"Have you heard... the Kyubi's Jinchuriki almost crashed into the barrier and died."
"No, no, I heard he was trying to commit suicide."
"In the end, he was stopped by Sandaime-sama along with hundreds of Shinobi."
"Seriously? Why would the Kyubi's Jinchuriki try something like that?"
As soon as Naruto walked out of the ward, he heard several nurses gathered together and started whispering.
They are still talking about the Kyubi's Jinchuriki tried to commit suicideby slamming headfirst into the village's barrier...
There were all kinds of ridiculous rumors, and Naruto's face twitched as he listened.
He felt extremely ashamed.
'It was all Hatake Kakashi's fault!'
Naruto didn't even care how these stories spread. As far as he was concerned, blaming Kakashi was totally fair!
If Kakashi had just stopped him, this situation wouldn't have happened!
As he walked through the hospital corridor, Naruto noticed that people were constantly looking at him with weird looks, and some of them are even whispering and laughing!
Naruto seriously wished he could just find a hole and crawl into it.
He had never thought that after keeping a low profile for so long, he would become famous in the village in this way...
In order to avoid the strange looks from the people, Naruto found a deserted place and jumped down from the fifth floor.
He didn't even consider the fact that he'd just recovered.
The moment he landed, Naruto even noticed that his physique was stronger than before.
With his old physique, a fall from the fifth floor would've at least sprained his ankle. But now, there's not even a scratch.
"I seem to be going further and further down the path of becoming a freak..."
Naruto sighed, walking aimlessly on the streets of Konoha.
When Hiruzen got the news that Naruto was discharged from the hospital, his mood improved a little, but when he heard that he jumped from the fifth floor of the hospital just after waking up...
Hiruzen felt his blood pressure rising again.
'Is there anyone who can take good care of this kid?'
At this point, he had zero faith in Kakashi's ability to look after Naruto.
This time, Konoha was just a little bit away from losing their Kyubi's Jinchuriki.
Hiruzen's only hope now is to find Jiraiya who is traveling outside.
After all, Jiraiya is Naruto's father's teacher. Since he could teach Naruto's father without problem, it should be easy for him to teach Naruto, right?
"Puff…"
Hiruzen looked out the window and blew out a puff of smoke. He looked a lot older and wearier than before.
'Let's wait until Naruto graduates first...'
'There are still five years left... I just need to preserve.'
'When the time comes, I'll just bring Jiraiya back to take care of him.'
…
"Naruto-kun... are you okay?"
In the classroom, Hinata turned around and found her deskmate walked into the classroom. Although she didn't say much, Naruto could feel the joy in the girl's heart.
"Hinata-chan, thanks for the get-well cards."
"And the fruit."
"N-no… it was nothing."
After hearing what Naruto said, Hinata was so shy that she started stuttering again.
Naruto couldn't help but grin when he saw her like this.
Then he thought about his previous appointment with Hinata...
'I had agreed to train with her after school. But then I ran off chasing that green bowl-cut guy and ended up laid up in the hospital for a month.'
'I had totally ghosted her.'
Thinking about it made him feel guilty.
If it's his ex-girlfriend in his previous life, she would've chewed him out for being ten minutes late to a date, let alone missing a whole month.
But look at Hinata...
Not only did she not have any complaints, she also went to the hospital to see him from time to time.
From the fresh fruits on the nightstand in the ward, it can be seen that Hinata comes to see him quite frequently.
It can be said that Hinata checked every box Naruto had for an ideal wife.
"Hinata, I'll come pick you up after school."
"I promised you that we could train together..."
Hinata didn't even catch the full sentence, as her mind started to feel dizzy when she heard Naruto's first words.
'He's coming to pick me up… Is this a date?!'
"Hmm..."
Before Naruto could even finish his sentence, Hinata collapsed face-first onto her desk.
Seeing this, Naruto was stunned again.
"How come training made her faint from embarrassment?"
He didn't understand, but seeing the girl fainted on the desk like that, he was worried that she would have a sore neck when she woke up, so he took out a teddy bear pillow from the system, gently lifted her head and then tucked it under.
He doesn't care about the feelings of other students in the class at all.
However, the class has almost gotten used to Naruto skipping classes.
But everyone was surprised when Naruto came to the classroom.
Iruka on the podium was so angry that his head was buzzing when he saw the two students flirting with each other behind him.
But he couldn't say anything about these two...
After all, one is the eldest princess of the Hyuga Clan, and the other is the son of Hokage...
How was he supposed to deal with that?
He decided to just look the other way, after all, out of sight, out of mind.
Anyway, Hiruzen had already told him not to worry about Naruto.
After lunch, Naruto used his portal to head home, grabbed a bite to eat, then returned to the grove on the village's eastern edge.
The environment here was destroyed beyond recognition by a certain Jinchuriki, and only a few sparse trees were left.
As for the wooden cabin that the enthusiastic villagers had built for Naruto, it had disappeared.
All that remained were splinters scattered across the ground, faint proof that a tiny house had once stood there.
It's no exaggeration to say that this place is a garbage dump.
"That's a bit rough..."
Naruto glanced around and couldn't help but marvel at just how destructive he'd been.
Now faced with this mess, he was genuinely at a loss.
"How about... move to a new spot?"
Naruto scratched his chin and mumbled to himself, but after thinking about it for a while, he realized that might not be such a good idea.
It can be imagined that after he lost control last time, his reputation in the village should have become worse than before.
Naruto sincerely felt that it was good enough that the village did not ask him to pay for the damages.
If he went and wrecked another area...
Naruto was really worried that Konoha would label him as a Missing-nin and throw him out of village.
After thinking for a while, he decided to clean this place up.
It was his mess, after all, so he should be the one to deal with it.
It's all about farming anyway, and as a veteran farming sim player, this was right up his alley.
Taking out a diamond axe from the system, Naruto raised the axe and took a quick glance to check the enchantments.
[Diamond Axe: Attack power 42.]
[Enchantment: +70% Logging Speed]
[Durability: 100000\/100000.]
Although the axe only had one enchantment, this value can be said to be the highest one Naruto has obtained so far.
Besides...
It's just an axe. It's meant to chop trees. So there's no need for flashy bells and whistles.
"Hey brat, it's time to train."
"What are you doing with an axe?"
When Kurama saw Naruto coming to the training ground, he began to remind him, but he didn't expect that this kid would take out an axe.
'He wasn't thinking of using that as a weapon, right?'
"I'll clean up this place a bit."
"Also... I don't have to punch trees today, right?"
Naruto glanced at the few spindly saplings around him, the meaning of his words was obvious.
Normally, those big trees were not big enough for him to pound for days, so this small sapling that was not even the size of his wrist did not arouse his interest at all.
Kurama thought what Naruto said made sense, so thinking for a bit, he said, "Did you see those fallen trees over there?"
"Drag three of them. Clean while carrying those as your weights."
"I…"
Naruto was instantly speechless. Each of those fallen trunks looked like they weighed at least 200 pounds.
'If you say to carry a tree, that's fine...'
'But isn't it a bit difficult for a six-year-old child to drag three trees at once?'
"Big Fox, how about we talk this out..."
He tried to negotiate, but Kurama didn't even bother replying.
Obviously, Kurama-sensei disagreed.
With a heavy sigh, Naruto pulled out a bundle of rope and started tying himself up with the trees.
By the time he was done, he realized he'd used up an entire set of ropes just to secure himself to the three tree trunks.
But when he really took the first step, his entire neck turned red and he couldn't even take the first step.
The three trees behind him seemed to have no intention of moving.
But the axe in his hand was still half a meter away from the nearest broken tree...
Meanwhile, Hiruzen saw through the crystal ball that Naruto was holding an axe and dragging the three trees behind him...
He closed his eyes with a wince, not daring to continue watching.
'Punching trees was one thing, and I could even tolerate him flattening parts of the village...'
'But this? What the heck was this kid doing now??'
'Is this weight training?'
'Who even trains like this?!'
'Would it kill him to just buy some weights like a normal Shinobi?!'
"This kid..."
Hiruzen didn't dare to think about it too much. He felt his blood pressure rising again, so he quickly took out some medicine from the drawer and put them in his mouth.
At this point, he was done checking in on Naruto through the crystal ball.
He was really afraid that one day, Naruto would make him so angry that he would give him a stroke.