Konoha.
"Eh, Dad's not here. This is so boring!"
Tobitake Tenyu sat in the back room of Ichiraku Ramen, watching his mother and grandfather bustle about as he muttered to himself.
"Yeah, I really want to grow up soon and be like Dad,
so I can fly everywhere and play everywhere!" Tobitake Maki sat beside him, licking a candied hawthorn skewer as she grumbled.
Whenever Tobitake Tonbo had free time, he took them flying all over the place to visit the surrounding regions. Now, they could only play within Konoha.
Their mother had to help their grandfather, and they were too young to run around on their own, which left them frustrated.
"Dad said if we want to fly, we have to read more books, or we won't be able to learn ninjutsu later.
But we still can't recognize all the characters. How about we find a teacher to teach us how to read?" Tenyu suddenly came up with what he thought was a brilliant idea.
Hearing that, Maki said disdainfully, "That's not a good idea. Don't you remember how miserable Big Brother Kiba was when he studied? He kept scratching his head."
Both of them had excellent memories.
Whenever Dad tutored someone, he would look after them as well, so they remembered how miserable Kiba Inuzuka and Akamaru had looked.
"But it's really so boring!" Tenyu muttered, propping up his face.
"What's so boring?"
Just as the two children were chatting, Naruto's head suddenly poked in.
"Idiot, how did you get in?" Tenyu said, though he was not the least bit surprised.
He had sensed a monster coming in just now.
He knew it was Naruto.
"Well... well... I came to gather intelligence." Naruto looked left and right.
He seemed to be searching for something.
"Intelligence? Are you playing