Naruto, be my son.

"Hmm..." Naruto mused thoughtfully.

‘He is a potential stock that can be recruited into the new Whitebeard Pirates! ’

This sentence came to his mind.

"Miss Hinata." The child of the Hyuga clan next to Neci greeted Hinata politely.

Neji took a deep look at Hinata. The hatred and disgust in the young man's eyes were difficult to hide.

"Miss." These three words spoken by Ningji contained strong personal emotions.

Anyone can hear it.

His tone was very bad.

After that... Neji walked directly into the ninja school and never looked at Hinata again. The companion next to him, after looking left and right, could only follow in a hurry.

"Brother Neji?" Hinata was startled, but soon remembered the conversation with her father last night, and she took a deep breath slowly.

He whispered to himself in a voice that only he could hear: "I will work hard to change the Hyuga clan!"

Hinata looked at Naruto, Karin, and Shiro beside them.

These people are her new family.

They also believe in their families.

Hinata clenched her fists tightly and added two words in her heart: 'Definitely! ! ! ’

"Hyuga Neji, I heard that he is the number one genius in the ninja school." Bai was in the ninja school yesterday and got some information.

He looked at Neji's back and said, "His hatred for Hinata seems to be more than just the division between the Hyuga clan and the branch clan."

Shiro was keenly aware that something was wrong. He said, "His hatred and indifference towards Hinata must have hidden secrets that Hinata doesn't know about yet."

"Hidden secret?" Hinata tried to remember.

"Could it be..." She recalled something in a daze: "Could it be because of that incident four years ago?"

"Four years ago?" Bai looked at her.

Hinata recalled: "Four years ago, I was only three years old. I can't remember the specific things. I only know that that day... there were ninjas from other villages who wanted to kidnap me, but I seemed to be kidnapped again. People were saved.”

"After that, I never saw Brother Ningji's father, my uncle Hizashi. My father didn't tell me too many details about this matter."

"It was also from that day that Brother Neji's relationship with me became particularly cold."

Hinata also vaguely understood something.

But she really didn't know the specific details of that incident.

Hinata Hizu would not tell such a thing to her daughter.

The Hyuga clan would not spread such a thing.

This is a secret of the Hyuga clan. Even within the Hyuga clan, not many people know the specific truth.

Only the top executives of Hyuga and Konoha knew about it.

"Sure enough." Bai Xin said clearly: "That guy's hatred for Hinata is indeed not that simple."

Because the distinction between the main family and the branch family is not enough to cause hatred.

If hatred arose so easily, the Hyuga clan would have already had very serious civil strife, or even armed conflicts.

"It seems... this hatred may have involved a human life."

Bai's analysis can be described as non-startling and endless.

Attract everyone's attention.

"Human life?" Naruto looked at Hinata, and then at Ningji in the distance. Thinking of the memories Hinata just mentioned, his eyes widened a little: "You mean, That Hyuga Neji’s father…”

"This is just a guess." Bai shook his head: "I'm not sure if this is the truth."

"Huh? Naruto?"

There was a bit of surprise on Shiro's face, because when he saw Naruto, he directly caught up with Hinata Neji.

Naruto was very fast, and in just a few blinks, he ran behind Neji.

"Hey! Hinata Neji!" Naruto's loud voice sounded behind Neji, causing Neji to pause for a moment.

Neji turned his head, his brows kept tightening and did not relax.

"Are you...Uzumaki Naruto?"

Naruto's blond hair is very recognizable in Konoha Village.

Neji had naturally heard of Naruto's "famous name".

Of course this is not a good reputation.

Because Ding Ding’s name refers to the demon fox!

"Why are you so cold towards Hinata? What happened four years ago?" Naruto said it directly. After following Whitebeard for many days, he didn't know what euphemism was. Every word he said They all stepped on a minefield.

"What happened that year that Hinata doesn't know about? If you have anything to say, just say it! Why are you hiding it?" Naruto said this very seriously: "Besides, what did you say about the person who appeared just now? Very bad attitude!”

"...What did you say?!" The veins on the back of Neji's hands were exposed, and his eyes were filled with murderous intent. His eyes were staring directly into Naruto's eyes.

You can clearly see veins sprouting from the skin around the white eyes.

The atmosphere of the whole scene became a little uncomfortable.

"Huh? Hush! Hush!" The child of the branch of the Hyuga clan next to him was so frightened that he hurriedly made a "shush" gesture to Naruto and said to Neji: "Ningji, calm down."

"I'm asking you...what did you say?!" Neji ignored this fellow member of his race, looking like a hunting lion cub.

However, he has never killed anyone before.

It was nothing in Naruto's eyes.

Naruto scratched his head and said: "I was asking you just now why you have such an attitude towards Hinata? I'm also asking you, what happened to your Hyuga clan four years ago to make you treat Hinata like this? Do you have a hateful attitude?"

"As long as you let these things go..." Before Naruto could finish his sentence, his pupils shrank slightly because a palm came towards him like a poisonous snake detecting a message.

Naruto quickly leaned back.

Dodged the opponent's blow.

"You...want to die?" Neji's eyes were covered with veins, and a pair of white eyes had been opened. There was a hint of pain in his eyes.

Before Naruto could speak, Neji struck Naruto with another palm, but the next second, Neji was stunned.

His wrist was grabbed by a hand, and that hand tightly clasped his wrist joint like a powerful vise.

Neji couldn't break free at all.

"Hey, a sneak attack is of no use to me!" Naruto touched the tip of his nose and grinned: "A guy who doesn't even want to reveal the past, but only wants to hide it in his heart and constantly consume himself, in my eyes Ri is not a qualified ninja."

"Hmph!" Neji snorted coldly, stretched out two fingers of his other hand and stabbed towards Naruto's hand quickly.

Only to find Naruto letting go of his wrist.

Dodged his point blow.

"It's strange...it's obviously just two fingers, but seeing and hearing Haki told me that I can't be touched by these two fingers of yours." Naruto became more interested in Neji.

"Hyuuga Neji!"

"Uzumaki Naruto!"

At this moment, a voice came from a distance and approached: "If it is not in the battle class, students are not allowed to fight each other, otherwise they will be punished according to school regulations!"

The speaker was suddenly Iruka.

Iruka, who was stuck at work, didn't expect that he would encounter such a thing as soon as he returned to the ninja school.

Iruka naturally knows Hyuga Neji, after all, he is a popular figure in the school.

Needless to say, Naruto just defeated himself yesterday and made him owe thousands of taels to his boss.

I have to pay my salary next month to repay this debt.

But it made Iruka numb.

"Don't talk too much in the future, or I will take your life." The veins around Neji's eyes gradually dissipated. He glanced coldly at Hinata not far away, and then at Naruto. After saying these words, he turned around and left.

Naruto put his hands in his pockets.

He stared at Neji's back.

"Naruto, Naruto!" Hinata had already run all the way over: "You... you are not hurt, right? Naruto-kun?"

Naruto shook his head.

"I saw pain in his eyes." Naruto said: "It seems that he has a past that he is unwilling to disclose. Interesting guy, I am very interested in him."

Bai Ye said: "It is indeed a very good potential stock. However... if you want him to join the Whitebeard Pirates, the main problem is to untie the knot in his heart."

Xiang Ling asked curiously: "Are we going to get him to join the pirate group?"

"Of course!" Naruto said with a bright smile: "I want to find a group of Hokage assistants in the ninja school! Pull the Hokage assistants into the Whitebeard Pirates. In this way, the number of people in our pirate group will increase. , won’t there be more?”

"Dad, he very much hopes that the number of crew members of the new Whitebeard Pirates can be comparable to the number of the old Whitebeard Pirates."

Naruto's smile was a little firm and serious: "Dad has always protected our dreams, and we must also protect dad's dreams. Isn't this the purpose of family members to protect each other?"

Xiang Liao suddenly understood, she nodded seriously: "I understand!"

As for such behavior, does it count as trying to pry Konoha's corner?

Naruto didn't think it counted.

Because he, Uzumaki Naruto, is the man who wants to be the Fifth Hokage!

By then, everyone will be the Hokage, so what's the point of trying to gain leverage?

Naruto felt that his logic was perfect.

Grandpa Hokage certainly wouldn't blame himself.

……

Konoha Jonin's bachelor apartment.

"Yawn -" Kakashi, whose upper body was bare, revealing his muscular body, sat up from the bed with a sleepy face, and then looked at Shisui beside the bed with a dead fish eye.

"Awakened so early?" Kakashi said to Shisui: "What should you do next? If you don't want to go back to Uchiha Station, you can't always stay here with me, right?"

In the past few days, Kakashi has been taking care of Shisui.

Two grown men crowded into a single apartment.

This is indeed a bit strange.

"The Jonin's single apartment is crowded with people. If you want to be more low-key, I can take you to the place where I used to live." Kakashi was referring to the house where he once lived with his father. It has been abandoned for several years.

Speaking of which, he hasn't been back for a long time.

"I've thought about it." Shisui's eyes were wrapped with bandages. Over the past few days, he had gradually become accustomed to the life of a blind person.

"Oh?" Kakashi was very interested.

Shisui showed a smile and said: "I want to try to see if I can join the Whitebeard Pirates. After all, it is a very enviable family! If Mr. Whitebeard is willing to take me in, then I will be a Whitebeard Pirate." A member of the group.”

"If Mr. Whitebeard doesn't want to, there's nothing we can do. Maybe I will be a wandering ninja somewhere in the Fire Country, and then see how Itachi will lead the village to peace."

His words made Kakashi's eyes widen a bit.

"Join the Whitebeard Pirates?" Kakashi looked at Shisui in surprise: "Shisui, have you really made this decision?"

"Yeah!" Shisui nodded.

Kakashi was silent for a while, and finally sighed: "The old men in the village are really sending outstanding talents out of the village one after another crazily!"

Only in his own residence.

Kakashi made such a sharp comment.

"Maybe it was the right decision for you to join the Whitebeard Pirates." Kakashi looked at the bandage wrapped around Shisui's face, and he said: "The Haki who saw and heard what Whitebeard said, maybe you You can learn from it.”

"Otherwise, if you lose two Sharingan eyes, you won't even be able to protect yourself if you are in danger." Kakashi didn't know why he cared about someone he didn't know very well.

Perhaps... it was because of Shisui's experience of being betrayed by the village's senior officials that Kakashi thought of an old friend.

Kakashi looked at an ornament on the table next to him.