Gua hadn't gotten an answer from his mom.
He hadn't gotten an answer from his dad, either.
Because his dad's answer was the same as his mom's.
Wasn't this ridiculous?
Gua felt they weren't mature enough.
He stopped asking.
Though Izumi had gotten a little overbearing lately, Gua still liked her a lot.
That evening,
after dinner,
Gua suddenly snapped out of it. Crap! I was going to visit Naruto and check on Karin Uzumaki today, but I forgot both!
Izumi scrambled my brain.
Gua scratched his head.
What's done is done. I'll just go to bed.
The next day,
Gua naturally put visits to Naruto and Karin on his schedule.
After breakfast, his first order of business was to head straight to Naruto's home.
As expected, the unexpected happened.
Naruto wasn't home.
Gua sniffed the lingering smell of paint by the door.
He was almost certain Naruto had gone off to paint little figures.
Konoha had itself a budding painter!
Gua went looking for him, asking for directions along the way to the home of the newly arrived red-haired mother and daughter.
Karin and her mother had been settled in the Sarutobi Clan Compound.
Gua wasn't surprised by that.
After all, Karin and her mother belonged to the Uzumaki Clan. They couldn't just be housed anywhere. And the Sarutobi Clan was part of Hiruzen Sarutobi's faction in Konoha.
If Gua were the Third Generation, he would have put Karin and her mother in the Sarutobi Clan Compound, too.
Unable to find Naruto for the moment, Gua headed to the Sarutobi Clan Compound first.
But on his way there, he made a startling discovery.
Hey!
Why the hell were there little figures painted on every household's door in the Sarutobi Clan Compound?
The paint didn't even look dry yet.
*Holy