The pear trees are thick and fragrant, and the moonlight is like water.
Although this hotel is in a remote corner of the food court, it is located upwind near the seaside.
Therefore, whether it is the noisy hawking noise on the street or the smell of various fried and barbecued foods, it cannot disturb the guests living inside, making it appear quiet and elegant.
The only drawback is that the treacherous boss here, like his son who is a ninja, is the type to take care of others, so he specially allocated a courtyard with a "children's hot spring" to Yiyong.
If an adult sits in the hot spring, he can only squat in it with his knees bent like a big dog. The size is smaller than the bathtub at Yiyong's house.
But for Kyuubi, who is only the size of a palm, it is a paddling pool that can be used for backstroke repeatedly.
Kyuubi poked its pointed little head out of the hot spring, and grabbed the ice-cold drink straw placed on the edge of the "playing pool" with its thin fangs, biting the mouth of the tube into a pit.
A mouthful of cold drink poured into his body. He half-closed his eyes and let out a happy sigh like Mouri Kogoro's.
"Hmm! It's so comfortable!"
It sounds quite bitter to say.
Before being subdued by Uchiha Madara, it had never looked down upon humans and was too lazy to try their entertainment methods.
But when he was captured by Senju Hashirama and imprisoned in the Jinchūriki's belly for more than fifty years, even breathing outside air became a luxury.
Although the traveling companion on this trip is not talkative and has a lackluster personality and bloodline, this is the first time that Kyuubi has been to a place so far away from Konoha in half a century.
Although it uses someone else's body, the sensory enjoyment is not false, and the depression caused by thirty hours of boring travel is finally released.
It put its furry, wet head against the rocks at the edge of the hot spring and lay there for a while, but did not hear any movement in the room before slowly opening its eyes.
He hesitated for a while before shouting: "Uchiha brat! Do you want to come with me?"
[It’s hard work for that kid to be my mount, so just think it’s me being extra merciful! Hum! Most people don’t have such an honor. 】
However, there was only silence in response to Kyuubi's rare kindness.
There was no response from Yiyong's direction, but there was no malicious intent at all.
[You probably didn’t ignore me on purpose. What on earth is that kid doing? 】
Kyuubi frowned humanely and crawled out of the hot spring. The steaming chakara from his body immediately dried his hair, making it look fluffy and soft, as if he had changed clothes.
He walked quietly to the room.
There, Yiyong changed into looser clothes and was sitting cross-legged at the table, his head lowered and not making any sound.
As for the table, there is a map of the Kingdom of Water drawn by Konoha's reconnaissance team, but there are only a few rough places with special markings on it. The location of Kirigakure Village only has an exaggerated circle and a question mark. That is
A place where Konoha ninjas have never been.
If Kyuubi hadn't observed carefully and saw that Giyuu's body was rising and falling slightly at a very low frequency, it would have thought that the kid had died in some accident.
"Fell asleep?"
Kyuubi flicked his tail, but he wasn't surprised at all.
"After running for thirty hours straight, how can a mere human being endure it?"
It snorted weirdly: "You are running so hard, but you still missed the boat. If you don't enjoy this village well, what's the point of running so fast?"
As he said that, Kyuubi synchronized the memory of the tailed beast chakra in Anjurou's body as if he remembered something, and his expression became even more gloomy.
"It's almost the same over there! I think you might as well just tire yourself out!"
Maybe it was because the word "death" was included in his last sentence, which touched Yiyong's sensitive vocabulary, or maybe it was just that the sound was a bit loud, and it actually made Yiyong wake up and raise his head.
He looked at Kyuubi with anxious double eyelids: "Have you finished soaking it?"
For the first time, Kyuubi felt a little guilty in his heart for waking up Giyuu.
But this feeling was immediately dispelled by its stubborn nature.
"That's all. I thought it would be very comfortable!"
It answered insincerely.
"..."
Yiyong was not interested in hot springs in the first place, and even less so now.
He was silent for a while and glanced at the clock on the wall. It was now nine o'clock in the evening.
Jiyong withdrew his gaze and stared at Kyuubi's stillness, which made the latter slightly twitchy. It wasn't until Kyuubi was about to bar his teeth that he asked: "Kyuubi, what else do you want to do while you are here?
?"
【Um?】
"What's the meaning?"
Kyuubi looked at him suspiciously, "This doesn't seem like a question you would ask."
"I was just thinking that if it were me who had been imprisoned for more than fifty years and couldn't go anywhere, I would definitely want to see the outside world."
Giyuu narrated calmly, thinking about Anjurou's words before he left to ask him and Kyuubi to get along well.
The so-called thinking from Kyuubi's point of view should be like this.
"what is this?"
Kyuubi wrinkled his nose fiercely.
"Kid, are you pitying me?!"
[It’s not Uchiha Madara’s fault that I’ve become like this! 】
"What's so pitiful about you?"
Jiyu's answer surprised Kyuubi, and he continued to describe his thoughts.
"I just hope you can eat and play whatever you want tonight.
"When we go to sea tomorrow, you can either stay with me honestly or get rid of your clone.
"I don't have the extra attention to focus on restraining you. It would only be a waste of precious time."
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"As expected, he's still that annoying kid!"
Kyuubi snorted coldly.
"Without me, do you think you can come back from the Kingdom of Water alive? There are two of my companions in that village. Since you want my help, is there anything wrong with meeting my needs? We are originally from different sides.
Just take what you need.”
[Although I didn’t have a good relationship with them before, these two guys have very gentle tempers.]
"Whether I can leave alive is not my priority."
Yiyong gently stroked his sleepy eyes, looking less tired than before.
"If because of your wanton behavior, I have to distract myself, causing the rescue operation to be delayed, and someone is killed, then I would rather commit suicide after this matter is over, and die to apologize."
He said it casually, but Kyuubi only felt a chill on his back, and then a chill all over his body.
"Tonight is a special situation. There are no ships going out to sea, so I will stop here.
"But if you plan to put your own sensory enjoyment as the top priority and interfere with my actions after arriving in the Kingdom of Water, as before, then after tonight, you can cancel the clone on your own. I can't take you there.
.You will only become a problem."
Kyuubi was so angry that he really wanted to die in front of him on the spot.
"Since you think I'm a trouble, why are you saying that after tonight, do it now and expose this clone. I'm useless to you anyway, right? Why bother?"
"Aren't you going to enjoy yourself tonight?"
This time it was Yiyong's turn to be confused, "Even if you have to release the shadow clone tomorrow, all the feelings and memories tonight will be brought to the original body, right? Do you want to come here in vain? You have come here, didn't you say so?
If so?"
"..."
Kyuubi finally understood.
Here, you are using yourself to help the volunteers in exchange for opportunities to play, so these two things are actually the same thing.
But in this kid's mind, taking him out to play and asking him to help are two independent events, and there is no exchange relationship.
I don’t know why, but this kid’s words are obviously very irritating, but he still feels warm in his heart because he is not treated as a tool.
[Although they are the same race as that bastard, there are still some differences after all. 】
"Who wants you to pretend to be kind!"
It flicked its tail, rolled its eyes, and suddenly had an idea.
"Then let's make a promise! Tonight, you can buy me whatever I want to eat, and you can play with me whatever I want to play. When we get to the Kingdom of Water, I won't be able to feel anything I do anyway, so I'll just
How about following your orders?"
"no problem."
Yiyong immediately agreed.
"Okay!" Kyuubi excitedly swept away the papers with his tail, "Then let's go shopping now!"
One person and one fox, they went out together like this.
When they reached the street outside, they were all a little lucky.
Now that it is approaching late at night, half of the tourists have returned to their hotels to drink or take a bath in hot springs. The streets are much emptier than before.
Kyuubi grabbed Giyuu's hair and directed him all the way to the barbecue shop he longed for, and ordered a grilled octopus coated with sauce.
Although the current Kyuubi is only a little bigger than a palm, it is a bottomless pit of chakra, and it can easily get rid of the food.
In the next two hours, Jiuwei ordered a large number of strange-looking marine fish along the street. He took a bite of each one, keeping the delicious ones for himself and throwing the unpalatable ones to Yiyong. Passing by a shop
When decorating the store, he retaliated by buying a card with donkey ears for Yiyong to wear. However, when he found that Yiyong showed no hesitation or displeasure at all, he became unhappy again and replaced the donkey ears with a pair of fox ears.
…
When they passed by a candy-making stall, Jiuwei asked the stall owner to make him a yellow civet cat.
But after getting the thing, Jiuwei did not eat the candy man, but trampled the tanuki to pieces in front of the stall owner, and burst into bursts of hearty laughter, which forced Yiyong to apologize.
In this way, after eating, drinking and having fun for a while, the bright moon in the sky was gradually obscured by thick clouds.
Yiyong was a little worried, fearing that the rain would interfere with the boat going out to sea.
Kyuubi, on the other hand, was a little disinterested. It knew it was time to go back to the hotel.
"Wait!"
When passing by an alley, Kyuubi called out to Giyuu, and his face became solemn as he lay on top of the latter.
"Is there anything else you want to buy?"
"No, this time it's something useful to you."
Kyuubi commanded arrogantly, "Go forward along this path."
He grabbed Yiyong's hair and pushed him forward, and the latter walked all the way to the end, and unexpectedly found a stall outside a souvenir shop.
What is on the stall is not the specialty of Yunin Village, but the special weapons all over the place - kunai, shuriken, ninja sword, katana, spear, sickle, etc.
"Guest, please take a look."
The merchants in Tangren Village were very polite and did not treat me differently just because I was a child.
Yiyong looked at these products carefully.
They are not the polished and shiny new ones found in Konoha ninja shops.
On the contrary, the weapons sold at the stalls were either rusty and curled, or were bent and broken. None of them were intact. At first glance, they looked like they had gone through many vicissitudes of life and were weather-beaten, and they were dated items.
"These are also souvenirs of this village?"
Yiyong asked the boss doubtfully.
Didn’t you say that this is a village that advocates peace?
"It's a souvenir, but it has nothing to do with Yunin Village."
The owner of the store quickly introduced: "These were picked up from various famous battlefields when I traveled around the country a few years ago. They are all relics of ninjas who died in the war. Some people like this kind of objects.
It’s like you can see through them what the battlefields of the past looked like.”
"so."
Yiyong understood immediately.
"That knife."
At this time, Kyuubi pointed at a sheathed katana with his tail.
Yiyong followed its instructions, picked up the knife, put it in front of him, and slowly unsheathed the knife in a formal manner.
An obvious sense of ominousness came from the sword, and Yiyong frowned.
"This is……"
"It has the scent of Rhinoceros...that is, Vulpix."
Kyuubi leaned into Giyuu's ear and whispered: "This sword should have injured the Six-Tails Jinchuuriki, or had direct contact with the Six-Tails' jutsu. Buy it and wait until I get to the Kingdom of Water. If I
It’s still because of the seal that we can’t contact them, but at least we can use this knife to find the Vulpix.”
Yiyong slowly opened his eyes, tilted his head and said, "Thank you."
This is an unexpected surprise.
If all the Jinchuuriki stayed in the village like Naruto, then Kyuubi would at least be able to find the location of Kirigakure Village through this thing.
Kyuubi didn't respond, but it was quite useful to see the proud look on his face.
"How much does this knife cost?"
Yiyong asked the boss.
"You have really good sense! I picked up this knife on the beach. It must have floated over from the direction of the Kingdom of Water."
The boss pulled out the blade and said, "Although there are some gaps on it, it is a chakra weapon after all. Generally only jounin can afford it. The person who owns it may be one of the seven ninja swordsmen."
.If you want to buy it, one hundred thousand."
"Chakra weapon?"
Giyu understood. It seemed that this sword could not only be used to find the location of Kirigakure Village, but could also be used temporarily for combat. Otherwise, he could only use his hands every time he switched to Breath of Fire, and the attack range would be too short.
"Then just one hundred thousand."
After Yiyong handed over the money, he suddenly only had the last 20,000 yuan left on him.
"I have to leave some money for the boat trip tomorrow."
After walking out of the alley, Giyuu said to Kyuubi in a negotiating tone, "No more shopping."
He had obviously agreed before that Kyuubi would buy him everything he wanted, but he didn't expect to change his mind so soon. Giyuu felt a little ashamed.
"Then why don't you negotiate the price?"
Kyuubi complained at first, then returned to lie down on top of Giyuu's head.
"I just happened to be tired from playing, so I'll go back."
"Thanks."
This was the second time Yiyong thanked it today, and Kyuubi raised his lips proudly.
But the next moment, it suddenly looked behind Yiyong. There was an inexplicable wave of malice directed at Yiyong, but because it was not serious and did not reach the point of killing, it did not remind him.
A burst of fast but light footsteps pattered behind Yiyong. Soon, the fast running man came to Yiyong's side.
Kyuubi watched carefully.
It was a young man with a mouth full of tiny fangs, white hair, and short-sleeved tights.
When he passed by Yiyong, he grabbed the knife in Yiyong's hand and grinned at Yiyong: "Handsome guy! This knife may belong to one of my idols! I will accept it first!"
After saying that, he turned around confidently and ran away with the knife.
However, as Yiyong stopped in place, he also stood there unable to move. The knife in Yiyong's hand did not move at all.
"Well……"
Knowing that he was in trouble, the white-haired boy turned his head with a smile on his face and quickly removed his hand from Yiyong's knife.
"I said this was a misunderstanding, do you believe it or not?"