A/N: I know this one is short, but the general idea of this letter inspired this series. As I was reading through the file that contains these letters, I noticed some errors. Since the program I use to type 90% of these doesn't always puffy in the word I typed, I have to act as my own beta. I noticed that these errors appeared in my works, so I'm going to go back in and carefully edit them. I will also add indents. Though I Ann new tho this site, I am not new to writing. I value my work.
Thank you,
Reader Umbreon (RU)
Dear Teme,
Ero-sennin is worried about me.
How long has it been since I last wrote a letter? Weeks, at least. Probably more like months. I've lost count of the days. Lately, the only thing I've been doing is training. The only time I get sleep is when my body shuts down. Jiriaya has been watching me more lately, I can tell. Suddenly, he isn't so interested in sneaking to the local bathhouse to watch the girls. I kept pushing myself to the breaking point anyway. The last time I was out, he brought me back to the hotel in the nearby town we are staying at. When I finally woke up, (After three days, apparently) Jiriaya broke down and lectures me.
He said that if I kept on this path, I would end up killing myself. What followed was one of the worst arguments we have had in a long time. Usually, after such an argument I stalk off to somewhere to train and blow off some steam. This time, however, Jiriaya stopped me. He had bandaged my hands which were torn up from the constant strain. He even went to the lengths of putting seals on them. After that, Jiriaya spent the next couple of days making sure I didn't do anything reckless.
Just yesterday I finally got the bandages off. Since Jiriaya still doesn't trust me to train by myself, I decided to write to you instead. Not
like you're going to ever read these, Bastard. I have to admit, I took that fight pretty hard, along with the realization that Ero-sennin didn't trust me much anymore. That old man is like a very close grandfather.
Well, I'm going to see if I can fix yet another mess I made.
Naruto
