Being a rogue ninja is worse than being Hokage.

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Compared to the noise from Sasuke's side, being with the quiet Hinata allowed Naruto to properly think about the pile of plans related to his defection.

Hinata, whose face hadn't yet recovered from her previous blush, suddenly heard Naruto say these words.

Her face, which had just lightened slightly, suddenly turned even redder than before.

Hinata felt dizzy and then slumped onto the table.

It seems Hinata won't look up again until the explanation session officially begins.

Chapter 6 Rejecting Sakura

The class assignments for the graduates during the briefing were just as Naruto knew from his previous life.

Team 7 consists of Naruto, Sakura Haruno, and Sasuke Uchiha.

Hinata Hyuga, Kiba Inuzuka, and Shino Aburame from Class 8.

Class 10 consists of Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, and Choji Akimichi.

In addition, there's Team 3, who graduated from the Ninja Academy a year earlier than Naruto and his friends: Hyuga Neji, Rock Lee, and Tenten.

The Konoha Twelve Konoha Youngsters have now been formed.

Naruto silently pondered the characteristics and backgrounds of the other ninja teams, and couldn't help but marvel at the Third Hokage's diversification of the Konoha ninja system.

Class 3 focuses on physical skills enhancement, Class 8 on sensory enhancement, and Class 10 on tactical enhancement.

Especially Class 8 and Class 10.

All six students in the two classes are from prestigious families in Konoha, each with their own unique family secret techniques, and they will not be deeply involved in Konoha's teaching system.

Even the Hokage couldn't just arbitrarily insert them into the teams of other ordinary ninjas.

The third generation simply paired members of these prestigious families together based on the characteristics of their bloodline limits or secret techniques, forming a special ability enhancement team.

However, among the four teams of the Konoha Twelve, only Team 7 was not composed entirely according to the logic of characteristic enhancement.

Although the general public was unaware of the Nine-Tails' rampage twelve years ago, the Konoha leadership knew that the Nine-Tails had wreaked havoc in the village because it was controlled by the Sharingan.

Following this logic, Naruto, as the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, would naturally be assigned to Kakashi's mission team, who is famous throughout the ninja world for his Sharingan, after becoming a ninja.

As the last member of the Uchiha clan in Konoha, Sasuke Uchiha could only rely on Kakashi, who possessed one Sharingan, to teach him how to use the Sharingan.

Among these considerations was the Third Hokage's plan to prevent a recurrence of the Nine-Tails' rampage by having Sasuke use his Sharingan to control it when Naruto went berserk.

Of course, Kakashi, an imposter who wasn't from the Uchiha clan, couldn't possibly control the Nine-Tails' rampage.

Only by relying on Sasuke after he grows up can this legitimate Uchiha clan succeed.

The legacy of the Fourth Hokage, the Jinchūriki of the Nine-Tails.

The last surviving member of the Uchiha clan and the rightful owner of the Sharingan.

One has a very poor reputation among the public, and the other has a very poor reputation among high-level officials.

Placing Naruto and Sasuke in the same ninja team means the third member of a three-person team needs careful consideration.

First of all, it is absolutely impossible to include members of Konoha's ninja clans, so we can only look for ordinary ninjas without strong backgrounds.

Whether it's Naruto, who has the bloodline of the Uzumaki clan, or Sasuke, who has a powerful bloodline limit, they both have extremely high growth potential.

Therefore, even if the third person is an ordinary ninja, he still needs to have a special skill.

Therefore, Sakura Haruno, who scored full marks in ninja theory at the Ninja Academy, is the best choice.

Getting a perfect score on the written test already shows that she is a good learner.

If she can grow up smoothly, even if Sakura Haruno is not suitable for frontline combat, she will eventually become an indispensable presence in logistics.

In the original work, Sakura Haruno was also aware of her strengths and weaknesses, and based on this logic, she chose to become Tsunade's apprentice to learn medical ninjutsu.

However, in Naruto's eyes, Sakura Haruno is currently...

She was just a naive girl who grew up pampered as an ordinary person because she came from an ordinary family.

My mind is filled with Uchiha Sasuke.

"Naruto!"

After the briefing, the formal class assignments will take place in the afternoon when we meet with the class leader, Jonin.

There is a two-hour lunch break in between, and after lunch, there is very little rest time left.

But Naruto knew that Kakashi Hatake, who was in charge of Team 7, would be several hours late.

He wouldn't be foolish enough to wait in the classroom.

After the Scroll of Seals incident, Naruto successfully brought the Shadow Clone Technique from the shadows into the open.

This is the first time since I transmigrated that I've been able to cultivate openly.

He has become somewhat absorbed in his cultivation these past few days, relying on his shadow clones.

The fatigue accumulated after the Shadow Clone Technique was dispelled left Naruto feeling somewhat exhausted, so he was preparing to go home and get a good night's sleep.

Sakura Haruno suddenly called out to him.

Naruto stopped and looked back at Sakura Haruno, who was still holding a lunchbox in her hand.

Naruto then remembered that, according to the original storyline, Sakura Haruno should be looking for Sasuke to have dinner with right now.

The subsequent orphan remarks even resulted in a sweeping generalization against more than half of the people in Konoha.

Therefore, Sakura Haruno, an ordinary girl born in the ninja world, was originally living in another world, which is why she was so unlikable before she grew up.

"I don't know where Sasuke is."

Before Sakura could ask any more questions, Naruto answered in a lukewarm manner.

After saying that, Naruto started walking again, no longer paying attention to Sakura Haruno.

He was exhausted and had no interest in paying attention to Sakura Haruno.

Naruto didn't have any dislike for Sakura Haruno; he was just too lazy to bother with her.

After all, although Naruto in the original work had a tragic background, the higher-ups forbade discussing Naruto's past.

Without knowing the background, eleven or twelve-year-old Sakura Haruno saw Naruto as nothing more than a daring troublemaker.

She has no manners; she even vandalizes the Hokage Rock, which represents authority, and she always gets confused and pesters her.

Anyway, Naruto and Sakura Haruno in the early stages of the original work didn't have much emotional intelligence. Since they were both like that, neither of them can really say anything about the other.

In the original work, Sakura Haruno disliked Naruto mainly because she felt that Naruto was always getting in the way of her relationship with Sasuke.

But Iruka died unexpectedly in this world where the Nine-Tails was rampaging.

Neither the original Naruto nor the current Naruto has any interest in her whatsoever.

Naruto and she barely interacted. In the Ninja Academy, Naruto was less familiar with Sakura Haruno than with Hinata Hyuga.

And because of Iruka's death.

The original Naruto in this world always exuded a gloomy and fierce aura, which made Sakura Haruno afraid of Naruto for a long time.

"No, I'm here to see you, Naruto!"

Seeing that Naruto was really about to leave, Sakura Haruno quickly called out to him.

Naruto was taken aback by Sakura Haruno's words, and he looked at Sakura Haruno in front of him again.

Perhaps it was Naruto's unapproachable and fierce aura that left such a deep impression on her, because Sakura Haruno actually seemed a little reserved when Naruto was staring at her.

"Looking for me? Why?"

Naruto asked curiously.

Why is this girl suddenly looking for Sasuke Uchiha instead of bothering him?

"We've been assigned to the same class now, so we'll be spending a lot of time together from now on..."

Sakura Haruno held up the bento box in her hand.

"So I was thinking, how about we, Team 7, have lunch together or something... but I couldn't find Sasuke, I only found you, Naruto."

"It's a bit of a shame we didn't find Sasuke, but we don't really know Naruto either. We didn't talk much at school... So how about we have lunch together first and get to know each other? We can meet up with Sasuke next time..."

Seeing that his suggestion had not received a response from Naruto for a long time.

Sakura Haruno hesitated for a moment, then tentatively asked, "Is it okay?"

"No."

Naruto answered.

This time, he really didn't intend to pay any more attention to Sakura Haruno.

After being pestered by Sakura Haruno for so long, the weariness that I had been suppressing finally rushed to my head.

Besides, according to the plan, he would defect from Konoha after the Chunin Exams.

He doesn't need to do any futile work of "getting to know each other."

Watching Naruto leave, Sakura Haruno lowered the bento box she was holding.

Sasuke, whom she liked, never showed her any interest whatsoever.

When she saw Naruto all alone, she finally managed to overcome her fear of him and mustered the courage to speak to him.

Naruto rejected her without hesitation.