Chapter 14 Just met and brought him home(1/2)
"I won't sell it to you, don't you understand? Get out of here!"
In the crowded toy store, the store owner raised his broom and tried to drive Uzumaki Naruto away, as if the latter had some odor that made him feel sick.
Among the guests with children around, some of them were chuunin or below or civilians, they all showed bored eyes and hid aside to watch indifferently.
Several Jonin who knew Naruto's true identity frowned slightly, but in the end they didn't say anything and immediately left quickly with their children.
Seeing that all the really wealthy customers had left, the shopkeeper's face turned red with anger.
He stared at Naruto with the eyes of an infectious disease patient, and shouted at the child who was standing motionless at the door of the store: "If you don't get out, I'm really going to take action!"
But he didn't know that in Naruto's heart, the hatred in the shop owner's eyes obviously caused more damage than the raised broom.
In the midst of dozens of eyes full of ridicule, hatred or indifference, Uzumaki Naruto felt as if countless cold hands were grabbing the joints of his body, but his throat seemed to be wrapped with hot coals, blocking him.
All grievances.
For a long time, Uzumaki Naruto skillfully adjusted his mood and forced out a forced smile.
"I, I can pay you double. Triple is fine too."
He took out a lot of coins from his pockets, held them in both hands and handed them to the shop owner, who was looking at them coldly.
This is all money that he can't usually spend.
Naruto opened his clear sky-blue eyes and looked hopefully at the dark green frog wallet on the shelf next to him, with a hint of pleading in his tone: "Please sell me that wallet. I like it very much."
The frog wallet has a wide open red mouth, as if it can laugh loudly in any situation; and the bulging eyes are also very similar to the goggles Naruto wears on his head.
Because of this similarity, Naruto fell in love with that wallet at a glance and planned to give it to himself as a New Year's gift.
Before coming here, he thought that he had not appeared here for a long time, and maybe everyone had forgotten about him.
But the reality is cruel.
"You want this wallet, right?"
The shopkeeper didn't even look at the coins in Naruto's hand. He sneered, pinched the frog wallet, rounded his arms and threw it out the door, onto the busy street.
"Go out and pick it up!"
It’s just a small wallet. Even if it’s triple the price, how much is it worth?
But if this kid continues to stay here, he really won't be able to sell anything.
Might as well lure him out.
Naruto turned his head in panic, and followed the wallet as it fell into the snow outside the door.
He watched as the frog with its wide mouth was stepped on by a foot, and then kicked further away, and he seemed to hear a miserable croak in his ears.
At this moment, Uzumaki Naruto felt that his situation in the village was very similar to that wallet being kicked around, and his young heart was filled with ice.
He hurriedly ran out of the toy store, but tripped over the threshold again. The coins he held in his hands scattered like flowers and were buried in the thin snow on the street.
"Hahahaha, so stupid!"
"A monster can actually trip? It's so funny."
"Is he the one who says he wants to become Hokage all the time?"
"Really, why didn't you just fall to death?"
The bad words stabbed into Naruto's back like knives, but he had neither the mind nor the time to deal with them.
【This is all my savings.】
Naruto wailed in his heart and crawled out of the toy store. His young body lay on the street, picking up the coins one by one from the feet of pedestrians, while keeping an eye on the people who had been kicked to the other side of the street.
, the frog wallet that got dirty.
Soon, after he collected all the coins around him, only one coin with a face value of 100 taels (equivalent to 60 yuan) was left lying in the middle of the street. The figures of passers-by were reflected on the portrait of the Daimyo of the Land of Fire.
The color also changes with the different clothing of pedestrians.
[With 100 taels, you can buy a box of miso-flavored cup noodles.]
Naruto got up from the ground, and while uttering apologies, he staggered through the gaps between pedestrians.
But when he was less than one meter away from the coin, the latter was picked up by two slender fingers.
It was a child of eight or nine years old. He held the coin in his hand and then turned his eyes to Naruto.
"Thanks……"
Just when Naruto thought that the other party was about to return the money to him, the child made a face at him, and then escaped into the dense crowd, out of Naruto's sight.
"Hey, that's——"
Naruto stood there in a daze, his pants below the knees were covered with a thin layer of snow, his two red hands were dirty, but he didn't know where to put them.
Fully feeling the various looks that people on the street cast at him, Naruto finally lowered his head, crossed the street amidst the murmurs of complaints and curses, and picked up the "scarred" item at the door of the Taiyaki shop opposite the toy store.
"Wallet.
The frog was laughing, and Naruto wanted to cry, but he didn't want to cry here.
Otherwise, you will only receive more cruel ridicule.
"You are actually in pain too."
The frog was still laughing. Naruto zipped up his wallet and it closed its mouth.
"It's better to go back and eat first."
He muttered to himself, patted the shoe prints on his wallet with his hand, and as soon as he turned his head, he bumped into a body radiating intense heat.
【Oops.】
Uzumaki Naruto raised his head in panic, but met eyes as unfathomable as the sea, but unexpectedly did not feel any malice.
The intense heat from the other person's body rushed toward him, washing away the coldness that welled up in his heart.
Naruto felt that this boy who was slightly taller than him looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen him before.
Until Uchiha Giyuu took the lead to speak out.
"Oh, it is indeed you."
【I haven’t seen him for so long that I thought he was no longer in the village.】
As Yiyong spoke, he spread out his free hand and found a coin with a face value of 100 taels lying inside.
"Is this yours?"
"Hey, this..."
"I saw it and took it back for you."
Yongyong's words are concise and to the point.
He said almost nothing, and only showed the Uchiha emblem on his back to the child who took Naruto's coin, and the child obediently presented the coin to him.
"Thank you."
The moment Naruto reached out to take the coin, he suddenly remembered!
He remembered where he had heard this sound!
He will never remember it wrong, because what happened that day is still one of the warm memories that cheers him up when he is alone.
"It's you!"
The last bit of chill in Naruto's body was dissipated and turned into an inexplicable excitement, sinking into his limbs like wine.
In the disgusted eyes of passers-by, he grabbed Yiyong's hand that hadn't been taken back and said, "You were the one who gave me the mask last time. It was in the woods over there in the village. Do you still remember me? You should remember me.
Bar?"
His sky-blue eyes were filled with passion, and he had never been more eager to be remembered than now.
"Um."
Yiyong nodded and glanced at the grabbed hand with some embarrassment, fearing that the high temperature around him would burn the child.
"Yes, I'm sorry, I was too excited."
Naruto took his hands away embarrassedly, and then noticed that his hands were all dirty now.
Looking at Yiyong who was almost spotless, with not even a single extra wrinkle on his clothes, he suddenly felt a little ashamed of himself.
"Well, my name is Uzumaki Naruto."
He lowered his head and was a little shy. After all, except for Uncle Hands, Sister Changpu, the old man who often came to see him, and the confused girl with white eyes, he had almost never communicated with anyone who was not hostile to him.
"Last time you left suddenly, and I didn't even ask for your name. Can you tell me your name?"
"Uchiha Giyu."
Yiyong said his name, but this time there was some emphasis in it.
Because it wasn't long ago that he truly accepted his identity with peace of mind.
"Haha, I just remember that girl said the word Uchiha or something..."
To be continued...