[ Naruto watches, listens, and without the device to concentrate on he's able to pay attention to every inch of Houou's face as he think-talks at him. He notices that frown. He even thinks that he might relate to it, just a little bit.
When he's told to keep the rock, that he'd be welcomed into a clan a member of which has only just met him, to have such vibrant and honest acceptance so readily offered is... a lot. He's never experienced that before, and his hands go a little tighter around the rock. ]
Thank you. It doesn't feel like enough. I wish I had somethin' to give back to you...
[ He pauses, thinking, then sighs quietly and looks up at Houou with a firey determination in his eyes. ]
My word will have to do it. Just like you've accepted me into your clan, I'll accept you into mine. I don't have much right now, but I'm gonna be the hokage some day and when I do then I'll have the village to offer ya. If ya ever need some place to go, or consider home, then my village will be there.
[ He doesn't really have the right to promise that right now, nor can he really fully promise anything when their worlds are so distinctly apart from one another but.. it's the thought that counts. ]
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When he's told to keep the rock, that he'd be welcomed into a clan a member of which has only just met him, to have such vibrant and honest acceptance so readily offered is... a lot. He's never experienced that before, and his hands go a little tighter around the rock. ]
Thank you. It doesn't feel like enough. I wish I had somethin' to give back to you...
[ He pauses, thinking, then sighs quietly and looks up at Houou with a firey determination in his eyes. ]
My word will have to do it. Just like you've accepted me into your clan, I'll accept you into mine. I don't have much right now, but I'm gonna be the hokage some day and when I do then I'll have the village to offer ya. If ya ever need some place to go, or consider home, then my village will be there.
[ He doesn't really have the right to promise that right now, nor can he really fully promise anything when their worlds are so distinctly apart from one another but.. it's the thought that counts. ]