Naruto: If I ask you to kill Sasuke, you will become a succubus?

"Eh? Is that okay?"

"Of course! Just consider it a celebration of us becoming friends! And...before...I always left first...I'm sorry!"

"There's nothing to apologize for. Naruto doesn't know I was waiting for you. Besides, waiting for you was what I wanted to do. Naruto, you don't have to care."

"You guys are quite talkative sometimes!"

"Thank you for the compliment."

While waiting for the ramen to be served, Naruto sat next to me for a while and then became restless as if there was a thorn under his butt.

He glanced at me secretly, then looked around and somewhere else, then glanced at me secretly again.

He supported himself on the stool with his hands, swung his legs, then suddenly twisted his legs together and hunched his shoulders.

"Um... Asaro."

"Ok?"

"This is... my first time eating ramen with my friends!"

"Huh? Really?"

He chuckled with his eyes curved, like a little fox: "Yeah! I feel... so happy! Where's Chaolu?"

I don't have any special feelings.

After all, what is a friend? My mission is just to stay with Naruto and ensure that he can stay alive and safe.

But I said, “I’m happy too!”

"This is my first time having friends, so I don't understand a lot of things... If I make you angry in any way, you must tell me directly!"

"Okay. I also want to be with Naruto forever, so if I've made you angry in any way, Naruto, you have to tell me directly."

"Well! Then let's just talk it out!"

"it is good!"

"Pink?" He held out his finger. "It's a deal?"

I followed his example and stretched out my little finger to hook it with his.

"Hook."

"No change allowed for a hundred years!"

“It won’t change in a hundred years.”

Naruto's face turned red, "Great!"

I said, "Yes."

"What else?"

"Also... I'm not very familiar with other people's facial expressions and body movements. It would be bad if I misunderstood something. So, if there is something I don't understand, can I ask you directly?"

He didn't seem to think much about it and immediately agreed: "Of course!"

"Then why did Naruto look everywhere but not at me just now?"

“Ah! Eh!? You asked that?! Uh, that… that is… that is, I don’t know why… I feel embarrassed…”

"Then why are you moving around so much?"

"Because I'm a little excited! Really!!"

"Excited and embarrassed, what does that mean?"

"If you ask me that... I will..."

"Did Naruto say that we should speak our mind?"

"That's right! Actually, I don't really understand it either, but I think you are important to me! That's what I think! Because Chaolu is my first friend!"

Uncle Ichiraku was listening to our conversation behind the counter and for some reason he was laughing happily.

He moved quickly and brought two servings of ramen in no time.

Naruto immediately started eating with big mouthfuls, as if trying to avoid my questioning, and I was a little hesitant.

His emotions came and went quickly, and his face was not so red at this time: "What's the matter? Uncle Ichiraku's ramen is delicious!"

"This is my first time eating ramen, and I'm a little unsure how to eat it or what it tastes like..."

"What, first time?"

"Yeah..." I imitated Naruto, picked up a piece of ramen with chopsticks, and slowly put it into my mouth.

The taste of ramen is different from the rice balls in the welfare home...

It's amazing how different foods taste.

I ate slowly, savoring the food.

Naruto suddenly said, "The first time Chaolu ate ramen was with me!"

"Oh, yes."

His eyes lit up as he said, "From now on... let's do more things for the first time!"

I said, "Okay."

Uncle Ichiraku looked at us, smiled and said, "That's great, Naruto, you finally have a friend!"

I thought: It turns out... becoming friends is such a simple thing.

……

After eating ramen, I walked to the welfare house with Naruto because he wanted to know where I lived.

I asked, "Will it be too late for you to go back by yourself later?"

"No, this is in the village, it's safe!"

I stood at the door of the welfare home and said goodbye to him.

He looked up at the building with a serious expression: "Okay... I'll remember this place! See you tomorrow! Chaolu!"

I waved at him, "Bye, Naruto. Good night!"

He chuckled and said, "Good night!"

Watching the orange figure leaping and disappearing into the night, I thought that I had completed the first step of my mission quite well.

I slept peacefully that night.

But the next day when I went to school and continued to sit next to Naruto, he looked like he hadn't woken up yet and was listless.

"Naruto? Good morning?"

"Um... Good morning!"

"You didn't get any rest last night, okay?"

"Yesterday... I was too excited... I didn't sleep well, and I almost woke up late today!"

"Too excited?"

"Because, because!" Naruto suddenly perked up, "I made a friend!"

"Ah...it seems that I am...very important to Naruto?"

"Of course! Am I not an important friend to Chaolu?"

"Of course!"

"So," he clenched his fist happily, "I will definitely cherish you!"

"Thank you." I said, "I will definitely cherish you."

While we were talking like this, Nara Shikamaru arrived.

He complained: "What kind of TV show are you guys acting in? Such exaggerated lines."

I know him.

The information on the scroll that Orochimaru gave me was screened by him.

He set the framework for the plan to approach Naruto, and he and Orochimaru filled in the details.

Because of his coordination and Yamanaka Ino's mediation, the resistance forces around the world were able to survive until I was born.

I nodded to him respectfully.

"Good morning, Shikamaru-sama."

Nara Shikamaru: "...Please don't drag me into your TV role-playing game. It seems very troublesome."

"I'm so sorry, Master Shikamaru."

"Don't call me 'sir'!"

I had no choice but to obey his orders: "...Shikamaru?"

He affirmed, “Okay, that’s it.”

Shikamaru is obviously very smart, but because he is lazy, he never does his homework. He is often kept after class by the teacher for sleeping in class, talking to Choji, and eating snacks together. As he and Naruto were punished together for a long time, the two of them became familiar with each other, and I was able to talk to him as well.

I'm a little flattered.

……

Naruto and I always sat together in class, stayed together after class, and left together after school. Other students soon discovered this.

Not long after, one day when I arrived at the classroom, I saw a pair of matching umbrellas drawn on the blackboard, with Naruto and my names written under the umbrellas.

A group of boys started to laugh at me: "The young couple is here! The young couple left school together yesterday, and they are sitting together again today! Chaolu! When are you going to take your husband's last name? Uzumaki Chaolu! Uzumaki Chaolu!"

Naruto's face turned red with anger, and he was about to rush up to fight with the group of people. I grabbed him and didn't think there was anything to be angry about.

"Any time is fine," I said, "as long as Naruto agrees."

There was an uproar in the classroom, and all the little kids in the class looked at me in shock, especially the eldest daughter of the Hyuga family, whose face turned particularly pale.

But I don’t see why there’s any shame in this.

This wasn't mentioned in the information Orochimaru gave me.

I looked at Naruto a little confused: "Is my common sense... wrong again?"

He defended me and said, "It's okay, don't worry about the morning dew!"

He rushed over and started a fight with the group of boys who were making a fuss: "You are not allowed to bully Chaolu!"

He was alone, but the other side had a group of people. I couldn't let him suffer any loss, so I rushed over and said, "Don't you dare bully Naruto!!"