"Rejected!"
I said once again, Truly amazed and wondering like hell how even he could ever have been stupid enough to think of me as teaching material. I'm pretty sure I'm not, and I told him so in a rather large amount of words. I think it might even rank as a Filibuster, seeing how I just kept on talking and talking, all the while breaking my brain in an attempt to find a way to disparage him.
Despite hours of my babbling he still insisted though.
"Pleeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaase!"
I tried to keep from falling to those puppy-eyes as best as I could, at least being somewhat prepared for them this time around, but. It. Was. So. NonoNO, Must resist... Must keep talking...
Ten minutes later I was gloomily drawing figures in the dirt, finding myself the not-so-proud new teacher of a hyperactive jinchuuriki, while Naruto was smiling as if he'd won the lottery.
What was the use of trying to fade into the background -not that I was making THAT much effort to be unnoticeable, in hindsight- when he kept pointing the damn spotlight at me!
When I finally found the will to face reality again, I faced Naruto seriously.
"Alright, seeing how you managed to pester me into doing this, we're going to first evaluate where you stand. How well do you understand the reading that you're given, regardless of whether it's legit or not?"
Okay, I must admit this was a roundabout way to ask how well Naruto coud actually read. All those tiny bits of the series had started to come back to me over the years -after mindnumbingly boring meditation-, and this particular question was, while not neccessarily canon, rather important if I was actually going to proceed.
"Some of the terms they use are a bit confusing", Naruto admitted, "But I really am not sure whether that is because I miss some of the basics required for understanding them, or because it's junk"
At this I decided to let him get his books, while waiting for him at Ichiraku's. I ordered some Tonketsu ramen while waiting for him.
I didn't have to wait long.