Discussion: How the Nine-Tails led Naruto astray

The truth is that Naruto is a very important person.

Why do I feel sorry for Hinata?

Because Naruto felt that he didn't like Hinata but he insisted on confessing to her, which led to Hinata's misunderstanding and fainted because of shyness.

Then why do I feel sorry for Sakura?

Because I didn't like Sakura but insisted on pestering Sakura to say that I liked her? And this joke was said by Sakura seriously?

Is it because of this?

Naruto was a little confused: "It seems... not quite the same."

"Then you need to think about why and where these two are different." Kurama said with a smile, "You feel sorry for a girl you like and confess to her, and you still feel sorry for a girl you don't like and confess to her."

"What is the difference between these two apologies for you? If you figure this out, then you may be able to learn Rasengan in the next two days."

Naruto always fails in practicing Rasengan because his thoughts are not smooth. Just like in the original work, when stimulated by Tsunade, Naruto put aside all distractions and only thought about Rasengan. As a result, he completed the final stage of Rasengan practice in a week.

Although it was completed with the help of the shadow clone, it took a week. You should know that the difficulty of practicing Rasengan is not a joke.

Chakra is produced by the combination of spiritual energy and physical energy. If you are injured or your thoughts are not smooth, it will affect the refinement of chakra. Naruto is in this state now. If he doesn't figure out his thoughts, it will be impossible for Naruto to do Rasengan alone in a short time.

Naruto stopped and stared at the ground.

The sun had risen halfway, and the remaining half was hidden below the horizon. On the ground were the shadows of himself and Hinata, which were very long.

After a long trance, Naruto suddenly looked up and looked ahead as if he couldn't believe it: "I... don't like Sakura?"

"So, how did you come to this conclusion?" Kurama asked with a smile.

Naruto was silent for a while, and subconsciously turned his head to look at Hinata behind him. Hinata was still in a coma at this moment, and the blush on her face was slightly less.

He bent down slightly to let Hinata lie on his back more comfortably, and then slowly spoke: "I don't know, but Hinata said before, 'To like someone is to want to look at him, to want to keep following his footsteps, to keep chasing him', I... don't seem to have that idea."

Naruto was a little entangled: "Thinking carefully, it seems that the person I want to look at is Sasuke, the person I want to keep up with is also Sasuke, I want to surpass Sasuke, keep getting stronger, I hope I can stand by his side until he recognizes me."

"Are you trying to say that you like Sasuke?" Kurama was full of question marks.

"No." Naruto shook his head and turned to look at Hinata, "I just want to say that Hinata's 'like' seems to be different from my 'like', but I can understand what Hinata means."

"Want to look at each other, because you care about each other, want to follow each other all the time, because you don't want to be left behind, want to catch up with each other, because you want to get the recognition of each other, isn't this... how Sakura has always been when facing Sasuke?"

"So? You know Sakura likes Sasuke." Kurama is also a little confused now, and has no idea what Naruto is talking about.

"Yes." Naruto's face became a little gloomy, "Because... I don't have such a person in my heart."

"Huh~" Kurama seemed to understand a little.

Naruto knew what it felt like to like someone, but at the same time he also knew that he didn't have such a person in his heart. If he liked Sakura, he should have such feelings, but he didn't. Instead, he felt sorry.

So Naruto began to doubt himself and doubt whether he really liked Sakura.

"So, the conclusion is that you don't like Sakura?" Kurama asked again.

Naruto didn't answer, his face was a little gloomy.

Suddenly, Hinata, who was lying on Naruto's back, moved a little. Naruto turned his head and saw Hinata opening her blank eyes and looking at Naruto who was carrying her.

"Naruto-kun?" Hinata's memory was confused for a moment, and then the next second, she suddenly remembered something. That scene was deeply engraved in her DNA.

She opened her mouth and her whole face turned red at the speed of light, like a cooked crayfish, extremely tempting.

She was about to faint. In fact, she was ready to faint when the picture appeared in her mind, but before she fainted,

In a second, she saw the dimness on Naruto's face, an expression she had never seen on Naruto's face.

The red face faded a little, Hinata suppressed her shyness, and plucked up the courage to ask: "Naruto-kun, what's wrong with you?"

She subconsciously tightened her hands, but unconsciously hugged Naruto, and her whole body pressed against Naruto. She suddenly found herself on Naruto's back.

No, she was going to faint again.

No, she couldn't faint yet.

So, she could only hug Naruto dizzily, as if she was holding a rare treasure.

Naruto laughed, a little bitterly: "I just found that I might not like Sakura, so... I don't know what to do."

Hinata was slightly stunned, and then said softly: "Just possible?"

Naruto couldn't answer.

Hinata leaned close to Naruto's shoulder, buried her head gently in Naruto's neck, and whispered in Naruto's ear in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Then just pretend that you still like Sakura. When you don't have a goal, find a goal. When you don't have someone you like, find the person you like."

"Before that, just respect your heart." Hinata closed her eyes, "People can deceive themselves. It doesn't matter whether you like or not. Just care. Whether you like Sakura or not, you care about her, don't you?"

"Whether this care is friendship or love, your heart will tell you."

"Because when you deceive yourself, your heart will be very uneasy."

"If you don't like someone and still say you like her, isn't that deceiving?" Naruto didn't understand. Did he feel sorry because he felt that he was deceiving?

In this case, wouldn't the problem go back to the beginning?

"Just deceive yourself." Hinata replied softly, "Deceiving others will make you uneasy, deceiving yourself will also make you uneasy, but instead of letting them blame themselves for your uneasiness, at least when you deceive yourself, others can't feel it."

Kurouma opened his eyes and sighed silently: "Naruto, isn't this what you have done most since you were a child?"

Naruto suddenly opened his eyes wide.

Deceiving yourself when no one likes you, using pranks to attract other people's attention, with a smile on your face, but bitterness in your heart, from that time on, Naruto has been on the road of deceiving himself.

Kurouma spoke again: "Everyone has to tell hundreds of lies every day, and the most of them are lies to themselves."

"I will continue to lose weight tomorrow, I will go to code right away, I will only play one game, even, I got up, I went to bed, I took a shower, etc., every sentence is a lie, and you, Naruto, haven't you been accustomed to lying to yourself for a long time?"

Naruto was silent.

Hinata seemed to sense something. She gently opened her eyes, leaned on Naruto's shoulder and looked at his profile. Suddenly, she felt the same apology as Naruto, but not for liking him, but for... lying.

She didn't like lying, so...

"Naruto-kun, I like you."