Being a rogue ninja is worse than being Hokage.

Being a rogue ninja is worse than being Hokage.

Author: Eggplant is Purple

Synopsis: I transmigrated into the Naruto world and became Naruto Uzumaki.

But the homeroom teacher is from Tsinghua University?

Umino Iruka died 12 years ago during the Nine-Tails' rampage?!

Without Iruka, Naruto remained in darkness and felt no sense of belonging to Konoha.

This led Danzo to execute his plan to control the Nine-Tails ahead of schedule!

Knowing that he was being targeted by Danzo and would only live as a tailed beast weapon for the village, Naruto Uzumaki gave up his delusional dream of becoming Hokage and decided to become a rogue ninja!

If the Uchiha can be a Konoha rogue ninja, why can't I, the Uzumaki, be one?!

Chapter 1: They're all rogue ninja, it doesn't matter who takes the blame.

"Ino-boo! Get away from Sasuke!"

"Hmph, stop pretending you're so close to Sasuke. Sakura, Sasuke would never like someone with a broad forehead like you!"

The girls were arguing so loudly that the noise could be heard in the hallway outside the classroom.

The noise on campus in the morning is pretty much the same everywhere...

Thinking this, Naruto Uzumaki pushed open the back door of the classroom.

In the last row of the tiered classroom, Yamanaka Ino and Haruno Sakura, who were originally arguing over a girl, were slightly drawn to the sound of the door opening.

After discovering that the visitor was only Naruto Uzumaki, the two glared at each other angrily once again.

Naruto Uzumaki didn't care about being ignored by the two women. He walked straight past them and sat down in the innermost seat in the last row by the window.

However, the black-haired boy surrounded by Ino Yamanaka and Sakura Haruno, Sasuke Uchiha, stared at Naruto Uzumaki for a while.

Just as Naruto Uzumaki sat down in his seat, the class bell rang through the black speaker on the classroom wall.

The students returned to their seats when the bell rang.

As the bell rang, the homeroom teacher walked up to the podium and began outlining today's lesson: "Everyone will be taking the Ninja Academy graduation exam tomorrow, so let's all study hard in the classroom today to prepare for the exam!"

"Yes, Mr. Mizuki!"

The students responded loudly to their homeroom teacher, Shui Mu's, words.

Naruto Uzumaki was one of the students who responded, but he gave Mizuki a final, deep look.

Noticing Naruto's gaze, Mizuki smiled gently at him.

Naruto immediately adopted an expression of being unaccustomed to the kindness shown to him, turning his head away from Mizuki's smile as if to avoid it, and shifting his attention from the classroom to the school playground outside the window.

But Naruto wasn't really admiring the scenery outside the window; he was pondering Mizuki's smile to him earlier.

It seems that, just like in the original story, Mizuki has already begun to include him in his plan to steal the Book of Seals.

Naruto's eyes flickered; finally, something important matched his memories...

Counting the days, it's been two years since I transmigrated to the Naruto world.

Naruto still vividly remembers the shock he felt when he first entered the Konoha Ninja Academy and discovered that his homeroom teacher was not Iruka Umino but Mizuki.

Unlike the original story, in the Naruto world that Naruto traveled to, Iruka Umino and his parents died in the Nine-Tails' attack twelve years prior.

In the original story, Iruka was the only source of light for Naruto when he was a child.

Without Iruka's kindness, Naruto's heart became even darker, and his relationships with those around him became even more strained.

This led to Naruto being untrustworthy in the eyes of Konoha's higher-ups, deepening their fear of him.

While they are said to be high-ranking officials in Konoha, they are more like the extreme hawkish ideas of Shimura Danzo...

In the original Naruto manga, Danzo Shimura only began preparing to imprison and control Naruto Uzumaki, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, as a strategic weapon of Konoha, when Tsunade, the Fifth Hokage, fell into a coma during Pain's invasion of Konoha and finally achieved her wish of becoming Hokage.

However, without Iruka, the original Naruto Uzumaki in this world was trapped in darkness and unable to escape. His strong sense of alienation from Konoha Village actually led Danzo to advance his plan to control the Nine-Tails.

And this plan was implemented... just two years ago!

Two years ago, Danzo attempted to use Uchiha Shisui's eyes to control Naruto, turning him into a tailed beast weapon without his own personality, only knowing how to obey orders.

However, things took an unexpected turn. Perhaps he was still unable to control the cells of the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, or perhaps he was not proficient enough in using the Sharingan—in any case, the original Naruto of this world died two years ago.

That is, at the same time that the original Naruto died, he, as a transmigrator, became the new Naruto Uzumaki.

The Third Hokage, who arrived late to stop Danzo, saved the time-traveling Naruto.

In his past life, everyone said that Hiruzen Sarutobi was indecisive, and now Naruto has experienced it firsthand...

Danzo's actions went unpunished; he was merely ordered by the Third Hokage not to lay a hand on Naruto again.

This made Naruto think more than once that if he were just an ordinary Jinchuriki without any background, and not the orphan of the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze.

Given Hiruzen Sarutobi's personality in his old age, he might not even give Danzo a final order...

Therefore, Naruto did not trust the indecisive elderly Third Hokage and was always on guard against Danzo's possible machinations.

The Third Hokage could not possibly provide Naruto with any real protection.

Given Danzo's methods, since he has already attacked Naruto, he will definitely not let Naruto go.

Especially after the Akatsuki organization began capturing Jinchuriki on a large scale, disrupting the power structure of the five great ninja villages.

The hawkish Danzo would definitely hold onto the Nine-Tails even tighter, using it to seize benefits for Konoha from the other four great nations when the balance of power is off.

"There's still some time before get out of class ends, let's have another mock exam. Those who passed the last mock exam should also participate!"

Mizuki, standing on the podium, suddenly spoke, breaking Naruto's train of thought.

"Hey!"

The students were all complaining.

"There's no use being dissatisfied. Everyone, stand in front of the class according to your student ID number and prepare for the exam!"

Shui Mu adopted the authority of a homeroom teacher, picked up the scoreboard, and waited for the students to assemble.

So the students reluctantly left their seats and lined up according to their student numbers to take the mock exam.

Naruto joined the group, but a strange phenomenon then occurred.

In the long queue, the students were all huddled together, except for Naruto, where everyone, whether in front or behind him, tacitly kept two spaces between them.

The students' isolation of Naruto was extremely noticeable.

This is a situation that would never occur in the original work. Even if the adults in the village ostracize Naruto, the students in the school are still eleven or twelve-year-old children. Even if they don't want to talk to Naruto, they would not engage in such severe isolation behavior that is no different from bullying.

Noticing his predicament, Naruto sighed softly.

This situation is also related to the original Naruto. Without Iruka, Naruto's personality was quite dark back then.

These interpersonal relationships are already quite good, and this is the result of his hard work in cultivating them over the past two years. If he were still the original Naruto, he would be facing more than just obvious isolation.

It's so depressing...

Naruto couldn't help but think this way.

The village's higher-ups wanted to use him as a weapon without any personality.

Because of the Nine-Tailed Fox's rampage twelve years ago, the villagers have been ostracizing him amidst gossip and rumors.

Living like this for two years, even Naruto, a transmigrator, was finding it hard to endure.

but……

Naruto lowered his head, pretending to be disappointed by being ostracized by his classmates, but his eyes gleamed with a sharp light.

Soon we'll be able to get rid of these days.

If he successfully becomes a ninja, he can use the pretext of a "mission" to defect from the village!

Naruto looked up again at Sasuke Uchiha at the front of the group. "If the Uchiha can be a Konoha traitor, why can't I, the Uzumaki, be one?!"

Chapter 2 My dream is also to become Hokage!

"Sakura Haruno, let the exam begin!"

Sakura Haruno, with her long pink hair, forms hand seals.

A cloud of smoke suddenly appeared around her, obscuring her figure.

The smoke dissipated in the next instant, and when Sakura Haruno reappeared before everyone, there were four identical versions of herself.

This is the Clone Technique, one of the three most basic ninjutsu of ninjas, and together with the Transformation Technique and the Substitution Technique, it is known as the "Three Body Techniques".

Mizuki observed Sakura Haruno's clone, whose body shape, expression, and movements were exactly the same as Sakura's.

He wrote down Sakura Haruno's score on the scoreboard: "Next, Uchiha Sasuke!"

Uchiha Sasuke walked out of the waiting line with his hands in his pockets. He had a cold expression on his face and did not say a word before forming hand seals to cast the Shadow Clone Technique. Judging from the speed of casting the technique, Uchiha Sasuke was faster than Haruno Sakura.

Before Mizuki could speak, Sasuke Uchiha released the Shadow Clone Technique and returned to his seat.

This aloof demeanor drew screams of excitement from the girls.

After Sasuke Uchiha, Mizuki called a few more students forward to take the exam.

Naruto waited quietly for his exam to begin.

The ability to create clones...

Naruto still remembers that in the original work, during the mock exam for the Three Body Techniques before the official exam, Iruka's question was "transformation".

When it came to Shuimu, it became a clone.

Two years after his arrival in the world, Naruto still outwardly pretends to be someone who is not good at ninjutsu. In fact, his clone technique is even worse than in the original work when he is pretending to be bad at it.

Mizuki, as expected, planned to use the outcome of the graduation exam to lure Naruto into seizing the Scroll of Seals.

It seems that Mizuki, like Naruto, is already eager to get his hands on the Scroll of Seals...

However, Naruto's reason for pretending to be bad at ninjutsu was not just to mislead Mizuki into getting information about the Scroll of Seals from him.

This was also to mislead Danzo.