I'm Naruto, Starting With Ashura.

Inuzuka Kiba has been curious about the combination of Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto for a long time.

Perhaps it was because Uzumaki Naruto, who used to be playful and fond of pranks, became silent, the beard on his face disappeared, and those pranks turned into indifferent to everything, facing everything very calmly.

Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto, these two people who seemed completely impossible to be together came together.

Then Inuzuka Kiba discovered that Uzumaki Naruto, who had always been at the bottom of the class, had gotten better grades.

It's not that much better, just a little better, and the bad results in the past suddenly reached the passing line.

Unlike Uzumaki Naruto's outstanding performance, Uchiha Sasuke's performance, which had always been the leader in the class, suddenly dropped. All of a sudden, he was no longer the leader, but dropped to a very reluctant level.

It was only last year, the fourth year after discovering this situation, that Inuzuka Kiba discovered the weirdness in it.

Uchiha Sasuke's performance dropped after the Uchiha clan was exterminated.

Uzumaki Naruto's grades improved after he stopped smiling.

Even if the two people are often in step after that, it would be a bit too arbitrary to attribute all these factors together.

But during another exam, he accidentally saw the results of Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto. Inuzuka Kiba immediately understood that the problem with these two people was serious.

Ninja school examinations are divided into practical scores and written test scores, and the criterion for determining whether a student is qualified is the comprehensive score of the two scores.

The overall results of Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke are exactly the same.

Yes, both the practical scores and the written test scores are just above a passing line.

It doesn't look very good, nor does it look particularly bad.

It's like the genius he once was has completely disappeared from everyone.

But it was this that made Inuzuka Kiba feel something was wrong, and an answer also appeared in Inuzuka Kiba's mind.

Control points!

Both Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto were controlling the score, just staying in a just-passing position.

Not standing high, not standing at the end, just standing in the center.

It's like he deliberately wants to appear ordinary and ordinary.

"These two guys are absolutely terrifying."

Inuzuka Kiba knows very well that this kind of point control is the perfect control of strength, so how many of the entire class can do this?

Inuzuka Kiba is not very clear about the answer to this question, but he understands that in the entire class, except for Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke, Nara Shikamaru, a guy who always talks about "trouble", will do this .

Nara Shikamaru does not control grades in practical classes, but deliberately controls them in written examinations.

However, Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke controlled both their actual results and written test results.

After such a comparison, Inuzuka Kiba knew who was better and who was worse with his eyes closed.

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After Inuzuka Kiba's gaze retracted, Hyūga Hinata, who was sitting in the last row near the back door, also tilted his gaze slightly.

Those slanted eyes were focused on Uzumaki Naruto, who was across a row of seats.

Hyūga Hinata has always known Uzumaki Naruto.

In the past, the most noisy person in the entire class was Uzumaki Naruto, and when Uzumaki Naruto was not noisy, it was Hyūga Hinata who immediately focused on Uzumaki Naruto.

Also when Uzumaki Naruto first changed, she noticed Uzumaki Naruto's eyes staring at her several times.

Hyūga Hinata didn't know the meaning of that look, but after those few times of attention, she never felt Uzumaki Naruto's eyes on her again.

It was because of those few times of attention that Hyūga Hinata began to pay attention to Uzumaki Naruto.

That suddenly got better results.

Suddenly he changed from being cheerful in the past to being taciturn.

Hyūga Hinata can see these changes.

Even when going home, you can often see Uzumaki Naruto not going home, but going to the training ground on the 23rd.

Hyūga Hinata didn't know what was going on, but she had a vague answer in her heart.

"Naruto-kun...you moved out because of those voices."

Because of the usual concerns, Hyūga Hinata can hear the villagers speak ill of Uzumaki Naruto many times on the street.

Those words were very vicious, even more extreme than what she had heard before, even aimed at her.

Hyūga Hinata knows that he is not talented and capable, and he cannot compare with his sister Hanabi in all aspects.

Even Hyūga Hinata heard someone from the tribe say "Master Hinata may be sent to the branch house in the future".

Yes, whenever the Hyuga clan has two heirs, they will turn one heir into a branch house and leave an indelible mark on their forehead.

That's the mark of the branch house.

Once the Hyuga family is branded with this mark, it will be completely controlled by the main family.

It's a stigma.

It is also a brand of slavery.

"If only I had been born in a branch house."

Branch house people will be branded with this mark when they grow up.

In Hyūga Hinata's view, the ordinary self will inevitably be imprinted with this mark, and the younger sister with better talent will become a clan member and shoulder the responsibilities of the Hyuga clan.

Every time I think of these Hyūga Hinata, I can't help but think of Uzumaki Naruto.

That Uzumaki Naruto who was hated just like her and was never liked.

But in Hyūga Hinata's conscious attention, she found that Uzumaki Naruto never once cared about those bad words.

Instead of being weird as usual, after becoming completely stable, Hyūga Hinata knew that Uzumaki Naruto's whole person had been changed.

"Maybe I can change like Naruto-kun."

Hyūga Hinata had this thought once upon a time, but she found that she couldn't care less about other people's feelings like Uzumaki Naruto.

My father was disappointed again and again.

My sister goes above and beyond again and again.

All these make Hyūga Hinata suffer every day.

But that's why Hyūga Hinata paid more attention to the radically changed Uzumaki Naruto.

She didn't know why Uzumaki Naruto was changed, but Hyūga Hinata also hoped that she could be completely changed like Uzumaki Naruto.

Hyūga Hinata didn't know how to talk to Uzumaki Naruto.

Because usually Uzumaki Naruto has become taciturn, and she doesn't know how to greet someone. She is always afraid of being ignored when she wants to speak, and she freezes every time not knowing how to find an opportunity to speak.

"I hope I can find a chance to talk after graduating from ninja school."

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