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

However, there is really no explanation or experience that I can teach others about why I can hold my breath underwater for so long. It is more like an instinct.

It's like asking a baby how it can survive in amniotic fluid for ten months.

All I can say to Sasuke is: "I can't teach you."

I didn't mean to embarrass Sasuke, but even if Naruto and Shikamaru asked me, I couldn't tell them how to do it.

But from that day on, there were rumors in the class that I hated Uchiha Sasuke.

He never approached me again.

I think this is not bad. Every time I get close to him, I feel awkward and a lot of confusing thoughts pop up in my mind. It is better to keep a distance and save trouble and effort.

Just like that, three years passed in a flash.

As lower-grade ninja school students, we learned how to survive in a variety of environments including water, ice and snow, deserts, Gobi, and deep mountains.

At the same time, I also remembered the birthdays of Naruto, Shikamaru, Ino, Sakura, Shino, and Choji, and they also remembered mine - Ino and I have the same birthday, September 9rd - and she is only one day older than Shikamaru.

However, Ino and Shikamaru celebrate their own birthdays, but I always celebrate with Shikamaru.

My expenses suddenly increased in order to prepare gifts, and there are also various festivals throughout the year.

Although I saved some money by helping out at Konoha Hospital on weekends, it was still not enough, so I took on a job delivering milk and newspapers during the day and worked part-time in various stores on the commercial street on Saturdays. Occasionally, when Kakashi didn't have a mission, I would take a day off and go for special training with Naruto.

Every day of these three years has been very fulfilling for me.

Sakura and Choji were very surprised when they received the gifts for the first time, because working part-time after school occupied most of my life. At school, my energy was mainly focused on Naruto, followed by Shikamaru, and then Ino and Shino.

Since Choji is in the Ino-Shika-Chou group, he can still communicate with me a little, but his relationship with Sakura seems to be more distant.

After she had a falling out with Ino over Uchiha Sasuke, she even refused my gift because she said "Ino would be unhappy."

But from what I observed, Uchiha Sasuke did nothing during their feud.

Was his mere presence there bound to cause disaster?

During that time, I couldn't help frowning whenever I saw him. It was said that a group of girls disliked me because of this, but with Ino around, they didn't dare to do anything.

After hearing this, I tried to stay as far away from Uchiha Sasuke as possible.

But after entering the fourth grade, you have to start learning how to fight in different environments.

Since ninjas initially acted in groups of three, we also needed to form our own teams during training and had conflicts with other teams. The chances of me meeting Uchiha Sasuke suddenly increased.

By the fourth grade, most of the students had formed their own small circles and were able to divide into groups quickly, but Naruto and I were always together, while our close friends had their own teams - Ino, Shika, and Chou rarely separated, and the same was true for Hyuga, Inuzuka, and Aburame.

Most of the students who were left alone had various problems, such as being eccentric, not good at fighting, hating Naruto, or hating me...

Anyway, after the group battle started, Naruto's team and I basically hovered in the middle and lower reaches.

But my personal results were far ahead, tied for first place in the class with Uchiha Sasuke.

Because the two of us often take on three people at once.

In our group, as long as the opponent can control me, we can basically win.

When I was facing Ino-Shika-Chou, I was fixed in place by Shikamaru's shadow binding technique and couldn't move.

Choji and Ino set off to deal with Naruto and the third person in our group, leaving him alone. He looked at me with an embarrassed expression and scratched his head awkwardly: "I'm sorry, Chaolu, although it must be uncomfortable to be trapped here, it's better than attacking you..."

Some people think that Naruto is a burden to me, while others think that I deliberately let others highlight me and make me look particularly powerful.

I don't mind what others think of me, but over time, I'm a little worried that Naruto will be affected.

Will my presence... put pressure on him...?

But I was afraid that if I asked him directly, it would create a rift between us.

Maybe he would think that I wanted to get rid of him and find another partner.

Kakashi once told me that relationships need to be nurtured slowly over a long period of time. I thought that as long as I was with Naruto forever, everything would be fine. But the falling out between Sakura and Ino made me feel that long-term companionship may not always be reliable and solid.

The connection between people...sometimes, it's so fragile.

As if misfortunes never come alone, just when I was worried and in bad shape, our group had been drawn into Uchiha Sasuke's group several times in a row.

As the strongest one in our group, I am mostly the one responsible for facing Uchiha Sasuke, trying to suppress him or entangle him.

Although Shikamaru suggested that we use the strategy of "good horse against average horse, average horse against bad horse, bad horse against good horse", how could there be any weak people in Uchiha Sasuke's team?

If the opponent is three good horses, Shikamaru's strategy will be useless.

I remember it was written in a book in the library that when you meet an Uchiha, you should never look directly into their eyes.

And Uchiha Sasuke's Sharingan——

Anyone who has lived in the future I am in would absolutely not want to see it.

I don't know when Uchiha Sasuke opened his Sharingan, so every time I fought with him, I was careful to avoid his eyes and only looked below his chin.

I punched him in the stomach and he grabbed my wrist.

He was very strong. He grabbed my hand and twisted it behind my back. I couldn't dodge in time and he pushed me from behind, bending my knees. I half-knelt on the ground and missed the chance to break free.

His kunai was across my neck. I heard his voice coming from behind me, panting. I could even feel the strands of hair on his temples. The ends of his hair seemed to touch the tips of my ears. "You can't even look the enemy in the face, and you still want to win?"

His voice was cold: "You are too contemptuous of me."

I'm a little confused.

Was Uchiha Sasuke too young when his clan was exterminated, and didn't his family tell him that it was a correct strategy for the enemy to avoid their eyes?

Just as I was about to speak, pink fireworks rose in the sky - those were the fireworks for my group, and their lighting meant the failure of my teammates.

The fireworks launching into the sky usually means the end of the battle.

Shikamaru would immediately untie my shadow binding jutsu, but Uchiha Sasuke didn't let me go.

His kunai was still across my neck, and I suddenly felt a little worried that he would become ferocious and I would become his first victim by accident.

The air around me seemed to freeze. I held my breath and was ready to break free despite the pain of my dislocated arm.

Fortunately, he only pressed on me for a while, then moved away and let me get up.

I breathed a sigh of relief, but had nothing to say to him. I could only silently rub my wrist that he had twisted behind my back.

Uchiha Sasuke stood aside and looked at me: "You lost again."

I couldn't help but respond to this statement because I was tasked with a mission that I could not fail, especially not lose to him.

I glared at him: "I will win!"

He lowered his eyes and put away his kunai: "With your teammates, you will never be able to defeat me."