Naruto, born from the world of his parents.

Seeing Kakashi pinned down by the two and unable to move, Sakura reached out and touched the bell. The moment he touched the bell, the motionless Kakashi suddenly turned into a wisp of smoke.

Sakura, who had exerted too much force, fell to the ground and was still somewhat dazed.

"What... what's going on?"

Naruto and Sasuke, however, seemed to have anticipated this, and vanished from their spot in an instant.

Unlike Sasuke's indifference, before leaving, Naruto pulled Sakura along, threw a smoke bomb from his ninja tool bag to cover their tracks, and then brought Sakura to Sasuke's side.

"Shadow clones? When did that happen?"

As if she had thought of something, Sakura looked at Naruto with a puzzled expression.

After Naruto's clash with Kakashi, she trusted Naruto even more.

Naruto's expression was extremely serious, as if he was thinking about something. After hearing Sakura's words, he turned his head and explained, "It most likely changed when he came down from the tree."

After saying that, Naruto suddenly raised his kunai, and a metallic clang rang out.

"The first skill of a ninja is to conceal their tracks; you can't be a ninja if you only have the ability to hide."

"Wh-what?"

Unlike Sakura's surprise, Sasuke's reaction was incredibly calm.

After all, no matter how unreliable this teacher may seem, a Jonin is still a Jonin.

"Why did Naruto have to bring Sakura along? Doesn't he know that the more people there are, the easier it is to be exposed?!"

Because of Naruto's outstanding performance, Sasuke, like Sakura, has changed his opinion of Naruto.

He gritted his teeth, and was about to rush forward while Naruto and Kakashi were locked in a stalemate, but Naruto stopped him with a stern voice.

"Sasuke, Sakura, retreat!"

Sasuke was taken aback when he heard Naruto's voice; it wasn't the voice that was coming from Naruto, who was locked in a stalemate with Kakashi.

He turned his head to look in the direction the sound came from, but only saw an orange shadow among the dense leaves.

"What exactly is this guy trying to do?!"

Despite his deep confusion, Sasuke immediately left.

Just as Sasuke and Sakura disappeared, Naruto, who was locked in a stalemate with Kakashi, suddenly burst into flames.

"boom!"

The shockwave from a short distance made Sakura instinctively stop in her tracks.

She turned around incredulously, staring blankly at the forest behind her.

"This, this is, an explosive tag?!?"

Sakura's expression changed drastically as she realized what had happened. She slumped to the spot, staring in despair at the direction of the explosion.

"A shadow clone? Putting explosive tags on a shadow clone? That's reckless! Kakashi-sensei must be dead!"

Thinking of this, Sakura, realizing she had caused a huge disaster, looked even more gloomy, but just then, Kakashi's voice reached her ears.

"It's quite troublesome, but not to the point of killing me."

Sakura was startled when she heard Kakashi's voice. She turned her head to look in the direction from which the voice came and saw countless leaves swirling around her. Among the green leaves, Kakashi's face was faintly visible.

The next moment, Sakura found herself in the open space under the tree without even realizing it.

"Huh? What's going on?"

She looked around in confusion when she suddenly heard a voice.

"Help, help me, Sakura."

Sakura looked up and saw Sasuke lying helplessly in a pool of blood under the shade of a tree, his body riddled with shuriken.

This scene pushed Sakura, who was already on the verge of collapse because she thought Kakashi had been killed, to the breaking point. She let out a piercing scream and fainted.

Not far away, Sasuke, who was hiding in the shade of a tree, frowned when he heard Sakura's voice, but did not react.

He stared intently at Kakashi, who was reading a book with his hands in his pockets in the center of the training field, and a strange sense of doubt arose in his heart.

"What is Naruto doing right now?"

Not far away, on a treetop, Naruto, taking advantage of the shade, stared intently at his palm.

Under the tutelage of Minato Namikaze, Naruto was not one to seek the limelight. In addition, since he didn't know much about this world, he initially wanted to observe more.

However, just after Kakashi-sensei said that those who were eliminated would be sent back to the Ninja Academy, a strange impulse suddenly welled up from the bottom of his heart.

Driven by this impulse, Naruto began a battle with Kakashi, and only after successfully obtaining the bell did he suppress this impulse.

But it didn't disappear. Even now, the stubborn desire to defeat Kakashi, become a ninja, and be valued still lingers in his heart.

This thought became even stronger after Sasuke started fighting Kakashi off the field.

"Absolutely, absolutely not, absolutely cannot be worse than that Sasuke guy!"

Feeling that vague yet firm voice in his heart, Naruto frowned even more deeply.

Although the voice was indistinct, he could clearly recognize it as his own.

"What exactly is going on with this body?"

From the moment he entered this world, Naruto felt something was very wrong.

Besides the fact that the entire world was completely different from what he remembered, there was also his chakra.

He was one of the most outstanding geniuses in Konoha's history, and like his father, he was a ninja without a bloodline limit.

Naruto's mastery of chakra is arguably no worse than that of a typical Jonin.

Therefore, when he came into this world, he keenly sensed that there was other chakra within his body.

A chakra filled with malice, yet one that he felt all too familiar with.

It wasn't until he used Shadow Clone Technique, when this malicious chakra flowed along with the chakra within his body, that he clearly sensed this chakra.

To Naruto's surprise, this chakra gave him a feeling similar to that of his mother.

"No, to be more precise, it should be the Nine-Tails inside Mom's body."

Although this chakra wasn't as warm as Kushina's, Naruto, who had interacted with Kurama face-to-face many times, could still clearly sense that it was Kurama's chakra.

This made him doubt his situation anew, and the vague voice in his heart made him even more certain of his doubts.

"I may not have entered an illusion, but rather, for some unknown reason, found myself in another version of myself."

Only in this way can we explain why the world has changed so much and why the Nine-Tails is inside him.

Feeling the deep sorrow and loneliness in his heart, as well as the Nine-Tails' chakra within him, a terrible thought arose in Naruto's mind.

He stared intently at Sasuke, who had been pulled underground, in the center of the arena, and then charged straight out.

"Rushing in like this isn't the best option."

Kakashi raised his hand to block Naruto's downward kick, but his tone had lost its leisurely air.

"People always have to face things, Kakashi-sensei."

As Naruto responded, he used Kakashi's arm as a fulcrum to rotate his body 360 degrees and kicked Kakashi in the chest with his other foot.

Using Kakashi as a shield, they retreated far away to Sasuke's side.

"Earth Release: Mud Swamp Technique!"

The soil that had bound Sasuke like a cage suddenly became incredibly loose. Sasuke struggled to pull his hand out, grabbed Naruto's outstretched hand, and jumped up.

Naruto's actions startled Kakashi for a moment, but he quickly realized what was happening.

"Did you learn ninjutsu from the Book of Sealing? That's an incredible talent."

On the other side of Kakashi, seeing the shock in Kakashi's eyes quickly disappear, Naruto breathed a sigh of relief.

"You made the right bet."