"I need to work harder."
Hinata encouraged herself silently.
Meanwhile, in a special golden space.
"Naruto, my little Naruto!"
"The same hair color as Minato Namikaze, the same surname as me. It must be that Third Hokage protected Naruto, after all, he is Minato's son, and now he is the Nine-Tailed Jinchuriki."
Uzumaki Kushina, with her red hair draped over her shoulders, covered her chest with both hands, her eyes already a little moist, more excited than Ino.
Although she only saw a photo of his back, she had an indescribable feeling in her heart and firmly believed that this Uzumaki Naruto was her son.
After a long while, she finally calmed down a bit, her eyes sparkling with joy.
"As the protagonist of the anime, little Naruto should be doing well."
"The female protagonist Sakura Haruno, could she be my future daughter-in-law?"
"As expected of my and Minato's son, at such a young age, he already knows how to take the initiative, truly excellent."
"I wonder when I'll be able to see him."
"And that Lin Mo, can't he write more about him?"
Kushina complained to the diary as she spoke, her long red hair fluttering in the wind.
She had a vague feeling deep down that she should have been peacefully asleep in a tranquil world, only briefly awakening when the mysterious power within Naruto was activated.
But now, she inexplicably appeared in Naruto's Sealing Space, unable to directly call out to Naruto, and could only rely on the diary to peek at the changing world outside.
It was truly stifling, sigh.
That Lin Mo, can't he write faster?
At this moment, throughout the Ninja World, the name Uzumaki Naruto was deeply imprinted in the hearts of many.
As for the so-called protagonist halo, they didn't really care much about it.
Thinking about it carefully, if the story were narrated from their perspective, or if someone recorded the details of their lives, they would absolutely be the protagonists of the story, just like the legendary god of shinobi of the past.
But then again, since Uzumaki Naruto is the protagonist of the grand drama "naruto," it is highly likely that he will become Hokage in the future.
The successive Hokage were not to be trifled with, so they still needed to pay a little attention.
At this time, Lin Mo had already walked to the outside of Ichiraku Ramen's curtain, and the sounds from inside clearly reached him.
"Sakura, what do you want to eat? It's on me!"
Naruto, brazenly, asked Sakura Haruno from across Uchiha Sasuke.
But Sakura Haruno completely ignored him, instead fidgeting with her hands, her voice sounding strange: "Sasuke, what a coincidence to run into you here. What flavor do you want? I can…"
"Boss, is my ramen ready?"
Sakura hadn't even finished speaking when Sasuke impatiently interrupted her.
He was the first of the three to arrive, and he hadn't expected to be pestered by these two "annoying pests."
If the ramen hadn't already been cooking, he would have left to train long ago.
"Sasuke, be polite to Sakura!" Naruto slammed the table and stood up.
"Dead last, get lost!"
"What did you say!?"
"Naruto, be polite to Sasuke." Sakura Haruno shouted, "You are a dead last."
"I, I…" Naruto's face instantly turned red, and he stammered, "Sasuke, I want to fight you."
"Get lost!" Sasuke ignored him completely.
Naruto wanted to say something else, but seeing Sakura's gaze, sharp as a knife, he immediately recoiled.
The shop owner, seeing the situation, quickly placed a bowl of ramen in front of Sasuke, and smoothed things over: "Naruto, still the same as ever? Would you like a deluxe version?"
"? This… uh!"
Naruto was about to agree directly, but suddenly remembered something, pulled out his frog wallet, and opened it.
"Oh no, I spent all my money buying paint for pranks." Naruto's face changed.
The shop owner understood at a glance and said with a smile: "Naruto, you're an old customer. This bowl of ramen is on me today."
"That's not good!" Naruto scratched his head, feeling warm inside.
The shop owner was one of the few people in the Village who treated him well, and he didn't want to take advantage of him.
But in front of Sakura, he didn't want to appear as if he couldn't even afford a bowl of ramen.
The shop suddenly fell silent, with only the sound of the owner pulling noodles.
Lin Mo witnessed all of this and found it quite amusing. With a thought, he meticulously described the entire process in the diary.
Although it was a diary, since there was a word limit, writing a little more shouldn't be a problem, right?
Everything seen and heard could become material for the diary!
Of course, he also had to mix in some of his own insights.
"Tsk tsk, the current Naruto and Sakura are so annoyingly close, Sakura is fawning over Sasuke, and Sasuke's unique Uchiha Clan brotherly affection for Naruto has also changed its flavor."
"This is simply a 'beautiful' love triangle."
"Win and become Hokage, lose and marry Sakura!"
"What? Simp?"
"Love triangle?!"
Seeing the contents of the diary, several individuals couldn't sit still.
In the Sealing Space, Red Hot-Blooded Habanero was the first to jump up:
"What in the world is the Third Hokage old man up to?"
"How did my child become a simp? I don't believe it!"
The son of the Fourth Hokage, he was the descendant of a hero who saved the Village.
In Lin Mo's words, he was practically Konoha's little prince.
Plus, he also had the power of the Nine-Tailed, so the Third Hokage must have been cultivating him with special attention.
With such status, to humble himself for another woman, and that woman was chasing after someone else.
As a mother, Kushina declared she absolutely could not accept it.
"Oh my~"
"This Uchiha Sasuke, isn't he Mikoto's second son? What's so great about him?"
"Win and become Hokage, lose and marry Sakura, is this an agreement between Naruto and Sasuke?"
"Male protagonist with female protagonist. According to Lin Mo, Naruto eventually ends up with Sakura Haruno and becomes Hokage. He got everything he wanted in the end."
From the outcome, Naruto was a winner in life.
This is acceptable.
Kushina held her head in her hands, irritably pulling at her fiery red long hair.
Naruto was not living up to expectations, and she had no one to confide in, so she could only comfort herself.
Damn it.
Can she find a way to contact that person named Lin Mo?
She really wanted to understand what was going on!
More updates! More updates!
Is he a man or not? Can't he write faster!
In the Pure Land, there was a black-haired, straight-haired girl who looked to be in her early twenties, feeling as conflicted as Kushina.
She was Uchiha Mikoto, Uchiha Sasuke's mother.
She knew Sasuke was popular with girls; it wasn't surprising at all.
But she couldn't understand why Sasuke would develop such a twisted brotherly affection for Naruto.
Their Uchiha Clan understood love particularly well; older brothers usually took great care of their younger brothers.
Shisui was like that with Itachi, and Itachi was like that with Sasuke; she had seen many examples.
But what was the relationship between Naruto and Sasuke?
"Naruto should be Minato and Kushina's child, right?"
"If Kushina knew the suffering Naruto endured in the Village since childhood, she would definitely explode."
"Due to the admonitions of the three generations of ancestors, our clan must stay away from Jinchuriki. Although I haven't talked to Naruto, I also told Sasuke not to look at Naruto with strange eyes, and to treat him with kindness."
"Could it be that after Fugaku and I left, Sasuke was ostracized by the clan, which is why he became so close to Naruto?"
Mikoto and Fugaku had no idea about the Uchiha Clan's demise.
In their eyes, Itachi had dealt with the clan's traitors and direct blood relatives.
Once these people were dead, the remaining Uchiha Clan members could only protect themselves, unable to rebel, and no longer able to control the Konoha Military Police Force, so the Village could naturally rest easy.
Their deaths as clan head and clan head's wife provided Itachi with an excuse to act, and also allowed Sasuke to grow up safely in the Village.
This was Itachi's way of allowing the Village and the Uchiha to coexist while maintaining the Uchiha's honor.
As parents, they chose to support him, only worried about whether Sasuke would be ostracized by the remaining clan members.
Now it seems that this might indeed be the case, otherwise, how did Sasuke develop such a twisted brotherly affection with Naruto?
Uchiha Mikoto had no idea that the relationship between Sasuke and Naruto was a fated entanglement passed down for thousands of years, the deepest "affection" of the Uchiha ancestor Indra for his younger brother Asura.
"Can't you write a little more? Let me understand more about Sasuke's current situation?"
Mikoto was a particularly gentle woman, and like Kushina, she also found Lin Mo's updates too slow.
Can't he write faster to satisfy everyone?
Lin Mo didn't know any of this, otherwise, he would definitely have to prove himself.
At this moment, he decided to be a good teacher and reclaim Iruka's position in Naruto's heart.
Just a little care and affirmation would be remembered by the future Seventh Hokage, ensuring a high status, constant protection, and an easy life. Was there any better investment in the Ninja World than this?
Before the Ōtsutsuki Clan arrived, he could comfortably be a slacker, writing diaries every day.
Even when Naruto got married in the future, he could make a cameo as Kushina's husband—Pooh Pooh, Naruto's father.
"Boss, I'll pay for these three kids' meal!"
Lin Mo pushed aside the curtain and walked into the shop, sitting down next to Naruto with a gentle smile on his face.
"Teacher Lin Mo."
Seeing Lin Mo, Sakura and the other two immediately greeted him, and Sasuke did too.
Two-Pillar (Nickname for Sasuke) was aloof, but he still had basic manners.
After all, he was from the noble Uchiha Clan.
"Didn't expect to run into you three here, on a date?" Lin Mo asked with a teasing smile.
Sakura's face immediately flushed, and she secretly glanced at Sasuke's expression.
Naruto scratched his head and said shyly: "Teacher Lin Mo, you have good eyesight. It's Sakura and I on a date."
Bang!
As soon as he finished speaking, Naruto got a punch on the head.
"Don't talk nonsense!"
Sakura yelled loudly, then became flustered again: "It's clearly Sasuke-kun and I…"
"Ugh, how boring!" Sasuke looked utterly impatient.
"Hehe, it's quite fun."
Lin Mo, however, laughed heartily.
In Naruto's eyes, Sakura's later actions were quite manipulative.
But from Sakura's perspective, she was actually quite annoyed by Naruto.
Imagine, if you were pursued by someone you didn't like, and even many people disliked, would you be happy?
Sasuke's dislike for Sakura probably meant the same thing.
Lin Mo felt that this future Team Seven was indeed quite amusing.
"You guys are really full of energy."
He smiled and said to the owner: "Give them all the deluxe version, it's on me."
"Just a moment."
With a teacher paying, the owner no longer made a losing deal.
"Hey, Teacher Lin Mo also loves Ichiraku Ramen?"
Naruto, uncharacteristically not fawning over Sakura, spoke to Lin Mo with a bit of trepidation.
There weren't many people in the Village who looked him in the eye, and he remembered them all.
Before this, Lin Mo was just one of those enviable teachers in his eyes.
Because Lin Mo was handsome, knowledgeable, and good-tempered, he easily got the attention Naruto most desired.
But now, Lin Mo was treating him to deluxe Ichiraku Ramen, and his gaze was very gentle, without any hint of disdain or disgust.
This ignited a glimmer of hope in Naruto's heart.
Perhaps, Teacher Lin Mo didn't dislike him?
"…"
After making eye contact with Naruto, Lin Mo felt a little emotional.
After all, this guy had accompanied him throughout his youth, like watching a son grow up.
He indeed had a different kind of affection for Naruto.
[This child, Naruto, truly makes me want to adopt him as my godson.]
[Hiruzen Sarutobi, you damn Old Monkey!]
The women reading the diary: ??
Kushina: ???
"God… godson?"
In the Sealing Space, Kushina almost fainted when she saw this sentence.
A godson is not a disciple. If Lin Mo wanted to adopt Naruto as his godson, then he would have to be Naruto's godfather.
This would mean he would have to marry her, Kushina.
This transmigrator actually had such thoughts about her?
"No, he just called Hinata Wife. He clearly likes Hinata, so 'godson' must have been a mistake, tsk."
After thinking for a while, both shy and angry, Kushina felt she was being too presumptuous.
She was dead. Although she didn't know why she could get a diary copy of Lin Mo's and "resurrect" in this way, how could Lin Mo have thoughts about her, a dead person?
It must have been a mistake!
"But why would he want to adopt Naruto as his godson and also curse the Third Hokage?"
Kushina didn't understand why Lin Mo hated Hiruzen Sarutobi so much.
Naruto is the protagonist and will become Hokage in the future. Did the Third Hokage not take good care of him?
At this moment, she saw another line of text added to the diary.
[Find an opportunity to tell Naruto the true face of that Old Monkey. He can be optimistic, he can want to be Hokage, but he must recognize the true face of Hiruzen Sarutobi, and not foolishly respect him.]
Oh, it's the eighteenth.
Tell us about Hiruzen Sarutobi's mysterious veil?
What exactly is his true face?
You hurry up and tell us!
Kushina muttered to herself, but Lin Mo deliberately kept them in suspense and stopped writing.
"This person really knows how to keep people in suspense, tsk!"
At this moment, Lin Mo turned to Naruto and smiled: "I always hear you praise Ichiraku Ramen's deliciousness, so today I'll try it too."
To be honest, ever since he transmigrated from another world, he had been incredibly curious about the taste of Ichiraku Ramen.
"Really?" Naruto was overjoyed.
This was the first time someone had tried something because of his words.
"How could a teacher lie to his own student?" Lin Mo replied with a smile.
"Uncle, see, I've helped you get customers, haven't I?"