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Red windows/panels - used for the [Absolute Choice] and other urgent messages related to it.

Green windows/panels - for announcing achievements like completing a quest or leveling up.

Blue windows/panels - others

"Hello" - normal talk

'Hello' - thoughts


Chapter 3 - Bitchslap

Sakura's fist descended and hit Naruto on the head. Nobody bat an eyelid - it was a regular scene. Every time the pink-haired girl saw Naruto, she would yell at him and then punch him. And Naruto, like a meek puppy, would take any punishment she dished out on him.

But then, the sound of a loud slap was heard over all the noise in the classroom, and a girl was sent flying from the last row all the way to the front of the class!

A silence that they could hear each other breathing was instilled when the students' eyes fell on the unconscious form of the girl in front of the class. It was none other than Haruno Sakura. What stunned everyone was the red-violet palm that was imprinted on her cheek...

With robotic motions, the students all looked to the back of the class. There, similarly stunned, a blonde boy was looking at his own inflamed and trembling right hand in disbelief.

'Oh shit! Oh shit!' was what Naruto kept exclaiming in his mind.

He had not wanted to slap her that hard. Although the red panel from [Absolute Choice] specified for him to slap Sakura as hard as he could, Naruto had intended to just slap her lightly...

'It's not like the damned [System] would find out about that, right?' - at least that's what he had thought back then.

But when the world regained its normal appearance, Naruto didn't understand what came over him. The pain of Sakura's fists was normally not enough to really hurt him. This time however, the pain was multiple times worse. Then, a feeling of anger seemingly out of his character took control over his body and he slapped her with a power he hadn't known he possessed.

Naruto looked at his trembling hand in stupefaction.

At the same time, once again, the world turned grey and still. A green window popped out in front of his eyes.

The task "[1] Slap Haruno Sakura back as hard as you can." has been completed.
Congratulations!

Then, two other windows, the first red and the second blue, appeared at the same time:

Consequences: reputation increased with Shikamaru Nara, Inuzuka Kiba and Uchiha Sasuke.
Rewards:
- EXP: 30

And, if that wasn't enough, one more panel popped out with the sound of a bell chiming. It was a blue one this time.

Due to his spectacular performance, the Player has acquired a new skill:
[Bitchslap] - Active skill. There is a 50% chance for the slaps sent by the player to stun when used against bitches.
Special effect: After using [Bitchslap], the fangirls will feel an instinctual fear of the Player.

Naruto felt the blood rushing to his face. Stupid he may be - that he admitted - but even he wasn't stupid enough to not understand when he was being made fun of.

"Bastard! Are you mocking me? You're definitely mocking me! I'll slap the shit out you if I'll ever get my hand on you!" Naruto screamed in anger.

There was one small detail Naruto had not noticed in his anger. Alright, probably not that small...by the time he began to shout, the world had already come to life again...and each one of his screamed words and profanities was heard by everyone.

If Naruto had not cursed his bad luck before, he certainly did when an enraged yell was heard from the door.

"NARUTOOO!"

It was the instructor, Naruto's bane - Umino Iruka.

'Oh crap!'

Scene break - 5 minutes later, inside the Hokage's office

Tightly tied up with a rope, Naruto was forced on his knees by an angry Iruka.

"Naruto! Tell Hokage-sama exactly what you've done!"

Sarutobi Hiruzen sat up from his seat and walked in front of his desk, closer to the academy instructor and his unruly student.

"Iruka, what happened to get you so angry?" he asked, his voice as calm as always.

At the Hokage's question, Iruka-sensei looked as if oil had just been poured on a raging fire.

"OI, NARUTO! TELL HIM RIGHT NOW!" the chunin yelled and stamped his foot in anger.

Naruto, however, looked at the ground. How could he explain them that some strange windows of light were forcing him to do weird things? At the same time, he was getting incensed at hearing his sensei's continuous screams.

"Oi, don't you dare ignore me, you brat!" Iruka shouted again and his hand went forward, intending to push the boy's shoulder.

*crunch*

"Gyaaah!"

With his sharper than average teeth, Naruto's jaws clamped on the unsuspecting older man's hand. It made a sound not unlike to that when a dog clamped its teeth.

"Aaargh! Let go! Let go you little shit!" Iruka screamed as if someone was cutting his flesh with a blade.

Naruto shook his head for a 'no', unknowingly almost tearing the skin on Iruka's hand.

Iruka was getting desperate. Naruto's bite was shockingly powerful! He could get out by knocking the boy out, but he didn't want to hurt him either. He didn't know what to do. The instructor was saved from his impasse though when Sarutobi's hand chopped Naruto on the head.

"Itai!" Naruto squealed in pain and rolled on the floor like a dying pig, releasing Iruka from his pain. "What the hell, old man!" he whined.

But Naruto swallowed his screams when he felt an ominous presence behind him. When he turned his head, he saw it: Iruka's eyes were spewing fire.

"S-Sensei?" Naruto stuttered.

Then, he looked back at the Hokage, forcing his big blue eyes to water. It was the most formidable puppy eyes he had ever made in his entire life.

"Oji-san, I-I'm scared." He whimpered.

Just when Iruka conjured a bamboo bat seemingly out of nowhere and was about enact his revenge, the Hokage pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed.

"Ayyy...that's enough, both of you!" Sarutobi chastised. "Tell me what happened already, I don't have all day."

Scene break

"Are you telling me that random windows of light appeared in front of your eyes today and yesterday and that they forced you to choose between burning down Mizuki's house and vandalizing the Hokage Monument, and between slapping Sakura back after hitting you and kissing Sasuke?"

The boy nodded, his face morphed into a cute expression of seriousness. The Hokage looked at Naruto with suspicious eyes.

"What proof do you have?"

"I... but I told you that when they appear nobody else can move at all!" Naruto yelled, his patience long since having reached its end.

"So there's no proof!" Iruka added rather gloatingly.

"Naruto-kun, are you sleeping properly? Do you have enough food?" the Hokage asked with concern.

The boy was thrown off by the seemingly out of the blue questions.

"What does that have to do with anything?"

But then, the boy's blue eyes widened as realization dawned on him.

"You think I'm crazy? Old man, I'm not crazy!"

"Naruto, that's not how you speak to the Hokage!" Iruka yelled for what seemed like the tenth time since they arrived at the Hokage's office.

But both Naruto and Sarutobi ignored the chunin. Naruto because he could care less about that and Sarutobi because a series of thoughts distracted him from the matter at hand.

A few moments passed in contemplation before the Hokage spoke:

"Naruto, from now, every day, at noon, you will go to my manor."

"What for?" the boy asked puzzled. Was this the old man's punishment? It looked a bit too light for him.

"Naruto, you want to become a shinobi, don't you?"

The boy nodded eagerly.

"Then, this is an order from the Hokage to his shinobi. And I, the Hokage, am giving you an order! From tomorrow onward, every day you will go to my manor and eat the food you are given. Do you understand that?"

"H-Hai!"

Naruto was baffled. What kind of punishment was that? Well, free food was always welcome.

'Wait...maybe the food is so bad that even dogs can't eat it, so my punishment is to eat it instead?'

The boy's complexion became green, making the Hokage even more certain that Naruto was ill from the lack of nutrition and care. The old shinobi planned on rectifying that. Even if leading the village took his entire day, he wouldn't neglect the Fourth's boy ever again.


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(No beta and I'm not an English native either. Sorry for any mistakes I may have made)