Chapter 5: Meddling

  "Can I really activate the Byakugan?"

  After absorbing the Ninja Fragment dropped by Hinata, Uchiha Kage was pleasantly surprised to find that he could now activate and deactivate the Byakugan at will.

  "Now I finally have some self-defense capabilities."

  Recalling his state when he first arrived here, unable to activate the Sharingan and almost without any chakra, feeling lost and frightened, Uchiha Kage couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

  However...

  There's still a long way to go before he can truly establish himself here and do as he pleases.

  So for now, he still had to bide his time and not be reckless.

  Fortunately, the Byakugan absorbed from the Ninja Fragments didn't require bulging veins and white pupils, only chakra consumption, so it wasn't easy to attract attention.

  Having gained such a convenient and considerate Byakugan for nothing, Uchiha Kage was in a very good mood today.

  "But, so this is what the real Byakugan vision is like..."

  A 360-degree view without blind spots within a radius of one kilometer, but all in bck and white X-ray vision.

  All he saw were bones and chakra, making it impossible to use for lewd purposes.

  He had really wronged Hinata-chan before.

  The sun set.

  At the end of school, since it was a rest day, a rge number of parents gathered at the school gate to pick up their children.

  "Hinata-sama, the cn head is waiting for you."

  "Understood."

  Hinata followed the Hyuga cn guards who came to pick her up while gazing at Uchiha Kage walking outside the crowd.

  Although Kage-kun insisted he was fine after the match and kept encouraging her, Hinata couldn't help but worry when she thought of the blood he secretly wiped from the corner of his mouth.

  "Kage-kun must be injured. He said he's fine... maybe he hates me even more now."

  In the future...

  If there's a chance, she'd let him beat her up to vent his anger.

  "Hinata-sama, what did you just say?"

  "No, nothing!"

  Shaking her head to dispel the guard's doubts, Hinata looked away and began to worry about what her father wanted to talk about ter.

  "Hey, why are you alone too? Where's Sasuke?"

  As if there was a dividing line between the noisy school gate and him, Naruto, sitting alone on a dipidated swing under an old tree, was looking at the bustling crowd with a strange expression.

  "What about you? Why haven't you gone home yet?"

  Uchiha Kage didn't know why he had walked to Naruto's side.

  Maybe it was because of Naruto's gaze just now, which looked like that of a homeless puppy, that he couldn't ignore?

  "I..."

  Naruto was just bored and saw another lonely figure nearby, so he started a conversation.

  But he didn't expect this guy to actually respond to him, unlike others who ignored him as if he were air or avoided him as a nuisance. So he was a little flustered.

  "It's still early to go home. I want to eat ramen. You..."

  Naruto got off the swing. He didn't want to go back to his cold little home so soon, but seeing other cssmates being picked up by their families, he felt a little empty.

  He rummaged through his pockets, wanting to treat this Uchiha who talked to him to a bowl of ramen and ask if st night's dream was real, but he stopped.

  Because the money in his pocket wasn't enough for a bowl of ramen, let alone treating someone.

  "You want to treat me to ramen?"

  Uchiha Kage saw through Naruto's thoughts at a gnce, including his embarrassment.

  "Yeah, but... but I don't have any money right now."

  Naruto spread his hands in embarrassment.

  "Why do you want to treat me?"

  "Because... I feel like you're simir to Shikamaru and Choji. Maybe we can be friends... get along."

  Not just today, but st night in that strange dream, he was the only one who told him to find a pce to hide.

  If that wasn't a dream, maybe he could have another friend.

  Naruto thought silently.

  "Is that so?"

  To avoid attracting attention, Uchiha Kage had always avoided contact with Naruto.

  But he didn't expect Naruto to approach him.

  And...

  He didn't know why, maybe because he had read the manga in his previous life, he always felt that Naruto looked very friendly.

  "Then let's not eat ramen. Even Ichiraku Ramen isn't as healthy as home-cooked food."

  "Home? I..."

  They were all orphans without parents, where did they have a home?

  Naruto didn't know what Uchiha Kage meant.

  "Would you like to try the food Sasuke makes?"

  "Sasuke can cook!?"

  Naruto was surprised and didn't believe it, then he looked up at the bck-haired boy, his eyes shining brightly.

  Was Uchiha Kage inviting him to dinner?

  "Are you coming?"

  "Of course!"

  Seeing that Uchiha Kage had really invited him, Naruto couldn't help but jump up and down with joy.

  He almost broke the old swing at the school gate.

  "I don't believe that guy's cooking is edible!"

  I didn't expect Kage to be such a good person!

  And thinking that he might be able to eat the food made by that arrogant Sasuke, Naruto was very excited.

  Caw—caw—

  The rough cawing of crows swept through a rge tree.

  A bck-cd ninja standing on a branch watched the two boys walking together in the distance while stuffing a note into the leg of a carrier pigeon on his arm—

  'Uchiha's orphan Kage is contacting the Nine-Tails'

  Soon, the carrier pigeon fpped its wings and flew back to the bck-cd ninja's shoulder.

  There was also a reply letter in the wooden tube on the pigeon's leg—

  'Find a way to dispose of Uchiha Kage, the useless one. Be careful not to let the jinchuriki notice'

  The bck-cd ninja respectfully read the contents of the note and then crumpled it into pieces.

  Then, he followed the two boys heading towards the Uchiha cn compound in a few leaps.

  "Tsk, I thought the ninja watching today had also taken a break, but they still followed."

  Secretly activating the Byakugan, Uchiha Kage quickly noticed the masked ninja who had been far away from them was now rushing towards them.

  "This is a bit troublesome..."

  He thought that since Naruto took the initiative to approach him, it wouldn't attract the attention of the Anbu or Danzo's people.

  But Uchiha Kage underestimated the importance of the words "Nine-Tails" and "Uchiha" in the minds of the old Leaf Vilge schemers.

  The visitor was probably not friendly, but it was impossible to ask Naruto to go back now.

  And...

  Uchiha Kage gnced at a corner not far away.

  Let's see how things develop. Surely they wouldn't kill him just for inviting Naruto to dinner?

  "Kage, what did you say was troublesome?"

  Naruto was still talking about his experiences in the Leaf Vilge and didn't notice the movement around him.

  "No, it's nothing."

  Secretly hiding a kunai in his sleeve, Uchiha Kage walked forward as if nothing had happened while being vigint.

  "Ah, no! There's a kitten about to fall from a tree. I have to save it!"

  Suddenly, the meowing of a kitten attracted Naruto's attention, and he rushed towards a rge tree ahead.

  Uchiha Kage, left alone, tensed up.

  That cat seemed to be bait!

  Did the guy watching Naruto really intend to attack him?

  Cng!

  Just as Uchiha Kage was about to react, he saw two bck shadows appear in mid-air in front of him, and the bdes collided in an instant.

  After several more cngs, a female ninja with purple hair wearing an Anbu mask appeared in front of Uchiha Kage.

  In front of them, another bck-cd ninja wearing a mask held a long sword in his hand, looking annoyed.

  "Attacking people in the vilge for no reason, who are you?"

  The purple-haired female ninja coldly blocked Uchiha Kage with her sword.

  She was the Anbu sent by the Third Hokage to protect Naruto, but she didn't expect someone to attack a fellow vilger, and a ninja academy student at that.

  "Meddling!"

  The bck-cd ninja with a deep voice gnced at the purple-haired female Anbu in front of him with displeasure, but seeing that Naruto, who had saved the kitten, was about to return, he had to reluctantly put away his long sword and disappeared into the corners of the houses in a few breaths.

  "People from Root?"

  Even if the other party didn't reveal their identity, the purple-haired female ninja could guess.

  Apart from Root, no one else would act so arrogantly in the Leaf Vilge.

  "Thank you."

  Uchiha Kage pretended to be stunned, as if he had been attacked but didn't know what had happened, and thanked the masked female ninja.

  "You're welcome. Protecting the vilgers of the Leaf Vilge is our Anbu's responsibility."

  The purple-haired female ninja gnced at the timid boy behind her and then at the Hokage Rock in the distance.

  Then, she disappeared in a fsh.

  There are only two Uchihas left, and Danzo... the people from Root still won't let them go.

  Today's incident must be reported to the Hokage-sama.

  She thought angrily in her heart.

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