NARUTO
While laying on Kurenai's couch, Naruto dispels his clones three at a time, thirty seconds apart and uses that entire time to listen to another one of Naru-nii's stories.
For the past few weeks, his future counterpart would recount some of his missions or talk about the things he missed the most, his Godfather, his teammates, and his friends.
Shikamaru was a complete surprise to Naruto, and it was weird to hear Naru-nii describe someone Naruto knows as the laziest person in the world, as a genius and a very caring person.
He's heard a bit about how amazing his friends areSakura's crazy training, Kakashi-sensei's wicked eye, how unbeatable Sasuke becomesa bit about Kakashi's old teammates, but Naruto has also heard some about the deaths Naru-nii wasn't strong enough to prevent.
He already knows exactly how Haku was supposed to die, alongside Zabuza-jiji. Learning how Ji-chan died at the hands of a former student nearly did Naruto in with panic, followed by extremely reckless training.
He was only comforted by Naru-nii reminding him it hasn't happened, and things are changing so there's no reason to think that it will either.
'But what if it does happen,' Naruto mentally yells.
'Then you do what you always have, get even stronger so you can stop it next time, because trust me, there will always be a next time. You become the strongest so you can protect those you love with everything you have.'
Naruto couldn't understand how anyone could be so evil as to kill Ji-chan and it took Naru-nii several days of thirty to forty-minute sessions to explain his thoughts on evil.
'It took me a while to learn how to look underneath the underneath,' Naru-nii admitted.
'Kakashi-sensei says that all the time,' Naruto mournfully points out.
'Exactly,' Naru-nii chuckles. 'I know you want to be the one to reach Sasuke, just like Sakura-chan and Kakashi-sensei want to be the one to reach him; to save him from his hatred but I learned the hard way that there's only one person who can reach him, and that's his brother, Uchiha Itachi.'
'Tobi gave up,' Naruto thinks in blocks, like building a seal one segment at a time.
'Yeah,' Naru-nii agrees.
'So, he only sees through the eyes of someone who's given up,' Naruto continues.
'Yeah.'
'But we don't give up,' Naruto adds with a small though genuine smile.
'Hell no,' Naru-nii emphasizes. 'We don't run and we don't go back on our word.'
'Ninja build,' Naruto adds happily. "Because that's our Nind."
'Damn right,' Naru-nii proclaims. 'I'm almost out. We'll pick this up next time.'
'Sure thing Naru-nii,' Naruto bids before quickly thinking of tonight. 'Real quick, how do you think I should fight Tenten-chan?'
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