Chapter 53 [Snow in Konoha]

The winter of Konoha started with a snowfall.

Although winter is the coldest season of the year, people always choose to reunite with their families in winter.

In this unbearable cold, people will forget the disagreements and quarrels of the past year and work together to survive this difficult winter.

Although this winter has just begun, the villagers of Konoha are celebrating because the real cold has long passed.

The Third Ninja World War, which caused Konoha to suffer heavy losses, and the natural disaster of the demon fox eleven years ago, were the real bone-chilling cold that they could not resist.

Snowflakes floated into the house from the window, gently falling on Rock's face, waking him up from his sleep.

Rock, who had just returned from the gray fog space, slowly opened his eyes and looked at the clock beside the bed with some difficulty.

In Conan's world, he did not need to go to work, but now he has to get up early every day to catch up with the morning class of the Ninja School.

But Rock had nothing to complain about. After all, unlike him in Conan's world, the future of Naruto's world would be the Infinite Moon Reading and the invasion of the Otsutsuki aliens.

This bone-chilling cold would even unite all the ninjas, temporarily forgetting their hatred and only hoping to work together to overcome the crisis.

Rock was born in a bad year, at the same age as Sasuke.

This means that when he was seventeen, he would experience the Fourth Ninja World War; when he was in his thirties, he would experience the Otsutsuki invasion.

It would be difficult to rush to be invincible in the ninja world at the age of 17. If he had not merged with other Rocks, there might be no hope in this life.

As for throwing all the future disasters to the protagonists and letting them solve them.

To be honest, Rock was not very confident in them. After all, the original work was also solved by mechanical deification, and there were many coincidences.

If there was a slight mistake, he could only wait to become a white Zetsu at the age of 17.

While thinking, Rock took out a thick coat from the closet, which was printed with the emblem of the Senju clan.

After getting dressed, Rock went out.

It was still early for school, so he could have a leisurely breakfast before going to school.

"Rock, I've told you several times that you don't have to pay to eat at our house. You underestimate the bond between us!"

Seeing Rock handing him money, the breakfast shop uncle was a little angry.

But he, an ordinary person, couldn't push Rock, a ninja, so he had to take out two bottles of hot milk and stuff them into Rock's arms.

"This is specially prepared for you. It is produced by cows in the Land of Thunder. It is said that the cows there are big enough to be summoned. You will be a ninja in the future. Your body is very important. You must drink more milk to become strong!"

Rock couldn't beat the uncle, so he had to put the hot milk away silently.

He accidentally saved the breakfast shop uncle who fell into the water before, and the two met like this.

But saving people is not a rare thing for Rock. When he walks into the village now, most of the people have memories with him.

Over the years, Rock not only gets free gifts when buying breakfast, but also gets a 50% discount on barbecue on weekdays, and eats more ramen than others.

"Good morning! Rock."

"Are you going to Ninja School today?"

"Have you had breakfast? Auntie will make you another sushi."

Snow was falling in the sky, and before it fell on Rock, it was melted by the enthusiasm of the villagers.

They greeted Rock as if Rock was their own child.

"Rock!" A voice chased from behind, carrying the wind across the snow and reaching Rock's ears.

"I just went to your house to find you, and found that you were already up!" Yamanaka Ino caught up, she seemed a little angry.

"You didn't ask me to go to school with you this time."

"Sorry, Miss." Rock bowed his head slightly and apologized to Yamanaka Ino.

This "Miss" is not called for nothing, but because Rock is currently in a state of being sponsored by the Yamanaka clan to go to school.

Yamanaka Ino is the daughter of the head of the Yamanaka clan.

Strictly speaking, the status of the two of them is not even as good as Neji and Hinata, so regardless of their age, Rock should call her Miss.

The reason why she was sponsored by the Yamanaka clan is because of the Nine-Tails Rebellion.

The Nine-Tails Rebellion caused many families in Konoha to be displaced. For political reasons, most of the ninja families need to spend money to sponsor some orphans to set an example.

This custom was born during the Second Ninja World War.

It is called sponsorship, but it is actually adoption.

Usually, ninja families hire wet nurses and nannies to raise these children.

And among these orphans, a small number of people have the qualifications to refine chakra.

For the ninja family, these talented orphans who are sponsored are like lucky draws. These orphans will continue to be sponsored until they graduate from the ninja school and become one of the peripheral members of the ninja family.

It sounds very purposeful, as if it is not a serious charity, but just to fill the ninja resources that the ninja family lacks due to the war.

But in fact, for ordinary orphans, it is really good luck to be selected by the ninja family. After all, some ordinary middle and lower ninjas whose parents are still alive do not have this way to join the ninja family.

...

On the street.

"You are now a wood-style ninja in the village, and you don't need to call me Miss like before."

"Besides, I am no longer your eldest daughter." At this point, Yamanaka Ino felt a little aggrieved.

Originally, before Rock awakened Wood Release, everything was fine. Rock was a ninja sponsored by the Yamanaka family and had great talent.

At that time, her father often joked with her that Rock was a child husband prepared for her.

However, Yamanaka Ino was young at that time and had a rebellious personality. In addition, love was sacred in her eyes, and she felt that such things must be pursued by herself.

So she resisted the family's arrangement with all her might, and even Rock was hated by her young age.

But not long after, when Rock was helping the Yamanaka family run the flower shop, he accidentally helped the flowers revive, showing signs of suspected Wood Release...

When her father Yamanaka Ino saw the revived flowers, he immediately changed his words and said something like: "The Yamanaka family can't control it, so it's better to let nature take its course."

Since then, her child husband has been gone.

At first, Ino was very happy.

But as the days passed, the ignorant children grew up, Rock became more and more handsome, and became more and more popular in the ninja school.

Ino also grew up and finally had her own aesthetics, and then found out——

It turns out that the elders are foresighted.

And, I was really pretentious when I was a child.