Chapter 127: [127]:Mizuki
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Uzumaki Naruto...the one who was the Jinchūriki of the Kyūbi no Yōko. That was where it all came down to. Iruka had lost his parents to the beast and much to his current shame; he had indeed hated Naruto when he had entered the Academy. But over the years, the ball of energy that was Naruto had worn down and dispersed that hatred. The boy wore his heart on his sleeve and Iruka was an experienced enough chunin to have a reasonably good enough ability to read people to see that the boy was about as much the Kyūbi as a satsuma was at being an apple.
This made Mizuki's constant sabotaging of Naruto's skills worse in Iruka's eyes, as he could see in Mizuki's actions what he would have become had he not forced himself to be a consummate professional when at the Academy and given the boy a chance to prove himself rather than letting his hatred blind him.
"Ok Sakura-chan. Please use the Kawarimi no Jutsu on that stump over there." He nodded at the wooden block of wood that Mizuki had pulled out of a cupboard when they had returned to the classroom.
Nodding, Sakura ran through the five handsigns of the technique, Tiger, Boar, Ox, Dog and Snake. "Kawarimi no Jutsu!"