I founded the "Bragging Cult" in Naruto.

Chapter 27: A persona needs to be maintained for a lifetime, otherwise it will collapse.

According to Tatsuma's own estimation, with his current strength and Minato's limited edition ninja tool projection, as long as his "firepower" is sufficient, he should have no problem dealing with a Chunin.

After all, his current ninja tool throwing ability is completely beyond standard. Tatsuma felt that even ordinary Jonin might not have as good a grasp of ninja tool throwing as he did.

Of course, this is only in terms of skill. If we take power into account, he is still quite bad.

But it's only the beginning of second grade, and he's only six years old. At his current rate, he might reach Chunin level before he's even eight. He's not exactly a genius, but he's still pretty good.

Under his influence, Minato might grow up earlier than in the original story. It's just unknown whether Minato, who realizes his talent earlier, will graduate earlier.

This was not what Tatsuma wanted to see, so he pinned his hopes on Kushina Uzumaki arriving soon and attracting Minato, the boy who was already quite romantic.

Does Tatsuma have feelings for Kushina? If it were the adult Kushina, perhaps he would, but right now... Tatsuma isn't a beast, and he would never allow himself to become a creepy uncle who's just playing with someone he's raising.

There are people who fall in love early, but there are even more in the Naruto world where people are generally precocious.

However, they were childhood sweethearts, and Chenma had a crush on a girl when he was in elementary school in his previous life, but at that time he didn't even know what the process of dating was, let alone the things between men and women.

But once he found out, Tatsuma no longer had that innocent feeling of childhood friendship. After coming into this world, he was unwilling to approach young girls with this more complete understanding of love.

In other words, Tatsuma likes 18-year-old girls.

Of course, there is another reason, which is that Tatsuma is not attractive to little girls nowadays, after all, his behavior is indeed somewhat unusual.

Girls of this age generally like cool, aloof guys, or handsome guys who catch the eye at first glance.

And what about Chenma? He is warm-hearted, sincere, good at socializing, and very ambitious. These are the qualities that older generations would consider in a boy.

In addition, naturally curly hair is really hard to like at this age. For example, at the beginning of the year, on Valentine's Day, Minato received half a desk full of chocolates, and Uchiha Tenka and Hyuga Sento filled it to the brim.

Even Shikaku and Inoichi received chocolates, but Tatsuma only received chocolates from Minato, because Minato felt he couldn't finish them all.

Tatsuma stubbornly insisted that he didn't like chocolate.

To maintain his image as someone who dislikes chocolate, for the past six months, he has even removed the chocolate from the ice cream he buys in front of Minato and the others before eating it.

There's no way around it; I've always been strong-willed.

Tatsuma touched his hair, hoping that he could find a way to completely get rid of his curly hair before he came of age, otherwise he would have to ask the ninja world's Tony-style hairdressers for help.

After looking at the system panel and letting his mind wander for a while, Chenma finally stopped feeling so full. He then washed up, carefully dried his hair with a hairdryer on the cool setting, and reviewed his first-grade textbook before going to bed.

The next day, Minato, who had a braided hairstyle and looked like a blonde version of Hideto Takarai, arrived at the ninja academy with Tatsuma, who also had a braided hairstyle and looked like a white-haired version of Yasuo.

Today, many parents brought their children to school, just like at this time last year when Tatsuma and Minato enrolled.

Passing by the playground, Tatsuma and Minato checked last year's rankings. Tatsuma and Minato hadn't faced each other at the end of last semester, so both of them had won all three matches. Just like in the first semester, they were both first place again.

Chenma suddenly had a premonition that the school would continue to "create" this situation. If it continued like this this year, then by this time next year, they would be the "other people's children" that other parents were talking about.

The parents of the ninja students would use the fact that these two commoners had surpassed the ninjas to motivate their children. The children of ninjas or commoners would use their deeds to encourage their own children.

However, Tatsuma didn't dislike this feeling. Perhaps Jiraiya was right; being in the limelight was indeed a good thing, at least in terms of his own mood.

After returning to their seats in the classroom, the bell rang for class soon afterward. However, Mr. Sarutobi Akiura did not arrive on time as usual, and Shikaku even teased him, asking if he had forgotten that it was the first day of school.

After a while, the classroom went from noisy to eerily quiet before Sarutobi Akiura appeared in the classroom, accompanied by a red-haired little girl with her head down, looking like she had social anxiety.

Sarutobi Akiura was pleased with the quietness of the class, and then said to the students, "Classmates, this student will be transferring to our class starting today. Please remember to do your best from now on."

"My name is Kushina Uzumaki!"

But before Sarutobi Awaura could finish speaking, Kushina suddenly began to introduce herself. Only after she uttered those words did she realize that the atmosphere around her was strange.

People started talking about Kushina's hair color and her strange behavior. Just as Sarutobi Akiura was about to stop her, Kushina once again revealed her true, unruly nature and shouted, "I'm going to become the village's first female Hokage!"

In an instant, the class fell silent, everyone staring at Kushina. After a while, Minato glanced at Tatsuma several times, and seeing that he didn't react at all, in order not to make Kushina, a girl who had just arrived at the school, feel awkward, he had no choice but to stand up and say:

"Hello, I also want to become a Hokage recognized by the villagers."

Seeing Minato come to the rescue, Sarutobi Akiura breathed a sigh of relief and was about to change the subject, but Kushina stared at Minato, at his long braided hair, and then said with displeasure, "Are you going to compete with me, you sissy?"

"???"

Even Minato seemed a little lost at this moment. Teacher Hepu quickly waved his hand, gesturing for Minato to sit down, and then said, "Alright, alright, find a seat first. There's an empty seat next to Minato, so you can sit down there."

Looking at Minato, who had braids and looked even "more beautiful" than herself, Kushina pouted, clearly somewhat dissatisfied, but still walked over and sat down.

Minato didn't know how to behave, so he gave Kushina a bright smile, but Kushina just snorted and turned her head away from Minato.

Tatsuma, who had been watching from the sidelines, twitched the corner of his mouth. He had known all along that Kushina didn't like Minato at first because she thought he was an unreliable sissy.

But now it seems that Kushina's prejudice against Minato is deeper than expected. Could it be that Tatsuma looked at Minato's hair and suspected that it was because he tricked Minato into growing his hair long and braiding it that caused this?

"This is troublesome. It would be bad if Minato got scared and applied for graduation early."

(End of this chapter)