Ninja Academy.
5 PM.
After a day of classes, students finally had their release time and streamed out, looking for their parents who were waiting for them at the school gate.
Naruto watched the adults and children holding hands, a look of envy on his face.
Then, he saw a familiar figure, a head of white hair that stood out in the crowd.
"Ah, it's Tōshirō-nii! He wasn't lying. He invited me to his house to play..."
Naruto was overjoyed and immediately started to run over with his short legs. Just as he was about to, a boy in a gray short-sleeved shirt with delicate features got to him first and started talking and laughing with his beloved Tōshirō-nii.
"Sa... Sasuke?"
Naruto looked at the boy in surprise.
Sasuke turned his face, saw Naruto standing dumbfounded beside him, and looked displeased: "What?"
Sasuke was the most popular person in class, while Naruto was the exact opposite, absolutely the most disliked person in class.
This sparked intense jealousy in Naruto, and he always looked for a reason to annoy Sasuke.
Naturally, Sasuke would not be nice to someone who was always bothering him.
Naruto's eyes widened: "N-no, you guys know each other?"
Sasuke said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world: "Of course, Tōshirō-sensei is a member of the Uchiha clan."
Naruto hadn't considered this at all and was stunned: "Uchiha?"
Tōshirō smiled: "Oh, when I introduced myself, I forgot to mention my last name."
Hearing their conversation, Sasuke frowned: "Tōshirō-sensei, you know this dead last?"
"Who are you calling a dead last?"
Naruto got angry, clenched his fists, and shouted loudly.
Sasuke snorted: "In this school, who else would I be talking about?"
"You little..."
Naruto rolled up his sleeves, looking ready for a fight.
Tōshirō shook his head. These two leading boys really didn't get along. If they continued, they would probably start fighting.
He intervened at the right time: "Hey, hey, stop right there."
Sasuke turned his head to the left: "Hmph, for Tōshirō-sensei's sake, I won't bother with you this time."
Naruto looked unwilling to give up and turned his head to the right: "I'm the one who's doing you a favor."
Tōshirō spread his hands.
Sasuke scoffed at Naruto's behavior, then turned to Tōshirō with a smile: "Tōshirō-sensei, do you want to come to my house for dinner tonight?"
"Sorry, not tonight. I have a guest."
Tōshirō tactfully declined.
"Oh, okay." Sasuke pouted, looking disappointed.
Seeing Sasuke's expression, Naruto seemed to want to deliberately annoy him. His eyes darted around: "What are we eating tonight?"
Sasuke was slightly taken aback: "Wait, Tōshirō-sensei, the guest you're talking about isn't this guy, is it?"
Tōshirō nodded in response: "Yep, but there are others, too."
Naruto pulled down the skin under his eye and made a face at Sasuke, primarily to provoke him.
Tōshirō felt a little helpless and said to Sasuke: "How about you come to my house tonight, too? There's someone I want you to meet."
Sasuke said haughtily: "With that Naruto guy there, no way."
In front of the residence, Naruto taunted Sasuke, who had claimed he wouldn't come: "Didn't you say you weren't coming? Why are you still here, sticking to us like a leech?"
Sasuke wrinkled his nose and retorted: "I'm just worried you'll break something at Tōshirō-sensei's house, so I came to supervise you."
Tōshirō shook his head.
Just then, the front door opened, and a boy with light hair and green eyes came out. He had the exact same face as Tōshirō.
Naruto was surprised: "Why are there two Tōshirō-nii?"
Sasuke scoffed: "Idiot, it's a Shadow Clone."
Naruto naturally wouldn't admit he hadn't figured it out: "Of course I knew that."
As he spoke, the Tōshirō clone in front of them turned into a person made of ice.
Naruto had never seen such an advanced Shadow Clone and looked surprised: "Why did he turn into an ice statue? Shouldn't a Shadow Clone disappear in a puff of smoke?"
Sasuke mocked him: "Don't you get it? This is an advanced Shadow Clone, the Ice Release: Ice Clone. You should learn from this, dead last."
"Of course I knew that," Naruto said, pretending to understand, but he was soon exposed when he scratched his head: "What is Ice Release?"
He only knew about the five elemental releases: Wind, Fire, Lightning, Water, and Earth. He had never heard of Ice Release.
"You said you knew. What they call Ice Release is a Kekkei Genkai created by fusing two types of elemental releases: Water and Wind."
Sasuke held up one finger and introduced it proudly: "And Tōshirō-sensei is the one who has mastered this jutsu."
"Sounds really powerful."
"It is~"
"You've been calling Tōshirō-nii 'sensei' since earlier. Are you his student?"
"Yep."
Sasuke seemed to forget Tōshirō's presence and spoke as if Tōshirō wasn't there: "Don't let him fool you. He's almost 50. He's even a few years older than my dad."
Tōshirō: ...
"No way."
Naruto looked at Tōshirō's youthful face and remembered that when they first met, Tōshirō had introduced himself as having a daughter. Could it be... he wasn't joking?
Tōshirō joked: "You two get along pretty well, don't you? You're even making fun of my age now."
Sasuke immediately denied it: "No, we don't."
"Let's go inside."
Tōshirō shook his head and led the two boys into the house. When they got to the kitchen, Karin, who was helping to prepare food, saw the real Tōshirō and hopped over like a grasshopper to greet him. Then, she looked at the two little boys who had come with him with great curiosity.
One of them, Sasuke, sparked her interest because he was good-looking.
Tōshirō smiled: "Karin is the daughter I recently adopted. You two should get along well from now on~"
Hearing that Karin was Tōshirō's adopted daughter, Sasuke looked at her with some surprise. For Tōshirō's sake, he introduced himself: "My name is Uchiha Sasuke..."
Karin hummed and silently memorized his name.
"Hmph, girls..."
Naruto saw the same lovestruck look in her eyes that he saw in the girls in his class and said in a clumsy, loud way: "My name is Uzumaki Naruto, and I'm going to be the next Hokage."
Uzumaki Naruto!?
Hearing Naruto's self-introduction, Karin looked at Naruto with great surprise: "Did you just say your name is Uzumaki Naruto?"
"Hmph, is there a problem?"
Naruto thought it was because his infamous reputation had scared her, and he started to feel a little uneasy.
"Karin's full name is Uzumaki Karin~"
Tōshirō's words surprised both Sasuke and Naruto at the same time.
This guy is from the same clan as Naruto?
Sasuke looked at Karin with this thought, and he couldn't help but look at her a few more times.
Naruto, on the other hand, had a completely different feeling. He had always been alone, and now he had a clansman.
"You're a member of the Uzumaki clan." Karin pushed up her glasses and circled Naruto once: "But it's strange. Why is your hair yellow? The Uzumaki clan's hair is supposed to be red."
Just then, Karin's mom walked over and explained: "That's normally the case, but if one of the parents isn't from the Uzumaki clan, sometimes the child won't have red hair."
After she finished speaking, she looked at Naruto, guessing his identity in her mind. The only Uzumaki she remembered living in Konoha was one person, and if that person had a child, they would be around the same age.
Karin realized: "Oh, so that's how it is..."
Karin's mom looked at Tōshirō and said respectfully: "Tōshirō-sama, dinner is ready..."
Tōshirō smiled: "Perfect, I'm starving. Let's eat."
At the dinner table, Naruto was very interested in Karin, his clanswoman, and he kept asking her question after question.
Just as Naruto was interested in Karin, Karin was also interested in Naruto.
Unconsciously, their relationship was quickly getting warmer.
Tōshirō frowned as he watched.
Wait, this isn't right.
In the original story, Naruto was obsessed with Sakura because she didn't discriminate against him when they were kids.
Now, Karin can give Naruto everything Sakura can, and even things Sakura can't, as a fellow clanswoman. Plus, she's not bad-looking herself.
This is a direct upgrade, completely outshining Sakura.
There is a very high probability that Naruto will change his mind and fall for Karin.
Damn it.
He forgot about this.
Tōshirō suddenly regretted letting these two meet so early.
He wanted Karin and Sasuke to get together, not Karin and Naruto.
What's the point of an Uzumaki and an Uzumaki getting together? They're still just Uzumakis.
Sasuke saw Tōshirō holding his head, looking troubled. Out of a student's concern for his teacher, he asked: "Tōshirō-sensei, you look very troubled. What's wrong?"
It's nothing...
Tōshirō brushed him off and then glanced at Sasuke.
Maybe he should try a different approach?
How about experimenting with the Hyuga clan?
If an Uchiha and a Hyuga were to combine...
And in a sense, they would be well-matched.
Brilliant...
But he decided to let go of this mischievous thought. Tōshirō decided to let things happen naturally and not interfere.
(End of Chapter)
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