Sit in a Row and Share the Fruit
Let's skip over how Sasuke processed his new power when he got home.
The next day, after school at exactly five o'clock, Naruto—who had just finished "unlocking" Sasuke's Sharingan—teleported up to the academy rooftop to wait.
Two minutes later, little loli Hinata and the ever-cool Sasuke arrived one after the other.
"Let's go," Naruto said, forming a shadow clone.
The clone opened a shimmering portal. It grabbed Sasuke's arm, while Naruto personally took Hinata's hand. The little loli's cheeks turned bright red as he pulled her through.
"Is this how Naruto-kun always disappears?" Hinata asked shyly. Before, she had only watched him vanish into thin air—now she was going with him. Her heart was pounding.
"Yeah. Fun, right?" Naruto grinned. The sensation of teleportation still gave him a thrill.
"Mhm," Hinata nodded softly.
They stepped into a wide clearing. Naruto explained, "Today's mission—figure out the difference between these two barbecues."
He pulled out a small table from his inventory, stripped off its tablecloth, and tossed the table aside. It was a comically short dwarf's table—fit only for a certain "general" he knew.
("Oi, General, hear me ou—" Boom! …nevermind.)
Naruto laid out two identical-looking cuts of grilled meat. "I need both of your eyes for this—literally."
After a long-winded explanation (which neither Sasuke nor Hinata fully followed but pretended to understand), the three got ready.
Plan: fight first, eat later, and observe while eating to identify the barbecue type.
Naruto created another clone and turned to Hinata. "Hinata-chan, attack this one. Don't worry, it's just a clone."
"Uh… okay…" Hinata found it hard to hit the real Naruto, but a clone? That she could manage.
In the nearby grove, four figures squared off in pairs.
Hinata's Byakugan activated—pale eyes flaring, bulging veins around them giving her a fierce look.
Sasuke's Sharingan spun to life—blood-red with a single magatama in each eye.
Naruto facepalmed. "Guys, could you not call out your jutsu names like you're in a kids' anime?"
"Ku-Lama," Naruto muttered inside his mindscape.
"Huh?" The Kyuubi looked up from his ridiculous feast of barbecue, fried eggs, grilled fish, cola, and liquor.
"Never mind," Naruto sighed. "Just keep eating."
The Nine-Tails snorted and went back to his food. Cola mixed with liquor made him feel fuzzy and warm—he liked it.
Fine. No plug-in boost. Time to handle this manually.
Naruto (and his clone) countered their attacks methodically.
Twenty minutes later…
"You two already down? I wasn't even going all out," Naruto said.
Byakugan and Sharingan drained chakra fast—lasting twenty minutes was pure stubbornness on their part.
Naruto summoned a stream of clean water and washed the dust off his arms.
He went to Hinata first. Her hair clung to her sweaty face, clothes damp from exertion. Even her little canine teeth peeked through. Adorable.
He pressed his left ring finger to her lips. "Bite."
Her lips were soft, her cheeks glowing pink. Naruto felt an evil chuckle coming—future wedding ring finger, huh?
After Hinata refilled her chakra (or "magic," as he insisted on calling it), Sasuke stepped up.
"Same spot as yesterday. But bite too hard and I'll deck you," Naruto warned.
The difference in treatment was glaring—Naruto's straight-man attitude in full display.
After a short rest, they went again.
Seventeen minutes later… Naruto had to top them up with chakra again.
"Sasuke, your speed's fine, but you've got no stamina," Naruto scolded. "No wonder you only had one kid."
The two collapsed on the ground, utterly confused by the remark.
Once they recovered, the trio started eating, using their dojutsu to examine the meat.
Sasuke: 11 pieces.
Naruto: 17 pieces.
Hinata: 32 pieces.
Naruto and Sasuke just stared at her.
"It's fine, I can afford it," Naruto said quickly. If he could feed the Nine-Tails, he could feed his future wife.
That only made Hinata blush harder—nearly steaming from embarrassment at her own appetite.
Naruto didn't care; the more she ate, the more energy she'd have.
Once she'd cooled down, Naruto laid out 80 more pieces for testing.
"Am I useless?" Hinata asked quietly, feeling guilty she couldn't identify anything with her Byakugan.
"Of course not," Naruto reassured her. "You're gonna be super strong one day. I believe in you."
Besides, you can't compare Hinata to Sasuke—both he and Naruto were basically walking cheat codes courtesy of Hagoromo's GM privileges.
If worst came to worst, he could always swipe Toneri's Tenseigan for her later.
Determined, Hinata set a small goal: beat Hanabi and make her call her "nee-san."
Sasuke, meanwhile, finally noticed subtle differences between the meats—nothing with a single magatama, but two magatama? Bingo.
He identified, Naruto recorded:
1 → 11
2 → 9
3 → 10
4 → 8
5 → 14
6 → 7
7 → 8
8 → 13
Four and six were red and black dragon meat—Naruto groaned at the rarity.
The rest was assembly-line work: clone summoning meat, Sasuke scanning with one eye, Naruto sealing in scrolls.
"Why seal them?" Hinata asked.
"Some missions take a long time. If Sasuke and I get separated, I want good food saved for later."
He didn't say, When Sasuke's Hokage-ing and I'm off world-hopping, we'll still have meat for reunions.
By the time they finished, it was 6:30. Naruto sent Hinata home via portal to her backyard.
"Hinata-chan, bring two sealing scrolls tomorrow," he reminded. "I'm out."
"Goodbye, Naruto-kun."
Back in the grove, only Sasuke remained.
"Where to next?" Naruto asked.
"Here," Sasuke replied—wanting to see where Naruto trained.
"Alright. Call me when you're done." Naruto resumed dragging a massive tree trunk.
Sasuke tried punching the training post Naruto used, but gave up quickly.
Honestly, where else could he find a sparring partner who never ran out of chakra, could heal instantly, and even fed him?
In short—Sasuke considered Naruto a walking, talking, infinite-capacity power bank.