I'm Inside Naruto Manga

Logan sighed and continued eating his noodles.

Hearing the lively voice, one would never imagine that the owner of the voice had a bruised nose and a swollen face. Logan knew what kind of treatment Naruto must have endured as a child, the strange and unfair indifference.

Kakashi's expression moved slightly, but he didn't say anything. Throughout his tumultuous life and his years in the ANBU, the young Kakashi had always outwardly accepted things calmly, but inside, he was constantly consumed by indifference.

On both sides of Naruto, the slurping of noodles continued, and the thick-skinned Naruto completely failed to notice the faint silence in the air. He was watching Teuchi making noodles with a hopeful look on his face, and the overflowing aroma made him salivate.

"Hurry up, uncle, I'm starving!"

"Coming, coming!" Teuchi smiled and brought a super-sized bowl of char siu ramen to Naruto, then he finally noticed the bruises on Naruto's face.

"Naruto, what happened to your face?"

Naruto adjusted his green goggles and put on a nonchalant smile, "Just tripped on the road earlier, it's nothing, Uncle Teuchi."

'Do you have some special falling techniques that make your face so colorful after tripping...'

Logan listened to the conversation silently, and sighed inwardly.

After hearing this, Teuchi's smile faded a bit, and he looked at Naruto's white teeth showing when he smiled. He chose to say nothing and accepted the clumsy lie of a seven-year-old child.

"Slurp..."

Ignoring how hot the newly made ramen was, Naruto blew on it a few times before devouring it. The sound he caused was much louder than the combined sounds of Logan and Kakashi next to him.

'You eat so fast.' Logan thought as he felt that Naruto's performance was far beyond ordinary people.

'I wonder what Kakashi's mood is like.' One of the two Jonin sitting on both sides raised his head and looked to the left.

Logan paused for a moment. Somewhat unexpectedly, Kakashi happened to raise his head at the same time, but he was looking at Naruto.

He already had his black mask on, as he had finished eating. And his Sharingan eye was hidden under his forehead protector.

Kakashi's right eye would be lifeless and weary in a few years, but now, it was filled with layers of barriers and indifference. His father, his teammates, his teacher, have all left one after another. He lives a numb and indifferent life. Now, looking at the golden-haired child in front of him, a surge of complexity welled up inside him.

After a while, Kakashi noticed Logan's gaze, glanced lightly, paid for his meal, and then opened the curtain. Before leaving, he turned back and glanced at Logan, who was dressed in the same ANBU's attire as him.

'You do care about Naruto, after all. Well, in the end, he is still the son of the Fourth Hokage, your teacher.' Logan commented on Kakashi's meaningful glance. He quite liked Naruto, to be honest. Even him, the strongest trash talker has something to learn, from Naruto. It's just that Naruto tends to go in the direction of positive energy...

Naruto ate the ramen very quickly, and it was obvious that he has a good appetite. He finished the super-sized bowl of ramen without leaving a single strand and even slurped down all the soup.

"Ah, that was great!"

Naruto put down his empty bowl, happily patted his stomach, and then took out his frog wallet.

"Uncle Teuchi, the bill!"

"Alright!"

At this point, Logan also put down his chopsticks, having just finished his ramen.

"Oh no." Naruto rummaged through his shriveled wallet and only found a few coins, which is not enough money to pay the ramen. At this time, even the most thick nerve Naruto became embarrassed. He anxiously reached into his wallet, fumbling around, but no matter how he turned it or shook it, there wasn't any extra money coming out, "Haha, Uncle Teuchi, this..."

Naruto blushed and scratched his head, about to tell Teuchi the truth when a large denomination banknote was placed on the table.

"Uncle, this is for the noodles. Please add this kid meal too." Logan handed the money to Teuchi and winked at the stunned Naruto, "I'll cover his portion."

Teuchi looked at Naruto, who was at a loss, squinted his eyes, and took the money, smiling kindly at Logan, who is in his ANBU's attire.

"You're really generous, sir."

Logan chuckled modestly and waved his hand, "It's nothing, really..."

Logan was actually quite well-off. After all, he has worked as a Ninja for so many years, and has done many A-Rank and S-Rank missions. He doesn't spend too much time ordinarily, so after deducting the part he handed over to the village, he still had accumulated a significant amount of wealth.

After silently showing off, Logan's mood, which wasn't particularly good to begin with, improved considerably in front of the protagonist. Well, he was such an easily satisfied person.

He walked out of Ichiraku Ramen, and Naruto followed him.

"Thank you, thank you, uncle!" Naruto's mood was strange, as he didn't have any memories of anyone treating him to a meal besides Iruka. But the adult in front of him was a stranger.

"Don't call me uncle, am I that old? I'm still quite young, you know." Logan looked dissatisfiedly at the small Naruto who was more than a head shorter than him. With his blond hair and blue eyes, the little shota was still cute.

Only then did Naruto notice that the adult in front of him didn't look as old as he had thought. Although his face was steady, it is still quite young, "Sorry, I didn't look closely just now... Anyway, thank you very much. I'll pay you back for the ramen in the future!

Logan scratched his face, "For a Ninja like me who regards money as dirt...it's just a bowl of ramen, not much money, you don't have to pay it back, um."

Halfway through his words, Logan was surprised to see a trace of stubbornness flash across Naruto's downcast face.

'To him, I am just another stranger, one of those mean adults.'

"Okay, just repay me when we meet again in the future." Logan said helplessly, "Ah, my name is Raiden Hattori. Well, you can introduce yourself too."

"My name is Uzumaki Naruto!" Although he didn't know why this Ninja, who looked different from the others, was a little strange when he spoke, Naruto still proudly declared his name.

'...A man who will become the Hokage.' Logan silently added a line of dialogue for the young Naruto in his heart.

"Well then, goodbye." Naruto bowed and turned to leave.

Logan noticed the small figure before him and subconsciously said: "You're going home? Is it okay for you to go back alone?"

"Ah?" Naruto turned back with a strange expression, "I am going home."

With an almost natural tone, Logan realized in the next second that the other party had always lived like this.

"Never mind. Go home, and be careful on the way." Logan waved his hand and then watched the small figure disappear into the distance, disappearing among the numerous buildings.

Logan stood still for a moment in silent, then turned around to head home.

Just as he took a step forward, he stopped. He saw Kakashi leaning under a telephone pole, staring at him.

After taking a deep breath and dispelling his previous emotions, Logan stepped forward, looked at the unexpected person and said, "Is there something you need?"

Kakashi looked at him calmly and said, "It's nothing." After uttering those two words, he simply turned and walked away.

"..."

Logan was speechless when he heard this.