Chapter 1 Uchiha Giyu

"A demon fox! A cataract! Let's all die! Wahahahaha——"

"Yellow-haired one, I've obviously taught you a lesson last time, but you still dare to meddle in our business!"

"Hey, hey, hey, don't beat the monster to death. Let the one without pupils (actually there are but usually invisible) show me a show before I deal with him."

In the woods, three tall children stopped punching and kicking Uzumaki Naruto, and walked towards Hinata Hinata who was lying on the ground with a wicked smile.

From the gap between them, Hinata saw Naruto curled up motionless on the ground, her heart felt like needle pricks, her already pale face turned blue with fear, and tears poured out of her eye sockets unsatisfactorily.

It was these people who bullied her last winter.

Naruto bravely tried to stop them, but these people beat him black and blue, and even destroyed his warm scarf.

She met Naruto by chance today, and originally just wanted to express her gratitude for last time, so she sent away the ninja who protected her.

But unexpectedly, the same thing happened again.

[Move, Hinata, move...]

[Just like when I was practicing with my dad and Neji-nii——]

[You can obviously protect yourself! 】

The scene when she split the wooden board with one palm was still vivid in her memory.

However, the reality is that the closer those three people are to her, the weaker her limbs become, and everything she has learned is completely forgotten.

And the faces of the three people turned into his father and brother Neji, who were glaring at him, deepening her feeling of helplessness.

"Hey, hey, this white-eyed monster can still cry. Do you think it's real or fake?"

The first of the three children looked very curious, "Logically speaking, her structure should be different from ours, right?"

Hinata's body trembled, she closed her eyes tightly and backed away desperately, until her back hit a tree and didn't stop.

[Tokuma (servant), dad, Neji-nii, whoever comes, please save me and Naruto! 】

"Huh? She closed her eyes. I wanted to take a closer look! How disappointing."

"You'll know if you open your eyelids and take a look."

"If you sprinkle some dirt in, will her eyes still be white?"

"Just try and you will find out."

The three of them talked to each other, and terrible ideas poured out of their heads one after another. They stretched out their sinful hands towards Hinata, trying to hold her head down.

And the thin Hinata held her hands in a praying posture and read loudly in her heart——

【Someone come and save us! 】

"You three! Don't touch her!"

Hinata Hinata opened her eyes suddenly, and the three children turned their heads in disbelief.

The person who spoke was none other than Naruto Uzumaki, who had been beaten so badly that he couldn't even open his eyes.

With trembling arms, he supported his body and climbed up, pointing at several people with dirty fingers, as if he might fall down at any time.

"We still have to decide the winner! Now I have to show my true strength."

[Naruto, Naruto! 】

Hinata put her hand to her mouth to stop her crying.

[Don’t, don’t stand up again. 】

The three children exchanged glances with each other. The disbelief just now gradually disappeared, and a sinister smile appeared at the corner of their mouths.

They said to Uzumaki Naruto in a mocking tone: "Stop talking so arrogantly. If you can, just come over and stop us?"

They were all children who had gone to ninja school. It was obvious at a glance that it was a miracle that Uzumaki Naruto could stand up now. He would fall down when he couldn't walk two steps.

Sure enough, Naruto almost fell to his knees after taking just one step.

After confirming that Naruto was just bluffing, the three of them turned back to deal with the white-eyed girl.

"I told you, your opponent is me!"

Uzumaki Naruto roared with all his strength, took the opportunity to pick up a medium-sized stone, and threw it at the three of them.

The child who was targeted easily dodged, and when he was about to turn around and taunt the other person, he heard a heart-breaking crack - as if a bone had been broken.

"Click——"

The three of them were startled, and turned around quickly, focusing their eyes on the big tree Hinata Hinata was leaning on, and their expressions changed drastically as if they had seen their own ghosts.

The stone that Naruto Uzumaki just threw was embedded deeply in the center of the tree like a meteorite hitting the ground, but that was not all.

Around that stone, there were dense circular cracks, like the traces of ripples on the water when it rains. A huge crack stretched toward the back of the tree, almost splitting it in two.

It is conceivable that this stone hitting their foreheads will definitely give them a slap in the face.

"Hey, are you kidding..."

One child feels a little weak in his legs.

"It's a monster after all. Let's go."

The three of them stared warily at Uzumaki Naruto, who was stunned and seemed to be at a loss. They said "Just wait for us" and left in a hurry from the main road.

They had just turned a corner after walking a few steps, and they were startled when another figure appeared in front of them.

The three of them took a closer look and found that the man was a child of four or five years old. He had short, smooth black hair, delicate and cold features, and was wearing a dark red short-sleeved top.

Although his hands were full of life, carrying plastic bags filled with vegetables and fish, his whole body exuded a cold air that kept strangers away.

And this is not the most interesting thing about him.

The key is his eyes, which are like a cold pool in the deep mountains wrapped in mist, completely dead water, dark blue and cold.

Those are a pair of eyes without any light, like black holes, as if suggesting that their owner has no soul, just a walking corpse.

The boy walked towards the three people, his steps were slow and firm, without even looking at them, and the three people automatically made way, staring at each other's every move.

Their skin surface was covered with fine goose bumps, half because of the cold, and half because of the other party's eyes that were not like living people.

It was not until the boy passed by the three of them and revealed the "ping-pong ball"-like family emblem on his back that they knew--

"It's the Uchiha family's psychopath!"

"I said why it's so scary!"

"Run quickly, otherwise you will be caught by the security team and put in jail."

After whispering, they used up their pitiful chakra to escape as soon as possible.

On the other side, Uzumaki Naruto, who was completely exhausted, was lying in Hinata's arms, but he had a satisfied smile on his face. Of course, this satisfaction did not come from lying on the girl's legs.

But from the tree that was hit by the stone and was about to fall and crack.

"Hey, hey, hey, you saw it!"

He couldn't even call Hinata's name, but he shook her sleeves unceremoniously, "That's my real strength! I just didn't take it seriously before! You all watch, I, I will definitely become a Hokage..."

Hinata nodded crying, unable to hear anything in her ears, even forgetting to be shy.

She only hoped that her servant Hyuga Tokuma would come quickly and send Naruto to the hospital.

At this time, footsteps rushed into the ears of the two, and a shadow covered them.

"Ah——"

Hinata was frightened and trembled, but she held Naruto tighter. Naruto could hardly open his eyes, and thought that the three people had returned. He was about to struggle to get up, but he smelled a strange smell, a little bitter and a little fragrant.

"..."

Hinata applied medicine on her fist every day, and was familiar with the smell. She immediately took the small box handed to her. Although it was mixed with the smell of wisteria, it was definitely an external injury medicine.

Then, she raised her head and looked at the other person's face carefully, and her transparent eyes gradually widened: "U, Uchiha Giyuu?"

Uchiha Giyuu, the same age as her, was the son of the head of the Uchiha clan, and had a twin brother named Sasuke.

The reason why she knew him was not only because the two clans were neighbors across the street, but also because her father always used "the unmotivated son of the Fugaku family" to warn her when criticizing her for not practicing hard.

In addition, when she was hungry and went to the snack street, she would occasionally see Uchiha Giyuu picking and choosing in the market. For example, now, in the plastic bag that the other person put on the ground, there were two dying salmon, more than half a meter long, which was hard to ignore.

Uchiha Giyuu looked at the two of them expressionlessly. Hinata Hyuga and Naruto Uzumaki felt as if they were penetrated by a soft light, and all their secrets were completely exposed.

Little did they know that in Uchiha Giyuu's vision, the two of them were no longer "people", but organic structures composed of muscles, bones and nerves.

Through this observation method called "transparent world", Giyuu could see at a glance that these two guys were not ordinary children.

The damaged skin and muscle tissue of the boy with yellow hair and blue eyes were being quickly repaired by the strange energy from the abdomen. It is estimated that as long as he gets a good night's sleep, he will not even have a minor injury. His physique is scary.

But a little, um, how to say it? Malnutrition?

What a contradictory guy, as if his body and that energy belong to two different owners.

And this eldest daughter of the Hyuga family, by the standards of a five-year-old child, has extremely developed muscle mass in her limbs, not much worse than his twin brother Sasuke, and a lot of chakra.

But these two people were bullied by those three ordinary little brats.

Unconsciously, a trace of barely detectable annoyance appeared on Uchiha Giyuu's face.

He had seen many people who did not resist because they had no power.

But those who had power but did not resist and dragged others into the water...

He stared at Hyuga Hinata deeply, ignored her thanks, picked up the plastic bag and left.

After all, she was just a five-year-old child, and she would not understand those principles. Ordinary people would not have the same awareness as Tanjiro, after all, they had not lost their beloved things, nor did they have people they wanted to protect urgently.

"Who was that just now?"

Hearing the footsteps going away, Uzumaki Naruto asked nervously, "Didn't he come to cause trouble?"

"No."

Hyuga Hinata shook her head palely and unscrewed the lid of the box of ointment, "He is a good person, he gave you a box of external injury medicine. I will help you apply it now..."

It was not until this moment that her face flushed a little.

Uzumaki Naruto was stunned for a while before he said, "Please help me up."

"But you..."

"I have a question for him."

Naruto's voice was trembling, and he said in a pleading tone, "Please."

On the other side.

Uchiha Giyuu walked to the almost broken tree and looked around, as if searching for something.

"Got it."

He leaned down and picked up a pebble from the ground, not much bigger than a fingernail. He touched it with his hand, feeling the terrifying high temperature above it, and then threw it away into the distance.

If you look carefully, you will find that there is a small dent in the center of the stone that Uzumaki Naruto threw before, which is exactly the same size as the stone that Giyuu just picked up.

In fact, it was Giyu who threw a stone from a distance, hit the stone thrown by Naruto Uzumaki and then hit the tree, causing such horrific damage. The temperature on the stones was caused by the violent collision between the stones.

"If you throw it with Shizuku's ripple thrust in the seventh form, is it so powerful...it's obviously still a child's body."

Uchiha Giyuu stared at the tree trunk for a while, then planned to move on. He still has things to do.

But Naruto Uzumaki stopped him.

"Wait a moment!"

Uchiha Giyuu turned his head.

Unlike Hyuga Hinata who has strength but cannot protect herself, this yellow-haired child who is malnourished and does not forget to protect the "weak" even in a seriously injured state is in line with his value orientation.

So he was willing to waste a little more time.

"What's up?"

Uchiha Giyuu asked coldly, which was also his usual way of speaking.

"Why are you helping me?"

Something was wrong with Uzumaki Naruto's state.

The emotion hidden in his voice was not so much gratitude as deep doubt, and a strong uneasiness that even Yiyong could detect.

[He looks strangely suspicious after being helped. What kind of logic is this? Is this a ninja child? Has that guy Yu Sui Tianyuan been so suspicious since he was a child? 】

Many thoughts flashed through Yiyong's mind, but he didn't say them out loud.

Seeing that Uchiha Giyuu had no intention of answering, Uzumaki Naruto gritted his teeth and said loudly: "I am the fox monster everyone calls me. Aren't you afraid of me?"

Demon fox?

Tomioka Giyu shook his head and suddenly remembered the huge red fox he saw in the arms of his brother Uchiha Itachi not long after he was born.

His father called him Kyuubi, and he seemed to be very afraid of it. It was only after that day that the family moved to an edge area further away than the Hyuga clan.

But what does it have to do with this brat?

He stared at Uzumaki Naruto's face for a while, his eyes rolling on the other's six beards, and he seemed to understand something.

Uzumaki Naruto also felt the position of the other party's gaze, and lowered his head in relief but heavily.

[He must be willing to help me because he doesn’t know who I am. 】

[If he finds out in the future that the person he helped is a monster, he will definitely be angry and feel like he was deceived. 】

[Rather than letting him regret it later, it’s better for me to admit it directly...]

Not being able to see the other party's reaction clearly made Uzumaki Naruto feel even more depressed. Rather than letting others like him first and then hate him, it would be easier to dislike him directly. At least he was used to the latter.

Soon, a pair of shoes appeared in his field of vision.

Naruto raised his head in surprise, only to find that the black-haired boy had arrived in front of him. However, his vision was really blurry and he could only see the rough outline of the other party.

"Since you think you're a fox or something..."

As the boy spoke, he leaned down and rummaged through the plastic bag containing the radishes.

A few seconds later, he took out a wooden fox mask with a sense of humor and handed it to Naruto.

"Then this is for you."

Uchiha Giyuu ordered five fox disaster-repelling masks and gave the one he prepared for himself to Naruto.

Anyway, in a sense, he is not the real family of his parents and brothers, he is just an alien soul who has taken over other people's bodies. After all, he, Uchiha Giyuu, is different from Sasuke.

The child who should have grown up carefree has long been deprived of his chance of survival.

It might be just right to give a mask to a kid who identifies with the fox because of his appearance.

Uzumaki Naruto took the mask inexplicably, with far more complicated emotions than he should have at his age.

This was the only person besides the old man and the owner of Ichiraku Ramen and his daughter who gave him a gift.

Still a complete stranger of the same age.

Even though he had already told him his identity, the other party was still willing to give him a gift. This was something completely new to Naruto, so much so that he didn't know how to respond.

By the time Naruto came to his senses, the black-haired boy had already walked away.

Naruto wanted to thank him loudly, but tears flowed into his mouth, and the salty taste blocked his voice. Then he suddenly remembered that he didn't even know that person's name.

He turned to look at Hinata Hinata. He seemed to have heard the other person say "Uchiha" before, and asked quickly:

"You know what his name is-"

"Miss Hinata!"

A panicked voice interrupted Naruto.

A white-eyed boy wearing a Konoha forehead protector appeared in front of the two people carrying large and small bags of snacks.

"Tokuma." Hinata had a look of shame on her face.

If she hadn't sent Tokuma away to buy something, Naruto wouldn't have been hurt.

When Hyuga Tokuma discovered that his young lady was actually getting involved with this yellow-haired kid again, his brows suddenly wrinkled.

Although he couldn't see clearly, Naruto could still feel the familiar malice in the other person's eyes, and he buried his head unconsciously.

"Miss, let's go back now, don't let the head of the family worry."

Hinata Tokuma ignored Naruto and pulled Hinata away without saying anything, as if Naruto was a disaster. Regardless of whether he was or not, the head of the family specifically emphasized that we should stay away from such dangerous people.

Ignoring the other party directly is the best way.

"Excuse me for being rude."

"Hey...wait a minute..."

The incident happened suddenly, and Hinata was almost forcibly taken away, and even the medicine jar in her hand could not be left to Naruto.

The latter looked at the two people going away, and a trace of loneliness surged under his swollen eyelids. But when he looked down and saw the mask in his hand, the blue corners of his mouth showed a smile again.

"I'll return the favor later."

Uzumaki Naruto cheered up, made a "yeah" gesture to the cracked tree with satisfaction, limped away, and began to think about what flavor of cup noodles to eat tonight.

One minute later.

The ninja wearing an animal mask appeared in front of the tree.

He just touched the stone embedded in the trunk lightly, and the tree leaned forward with a click, and fell down with a loud bang.

The hand of the Anbu ninja stopped in the air and shook dramatically.

"We must report to the third generation that the villagers must be restrained and the Jinchūriki must not be stimulated again, otherwise his power may get out of control at any time..."

After saying that, he disappeared in a flash.

Since that day, Naruto has never been deliberately beaten by the people in the village again. However, this is a later story.