04 - Team Dynamics

With this tactic, I left school in search of Sasuke and walked around the city in the places my classmates used to walk, still looking for Sasuke, but with a rice ball that I had bought at a stall in the middle of the street.

As I walked through Konoha, I saw the Ino-Shika-Cho group having their first meeting with their friends, and right behind them, Naruto was jumping from rooftop to rooftop and sneaking through a window.

I was curious about this scene, Naruto's behavior sounded very suspicious, so I climbed up to some of the rooftops of the city and watched what Naruto was doing from above.

With a better view, I noticed that Naruto was sneaking up on Sasuke, who was also eating a rice dumpling. After a brief moment of suspense, Naruto jumped at Sasuke, who was distracted.

*Plaft plaft

A few grunts could be heard from the window, which had been closed after the impact.

...

After a few tense moments, the window opens and I see Sasuke coming out of it, now also sneaking around, but this time with a mischievous grin on his face.

"HAHA do you really think Naruto could defeat my Sasuke?"

I could hear Ino loud and clear in the building next door.

"Ah Ino, if you only knew..." I thought to myself.

After a few minutes, I decided to go to Sasuke who was tied up in the building. Naruto had initially lost the fight, but when Sasuke let his guard down, he was surprised by a substitute jutsu that caused him to be defeated by Naruto.

The Sasuke that emerged after this battle was actually... Naruto transformed into Sasuke.

I approached the window unpretentiously and when I got close to it, I pretended to hear Sasuke's grunts with his mouth tied up, which made me look out of the window and call out.

"Sasuke, are you okay? ! ?"

"Hmmm hmhmhmh" Sasuke tried to communicate.

"Oh yeah, sorry about that" I replied.

After loosening Sasuke's bonds, I tried to gain his trust by talking.

"Who did this to you?" I asked.

Sasuke seemed very angry that he had lost to Naruto.

After Sasuke explained his whole fight, I could easily understand the clues that would make Sasuke buy his friendship with me.

"You need to practice your taijutsu better, Sasuke, do you want to train tomorrow on the weekend and leave Naruto behind? I need a training partner, what do you think?" I asked Sasuke.

Sasuke looked at me with an unsure expression, whether he should continue training alone or accept my help, seeing Sasuke's uncertainty, I added.

"If we train together, I'm sure we can beat anyone..."

Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed that Sasuke's expression had opened a little, showing that he had probably come to some kind of realization, and I knew very well what it was...

Sasuke was still very obsessed with Itachi, a goal that would permeate him for many years to come.

While I waited for Sasuke's answer, I heard the following.

*Plim

I couldn't contain my expression of happiness and ended up letting out a smile on the corner of my face.

"Okay, tomorrow at the open training ground at 9:00 a.m., all right?" Sasuke asked.

"Okay, okay, I'll be there" I replied.

After that, Sasuke left saying that he had to take care of something, he would probably try to beat up Naruto, so I didn't stop him, it was well deserved.

When I closed my eyes and opened the system interface, I saw the following

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[ Extra Mission ]

[ Gain the trust of your new teammates ]

~[ Progress = 2/3 ]~

[ Reward = 5 coins / 1 free attribute point ]

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"YES!" I cheered to myself.

Tomorrow, I'll see how I do with the partner training, especially with Sasuke who has the best grades in the ninja school, maybe I can improve a lot with his help, I really want to know how many status points this will give me.

When I opened my eyes, I realized that I still had to win the sympathy of Sakura, who was sitting in the open square thinking about Sasuke, which didn't surprise me... I had already seen her and greeted her, but not wanting to ruin my plans to win the sympathy of everyone in the group, I decided to pass by with a shy greeting and continued my search for Sasuke.

Arriving at the square, I spotted Sakura, she was in the presence of the fake Sasuke, who was singing to her with a completely different flirtation...

Not wanting to disturb the moment too much, I kept my distance from the two of them behind a bush, spying on them to see what would happen.

After a few minutes, I could see that Sakura was about to kiss the fake Sasuke, so I thought I'd intervene with a good excuse in mind.

"EYYYY" I shouted.

Sakura and 'Sasuke' were surprised by my appearance and when I interrupted their kiss, Sakura turned around angrily.

"HEY SHIN, WHAT ARE YOU DOING, GET OUT OF HERE?" Sakura said trying to punched me in the face.

"Oops!" I shouted, dodging Sakura's punch and saying.

"Calm down Sakura, he's an impostor."

"An impostor? DON'T TALK ABOUT SASUKE LIKE THAT" Sakura replied.

"What an idiotic girl..." I thought.

*Burrrrp

It was possible to hear the fake Sasuke's stomach rumbling, and as it rumbled, 'Sasuke' put his hands on his stomach and mumbled.

"Oh damn, not now..."

Right on cue, the fake Sasuke ran.

"EY EYYY wait !" I said.

Running faster than the fake Sasuke, I managed to grab his collar from behind while he tried to run away angrily, begging me to let him go because his stomach was hurting, I said.

"Look, Naruto, I know what you did was out of curiosity, but it's wrong, man."

At first, I didn't care much for Naruto's antics, but in order not to lose his sympathy, I tried to give him a reason for my actions.

Naruto, losing his concentration due to the adrenaline of escaping and the fear of being caught, transformed.

*Puff

"Uh..." Sakura is shocked and angry.

"Ouch... please Shin, let me go now..." Naruto begs.

"Okay, but don't do it anymore, man, come on."

"SHANARAAAAAAA!"

*BRUMMMMM

Sakura, overcome with rage, smashes the ground with a sharp blow, Naruto is lucky enough to dodge it and runs out of sight of me and Sakura.

"Be more careful Sakura, just imagine? you were going to kiss Naruto" i said to Sakura trying to make her tense up.

"BruhHhHhH that's disgusting... thanks a lot Shin, you saved me from that, then I'll take care of NARUTO!" Sakura said, expressing her anger at Naruto's name.

*PlimMmMm

Unable to contain my smile, I gave Sakura the same excuse I had given Naruto and rushed home to see the results of my extra mission.

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Author note 

If we hit 100 power stones by Saturday, I'll post 1 extra chapter

Chapter 12 is already released on Patreon!

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