5 How much tear can these eyes hold (2/2)

Suddenly tears formed in his eyes as they flowed down his cheeks. Naruto had forgotten how birthday cake looked like. Even in his previous world, he had stopped celebrating his birthday after the death of his parent and Naruto of this world celebrated it alone as well.

”I thought you said a man don't cry. What's up with that tears? Come and cut the cake I'm hungry” Neko said with a smile. She had seen him blow out a cake alone on his 6th birthday and he didn't even finish it as he went to bed early that day.

She had just started her mission that time so didn't care much at that time but it was different now. She now looked at Naruto as her own brother and maybe closer than that. She was an orphan as well and was taken into Anbu from a small age. Her number of friends was small and they were always in missions.

She had started to develop a feeling for Hayate who was her Kenjutsu instructor but the feeling stopped growing as she started to train Naruto. For now, Naruto was her only family and her student as well.

Naruto quickly thanked her while wiping his tears and they enjoyed a lovely lunchtime. It was his most memorable birthday including the one celebrated on Earth.

”So, since there is cake, I suppose there is a gift as well.” Naruto rubbed his hand as he looked at Yugao with expectation.

”There is. Here you go. The big scroll is for shadow shuriken jutsu and the smaller is for shadow clone jutsu. I hope you can master them before I come back. And burn them both after you memorize them. They are not important jutsu but still I'm not supposed to give them you. It could land me in some problem” Yugao gave two scrolls to Naruto and a piece of paper that showed the list of hand signs. (Shadow clone jutsu is not the same one as multiple shadow clone jutsu. He can make around 5 clones with the normal shadow clone jutsu. List of hand-signs are not for the jutsu but to learn the signs itself. Like learning the alphabet before you learn to make a word out of it)

”Are you leaving somewhere?” Naruto got alert as Neko said he needed to master them before she came back.

”Yes, I decided to leave Anbu and apply as a Jounin Instructor. I might get to be your teacher when you become Genin. I need to finish a couple of missions before they let me leave the Anbu. Don't worry they are not life-threatening missions. I'll be done in a couple of months.” Yugao said as she ruffled Naruto's hair.

”Will they send new Anbu to look after me then. How can I practice with them watching?” Naruto asked as well.

While he got two jutsu from Yugao he wouldn't be able to practice them with other Anbu spying on him. He could but it would reveal his relationship with Yugao and she might get punished for it.

”Don't worry, there was a large incident last night. All the Anbu are on the field. They don't have men to spy on you” Yugao said as she put her mask back on.

”Incident. Why is there noise in the village then?” Naruto asked again.

”The Hokage said he will release the new in few days. You'll hear about in due time.” Yugao said as she vanished from Naruto's sight.

”It must be the Uchiha Massacre Incident,” Naruto said as he started memorizing the hand signs shaking his head.

Whatever happened outside was none of his business and even if it was he was too weak to do anything about it.

All he could do was train his ass off for the future.