Naruto: The New Beginning

41. First mission

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Team 7 continues their usual routine, taking on missions in the morning and training together in the afternoon.

Recently, however, Kakashi has noticed something strange about Naruto's eyes.

They now convey emotions like empathy, sympathy, and excitement.

This puzzles Kakashi, as Naruto's eyes have become unusually expressive.

When questioned, Naruto brushes it off with responses like, "It's nothing," "Don't worry about it," or "You just have to live with conviction," further deepening the mystery.

But everyone is accustomed to Naruto's quirks by now, so Kakashi doesn't dig deeper.

The truth behind Naruto's strange expressions lies in what he learned from his mother, Kushina.

She informed him that his chakra reserves are nearly ten times those of Kakashi's under normal conditions.

This knowledge leaves Naruto struggling to contain his emotions whenever he sees Kakashi—a living unit of chakra measurement.

Despite Kakashi's rigorous training under Kushina's watchful eye, which made him somewhat stronger than his counterpart in the original timeline, he still can't compete with the immense chakra reserves of the Uzumaki clan.

Naruto is only twelve years old now, but as he matures and his body strengthens, the gap will widen even further.

He might easily burn through a few hundred calories without breaking a sweat—not to mention the Nine-Tailed Fox sealed within him.

Naruto once asked Kushina how much chakra he had exactly.

Kushina, with a mysterious smile, simply told him to learn chakra perception jutsu and see it himself.

Shaking off his thoughts, Naruto puts on his training weights and starts his physical exercises.

As for the Rasengan, Flying Thunder God, and chakra-sensing training, he leaves those to his Shadow Clones.

Naruto is determined to strengthen his physique.

After all, whether he uses the Nine-Tails Chakra Mode or Sage Mode in the future, it's like adding multiple buffs to his abilities, with the Uzumaki clan's physicality and the resilience of a jinchūriki, it would be a waste not to focus on physical training.

Meanwhile, Sakura has already finished reading another book.

According to her, she has memorized the previous one completely.

Naruto is impressed—Sakura's knowledge is akin to a high school student having memorized the entire Oxford Dictionary, leaving him with nothing to say but, "That's insane."

Given Sakura's dedication, Naruto introduced her to Shizune, a medic-nin who assisted in his birth along with Sarutobi Biwako.

On the day of the Nine-Tails attack, Shizune was saved by Minato.

After several years, she left the Anbu, got married, and now works at Konoha Hospital.

She has a habit of pinching Naruto's cheeks and making him call her "sister," which at least provides enough guidance for Sakura in her medical training.

Sakura was too shy to bother Nonō Yakushi, who was always busy at the orphanage.

Now, Sakura has learned basic medical ninjutsu and can heal minor wounds.