07: Strengthens the Body

"..." The red-haired woman just stared silently at Chohei, herself paying attention to every thing about Chohei, his body, his face, even Chohei's eyes.

After a while, the red-haired woman smiled and sat down next to Chohei.

"What's your name son?"

"My name is Chohei Akimichi, Miss, what is your name?" Chohei asked with a curious face.

Chohei knew that the woman next to him was not Mito Uzumaki, who was the wife of the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, who was most likely an unknown Uzumaki Clan woman.

Because Chohei was very curious about the woman, hearing Chohei's question, made the woman pause for a moment before smiling in response to Chohei's question.

"My name is Akae Uzumaki."

"Uhm... Akae-san why are you in the forest?"

"I'm here, just to have a look, how about you? What are you doing in the woods?"

"I? just got some ingredients for dinner."

"No need to be so polite... By the way can I have your fish?"

"Of course!"

The two of them started eating fish together, Chohei just ate in silence while paying close attention to Akae's face, he felt that he had seen a similar face somewhere, being more curious, then Chohei decided to ask.

"Um... Akae-san, what brought you to Konoha village?"

"Uhm? Do you know about my Clan?"

"Of course! Who doesn't know the Uzumaki Clan, the clan that has an alliance with the Senju Clan, the founder of Konoha Village! Even the wife of the First Hokage, Miss Mito, is from the Uzumaki Clan, right?"

"You really know it."

"Yes!"

"Aunt's grandmother, namely Mito Uzumaki, was the reason I came here, my grandfather, Mito Uzumaki's brother, told me to come to Konoha village, to meet Aunt Mito's grandmother." Akae explained slowly to Chohei.

Hearing that finally Chohei immediately realized who Akae was, she was...

'Kushin's mother! Naruto's grandmother! Ooh!' Chohei was shocked by what he found, who would have thought that he would meet Naruto's grandmother, this made Chohei very excited.

'No wonder she looks just like Kushina! Because she is his mother! Unlucky! Crazy luck, if this is a Gacha then it has to be SSR, Super Super Rare!'

"I see, but what makes you look sad?" Chohei then calmed himself down, before finally noticing the sadness deep within Akae's eyes.

"What?" Akae was surprised by Chohei's question, she looked at the child in front of her, Akae didn't expect that a child would be able to see the emotions she was hiding.

"Eh? Uhm... Am I wrong?"

"...No, you're not wrong, I'm really sad..."

"Why sad? Is it because of the war?"

"!" Akae looked at Chohei's cute little face, she didn't expect Chohei would say things that weren't according to his age.

"Yes..."

"Don't be sad... Sadness won't change anything, if you want to change something then be strong very strong to be able to change something like like War."

"You are a strange child..."

"Hehehe... I'm great!"

...

Time passed quickly, Chohei trained hard to strengthen his body, he worked hard to get stronger.

He somehow often meets Akae, they become closer, their relationship somehow keeps getting better every time they meet.

Akae often comes just to meet and talk with Chohei, not only that sometimes Akae also gives some advice for Chohei's practice.