I Heard the Opposite of Their True Feelings and Thought I Was Hated, So I Ran Away [Naruto]

[Second-Run Best Friend from Konoha × First-Run Savior, Second-Run Slacker You]

You are an utterly ordinary orphan from Konoha. Your goal in life is to live a simple, uneventful life. Since you have a little talent, you enter the Ninja Academy, go through school and exams one step at a time, pass the graduation test, and then spend the rest of your life as a genin.

Although you go through a lot along the way, and Konoha even comes close to being destroyed at one point, all in all your life is still pretty perfect. And that's not even mentioning all your wonderful friends. Their abilities are leagues beyond yours, but you treasure these hard-won friendships.

Until one day, you are suddenly bound to a mind-reading System, and from then on you can see what the people around you are thinking.

Excited, you decide to find out what your friends are thinking.

The first friend you run into is Sasuke, who seems cold but is warm-hearted inside.

Before you can even greet him, you see the words above his head: "What a pain. Is that useless girl going to greet me again?"

U-useless? Your raised hand freezes in midair.

Could there be something wrong with this System? Thinking this, you go find your second friend, Naruto, who is usually cheerful and lively.

Right! This time it shouldn't be wrong!

The boy's clear blue eyes turn toward you, and at the same time his thoughts appear above his head: "Ugh... Just seeing her annoys me. Why is she always looking at me?"

A-annoys you? Your smile freezes.

On the day you got the mind-reading System, you went to visit all the friends you were close to.

"What a pain."

"She has no sense of boundaries."

"I'm definitely not friends with someone like that."

You finally understand. It turns out you aren't as popular as you thought. Maybe... you shouldn't stay in Konoha anymore. A few days later, you submit a request to the Hokage to leave the village and travel, then depart Konoha before anyone has time to react.

The world outside is much more interesting than you expected. Best of all, you meet a great companion named Deidara. More importantly, his thoughts are friendly from the very first moment he sees you!

Looks like you've found a true friend!

But why did he start getting annoyed with you later?

"I hate the way she looks at me."

Since things have come to this, you might as well leave first, since you know your place. But just as you're about to go, your old friends from Konoha suddenly appear in front of you.

Even that mute System hurriedly pops up.

[Oops, I made a mistake! You activated the opposite mind-reading feature!]

Huh?

Following the System's instructions, you activate the real mind-reading feature.

In that instant, you see the heads of your friends who came to bring you back filled with tightly packed thoughts.

"Don't leave me don't leave me don't leave me don't leave me don't leave me don't leave me don't leave me don't leave me don't leave me don't leave me don't leave me don't leave me don't leave me don't leave me don't leave me don't leave me don't leave me don't leave me don't leave me don't leave me don't leave me."

You: Uh, is it still in time to run away?

Theme: Take your feelings seriously