"Look, it's that guy!"
"This guy is still in the village?"
"Damn it, wasn't he already dead?"
"No wonder I fell in the bathroom yesterday, it's all this guy's fault."
"This damned demon..."
"Shut up, have you forgotten the Third Hokage's previous orders?"
"Damn it, why does the Third Hokage favor this guy?"
"..."
The truth is, even though Naruto had disappeared from the village for nearly a year, the villagers' malice towards him had not diminished in the slightest. In fact, it had become even more intense under Sarutobi Hiruzen's superfluous orders.
Naruto ignored the hateful and disgusted gazes and malice around him, and just walked calmly on the way home. Only those with shallow minds would be angered by curses, and he, Naruto, would directly raise the average strength of the entire Konoha to Kage-level, and then lead everyone to become the Sage of Six Paths together.
It was simply a perfect example of repaying evil with virtue.
"Hey, you, do you know you bumped into us?"
"Hmm?" Naruto suddenly heard a burst of noisy voices. He looked towards the sound and suddenly saw a familiar figure, his expression changing slightly in surprise.
Several tall boys were surrounding a little girl wearing a light pink yukata.
"I, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to." The little girl apologized quickly, her expression a little scared. Her white porcelain-like skin, chubby pink face, ear-length short hair, and delicate features, coupled with her extraordinary Byakugan, all indicated her identity.
Hinata Hyuga.
However, the little devils surrounding her didn't seem to know the Hyuga Clan's reputation. One of the boys directly pushed the girl forward. Perhaps not expecting the other party to be so rude, Hinata was directly pushed to the ground, mud splattering everywhere, and her light pink yukata was also stained with dirt.
With this push, Hinata looked up, revealing her extraordinary white eyes, which stunned the people surrounding her for a moment, followed by a burst of laughter.
"Hahahaha, look at her eyes."
"They're white eyes, looks like another monster."
"It's a monster like that thing."
"This is also a monster, let's smash her to death together."
The four little devils actually picked up stones from the ground, ready to throw them at Hinata.
The malice of children is the purest malice, regardless of position or interest, simply because you are slightly different from others, they can treat you with the deepest malice.
Naruto suddenly felt a little amused. The Hyuga Clan, as the second largest clan in Konoha after the Uchiha, even their young lady could be bullied like this by ordinary civilians?
"I didn't expect that after more than a year, you're still like this."
Naruto's voice suddenly rang out behind the four, startling them. Hinata, who was originally huddled on the ground with her head in her arms, also revealed her eyes, and a look of surprise appeared on her face.
Naruto and Hinata had known each other for a long time. It was about a year and a half ago when Naruto had just transmigrated and encountered her while strolling on the street. The scene could be said to be exactly the same as now.
At that time, Naruto had only just mastered Chakra and couldn't control his strength well, so he directly beat those little devils into the hospital. He cried bitterly and regretted it for a long time before he managed to fool Sarutobi Hiruzen's malice.
"You, you're that monster!"
"Weren't you executed by the Third Hokage?"
"So, you really are a monster?"
"A mon, monster is going to eat people."
The four of them looked at Naruto, who was slowly walking over, and couldn't help but shout. The current Naruto was not the weakling he used to be. With the massive Chakra in his body and a year and a half of delicacies, his physical fitness had improved by leaps and bounds. His sturdy muscles and the pressure of being a head taller than his peers made the four of them feel cold in their hands and feet, unable to move.
"Naruto, Naruto-kun!"
Hinata stood up with a face full of surprise. Ever since Naruto helped her a year ago, she had been wanting to find an opportunity to thank Naruto in person, but she had never encountered Naruto again.
Naruto ignored the four "naturally evil Konoha brats" and walked up to Hinata, looking at her with disappointment.
"Naruto, Naruto-kun?"
Hinata showed a somewhat aggrieved expression, because she suddenly saw the shadow of her father on Naruto.
"The monster is going to eat monsters, let's run!"
"Run!"
Seeing that the Demon Fox was ignoring them, the four immediately scattered and fled.
"Dealing with them isn't difficult, right?"
Naruto's voice is a bit stern, more like Father.
"Father said, pow, power, can't, can't be used to hurt people casually, it, it wouldn't be good if they got hurt." Hinata lowered her head, stammering, her voice even smaller than a mosquito's.
"Having power but not using it, preferring to get hurt yourself rather than hurt others?" Naruto quietly looked at Hinata, who was lowering her head and dared not speak, the disappointment in Naruto's eyes becoming more and more obvious.
"I originally thought we would become good friends."
Naruto's tone was full of regret. After hearing this, Hinata subconsciously raised her small head, looking up at Naruto, her snow-like pure Byakugan eyes full of anxiety.
Hinata didn't understand why. Naruto-kun had clearly saved her last time, not only driving away all the people who bullied her, but also holding her hand and sending her back home. Naruto-kun was clearly also a very gentle person, so why didn't Naruto want to be friends with her?
"Wh, why? Why Naruto-kun..."
Hinata was very anxious now, so anxious that she couldn't speak clearly.
So anxious that those pure eyes had become hazy, condensing two tears, like a clear spring in the snow, endearing.
Naruto's expression did not change. Naruto hoped that Hinata could change. If Hinata was like a vase like in the original story, it would only be a burden to Naruto.
After all, in Konoha, Hinata was also one of the few people who had no malice towards Naruto. Even Sarutobi Hiruzen, who had always been very kind to Naruto, Naruto could occasionally feel the malice on Sarutobi Hiruzen, so Naruto wanted to guide Hinata a little, so that Hinata wouldn't be brainwashed by the "Will of Fire".
After staying in the dark for a long time, one will also crave a little light.
This time, Naruto only felt joy and excitement from Hinata. The girl's emotions were so pure and clean, spotless, but if Hinata was so weak, getting too close would only hurt each other.
"Did you see the eyes of those guys?" Naruto suddenly looked at the crowd that had inexplicably begun to gather around, each of them carrying extremely disgusting malice, among which there were several strands of malice scattered in the crowd, extremely strong.
Heh, is this another little trick from the Konoha higher-ups?
"Wh, why?" Hinata also noticed the villagers who had suddenly begun to gather. Each of them looked at Naruto-kun with eyes that said "Why don't you just die", which made Hinata even more painful.
"Because of your weakness, they can't even see you in their eyes."
Naruto's gaze wasn't on Hinata, but fixed on the crowd surrounding him.
He saw the group of kids from before in the crowd, standing beside their parents, whispering, smirking, as if standing on high ground, or like victims.
Hinata saw them too. Why? Why was Naruto-kun, who had helped her, being treated like a bad person?
Noisy voices came from the crowd.
"Is that guy going to hurt someone again?"
"I knew something would happen when that guy suddenly appeared in the village."
"Sure enough, that monster should be driven out!"
"Hey! The Third Hokage's orders..."
"Who cares about orders now? That Demon Fox is going to hurt someone again."
"Is that little girl the Demon Fox's target this time?"
"Is that monster going to eat that girl?"
"Quick, go inform the Third Hokage and drive that monster out!"
The villagers' malice grew stronger, but Naruto remained calm, his state of mind not wavering in the slightest.
"That's not true!"
A delicate shout suddenly rang out, soft and nuo nuo, but it instantly drowned out the noisy crowd, and the originally malicious voices suddenly stopped.
Naruto looked at Hinata in surprise, seeing her face flushed red, her hands tightly clutching the hem of her yukata, her whole body trembling with fear, but she still shouted with all her might.
"Naruto-kun isn't a bad person, Naruto-kun saved me, Naruto-kun is a good person!"
Hinata bravely voiced her own opinion for the first time, not wanting to see the disappointed look in Naruto-kun's eyes, standing against the village for the first time.
However, the ignorant villagers couldn't see the truth.
"That little girl must have been threatened by the Demon Fox."
"Damn it, as expected, it's an evil Demon Fox."
"How dare he threaten the villagers, why hasn't the Konoha Military Police Force appeared yet?"
"Drive him out!"
"Drive him out!"
In an instant, the crowd became agitated. Hinata suddenly realized that her explanation seemed to have backfired, and she became even more flustered. Just as she wanted to continue shouting, she suddenly felt a small hand on her head.
"Okay, that's enough."
Hinata suddenly met a pair of gentle, watery blue eyes, like the sky.
"Hinata, leave here first, it might be a little dangerous next."
He had already seen many villagers picking up stones.
"No, I..."
Hinata was brimming with tears, she wanted to stand by Naruto's side.
"Young Lady." Just then, a Hyuga Shinobi appeared in front of Hinata, his arrival causing the angry villagers' momentum to falter.
They were just commoners, they couldn't afford to offend Shinobi.
The Hyuga Shinobi directly stood between Naruto and Hinata, looking at Uzumaki Naruto with a defensive gaze, and said to Naruto with a face full of disgust, "Stay away from the Young Lady, you De..."
His voice seemed to be strangled by something, looking at those eyes glowing with needle-like red light, he was actually so frightened that he couldn't speak.
"No, it's not like this!" Hinata cried out, wanting to explain, but she was grabbed by the Hyuga Shinobi and desperately ran away. He could guarantee that he hadn't run this fast even when facing Cloud Village's Shuriken.
That really was a monster!
The Hyuga Shinobi was the first to discover this, he thought it was just a rumor...
The departure of the Hyuga Shinobi reignited the villagers' original anger, and made it even more intense.
"Get out of our village!"
Whoosh—
The sound of something rubbing against the air suddenly rang out, and a stone directly hit his head, instantly causing blood to flow, staining half of his face red.
Hinata saw this scene, and only felt that her eyes were filled with blood red. She seemed to see, in that blood-colored world, that incomparably gentle, small Naruto, was being devoured by a group of monsters.
It's all because of me...
Still too weak.
Naruto wiped the blood off his face, looking indifferently at the countless eggs, vegetable leaves, and stones being thrown over.
If he could have Brother Chao's strength to destroy the entire Konoha with one blow, why would he have to be so aggrieved?
"Ding!"
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