Naruto: Naruto's Uchiha girlfriend is too arrogant

Chapter 73 Timeline Convergence

With the matter settled, Menma's shadow clone was about to dissipate. Before disappearing, Menma made a special trip to see Uzumaki Misaki—a pitiful woman whose name was never mentioned in the original work and who was ultimately bitten to death by the Grass Ninja.

Now she lives a peaceful and prosperous life in the underground base of the [Jin] organization. When she saw Menma again, this woman, who had once been full of vigilance, had completely let down her guard. Facing Menma, who had brought her out of Kusagakure, tears welled up in her eyes. She thanked him repeatedly and even tried to perform a deep bow, but Menma stopped her in time, as he had never liked such formal expressions of gratitude.

The system notification tone arrived as expected.

【Ding! 】

[Congratulations, host! You have established a level 5 bond with the original character "Uzumaki Misaki"!]

Points earned: 50!

...That's a bit too little.

Naruto sighed inwardly, but quickly came to terms with it. After all, in the original work, this woman's existence was merely to highlight Karin's tragic past. Being able to change such a tragic fate brought him far more satisfaction than gaining any number of points.

As the memories of his shadow clones returned, Naruto's consciousness refocused on his classroom at the Konoha Ninja Academy. The cherry blossoms outside the window bloomed and faded, and the days passed peacefully by.

In the absence of major plot events, Naruto lives an enviable, fulfilling life, training daily with his childhood friend Satsuki and spending time with children from various clans. The Ino-Shika-Cho trio, Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame... they have all become his close friends.

But behind this seemingly leisurely daily life lies near-frenzied training. Compared to simply relying on the system to be a "hard-working cheat," Naruto is now more like a "desperate cheat."

After receiving the four chakra natures granted by the system, he also cultivated the wind nature on his own. He was only a matter of time before he became a perfect five-element ninja.

His training in the Vajra Sealing Technique never ceased. With the massive chakra boost from the system's rewards, the golden chains extending from his body could now make the Nine-Tails within the sealed space shiver involuntarily.

One evening, after finishing his taijutsu training with Naruto, Might Guy wiped the sweat from his brow, his eyes gleaming with excitement, and said, "Naruto, I recently met a very special student!"

"Although that child has absolutely no talent for ninjutsu, I'm certain—he will become a powerful ninja someday!"

Naruto smiled slightly upon hearing this, understanding dawning on him. It seemed that Guy-sensei had already met Rock Lee.

Rock Lee—the boy with arguably the lowest talent in the entire Naruto series. His ninjutsu talent is a tragic 0, and he can't even perform the most basic Three Body Technique.

He firmly believed that "hard work can surpass genius," but he didn't know that he was surrounded not by ordinary geniuses, but by cheaters.

Later in the original story, when the gap in combat power became too large... Rock Lee proved that hard work can never catch up with a cheater, while Guy proved with his life that at least hard work can lead to mutual destruction with a cheater.

Meanwhile, Naruto's companions are also growing rapidly. Shikamaru and Choji have begun to study the clan's secret ninjutsu—after all, with the most dazzling genius in the entire school in their class, it's impossible not to feel pressured spending all day with Naruto, this "cheater." Even the usually lazy Shikamaru has recently started seriously studying the advanced techniques of the clan's Shadow Imitation Technique.

Kiba Inuzuka began training in beast mimicry ninjutsu early on, spending his days rampaging through the training grounds with Akamaru, taking the "when in doubt, use your teeth" tactic to its extreme.

Satsuki, Naruto's childhood friend, has become increasingly strict with him regarding training. Even though Naruto is training like crazy, she is still not satisfied and always frowns as she demands extra practice.

Naruto didn't understand the reason behind it—Satsuki was actually worried about the power gap after the Sharingan awakened. She felt that she was also approaching the age to awaken the Sharingan, and as a member of the Uchiha clan, her strength would experience a qualitative leap after activating her bloodline limit.

The seemingly evenly matched sparring sessions between Naruto and Sasuke are merely Naruto deliberately holding back. However, Sasuke worries that if the awakening of his Sharingan leads to a significant power gap between them in the future... what if his father disapproves of Naruto?

To this end, Satsuki almost obsessively urged Naruto to train, while her own Fire Release ninjutsu hand seals became faster and faster, the power of her Lightning Release ninjutsu grew stronger day by day, and her shurikenjutsu became dazzlingly varied. Recently, she has even begun to dabble in genjutsu and body flickering techniques.

Training, spending time with friends, receiving guidance from Iruka and Might Guy... two years passed in the blink of an eye, filled with these ordinary yet fulfilling days. Just as Naruto was silently calculating the approaching Uchiha clan massacre and preparing to use all his system points to act as Menma—

【Ding! 】

The system notification sounded suddenly at night, causing Naruto, who was lying in bed, to sit up abruptly.

[Discovering a major event from the original work: Triggering the main quest "Uchiha Clan Massacre"]

[Mission Objective: Based on the location clues, rescue Uchiha Shisui who is attempting suicide and change the fate of the Uchiha clan's annihilation]

[Mission Reward: Obtain the Stand ability "Gold Experience"]