["This is related to your identity and your mother's identity."]
Speaking of this, Naruto's eyes flickered with curiosity, 'Uzumaki, am I not an orphan? Who are my mom and dad?'
Kushina was furious, 'That bastard Third told Naruto he is an orphan? Motherf*cker'
If only the Third Hokage were a proper human being, even letting someone trustworthy adopt Naruto would've worked.
["This is a secret. Do you think I'd casually tell you?"]
'Ah?', Naruto scratched his head. That made sense, but he really wanted to know who his parents were.
'Then… then… then what do I need to do for you to tell me this secret?'
Kushina had already thoroughly inspected Naruto's home.
The house was just filthy, messy, and stinky.
["I won't tell such an important secret to a child whose home is this messy."]
Naruto quickly jumped off the bed, ready to clean the room.
Kushina helplessly said, ["Eat first, clean up after eating."]
"Oh oh," Naruto dumbly responded and took the bento brought by the Third Hokage to the microwave to heat it up.
During these few minutes, Naruto also began picking up trash on the floor.
Kushina followed Rengoku's words and planned to first correct some of Naruto's bad habits.
After all, even if Naruto now knew that his parents were the Fourth Hokage couple, it wouldn't help much. On the contrary, it would put him in danger.
Since Naruto was still young, it was best to wean him off the Third Hokage's influence early and correct his personality.
Kushina had a very fierce personality. Back then, when she was bullied, she didn't just cry. She would fight back fiercely, directly beating the enemy into a pig's head, she usually took revenge on the spot.
Kushina didn't want Naruto in the future to become someone who only knew how to forgive and be useless. [T/N: Like Minato]
She didn't have much time now and couldn't always stay with Naruto.
["I'm going to rest. Tomorrow morning, I want to see a clean room."]
While Naruto was clumsily cleaning, Kushina left this sentence in his mind and then fell completely silent.
'Uzumaki…?'
'Uzumaki…?'
Naruto shouted twice in his head and, finding no response—
Ding~
The microwave's sound rang, drawing Naruto's attention.
Although his injuries weren't serious, he had moved around a lot and was now famished.
Naruto opened the bento and started eating.
As he ate, Naruto also thought about who this "Uzumaki" person really was, and why they could speak inside his head.
'Was what she said true? Is Grandpa Third really a bad guy?'
Although Naruto still didn't know what this "Uzumaki" looked like, Naruto still felt emotionally close to this woman who called herself "Uzumaki."
While thinking, Naruto also quickly finished the bento.
Although there was still a box of milk and cookies, Naruto planned to save them for breakfast the next morning.
After all, the Third Hokage only brought this little bit of food.
Once he finished it, he would have to go buy more himself.
Naruto picked up the milk and cookies and only then remembered there was a fridge at home.
After stuffing them into the fridge, Naruto slowly began tidying up the room.
In the past, Naruto didn't pay attention to hygiene and left things all over the place.
Naruto was too young, so he cleaned slowly, and the house was full of clattering noises.
The ANBU outside observed secretly and, seeing Naruto was cleaning, chose not to intervene.
Earlier, the ANBU who was glared at by Naruto under Kushina's control didn't report Naruto's murderous glare.
After all, Naruto hadn't leaked any Nine-Tails chakra, and reporting such things would only bring trouble.
However, the Third Hokage did have the ANBU give a death order to the people in the streets, from now on, anyone who bullied Naruto would go straight to prison.
These villagers, both adults and kids, were frightened.
They decided to ignore this demon child from now on.
People who've never cleaned a room have no planning. Often, they do redundant things.
Naruto was just like this. After sweeping the floor, he went to pick up trash, only to dirty the floor again.
After several rounds, Naruto at least gained some experience.
Afraid that Uzumaki wouldn't be satisfied, once he tidied up the room, he even fetched water and wiped everything inside and out.
He worked alone for most of the night, before finally collapsing onto the bed and falling fast asleep.
Rengoku rose from Naruto's shadow.
Kushina, to conserve chakra, had already gone into deep sleep.
But Rengoku looked around at the now clean and tidy room and nodded slightly.
'It seems Kushina has already gained Naruto's trust, finally a good start.'
———
While Naruto was busy cleaning his room, outside Konoha Village, a large group of people arrived in black masses.
They all wore Konoha forehead protectors, but the Hyuga patrol team on outer guard didn't recognize them.
And not a single one was recognized, they were all unfamiliar faces.
If the Third Hokage and Jiraiya hadn't shown up and claimed these were allies, the Hyuga clan would have sounded the alarm long ago.
Hyuga Koshin, who received the report, also rushed to the scene.
Looking at this densely packed army of unfamiliar Konoha shinobi, Koshin was stunned.
"Hokage-sama, who are these people?"
As Konoha's overall surveillance officer, Koshin naturally had to clarify this.
To avoid unnecessary misunderstandings.
The Third Hokage, wearing the Hokage hat, lit the pipe in his hand but didn't smoke, "These are people I transferred back from the border."
"Hmm, Hokage-sama, where do you plan to settle them?"
Koshin, having been on the battlefield before, noticed that although these ninjas weren't extremely strong, they were strictly disciplined and moved in perfect formation.
The key was the numbers, Koshin estimated there were at least a thousand.
This number wasn't large for a big village like Konoha, but if these shinobi were part of the Third Hokage's personal force…
The Third Hokage had already made arrangements, "In the ruins of the old district after demolition, settle them there first."
"Konoha might undergo major changes in the next few days. I'll be counting on you."
Koshin trembled, "Don't worry, Hokage-sama. We will carry out Konoha's surveillance work."
After the Third Hokage and Jiraiya brought everyone into the village, they also assigned four ANBU squads to coordinate with Koshin.
Koshin had Hyuga Sota handle the settlement of these people and discreetly signaled him with a glance, while he himself coordinated supplies.
After working hard for a while, it was already midnight.
After reporting to Clan Head Hiashi, he returned to his residence to wait.
About an hour later, a voice came from outside the door, "Koshin-sama, I'm back."
"Come in," After Koshin gave the word, Sota opened the door and entered.
"Sir, there are roughly a thousand of these shinobi, half of them are chunin, and the rest don't seem like ordinary genin either."
"They are highly disciplined, clearly team-trained."
"The leader is named Ryu Keisuke. And none of them use surnames, only first names."
The team training Sota reported referred not to the typical three-man squad, but to large group training with more than ten people.
Using only first names and no surnames had two possible meanings, either they were very familiar, or they were from the same clan.
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