The Silent Prodigy of The Leaf

A Painful Confession

"Genma-Sensei, I am surprised you are not tired and you too Lin how are you able to walk like you did nothing in the fight" said Naruto as we all walked together towards Ichiraku Ramen for dinner.

"Well, Naruto, I am not tired because I have been a ninja for longer than you have been alive," he replied with a smirk across his face.

"I am simply not tired. That's all Naruto," I said as I kept looking at the sky.

"You know, guys. Lin is like really strong, and I think he was holding back in the fight," Fu said with excitement now with the cat back in her arms.

Naruto's eyes grew larger when he heard those words. It seems he was the only one who didn't realize I was holding back my true strength. Then, from a look of shock to a look of annoyance, Naruto said, "Stop trying to act so cool, Lin! I am way stronger than you! And Sakura-chan will fall for me someday. She will not keep crushing on you forever!"

I gave him a look that said as I communicated those words with my eyes, "I don't care." He didn't seem to notice it. Instead, he just kept blabbering on about how he would be Hokage, grow stronger than me, and Sakura would fall in love with him. He is such an airhead. If only he would be quiet.

"So Lin, when will you help me train?" Fu asked as she cut off the annoyed yellow-haired airhead.

"We can do it tonight before we sleep," I said, still looking at the sky.

"WHAT YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO TRAIN AGAIN!" Naruto shouted, catching the attention of the villagers.

We both nodded, and Genma-Sensei seemed to be enjoying this new team of his. Well, at least I think he is. Is hard to read him with only intuition. Naruto suddenly said with pride almost as if it was a promise of sorts, "Well, I am going to train on my ultra super mega omega jutsu, and I won't let the 2 of you get stronger than me! The future Hokage of the Leaf!"

We both gave him an annoyed look, just hoping he would shut up for once. When we got to the ramen shop. That was when Naruto finally went quiet and started eating too Manu bowls of ramen. Genma-Sensei looked at his airhead student's appetite in awe. I, for one, just ate one and waited for Fu to finish eating.
Once she was done eating, the two of us thanked Genma-Sensei for today and headed off for 2nd rounds of training to help her control her tailed beast.

Fu asked with excitement and a sense of fear in her voice, "So how do we do this?"

I replied to her question with another question, "Do you know the name of your tailed beasts?"

She shook her head, and I told her to get into a meditative state to talk to her tailed beasts. She started it but was having trouble. While she was doing it, I started talking to Kurama.

"Hey, Kurama, do you know anything about the 7-tailed?" I asked him as I went into my subconscious mind.

"His name is Chomei, and he is just a happy-go-lucky guy like a kid," he said with a smile, possibly thinking about the good times with his old friends.

"I see, so all Fu has to do is talk to Chomei and treat him with kindness and compassion," I said with a smile.

"Yeah, it won't be hard for her to become one with him. It might take a few days, but that's all," he said with a smile as he went back to sleep.

"Sukuna, what about you? Do you know anything about Chomei? You have lived longer than the existence of chakra, and I am sure you know something," I said as I transported my subconscious mind to where Sukuna was.

"Well, I do know one thing. Chomei has powers that are beyond this world and could easily grow stronger if he combined his chakra with Fu. She could even become stronger than you," he said as his expression remained ever unreadable.