Chapitre 7: Chapter 7: Mizuki: Do You Want to Know the Truth?
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The Nine Tails snorted, withdrawing its head.
It didn't bother explaining the events of that day, nor did it want to bring up those "Mangekyou Sharingan".
Even sealed within someone else's body, as the most powerful of the tailed beasts, it still had its pride.
To be controlled...
Just saying it out loud was too humiliating.
Naruto took the initiative to leave that inner space.
Lying on the bed, his mind in a jumble.
He really wished he could go back to the Soul Society quickly, the teachers or senior students at the Shin'ō Academy must be able to find him a solution, at least... they were willing to listen to him vent his emotions.
During this time back in the Konoha, he had been searching.
But he hadn't encountered any "Shinigami".
Nor had he come across those monster "Hollows" with white masks that were recorded in the textbooks.
Of course, this was normal.
With only one Shinigami per region, the chances of encountering them were not high.
What troubled him more was how to face that fox.
The "murderer of his father" that resided in his own body?
These complex emotions piling up together made him even more disgusted with the Konoha.
The village's reasons for hating him were incomprehensible, even directly contradicting the facts he knew.
Here, he couldn't find a single person he could talk to about his heart.
This place was definitely not a "home".
As Naruto was searching for his "Shinigami" colleagues.
The graduation exam also arrived as scheduled.
The test questions were very simple, as long as he smoothly executed the [Shadow Clone Jutsu], and made the clones look not too outrageous, like normal people, he would successfully graduate.
For the current Naruto, this posed no difficulty at all.
But...
Compared to his former self three years ago, eagerly anticipating an early graduation, becoming an official shinobi.
Naruto didn't feel "graduation" was a good thing at all.
He sat astride the swing at the school gates, coldly observing the bustling crowd.
The students who passed the exam were being praised by their parents.
Those who failed were crying bitterly in their parents' embrace.
There were quite a few orphan students like him, without parents.
But they weren't as lonely and alone as he was, they had friends and teachers around them.
Even Uchiha Sasuke had a few chattering girls beside him.
Suddenly, a rustling sound came from behind.
A chakra signature approaching him.
It was...
Mizuki.
Among the shinobi academy teachers, one of the few, along with Iruka-sensei, who didn't have an overtly hostile attitude towards him.
Naruto immediately turned his head.
Mizuki stopped about ten steps away, wearing a gentle smile "Naruto, you're quite perceptive."
"Is there something Mizuki-sensei needs?" Naruto looked at him.
He had come to find Naruto.
But their relationship didn't seem good enough for him to come privately to congratulate Naruto.
Mizuki didn't answer the question, just approaching while looking at the crowd at the school gates, sighing "They really are fortunate."
"Having parents around."
"Having friends around."
"Yet they alone have ostracized Naruto."
Naruto didn't speak, gripping the ropes of the swing tightly.
"You are a very pitiful person." Mizuki sighed, squatting down beside Naruto. "Everyone hates you."
Naruto casually retorted "Does Mizuki-sensei think so too?"
Mizuki unhesitatingly shook his head "Of course not, I pity you."
"Do you... want to know why the village hates you so much?"
Naruto's gaze immediately sharpened "Why?"
He naturally wanted to know.
"This is a secret." Mizuki lowered his voice, his tone seductive. "It's recorded in the Scroll of Seals."
"That Scroll of Seals is hidden in the Hokage Residence."
"If you want to know this secret, just go steal that scroll."
Naruto leaned his head back, his gaze on Mizuki shifting slightly.
He was no longer the green young boy who had just arrived in the "Soul Society".
He could tell, this man was inciting him to steal the "Scroll of Seals".
He wanted to use Naruto to achieve his own purpose.
Malicious intent!
"So Mizuki-sensei should know this secret?" Naruto didn't expose him, he wanted to understand, in others' eyes, how they viewed him, what had given rise to this "hatred".
Mizuki was taken aback.
"If Mizuki-sensei didn't know the secret, how would he know it's recorded in that Scroll of Seals?" Naruto pressed.
Mizuki shook his head.
The situation had exceeded his expectations a bit.
He had thought this dimwit would be easy to dupe, that just a few casual words would hook him.
But he... had some brains.
However, everything was still under his control.
He was confident.
"You are a good child." Mizuki sighed, assuming an expression of pity. "I just didn't want to believe that rumor."
He paused, as if engaged in an extremely intense inner struggle.
After a long while, he spoke solemnly "Have you heard about the incident twelve years ago, when the Fourth Hokage sealed the Nine Tails demon fox?"
Seeing Naruto nod, he continued "After that, an unwritten rule emerged in the village."
"It was kept hidden from you alone."
"That is... the rule that 'you must never mention that you are the Nine Tails'."
"It's just that in the years I've taught you, I've found you to be a good child, and I didn't want to believe this."
"I suppose only the scrolls the Hokage-sama himself has recorded can prove whether this is true or not."
Naruto looked at Mizuki in surprise.
But inwardly, he felt immensely clear.
Everything made sense now...
No wonder the people in the village hated him so much.
They didn't know he was the "Fourth Hokage's son", but rather saw him as the "Nine Tails".
But...
Why did the people in the village have this "perception"?
Was someone deliberately concealing his identity from the outside?
Mizuki gently placed his hand on Naruto's head, his tone soft yet firm "Go verify the truth of this news."
"At night, the security at the Hokage mansion is at its weakest..."
Naruto suddenly interrupted "Mizuki-sensei."
Mizuki paused, puzzled "What is it, Naruto?"
"Let's go see the Third Grandpa together, Mizuki-sensei." Naruto spoke, his expression resolute.
He wanted to know whether what Mizuki had said was true or false.
Was it a lie fabricated to trick him into stealing the "Scroll of Seals"...
Or was he using a fact...
Mizuki was alarmed, feeling cornered "That rule was the Third's order, you won't get the real answer by asking him."
"Everything is recorded in the Scroll of Seals."
"Only by obtaining it will you have the result."
See the Third?
How could he possibly go!
Telling Naruto the facts was fine.
But the moment his purpose was the "Scroll of Seals", wouldn't that expose everything?
Naruto reached out and grabbed Mizuki's wrist, his attitude firm "Mizuki-sensei, let's go."
He wasn't interested in the "Scroll of Seals" anymore.
After all, the truth of the matter... he already knew.
He was the "Fourth Hokage's son", and there was indeed a "fox" within him.
He now only wanted to know what explanation the Third Hokage would give him.
Mizuki's face twisted.
Cursing inwardly.
What's going on!
This brat has no interest at all in the Scroll that records the "truth"?
Trusts the Third Hokage to this degree!
"Naruto, if you don't trust me..." Mizuki tried to yank his arm free, but Naruto's grip was extremely firm, not letting go.
"Let go, Naruto!" He finally couldn't hold back, unable to maintain the somewhat amiable expression from before, snarling viciously.
Naruto stood up, pulling him towards the Hokage mansion "Mizuki-sensei, just come see the Third Grandpa with me."
"I want to know..."
Mizuki gritted his teeth, raising his leg to kick.
He couldn't take it!
Even if this was at the shinobi academy gates.
Assaulting a student was not something a teacher should do.
But...
When the target was this Uzumaki Naruto, no one would stop him.
Naruto had already anticipated his attack.
Raising his other hand, in that instant he grabbed Mizuki's leg, about to push it down.
Boom!
Smoke billowed.
Kunai came flying, Naruto instinctively let go.
When he threw a punch...
The figure vanished in the smoke, the strike only hitting a wooden log.
A Substitution Jutsu!
Where did he run off to?
The chakra signature moved to a tree.
Naruto looked up.
Mizuki was gripping the tree trunk, standing on the branch, his features twisted in hatred, looking at Naruto with contempt "You monster!"
"Since you're so disobedient..."
"Don't blame me for disciplining you."
He cursed foully.
Shuriken and kunai came flying.
Naruto raised his hand, chanting an incantation
["Hado #1: Sho!"] {Thrust}
This was the sole [Kidō] he knew.
Not very destructive, but the burst of airflow it instantly generated threw the flight paths of those cold metal weapons into disarray, grazing his body as they fell weakly to the ground.
Mizuki was shocked.
What kind of technique was that?
Manipulating "airflow"?
He'd never heard of it before.
And just then...
Naruto crouched and leapt, charging towards Mizuki.
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État de l’alimentation hebdomadaire
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