Time flew by, and three years passed in the blink of an eye.
During these three years, Kiyotaki made immense progress. He trained relentlessly every day, not only increasing his strength but also drawing various strange items and skills.
"Solar Flare, Afterimage, and Air Walk… I've mastered them all!"
Now, even he didn't know how powerful he truly was.
When Might Guy returned from a mission, he saw a moving mountain of boulders outside the village, and a small figure pushing it from below.
At that moment, he was utterly shocked!
Who could possibly push a small mountain like that?
As Might Guy approached, he stared at Tenzawa Kiyotaki in astonishment.
"Has this kid already reached this level?!"
"It's truly amazing!"
"Perhaps, this is the miracle of youth!"
He didn't disturb Kiyotaki's training and turned to head to the Hokage's office to submit his mission report. At the same time, he decided to write another recommendation letter for Kiyotaki's enrollment.
Kiyotaki, of course, noticed someone observing him, but he didn't care. Training with such a massive commotion, it was impossible to avoid being discovered.
I, Tenzawa Kiyotaki, need no one's words; I only do what my heart desires!
After pushing the stone mountain to the summit, Kiyotaki nodded in satisfaction, ending his training for the day.
--- In Konoha Village, as the sun set, Naruto, after school, squatted by a bookstall at a convenience store, engrossed in a book, his eyes almost touching the pages.
"Naruto-kun!"
A loud shout!
"Ah~ Oh!"
Naruto jumped in fright, quickly hid the book behind his back, then tossed it back onto the bookstall.
"Kiyotaki-kun! So it was you. Why did you scare me like that!"
"Tsk tsk!"
Kiyotaki peered past Naruto towards the bookstall.
"I never would have thought! Naruto, you actually like looking at this stuff!"
"Ah! No… nothing of the sort!"
Naruto quickly waved his hands in denial, cold sweat dripping down his face.
Kiyotaki gave him a look that said, 'Do you think I believe you?'
"I'm studying!" Naruto continued to defend himself.
"Really! I'm studying!"
Looking at the picture book of scantily clad beauties on the bookstall, Kiyotaki was speechless. A little kid who hadn't even grown hair yet, what exactly were you studying?
"Do you think I believe you?" Kiyotaki gave him a disdainful look, as if to say, 'You little brat.'
"It's not that I look down on you, but are you sure you can study?"
"Don't look down on me!"
Naruto got angry: "I just created a new Ninjutsu, let me show you how powerful it is!"
With that, Naruto formed hand signs.
"Sexy Jutsu!"
"Poof!"
A cloud of smoke exploded, and a Naruto-version beautiful girl appeared, completely naked with only wisps of smoke concealing her. Her figure was curvaceous and overly seductive!
"Oh~! Kiyotaki-kun."
A cutesy voice sounded, and the Naruto-beautiful girl blinked and pouted in an adorable pose.
"Ah! You pervert!"
Kiyotaki shrieked and kicked him.
"Bang!"
Naruto fell to the roadside, reverted to his original form, and clutched his kicked stomach.
"Ah~, it still didn't work, did it? This Jutsu I created."
Naruto was very dejected. This was the first time he shared the Ninjutsu he painstakingly created with his good friend, and he didn't expect such a failure.
Kiyotaki was still shaken! Naruto hadn't even realized how potent his Sexy Jutsu was.
Good thing! Fortunately, in his previous life, he had seen a lot, having experienced an era where transvestites ran rampant and beauty filters were widespread. Otherwise, he might have actually fallen for Naruto's trick!
Seeing Naruto's disappointment, and remembering the power of Naruto's technique, even Kaguya fell for it. He couldn't let him get disheartened and give up researching it.
He quickly comforted and encouraged Naruto, finally restoring Naruto's confidence.
"So you created this Ninjutsu in the female Ninja class!?"
Kiyotaki suddenly understood.
"As expected of you, Uzumaki Naruto, the genius Ninja of Konoha Village, a true hidden dragon and phoenix!"
But in his heart, he also understood Naruto and his strange, outlandish actions.
Naruto was lonely since childhood. To fit in, he participated in every school activity, even the female Ninja class was no exception.
Because female Ninja had a higher success rate than male Ninja in certain special missions, the school specifically created a female Ninja class for girls.
Naruto was the first boy in the female Ninja class in all the years it had been running.
While the girls in the female Ninja class studied subjects like etiquette, deportment, and makeup, Naruto directly created the Sexy Transformation Jutsu!
"What genius Ninja? This Jutsu I created still isn't good enough!"
Naruto was a bit deflated!
"Don't be! Naruto, your Jutsu still has great potential!"
"You just lack a bit of experience, a bit of vision! You haven't truly unleashed the power of this Jutsu!"
Kiyotaki hooked an arm around Naruto's shoulder, comforting him, and made a tiny gesture with his index finger and thumb.
"Come! Let me show you some of my treasured materials."
"For you to learn from!"
He secretly pulled out a stack of pictures of various sexy beauties from his embrace and held them before Naruto's eyes. Mai Shiranui, Ikaros, Sena Kashiwazaki, Shenhuo Liechi, Yan Lingji, Medusa, angels, succubi, elves… This huge pile of various beauty pictures were all obtained through the system's lottery.
Naruto's eyes immediately lit up with excitement, and he drooled!
"Wow! This Mai Shiranui-neechan is so sexy!"
"And, and, this angel called Ikaros, wow!~ So pure yet so alluring."
"She's my wife!"
"Wow! And this, this––"
Naruto exclaimed as he looked.
"Are these all for me?"
"How can they be? What are you thinking? I can only lend them to you for reference; you have to return them after you're done."
Kiyotaki said, his eyes not blinking as he too looked.
Until the last picture was viewed, both of them were still wanting more.
Kiyotaki smacked his lips.
"Tsk tsk! How about it, Naruto, transform with your Sexy Transformation Jutsu?!"
"Come on! Come on! Transform into Mai Shiranui for your brother to see, let your brother have a blast!"
"Ah! No, no, absolutely not! Absolutely not!"
Naruto quickly refused.
"Come on! Come on!"
Kiyotaki formed his hands into a grabbing motion, continuously grabbing, with a mischievous grin.
"Absolutely not!"
Naruto shyly and awkwardly refused. Transform into a beautiful girl on the street? Did he have no shame?
"Ah! What are you doing? Naruto-kun?"
Hinata, passing by, looked at the two of them in surprise, her eyes filled with curiosity and disbelief.
"Ah! You two continue, I disturbed Naruto-kun!"
Hinata turned and ran away, looking disappointed and hurt.
"Ah!"
"Ah!"
Kiyotaki and Naruto were dumbfounded. Hinata, that little girl, must have misunderstood.
"Ah! Hinata, you misunderstood!"
Kiyotaki shouted, quickly turning and chasing after her.
"Naruto, hurry and explain to Hinata!"
He couldn't let the future Princess be misunderstood!
"Oh, oh!"
Naruto then quickly chased after her.
After finally catching up to Hinata and explaining everything clearly, Kiyotaki and Naruto breathed a sigh of relief.
It was good that there was no misunderstanding! Otherwise, his reputation would have been ruined!
Naruto patted Kiyotaki's shoulder and teased him.
"I say, Kiyotaki! You haven't fallen for Hinata, have you? She's a strange person."
Kiyotaki stared blankly at Naruto. Don't you know she's your future Princess? If you don't want her, then I won't be polite!
Naruto, who had lacked love since childhood, only received love from Hinata, which paradoxically gave him a strange feeling, so he thought Hinata was a strange person.
Kiyotaki was speechless and wanted to slap Naruto.
You're such a dense idiot, let me beat you to death! If you weren't my friend, I'd snatch Hinata from you!
Naruto yelped in pain, very displeased, and grumbled at Kiyotaki.
Dusk began to settle.
"Kiyotaki, let's go eat ramen. I'll treat you to ramen!"
Naruto held a stack of beauty pictures, and on the road, only the two lonely figures remained.
Kiyotaki nodded: "Let's go, to Ichiraku Ramen!"
--- At the Ichiraku Ramen shop, the curtain was pulled back, and Naruto entered, shouting.
"Teuchi-ossan, two bowls of ramen!"
"Oh! It's Naruto!"
Teuchi was very happy to see Naruto arrive. He quickly prepared two bowls of ramen and brought them over.
"Little Naruto, this is the first time you've brought a friend to eat ramen! I specially added an extra egg for both of you!"
"Wow! Thank you so much, Teuchi-ossan."
Naruto was incredibly excited, pulling out two crumpled free coupons from his pocket.
Kiyotaki looked at the ramen coupons in Naruto's hand and was immediately speechless.
He had been a street wanderer in Konoha for so many years and hadn't gotten even a few Ichiraku Ramen free coupons, yet Naruto had an endless supply of them!
They were practically inexhaustible!
Kiyotaki couldn't help but think that Hinata, Iruka, Ichiraku, and Kazuki, who cared about Naruto… everyone was actually silently caring for Naruto in their own ways!
And Naruto, in turn, responded to people with his optimistic and kind attitude.
Some people always said Obito was the unfortunate Naruto, and Naruto was the fortunate Obito.
In reality, Obito was not worthy of comparison to Naruto at all!
In the Konoha that Obito destroyed, there might have been people who silently cared for him. Among the Konoha people he killed, there might have been a 'Hinata' who silently liked him.
But, he turned a blind eye, and was ruthless towards his comrades, showing no mercy!
Naruto's kind will had never wavered; no matter what difficulties he faced, he always remained kind.
His kindness was a light that illuminated Konoha Village and the Ninja world!
"Kiyotaki, don't just stare, let's eat! Teuchi-ossan specially added an extra egg for both of us!"
Naruto said, already starting to eat. He clapped his hands: "I'm going to dig in!"
"Teuchi-ossan's ramen is so delicious, Kiyotaki, you think so too, right!"
"Mmm! Oh my, the taste is authentic!"
Kiyotaki nodded, praising Ichiraku Ramen.
"Kiyotaki, it's really lonely that you didn't get to go to school!"
"Lonely?"
"Yeah! I really wish you could go to school with me."
Naruto slurped some ramen and said: "Tomorrow, I'll introduce you to some friends!"
"Alright!"
"Then it's a deal!"
A little while later, both of them, full, emerged from Ichiraku Ramen.
Naruto felt his pocket and scratched his head.
"Hmm, my milk at home is finished, I need to buy a bottle of milk!"
"Let's see if Kazuki-ossan's shop still has expired milk. The expired milk at Kazuki-ossan's shop tastes good!"
The two arrived at Kazuki's small shop. Kazuki-ossan was at the counter, drinking sake with a small dish of appetizers.
"Yo! It's Kiyotaki, and the little brat Naruto."
"Kazuki-ossan, I want to buy a bottle of milk!"
Kazuki pointed to a corner.
"There's a box of expired milk over there, do you want it? I'll give you a ten percent discount. Kiyotaki, go get it for him."
Kiyotaki brought out the milk. Without even looking, he knew the milk hadn't expired!
But the oblivious Naruto had no idea. He paid the money, happily hugged the milk, and went back home.
Kiyotaki shook his head, speechless.
"Naruto, what a lucky guy!"