Kushina heard that boss scolding Naruto as a little brat, and she was not polite at all either.
Naruto obediently grabbed all the stuff and smashed it toward the ground.
Kushina, on the other hand, controlled Naruto's body to dodge the boss at critical moments.
She even hooked her foot, lowered her body, and could make the shopkeeper fall flat on his back.
In just a few minutes, the store shelves collapsed, and the boss's curses never stopped.
At this time, the nearby ANBU watching over Naruto couldn't stand it anymore.
If they let Naruto continue making a fuss, this shop would be torn apart, and more and more people were gathering to watch.
They thought, this boss is really too stupid, can't even catch such a small kid.
"Stop! Naruto, what are you doing?", The ANBU's tone was extremely cold, even a bit threatening.
After all, they all wore masks, killed without blinking, so a bit of killing intent was normal.
But Naruto was not afraid at all.
At the start of smashing the shop, Naruto was still worried he was causing trouble.
But during the continuous destruction, Naruto felt a kind of heartfelt satisfaction.
This boss often mixed sand into the bento boxes, bullied him.
Now he finally vented his anger.
"This boss mixed sand into the bento I bought," Naruto righteously complained to the ANBU.
But the ANBU didn't speak for Naruto and instead looked toward the boss.
The boss immediately cried injustice, "I'm innocent, this guy came and tried to steal a bento and leave, so…"
"That's not true! I paid for it…!"
Naruto hurriedly defended.
But at this moment, Kushina in his mind spoke, ["Don't explain anymore. Just tell the ANBU you're going to tell the Third Hokage."]
"I'm going to tell Gramps Third. You took the Third Hokage's money and gave me bentos with sand."
Naruto wasn't stupid either, and he followed up naturally.
The bento shop boss's face changed, and the ANBU's face didn't look good either.
With the Third Hokage's tacit approval, the villagers could bully Naruto.
But the condition was, no deaths could be caused, so yesterday an ANBU had jumped out to stop things.
Today, Naruto brought this matter into the open.
When Naruto spoke, there were villagers nearby.
The ANBU had to maintain the Third's hypocritical image, and he didn't want every issue to require the Third's involvement.
That would make them look incompetent and get scolded.
"Did you or did you not take Naruto's money?"
Under the gazes of many villagers, the ANBU had to act impartially.
Under the ANBU's cold voice, the shop owner could only grimace and say, "I did."
"Since your bento is inedible, refund the money right now."
The ANBU just wanted to end this incident quickly, otherwise reporting to the Third Hokage would make things complicated.
"Not just this time! I've bought over a hundred bentos from here, all with sand! You have to refund all of them!", Naruto shouted. It had to be said, this was also taught by Kushina.
"I…", The boss just opened his mouth when he felt a chill over his whole body.
The masked ANBU released a lot of killing intent.
The boss quickly grabbed the money in his hand and stuffed it into Naruto's hands, "Here's your refund, here's your refund, let's not tell the Third Hokage about this little matter."
"So many times, and just this little amount?", Naruto shouted.
But his hands couldn't hold it all, so he quickly used his clothes to bundle up the pile of cash.
The boss had no choice but to stuff another big handful from the cashbox into Naruto's clothes.
"Alright then, I won't tell Gramps Third."
Naruto bundled up the money and dashed away with small, quick steps.
The ANBU stared at the boss for a few seconds before chasing after Naruto.
The boss looked at the wrecked shop and collapsed to the ground with weak legs.
If he'd been any slower, he might've really gotten killed.
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Naruto bundled up the money and ran far away before stopping, panting.
'Uzumaki, how did you know they were afraid of me telling Gramps Third?'
Kushina snorted coldly, ["They're not afraid of you telling the Third Hokage, they're afraid of you saying it in front of so many people."]
["And from now on, don't call him Gramps Third in front of me."]
Naruto looked like he half-understood.
Kushina didn't explain further and only said, ["Did the ANBU show up again?"]
'Mm…', Naruto responded, just realizing.
["So you've always been under ANBU surveillance. You getting bullied was also tacitly approved."]
["To be precise, it's all tacitly approved by the Third Hokage."]
Naruto looked a bit sad. Now he finally realized that the Third Hokage might not be as kind as he imagined.
'But… the Third… Hokage gave me money,' Naruto looked at the money bundled in his clothes.
These past years, if the Third Hokage hadn't given him money and a place to stay, he would've starved long ago.
If she could, with Kushina's personality, she would've beaten the Third Hokage to death already.
But she was just a shadow clone of the original, just chakra.
A residual soul on countdown to destruction.
To help Naruto learn properly and break free from the Third Hokage's conning, Kushina had to patiently guide Naruto.
["What if that money originally belonged to your parents?"]
Naruto was stunned upon hearing that, 'Dad and Mom left me money?'
Kushina sighed, ["The money your parents left you is enough for you to live without worries."]
["The Third Hokage gave you a small amount of money just to make you feel grateful."]
Little Naruto still didn't fully understand all the twists and turns, but he already felt that the person who truly cared about him wasn't the Third Hokage.
'Why did the Third Hokage do this?'
Kushina didn't continue explaining this time, ["That has to do with your identity."]
["If you behave, I'll slowly tell you in the future."]
Speaking of this, Naruto also got motivated, 'Uzumaki, you promised to tell me what my mom looked like.'
Kushina coaxed Naruto too, ["Alright, alright, put the money away and eat lunch first, then I'll tell you."]
Naruto's attention quickly shifted.
Just now the shop owner stuffed Naruto with a big pile of money, and Naruto had never held this much money before.
He took the money out of his clothes and slowly counted it.
There were quite a few big bills, more than 300,000 yen in total, which was a genuine fortune for Naruto.
Naruto cheered, "Great! I can go eat the Grand Slam!"
The "Grand Slam" he spoke of was the most luxurious ramen combo at Ichiraku Ramen.
It came with all sorts of pork cutlets, chicken legs, fried eggs, chashu, everything they could offer.
Naruto had eaten at Ichiraku Ramen many times, but he never could bear to order that.
["Is the Grand Slam expensive?"]
Naruto scratched his head, 'I think it's around two thousand yen, but I never could bring myself to buy it.'
Kushina fell silent and didn't say anything more.
Naruto didn't know Kushina's mood, he just excitedly ran toward his favorite Ichiraku Ramen shop.
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