In the remote location and the quiet and deserted field of No. 3, two thin black shadows were shuttled back and forth. With the continuous consumption of chakra in the two of them, this live-action parkour competition, which was staged by a coincidence, is gradually coming to an end.

...

"Strange, after just a short while, why did that guy run so hard that he couldn't see the figure...I was chasing the wrong direction?"

After looking around but not seeing Naruto's traces, Sasuke, who had consumed most of the chakra in his body, slowly lowered his degree. He gave up the idea of ​​continuing to chase and found a giant tree nearby, leaning against the trunk, sitting down with his red little face, constantly opening his mouth and breathing heavily, calming down the heartbeat that suddenly accelerated under intense exercise.

"Ahhh, I wouldn't have taken a shortcut at that time..."

Sasuke, who had been chasing me for a long time, had long forgotten about the game he had followed Naruto to the No. 3 training ground because of his momentary curiosity.

The fleshy little hands were clenched into a fist and waved unwillingly, but Sasuke's face was filled with an uncontrollable smile.

Since his elder brother Uchiha Itachi graduated from Ninja School, he has spent less and less time with Sasuke. In addition, his father Uchiha Tomo has almost no friends to play with with him under the strict requirements... How long has it been since he had fun playing without any scruples like now?

"...Ah, terrible. I almost forgot that I still have to practice the fireball technique today. I have to go back quickly when it's not too late."

Sasuke, who had recovered some physical strength while talking to himself, slowly stood up. When he instinctively raised his head and stretched his limbs a little, his eyes unexpectedly saw Naruto who thought he had run away.

To be precise, without any external objects, his feet were standing upright against the branches and hung upside down on his head, and his eyes were close to his orthodontic clutches and staring at him.

"It's so amazing... how did this happen... no! You've been hiding in a tree all the time? You're so cunning! This is cheating!"

"Ha? What a fool, I don't know what you are saying... Humph, can't I try to make excuses because I can't run away from me?"

"You...you can come down! Let's compare it with each other again!"

"A little bit, no, if you have the ability, come up!"

"You come down!"

"Come up!"

"Down!"

“Come up!”

Naruto, whose face was twisting and trembling as if it was unacceptable, kept twitching with his mouth. After hearing Sasuke's words, his eyes instantly turned into white bean eyes, raised his hand to point at Sasuke, and he made noise and provoked each other childishly, but in his heart, he was just trampled by tens of thousands of grass mud horses and was crying without tears.

Before, Naruto was chasing him to avoid showing any flaws to attract the attention and vigilance of some people who were interested, and he tried hard to control the output of chakra, so that his degree would look as much as possible to be the same as his peers who were running all the best... Even so, as time passed, it was unexpected that the other party still failed to effectively narrow the distance between them.

"I thought it was not fast or slow before to follow the chasing rhythm, because the members of the Root Organization were playing a pastime game similar to cat and mouse, and did this on purpose... I didn't expect that the other party was just an unrelated child? Why did I be nervous and guarded for a long time!"

Wasting so much practice time to deal with people, I have prepared several sets of self-defense plans that I might be able to use... As a result, it is just that Naruto himself is too alert and is fighting wits and courage with the air!?

"It's embarrassing, so embarrassing... This is definitely teasing me!"

...

"Huh, as Naruto said, it's much more difficult to maintain a certain amount of chakra than I thought..."

In front of the giant tree used by Naruto to practice climbing trees, Sasuke, who practiced dirt by following the method of Professor Naruto, was weak and collapsed among the pile of leaves.

"If there are too many, it is easy to break the trunk. If there are too few, it does not have enough adsorption... In either case, you will fall down if you can't climb very high."

While sweating and breathing slightly, Sasuke recalled and summarized the experience accumulated from several failures before, while looking at the trunks he had climbed before. There were bumpy footprints and white scratches of varying depths everywhere... and the number of traces he left was just a drop in the bucket compared to it.

"...... These are all left by that guy Naruto when he practiced alone... From this point of view, he didn't have to run with all his strength before, right? Well, it's not unfair to lose."

After pressing the only remaining strength in his sore and soft muscles, he forced himself to sit up against the tree trunk, Sasuke's eyes gradually shifted from the tragic traces on the tree trunk to Naruto, who was carefully carving the wooden block in his hand with kunai, and raised his eyebrows and muttered to himself in a low voice.

"Do you hope to die early?... You are obviously a guy who is easy to get along with, so why are you given this vicious title?"

"…Hmm? What's wrong with Sasuke? Are you planning to give up so soon?"

As if he noticed Sasuke's curious eyes, Naruto looked at the outline of the three-pointed kuna that had just been seen in his hand, and raised his head and looked at it with his eyes raised, with his lips curled up and smiling.

"How...how is it possible! Idiot! I am the strongest Uchiha clan in Konoha. How can this kind of pediatric training be difficult for me?"

For some reason, the gentle smile on Naruto's face actually gave Sasuke a little illusion that his brother was with him to guide his practice. After a while, he was stunned and stunned for a while, his face turned slightly red as if he was caught by someone. He turned his head away and retorted in a muffled voice, but the smile in his eyes became even stronger.

"... Speaking of which, Naruto, do you know... what do the villagers say about you?"

As a dangerous and terrible monster that the villagers said, now I have witnessed and contacted it with my own eyes, but instead thinks that Naruto is very approachable. This makes Sasuke's doubts expand, and he can't help but ask intermittently and carefully.

"Ah? Oh, do you say that... I'm the monster that killed the fourth generation Hokage. I should have died sooner... or something?"

Sasuke suddenly asked, but Naruto's movements and expressions seemed to be unaffected, and he continued to carefully carve and perfect the wooden kunai in his hand, and shrugged and answered casually.

After all, Naruto, as a time traveler, has always been very clear in his heart that his parents who fought to protect him from the harm of Jiu Tai were indeed dead because of him... In addition, the Nine Lama sealed in his body was not wrong.

"Well, I've been used to it since I was a child and I have nothing to care about."

"Ha? But..."

"I'll ask you a question, Sasuke, are those villagers irreplaceable families in my life?"

Looking at Naruto's indifferent look, Sasuke felt a tingling feeling in his heart for some reason. He frowned slightly and was about to continue saying something, but he was interrupted by Naruto's serious questioning.

"This... doesn't seem to be?"

"That's right? They are just passers-by who have nothing to do with me... Since they have nothing to do with me, why should I care about what they are saying?"

"…ah? It seems...that's the case?"

"Because they pointed at me behind my back, I had to die if I wanted me to die? Even a fool wouldn't do such a thing, right?"

Looking at Sasuke who was confused in front of him trying to digest the meaning, Naruto smiled even more. After pausing for a while, he didn't know whether to explain to others or give him an answer, and continued to speak in a low voice.

"No matter what they say, whether it is a monster, or a monster, I am still me, and Uzumaki Naruto from Konoha Ninja Village, this will not change anything."

"Instead of caring about the fingers of those irrelevant people, it is better to work harder and make your own lives more exciting... After all, as long as you can live with a clear conscience and not leave any regrets or regrets in your life, it is enough!"
Chapter completed!