Chapter 49 New Classmate (Ch 49)

The first snow in Konoha has arrived. In fact, given the climate of the Land of Fire, Konoha does not snow every winter. This year’s first snow came very early, and Naruto felt a little emotional when he went out in the morning.

“It looks like this winter will be very cold.”

As he said this, he stepped on the snow and came to the school. At the same time, Kimimaro, with white hair, walked out of Orochimaru’s ward with Jūgo. They were going to carry out the last order given to them by Orochimaru.

“Go to school.”

At this time, both Kimimaro and Jūgo had strong seals on their bodies. However, the two seals had different purposes. The seal on Kimimaro was for healing. The seal could greatly suppress the blood limit in his body and prevent it from continuing to damage Kimimaro’s body. The seal on Jūgo was for suppressing his curse seal ability.

To be honest, if Jūgo was not Orochimaru’s direct disciple, with his ability to go berserk at any time, he should have been locked up in a cell forever after entering Konoha Village.

In fact, even Jūgo himself did not quite understand the thoughts of the Konoha high-level officials. He walked behind Kimimaro and could not help asking, “Kimimaro, are we really going to school? There are only children in the school, what if I go berserk there?”

“Your bloodline limit has been sealed again. If I go berserk, there will be no one left who can suppress me. What on earth is Lord Orochimaru thinking?”

Kimimaro walked forward slowly, feeling his body which had never been so healthy. Thinking back to Tsunade who treated him, he admired her sincerely.

“As expected, he is known as the best medical ninja in the ninja world, and one of the three most famous ninjas along with Lord Orochimaru.”

Now, he respects and admires Tsunade from the bottom of his heart. Moreover, he is very grateful to Tsunade for saving him, a stranger from another village.

In the world, people like Kimimaro, their gratitude is the most valuable. The gratitude of such people is simple and direct. If you do them a great favor, they are willing to die for you once.

If it was someone like Orochimaru who saved Kimimaro’s life, then he would be willing to die for Orochimaru ten thousand times.

Behind him, seeing Kimimaro’s focused look, Jūgo couldn’t help but feel dejected.

“Hey, Kimimaro, you’re not even listening to me.”

Only then did Kimimaro stop and turn his head to look at Jūgo.

“Don’t worry, Jūgo. Konoha Village is different from the outside world. There are many masters here. If you lose control, the teachers in the school will take action. And…”

Shigeo became curious: “What’s wrong?”

Kimimaro looked at Jūgo and said meaningfully, “Didn’t you ask how you were subdued when you first arrived in Konoha?”

Shigeo obviously hadn’t expected this, and he was stunned by the question.

“After I fought that guy, I lost consciousness. I can’t remember how I came to Konoha.”

Seeing this, Kimimaro smiled and said, “When you arrived in Konoha, you really made a big fuss. There were two people who subdued you. One was Orochimaru’s disciple, Mitarashi Anko; the other was the classmate we will meet at school next.”

“classmate?”

Jūgo was surprised: “You mean, he is a student of a ninja school.”

“Um.”

Kimimaro nodded: “I heard from Lord Orochimaru that guy is two years younger than you.”

“Impossible!” The expression on Jūgo’s face was quite incredible: “You mean, a little kid can actually deal with me after I lose control and become cursed? This is impossible. Even in Konoha, there is no way such a person can exist!”

“hehe.”

Kimimaro smiled, taking in Jūgo’s performance.

“When we get to school later, you can verify it yourself, right? By the way, that guy’s name is Uzumaki Naruto. Lord Orochimaru said that he has shiny golden hair, so you should be able to recognize him easily.”

Throughout the rest of the journey, Jūgo remained silent. He was in a state of serious self-doubt. He did lose control often, but he never thought he was a loser. Now, if you tell him that a kid two years younger than him could defeat his cursed self, he would be unwilling to believe it. If you get close to him, you can hear him mumbling:

“This is impossible, this is impossible…”

After seeing Jūgo like this, Kimimaro was happy to be free. But in fact, when he heard Orochimaru tell him the news, he was shocked as much as Jūgo at this moment. Like Jūgo, Kimimaro at this moment was also eager to meet the legendary Uzumaki Naruto.

In the Ninja School, the classroom was quite noisy at this time. The time before class, when all the students were gathered, was one of the noisiest times of the day in the classroom.

Sitting in his seat, Naruto took out a snow globe and handed it to Hinata.

“Hey, birthday present. Your birthday is coming soon, right?”

Hinata took it with some surprise, she looked at Naruto: “How do you know my birthday?”

Naruto shrugged, “I saw it on Iruka-sensei’s desk when I went to the office. This snow globe is made in the Snow Country. It’s pretty nice.”

This snow globe made in the Snow Country is naturally a specialty brought to Naruto by Kakashi who returned from the Snow Country. Kakashi’s mission in the Snow Country went quite smoothly. He and Gai successfully defeated the traitorous Snow Ninja and helped the young princess Kazehana Koyuki take the throne and become the new queen of the Snow Country.

In order to express gratitude for the help of the two ninjas, the first thing Kazehana Koyuki did after taking office was to form an alliance with the Fire Nation. With Kakashi’s return this time, Konoha has one more ninja village to cooperate with.

Kakashi gave Naruto three snow globes from the same toy set. Naruto planned to keep one for himself and give the remaining two away. Hinata’s birthday was coming up soon, so he gave one of them to Hinata as a gift.

“When you Hyuga clan celebrate birthdays, you rarely invite people from other clans to attend, right? I wish you a happy birthday in advance.”

“Thank you, Naruto.”

Hinata’s heart warmed. She didn’t expect Naruto to think so carefully. In fact, the Hyuga clan was quite closed, and they rarely invited outsiders to the clan in the past. The situation was better now, but as the daughter of the clan leader, she was watched by countless people in the clan, so she had to follow the rules. Therefore, it was absolutely impossible for her to invite her classmates to her birthday.

“That’s so nice of you two.” Ino said, lying on Naruto’s desk, complaining: “Naruto, why didn’t you give me a present on my birthday! Where’s mine? Where’s mine?”

“Hey, don’t be such a jerk. We weren’t even close the last time you celebrated my birthday.”

After the last Victory Day celebration, Ino and Naruto are now very good friends. Naruto knew that Ino was joking, but it also reminded him.

Since he had given Hinata a gift, he couldn’t forget about other friends’ birthdays in the future. Otherwise, it would seem like he was biased.

“Sure enough, things like gift giving should still be done in private.”

Soon, the bell rang, and Shisui pushed open the door and walked into the classroom with Iruka. The originally noisy classroom suddenly became quiet. Everyone stared with curious eyes, staring at the two teenagers who walked in behind Teacher Iruka.

The handsome Kimimaro soon aroused discussion among the girls.

“Wow, did you see that? The one with white hair is so handsome.”

“Really? I just think he’s not easy to get along with.”

“Haha, the cool and aloof type is my type!”

The boys’ attention is generally focused on Shigeo.

“Where did this big guy come from? He’s almost as big as Iruka-sensei.”

“Hehe, the guys who practice with him in taijutsu class will be blessed.”

“There’s a physical training class this afternoon. Who’s the unlucky guy?”

“It can’t be me.”

Listening to the students’ whispers below, Shisui frowned slightly and said coldly: “Quiet, quiet!”

As soon as the words fell, the classroom fell silent. Sitting in his seat, Naruto recalled Shisui’s attitude the last time he ran into Shisui and Itachi, and compared it with his current attitude, and then came to a conclusion.

“Sure enough, Mr. Shisui is much more aggressive in school than outside. It seems that going to work really does make people irritable.”

“Ahem.”

Iruka coughed twice and introduced them randomly: “Classmates, these two are new transfer students. They will be part of our team from now on. Kimimaro, Jūgo, please introduce yourselves.”

As always, Kimimaro spoke first. He said calmly, “My name is Kaguya Kimimaro. Please take care of me from now on.”

His introduction was short, just like his personality, he was more accustomed to speaking with actions. Then, Iruka signaled for Jūgo to speak.

“It’s your turn, Shigeo. Please introduce yourself. For example, tell us about your hobbies, your study plans, your plans for the future, etc.”

Shigeo’s body shuddered, and he then spoke loudly:

“Ah, um, I’m Jugo, Jugo of Libra. You can just call me Jugo. I like birds and flowers, and…”

Unexpectedly, Jūgo’s performance gave people a silly feeling. Naruto, who was sitting in his seat, almost laughed out loud.

“Oh my god, this guy, Chougo, is he so different?”

Naruto knew Kimimaro and Jūgo, and he had heard from Anko that they were going to school. He just didn’t expect that the school would arrange for them to be in the same class as him.

The reason is simple, there is an age difference.

Just as Naruto’s thoughts were drifting away, Jūgo’s voice brought him back to reality.

“…By the way, if I have any plans, there is someone I would like to spar with. That person’s name is, Uzumaki Naruto.”

In an instant, Naruto felt the gazes of everyone in the classroom converge on his back. He felt very uncomfortable and couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows.

“What’s going on? He doesn’t have good intentions.”