Hearing that, Naruto remembered all the rumors he had heard around the village lately and quickly chimed in.
"Yeah, yeah! Genya! Everyone in the village has been talking about you lately!"
"The rumors are crazy! They say you're super arrogant and cocky, and you even dare to talk back to Lord Hokage! And that thing on the noticeboard... something about flattening the Land of Fire?"
"Where's the Land of Fire? Is it big? Make sure you call me when you flatten it! I wanna help!"
Naruto waved his little fists, looking eager to get started, completely oblivious to the exaggeration and danger behind the phrase "flatten the Land of Fire."
He simply thought Genya was about to do something else incredibly cool and impressive.
Genya: "..."
Boss! Can I call you boss?!
Don't! I'm seriously scared you'll get carried away and whip up a Tailed Beast Bomb... then it won't just be about flattening the Land of Fire.
They'll have to redraw that whole section of the map!
Yet Genya could only keep smiling.
Ino got excited too, nodding vigorously in agreement with Naruto.
"Exactly! Naruto's right! Genya isn't arrogant at all! His Blood Oath was so manly! He was demanding justice for the victims! He's way more responsible than those adults in the village who only talk and never do anything!"
She paused, puffing out her little chest with pride.
"I already made Genya promise! If he really goes to flatten the Land of Fire someday, he has to take me along! I wanna see something big happen too!"
Looking at his two friends, their eyes shining and their faces practically saying, "We're going to do big things with you," Genya put a hand to his forehead.
A Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and the young lady of the Yamanaka Clan...
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