"I'm glad anyone ever polices his behavior but that doesn't mean he's not sometimes being a little subtler."

He nods. "I think he's mostly the type to make stuff weird, which is really bad for some people who're around him? But I'm not sure being kind of creepy is - you can tell someone to leave a restaurant but not society? And as long as I stay a boy around him he's not creepy at me, and I'm the main person he's ever alone with lately?"

"Yeah, I guess. And there's probably bigger priorities than this one guy assuming he's not using his phenomenal ninja powers to terrorize civilian girls with clones while you're not looking, say, because what does 'alone with' mean when you can do clones anyway -"

"Most people can't even maintain one clone. It's too tiring, and gives most people headaches right away. Pervy Sage's max is a few minutes."

"Oh. I guess I've been hanging out with irregular sorts."

"The Hokage are kind of by definition irregular! And I think Sasuke doesn't realize limits, like, exist."

"And I haven't been having trouble so far, though I'm still in single digits."

"Yeah, I don't have trouble with as much as like one or two thousand tactically, though I'll get headaches if I try to read that many books at once."

"That's a lot, wow."

"I didn't even get told about the whole memory returning thing until I was talking to dad! Which I don't get, I could've been studying way more..."

"You didn't notice?"

"I'd only been using them in fights, and I think part of the me not getting headaches thing is the memories kind of just slot in? And I don't notice them all at once. So at the end of a fight I'd have a really good sense of what went down, but that wasn't distinct?"

"Huh! I found it really conspicuous and all I did the first time was split off one clone and have it say a sentence and then dismiss it to be sure I could."

Shrug. "I don't look at my own brain much, too."

"That might be it."

"Also being a jinchuuriki might mess with it somehow?"

"Could ask the fox that too."

"I'll add it to the list!"

And eventually Naruto can be left in his new apartment.

Cam emails Sasuke Naruto's in 406 if you want him.

Thanks.

I'll talk to him, I guess.

Jiraiaya took 408.

I'd rather not run into Jiraiya but I guess I can email Naruto to ask to meet him while he knows his teacher's elsewhere.

Yeah, I told you so you could avoid it. Naruto seems like a great guy!

He's very himself. Makes odd friends.

Odd like how? He did mention the fox but I think if someone's stuck in your head trying to make friends is pretty sensible.