Time passed quickly, and Ethan lived quietly in Konoha Village, although there was a small wave, that is, the old man who adopted him died of a serious illness when he was eight years old.

Ethan personally sent the old man away, and protected the old man's soul, so that he could be sent to heaven to enjoy a carefree and happy life in the future.

Konoha also asked Ethan what he meant, and considered arranging him to live in a welfare home, or arranging another guardian.

However, Ethan has the inheritance left by his 'grandfather', and before the old man died, he also handed over the inheritance of his 'biological parents' who took over to Ethan.

Ethan was not short of money, as long as he used the money at hand wisely, it was enough to support him until he graduated from ninja school.

So he rejected the advice given by Konoha Village and chose to live alone - if it weren't for the fear of attracting attention, Ethan could grow up without eating or drinking, but then Orochimaru and Danzou would kill him together in a vain attempt to dissect him.

Konoha didn't continue to dwell on this matter, let alone forcibly arrange him in a welfare home, because Ethan is currently 'his own person'.

Ethan is already a student at the glorious Konoha Ninja School.

As a child of Konoha Village, when they reach the age standard, they will be sent to a ninja school for a basic test.

Those with good qualifications and potential will stay and become students of the ninja school, that is, a preparatory member of the Konoha ninja, Ethan lives in Konoha Village, of course, he will not be able to avoid this level.

What's more, for many ordinary people, becoming a 'ninja adult' is something that can wake up with a smile in a dream, and many families want their children to get ahead, and the fastest way in this world is to become a ninja.

The ninja school in Konoha Village has given countless civilian families such an opportunity, and there will be no child who is unwilling to become a ninja, and no one will prevent their children from entering the school.

If Ethan didn't want to be a 'strange guy', of course he had to take the test, considering his own situation, he controlled his strength very well, so that he was not surprising among countless civilian children, but he was not bad, and then successfully blended into the ninja reserve army.

In this way, he became the inheritor of the Will of Fire, although Ethan felt that no one in the entire Konoha would think that he could inherit the so-called Will of Fire, after all, he was just an inconspicuous ninja student from a civilian background, and no one could even be sure if he could graduate successfully.

However, the benefits of infiltrating the ninja school are still obvious, at least Konoha will properly consider Ethan's personal thoughts, if it is an ordinary civilian orphan, how can he speak?

In addition, Ethan has no more waves in his life in this world, buying cheap food every day, cooking simple meals by himself, occasionally purchasing a few humble daily necessities, and even buying cheap or simply making substitutes for all kinds of ninja tools that need to be used.

In the eyes of the people of Konoha Village, Ethan is a very sensible and thrifty good boy, and many neighbors will even make more fish and eggs for Ethan, and although these neighbors don't need anything in return, they will soon find that the firewood in their homes has been chopped up, or the damaged doors and windows have been repaired.

So although Ethan lived peacefully and didn't do anything earth-shattering, the neighborhood liked him very much - more importantly, Ethan grew up and slowly grew into a little beauty (no wrong adjective!), a beautiful and sensible child, who would hate it?

No one knew how painful and tangled Ethan was in the countless 'choices'.

Do you want to contact Naruto Uzumaki?

Still don't want it, Naruto Uzumaki's current situation is simply deliberately created, the old man of the third generation still uses the crystal ball to peek at Naruto Uzumaki's situation from time to time, and secretly there is also the old ghost of Tuanzang who is also paying attention. If you recklessly bump into it, it will have the same effect as stabbing a hornet's nest, and your peaceful life will definitely be over.

So Ethan not only didn't plan to contact Naruto Uzumaki, even though he had a lot of topics to talk about with each other now, he didn't think about contacting the protagonist of the plot.

So it doesn't seem like a bad idea to not touch Naruto and reach out to some other people?

I remember that in the plot, Hinata Hinata was bullied by several bear children when she was young, and then she was saved by Naruto...... It seems that Naruto is involved again, not to mention that Ethan feels that it is a very bad habit to tease the little girl all day long, so he also put this idea aside.

As for the kidnapping incident that led to the death of Hinata's father, there are more and more complicated people and things involved in that matter. What's more, even other people's own brothers can simply let their younger brother die, what kind of energy does he, an outsider, mix?

The rest of the Uchiha Shirou...... No, Sasuke-san's eyes are also stared at by countless eyes, and contacting him is also asking for trouble for himself.

What's more, Sasuke, who was born in a wealthy family, has become very awkward since his family was wiped out, and it is estimated that he will not care about himself from a civilian background at all.

Relying on these reasons, Ethan spent one tangled night after another.

As for cultivation or something, he is not in a hurry to cultivate at all now, the integration of himself and the rules is still continuing, and he doesn't know how much time it will take to complete it.

He just practiced ninjutsu and chakra casually, this thing was too superficial, he could figure it out by looking at it casually, he only made a small amount of chakra in order to be low-key, and then tried to control himself not to be too showy in school.

However, as he got older, his classmates gradually decreased, and the number of students from civilian backgrounds decreased rapidly, Ethan still received some attention.

For example, the ninja teacher from the school who was born in a civilian background, as well as the neighborhood, will cheer Ethan up, and even some ninja teachers will hint: If you have any questions that you don't understand, you can come and ask yourself at any time, you are welcome.

After all, ninjas from civilian backgrounds can't be compared with those from families, and children from families still have the elders of the family to give all-round guidance when they return home, and there are even family secrets waiting to be learned.

Civilians can only learn knowledge in school, and no one will teach them one-on-one, and there will even be a situation where some parts of the understanding are wrong, and as a result, they do not wake up until the day they die in battle.

So in times of war, the most people who die are always those ninjas with poor backgrounds, and if it weren't for so many years of peace, Konoha would not have been able to 'accumulate' so many ninjas from civilian backgrounds now.

For the kindness of these 'seniors', Ethan still maintains a polite thanks, and occasionally chooses some questions that are not simple or difficult to ask, which can be regarded as not wasting the kindness of others.

In his final year, Ethan was twelve, and as the day of graduation approached, he found that there were not many students left in the entire grade.

He remembered that only nine of those dozens of students had become good ninjas.

The rest of them, although they have completed ninja school, have not achieved much praise like most civilian ninjas.

"I seem to count myself in......"

He was now one of these civilian ninjas, and he had wondered if he would run into a strict teacher who would return to school if he didn't pass the test.

But after thinking about it carefully, I suddenly understood that Konoha needs elites, but it also needs a large amount of cannon fodder, and if it is a time of war, these civilian ninjas will be used as cannon fodder.

And in peacetime, there are a lot of low-level tasks to be completed, so you can't all count on those elites to do tasks like catching cats and cleaning up garbage, right?

As for the young shinobi who have just graduated, there can only be a few in a year, so most of the low-level tasks have to be done by the ninjas from civilian backgrounds.

In other words, if Ethan continues to behave tepidly, then what awaits him is to graduate successfully, then become a shinobi, and then fall into an almost endless number of low-level tasks, running around every day to earn a meager reward......

"Seems boring......"

After honestly holding back for twelve years, he can't hold it back anymore now, and he always wants to do something...... So he did something a little bit and defeated the famous genius Uchiha Sasuke in a physical arts sparring.

"Oooh oh oh ......"

The onlookers around him were no matter what the reason, especially a certain son of the world known as the crane tail, who was more excited than anyone else to see Sasuke Uchiha, who was usually dragging him.

What's more, because Ethan is usually very low-key, his performance in various subjects is not up to the same level, and his appearance is very deceptive, giving people the first feeling that 'he must not be good at physical skills!'.

That's why when Ethan defeated Sasuke with his physical skills, it caused such a big reaction.

"The winner is Ethan, all right, you two can come down. ”

Seeing that Sasuke Uchiha was still trying to rush forward, Iruka immediately terminated the contest and declared Ethan the winner, and recorded the results with his hand.

Perhaps because of such an outstanding performance, Ethan will be taken a little more seriously and assigned a reliable leader to the team, which is likely to change the fate of a civilian ninja.

As for Sasuke, he doesn't need any of these things at all.

Ethan of course knows why Iruka did this, but it's not good for him to thank Iruka directly for this kind of thing, and everyone is embarrassed to say it, so it's better to pretend not to know.

It didn't end there, and when school ended that day, Ethan had just walked out of school when he was stopped by Sasuke.

"I'm going to compete with you again!" Uchiha Sasuke had a gloomy face and stared at Ethan through gritted teeth: "I must not lose to a girl......"

Before he could finish speaking, Sasuke fell to the ground again.

"I've been a classmate for so many years, and you haven't even figured out my gender?"