Konoha: I have a clone in One Piece.

Chapter 227 The New Generation Yearning for Secret Treasures

"don't want!"

Naruto shook his head, then pointed his little finger at Hinata Hyuga, Shino Aburame, and Kiba Inuzuka, and said in a carefree manner:

"Wait, wait...didn't we play hide-and-seek last time?"

"But Hinata has the Byakugan, Shino has insects, and Kiba has an incredibly sensitive nose. We have absolutely no chance of winning!"

"Exactly! Let's play house. I want to be the mom, and then hehehe... Hinata will be the daughter!"

Yamanaka Ino raised her little hand and shouted loudly.

"what?"

Hinata Hyuga widened her adorable eyes, but Naruto quickly retorted again:

"We're starting school next year!"

"How can you still play such childish games?"

"Agreed, I definitely won't participate in this kind of game."

Uchiha Sasuke nodded in agreement.

"So what should we play?"

A group of children around five years old started chattering and discussing.

Soon, after rejecting Choji Akimichi's camping suggestion, Sasuke Uchiha's training suggestion, and Naruto Namikaze's prank suggestion, the eight people finally voted to choose Kiba Inuzuka's challenge.

After a while.

The competition begins.

The eight main characters were originally from the ninja clan and learned how to refine chakra at a very young age.

However, different educations and different opportunities can lead to vastly different abilities in people of the same age.

After defeating Nara Shikamaru, Akimichi Choji, and Aburame Shino in succession, Kiba Inuzuka, who proposed the game and is also the reigning champion, will face Uchiha Sasuke next!

However, it's different from the original future.

In this battle, Sasuke Uchiha was actually defeated by Kiba Inuzuka!

Even Naruto and the others who followed him all lost to Kiba Inuzuka.

"Ahhh..."

"Tooth, when did you eat the secret treasure?"

Naruto shouted loudly.

Kiba Inuzuka, who had won all seven of his battles, struck a pose like a boss and laughed triumphantly:

"Hmph, impressive, isn't it!"

"I got this by sheer luck while buying fruit at the fruit shop! It's a Zoan-type Devil Fruit—Tibetan Mastiff Fruit!"

Looking at Kiba Inuzuka's now transformed, massive and cool appearance, Naruto's eyes revealed intense envy:

"So handsome!"

"Hahahaha... Of course! I'll definitely be the Fifth Hokage from now on!"

Kiba Inuzuka laughed proudly, his voice becoming much louder with the boost from his transformed form.

"Wow...that's amazing!"

"I really want to eat one of those treasures too!"

"I heard the secret treasure tastes awful. What does it actually taste like?"

"..."

The group of friends surrounded Kiba Inuzuka, asking all sorts of questions about the secret treasure with curiosity and envy.

After a long while, the group, having received some answers, finally quieted down.

"well……"

Naruto, chewing on a blade of grass, lazily lay down on the grass by the lake, sighed as he looked at the empty sky, and said:

"I wonder where that Nine-Tailed Fruit is. I wish I could find it."

"That way, it won't hurt as much when Mommy hits me."

Kushina Uzumaki had a bad temper and often beat Naruto when he was about six months old and had just learned to walk.

If you get covered in mud while playing outside, you'll get a beating when you get home; if you're not enthusiastic enough about eating at home, you'll get a beating; if you're not serious during training, you'll get a beating; and if Kakashi tattles on you, you'll still get a beating...

Naruto has lost count of how many times he has been beaten up.

Children have very simple minds.

Because he had heard that secret treasures could increase defense and recovery, Naruto only hoped to obtain a powerful secret treasure so that it wouldn't hurt too much when Kushina Uzumaki spanked him.

Thinking of his mother's wildly dancing red hair and her enormous, beastly claws that could easily crush him, Naruto couldn't help but shudder and quickly shook his head to shake off the terrifying image.

"It's not that easy. The adults haven't found that fruit in all these years, so we probably don't have much hope either."

Nara Shikamaru, having somehow acquired a foxtail grass, lay down on the grass and lazily said something.

Choji Akimichi nodded as he chewed on potato chips.

"Hmm... Shikamaru makes a good point."

Yamanaka Ino shook her head, her expression serious, and said:

"Not necessarily. Take Hanzo, for example, the demigod, who ate a legendary mythical beast, didn't he?"

"But he's a demigod! It's said that no one in the ninja world can defeat him yet!"

"Even the Hokage can't do it?"

"I don't know, that's what the newspapers said anyway."

"Just how amazing is he...?"

The three members of the Ino-Shika-Cho trio, along with Kiba Inuzuka, discussed the strength of Hanzo the Salamander, a demigod of the ninja world, while Shino Aburame listened quietly to their conversation.

Hinata Hyuga carefully lay down not far from Naruto, her face slightly flushed as she peeked at his golden, tousled hair.

Although Suzuki had completely disrupted the overall situation, Hinata remained shy due to the strict rules of the Hyuga clan, and she still met Naruto in that snowy place.

However, a young girl's thoughts often end up unfulfilled.

Too young for Naruto to understand what liking someone meant; he only thought of Hinata as a shy brother.

Not long after.

As dusk fell.

Naruto, Hinata, and the other Konoha 11 left the lakeside and returned home.

However, Sasuke Uchiha still did not return.

The previous battle with Kiba Inuzuka was just a game.

However, this was the first time that Sasuke Uchiha had lost to someone of his age other than Naruto, and it was Kiba Inuzuka, whom he had always easily defeated before.

Thinking about his upcoming enrollment next year, and recalling his older brother Itachi Uchiha's outstanding achievements at the Ninja Academy, Sasuke Uchiha gritted his teeth and began training alone in the empty training ground.

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique! Cough cough..."

A plume of black smoke billowed from Sasuke Uchiha's mouth, causing him to cough a few times.

But soon, with a determined look on his face, he continued training.

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"

"Fire Release..."

"..."

……

This is the scene that Madara Uchiha saw when he arrived here.

A little boy dressed in Uchiha clothing was performing the most basic Uchiha Fire Release technique by forming hand seals in front of the calm lake.

However, his clumsy appearance made Madara Uchiha find it hard to resist.

"Hey kid, are you really from the Uchiha clan?"

"How come you keep making mistakes with such a simple ninjutsu? Where is your master?"