Itsu No Hi Ni Mo

Chapter 35 : Deserve

: deserve :

: worthy of (something) due to the recognition (someone) has.

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A young teenage boy in his with spiky black hair and dark colored eyes ecstatically ran across the village with an excited look.

"Inari! Hold up, you brat!"

Ignoring his grandfather as he tried to catch up, waving his cane around to at least try and intimidate him, Inari looked around.

"Hey, mister!" He called out to a shinobi passing by, "Do you happen to know where Uzumaki Naruto is?"

The shinobi tapped his chin twice before snapping his fingers, "It's Sunday, he's probably outside the village right now, he always hangs out there at these times"

"Do you know where exactly?" Inari pressed, making the man nod and say "Just follow the third trail from the main gate, and then at the first dark oak that you see, turn right. Hike up a small hill, it's either he's on the top of the tree or down at the clearing"

"Thanks a lot!" Inari quickly saluted before running off back into the direction he came from, passing Tazuna, "Quit running!"

"Huh... I should've told the kid he's with Hinata-sama" The Hyūga thought out loud, but then he shrugged and said "Oh well"

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It had been a year and a half since he last saw Naruto and Sakura, and they were all busy at the time.

But now that things had been slow for the ninjas, or so Inari's heard, he thought it would be the perfect time to visit Konoha to come see his idol. Besides, he'd been saving up eversince the war, he could afford at least a week here without old man Tazuna's help.

"Oh wow... That was far" Inari said to himself as he found the first dark oak, then his eyes started to sparkle in amazement as he thought out loud "Maybe he's training and he's too strong to be inside the village to do it!"

He jogged straight ahead for a few meters before he found the hill the white-eyed man told him about. Good thing he was good with directions, it's an essential for an aspiring carpenter.

He found an average sized tree on the top of the hill, and it was the only tree that he could around its area, that proves that he was heading the right direction.

Inari remembers hearing that Naruto lost his arm during the war, but now he had this super awesome prosthetic. Maybe it was made out of super advanced technology! With super cool seals around it like tattoos!

And when he reached the top, it wasn't hard to miss the man in black and orange standing in the middle of the field.

"Naruto!!!" Inari excitedly yelled, waving his hand high up, making the man turn his attention to him.

The young teen ran down the hill, holding the towel draped over his shoulder to keep it from falling.

"Hey, it's you, kid!" Naruto laughed as Inari reached him, "Man, you've grown!"

"You too!" The younger one yelled ecstatically, before his face fell into a weirded out look, making the blonde nervously ask "What's with the face, Inari?"

Inari eyed the Uzumaki in front of him. He looked like a man, especially in his current attire that was different from the one he wore before.

The pants were black, unlike his previous orange ones, and the top was still orange, but this one had an opened black collar, showing off his strong looking neck and the collar, and he had his black hitai ate hanging from the side of his pants.