Discussion: How the Nine-Tails led Naruto astray

The next morning, Sakura was still asleep, but as a ninja, it was instinctive for her to stay alert while sleeping. But when she noticed something was wrong and opened her eyes, she saw Naruto standing on the balcony of the room with a serious face. Sakura was full of questions, but she still got up and went to the balcony to open the window, yawning and looking at Naruto: "Did you encounter any problems when you came to see me so early in the morning?" Naruto took a deep breath and looked at Sakura seriously: "Sakura, I like you." "Yeah, I know." Sakura rubbed her eyes, "So you came to me to confess?" Naruto was shocked. But he quickly cheered up: "I'm doing a test to confirm my own heart."

"Really?" Sakura was already used to Naruto's impetuous appearance. After hearing what Naruto said, she closed the window, "Then good night."

Naruto: "..."

Watching Sakura close the window and draw the curtains, Naruto stood on the balcony and blew the cold wind. An inexplicable sense of desolation suddenly broke out.

Kurama laughed sarcastically: "Okay, don't worry about it. Have you decided who to confess to?"

Naruto had no choice but to jump off the balcony of Sakura's room. Standing on the empty street, he was a little entangled. Going forward was Ino's house, and going back was Hyuga's house. They should not have gotten up at this time.

"Emmmm..." Naruto thought about it, and finally clapped his right hand, "Let's go find Hinata. Shikamaru and Choji are not here. I'm afraid they will be beaten to death by Ino."

"Then please come this way." Kurama laughed twice.

Honestly, it was normal for Naruto to choose Hinata. He didn't communicate that much with Tenten, and their relationship was not close enough to joke with each other. As for Ino... they had been classmates for so many years, he knew Ino's temper. If he confessed his love now, even if it was just a joke, he would probably be beaten by Ino.

So Hinata was the best option.

Of course, the point was not this. Kurama wanted to see whether Naruto would really confess his love to Hinata, even if it was just a joke.

Before the sun rose in the early morning, Naruto was already standing at the gate of the Hyuga clan. Because of his special identity, the Hyuga clan ninja guarding the gate did not dare to neglect it. While stopping Naruto, he also asked another person to quickly notify the clan leader.

When he learned that Naruto was looking for Hinata, the gatekeeper ninja was obviously stunned.

However, he also told Naruto very responsibly that Hinata was not in the Hyuga clan: "Miss Hinata went out for training early in the morning. It is said that she was with the senior ninja who led the team. As for the specific place, I don't know."

He was just a gatekeeper ninja, not a ninja who followed Hinata to protect her, so he really didn't know where Hinata went.

Naruto thanked her and left directly. He was a little confused on the road: "Kurouma, do you know where Hinata went?"

"How should I know." Kurama turned over in the sealed space and lay there like a salted fish. "Either you give up now and try another girl, or you go to the training ground in Konoha to look for her."

There are many training grounds in Konoha. The closest one is naturally the training ground next to Konoha School. However, this training ground is usually for ninjas who have not graduated. The training place for the first ninja is in other training grounds.

Naruto's training place is behind the Hokage Rock, which is the training area for Chunin and Jonin. Usually, no one goes there. If Hinata wants to train, she will most likely go to the training ground where Team 8 often goes.

But the problem is that Naruto doesn't know where the training ground for Team 8 is.

"Alas." Naruto walked on the road. The sky was still a little dim at the moment. Although the sun was slowly rising, it would take some time before it was completely bright.

Touching his stomach, Naruto glanced at the distance of the road and murmured: "Anyway, it's hard to rest, let's go eat ramen."

"Can you have some pursuit?" Kurama rolled his eyes.

Naruto didn't care, and walked directly towards Ichiraku Ramen: "Ramen is my pursuit."

Kurama shook his head and didn't comment.

Uncle Ichiraku's ramen shop usually opens very early and closes around midnight. Naruto used to like to eat there in the morning or at night when there were not many customers, because there would not be too many people during this time period, and those customers would not leave directly after seeing him.

He also did not want to affect Uncle Ichiraku's business.

This went on for about ten days.

Minutes later, Naruto was already sitting in the Ichiraku Ramen shop, with a more obvious smile on his face: "Uncle Ichiraku, a big bowl of miso ramen!"

"Okay." Uncle Ichiraku also smiled happily, while cooking ramen, he kept talking to Naruto, "You haven't come to eat ramen for a long time, have you been doing tasks outside recently?"

"No, I'm practicing." Naruto smiled a little embarrassedly, "Because I have something to test today, so I came back."

Uncle Ichiraku glanced at Naruto's dusty clothes and face: "Even if you are practicing, you must treat yourself well. Remember to go back and take a shower and change clothes later, otherwise it will be very uncomfortable. If you are uncomfortable, you can't practice well."

Naruto was subconsciously stunned, and looked in the direction of Uncle Ichiraku's eyes, just in time to see his completely damaged sleeves.

He tugged at his clothes and smiled, "It doesn't matter. Even if I change clothes, they will soon break. Just wear this one. I can mend it later and continue wearing it."

Uncle Ichiraku paused while cooking noodles, but he didn't say anything. He just silently added two more ingredients to Naruto's bowl.

By the way, Naruto never knew that his ramen was actually very different from others, because other people's ramen was one bowl of noodles plus one portion of ingredients, while Naruto's was one bowl of noodles plus two or even three portions of ingredients.

In Uncle Ichiraku's words, anyway, Naruto either came when the stall was just opened, and there was a lot of ingredients, so he regarded it as a reward for the first customer, or came when the stall was about to close, and since the stall was about to close, he would give it all to Naruto, this kind of thing.

After the two chatted for a while, the ramen was ready. Uncle Ichiraku brought a full bowl of ramen to Naruto with a smile: "Eat it, you have to eat enough before you go to practice."

Naruto was not polite either, he clasped his hands together and shouted: "I'm starting!"

The aroma was fragrant. For Uncle Ichiraku, what he liked most was the smiling faces of others when they ate his ramen. Nothing could make him, a chef, happier than this. He did not disturb Naruto and turned around to continue preparing.

Just when Naruto was eating happily, another figure lifted the curtain of Ichiraku Ramen.

"Welcome." Uncle Ichiraku said subconsciously, "Guests, please sit anywhere. What would you like to eat?"

"Naruto... Naruto-kun?" The man covered his mouth in surprise, and looked at Naruto's back as if he couldn't believe it.

Hearing the voice, Naruto also turned his head to look, and the graceful figure of the girl was imprinted in Naruto's eyes.

"Hinata?"