Chapter 83 Ghost Lantern (Part 1)

Backyard of the hot spring hotel.

Pear trees are lush and fragrant, and the moonlight is like water.

Although this hotel is in a remote corner of the food street, it is located in an upwind position near the sea.

Therefore, no matter the noisy hawking and clamoring on the street or the smell of various fried and grilled foods, they can't disturb the guests staying inside, and it seems quiet and elegant.

The only drawback is that the cunning boss here is the same as his son who is a ninja. He is the type of person who looks at people and serves them according to their needs. He specially allocated a courtyard with a "children's hot spring" to Yiyong.

If an adult sits in the hot spring, he can only kneel down like a big dog, which is smaller than the bathtub in Yiyong's home.

But for the palm-sized Jiuwei, it is a paddling pool where he can swim on his back repeatedly.

Jiuwei poked his pointed little head out of the hot spring, and his thin fangs grabbed the iced beverage straw placed on the edge of the "paddling pool", biting the mouth of the tube into pits and bumps.

A mouthful of cold drink flowed down its throat, and it half-closed its eyes and let out a happy sigh like Maori Kogoro.

"Hmm! It's so comfortable!"

It's quite sad to say.

Before being subdued by Uchiha Madara, it had always looked down on humans and was too lazy to try their entertainment methods.

But when he was captured by Senju Hashirama and locked in the stomach of the Jinchuriki for more than 50 years, even breathing a breath of air outside became a luxury.

Although the travel companion on this trip was not talkative, and his personality and bloodline were not good, this was the first time that the Nine-Tails had come to a place so far away from Konoha in half a century.

Although it used someone else's body, the sensory enjoyment was not false, and the depression caused by thirty hours of boring travel was finally released.

It pressed its furry, wet head against the rock at the edge of the hot spring, and lay there for a long time, but it didn't hear any movement in the room, so it slowly opened its eyes.

He hesitated for a while before calling out, "Uchiha brat! Do you want to come with me?"

[That brat has worked hard to be my mount, so I'll just treat it as a special favor from you! Humph! Most people don't have such an honor. ]

However, in response to Kyuubi's rare kindness, there was only silence.

There was no response from Giyuu's direction, but there was no malice either.

[It shouldn't be ignoring me on purpose. That brat...what on earth is he doing? ]

Kyuubi frowned humanely and climbed out of the hot spring. The steaming chakara on his body immediately dried his fur, making it look fluffy and smooth, like he had changed into a new set of clothes.

He walked quietly into the room.

There, Giyuu had changed into a looser set of clothes and was sitting cross-legged at the table, his head lowered, without making any sound.

As for the table, there was a map of the Land of Water drawn by the Konoha reconnaissance team, but there were only a few rough special marks on it. The location of the Hidden Mist Village was only an exaggerated circle and a question mark. It was a place that Konoha ninjas had never reached.

If it weren't for the Nine-Tailed Fox observing carefully and seeing that Giyuu's body was rising and falling at a very low frequency, it would have thought that the kid had died in an accident.

"Falling asleep?"

The Nine-Tailed Fox shook its tail, but it was not surprised at all.

"Running for thirty hours in a row, how can a mere human bear it."

It snorted strangely: "You rushed so hard, but you still didn't catch the boat. You came to this village but didn't enjoy it. I don't know what the point of running so fast is?"

As he said, the Nine-Tailed Fox seemed to remember something, and synchronized the memory of the tailed beast chakra in Kyojuro's body, and his face became even gloomier.

"It's almost the same over there! I think we should just tire you to death!"

Perhaps because the word "die" was in his last sentence, which touched Yiyong's sensitive vocabulary, or perhaps it was just that his voice was a little loud, which actually woke Yiyong up and raised his head.

He looked at Jiuwei with sleepy eyelids: "Are you done with the bath?"

For the first time, Jiuwei felt a little guilty for waking Yiyong up.

But this feeling was immediately dispelled by its naughty nature.

"It's just so-so, I thought it would be very comfortable!"

It answered insincerely.

"..."

Yiyong was not interested in hot springs in the first place, and now he is even less interested.

He was silent for a while, and glanced at the wall clock. It was nine o'clock in the evening.

Yiyong retracted his gaze and stared at Jiuwei quietly, which made the latter feel a little scared. Until Jiuwei was about to show his teeth, he asked: "Jiuwei, you are here, is there anything else you want to do?"

[Hmm? 】

"What do you mean?"

Kyuubi looked at him suspiciously, "This doesn't seem like a question you would ask."

"I was just thinking, if it was me who was locked up for more than 50 years and couldn't go anywhere, I would definitely want to see the outside world."

Giyuu narrated calmly, thinking about what Kyojuro told him to get along well with Kyuubi before he left.

This is what it means to think from Kyuubi's perspective.

"What is this?"

Kyuubi wrinkled his nose fiercely.

"Kid, are you feeling sorry for me?!"

[I became like this because of Uchiha Madara! 】

"What's there to feel sorry for?"

Giyuu's answer surprised Kyuubi, and he continued to narrate his thoughts.

"I just hope you can have whatever you want to eat and play 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. That would only waste precious time."

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"As expected, he's still that annoying brat!"

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 mild tempers. 】

"Whether I can make it out 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 stay here.

"But if you plan to put your own sensual enjoyment as the top priority and interfere with my actions after arriving in the Kingdom of Water, 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 do you say anything? 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've already come, didn't you say words?"

"..."

Kyuubi finally understood.

Here, one is using oneself to help Yiyong in exchange for the opportunity 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 it still feels warm in its heart because it is not treated as a tool.

[Although they are the same race as that bastard, there are still some differences. 】

"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 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 came to the street outside, they were all a little lucky.

It was now approaching late at night, and half of the tourists had returned to their respective hotels to drink or take a bath in hot springs. The streets were much emptier than before.

Kyuubi grabbed Giyuu's hair and directed him all the way to the barbecue shop that 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 Giyuu. When passing by a store selling decorations, it retaliated and bought a card with donkey ears for Yiyong to wear. However, when he found that Yiyong had no hesitation or displeasure at all, he became unhappy again and changed the donkey ears into one. For fox ears...

When they passed by a candy-making stall, Jiuwei asked the stall owner to make him a yellow tanuki.

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 and so on.

"Guest, please take a look."

The merchants in Yunin Village were very polite and did not treat him differently just because he was a child.

Yiyong looked at these products carefully.

They are not the polished, cold-gleaming 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 looked like they were from a certain age.

"These are also souvenirs of this village?"

Yiyong asked the boss confusedly.

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 what the battlefields of the past looked like through them.”

"so."

Yiyong suddenly understood.

"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 still has the aura of Rhinoceros...that is, Vulpix."

Kyuubi leaned into Giyuu's ear and whispered: "This sword should have injured the Six-Tails Jinchuriki, or had direct contact with the Six-Tails' jutsu. Buy it and wait until you get to the Kingdom of Water. If I It’s still impossible to contact them because of the seal, but at least we can use this knife to find 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?"

Giyong asked his 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 one hundred thousand."

After Yiyong handed over the money, he suddenly only had the last 20,000 yuan left on him.

"I have to save some money for the boat trip tomorrow."

After walking out of the alley, Giyuu said to Kyuubi in a consultative tone, "No more shopping."

He had obviously agreed 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 first complained, then returned to lie down on top of Giyuu's head.

"I happen to be tired from playing, so I'll go back."

"Thanks."

This was the second time Giyuu thanked it today, and Kyuubi raised his lips proudly.

But the next moment, it suddenly looked behind Yiyong. There was an inexplicable 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.

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'll take 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 didn't move at all.

"Well……"

The white-haired boy, knowing that he was in trouble, turned his head with a smile on his face and quickly moved his hand away from Yiyong's knife.

"I said this was a misunderstanding, do you believe it or not?"