Chapter 46:
"Naruto, we agreed to go out and have fun, yet you're catching rabbits again. Don't tell me you're planning to bring them back for extra food?"
Inuzuka Kiba stared at the rabbit in Naruto's hands, feeling like "going out to play" was just an excuse for Naruto to hunt wild game.
"If I don't catch rabbits, what are we supposed to eat? Sasuke has been training especially hard lately and eating more and more, but the living expenses haven't increased at all. If I didn't catch extra food to bring back, the two of us would have starved and couldn't even attend class!"
Naruto never held back when complaining about how stingy the Hokage was.
Since it wasn't the first time, Kiba and Shikamaru no longer looked shocked — they only felt helpless and disgusted.
Saying Sasuke eats a lot?
The guy whose appetite was three to five times bigger than Sasuke's actually had the nerve to complain about Sasuke?
"If I remember correctly, you and Sasuke get the same amount of living expenses, but your appetite is three to five times his…"
Nara Shikamaru sat on a tree branch, shaking his head as he watched the rabbit in Naruto's hands.
They had basically become Naruto's playmates. Although the original purpose felt a bit unpleasant, as long as they didn't have to stay in the classroom, he didn't really mind.
"Yeah, so I never let Sasuke cook or go out to catch ingredients. I handle all of that. He just waits and eats."
Naruto looked up at Shikamaru. He ate more, so of course he did more work.
"What you said makes sense. I see your hair has grown quite long. Why don't you just become a girl and marry Sasuke? That way those girls would stop screaming every time they see him in class…"
Shikamaru looked at Naruto. With his shoulder-length hair, from behind he really could be mistaken for a girl.
But then he remembered that he himself also tied his hair up, so after saying that, Shikamaru suddenly felt a little regretful.
"You tie your hair up too. I just don't like tying mine. If I let it down, we don't even know whose would be longer…"
Naruto gave Shikamaru a look of disdain. He realized this guy was getting lazier and lazier — even his brain was too lazy to think properly.
"Actually, Shikamaru has a point. Those girls are getting more and more excessive. They scream every time they see Sasuke. You walk to school with him every day — don't you find those voices too ear-piercing?"
Inuzuka Kiba sat under the tree hugging Akamaru. As the years passed and graduation was only one year away, the girls' confessions to Sasuke had become completely open.
And they were the ones suffering — having to listen to the noise every day. Luckily none of them liked any of the girls in class, or it would have been even more painful.
"Watching Sasuke's face turn black when those girls surround him actually makes me really happy. That bastard Sasuke always hits so hard. I cook delicious food for him every day, but when he beats me up, he never holds back…"
Naruto swung the rabbit in his hand. He really got beaten by Sasuke almost every day.
Fortunately, the shadow clone in the soul space was working hard and could beat up Shadow Clone Sasuke on a daily basis.
But the result was that after his shadow clone won, Sasuke would definitely retaliate against the real Naruto within three days. It had become a vicious cycle…
"But it's effective, right? Now you can reach the middle-to-upper level in taijutsu exams. If Sasuke keeps training you, by the time we graduate, you might not be the dead-last anymore…"
Inuzuka Kiba laughed from the side, pointing out the results of Naruto getting beaten.
But this kind of reminder only earned him a look of disgust from Naruto.
Getting beaten every day and still being the dead-last — he was already miserable enough!
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