The afterglow of the setting sun dyed the training ground into a warm orange-red color, making the two figures, one large and one small, elongated.
Senju Chen can feel that the body of the little guy in his arms is no longer trembling, and the fearful heart due to his life experience seems to have finally found a harbor where it can anchor.
He let go of his hand and looked at Naruto's face that was crying like a Xiaohua cat. Instead of feeling funny, he felt soft in his heart.
"Lord Chen..." Naruto rubbed his red and swollen eyes, with a strong nasal sound and a hint of cautious expectation in his voice, "You... can you tell me more about my parents?"
"Of course." Senju Chen leaned back on the wooden pile and patted the place next to him. Naruto immediately sat down next to Senju Chen obediently.
"Then let me think about it..." Senju Chen looked at Hokage Rock in the distance.
His thoughts seemed to go back many years ago.
"Your mother, Kushina Uzumaki..." A smile unconsciously appeared on the corner of Senju Chen's mouth, "When I first met her, I was not much older than you are now. In the beginning, she was my 'Sealing Jutsu teacher'."
"Wow! Is mom a teacher?" Naruto exclaimed.
"Yes, and she is... a teacher with a very hot temper." Senju Chen's eyes were full of nostalgia, "Her hair is Shinobi World's most beautiful red, but her temper is redder and more intense than her hair. At that time, the little devils in the village all called her 'Red Hot Habanero' behind their backs."
"Pfft..." Naruto couldn't help laughing, Red Hot Habanero, this nickname sounds so awesome!
"I remember one time, Brother Minato, your father, kindly gave her a newly developed ninja tool. But because he was delayed for a while on the way, your mother thought he had forgotten it, so she was so angry that she waited for him at the door of the training ground with her hands on her hips for an hour."
"What happened next? What happened next?" Naruto asked, completely attracted by this story.
"Then?" Senju Chen laughed, "Then your father came, and before he could explain, he was chased and beaten by your mother with a frying pan and walked half way around the training ground. Your father ran and shouted, 'Kushina, please listen to me,' and your mother chased, shouting, 'I won't listen, I won't listen, you big liar.'"
"Hahaha!" Naruto laughed so hard that tears came out, "Dad is so mean!"
Senju Chen smiled and shook his head, "He was... willing to be 'bullied' by your mother. Because he knew that underneath your mother's fiery temper, there was a softer heart than anyone else. She would even shed tears for an injured kitten."
"Your father once secretly told me that he thought your mother's long red hair was the most beautiful scenery in the world. So, when some ninjas from other villages laughed at your mother's red hair, your father for the first time in the village, in front of everyone, knocked down three Chunin who were a head taller than him."
Senju Chen's voice paused and became gentler.
"From then on, no one dared to say that your mother's red hair was not good-looking. And that red hair became the guardian of your father's life. Your blond hair inherited the color of your father; and your personality is very much like your mother's fiery heart."
Naruto listened quietly, clasping her little hands tightly.
He seemed to be able to see a red-haired girl standing in the sunset with her hands on her hips, and behind her, a blond boy was silently guarding her with a gentle smile.
That... are his father and mother.
[Ding! It has been detected that the target character 'Naruto Uzumaki' is experiencing severe mood swings and meets the stealing conditions.]
[A: Uzumaki Bloodline(trace amount)]
[B: Chakra Basic Control (Getting Started)]
[C: Interruption and Complaint (Talent)]
Senju Chen's eyes twitched.
'What the hell kind of talent is it to make a fuss?
Is this the prototype of the protagonist's future "Talk no Jutsu"?
"Then... where is my father?" Naruto raised his head, his eyes full of curiosity, "I heard from the patriarch that... my father has always been very powerful!"
"No." Senju Chen shook his head. This answer surprised Naruto.
"Your father's talent is undoubtedly top-notch. But he was not invincible from the beginning." Senju Chen looked at Naruto's puzzled eyes and continued, "When your father was a teenager, his dream was to become Hokage, but many people didn't believe he could do it."
"Why?"
"Because he does not have a prominent family or Kekkei Genkai, he is just a child from an ordinary family. In the eyes of many people, he will not be able to become a top powerhouse in the future."
"However, he never gave up. He once locked himself in a room for three days and three nights for the improvement of a Ninjutsu, doing calculations in front of a bunch of formulas and drawings. I also saw him scarring both of his palms in order to master more power, and he remained silent."
Senju Chen's gaze became deep and distant.
"Naruto, you have to remember. Geniuses are not those who are born with everything. They are those 'idiots' who know that they have nothing, but still dare to charge towards the highest goal and are willing to make all efforts for it."
"Your father is such an 'idiot'."
"He used his own 'speed' to create an era of his own. 'Flying Thunder God Technique', in his hands, became 'Yellow Flash' that made the entire Shinobi World fearful."
Senju Chen stretched out his hand and spread it out in front of Naruto.
"Look at this."
He didn't have Hand Seals, but slowly gathered Chakra in his palm.
"Buzz--"
Accompanied by a strange sound, like countless hummingbirds flapping their wings in his ears, a blue, high-speed rotating Chakra ball formed out of thin air in his palm.
The sphere was not big, only the size of a fist, but the violent energy contained in it caused distortions in the surrounding air that were visible to the naked eye.
It is stable, solid, and exudes a deadly and charming light.
"This... this is..."
Naruto was completely stunned.
He could feel that the small blue sphere contained a power more terrifying than any Ninjutsu he had ever seen.
[Ding! It has been detected that the target character 'Naruto Uzumaki' is experiencing severe mood swings and meets the stealing conditions.]
[A: Nine-Tails Chakra affinity (trace amount)]
[B: Optimism (Talent)]
[C: Shuriken Throwing Technique]
Optimism???
What the hell???
System, are you done with it?
Seeing this "optimistic spirit (talent)" Senju Chen's mouth twitched unconsciously.
"This technique is called 'Rasengan'. It was your father, Minato Namikaze, who spent several years creating the Muji A-level Ninjutsu."
"It represents the highest wisdom of your father Ninjutsu."
Senju Chen moved his palm slightly, and the Rasengan disappeared into nothingness.
He looked at Naruto's eyes full of shock and desire, and said slowly, "Want to learn?"
"Can... is it okay!" Naruto's voice was trembling.
"Of course." Senju Chen nodded, and then changed the subject, "But there is a condition."
"What are the conditions? I'm willing to do anything!" Naruto said impatiently.
Senju Chen stood up slowly, looked at him condescendingly, and said in an unquestionable tone:
"Ninja Academy take classes well from now on. Cultural classes, Ninjutsu classes, Taijutsu classes, all subjects, I ask you to get excellent grades in all."
"When you graduate from the Ninja Academy with excellent grades in the school, I will pass on this technique to you in its entirety."
"Can it be done?"
Naruto was stunned.
He looked into Senju Chen's deep eyes, and there was no hint of joking in them.
He thought of his biological father's efforts to improve Ninjutsu Sansan San, and thought of his father's sweat and efforts behind his "genius".
An unprecedented, blazing flame ignited in his chest.
Dad is such a powerful ninja and the hero who saved the village.
"I... I can do it!"
Naruto stood up suddenly from the ground, used all his strength, and swore an oath loudly to Senju Chen, to the sunset on the horizon, and to himself.
"I am Naruto Uzumaki! I will do what I say! I will definitely become the number one Ninja Academy! I will definitely learn that technique! Then... then I will become a more powerful ninja than dad... than Hokage!"
The young man's vows echoed in the empty training ground, clear and firm.
Senju Chen looked at the young man in front of him who seemed to have grown up several years in an instant, and nodded with satisfaction.
However, the moment Naruto made the oath, the emotion called "determination" reached its peak.
In Senju Chen's mind, a series of rapid and majestic system prompts that he had never heard before sounded.
[Ding! It has been detected that the target character 'Naruto Uzumaki' is experiencing severe mood swings and meets the stealing conditions.]
[A: Clone Technique]
[B: Chakra Refinement Technique(Elementary)]
[C: Tailed Beast: Kurama(Sealing)]
Senju Chen:"???"