A.N/: Naruto belongs to Kishimoto Masashi, while Harry Potter belongs to J.K Rowling. This work was inspired by Tsume Yuki's "The biggest Toad in the Puddle".
Wanted to announce, that after reading a reviewer advice I noted I hadn't actually asked Tsume Yuki's permission to use her pront, I felt it was irresponsible of me to not have done it, and so I asked. She has given her authorization to continue this story.
Chapter five: Ready, Set, Go!
"Are you going to reveal yourself to him" Asked the Sandaime Hokage to his student.
Jiraiya studied the seat where his godson had been, while the Hokage tried to explain what had happened. Even though Ai-chan had already done a great work of it. There was the matter of Ai-chan aiding Naruto. He knew how much of an odd duck was his daughter, where the normal shinobi was flashy she would was de definition of how a ninja worked from the shadows. Ai-chan hated to brag, but he knew for a fact that she had managed to built her own spy network and kept it up with a mix of her owl summons being the messengers and some fuinjutsu hybrid. There was also her Little Black Book. He shuddered. There was enough blackmail in there that she could probably cash it in and disappear to live in luxury for the rest of her life without lifting a finger. His little Hime did proud to his name as The Master Spy. The threat of Akatsuki, his daughter ability to keep safe and her need to grow bonds outside of her old man, had basically demanded their return to Konoha. But that wasn't something Naruto could do….at least not yet.
"The Chunin Exams, I'll be back for then. If he passes, I'll tell him about his being my godson. I think that if he has met Ai-chan already, he has some idea of his Uzumaki heritage. So, letting him know about Kushina wouldn't hurt. Ai-chan said she was going to start teaching a gaki, I guess she meant Naruto. If he shows talent, I'll probably take over his training" He mused. Naruto, knowing about Kushina it would probably encourage him to put effort on his training in the Sealing Arts.
"I see" replied the Sandaime puffing his pipe "I am glad to see you doing good, Jiraiya-chan. I admit that I was expecting you to delay until you couldn't anymore. Parenthood suits you".
Jiraiya only leered and grinned in response "You can only imagine, sensei"
"…And this, this was Uzumaki Kushina; Naruto-kun" said the Sandaime passing the picture of a pretty red headed with violet eyes "The previous Jinchuriki…and your mother"
Naruto exited quietly of the Sandaime office deep in thought to find Ai-chan nodding sleepily in the waiting seats by the receptionist. She shook herself before standing up.
"Ai-chan, what are you doing still up? It's pretty late!" Naruto flailed his arms in exasperation.
"Waiting for you, dumbass. We are having a sleep over. You are not spending the night alone, and don't you dare to even fight me on this. It's late and I am grumpy, let's go" She stated yawning, before taking his hand in her much smaller one and walking.
She took him towards her home, offered him the bath, gave him shorts and large t-shirt and leaving him a couple of sandwiches and orange juice to dine on in the kitchen, while she took her own bath and readied herself to sleep. Once ready she took him towards her own room where a big bed laid up half made, the room was a bit messy with boxes to unpack and book stands waitron to be filled, and pretty calligraphy pictures, in the nightstand stood two pictures one of a pretty red haired lady with familiar green eyes with a babe in her arms dressed in a purple Kimono and the other picture was of a much younger Ai-chan sitting on the shoulders of a big white haired man that had her red markings, they both wore yukatas and big smiles. Finally he saw his stuff in a small chest except for his clothes, his mom's picture was put in a simple frame of its own. Ai-chan climbed in and patted the space next to her.
"Climb in, Naruto-chan. Tomorrow we can talk, and I will try to clear any other doubt you have" She grumbled.
He spluttered in embarrassment and denials until Ai-chan growled a "Get in!", that he obeyed blushing.
He tried to put space between the both of them, but Ai-chan wouldn't have it. She scuttled forward and cuddled to his side "Stop overthinking, just rest" she said quietly and half asleep. Naruto decided to go with the flow and cuddled her closer finally relaxing enough to let out his feelings. If Ai-chan ever felt bothered by his tears or snot, she never did mentioned. Naruto fell asleep to Ai's soft humming voice and back rubs.
When Jiraiya arrived home and went to check on his daughter he found the two brats sprawled over each other, resting peacefully. He felt a sense of Deja vu.
Minato, you prat. They were supposed to grow up like this, with you around to let retire to spoil the brats while you ran the village.
Ai awoke to a feather tickling her nose, making her open her eyes and cross them.
"You are awake" giggled Jiraiya" Now what is this business of you bringing young men to your bed late at night, missy" He leered at Naruto, who was drooling on her shoulder" You are too young to be trying such things" He continued teasing.
Ai groaned, before replying.
"Low blow dad, low blow. I wanted to introduce you both before, but something always happened. Dad, meet your future son in law" She deadpanned. Making Jiraiya choke on air "We'll be making like rabbits and have you to take care of you grandchildren before you know it" She continued making sure Naruto blushed, having awoken and pretending to still sleep. There was enough teasing to share around.
Jiraiya and Naruto spluttered, the later falling to the floor.
"Please, be gentle. Naruto-kyuun" She continued to tease from her sitting position on the bed holding her blanket high and batting her eyelashes.
"Ok, Ok. You win, now stop it. That is disturbing. I am still in the peak of my youth, and if possible you are not dating until you are eighty!" preached the old letcher.
She erupted in giggles that caused both males share a commiserating look and eye rolls. Three stomachs growled in rhythm.
"So, breakfast!" She beamed.
After the introduction were done and breakfast was devoured. Ai took over the breakfast bar, while Jiraiya and Naruto took care of washing the dishes, she started working on a to-do list.
Her father noting that turned half around, flickered his gaze towards Naruto and said.
"You know Ai, I will be leaving on a mission a couple of days from now. Why don't you put an ad for a house-mate?" He said eyeing an over focused Naruto dry an already dried plate "There is still a free bedroom, you could share the chores of the house and living cost would diminish saving you cash for other things" He continued " What do you say Naruto? You interested?" He asked bluntly. Making Naruto drop the plate in surprise.
"What?! Are you sure?" He asked flailing his limbs.
"Sure. Ai-chan has good taste in people, and if she trust you enough to invite you over...that is half the search over, right?" Jiraiya grinned messing Naruto's hair.
And that's why she loved Jiraiya, he just got things no questions asked. She had really lucked out in the parents department in both lives; but having Jiraiya around and being cared for unconditionally. It was amazing.
Naruto turned to me with a guarded expression as if confirming said request, to which she grinned and shrugged.
"Fine by me" she mouthed.
"But, I am a ..." jinchuriki went unsaid by Naruto.
"A boy, I know" continued Jiraiya" But despite the teasing, I know you will keep an eye on my little hime. That would give this old man some relief"
"No offense Naruto, but I am ten. I am not suicidal enough to get distracted on things like romance or dating. We are just beginning our careers, and getting sidetracked by those silly ideas would probably get someone killed on the field. I'd rather get strong to keep my precious people safe first" Ai explained.
"I see" reflected Naruto "If you are sure, I would like to be your new house mate. Don't worry ero-jiji, I'll keep Ai-chan safe, 'Dattebayo!" He shouted pumping his arm in excitement, to the spluttering Jiraiya.
Not long after they finished cleaning, Jiraiya left them to their scheming.
They started to discuss plans and things that they need to take care, brain storming to make a to-do list. It ended up something like this:
1. Finish paperwork on the Hokage Tower, take picture.
2. Sign up for the courses of first-aid offered to shinobi in the hospital. Check up.
3. Move Naruto in.
4. Shopping: weapons, clothes, ink and paper, etc.
5. Library.
6. Maito Gai, training ground 9. Fitness Club.
7. Explanations.
They both took care in getting ready, having washed Naruto's jumpsuit the night before, Ai offered him a dark blue jumpsuit and on they went to the Hokage tower to finish their paperwork. Each delivered personally their own to the Sandaime, before being dismissed.
Naruto had whined about going to the hospital, but Ai insisted that they needed that check up to make sure they had their inoculations and were healthy enough for training regime, besides asking for a tailored diet to suit their growth. She took the time to explain how the body was a tool for the will, and as such it needed to be in tip top shape to reach the maximum gain of any training they wanted to do, feeding it the right way was part of it. Naruto pouted and said he didn't need the First-aid class, he healed fast. Ai replied that he wouldn't like it if a team mate was hurt and he couldn't help just because he didn't take the chance to really learn how to take care of his comrades. To which Naruto shut up pretty fast and hurried her towards the hospital.
Once there, they scheduled a date for the check ups with a medic-nin her father had recommended. Then they were given the pamphlets on the classes offered to shinobi for free, there was the first Aid-class divided in general healing and specialized, that's was a bit more advanced, and finally the medic-nin course, that actually worked to test the ability of those who applied to make career as Medic-nin, if they approved they would continue the classes under a Senior medic-nin until they were declared experienced enough to test for medic-nin license.
"You seem really into those courses for medic-nin" Naruto observed.
"Yeah, I want to learn about it. I have basic understanding of the healing arts, but I feel that lf I learn this, I train this now; when I stand on the field and something happens, I will have given everything I can to protect my teammates, and have no regrets. Did you know Konoha has one of the best medical courses across the nations?" She replied absentmindedly reading the books that they would have to ask in the Hokage Tower for classes" You have decided on what classes you'll be taking?" She asked gathering her own pamphlets.
"Yeah, I'll take the First-Aid course basic level and if I pass" He gulped, before a determined look came over his face "I will take the advanced ones, after that I'll take it a step at the time. I won't probably be a medic-nin, but it can't hurt. Right?"
"We can help each other to study, so that even if we are not assigned to the same team we will still spend time together" She smiled.
"Yeah! 'Dattebayo!" He grinned in a foxy like manner.
And if for some reason, the jounin assigned to Naruto's team decided to fail him this would make sure Naruto could at least take advantage of this resource if he was put on the reserve list. Sure it would be harder to help train him, but this would help him on the long run to reach his goals. Same thing with scheduling with Maito-san and proposing a fitness club, sure he probably won't teach us much but we had to start somewhere.
We hurried to finish to fill out the respective paperwork, before heading towards Naruto's apartment. All in all, It took little effort on taking what valuables Naruto possessed to seal them, gotta love fuinjutsu, before going back home and showing Naruto his new room. We decided to delay the unpacking, and take account what was needed for him to be comfortable.
New bed clothes to begin, curtains, stands for his plants and so on...
Only then did Ai brought up the topic of shopping in disguise.
"It might make you uncomfortable, but unless you want the hospital full of idiots, please wear it" She said offering a wig cap and a long red haired wig, and making Naruto sit in front of a huge mirror she had unsealed before, to which he complied curiously "I'll put on the make up to hide my own marks so you better pay attention and copy me, who knows when you will need to change appearance in a ninja village. Most ninja are always flashy, so if you do a simple henge they will be able to note your use of chakra leading to your being found out. Shinobi in general are so self-assured of their superiority that they simply forget that civilians can be a threat too. Better to use a disguise to infiltrate with less problems, your chakra could be hidden by your control or in your case with a seal. Don't know how the fuck did you avoid the shinobi that were sent to find you on The Mizuki Mess" She muttered fishing her own make up bag, she had rarely used it since arriving to Konoha given that she didn't need to hide her own marks anymore, but for old sake decided to do it and show Naruto how to do it himself. He was showing to be a kinetic learner, and following her example would ensure he really learned how to apply makeup.
So she started to put on her make up, and taught him as she did demanding he followed her example bit by bit and correcting him as they did.
The finished product was a couple mark-less brats, one with short white hair and other with long red hair. It looked natural enough to fool anyone at a second glance.
"We'll forego contacts, they cost more money than we could afford for a simple shopping spree and are only under order. It's a shame I can't share mine with you, unhygienic yeah?, I'd have loved to see you in violet eyes it would suit your red hair " She commented studying their reflection.
"It's amazing, you can't really tell it's there" Naruto said almost pressing his nose to the mirror studying his face, before furrowing his eyebrows "But then, if with so little effort we could hide our marks...What do the girls in the academy really look like and how do you figure it out if they are really wearing make up?" He asked.
"That depends. In the case of young kunoichi, there is the ones from civilian family right...their makeup will probably smell really sweet and not be durable under sweat or water like most civilians; while the girls from Clans will probably have access to the durable and odorless kind most of the time. Like mine. It's a bit more expensive, but it is worthy to keep oneself safe. Most Kunoichi of jounin rank wear this type of makeup. Common sense really. Don't wear strong perfume that could not be found in wherever environment your mission is in, don't wear smelly make up and so on. It just makes your enemy's job easier to track you down" She lectured securing her money pouch to her blue jumper.
"Come on, we need to go get shopping. First weapons, then more durable clothes...yes, I did saw how bet up was your jumpsuit after your training, you will need a new wardrobe. See it as my housewarming gift...and then other supplies that we'll need. We'll have lunch then" She stated, turning to leave and entering Naruto chakra signature and blood into the wards of the house, allowing him free pass.
And so they went, from shop to shop. While they did that Ai questioned Naruto what he knew and what he was lacking, demanding truthful answers to tailor a training regime to make him well rounded. It was hard to make Naruto choose a decent outfit that was practical and he liked it -grey mesh long sleeved T-shirt, black T-shirt, green jacket with blue stripes with orange lining, brown pants and ninja boots- but they managed to buy it and every party was happy; She on the other hand had a clear image of what type of clothing to wear -gray battle kimono with tight high shinobi shoes and black biker shorts.
By the time lunch in Ichikaru's reached, Ai was deeply insulted. She had been a teacher in her former life as Harry Potter, so to see how much Naruto had his education sabotaged enraged her deeply. Naruto had every intention of making a good student in the beginning of his Academy life, but the teachers had made fun of him when he asked, accused him of cheating if he did right, repeatedly giving him detentions for the most absurd reasons and so on. It was no wonder that by the time he was finishing The Academy he would rather play pranks as "Evasion" training than assist classes. She made a note to herself to ask Iruka-sensei about the Academy syllabus to make sure Naruto learned what he should have.
The library would have to wait, first she needed the Academy books that she was supposed to have been given and had not bothered to pick up.
After, lunch they decided to walk slowly towards the training ground 10, where Maito-san was training his own team.
Her father had looked at her with a twinkle in his eyes when she had mentioned her intention to better her taijutsu with Maito-san's help. So she felt confident when she arrived. She did not expect a fit man with a bowl shaped hairdo, green spandex, orange arm and leg warmers and the typical jounin vest with the bushiest eyebrows she had seen, and she had seen Dumbledore's eyebrows!
"Ne, Naruto-chan...Did Ichikaru-san put something funny on the ramen?" Ai asked, her attention drawn by shouts of Flames of youth by a mini-Maito-san "Oh, god...its reproducing!" she squeaked hiding behind Naruto.
Naruto squinted his eyes, before recognition crossed his eyes.
"So that's what happened to Rock Lee..." He muttered, crossing his arms and nodding in acceptance as if declaring him lost in action. The jounin waved at them and they approached carefully noting the other two genin stopping their practice to watch them.
Ai stood up straight before walking towards Maito-san, keeping a careful polite expression.
"Good evening, Maito-san. Thanks for agreeing to meet up with us" She bowed, elbowing Naruto to follow her example a bit more clumsily "My name is Ai, and my companion here is Naruto Uzumaki. We just made genin"
Maito-san's eyes widened slightly, he probably knew who my father was, before he grinned and introduced himself and his team.
"Ai-hime, Uzumaki-kun! A pleasure. My name is Maito Gai, I am the Beautiful Green Beast of Konoha" He said putting on a good guy pose... Was his teeth shining? " And jounin sensei of team 9. conformed by Rock Lee" He motioned to his mini-me " Higarashi Ten-Ten" To a bun wearing kunoichi "and Hyuuga Neji" He finished waving to a sneering guy in white "Now, what was the proposal you wanted to make me?"
When explained the idea of funding a "Fitness club" how they would train in the early hours of the mornings at his disposal and ask for his review and recommendations in their own taijutsu. In exchange Ai would give him Air Resistant Seals to train for him and his team, he seemed a little dubious but reluctant to forego the idea of rejecting the seals, after all they were quite a bit expensive.
"What rank do you have in the sealing arts? As much as I'd just rather trust you, I can't put my students training and health in danger" He questioned seriously.
"Actually I am being tested tomorrow by the Sealing Division to obtain my license as Journey-woman" She nodded acceptingly.
"Tell you what, you pass your test, show me your license and I'll let you and your little friend join us in our warm up training in the early morning, but I reserve the right to re-schedule if me or my team have missions to conduct. It will depend too probably on your own jounin-sensei..." He commented.
"It's ok, We could decide to wait five minutes here at..." Ai negotiated motioning Gai, as he insisted we called him, to fill in "4 A.M." He supplied, to which Naruto gulped his acceptance nodding; making Ai to continue "4 A.M and if one of us is not here, the other party could continue with the warm up routine. We just want advice on how to train correctly and improve our taijutsu. We wouldn't want to deprive your students of your attention" She said maintaining eye contact with Gai.
Apparently it was the right thing to say, because Gai-san brightened and nodded in response.
"That's ok, so we can do this every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 4AM to 6AM, that will give you guys time to rest and get ready for your own Jounin-sensei. As a sensei myself, it's my task to ensure our next generation of genin's Flames of Youth is vibrant!" He stated, with his blinding smile.
"Oh, GAI-SENSEI!" Shouted his mini-me. Since when had he been copying the conversation down?
"LEE-KUN!" He answered with no shame.
"GAI-SENSEI!
"LEE-KUN!"
"GAI-SENSEI!
"LEE-KUN!"
"GAI-SENSEI!
"LEE-KUN!"
Was that a beach in the background? What about the twilight? It was barely Four o'clock? It was sunny just a few seconds ago.
"Are they hugging?" asked a sort of green Naruto.
"Look at the bright side, they wear protective cups" She answered in a dazed voice. They were really fit "KAI!" She shouted trying to dispel the genjutsu with a pulse of chakra.
After finally scraping that twilight zone scene, Ai-chan declared it was time to go back home, her dad would be waiting for dinner. And was't that an odd thought. Having someone to go back to. The last couple of days had been revelation after revelations, finding out things about himself that he had never even thought to question.
His Uzumaki heritage, being the jinchuriki of the Kyuubi, Uzumaki Kushina, his own training and strengths.
Ai-chan thought she was subtle in her questioning, but he could tell how upset she had become after her questioning during their shopping. Having put things in perspective, it wasn't hard to reason as to why. He had been sabotaged in the academy, he knew but had never suspected as to how much. He hadn't wanted to make a big deal of it with Hokage-jiji because he had complained those first months at the Academy, but after seeing how upset his jiji had become he had stoped and tried to deal on his own. His intentions had been good, but the consequences had a bigger impact than he suspected. It was eye opening to see how serious Ai-chan took her career as a Kunoichi, and her own effort and humility in her skills made him reflect on his own skills.
Ai-chan directed him as they cooked in silence, relaxing in the silence. He had always felt the need to fill the silence with idle chatter, but Ai-chan's quiet presence was comforting in its own way keeping the sad thoughts away. After having their fill and cleaning up for bed, they gathered in the living room. Ai-chan gave him a notepad and asked him to write his questions, make a couple of Kage No Bunshin to get his bed ready; while she unsealed a bunch of puzzles and mental games. When they both were ready, Ai brought out a lemon juice pitcher and they both got comfortable around the tea table deciding on the picture puzzle.
"Ok, keep up your mind focus divided. Every time you have free time outside of training, you'll play puzzle games. Be it something simple as a rubic cube or a Shogi match against yourself in your head. I have told you already that the Uzumaki have a predisposition to the Sealing Arts, and that in general means you have a different brain wiring" Ai-chan began explaining " The way a true Sealing Master sees the world is different to the rest of the normies. A normal person, be it shinobi or not, sees the sky and would accept it is blue and is above. A Seal Master would question why the sky is blue? what holds it up? What laws make it so? How could these laws change? And how far can they be defied? And so on. A Seal Master looks to understand the world and its own laws, before re-writing reality itself. That's why they are so feared. Because their only limit is their imagination" She started taking a puzzle piece and trying to make it fit on the frame " In short. Your brain doesn't work as the rest. Where the rest of your class would be happy with memorizing answers for a quiz, your brain would question and demand answers that your teachers would not be able to understand because to them they are unquestionable truths".
Naruto thought back at his first months of the Academy where his teachers mocked his questions and began to understand that maybe it wasn't just that they didn't want to, but couldn't.
He started to check the puzzle in his hand and trying out to place it.
"So, the teachers didn't know how to teach me..." He reasoned.
"That's part of it" She agreed " They wouldn't have the will nor the ability to teach you. As far as I know of the academy teachers only Umino Iruka, is the only chunin with some understanding of a very basic of fuinjutsu. On the other hand, if you had known beforehand of how your own brain worked, you could have dealt with the Academy better. It's not worth it to cry over a rusted kunai. The lesson is...You need to understand yourself before you can try to understand the world that surrounds you. Maybe a few meditative techniques before going to sleep" Naruto grimaced at that remembering his terrible experience in the Academy with meditating "We'll see later which one suits you better, there are several" She sighed amused.
"So what did you make me sign last night" He asked, to which Ai-chan flicked a puzzle piece at his head.
"Yeah, that...Don't ever sign anything without reading and confirming what are you agreeing to. You might be agreeing to gift your first born's heart. Get it?!" She stated with a smile full of teeth. Naruto shuddered, that was the same smile she wore while kicking Mizuki's balls. He winced.
"But you asked..." He tried to reason.
"And I am glad you did, I don't care much to scam you. You are too naive to be a challenge, and there is the fact that you amuse me" She shrugged.
He could feel himself twitching in annoyance, but kept quiet.
"I got it, never sign without reading careful what I am agreeing to" He nodded fitting another puzzle piece.
"The scroll I made you sign was the Summoning Contract of the Sparrows" She explained waiting for understanding and only receiving a confused frown.
"See, Our world has several parallel dimensions one of them is the Summons realms, where the Summons live. It's a place with high levels of Natural chakra that is divided in clans of summons, except this clans are animals capable of using chakra. Then there is also the small clans that have allied to the bigger clans for protection. In order for these clans to increase their power and abilities, they designed The Summoning Contracts, in which they ally themselves with Shinobi of great power in exchange of Chakra, and their abilities if asked by the summons Clans. Konoha is know for being allied to the Toads, Slugs and once the Snakes, each has its summoner in one of the Sannin, the students of the Sandaime. As for the contract that Mizuki had, and now is yours...that is a sub-clan, as far as I know. This type of contract is odd, because allows for a contract with a Major Clan, as long as those two Clans agree. Later on, when you gain better control of your chakra I'll teach you how to summon. To work better with your summons is best to be respectful and gain permission to summon each individual of your contracted Clan, this means that you'll have to ask the Boss Summon permission to actually become a summoner and then, meet up those in the Clan; this will also serve to know better your summons and their skills. They will probably have a lot to teach, too" She nodded studying another piece.
"Do you have a Summoning Contract?" He asked, because Ai-chan seemed to know a lot to not have one.
"Yeah. I managed to become the Owl Summoner. In my humble opinion, they are the best!" She grinned.
"How so?" He questioned.
"Owls are knowledge hoarders, can fly and are predator of their own. Their skills are well rounded.I think it was them who taught fuinjutsu to the Toad Clan, but that 's just my suspicions. Sorry, I can't divulge anymore. Being a Summoner implies that you are to keep your Clan's secrets. It also mean that you become part of the Clan unless you betray their principles. The Bird clans are big on loyalty to the Nest over other animals. They don't really like the Snakes, so watch out for any Snake summoner, you'll have to keep them out of missions that have snakes. Currently the only Snake summoner in Konoha is Mitarashi Anko, just so you know. If you meet the other Snake summoner, don't doubt, just run" She commented grimly "That fucker is so out of your league that is not funny. He is an S-class missing-nin"
"What do you know of the Sparrows?" He asked processing the warning.
"Not much really, but they are small and underestimated, can help to send small messages...Depends on your imagination, Naruto-chan" She hinted.
"I see" He nodded, deciding to wait up and meet his summons before deciding anything more.
"Now, I've heard you want to be Hokage" She started with a sly smile that spelled trouble.
"I'll be THE BEST Hokage!" He corrected.
"Ok, you'll be Hokage" She grinned " But do you know what does a Hokage do?"
"They keep the village safe, right?" He questioned remembering Iruka-sensei's lecture, to which Ai-chan sweat dropped.
"Look, this is just a piece of advice, but why don't you actually research what does being Hokage means? what does he really do? Why so much paperwork? How much is he paid? What requirements are needed? And so on...Afterall, if you are so set on your goal, you should know what you are getting into with both eyes wide open" She asked " Tomorrow we can go to the Hokage Tower, maybe Sandaime would be willing to give you a more in depth description of his job or even help around so that you can get a feel of how the position works?" She offered.
"Really?!"He asked surprised, usually when he said he wanted to become Hokage people took it as a Joke, but Ai-chan was actually encouraging him to go for it in her own way. It was refreshing to have someone take him seriously.
"Sure, It's your dream, right? I'd be a bad sempai if I didn't offered advice where I could" She nodded finishing to fit the last Puzzle piece in and completing the Flower field picture of white lilies.
A.N/:Ai calls Naruto his Kouhai because she actually asked her father to take on another apprentice, but her father insisted that for that to happen she had to actually teach Naruto the basics of fuinjutsu before he considered him as apprentice material. As she is the only apprentice Jiraiya has taught since Minato, this makes her his sempai. Naruto thinks is just her teasing him, as she does when she calls him "Naruto-chan" and is still unaware who is Jiraiya, and the fact that it was Jiraiya who started Ai in fuinjutsu.
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