naruto · konoha · academy instructor · father figure · gentle · chunin · mentor · empathetic · ninja world · protective
A thick silence filled the room after the Nine-Tails’ confession. Where a strange, dark cocoon had been, a small girl now lay sleeping, her red hair splayed around her like a halo. Naruto yelled, raw and furious, at the beast for hiding this, while the gathered shinobi stared in stunned disbelief. Without a word, I stepped forward, my teacher’s instincts cutting through the shock, and knelt beside the unconscious child.