January 1, Konoha 54.

This day is the New Year's Eve Day in the Hokage World, which is equivalent to the Chinese New Year's Eve Spring Festival in Kurayoshi's previous Shihua Kingdom.

The streets and alleys of Konoha are full of people, and the shops and vendors are full of lights, only to see colorful flags fluttering, and various slogans and banners waving in the wind.

The blue sky, the breeze blows, and colorful balloons dance in the wind.

People are playing in the streets in new clothes and with festive smiles.

Naruto happily weaved through the crowd, looking east and west from time to time, playing around with the goods from the nearby stalls, and then putting them down and moving on to the next one.

Kurayoshi followed behind him unhurriedly, with the same smile on his face.

In this festive atmosphere, unless someone with ulterior motives does not want to be affected.

"Kurayoshi, look, the masks in this house are really good!" Naruto stopped at a mask shop and looked through a fox mask in his hand.

Kurayoshi walked slowly, glanced at it, and nodded approvingly, "This mask is indeed well drawn, quite expressive." ”

"yes, yes, I'm going to have this one." Naruto looked smug and took the mask and asked the boss for a price.

The boss was looking up at the counter when he heard Naruto ask for a price.

The face that had been smiling instantly stiffened the moment he saw Naruto, and then turned to anger.

He put down his pen and rushed over, snatching the mask from Naruto's hand and yelling at him, "Who told you to touch my mask?" ”

Naruto was slightly stunned.

He looked at the boss, looked at the boss's eyes, and the undisguised disgust and hatred made him clench his fists.

The boss's roar attracted onlookers.

Each one looked at him with the same eyes, even scolding.

"Why did this demon fox imp run out?"

"The three generations of Hokage-sama are really, even if they usually forget it, they let him run around on the other night."

"Get out, you demon fox who killed four generations!"

Why......

Naruto lowered his head, not daring to look at the people around him, his body trembling slightly, his fists clenched so that his knuckles turned white.

But, even if I didn't look at it, the eyes of disgust and hatred kept appearing in my mind, and the words of disgust and hatred kept echoing in my ears.

Why do you do this to me?

What exactly am I doing wrong?

Naruto felt a volcano awakening inside him, and just as the volcano was about to erupt, a palm was placed on his shoulder.

Grievances, unwillingness, and anger disappeared suddenly.

Naruto woke up suddenly.

He looked back at the hand on his shoulder, and Kurayoshi shook his head lightly at him with an indifferent expression.

"Kurayoshi?" Naruto looked at him puzzled.

"Since you have chosen the path of proving yourself to everyone, don't complain about the hardships on the road, you should have anticipated this path long ago."

Hearing this, Naruto was stunned, then his brows stretched and his smile returned, "Ah, of course." ”

After speaking, he looked back at the villagers and shouted with confidence: "Listen, I don't know why you treat me like this, but it doesn't matter, my name is Naruto Uzumaki, and I will definitely become the Hokage in the future, so that you all agree with me." ”

"What are you kidding, I will never agree with you."

"That's right, you still want to be a Hokage, you can't even be an ordinary ninja!"

"Hokage-sama will never let you, a demon fox, be a ninja."

"Don't be delusional!"

One by one, the villagers shouted insults, but Naruto didn't care.

He grimaced at the people around him, then slapped his ass and ran away when the crowd's discontent erupted, laughing as he ran.

Kurayoshi touched his nose, he glanced at the boss and found that his attention was on Naruto who was running away, and suddenly snatched the fox mask in his hand with his hands, and then turned and ran.

Before he did, he threw out a bill and shouted, "This is mask money." ”

The boss caught the banknote and trembled with anger.

He crumpled the banknotes into a ball, and then threw them at Kurayoshi who had escaped, "You are also an accomplice of the demon fox, I don't do your business, I don't want this mask." ”

Kurayoshi didn't stop, just turned around and caught the money when it came, and showed a kind smile at the boss, "Thank you for the mask sent by the boss, the boss is magnificent!" ”

"I don't want you to thank you, just treat it as garbage thrown away." The boss roared loudly.

"Haha......" Kurayoshi laughed heartily.

This laughter sounded particularly harsh to the boss, and his chest rose and fell more heavily, and he became even more angry.

had a good Spring Festival, and I was out of mood all of a sudden.

Yamanaka flower shop.

Ino, who was wearing a purple kimono, couldn't help but light up when he saw Kurayoshi running past the door of the store laughing loudly.

"Mom, I have something to do, so I won't help you look at the store first."

After saying that, without waiting for his mother to respond, he ran out of the counter and chased him out.

……

Kurayoshi found Naruto at a nearby training ground.

Because of the Spring Festival, the training ground near the downtown area was empty, and only Naruto's lonely figure sat alone on the stake where he practiced boxing.

Kurayoshi knew very well that although his words made Naruto show that he didn't care about the attitude of the villagers, it happened to be the way he cared so much.

Naruto's heart was very uncomfortable.

"Alas!" Kurayoshi sighed and came to Naruto's side, "That's why I let you live only for yourself and don't care about other people's opinions!" ”

"Kurayoshi......" Naruto looked at the sun in the sky, his eyes wandering, "Maybe it would be easier to live as you suggested, but I'm particularly unwilling." ”

"Obviously I'm not a demon fox, obviously I've never done anything, but I have to endure all kinds of slander and abuse, and I have to accept everyone's rejection and disgust, and even hatred."

"If I am silent, don't care about their opinions as you said, ignore other people's attitudes towards me, and only live for myself, then I won't live with the crime of a demon fox for the rest of my life?"

"That's why I told you not to care what other people think!"

"It's impossible, as long as I still want to prove myself, I won't care what others think."

Speaking of this, Naruto smiled.

He jumped off the stake and said to Kurayoshi, "Thank you, Kurayoshi, I don't know if I would be able to stick to my philosophy without you by my side." ”

"No, even without me, you'll stick to your ideas." Kurayoshi pursed his lips and handed over the fox mask, "Take it, it'll be used for the fireworks display at night, and now go buy some fireworks." ”

Naruto took the mask and asked, "What about you?" ”

"I have it too."

Kurayoshi took out the fake mask and shook it in front of Naruto.

"Okay, let's go buy fireworks, if we put on a mask, we shouldn't have the situation just now."

"Hmm!"

The two left in the other direction and headed for another shopping street.

Not long after the two left, Ino in a purple kimono came panting.

She patted her hurried chest, calmed her breath and looked left and right, a pair of beautiful eyes wide open.

It's just that the empty training ground is silent.

The delicate little face showed a look of disappointment.