Chapter 020: Training

"Sasuke Uchiha?"

Naruto chewed on the name in his mouth, a smile appearing in his eyes.

Involuntarily, Naruto remembered the last Byakugan girl, Hyūga Hinata, who didn't treat him coldly after hearing his name, and also decided to exchange names with him.

Thinking of this, Naruto handed over the grilled fish he had just roasted in his hand, its temperature moderate for Sasuke, who had already sat on another rock not far from him.

"It's grilled fish. I made it. It should taste good."

Looking at Naruto, Sasuke didn't refuse.

After taking it, Sasuke took a bite without any hesitation.

Then he couldn't help but widen his eyes and said in a shocked state, "This fish is crispy and delicious. The last time I ate such delicious fish was when my brother prepared it for me!"

After sighing, Sasuke felt a little embarrassed for speaking so fanatically about his brother in front of a stranger.

He quickly turned his head to avoid showing his embarrassed face.

"Is he another tsundere who isn't straightforward?"

Naruto was slightly delighted when he heard the other party admire his cooking skills.

For Naruto, this could be considered as approval.

But looking at Sasuke like this, Naruto couldn't help but think of the domesticated fox in his stomach, who had been motionless on the couch all day, doing nothing but watching dramas and playing around.

The two have quite similar personalities.

However, Naruto didn't tease.

He filled a bowl with mushroom soup with wild vegetables, handed it to Sasuke, followed the other's words gently, and said, "Have a sip of soup, you'll get thirsty if you only eat grilled fish. Also, who is your brother?"

Seeing Naruto ask about Itachi, Sasuke suddenly became excited.

After taking a sip of the soup, Sasuke sighed emotionally.

Then, he began to speak nonstop, "Let me tell you, my brother is Itachi, Uchiha Itachi. He's a ninja genius, graduated from the ninja academy at the age of seven, then..."

Naruto was eating grilled fish and drinking mushroom soup while listening to Sasuke praise his brother to the sky.

From this, Naruto learned that Itachi is also very good at cooking and used to cook him various delicious seafood feasts.

However, Itachi recently joined the mysterious ANBU organization and has become an elite.

ANBU carries out confidential tasks in various places to protect the village.

The reason why Sasuke is not happy is that Itachi promised to accompany him to practice shuriken throwing not long ago, but broke his promise, and Sasuke can only practice alone today.

This angered Sasuke a lot.

After practice, Sasuke, who was in a bad mood, wandered around.

After that, he wandered into the Uchiha clan forest and ran into him.

"Itachi is really amazing!"

After hearing Sasuke's words, Naruto also sighed with excitement.

Sasuke's older brother, Itachi, is only eleven years old at this time, but he has become an elite ninja in ANBU and no matter what, he will be an extremely talented ninja.

Hearing that, Naruto also agreed with his brother Itachi.

As they chatted, the two had finished dinner.

Sasuke helped Naruto clean up the dishes and had originally planned to continue chatting with Naruto.

But upon seeing the sky, Sasuke's complexion suddenly changed. "Oh! This is bad, I have to go now. It's getting late. Mom and Dad should be home waiting for me for dinner. I'll come see you here tomorrow."

With that, Sasuke waved goodbye and hurried away.

"Alright." Naruto nodded.

Naruto watched as Sasuke's disappearing back with mixed emotions.

"I've never seen my mom and dad before, I don't know what they look like."

The old man had told him that his parents were heroes who protected Konoha.

There was a moment of silence, and Naruto didn't think too much about it.

They're dead anyway, even if it makes sense to know what they look like.

Besides practicing today, Naruto made a new friend.

It was a good day, Naruto was convinced in his heart.

After a short break, he started practicing again.

It's still early, at least two more hours of practice before Naruto would normally go home.

For Naruto, home has become a place exclusively for sleeping, and he spends most of the day in this training field.

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Early the next morning, Sasuke arrived as expected and reached the training field almost at the same time as Naruto.

He was fully armed, with a ninja headband and a bento box.

It seemed that he not only came to play with Naruto but also wanted to practice alongside him.

"Hey, you're early, Sasuke."

Naruto set aside some condiments and ingredients he brought and greeted Sasuke.

"Yeah, good morning."

Sasuke greeted back.

Then, after setting down the bento box, he wanted to compete with Naruto.

Yesterday, through the traces left in this training field, Sasuke judged that Naruto is not weak, and this is a big reason why he can easily identify with him.

Otherwise, as a member of an elite clan, he wouldn't befriend an ordinary person at will.

"Naruto, come on, let's practice..."

However, before Sasuke finished his challenge, he saw Naruto making a hand seal.

Then, smoke burst out all over the training field and more than twenty figures identical to Naruto appeared.

As soon as these figures appeared, they were in their respective positions. Practicing ninjutsu, cutting leaves, practicing ninjutsu, practicing ninjutsu, fishing, etc...

As for Naruto himself, he looked at Sasuke with a surprised look, smiled, and said, "This is the Shadow Clone technique, which can assist with training based on non-physical experiences. I didn't hear clearly just now. Sasuke, what did you say?"

Looking at those Shadow Clones who had already started practicing, Sasuke's face was embarrassed by his previous challenge.

Although he already knew that Naruto was very strong, he didn't expect him to be strong enough to be able to create so many shadow clones at once.

Of course, he knew about Shadow Clones, but he didn't expect a boy his age to be able to create so many, and he didn't even seem exhausted.

However, he didn't feel jealous or give up because of it, but instead, it awakened his fighting spirit.

"No matter how much I say I'm a member of the Uchiha clan, how can I let this kid surpass me!"

He looked at Naruto and raised his hand to challenge, "Naruto, let's do some physical exercises!"

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That day, Sasuke was brutally beaten...

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