Walking along the corridor, Uzumaki Kuming left the dining room and stopped outside Obito's bedroom. He knocked lightly, and Obito's voice came from inside:
"Just come in! I'm busy right now, so I can't open the door for you!"
Obito Uchiha thought Kakashi and Rin had come to call him to dinner again. He didn't bother getting up to open the door and simply shouted toward it. But when the door opened, it wasn't Kakashi or Rin who entered the room—it was Uzumaki Kuming.
"Obito, you look pretty serious!"
"But you still have to eat, you know."
Uzumaki Kuming smiled as he watched Obito Uchiha intently studying the Flying Thunder God scroll at the desk. Hearing Kuming's voice, Obito looked up sharply and scrambled to his feet.
"Lord Kuming?! Why is it you?"
"What brings you here?!"
Obito Uchiha was a little nervous around Uzumaki Kuming. Although they had lived together for a long time, Obito still felt somewhat shy in Kuming's presence out of respect for him.
"I noticed you hadn't come to eat, so I came to check on you."
"The Flying Thunder God Technique isn't something you can master overnight."
"It's a forbidden technique from the Scroll of Sealing. Its power is immense, but it's far more difficult to learn than ordinary ninjutsu."
"If you want to learn this technique, you can't skip meals."
"Go eat first. Afterward, I'll teach you the basics."
Uzumaki Kuming walked over to Obito and gently patted him on the head, then glanced at the scroll on the desk. Only a small portion of the Flying Thunder God scroll had been unrolled. Obito had been looking at it all morning and had barely gotten past the beginning.
It seemed Obito hadn't even grasped the basic formula at the very start of the