With the business taken care of, the shadow clone of Menma was about to disperse. Before it did, Menma made a point of visiting Misaki Uzumaki—the pitiful woman who was not even named in the original story and was ultimately bitten to death by the Grass ninja.
Now, she was living peacefully in the underground base of the [JIN] organization, leading a quiet and prosperous life. When she saw Menma again, this once-wary woman had completely let down her guard. Faced with the person who had brought her out of the Hidden Grass, tears welled up in her eyes. She thanked him repeatedly and was even so moved that she was about to perform a dogeza bow, but Menma stopped her in time. He had never liked such formal expressions of gratitude.
The system's notification sound came as expected.
[Ding!]
[Congratulations, Host: You have established a bond (Level 5) with the original character "Misaki Uzumaki"!]
[Points Awarded: 50!]
...A little low.
Naruto sighed inwardly but quickly came to terms with it. After all, in the original story, this woman's only purpose was to highlight Karin's tragic past. To be able to change such a tragic fate was far more gratifying to him than any number of points.
As the shadow clone's memories returned, Naruto's consciousness refocused on the classroom of the Konoha Ninja Academy. The cherry blossoms outside the window bloomed and withered, and the days passed peacefully, one by one.
In the days without major plot events, Naruto lived an enviable, fulfilling life, training with his childhood friend Satsuki every day and spending time with the children of the various great clans. The Ino-Shika-Cho trio, Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame... all had now become his dear friends.
But behind this seemingly leisurely daily life was an almost insane training regimen. Compared to the "hard-working guy with cheats" who relied solely on the system, the current Naruto was more like a "desperate guy with cheats."
After obtaining the four chakra natures granted by the system, he had also independently mastered Wind Style, and it was only a matter of time before he became a perfect five-nature ninja.
His training in the Adamantine Sealing Chains had never stopped. With the massive chakra boost from the system's rewards, the golden chains that now extended from his body could make even the Nine-Tails in the sealed space shiver unconsciously.
One evening, after finishing his taijutsu training with Naruto, Might Guy wiped the sweat from his forehead, his eyes shining with excitement. "Naruto, I met a very special student recently!"
"Although that child has absolutely no talent for ninjutsu, I am certain—he will one day become a powerful ninja!"
Naruto smiled slightly at his words. He knew in his heart, It seems Guy-sensei has met Rock Lee.
Rock Lee—the boy with arguably the lowest talent in the entire Naruto series. His ninjutsu talent was a tragic zero; he couldn't even perform the most basic Three Academy Techniques.
He firmly believed in the creed that "hard work can surpass genius," but he didn't know that he was surrounded not by ordinary geniuses, but by people with cheats.
In the later stages of the original story, when the power gap was completely widened... Rock Lee proved that hard work ultimately could not catch up to cheats, while Guy proved with his life that—at the very least, hard work could take a cheater down with you.
At the same time, Naruto's companions were also growing rapidly. Shikamaru and Choji had already begun to learn their clans' secret jutsu—after all, being in the same class as the most dazzling genius in the school, and hanging out with a "cheater" like Naruto all day, it was impossible not to feel the pressure. Even the usually lazy Shikamaru had recently begun to seriously study the advanced techniques of his clan's Shadow Imitation Jutsu.
Kiba Inuzuka had started his Beast Human Clone training early on, and he and Akamaru would tear through the training grounds all day, taking the "when in doubt, Fang Over Fang" tactic to the extreme.
As for his childhood friend Satsuki, well, she had become even stricter with Naruto's training. Even though Naruto was already training desperately, she was still not satisfied, always frowning and demanding more practice.
Naruto didn't understand the reason—Satsuki was actually worried about the power gap after she awakened her Sharingan. She felt that she should be at the age to awaken her Sharingan soon. As an Uchiha, a clan member's strength would take a qualitative leap after awakening their Kekkei Genkai.
The seemingly even matches they had now were only because Naruto was deliberately holding back. But Satsuki was worried that if the power gap between them grew too large in the future due to her awakening the Sharingan... what if her father didn't approve of Naruto?
For this reason, Satsuki almost frantically demanded that Naruto train. At the same time, her own Fire Style ninjutsu hand seal speed was getting faster and faster, the power of her Lightning Style ninjutsu was increasing daily, and her shurikenjutsu had become a dazzling display of skill. Recently, she had even begun to dabble in the fields of genjutsu and the Body Flicker Technique.
Training, spending time with friends, receiving guidance from Iruka and Might Guy... these peaceful and fulfilling days passed in a flash for two years. Just as Naruto was silently calculating the approach of the Uchiha massacre and preparing to use all his system points to act as Menma—
[Ding!]
The system's notification sound suddenly rang out in the night, making Naruto, who was lying in bed, shoot up.
[Major original story event detected: Main Quest "The Uchiha Massacre" triggered]
[Mission Objective: Based on the location prompt, save the suicidal Shisui Uchiha and change the fate of the Uchiha clan massacre]
[Mission Reward: Obtain the Stand ability "Gold Experience"]
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