pursue the Sharingan...

Naruto realized that she had accidentally changed so much of the original plot.

Who knew what would happen in the future? One step at a time!

Naruto shrugged indifferently, staring at the flickering flames in the campfire.

Wasn't it good that the world wasn't developing according to the anime plot?

Naruto lay down on the hay-covered ground, closed her eyes, and prepared to get some good rest.

Chapter 22: A Defeated Orochimaru (1/2)

Boiling hot water splashed from the stone pot onto Naruto's leg, making her yelp and jump up from the ground. With the Nine-Tails' help, the stone pot, now scalding hot, landed steadily.

The Nine-Tails felt bitter and didn't want to say anything.

"I wonder when they'll wake up. I have to take them wherever I go, it's so troublesome!" Naruto rested her chin on her hand, looking at Yakushi Nonō and Mikoto Uchiha, who showed no signs of waking.

"Who told you to be nosy and save these two women." The Nine-Tails' chakra formed eyes, dragging a cute little fox tail, similar in effect to Gaara's sand-formed eyes.

The Nine-Tails looked at Naruto's wrist with concern. Thinking of Naruto's reckless actions earlier, the Nine-Tails felt annoyed and couldn't help but have stomach pain.

The Nine-Tails felt that if it weren't a Tailed Beast, it would eventually die from stomach pain.

"Tsk tsk tsk~!"

Naruto dangled a finger in front of the Nine-Tails' eyes and pinched its eyeball. Since the optic nerve and sensory nerves were all connected to the eyeball, the feeling of being pinched like that could be imagined.

"Nine-Tails, you don't understand my intentions! These two are useful people. One is an ATM, and the other is a medical ninja. They are useful to me. Moreover, this woman is the adoptive mother of Kabuto Yakushi, who will become a major boss later."

Naruto earnestly revealed her intentions for saving the two.

"Hmph hmph hmph~! If there's no benefit to me, why would I save them? Dream on! From now on, I'll have both money and women! Long live freedom!"

"Water..."

A hoarse voice reached Naruto's ears. She immediately stopped her fantasies and saw Yakushi Nonō's pained expression. She seemed to have not regained consciousness, desperately craving water.

Naruto used Wind Release to quickly lower the temperature of the water in the stone pot to a drinkable level, slightly warm but not scalding. Since she had no containers, Naruto had to use her hands, cupping water little by little to feed Yakushi Nonō. She didn't know what kind of training Yakushi Nonō had undergone, as Naruto couldn't get a single drop in after trying for a long time.

"Didn't you want water? Why aren't you drinking it!"

Seeing Yakushi Nonō's chapped lips, Naruto scratched her head in distress and thought of a solution.

She lowered her head, took a mouthful of water, and transferred it mouth-to-mouth to Yakushi Nonō, helping her drink. After drinking, Yakushi Nonō's lips were no longer as dry and cracked.

Naruto wiped her mouth with a disgusted look.

"This was my first kiss! And I just gave it to you! You got off easy!"

Next, Naruto used the same method to give Mikoto Uchiha some water.

Afterward, Naruto touched her lips and clapped her hands together, a wicked grin spreading across her face.

"Sorry, Fugaku Uchiha! I meant to cuckold you, but it was all to save your wife! Besides, you can't do anything to me now, and you don't even know I did it! Maybe you'll even thank me later! Hahahaha!"

Imagining Fugaku Uchiha groveling and showering her with money in the future, Naruto placed her hands on her hips, threw her head back, and burst into unrestrained laughter. Combined with her messy golden hair, she looked like a little lunatic who'd just escaped a mental hospital.

Meanwhile, Fugaku Uchiha, feeling like he'd been thoroughly cuckolded, learned from Itachi Uchiha that the scroll containing his wife's body might have been picked up by Konoha Village. His body, already weakened from using Susanoo, was overwhelmed by a surge of anger, causing him to spit up a mouthful of blood before he passed out.

"Dad!"

"It's okay, Dad just fainted," Itachi Uchiha soothed his younger brother.

"Brother... Mom died protecting me..." Sasuke Uchiha bit his lip, his eyes, which had unconsciously activated the Sharingan, welling up with tears.

"I know, Sasuke... It's not your fault..." Itachi Uchiha hugged Sasuke gently, his heart aching. Suppressing his own pain, he secretly made a vow.

Mom, don't worry, I will definitely protect Sasuke!