Konoha.
"Eh, Dad's not here, it's so boring!"
Tenyu sat in the back of Ichiraku Ramen, watching his mother and grandfather busy, muttering to himself.
"Yeah, I wish I could grow up quickly, just like Dad,
and fly everywhere and play everywhere!" Maki sat next to him, licking a candied haw and mumbling.
Normally, when Satoru was free, he would take them flying everywhere, to various surrounding areas to play. Now they could only play within Konoha.
Because their mother had to help their grandfather, and they were too young to run around freely, it made them distressed.
"Dad said that if we want to fly, we need to read more, otherwise we won't be able to learn Ninjutsu.
But we don't recognise all the characters yet, so why don't we find a teacher to teach us how to read?" Tenyu suddenly thought of what he considered a good idea.
Maki heard this and scorned, "That's not a good idea. Don't you remember the pain Kiba's Big Brother felt, scratching his head when he was learning things?"
Their memories were very good.
Before, when their dad was tutoring, he would also look after them, so they remembered Inuzuka Kiba and Akamaru's pained expressions.
"But it's boring!" Tenyu propped up his face and mumbled.
"What's boring?"
Just as the two children were chatting, Naruto's head suddenly popped out.
"Bastard, how did you get in?" Tenyu said this, but he wasn't surprised at all.
He had felt a monster walk in just now.
He knew it was Naruto.
"That... that... I'm here to collect information." Naruto looked left and right.
He seemed to be looking for something.
"Information? Are you playing a Ninja game with someone? Take us with you." Tenyu's eyes lit up.
This was truly great.
Maki also stared at him intently.
"I'm not that childish. I'm looking for the Ninja School's Great Demon King Teacher, Iruka Sensei's teacher's whereabouts." Naruto whispered to him mysteriously.
His tone was even a little eerie.
"Childish things like Ninja games can't compare to this at all."
Tenyu and Maki heard this, and a figure appeared in their minds simultaneously.
Iruka Sensei's teacher, wasn't that their dad?
"Why are you looking for him?"
The two siblings spoke simultaneously.
"Of course, it's to become Hokage. As long as I find him, I'll be recognised by my classmates."
Naruto remembered that even Kiba and Sasuke couldn't find this person at school. If he found him, he would make people look at him in a new light.
He didn't know that Sasuke was just afraid of being pranked and didn't dare to say anything.
"This can make you Hokage?"
The two looked at the four heads on Hokage Rock, then at the silly Naruto.
This head hanging up there felt a bit out of place.
"Of course... It's not that simple, but I'll work hard." Naruto chuckled.
The two siblings exchanged glances and spoke simultaneously, "Let's go with you."
"Huh, you guys... forget it. Don't waste my time."
Naruto looked at the two little ones, disdainfully.
In his opinion, the two, who were not even three years old, couldn't help him at all.
He wanted to find it himself.
"Hmph, hmph, do you know who our dad is?" Tenyu snorted coldly.
"Isn't it Satoru Uncle?" Naruto tilted his head and replied.
"My dad is a Jonin. You've already started school, so you should know what that means, right?"
Naruto heard this and counted on his fingers, "Genin, Chunin, Jonin, eh... Satoru Uncle is a Jonin."
He had never paid attention to this before.
He thought of the face covered in bandages and mumbled to himself, It didn't look like it at all.
"That's right, we know where Dad's Ninja Essential Manual is. If you allow us to join,
We can lend it to you to read."
Tenyu said.
He didn't tell Naruto that Dad was the person Naruto was looking for.
Instead, he wanted Naruto to find the information himself. Dad had told Kiba Big Brother this: You have to learn to find information yourself.
That's right, that's how it is. It's not that they were too bored.
"Ninja Essential Manual?"
A book flashed through Naruto's mind: a Naruto desperately flipping through a book, then putting on a forehead protector and becoming a Ninja.
Saliva gradually dripped from his mouth.
"Since that's the case, I'll allow you to join my Ninja Information Squad.
But you have to listen to me." Naruto curled his lips and agreed to them.
"Alright! Mission accomplished, Naruto Captain!"
Tenyu and Maki, with a telepathic understanding, said to him solemnly.
"Naruto Captain?" Naruto put his hands on his hips in his mind, burning with excitement.
Captain, I'm the captain, Naruto Captain.
Having subordinates is indeed good. No wonder Kiba always wanted people to call him Kiba Big Brother.
...
"Eh, are you going to Naruto Big Brother's house?" Ayame asked the two little ones.
The two little ones nodded obediently.
Naruto also nodded from the side, "Sister Ayame, don't worry. Leave them to me. I'll look after them."
He even patted his chest, like a little adult.
Ayame looked at him, and a drop of speechless sweat fell. It's precisely because they're with you that I'm worried!
Just thinking about Naruto leading her two children into mischief made her feel uneasy.
But looking at the hopeful eyes of the two children, and Naruto's determined eyes, her heart softened.
Just this once,
just this once...
She remembered that her husband sometimes let the two children run back by themselves, so it should be fine.
"Alright, just this once. Don't lead them astray." She relented.
"Yay!"
Naruto jumped up happily.
Then, with Naruto leading the way, walking with a swagger, they headed towards Satoru's House.
The two little ones followed behind, also proudly and spiritedly.
Today won't be boring.
"That Satoru, he's led you astray too. How can you let two little ones follow one little one?" Teuchi shook his head and sighed from the side.
The way these two parents raised their children truly infuriated the old man.
If Satoru hadn't demonstrated to him how Ninjutsu could not only protect people but also work wonders in daily life, he would never have felt so at ease with his two grandchildren.
...
Satoru's House.
Study.
The two little ones brought Naruto to flip through books. Although they didn't recognise all the characters, under Satoru's education, they had learned many.
"Where exactly is the Ninja Essential Manual?" Naruto looked at book after book, feeling a headache.
Was there such a book? It wouldn't be a book that made him want to sleep just by looking at it, would it?
But the words "Ninja Essential" firmly gripped him.
"Found it! The Ninja Essential Manual Dad mentioned, 'Information Gathering: From Beginner to Burial.'"
Tenyu quickly found the book his dad had once used to teach Inuzuka Kiba, based on his memory.
It was a thick volume, ten centimetres thick and thirty centimetres long.
But Tenyu, with his two-year-old body, picked it up with ease.
Naruto took the book, only to feel his hands sink.
Cold sweat broke out.
"This heavy, this big book, it's thicker than all my first-grade books combined..."
Naruto felt that his decision to come back with the two to look for the book was wrong. Even without this Ninja Essential Manual, he could still find Iruka Sensei's teacher.