This Naruto is a player

Sakura sobbed softly.

Sasuke frowned, but also glanced at Kakashi and Naruto with suspicion, seemingly noticing something was off about them.

Naruto kept staring at Kakashi, as if he had something left to say.

Will Kakashi really send them back to school?

nonexistent.

No one would allow him, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and the only remaining member of the Uchiha clan, to fail to graduate and become a ninja.

Kakashi-sensei, please bring it up quickly.

Kakashi spoke up as expected, "It's not like there's no second chance."

Sakura looked up in surprise, while Sasuke was even more puzzled.

Naruto looked as if he knew it was true.

Kakashi noticed this, and his single exposed eye narrowed slightly, as if some dark secret was brewing within.

"However, there's a condition. Naruto!" Kakashi suddenly called out, referring to the king of pranks, who was disorganized and undisciplined, and even dared to impersonate him to issue fake missions. He was prepared to severely punish Naruto.

"Ok?"

"You really enjoy running upside down?"

Naruto, unsuspecting, said, "It's alright, but I actually quite like it."

Noticing Kakashi's threatening gaze, he promptly changed his tune.

“Very good. Since you like running upside down, then you will run another 500 laps by yourself today. No, 5000 laps. After you finish, I will give you a second chance tomorrow.”

what?

Naruto realized that Kakashi-sensei was punishing him.

I thought Kakashi-sensei, who took the blame for me, was actually quite nice.

I never expected this.

You, with your thick eyebrows and big eyes, are actually so cunning!

I thought you were really handsome yesterday.

"Start the timer now!"

Kakashi pulled out a stopwatch from somewhere.

That expression, those movements... Naruto seemed to recognize them.

It feels like I've seen it somewhere before.

Before he could think any further, Kakashi had already begun his chilling countdown.

"3...2...1. Now begin."

"hateful!"

Naruto let out a loud roar and immediately began to crawl upside down.

Consider it punishment, give those two guys a chance. 5000 laps, that's all.

Give me some more!

Before we had climbed very far, a voice came from behind.

"Don't slack off, I'll be keeping an eye on you."

This special instruction finally helped Naruto solve the case.

That darn Kakashi! He actually brought his prank stuff to play on him now.

Kakashi came in second place in the game where he imitated Kakashi!

Sakura's face was full of sympathy as she watched Naruto walk away upside down.

5000 laps, I'll probably have to run until tomorrow.

"You two can go back now," Kakashi said.

After saying that, he jumped away in a flash, seemingly to keep an eye on Naruto.

"Humph."

Sasuke snorted coldly; he roughly understood.

But for some reason, he thought of Kakashi's gaze again.

Such a commanding gaze, could it really be Naruto?

I had a premonition about it when I did the handstand run before.

Now I clearly realize that the gap is actually this big?

Sasuke was unwilling to believe it, but the facts left him no choice but to.

"Sasuke-kun, let's go eat." Sakura walked forward with stars in her eyes.

Although she didn't understand what had happened today, thankfully she escaped danger and still had a chance to be with Sasuke.

Moreover, without Naruto as a third wheel, it's entirely just the two of them spending time alone.

"I do not have time."

Then, Sakura saw Sasuke start doing a handstand again and running forward upside down, trying to catch up with Naruto.

Sasuke remained expressionless at this moment.

Sasuke did this simply because he didn't want to lose to Naruto, not because Naruto was going to run 5000 laps upside down to give him a chance, nor because of the teamwork that Kakashi-sensei just mentioned, nor because of the shared honor and disgrace that the three of them discussed yesterday.

That's right, that's how it is.

"Sasuke, Sasuke!" Sakura ran after Sasuke.

after awhile.

Naruto, who had just returned from his run, found the two people ahead of him rather odd.

What are you doing here?

Sasuke responded with a cold snort.

"Oh, I get it! That's right, we're a team! We'll share both glory and hardship!"

Seeing that Sasuke did not object, Sakura seemed to have realized something, and Naruto made the suggestion again.

How about we give our group a catchy name?

Sasuke was already too exhausted to answer him.

Only Naruto, who was relatively relaxed, was left to use the microphone.

"It's better to come up with a group name sooner rather than later, so people don't give us any more nicknames. The Three Ninjas? Listen to that, the name has no uniqueness or beauty at all."

"If you ask me, we should call it 'The Legend of Naruto'! Hey? Kakashi-sensei, what are you doing here waiting for us?"

Kakashi's eyes curved into crescents as he smiled and said, "Congratulations, you've all passed!"

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Chapter 27: The protagonist is actually myself?

We're back to where we started, at the third training ground.

Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura stood, sat, or leaned against a tree trunk, listening to Kakashi-sensei's instructions.

Kakashi stood upright with his arms crossed.

Kakashi glanced at the three people, each with a different appearance and expression, and instructed them, "Meet here again at 8 o'clock tomorrow. Bring your ninja tool pouches, don't forget."

After saying that, he touched his chin, as if recalling something.

"Okay, that's all."

Naruto got up from the ground and asked curiously, "What kind of mission is it tomorrow, Kakashi-sensei?"

"Practice battles."

"Oh."

Naruto muttered to himself, "This is probably the real test for today, but I messed it up."

Practice battles?

This is definitely necessary.

Otherwise, teachers won't understand the students' fighting spirit, and students won't understand the teachers' abilities.

Forget about trust, even cooperation will become a problem.

Is this good? No, it's not.

"Alright, that's all for today. Now, dismissed!"

After saying that, he turned to leave.

But Naruto didn't want him to leave so easily. He had offended the abbot and now he wanted to run away?

"Wait for Kakashi-sensei."

Naruto called out to Kakashi, who was about to leave. Naruto looked pained and staggered toward Kakashi, clutching his stomach with one hand and grabbing at Kakashi with the other.

"Teacher, I'm so hungry, I want to eat Ichiraku Ramen."

Kakashi dodged Naruto's hand that was grabbing him and watched his performance expressionlessly. "Eat if you want."

"But I have no money."

Naruto gestured to the two people behind him and said miserably, "Besides, Kakashi-sensei said yesterday that I would throw up today, so I didn't eat yesterday and I even ran 500 laps this morning."

As he spoke, he swayed a few times, leaving no doubt that he might fall over at any moment.

"Kakashi-sensei, I feel like I'm about to faint from hunger."

Sakura came up to help him and said, "Kakashi-sensei, I want to eat ramen too."