After that the gifts were more muhings like tools, clothes, money or even food in Choji's case. Naruto didn't have a gift for me but that was mostly because I had told him not to get one. Unlike everyone else that was more or less financially stable my friend was still quite in the lur this regard. Betwee, food, utilities and ninja supplies Narutos budget was extremely tight with him barely being able to save a few ryo every month at most. Expeg him to get me a birthday gift was just needlessly harsh and so I ft out told him not to worry about it.-

  Unlike if someone else were to tell him something like that where he would likely ig Naruto teo listen to me since I knew what I was talking about most of the time. If I said he just didn't a gift but simply be there then that's what he'd do. Naturally he'd also not expect a gift on his uping birthday but there had literally not been a single year since we met that I haven't gotten him something.-

  Unlike my birthday where there was always a party he had always kept his birthday celebration more quiet and low key. Not for a e trying otherwise mind you but it simply never went well due to the ive reputation he had attached to his name in the vilge. I couldn't do anything about that however as prejudice was not so easy to get rid of o had taken root so deeply. Not impossible mind you just that Naruto himself o fix his reputation with his as and no one else could do it for him.-

  That didn't mean that I treated those who mistreated him positively either and my memory was long. This meant that if I happen to get such a person in the hospital for treatment I might "fet" to numb an area or directly fix the issue in the most painful but effit way. For example a store owner who always overcharged Naruto hatefully came in with a dislocated shoulder after falling and I directly pulled and popped it bato pce before leaving him to yell in pain. I had been written up a few times because of this but since I did in fact still "help" the patient none of it stuck.-

  That didn't mean that the head of the hospital and Hokage hadn't given me a stern talking to about it that I promptly ignored. I lived by simple rules and one of those was that you didn't mess with my people or you'd eventually find out that I was not the fiving or fetting sort. Depending ouation I may not be able to do anything to you directly or even at that exaent but at some point I'd ad you'd not enjoy it at all.-

  Anyways we ate and socialized a bit before the party finally came to an end and I had another month before I had to deal with anything simir again. I was admittedly rather eager to get home after the party up was done because of my sensei's gift. I khat whatever came out of that egg was going to be powerful but exactly what was within the egg was beyond me. Judging from the shape of the egg I was certain that it was some sort of bird. But that didly narrow things at all sih the ehing being covered in gold and jewels I couldn't identify the species based on appearances.-

  Evehis was a chakra beast egg so there was no telling how that affected the design the egg naturally had. When I got bay home in the forest of death I drew the curtains and cleared a small area on the floor of everything before nervously taking the egg out of the sy sensei gave me. To my surprise there was no gold or jewels on the shell whie that she had likely taken them as her own "payment" for undoing the seal. The egg itself was a vibrant blue with brown spots on it.-

  At the top of the egg was the release point for the seal that my seold me about and I pced my finger on it and ied a small amount of chakra which caused the seal keeping the egg in stasis to vanish with a hum.

  "Chee Chee!"

  Immediately sounds of the creature within stirring awake and being active sounded out as the egg began to wobble slightly.

  'She wasn't joking when she said it was ready to hatch.' I thought slightly surprised.

  I watched as the egg shell began to crad bulge slightly as the creature within forced itself out of the egg. Soon enough a fke of the shell dropped off and I could see the wet tan colored body wiggling within the shell. Seeing as the creature needed no help really I just watched as it broke apart it's calcium cage and revealed itself to the world. I had no idea what I was looking at to be ho with you. The chick had long gangly legs and a semi-long beak and neck but otherwise looked like a chi chick as far as I knew.-

  I wasn't surprised to see that the little thing had it's eyes sealed shut as most if not all birds as far as I karted out like that but it would soohe things.

  "Chee! Chee!"

  The small creature chirped loudly until I carefully ed it in a loose warm towel in my p. I watched it for two hours and by the end of that time the chick had it's eyes open and was looking around curiously while it's wet feathers had fluffed up and dried. It holy looked like a tan cotton ball with a long ned legs attached, adorable.-

  What you couldn't see however was the massive inferno of dense chakra within the chick that approached even my own reserves. Even worse was that the chick was just btantly releasing it's chakra which caused the very air around us to feel heavy and howl from the pressure beied. There was a reason why powerful shinobi rarely fred their chakras or let them run wild after all. In this case I wouldn't be surprised to know that the sensor ninja in the vilge were going nuts from this things chakra.-

  Helplessly I had to fre my own chakra before repeatedly taining it again before the small bird started imitati wasn't so surprising really since as far as it was ed I was it's parent and so imitating me was the natural thing to do. In the m I was called into the Hokages office to expin what happened and I introduced the little oo the Hokage with an amused look as the old man looked at the adorable fluffball in my vest breast pocket in horror.