"I've said my piece..."
"Who agrees? Who objects?"
Naruto stood at the village entrance with Sasuke by his side.
In front of them were Tsunade's creditors.
Naruto had just presented them with a 'solution'.
Tsunade owed more than 200 million ryo in total, including interest.
Naruto felt that this group of people were trying to scam him, so he immediately said that he would round off the difference...
He would only give them 20 million ryo.
"What the hell!!"
"You Konoha's people are bullying us!!"
"Kid, who taught you to round numbers like that?!"
"Yeah! You might as well rob us outright!? "
When everyone heard what the yellow-haired brat said, they were immediately furious and expressed their disagreement.
'Screw that!'
'Even without interest, the principal alone was 100 million ryo!'
'Even if Tsunade become the Hokage, she can't just default on her debts, right?'
Faced with their accusations, Naruto remained completely calm. He reached out and then took a scroll from Sasuke's robe.
With a bang, he began pulling out Explosive Tags one after another...
At first, the crowd scoffed at Naruto's actions, but when he pulled out the hundredth Explosive Tag...
Everyone was instantly frightened, fearing that the yellow-haired brat would suddenly detonate the Explosive Tags and take them all down with him.
These people all had fortunes worth tens or even hundreds of millions ryo. If they died here for nothing, it'd be such a waste!
"Young man!!"
"Calm down! Calm down!!"
"You're still young, and you have a bright future ahead... don't be impulsive!!"
"That's right! Twenty million is fine!"
"We agree! We agree! Stop pulling out the Explosive Tags!!"
Naruto waved his hand to ask Sasuke to stop making hand seals, and he turned his head and looked at the crowd with feigned confusion.
"You really agree?"
"I didn't force you, right?"
Creditors: "…"
'Sure, whatever you say.'
They finally realized that the new Hokage and the current Konoha Village even bigger scoundrels than they were.
In the end, Naruto sent away the group of creditors with 'cheerful' farewells.
But it is unknown if they'd end up lining up on rooftops when they got back.
"Let's go, Sasuke."
"I've made some money recently, so let treat you to something good."
"Alright."
After the matter was resolved, Naruto led Sasuke toward a barbecue restaurant.
At this time, no one noticed that two people who did not belong to this era suddenly appeared on a rooftop somewhere in Konoha Village...
"Boruto..."
"This is the Konoha of the past."
On the rooftop, the middle-aged Sasuke with one hand looked at the Hokage Rock, with shock flashing across his face.
"Huh!?"
"How can this be…?"
Boruto was about to say something, but when he looked at the four Hokage faces and the unfinished face of the Godaime Hokage carved into the mountain, the words were instantly stuck in his throat.
This was undeniable proof that what Sasuke said was true.
They had really traveled back to Konoha's past.
After a long silence, Boruto looked up and asked in confusion, "Sasuke-san..."
"What does Urashiki... actually want to do?"
Sasuke paused for a moment, then said with a hint of worry in his tone, "He probably wants to target your father when he was still weak..."
"No! That must be what he was planning!"
"Naruto is too weak right now. He can't possibly stand against Otsutsuki Urashiki!"
"This is bad. He's in danger right now!"
After Sasuke finished his analysis, Sasuke leaped down from the rooftop in a few swift movements, completely ignoring Boruto, who was still standing there in a daze.
"Wait for me!"
Boruto snapped out of it and quickly followed after him.
When he finally caught up, Boruto found that Sasuke's pace had finally slowed down.
He looked at the somewhat retro architecture around him, many of which had some signs of being burned.
Arriving in the past Konoha filled Boruto with endless curiosity.
And he was even more curious about his father's past.
"Sasuke-san..."
"My dad... what kind of person was he?"
Boruto asked curiously.
By now, Sasuke had roughly figured out the timeline they were in.
'At this time...'
'I remembered that I seemed to have defected from Konoha not long ago.'
"Naruto..."
Sasuke muttered, fragments of old memories flashing through his mind.
"He didn't have a happy childhood."
"Is it because of his status as the Kyubi's Jinchuriki?"
Hearing Boruto's words, Sasuke nodded and continued.
"Since he was a child, he has been regarded as the Demon Fox by the villagers and has been hated by them..."
At this point, Sasuke suddenly chuckled, "But that didn't mean much to your father."
"Faced with everyone's rejection, Naruto would just smile and say he'd earn everyone's recognition… and that he would definitely become the Hokage."
"That's... amazing!"
Boruto imagined the scene and couldn't help but exclaim.
Although he doesn't know exactly what his father experienced as a child, that doesn't stop him from thinking that his father is awesome.
'Who would've thought...'
'Despite growing up in such an environment, Dad still maintained such an optimistic and determined attitude.'
'It's really amazing!'
Just as Sasuke was reminiscing about the past and Boruto was marveling at his father's resilience, a commotion up ahead suddenly snapped them out of their thoughts.
In front of a barbecue restaurant, the owner was standing humbly in front of a yellow-haired kid.
Next to the yellow-haired kid stood another kid in a black hooded robe, his face completely covered by the hood.
"Y-You haven't paid yet!"
"Pay!?"
"You've got some nerve saying that!?"
Naruto, who had just walked out of the barbecue restaurant, was furious. He angrily tore down the shop's signboard and slammed it in front of the owner.
"Damn it, old man! You're the one who wrote 'all-you-can-eat barbecue'!"
"As long as you pay, you can eat as much as you want."
"Old man, you still have the nerve to ask us for more money!?"
Naruto said as he stomped the signboard on the ground, splitting it in half.
He and Sasuke had only eaten less than ten people's worth of food. It can be said that Naruto'd even held back since he didn't bring Hinata with them.
But now this guy had the nerve to ask for more money...
'Did he really think that my reputation as the yellow-haired delinquent of Konoha is just for show?!'
'Besides, this old man dared to run an all-you-can-eat barbecue joint, so I had to teach him a lesson.'
"I'm running a small business here! If you eat like this, how am I supposed to keep my business going?!"
"My barbecue restaurant is very popular in the Land of Fire."
"If you don't give me a proper explanation today, I will..."
"You'll what?! Sasuke, let's beat him up!"
Naruto didn't have the patience to waste time talking to this outsider, so he called out to Sasuke, and the two of them pinned the old man to the ground and started kicking and punching him.
However, they knew how to hold back. Their beating is just enough to send him to the hospital for a few days, not enough to kill or cripple him.
"Ahh! They're beating people up!"
"Konoha's Shinobi are bullying outsiders!"
The barbecue restaurant was lying on the ground, covering his vital parts and shouting, trying to attract other people's attention.
It must be said that this trick did have some effect, and the surrounding villagers did notice it.
They gathered not far away, ready to watch the excitement.
Seeing the villagers around him, Naruto said with a fierce look on his face, "What are you all looking at!?"
"Keep watching and I'll beat you up too!"
Hearing this, everyone was terrified and quickly moved away from the scene where the yellow-haired delinquent had committed the crime.
Only Boruto and the one-armed Sasuke remained where they were...
Watching his father brutally assault an old man, Boruto's face twisted in disbelief.
"Sasuke-san..."
"Why does it seem a little different from what you said?"