"Is this Minato and Kushina's child?"
When Shirota, who was standing by the gate of the Ninja Academy, saw the short figure running through the crowd, he suddenly felt like he was seeing a ghost from the past.
"That's really her style."
He couldn't help but chuckle. Naruto's behavior reminded him of Kushina during their time at the Academy.
"Idiot."
Sasuke, who was walking ahead, turned his eyes when he heard the commotion behind him and murmured softly with an expressionless face.
"Do you know him?"
Besides Yamanaka Ino, there were several other girls surrounding Sasuke.
Among them was a girl with short pink hair. She looked very cute, but her forehead was a little wider than that of ordinary children.
"Wow, that's so cool!"
Sasuke's lack of reaction caused excited squeals from the girls around him.
Naruto approached quickly, and when he saw this scene, his expression was slightly bewildered.
He couldn't understand how anyone could like Sasuke's cold attitude toward others.
"Naruto-kun."
Naruto stopped running when he reached the edge of the crowd. At this moment, a soft and subtle call came from beside him.
"Hey, do you girls really like guys like that?" Naruto narrowed his eyes, put his hands in his pockets, and looked confused.
After he finished speaking, the girl next to him didn't respond for a long time.
Naruto was puzzled, and then he looked sideways and saw Hinata with flushed cheeks.
"You look strange. Are you sick?"
Naruto said, stretching out his hands, one to his own forehead and the other toward Hinata's forehead.
"I-I'm fine." Hinata dodged repeatedly and whispered.
"Oh."
Naruto withdrew his hand but thought to himself: What a strange girl.
All the parents watched their children gradually walk into the Ninja Academy and then dispersed.
After all the new students entered the school, the gate slowly closed.
The first floor of the Academy, as in years past, was where the new students were located.
The classroom was quite noisy. For these children whose average age was only about five or six years old, making friends was a very easy thing.
"That guy is really popular."
In the classroom, two boys were looking at Sasuke, who was surrounded by most of the girls in the class, with envy in their eyes.
"It's so noisy."
In order to avoid the commotion, Nara Shikamaru sat at the edge of the classroom, but even so, the noise showed no signs of lessening.
He glanced around boredly and saw a blond boy sitting by the window, leaning on the windowsill and looking at the scenery outside.
"Is that guy the Hokage's son?"
He looked at Naruto with interest because Shikamaru was different from ordinary children.
The new students in the classroom were all born after the end of the Third Ninja World War, so they had not yet taken history classes at the Academy. At most, they had heard about the current Hokage from their parents and elders.
However, Shikamaru could recite details about all the battles and events, both major and minor, that took place during the Third Ninja World War.
Only by truly knowing these events could one truly appreciate how powerful the man was who had been called the Yellow Flash and deeply feared by all ninja villages during the Third World War.
Even so, Shikamaru did not worship Minato fanatically, but he was somewhat curious about the fact that the character and behavior of the Hokage's son seemed to be completely different from the Fourth Hokage he had heard about.
What Naruto had just done at the gate of the Academy seemed a little too impulsive.
In this noisy atmosphere, a man dressed in standard Konoha ninja attire walked in.
This man appeared holding a textbook. He should be a teacher, but he looked quite young.
No one even noticed him coming in.
The young teacher glanced at the entire class, his expression slightly nervous.
Then he took a few deep breaths and walked up to the podium.
"Please be quiet for a moment."
He first spoke in a normal voice, but his words were immediately drowned out by the noisy classroom.
Seeing that it had no effect at all, the young teacher took a deep breath and then shouted:
"Everyone, please be quiet!"
This time his voice instantly cut through the noise, and the classroom suddenly became much quieter.
Many students turned their eyes and looked toward the podium.
Suddenly being stared at by so many eyes, the young teacher's expression became a little uncomfortable.
At this moment, Naruto by the window frowned slightly, and then asked: "Hey, who are you?"
The young teacher at the podium was stunned, obviously not expecting to be addressed like this.
However, he took this opportunity to gather his thoughts and said:
"Hello everyone, my name is Umino Iruka, and I'm your homeroom teacher." Iruka introduced himself.
"Homeroom teacher?"
Naruto narrowed his eyes suspiciously for a moment, because the person in front of him looked too young, only about fifteen or sixteen years old.
In his imagination, the homeroom teacher should be at least in his thirties or forties, approaching middle age.
Looking at Naruto's somewhat questioning expression, Iruka smiled awkwardly.
"In fact, I have only been teaching for a little over a month, and this is my first time as a homeroom teacher."
Iruka chuckled. He was still a little surprised that Director Shirota would let an inexperienced newcomer like him be the homeroom teacher for these freshmen.
"Oh."
Naruto responded, then smiled at Iruka who was standing on the podium.
"Well, Teacher Iruka, please take good care of us in the future."
"Yes!"
Iruka smiled and nodded. Most of the students in the class didn't seem to care what the teacher was like, but for Iruka, Naruto's friendly response made the situation less awkward.
"Well, before we start the class, we need to get to know each other first. So, from now on, please come forward and introduce yourselves one by one."
Iruka said this with great enthusiasm, but the children in the classroom did not respond to his words.
"Introduce ourselves? How should we do that?" Naruto asked with genuine confusion.
Iruka pondered for a moment and said, "Just tell everyone your name, age, hobbies, and dreams for the future."
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