Where Is Home

After dinner, Fugaku went off to rest with Mikoto supporting him.

Tsunade went to handle matters at Uchiha Hospital. Sasuke pestered Itachi to train with him, and the two headed to the training grounds together.

Shamu had been gone for years, and Naruto had missed him terribly.

To Naruto, Shamu was the person closest to him in the world.

It was because Shamu had appeared in his life that his world had finally been filled with light.

Naruto could not wait to share every little detail from the past few years with Shamu.

"Every day, I walk Sasuke home, then leave a Shadow Clone here to train. Shamu, you're really amazing."

"I'm not very fast at learning other ninjutsu, but I learned the Shadow Clone Technique right away."

"And the Rasengan too..."

Naruto chattered away, starting with tree climbing, then water walking, until Fugaku taught him how to use the Shadow Clone Technique and he began training with the Rasengan.

It had to be said that Naruto's Whirlpool Physique allowed him to progress exceptionally quickly in the early stages. His tremendous stamina and abundant Chakra alone—

—had greatly accelerated his training. And with Naruto using a whole bunch of Shadow Clones to train—

—his progress had become even faster. By Naruto's current standards, he had long surpassed an ordinary genin.

Aside from lacking real combat experience, he was already far stronger in every other respect than he had been at this point in his previous life.

After all, Naruto was still young. He could not use Shadow Clones or the Rasengan at the academy, and when it came to taijutsu, Sasuke was his only rival.

The only combat experience he could gain was by sparring with Sasuke.

Naruto rambled on for a long time while Shamu watched him with a