Naruto, be my son.

Naruto-kun is obviously a very good person!

He is not some "demon fox"!

The time has come to test your courage.

Are you following your father's words, refusing to become a family member with Naruto, and not getting close to Naruto-kun?

Or should we take Naruto and his father back to the Hyuga clan and let Naruto's father communicate with his father?

Hinata is in a dilemma.

In the final analysis, Hinata's ignorant and early love for Naruto made it difficult for her to resist the temptation of "becoming a family member with Naruto".

Iruka: "..."

Sasuke: "..."

Such a reaction makes it hard not to see what she is thinking.

Iruka didn't expect Whitebeard to want to snatch his daughter from the head of the Hyuga clan. The key is that Hinata actually hesitated.

Does she really have the intention to join the Whitebeard Pirates?

Is it because the head of the Hyuga clan really doesn't care about his daughter, and Hinata finally develops a bit of a rebellious streak?

still is……

Iruka couldn't help but look at Naruto next to him.

He wanted to ask Naruto - what kind of ecstasy did you give Hinata to make her become like this?

Fortunately, it’s just two kids.

If these two were both adults...Iruka might have a restricted drama in his mind.

He didn't quite understand Hinata.

This is too "licking"!

Sasuke's thoughts were different from Iruka's. His focus was not on how Hinata would "lick" Naruto, but on whether Hinata would grow in strength by leaps and bounds if she recognized Whitebeard as her father, just like Naruto. Are people making rapid progress?

Wouldn't it be true that in the ninja school, the Uchiha clan would be overwhelmed by the Hyuga clan?

After Sasuke thought of this.

His eyes widened a bit.

In his eyes, Hinata is the bottle of the ninja clan. Not only is she weak, but she is also hesitant and crooked.

The Uchiha clan would not have such a person!

But it was Hinata who he looked down on...

What if one day I become better than myself?

Sasuke couldn't accept it!

"That's it!" Before Hinata could answer, Naruto suddenly exchanged fists and said to Hinata: "We will go to your house after eating Ichiraku Ramen! How can a man be a father? Can his daughter not have enough to eat? Does such a biological father really shoulder the responsibility of being a father? "

Naruto's tone became more and more firm. Seeing Hinata's hesitant state, he felt a little resentful and said: "My biological father is the kind of person who just abandons me after I am born. This kind of irresponsibility My father, I will never consider him my father!"

"The main reason is that I haven't seen him since I was a child. Otherwise, I would definitely say these words to him in front of him and let him know that he is nothing in my eyes!"

"And you get to see your biological father every day! Can't you muster up the courage to argue with him?"

Naruto wished he could transform into Hinata Hinata.

Then he ran back to the headquarters of the Hyuga clan and asked Hinata and Hizashi face to face: Is the relationship between father and daughter important? Or is it more important that the clan family or the branch family is higher or lower?

If Hinata's father answered the latter, then he would definitely break with the Hyuga clan.

Because of people with this kind of thinking, Naruto felt that they lacked discretion.

Naruto believed that the will of fire was the sacrifice of dead leaves to nourish new ones.

Instead of standing high above the dead leaves, pointing at the new leaves, and using the new leaves to achieve some purpose.

At this moment, Hiashi, who is far away from the Hyuga clan's headquarters, doesn't know...

He was almost blacklisted by Naruto.

……

An hour and a half later, it was getting dark.

Iruka walked home with a complex expression on his face.

He was holding a shriveled wallet in his hand, which was empty, not even a coin in it.

He also held an IOU in his other hand.

"I owe my boss 3000 taels..."

Iruka was on the verge of tears.

Because he was shocked to discover that among the three Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata, only Sasuke was the one who was full of anger.

After Sasuke ate four bowls of ramen, his face turned green and red, and he ran straight to the toilet to induce vomiting.

On the contrary, it was Naruto and Hinata, the two of them really finished eating!

He even ate everything Sasuke couldn't eat!

Make Iruka look stupid on the spot.

You know, even as an adult, he can eat three or four bowls a day and he is basically very full.

Naruto and Hinata are not giants like Whitebeard. How can their stomachs hold so many things?

Iruka doesn't understand!

"Do you want to report to the Hokage-sama that Whitebeard is going to the Hyuga clan?" Iruka looked in the direction of the Hokage building, then looked up at the sky, and muttered: "But this point, the Hokage-sama should no longer deal with it. Is it about government affairs?"

……

On the other side, Sasuke went home alone.

"My stomach feels so uncomfortable..."

Sasuke's face looked a little pale.

This was the result of forcefully eating four bowls of ramen. Even after going to the toilet several times to induce vomiting, I still felt like my stomach was churning.

After entering the family residence.

Sasuke returns home.

He endured the discomfort and just took off his shoes when he looked up and saw his father's figure. He saw his father hanging his hands and looking at him expressionlessly.

The atmosphere inevitably became somewhat depressing.

"Father?" Sasuke noticed that his father's face was slightly gloomy. He couldn't help but asked curiously: "What...what's wrong?!"

"Sasuke, you disappoint me so much." Uchiha Fugaku took a deep breath and slowly exhaled: "Today, your performance in the ninja school is the answer sheet you gave me?"

Sasuke's eyes widened. Does his father already know what happened in the ninja school?

Could it be that...his father has been secretly paying attention to him?

"...I, I will work harder, father." Sasuke clenched his little hands slightly.

He raised his head and looked at Fugaku: "What if..."

But Sasuke hadn't finished his sentence yet.

Fugaku said expressionlessly: "There are not so many ifs. If you are not as good as others, you are not as good as others. If it were your brother Itachi, even if he was defeated by a chuunin teacher, he would not be reduced to needing others like you. Come to save you."

"I have heard about the battle in the ninja school. Your performance... was not even as good as the three little pirates." Fugaku said disappointedly: "If that Uzumaki Naruto hadn't saved you, you might have died in the ninja school. ”

"If the son of the leader of the Uchiha clan dies in a ninja school, he will definitely be ridiculed by the entire village. Sasuke, you almost brought shame to the Uchiha clan."

Having said this, Fugaku became even more disappointed: "Moreover, even after experiencing a near-death crisis, your eyes did not fluctuate at all."

"Your talent is less than one percent of Itachi's."

The series of rebuke made Sasuke stunned.

Sasuke lowered his head and said nothing.

He suddenly thought of Hinata. When he was at Ichiraku Ramen Shop... he felt that people like Hinata were too weak. There would never be anyone like Hinata in their Uchiha clan.

Unexpectedly, the boomerang pierced his body in the blink of an eye, because Sasuke didn't know what to say.

He didn't have the courage to contradict his father.

Moreover, there doesn't seem to be much difference between his father and the father Hinata talks about.

Why……

Is there such a big gap between these fathers and Naruto's father?

He has obviously worked so hard.

Sasuke bit his lower lip.

He was a little aggrieved.

When Sasuke raised his head and wanted to say something, he found that his father had turned and left, leaving only a silhouette behind.

"Father……"

"Sasuke." Suddenly, a familiar voice sounded from behind: "My father just said something out of anger. There is no need to take his angry words to heart."

Sasuke hurriedly looked back and saw Itachi returning home.

Itachi reached out and ruffled Sasuke's hair.

Compared to Fugaku's harshness.

Itachi dotes on Sasuke very much: "I heard that you fought against Iruka-sensei in school. Sasuke, you shouldn't be injured, right? If you are injured, you can't hide it from your brother!"

"No." Sasuke shook his head, brushing away the discomfort in his heart. But at this time, he was a little confused and said: "Brother, why is my father always so strict with me?"

Sasuke expressed his grievance: "I have tried very hard to surpass Naruto, and I have become more powerful than before. But I can't surpass Naruto, and it's not because of my lack of hard work!"

"But father puts all the blame on me." Sasuke began to feel a little bit the same as Hinata.

He kind of wished his father could be like Whitebeard.

Sasuke knew very well how good Whitebeard was to Naruto.

But he also knew very well that his father was not that kind of person.

"Sasuke." Itachi slowly squatted down.

His expression was somewhat complicated: "This is not your fault. It's because father...cares too much about the family."

Itachi wanted to say that his father was too narrow-minded.

But in the end he changed his tune.

Sasuke is still too young.

It was not appropriate to say these words to him.

"Care too much about the family?" Sasuke understood a little bit: "In the eyes of father, do the Uchiha clan come before the family?"

"Yeah." Itachi nodded.

No one, more than Itachi, hoped that his father would care more about his family and not pay too much attention to family affairs.

Because once the father, as the patriarch, completely focuses on the family, he will be surrounded by many "voices" that do not belong to him.

Itachi didn't want his father to take Uchiha to extremes.

He also didn't want his father, clan elders, and those very extreme Uchiha clan members... to use their very narrow sense to destroy Konoha Village and the Uchiha clan.

And... didn't want them to destroy Sasuke.

Itachi's eyes flashed with cold light.

Before returning to the family camp today, I secretly went to Konoha Prison, and the words I exchanged with Danzo gradually came to my mind.

——"Itachi, I heard that the Uchiha clan recently had a batch of contraband and encountered it in the family camp. If I remember correctly, it seems to be more than 10,000 detonating charms. Fugaku naively thought that... some of their actions were unmanned. You know, in fact, these things are under the surveillance of the village!"

——"Have you considered it? Itachi, the time I gave you to consider is already long enough, right? The patience of the village has its limit. Once it is discovered that the Uchiha clan has taken action, the entire Uchiha will not leave a single person alive. .”

——"You have only two choices. The first is to stand with your family, and then you and the Uchiha clan will perish together. The second is to stand with me...cough! Stand with Konoha. I agree. You, let your brother live."