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"Yaoyorozu, are you going to tell me why you called me out here?"
Naruto traced the flowery image on her pink cup of hot chocolate as Yaoyorozu fiddled with her hands. The scotching heat of the cup burned her hands and the blonde wondered whether the high temperature of her cup would help her keep grounded. She inhaled and exhaled, calming down her pounding heart, as her eyes continued to focus on the black-haired girl.
Not once since they entered her part-time job, did the girl look her in the eyes. She would look at the servers, who kept darting their eyes from her to the black-haired girl, or at the other customers. Not even when they ordered their perspective drinks, did her classmates focus her eyes on her. It seemed like she was guilty about something if you asked her.
"I have something to admit," her classmate admitted, picking up her tea cup. Yaoyorozu looked down at her tea cup for the longest time before looking back at her. "I overheard the conversation that you had with Bakugou after the practical exam."
The loud chatter and giggles from the other customers sounded muffled against her ears and Naruto took in a deep breath. Her stomach coiled with anger as her classmate looked at her with guilty eyes. Not even the sweet scent of her hot chocolate could help her calm down. Naruto knew she needed to calm down and identify her emotions before letting her mouth spill her thoughts.
She inhaled and exhaled as her classmate continued to stare at her with anxious eyes. A huge part of her wanted to whip her with her words but that would be cruel. The girl looked genuinely worried about her reaction if that little tremble on her back told her anything. Naruto combed through her long hair with her fingers, detangling any tangles in her hair.
"I never pictured you to be the type to listen in on a conversation," Naruto replied. She kept her tone as calm as she could make it but it was rather difficult when her whole body trembled with irritation. It was easy for her to lash out and accused people but that would break relationships. Naruto knew the only reason she was keeping calm was because of her memories.
She remembered the cruel glint in Ami's eyes as the girl accused her of being in love with Sasuke. You think Sasuke-kun will love someone like you? He only plays with you because he feels sorry for you. Children were cruel and Naruto could recall how Ami never understood that it had never been that kind of love between them. It always irritate her when people accused her without any facts.
It would make her a hypocrite to accuse the girl of being a busybody.
Yaoyorozu flinched and looked down at her hands before putting down her cup of tea. Black eyes shone with hesitance like she was trying to figure out how to explain things to her. Naruto knew it was a very much possible that was going through her head. Her classmate was always the type to think things through. Maybe a little bit too much if you asked her.
"I was worried about you," the older girl finally confessed. Naruto raised a single eyebrow and picked up her cup of hot chocolate, earning a nervous sigh from the girl. "It is just that you looked so nervous when you called Bakugou out and well he looked furious. I guess I was concern that he was going to say something that will hurt your feelings."
The blonde shivered, not because of the words touched her cold heart, but because she could feel the cold chill coming from the air condition that sat on the back wall. She rubbed the sides of her arm, looked down at her feet before looking back at Yaoyorozu. Black eyes could not meet her, flashing with a fear that Naruto knew all too well from her childhood.
She didn't know anything about Yaoyorozu except the girl came from a rich family and she was really smart. Yaoyorozu was also probably one of the kindest people she knew. The vice-president offered to tutor anyone who struggled with their subjects, looking so happy to help them. As long as she recalled these little details, Naruto knew she could push back the dark voice inside of her head.
The voice that would always say:
This person doesn't really care about me. They want something from me.
If she recalled every example and reminded herself that people could care about her without wanting something, then maybe that voice would go away from her mind. Hopefully if she kept doing it then that negative voice would go away forever.
"You must have a lot of questions for me," Naruto finally said once she managed to fight against her natural urge. She plastered on a smile, picked up the cup of hot chocolate and took a small sip of her chocolately drink. Her tongue burned but the whiskered teen did not allow herself to flinch.
Yaoyorozu blinked, relaxed her shoulders and nodded. "I tried to do some research on it but nothing came up."
The whiskered teen hummed and took another sip of her drink. That piece of information did not surprise her, not when she knew the Elemental Countries were hidden for a reason. The people from the Elemental Countries would have stayed ignorant at the possibility of countries filled with so many Kekkei Genkei if it was not for her.
"Ask away." Naruto put down her drink and tried to muster what she hoped to be an encouraging smile. "I will try to answer your questions as best as I can but I won't make any promises. I don't have all the facts and if I don't feel comfortable answering the question then I won't answer it."
Yaoyorozu nodded, not looking too put off at the fact that Naruto admitted that she would not answer questions that made her uncomfortable, and picked up her own tea cup. Only thoughtfulness and consideration flashed through her eyes as the black-haired girl stared down at her cup.
"How are you a kunoichi?" The 15-year-old girl traced her tea cup and a small frown graced her lips. "From what I remember and my own research, shinobis are extinct."
Naruto stretched her arms before interlocking her fingers together. She kept her eyes focused on her classmate as she rested her head on the top of her interlocked hands. "Maybe in Japan but they definitely still exist where I come from."
Black eyes widened at those words and the blonde waited for the inevitable question to come out of those lips. It was getting rather exhausting for her to explain the whole thing to people if you asked Naruto. Maybe it would be a good idea for her to just make a small movie clip to explain the whole thing to them. The blonde nodded and decided that she would do it after they were done with the whole school trip.
"Where do you come from?"
Naruto paused. It had been easy for the girl to explain things when she had no idea of who her father was but now it made things complicated. Must she explain about how her father had been born here and then went to Konoha? The blonde guessed that these details were not very important to explain it. Even though her father was born in Japan, she was still born in the Elemental Countries.
She might speak the same language as them and had some roots here, but it did not change the fact she grew up in the Elemental Countries.
"I come from one of the many countries in the Elemental Countries," she finally answered. The blonde sat up straight in her seat and scanned the café. Not a single one of them looked at her except for one person. The male did not look familiar to her since he had light blue hair and brown eyes but Naruto felt her stomach coiled with unease.
She could definitely sense chakra coming from the man and it felt very much familiar to her, but Naruto couldn't remember where she felt the chakra before. Naruto knew she should confront the man but it would make Yaoyorozu wonder what was wrong. It was going to be fine because if that man tried to do anything to her classmate then Naruto would deal with him.
Yaoyorozu cleared her throat. "I never heard of them."
"I would be worried if you found out about them without confronting me," Naruto darted her eyes to the man with light blue-hair and then looked back at her classmates. "The Elemental Countries are hidden from the rest of the world for a reason."
Naruto waited for the girl to ask what could be the reason but her classmate only looked down at her cup. A wrinkle formed on her forehead like the black-haired girl was trying to figure out the reason. Could the girl even figure out why? Maybe. Yaoyorozu was very much analytical and maybe there might be something in her behaviour that could make her see reason.
"I can't figure out how you can hide so many countries," Yaoyorozu admitted.
Picking up her cup of hot chocolate, Naruto exhaled. "There are a bunch of illusions in place alongside a couple of seals."
She saw the curiosity and wonder shining through the girl's eyes at those words and the blonde wished that she could explain the whole thing. But it would be rather difficult to elaborate, Naruto realized as she took another sip of her drink. Unlike Bakugou, Midoriya and Shouto, the girl was the type that needed a very well-detailed explanation.
The girl knew that she was incapable of doing that and Yaoyorozu must have realized it too or why else would she look so disappointed? Black eyes regarded her carefully and Naruto wondered what was going through her mind. If it was Shouto then it would be easy for her to read the girl but Yaoyorozu was very good in keeping her thoughts to herself.
In a way, her classmate reminded her of Hinata but that was perhaps where all similarities between them ended.
"Gaara-san and his siblings are shinobi as well."
The confidence in Yaoyorozu startled her, making her blink her eyes at how quickly the black-haired girl figured things out. Then again, Naruto guessed that introducing the Suna Siblings as childhood friends would have been all the facts that Yaoyorozu needed to figure things out. A sigh escaped her lips and the blonde slowly nodded her head.
Naruto only heard the distinct chatter of the customers and smelt only the heavenly scent of her boss cooking as the black-haired girl continued to stare at her. The blonde knew what would be the next question. It would be logical for her classmate to ask where those three came from in the Elemental Countries or even what brought the four of them here.
"You called yourself a jinchuuriki," Yaoyorozu said softly as if they were broaching a forbidden topic that could never be heard. Naruto guessed it was both a sensitive and forbidden topic since she always wanted to keep it a secret. "What does that mean exactly, Uzumaki? I really don't like what that word means."
She knitted her eyebrows together. "Why?"
Her classmate stared at her for the longest time, looking like she did not know whether she was being serious or not about not understanding her dislike. Naruto really did not understand. She knew why she hated the term but it was an absolute mystery for her when it came to Yaoyorozu.
"It makes you sound like you aren't human," Yaoyorozu hissed, black eyes darting to the sides before focusing on her. Naruto noticed with wide eyes that her classmate trembled and looked like she was about to cry. The blonde felt sweat coming out of her palms and immediately wiped it against her dress before grabbing the napkin on the table. She handed it to the girl. "It makes it seem like you are a sacrifice."
No words came out of her mouth as Naruto stared at the girl. She should give the girl a smile and say that it was not the case. That it was not that bad but the words couldn't come out of her mouth. It was like it was stuck in her mouth, unwilling to budge from its spot. The whiskered teen took a deep breath and swallowed down the lump.
"In a way, I guess we were sacrificed," Naruto finally said. She forced herself to give a smile and pushed back the memories and hurtful thoughts that came to her mind. This was difficult for her to think positive but she had to do it for the sake of her classmate. It was important for her to overcome the pain that twisted her heart. "In order to protect our homes, they offer our life to the beast in exchange for power."
Yaoyorozu frowned. "Beast?"
"Yeah I have a beast made out of a special energy called Chakra inside of me," the blonde took a sip of her hot chocolate and tried to reign in the bitterness that wanted to come out of her mouth. Naruto knew there was a time for her to be bitter and this was not the time to be bitter. "The beast is a really powerful being and I'm the one who can wield him."
The words did not sound bitter to her ears nor furious, which were the exact feelings that stirred inside of her stomach. It had been three years and yet she could not let go of this burning anger inside of her whenever she talked about the beast. It was probably wrong of her to cling to this anger but it suffocated her at times.
She didn't know how to conquer it without telling her therapist at one point.
"When did you become a Jinchuuriki?" Yaoyorozu asked softly. "I know from your conversation that you haven't always known about it."
Naruto put down the cup of hot chocolate and relaxed her head against the table, blue eyes locked onto the concern eyes of her classmate. They came this far when she thought about it, so it would only be right to admit this fact. "I was a baby."
A look of horror washed over Yaoyorozu's face, almost making the blonde quirk her lips into a smile but Naruto couldn't muster a smile. All she could do was stare blankly at the painted yellow walls of the café. Yellow walls were meant to make people happy or so her boss explained when Naruto once asked her why she painted the walls in that colour.
It was probably one of the few times that she actually questioned her boss.
"Is this the same for the other jinchuuriki?"
The whiskered teen shrugged her shoulders and admitted. "I don't know about Kumo but for me and Gaara? That was the case."
Black eyes widened and Naruto only took another sip of her drink. It was wrong of her to spill this piece of information to her classmate but she realized the girl was different from the people of Konoha and Suna. The black-haired girl looked like she wanted to cry when she explained why she didn't like it.
If she hadn't pushed the voice into the back of her head then Naruto wouldn't have told her. If she went with her normal line of thinking then the blonde would think Yaoyorozu was acting, but there was no reason for her to act. Honestly nothing really came to her mind so that was why she told her classmate.
"Gaara-san too?" Yaoyorozu frowned and looked crestfallen at her words. She overheard her conversation with Bakugou, which meant she heard about the common theme of not having it easy as they grew up. The black-haired girl took several sips of her tea but Naruto noticed the tremble in her hands. "He is like you too? Did he also have a difficult childhood?"
Naruto nodded. "His childhood was a lot more difficult than my own childhood but that is all I can say."
That was the end of their conversation but the blonde knew even as they talked about what to bring for their lodge training that the knowledge that Gaara had an even more difficult childhood weighed on the girl's mind.
Naruto guessed it would be a long time before she would find out whether or not she had done the right thing and answered Yaoyorozu's question on Gaara.
"You rarely come to my office when you have free time, Tomo-chan."
The grey-haired woman kept quiet as her violet eyes focused on her favourite coffee drink. From behind the door, Tomoyo could practically hear Eisuke's sidekicks gossiping about her appearance in the office. Most of them did not know about the fact that she was their boss cousin. The only one who knew was his girlfriend.
She tore her eyes away from her drink and locked eyes with the concern eyes of her cousin. Eisuke leaned forward in his seat with a frown playing on his lips. His eyebrows knitted together into one line, almost looking like one large unibrow. The concern made her heart pounded against her chest as irritated turquoise eyes flashed before her own eyes.
"I think you are right," Tomoyo cleared her throat as Eisuke eyebrows shot up to his hairline. He was going to get wrinkles at this rate if you asked her and the girl exhaled. "We should look for Touya and find out what happened to him after he escaped from his hell."
Eisuke did not say anything. He did not tell her with that loud voice of his that he was right and she was wrong, which brought a small frown on Tomoyo's lips. As little children, her older cousin would have been pleased over the fact that he had been the smarter one between them. But the man only frowned at her.
His green eyes regarded her, looking for some sign on her change of heart and Tomoyo opened her drink. The coffee tin whistled and wheezed before finally dying down. Taking a deep breath, the girl sipped her coffee. The sugar clouded her mind, overwhelming her sense and calmed down her shaky nerves.
"Tomoyo, what made you change your mind?" Eisuke reminded her. He removed himself from his seat and made his way to the fridge, his red cloak dragging behind him. It was a new addition to his usual outfit, Tomoyo realized as she took another sip of her drink. He knelt down and swung open the door. "You stopped me from looking for him."
The grey-haired girl shut her eyes. Anyone else would think her cousin was accusing her of stopping him but Tomoyo knew the man was only stating the fact. A fact that she could never deny and she had a good reason to stop him. It was selfish of her but she wanted her cousin to begin accomplishing his dream.
She did not want to see him waste his whole life chasing after their friend and Tomoyo wanted to believe Touya was stronger then what Eisuke believed. But she forgot that there had always been two sides at war when it came to the red-haired boy. There was the good Touya, who loved so intensely, and then there was the dark Touya who clung to his pain in an unhealthy way.
Inhaling, Tomoyo licked her dried lips. "I saw someone who looked like Touya and acted exactly like him."
Green eyes widened and the woman knew the silent question running through his mind. She should answer the question that went through his mind but the intern only kept quiet. How could she answer the question? No matter how she looked at it, Tomoyo knew her cousin was going to jump to conclusion on her feelings towards their childhood friend.
"Do you only think it was Touya?" Eisuke finally asked. "Do you believe that person can't be Touya?"
The birds chirped and sang such a beautiful melody but it did nothing to calm down the storm of emotions inside of Tomoyo. Her heart pounded against her chest like it wanted to jump away as irritated turquoise eyes. The woman wondered whether to admit her suspicion out loud and knew that Eisuke missed the older boy as much as she did.
She inhaled and traced the logo of the coffee tin. "I think he is Touya."
Eisuke nodded and almost smiled at her declaration but then it faded like he knew that this was not the time for them to be happy. If that scarred man looked like he ate three meals a day and didn't have such horrible scars, then Tomoyo would have been happy when she delivered the news to him.
"You are always certain when it comes to Touya," her cousin commented with a frown playing on his lips. "But you aren't certain that the man that you saw is Touya."
Tomoyo kept quiet as the hero began to pace back and forth, fingers running through his hair. That habit of his told the young woman that her cousin was trying to sort through his thoughts. He occasionally shot a glance at her and at the final glance, the 22-year-old woman understood what her cousin was now demanding from her.
"I'm only doubtful because the guy has black hair and Touya has red hair," Tomoyo admitted. She took another sip of her coffee and poked her tongue against her cheeks. "It could be hair dye but I can't confirm he is Touya since we don't know what happened to him after he escaped from his home. Even if my gut screams that he is Touya, I can't go around accusing him without evidence. It is illogical!"
Even to her own ears, it sounded hysterical. Tomoyo knew she should keep her emotions in check like she always did but Touya was her friend. The first friend she made outside of the clan and the first person she used her Kekkei Genkei on him. A loud sigh came out of Eisuke's mouth, forcing the woman to swirl her head at her cousin. She raised an eyebrow at him.
The red-haired man shrugged. "It is always about logic and reason with you."
"And you always follow your emotions," she grumbled. "How many times have you been nearly sued by some villain because you badly injured them? If it wasn't for our family seals then you would be broke by now."
Eisuke grimaced. "I don't understand why the law has to protect them too. Some of those criminals were trafficking little children and you expect me to keep my temper in check? There are just some villains that deserve a good old punch on the face."
When her older cousin talked like that, Tomoyo could really see the resemblance between Kenji and Eisuke. The male was well-known for being nice, kind and keeping his temper mostly-in-check but it was a whole different story when it came to his work. How many times had he called her to do a quick patch up on his victims? Or tell his girlfriend on how to keep the man under control.
"Why don't you argue with the Hero Safety Commission?" Tomoyo asked, shaking her head. Her blood boiled with irritation as she recalled the punishment that Eisuke and Hawks received for 'allowing' those Iwa Nins escaped. They suspended her cousin's activity and scolded the two of them even though they helped rescue her and the children.
Eisuke grunted. "If I know I will win the fight and I won't be drag by the mud by them in the media then I would do it."
She thinned her lips into a very thin line. The whole hero business was not something Tomoyo knew a lot about, even though Eisuke was her cousin and Fuyumi was one of her best friend. Why would she know a lot about it? Her dream was to be an amazing doctor that would surpass her own mother in the medical field. There was no reason for her to learn a lot about it.
Minutes passed before her cousin returned back to the original topic at hand.
"Tomoyo, if I find out that Touya has a normal job and has a girlfriend then what will you do?" Eisuke asked. He looked at her with careful eyes and the woman felt her eyebrows twitched at what he implied. Did he think she was obsessed? Or some heartbroken little fool? Just because she did not agree to his blind dates, did not mean anything.
She clenched her jaws together and exhaled. "Then I'm happy for him but my gut is telling me that the impulsive fool is going to do something impulsive again! Something tells me that he is going to do something self-destructive again. What do we do if he does something self-destructive?"
Her shoulders trembled as bright, happy turquoise flashed through her eyes. They were soon replaced with irritated turquoise eyes that radiated with so much hatred. Tomoyo knew she could be wrong but when that man looked at her, she recalled how Touya had the same hate whenever he looked at Endeavour. She would never blame him for hating Endeavour nor did she think he was a terrible person for never forgiving the man.
What worried her was that he was going to channel that anger into something self-destructive.
"Then we stop him, Tomoyo," her cousin declared quietly. "If Touya is going to do something stupid then I will bring him to you and you talk some sense into him. Between the two of us, you are the one that could reason with him."
Tomoyo did not smile at those words and prayed to God that she was wrong when it came to the man. She wanted him to be happy and safe, not doing something that would only bring him and his siblings pain. Her hand trembled as Eisuke offered her a warm smile like he did as children.
"I'm going to help you find him."
This wish was not only his to bear after all.
The Chakra Chains felt heavy against her hands.
Naruto grunted and looked down at the very first chain that she finally managed to make after two whole months of training with Akira. They looked so much like the chains used to anchor ships, except it was slightly larger and had an unnatural silver glow to it. She gave it a strong tug, noting the durability of the chain. Even with such strong pressure, the links did not break or crack.
It was a very strong tool but it was also rather strange too if you asked her. The chains looked like metal but it certainly did not have the same cold feel that a metal would have. Naruto did not know how to describe it except that it felt like what chakra would feel like if it was solid. It was alive, buzzing with chakra and the whiskered teen darted her eyes to Akira.
The elderly woman looked at her with knowing eyes. "It feels strange to know that your chakra made those chains, doesn't it?"
That was a rather large understatement if you asked Naruto. These chains had been moulded from her chakra and that made it a part of her. Would it be right to call it like a piece of her heart? What could these chains do? They could bind people, which was very important for her career when the whiskered teen thought about it.
"It isn't easy for me to move these chains even though they are made from my chakra," Naruto replied. She tossed the chain to the target post, trying and failing to get it to wrap around the wooden post. A scowl played on her lips and the girl knitted her eyebrows together. "And the chain I made seem to be way bigger than the ones that you made."
Akira smiled and ruffled her hair before looking straight at the fallen chains that laid only few centimetres away from the target. Naruto watched as whip-like chains came out of the woman's torso, wrapping itself around the target post. There must have been several chains which was different from the one chain that Naruto barely managed to create.
"It looks different because the chain came from your chakra," the elderly woman tugged on the chain and the target post came flying straight towards them. It sunk a few centimetres away from them and Naruto crawled closer to the target post. "It is unique to you. No two people have the same chakra signature and the same goes for our chains."
The wind caressed Naruto's face as she picked up the chain wrapped around the target post. Unlike her own chakra chain, the blonde could not hear any buzz from it. She could feel how the material of the chain were similar to her own but felt more fiery than her own chain. It burned her hand and the blonde dropped the chain, keeping her face blank as the crash echoed throughout the training ground.
"So every chain will look different?" Naruto asked.
A smile graced Akira's lips and the woman nodded. Despite the fact that the woman must be nearing her 90s, the woman still walked with the strength of a woman in her 50s as she walked closer to the target post. The jinchuuriki wondered if she would still have the same strength as her distant relative if she ever reached her age or if she would be as feeble as some of the elderly women that crossed the streets.
The chains rustled again as Akira untangled the chains from the target post. "Every chain will look different but they all have the same properties. These chains doesn't just bind to your target but it can be used to make a barrier and can bind a person's chakra."
Blue eyes widened at those words before looking down at the huge chain that laid on the ground. Naruto could see a lot of benefits with these chains from pranking to even capturing her own opponents. The chains that she made for the exam hadn't been made from her own chakra and had to be reinforced with seals.
There would be no need for her chains.
"So what is the next step now that I know how to make chains?" Naruto picked up her own chain and flickered her eyes to Akira. The elderly woman hummed and regarded the chain in her hand with careful consideration. The only sound that could be heard were the barks of the neighbourhood dogs and the wails of a few babies.
After a couple of minutes, Akira nodded her head. "We are going to have you practice making these chains until it becomes muscle memory for you."
"Can I use Shadow Clones?" Naruto tilted her head and crossed her legs together as her eyes darted to the chain. That was a solution she thought of using when it came to Senjutsu and Jiraiya told her that it was rather an ingenious idea. Maybe the same solution could be used for the chains, she realized.
The elderly woman sighed. "If it was that easy then I would have told you to use that technique, but for some rather odd reason shadow clones can't make chakra chains."
"So I have to do things the old fashioned way?" Akira nodded and Naruto groaned. It was not like she did not mind doing things the old fashioned way, but muscle memory implied that she would have to do it every minute of the day. She dug her hand against her head and took several deep breaths.
The elderly woman patted Naruto on the back. "I will make it enjoyable for you when you come again, next week."
The blonde paused at the clan elder's words and slumped her shoulders as she realized she never told Akira about her trip. It was not because she didn't want to tell her but because Naruto forgot about it. With so many things happening, the blonde failed to remember to tell the woman that she would be in camp for a whole week.
"I won't be in next week," Naruto looked down at her hands. "There is going to be a training camp for school and it is compulsory that I go."
Naruto waited for Akira to get irritated over the fact that she didn't tell her, but the old woman only nodded. Her violet eyes watched her impassively. The old woman shook her head before looking up at the sky. It was a sunny day with the sun shinning with all of its glory and burning everything in its path. But if the elderly woman felt uncomfortable then she didn't show it.
"Training?" Akira mused. "What kind of training are they going to do when their Kekkei Genkei are different? What do you plan to train on when you get there? Have the teachers told you anything?"
The young girl shook her head. It was a wonder but from her understanding in the Sports Festival, Kekkei Genkei was like any muscle and needed to be trained to make it effective. Until that point, Naruto had been blind at this knowledge. Hinata-chan never told her this and well Sasuke only activated the Sharingan after the Wave Mission.
"I don't know what they will train me on," Naruto admitted. She looked at the floating clouds and sighed. "Maybe taijutsu but I don't think that there is anyone who can really handle my punches at a 100%. Ninjutsu is possible since I can just try to make a new jutsu."
The woman hummed a small tune and stroke her chin. Her violet eyes regarded her with a thoughtful look as if she was trying to figure out a solution to hers dilemma. Those impassive eyes flickered to the chain and it was not long before a smile broke out on the woman's face. Naruto felt her stomach churned with anxiety because that smile did not make her feel at ease.
"I have a suggestion for you and your teachers in Yuuei," the old woman finally said. Naruto blinked and tilted her head as the woman materialized another set of chains. She swung the chain at the bird, wrapping it tightly before bringing it straight to the ground. The bird struggled and let out a little cry as it tried to get out of the chain. Akira regarded her with careful eyes. "Why don't you try to learn how to target moving objects."
The bird let out its final cry as Naruto gawked at the elderly woman.
She had to wonder if the woman forgot that she only just learnt how to make the chains.
Author Note: So the next chapter begins the forest lodge camp. We also see in this chapter Naruto and Yaoyorozu getting closer. Tomoyo and Eisuke working together to find out where Touya is and Akira explaining chains to Naruto. Here are a couple of questions for you:
Question 1: What do you think of the whole talk between Momo and Naruto?
Question 2: What do you think of all the original characters brought into the series?
Please do tell me of your thoughts of this chapter.