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Who: Kakashi and you
When: Day 36, afternoon
Where: various apartments! (it may even be yours!)
What: knock-knocking on the door...

[there is plottings afoot. as such, there is also a ninja going around to talk to folk]

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[nods]

Tell me about the book I always see you reading.

[--n-not expected question]

. . . it's one of Jiraiya-sama's...

[lights up]

Really? I always liked his books.

[. . . even those books? or did they come out after...?

is our line of mentors and students full of perverts?]

Ah... I only have the one and it's the last book of the series...

Ah, that's a shame. I suppose I would be behind on the plot, such as it is.

... plot, yes. That is important in a series.

So many things I missed when I died. I wonder how many he was able to write...

A number of them. He did pretty well for himself...

I knew he would. After all, I believed in him enough to name my son after one of his characters.

... he also often considered Naruto almost something like a grandson. Since they spent nearly three years away from the village, training.

[turning his head away a little]

Seems fitting.

[either way this talk goes... could be sad...]

[yeah, this just went a really horrible direction]

I guess I'm not ready to hear all of it yet.

It's all right...

If you prefer, I can make fun of Gai some more.

Are you still trying to take a break?

Maybe you can tell me about Ling instead... I'd like to hear how he ended up your student.

[not really in the mood to hear more about people from back home at the moment]

We nearly got ourselves killed by a pair of stiltwalkers our first day. That's really how we got to know one another... after I established some baselines...

... partially, it was my fault. I'd wasted chakra on testing what I was able to do with my jutsu--three shadow clones wore me down quicker than I had thought...

I heard a little about that, but that doesn't really tell me how you ended up being his teacher.

Well, it sort of went from there. He had to bargain with Dellen to get me healed... since I was actually the one that very nearly died... so for five days, he didn't have much to do except small tasks here and there...

Since he saw me performing kage bunshin, he had an interest in learning it. He's a practical kid in some aspects and thought it could benefit him. Turns out, chakra's a bit beyond him.

Anyway... he got progressively annoyed at me for various reasons, and I determined that we would settle the issue--since he kept badgering me to train him the whole while--the old fashioned way: by showing him what a ninja actually is.

Sounds like a good fit for you. You need someone who will challenge you and keep you busy.

More or less... as soon as he realized that he was out of his league, his idea to learn the kage bunshin broadened to include other methods and techniques. He's a very determined person, if a bit careless.

Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

Well, I didn't have bells on hand...

[laughs]

Can you ask the gods for some?

Hmmm... but do I really want to go through the process of testing would-be genin in this place...

I failed a number of teams because they couldn't measure up, back home...

It sounds like you really did fail them.

[judging you some]