Self introduction
Under the gaze of his classmates, Naruto walked onto the podium step by step.
In the class, many girls looked at Naruto with expectant eyes, looking at the handsome blond boy, anticipating his self-introduction.
Beside him, Iruka also looked at the student who had walked onto the podium with somewhat complicated emotions.
It was the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox sealed within this student's body that had killed Iruka's parents.
Although he knew very well in his heart that he couldn't equate Naruto with the demon fox, he still couldn't help but feel the hatred welling up inside him.
This uncontrollable emotion made Iruka unsure of what kind of attitude he should adopt when facing Naruto.
And in the Hokage's office, there were also many people watching the scene in the classroom through a live broadcast on a crystal ball.
The Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, the advisor elders Torifu Koharu, Mitokado Homura, and Shimura Danzo.
These four old people who held the highest power in the Hidden Leaf Village were also watching the boy who walked onto the podium, anticipating his speech.
As Naruto, the Nine-Tailed Jinchuriki, the strongest tailed beast in the Ninja World, he was seen by these high-level officials as a withdrawn and precocious person. No one knew what he was thinking beneath that calm expression.
The self-introduction at this entrance ceremony was a good opportunity to assess Naruto's psychology.
Everyone hoped that Naruto could become a Hidden Leaf ninja with the Will of Fire, or at the very least, prevent him from going to extremes.
From the moment the first classmate began to introduce themself, Naruto began to seriously consider what he wanted to do in the future.
And now, when it was his turn to introduce himself, Naruto already had a definite answer in his heart.
"Hello everyone, my name is Naruto Uzumaki. I like training and cooking, and I hate the resentful gazes of the adults in the village."
"What I want to do most in the future is to travel around the Ninja World, see the local customs and practices of various places, get to know the world I live in, and I also really like making friends. I hope I can get along well with everyone in the future."
After speaking, Naruto bowed slightly, and then walked off the podium.
"So handsome."
On his way back to his seat, Naruto could hear the girls' exclamations rising and falling.
He could also feel the resentful gazes from some of the male students. Naruto could only smile helplessly at these emotions.
After all, it wasn't his fault that he was handsome.
"Resentment, huh?"
Iruka chewed on this word in his mouth, and sighed. Wasn't he also acting out of resentment?
It's just that he couldn't control himself for the time being.
He hoped that the passage of time could change everything.
In the Hokage's office, the crystal ball no longer showed the picture. There was no need to watch anymore.
The group was silent for a while, and finally the white-haired old woman named Torifu Koharu spoke first: "This child does not have the Will of Fire, but instead has darkness in his heart, and has a lot of resentment towards the people in the village."
The old man with glasses, Mitokado Homura, added: "However, his personality is not bad. He only thinks about staying away from those who are unwilling to look at him properly, and does not have any extreme ideas."
"Hmph, I said long ago that the Jinchuriki should be handed over to our Root, and brainwashing education should be carried out after applying the curse seal. How could such an important thing as the Nine-Tailed Jinchuriki be allowed to move around freely in the village."
The gloomy old man Shimura Danzo, with bandages wrapped around one eye and one hand, and holding a cane, snorted coldly.
"Enough, it's all your fault for being meddlesome and revealing Naruto's identity as a Jinchuriki, otherwise, how could it have come to this?" Sarutobi Hiruzen coldly rebuked, "What's more, he is Minato's child."
"Naruto will graduate normally from the Ninja Academy, and even without the Will of Fire, he will live in the Hidden Leaf Village as an ordinary Konoha ninja."
"Hiruzen, you are just too soft-hearted, one day you will regret it, hmph." Danzo coldly snorted again, then angrily turned and left, clearly very unhappy that his goal had not been achieved.
Torifu Koharu and Mitokado Homura exchanged a glance, both feeling very helpless.
However, they didn't stay long, bid farewell to Sarutobi Hiruzen, and then left.
They came here today because Danzo strongly requested it, wanting to know what the Jinchuriki was thinking.
And now that the goal was achieved, and the Jinchuriki's thoughts were not extreme, they agreed with Sarutobi Hiruzen's approach as the Third Hokage.
Watching his old friends leave, Sarutobi Hiruzen silently lit a cigarette, his eyes unfocused, his thoughts drifting to who knows where.
...
After Naruto introduced himself, it was Sasuke's turn, who was sitting next to him.
This handsome Uchiha boy was generally more popular than Naruto.
After all, Sasuke's fair skin was more like a pretty boy than Naruto's healthy tan skin, so he was naturally more popular with girls.
"I am Sasuke Uchiha, I like to train, especially with my brother."
After a pause, Sasuke added, "Also, the grilled fish Naruto makes, I hate sweets, and what I want to do most right now is to be able to defeat Naruto and become a ninja as strong as my brother after graduation."
On the platform, Sasuke's self-introduction revealed a lot of information.
"This guy is very familiar with Naruto, did they know each other before?"
"Sasuke, from the Elite Uchiha Clan, is aiming to defeat Naruto, how strong is he?"
"Maybe it's just two weaklings pecking at each other, I will definitely be stronger than them and become number one, so all the girls will look at me with admiration."
These were the exclamations of the boys.
"Wow, so handsome."
And the girls, besides exclaiming how handsome he was, looked at Naruto and Sasuke with even more fervent eyes, and in that instant, they had imagined countless strange scenarios.
At this time, Sasuke finally experienced a bit of the helplessness Naruto had felt before.
After Sasuke came down, the remaining few classmates introduced themselves, and the classmates in the class were considered to have a preliminary understanding of each other.
After the self-introductions, Iruka took Naruto and the others to get their textbooks.
In addition to ninja-related teaching content, there were also things like literature, mathematics, and history.
The Ninja Academy in the peaceful era, while cultivating qualified Genin, also taught them some necessary common sense for independent living.
After distributing the books, classes officially began in the afternoon.
Although there were many children from famous families in Konoha in the class, the first lesson at the Ninja Academy still started with teaching how to extract Chakra...
Before five o'clock in the afternoon, the day's classes ended.
And after Naruto looked at the timetable for the first year, he found that besides the things about stealth, trap making, and some ninja common sense, he had already learned the rest.
And these common ninja knowledge contents that Naruto hadn't learned were all knowledge-based studies, which could be completely taken care of by Shadow Clones.
After that day, Naruto never came to school again.
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