Naruto blinked, looking at the shy boy behind Shikamaru. The boy held a packet of chips and was hiding behind the Nara who was surprisingly expressive, and had a soft expression. It almost made Naruto jealous for a brief singular moment, until Shikamaru gave him a careful and almost cautious expression as well as if Naruto were also made of glass.

And Naruto felt brief shame.

He looked down for a brief moment, and chastised himself, he shouldn't be jealous, Shikamaru had other friends as well, and he wouldn't want to lose a friend over something so stupid as jealousy.

He looked at Shikamaru, then he looked at the boy who's head was showing. The boy came out of Shikamaru's shadow and Naruto observed him. He looked really really nice...but shy and Naruto wasn't entirely sure how to approach him.

Clearly Choji, didn't discriminate against him which was of course something he had been only a little worried about, since he trusted Shikamaru's judgement.

However, the other was still nervous.

Naruto looked at the bags of chips and his eyes brightened, he went to the table where snacks were already laid out and took a plate. He went back to the door and gestured them to Choji.

"I baked them myself, please try them" Naruto said with a soft smile, and Choji's hand stretched out and he took a biscuit and Naruto heard the other chew.

A few seconds later, the said boy faced him fully and gave him a shy smile. "Sorry, I'm Choji Akhimichi, and your biscuits are really nice, may I please have some more" Naruto nodded as he gestured for them to come in and he slowly closed the door. He looked at Choji who's build was a little bigger than him, and who was eating food and he found it quite funny, that he considered that sight to be a little cute. They were the same age after all.

Naruto sat down and he smiled as Choji and he eased into a conversation about food and about comics.

"Your food is really nice, I love it so much" Choji said, his packet of chips on the floor with a really big smile on his face.

He didn't even look as shy as before and Naruto found it quite funny.

"Thank you" Naruto said blushing lightly at the compliment. It was always nice to hear them, because he didn't hear them often. He observed Choji's build and his eyes were round in curiosity. "You're from the Akhimichi clan right?" Choji stopped for a brief moment and Shikamaru continued to snore peacefully as if unaware of the happenings of the world.

"Yeah" Choji answered his voice a little down and Naruto's eyes were full of confusion, but he continued, "I heard your clan's really strong, so are you as strong too?" Naruto asked remembering the information he read a few days ago about the clans and the founding clans of Konohagakure. He had even found a small hint of the name Uzumaki there, but nothing much.

He was insanely curious about it, but considering that everything brought to him was by the Hokage, Naruto simply pushed that curiosity down and focused his attention to the other clans.

Other than the Uzumaki and Senju, Naruto was also curious about the Uchiha, as the other founding clan and the clans like the Kurama clan. He was also curious about the Akhimichi clan because of their strength, as that was said to be their speciality which Naruto found weird. Were they strong in a way that was not written in the book?

He was really curious and seeing as how he had an Akhimichi Infront of him, Naruto felt it to be a good opportunity to know more.

Choji on the other hand nodded almost hesitantly, "yeah we are born abnormally strong and we have greater endurance than anyone straight from birth. However, it doesn't make us all powerful, but according to my dad, we're strong physically than all the clans, maybe except the Senju" Naruto nodded his head as his eyes brightened, "hmm that makes sense, so is that why your build looks like that, is it to cater to the power of the justus you can learn from your clan? And considering your strength does that mean you guys need more food than normal? How does that work? Do you need certain amounts of it or not? And how do your justus look? Is your style in more line of ninjutsu or any other fighting style? Huh?"

Choji was speechless.

And Naruto sighed, okay maybe he was getting ahead of himself, but he really wanted to know. Who knew reading could bring so many questions and curiosities? He should have done it much earlier. He stared at Choji was abnormally silent and he gave a nervous smile, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to ask..so many questions and to speak too much, I really am curious. If I offended you, I'm sorry, I didn't meant to.. believe it"

Naruto's stomach grew a pit. Believe it. He hadn't said that in a while.

It felt strange.

The four year old looked down and clenched his fists. Believe it.

"Naruto?"

"Huh"

The blonde answered unconsciously and looked up to see Choji with a sweet, but sad smile, "it's fine, I'm glad you don't mind that I'm.. yeah. People always make me feel bad because of it and it doesn't make me feel good. But I try and I really try, to eat less sometimes, but i-i I can't eat less. Shikamaru tells me, I don't need to do that and I really thought he was just being nice, but you didn't judge me, you even wonder why, i-i" Choji hiccuped and Naruto panicked. He shuffled to his feet and went closed to the boy.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to make you.." Naruto said in a hurry and Choji gave a soft smile filling the blonde with some reassurance. Naruto then watched as Choji's hands expanded and the other child hugged him tightly and Naruto felt his own drops of tears fall down at Choji's next words.

"Thank you for not judging me"