Naruto, Peak Human, Ch 2.1

The Nine-Tails incident brought countless losses to the Hidden Leaf Village. 

If compared to the Shinobi World War, the destruction from the Nine-Tails attack was equally devastating. 

If it hadn't been for the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, sacrificing himself to seal the Nine-Tails, the village might have been completely annihilated. 

Many families were affected and were left homeless. 

Countless ninjas lost their lives in this chaos. 

Almost half of the houses in the village were destroyed. 

As night fell, the flames caused by the Nine-Tails gradually subsided. Smoke rose from the collapsed buildings, and the ground was stained red, soaked with blood.

The village seemed to fall into a deep silence, with people quietly tending to the injured and clearing the rubble. 

That night, two monsters appeared in the village. 

One was Naruto Uzumaki, the Fourth Hokage's son and the host for the sealed Nine-Tails. 

The villagers, filled with sorrow and anger over the destruction of their homes, directed their fury at this infant who had barely seen a full moon… 

The other was a boy named Li Zhenwu, born in an ordinary family during the Nine-Tails incident. 

Neither of his parents were ninjas, and he had no special bloodline. 

However, this child was born inexplicably silent, and behind him, he had a tail. 

In the chaos of the Nine-Tails attack, countless families were displaced, and some villagers blamed Naruto Uzumaki for their misfortunes. 

Others believed that the child with the tail, Li Zhenwu, also represented an ominous fate. 

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Three years after the Nine-Tails incident, in the 51st year of the Hidden Leaf Village. 

Children who had yet to start school were running around everywhere. 

In the open square of the village, kids were playing joyfully. 

A child with golden hair and whisker marks was enviously watching the other children play, and even trying to join them. 

"Get lost, monster! We won't play with you!" A group of children, all around three or four years old, spoke harshly, raising their hands to shoo him away, causing the golden-haired boy's expression to darken. 

"What's so fun about a bunch of little brats?" A lazy voice came from the nearby swings. 

The owner of the voice, a boy with black hair and black eyes, was lazily lounging on one of the swings, which gently swayed back and forth. 

Behind him, a brownish-black tail flicked lightly.

"Monsters! You two should just play together!" The group of children scoffed loudly, mocking the golden-haired child and the boy with a tail. 

The golden-haired boy was Naruto Uzumaki, seen by the village as an ill omen, and the term "monster" referred specifically to the Nine-Tails sealed within him. 

The black-haired boy, on the other hand, was the genuine monster—a tail that looked nothing like a human's, causing many villagers to regard him as a true harbinger of misfortune. 

This black-haired child was Li Zhenwu. 

He was the one who had traversed into this world during the Nine-Tails incident. 

However, due to carrying the 'Saiyan System', he was born with a tail on his backside, causing the villagers of the Hidden Leaf to view him as an ill omen and label him a monster. 

A group of children picked up stones and mud from the ground, clearly about to throw them at Naruto, when suddenly a voice filled with righteous energy and a hint of laziness called out. 

"Hey, have you had enough?" 

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