Chapter 627 Do you crave power?

Gradually, more people came into the classroom. Most of the girls looked at Sasuke first when they came in, while Naruto's side was much quieter. Not to mention the girls, except for the boys like Choji and Shikamaru, the rest of the boys looked at him in the same way as the villagers outside.

After a while, Iruka walked into the classroom with a textbook and the class officially began.

The morning class was mainly devoted to theory. Not to mention Naruto, even Jiger was drowsy while listening. During the class, Naruto wanted to pick a fight with Sakura, but ended up being attacked by Iruka's chalk.

Seeing Naruto's obsession with Sakura, Jiger sighed helplessly. He ignored the white-eyed princess behind him who only cared about him, but had a special liking for this girl with pink hair and a wide forehead. He was still too young.

In the afternoon, Iruka announced that they would conduct a combat simulation. Because the graduation examination of the Ninja School was approaching, the combat assessment accounted for the largest proportion of the results, so such training would be conducted almost every day during this period.

And every time this happened, Naruto would almost instantly turn into a bitter face, because now he could hardly be defeated by anyone.

Because of the Nine-Tailed Fox in his body, Naruto still can't even create an ordinary clone, and most of the time he is basically just a punching bag for others.

The listless Naruto followed the crowd and came to the playground under the leadership of Iruka. When they saw a figure standing on the playground, they suddenly burst into exclamations.

"Hokage-sama!!"

The Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen smoked his pipe with a kind smile on his face as he looked at Iruka and his group walking towards him.

Iruka was also surprised to see the Third Hokage. Obviously, he didn't know that the Hokage would come today.

After being surprised, Iruka excitedly saluted the Third Generation. The Third Generation smiled slightly and said to everyone,

"This class of kids is about to graduate, I want to take a look at their learning achievements."

While the Third Generation was speaking, his eyes kept looking at Naruto standing in the crowd. Naruto made a face, and the Third Generation just smiled, took down his pipe, and said,

"Okay, I hope my arrival doesn't affect your performance. Let's get started."

Iruka nodded, then turned to the students and said,

"Let's draw lots to decide who we'll be training with today. Let's start the drawing."

A group of students then walked to the lottery bucket and lined up to draw lots.

After the lot drawing, Naruto, who had been ignored by everyone before, became the focus of most people's attention. To be more precise, it was the number in his hand. The reason was simple. Everyone wanted to perform well in front of the Hokage, or at least no one wanted to lose.

If the opponent is Naruto, who is the last one in the group, then the pressure will definitely drop sharply.

Naruto unfolded the number paper in his hand, which had a big number 1 written on it, which meant that he would be the first group to step forward for actual combat training.

Realizing that everyone was looking at him, Naruto casually raised the number paper in his hand and shouted out the number he had drawn.

After getting Naruto's number, everyone hurriedly looked at the number paper in their hands, and then shook their heads in disappointment.

At this moment, Sasuke stepped forward with an indifferent look on his face and showed the number paper in his hand, which also had the number 1 on it.

Seeing that his opponent was Sasuke, the top student of this class and also the guy he hated the most, Naruto wiped his nose with his hand and muttered,

"It's nothing serious. I'll beat you to a pulp later..."

The voices behind him grew smaller and smaller, and it was obvious that Naruto was also feeling uneasy about this.

Sasuke had already walked to the center of the venue amid the cheers of the girls, still with that icy face. Naruto gritted his teeth and rushed to Sasuke, looking very dissatisfied.

Of course, Sasuke didn't take Naruto's strength seriously at all. He ignored Naruto and turned to look at Iruka and asked,

"Iruka-sensei, are we ready to begin?"

Iruka looked at Naruto with some concern, then nodded to indicate that they could begin.

The third generation looked at Naruto and Sasuke in the field with a calm face. He didn't expect it to be such a coincidence that the two most noteworthy students in the eyes of Konoha's top leaders would meet each other.

But now one of them is a genius, while the other is a laggard, and the outcome of the battle seems to be obvious.

As expected, the moment Iruka signaled that they could start, Sasuke's figure immediately disappeared from the spot, and his speed was so fast that it was impossible for those students from ordinary families to see clearly.

Naruto had no time to react before Sasuke, who suddenly "teleported" in front of him, punched him in the stomach. The powerful force made Naruto's face turn purple in an instant. He knelt on the ground with his hands covering his stomach, and finally he couldn't hold on any longer and fell to the ground.

An undisputed instant kill.

After a brief silence, the group of Sasuke fans burst into cheers.

"Sasuke-kun is so handsome!"

"Sasuke-kun is amazing!!"

"Sure enough, the gap between the last-place student and the genius is so huge!"

It wasn't just the girls who cheered; some boys also followed suit, praising Sasuke. A few wondered, "If they were Naruto, would the outcome be any different?" It didn't seem like there would be much difference...

In the crowd, except for Hinata who was looking at Naruto lying on the ground with a distressed look, everyone else completely ignored Naruto who was lying on the ground with a painful look on his face.

Naruto raised his head with difficulty and looked at the people who were cheering for Sasuke. Although he had expected this, when the moment came, his heart still ached.

What made him most uncomfortable was the admiration in the eyes of the Third Hokage, which was for Sasuke.

Although Naruto is always naughty in the village and doesn't seem to respect the Third Hokage, he actually respects the Third Hokage very much in his heart. After all, becoming Hokage has always been Naruto's dream, and the image of Hokage in his mind is the Third Hokage.

"Why is the gap so big...?"

"Why does everyone dislike me?"

"What did I do wrong?"

Iruka saw that the outcome was decided, he sighed, and wanted to go up to help Naruto up, but Naruto suddenly gritted his teeth and stood up, looking at Sasuke who was walking out of the field and yelled,

"I haven't lost yet!"

However, this behavior was seen as overestimating one's own abilities by everyone, and some people began to mock Naruto and asked him to get off quickly.

Sasuke looked at Naruto quietly and spoke slowly,

"Forget it. Fighting you doesn't make any sense to me."

Sasuke didn't mean to mock Naruto, he just said what he was thinking directly. But one can imagine how much hurt this sentence made to Naruto. In addition, Sakura in the crowd made a crazy sound at the right time. Naruto forgot the severe pain in his abdomen for a moment and rushed straight towards Sasuke.

There was no explosive scene. He was kicked back by Sasuke again. After two consecutive heavy blows, Naruto almost fainted. Perhaps in the original world line, his challenge ended with him being knocked unconscious by Sasuke.

In the dimness, Naruto heard the voice that seemed to come from a dream.

"Oi, Uzumaki Naruto, do you crave power?"