"Hey, Sasuke, I won this competition."
At the gate of the Ninja Academy, Naruto and Sasuke, who had completed their training, sat on the ground facing each other. Their breathing was rapid and their clothes were soaked with sweat.
Naruto gave Sasuke a proud smile. From childhood until now, he had not won many battles against Sasuke.
"Tch."
Sasuke spat lightly. Although he knew the result beforehand, he was still a little unwilling to accept that he lost to Naruto.
The skills of the two were comparable, but given Naruto's physique, his endurance was much stronger than Sasuke's. So, in this competition that tested physical strength and endurance, Sasuke lost to him.
After a while, several other students arrived one after another. Naturally, they were Hinata, Shikamaru, Yamanaka Ino, and others.
"Hey, I came in first!" Naruto laughed as he saw someone finally coming.
"Naruto-kun... You are amazing," Hinata was breathing heavily, but still responded to Naruto in a soft voice.
Although the remaining few people did not respond, there was still some surprise in their eyes.
"Should I say he is worthy of being the Hokage's son?" Shikamaru chuckled.
"I'm so hungry, let's go eat." Naruto's strength recovered quickly. He looked up at the sunlight which had become much weaker than before. Noon had long passed.
In addition to these students, others were collapsing on the streets of Konoha one after another. Their physical strength had almost reached its limit. Although they still wanted to force themselves to get up and complete the training, they no longer had any strength.
Of course, these children were taken away by the Konoha ninjas arranged in advance by Minato. It was impossible for them to be left lying on the streets.
It was not until the evening that the last student fell and was taken away by a Konoha ninja.
"Seven laps?" Minato, who was looking down from his office, murmured softly.
Without any systematic training, this student was able to circle Konoha seven times relying solely on physical strength. This was already quite impressive.
These exhausted students were sent directly back home after being examined by medical ninjas. So, when school was over in the evening, the only new students of Konoha who walked out of the school together were Naruto and a few others.
At the Uchiha clan compound:
"I'm done."
After finishing his dinner, Sasuke put the dishes in order very neatly, looked at Fugaku and Mikoto in front of him, and said, "Dad, Mom, I'm going out!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Sasuke ran out the door.
"What happened to this kid today?" Looking at Sasuke's back as he hurried out, Mikoto was a little confused.
"He must have gone for extra training. Today, the new students of the Ninja Academy started physical training, and this guy got second place," Fugaku said. As the captain of the Konoha Police Force, it would not be difficult for him to know this information.
"I see." Mikoto suddenly realized. Judging from Sasuke's reaction, it went without saying that Naruto would be the first.
When she was studying at the Ninja Academy, in tests like this, Minato, Uchiha Fugaku, and Kushina always took the top three. The first two were stronger than their classmates, but in terms of physical strength alone, no one could compare to Kushina.
Sasuke was running around Konoha again, just like he did during the day. Passersby looked at him with slightly strange eyes, but Sasuke naturally didn't care about it.
Swish!
When Sasuke was moving forward at full speed, he suddenly noticed that there were footsteps coming from behind him at a very high frequency.
Just as he was about to look back, a figure appeared not far away and surpassed him. He turned his head suddenly and saw only a back. He was also a boy, and looked slightly older than Sasuke.
Sasuke naturally felt unhappy about being overtaken, and he immediately tried his best to chase the figure, but no matter how hard he tried, he could only watch the person in front of him get farther and farther away from him.
What strong stamina!
If the boy in front of him was two or three years older than Sasuke, he would not have bothered to chase after him. But Sasuke could tell that the boy was only about a year older than him at most.
Even if this person was also a student of the Ninja Academy, Sasuke had been undergoing systematic training since he was a child. Therefore, most of the students in the Academy who were one or even two years older than Sasuke were actually not as good as him.
However, even though he couldn't catch up with him, Sasuke wouldn't be left too far behind. Just after both of them had circled Konoha, the boy in front of Sasuke suddenly stopped and turned around.
"Hello, my name is Rock Lee."
He smiled at Sasuke, but the latter made no move to talk to him and simply walked past him.
Although there was no response from Sasuke, Rock Lee still muttered to himself.
"Uchiha Sasuke, a genius from the Uchiha clan?"
After just over a month of enrollment, Sasuke's name had become known to most people in the Ninja Academy. In addition to his handsome face that attracted too much attention, the previous Uchiha clan members were also the focus of attention.
What's more, Sasuke was the son of the clan leader and the younger brother of Uchiha Itachi, who was called a perfect genius by some teachers. Now that Itachi had joined the ANBU, some of his former classmates had not even graduated from the Academy yet.
The next day, at noon.
On the roof of the Ninja Academy.
"You're still here."
Naruto appeared on the roof and looked at Sasuke with a smile on his face. He had already gotten rid of most of the students' harassment, but the number of people bothering the guy in front of him not only did not decrease but increased instead.
But Sasuke ignored him and kept staring in one direction.
Seeing that Sasuke completely ignored him, Naruto looked in the direction Sasuke was watching.
In the training ground behind the school, several groups of students were eating lunch together. While eating, they were also talking about the unique "freak" in the training ground.
"Bang! Bang!"
Rock Lee completely ignored the comments of the people around him and continued to hit the wooden stake in front of him.
"He's still practicing during his lunch break. That guy is really hardworking," Naruto sighed softly, but he was more curious about how a guy with Sasuke's personality would be interested in such a thing.
Sasuke stared at Rock Lee for a while, and his eyes gradually narrowed. He finally saw some clues, and Sasuke himself was a little surprised by his own discovery.
"This guy doesn't seem to know how to use chakra?"