"Five-Tails Jinchuriki..." Utakata unconsciously put down the drink and snacks in his hands, looking warily at the man sitting next to him, who wore red armor and had a calm expression. He said in a low voice, "Han?"
Why has the Five-Tails Jinchuriri also come here?
Three-Tails, Four-Tails, Five-Tails, Six-Tails...
The tailed beasts that Iwagakure and Kirigakure spent huge sums to acquire back then have all come to the Land of Whirlpools now?!
"Enough, Six-Tails Jinchuriki," Han said without looking up, his tone annoyed. "I have no money to cause trouble here. Damaging public property or causing a disturbance in a public place will result in fines and detention. If someone dies..."
He casually picked up the snack Utakata had dropped on the floor and popped it into his mouth...
"Tch, tch, you could go to jail, you know~"
He shouldn't have listened to Roshi's nonsense about getting rich. The little money he earned from selling chakra was just enough for him to scrape by in the Land of Whirlpools.
Especially in recent years, with the rise of electric energy, the purchase price for chakra had gradually decreased. Coupled with the ever-increasing housing prices...
Becoming wealthy was impossible!!!
And he had inquired about it...
That bastard Roshi's first pot of gold didn't come from selling chakra at all. He got it from manual labor and by capitalizing on the good times during the land reclamation projects in the Land of Whirlpools.
So, he planned to wait until after the New Year, during the good job-hunting season, to see what jobs suited him. As for working for Roshi?
He was the Five-Tails Jinchuriki, one more tail than the Four-Tails Jinchuriki. Working for him would be really embarrassing!
"So, sit down. We don't need to clash here in the Land of Whirlpools."
Hearing Han's words, Utakata thought for a moment and sat down. He bent over and picked up the snacks and drinks he had dropped on the floor.
Indeed...
Fighting here could easily lead to trouble. Besides, wasn't the reason he wandered around to find a country where he could live a quiet life?
If that was the case, why start a fight now?
"Hey, hey, that's my stuff."
Seeing Han still sneaking bites of his snack, Utakata quickly reached out to take it back...
"Didn't anyone ever tell you not to eat other people's food without permission?"
"No!" Han directly grabbed a large handful of popcorn, stuffed it into his mouth, shook his head, and said, "I am a shinobi. Stealing food from others is normal."
Shinobi cannot be judged by common sense!
"This is the Land of Whirlpools," Utakata said, seeing that Han wouldn't let go and was stubbornly holding on. He sighed, didn't take the snack back, took a sip of his soda, and said irritably, "Stealing is illegal."
"Oh, then I misspoke." Han frowned upon hearing this, thought for a moment, and said, "I picked it up off the ground. That shouldn't be illegal, right?"
"..."
Are you a three-year-old child?
How can you have the nerve to say you picked up snacks from the ground to eat...
Utakata rolled his eyes and said helplessly, "Forget it, consider it my treat."
It seemed this Five-Tails Jinchuriki was also a Jinchuriki who wasn't doing well financially!!!
He suddenly felt a sense of camaraderie, that they were both fellow sufferers adrift in a harsh world...
He...
was not the only poor Jinchuriki!
He looked up at the big screen...
"Isn't there a performance? Why isn't there any movement?"
"Probably not time yet," Han said while eating. "According to the schedule, it starts promptly at ten. There are still a few minutes to go."
They were handing out pamphlets at the entrance; he had already seen it. There were quite a few programs, and the Land of Whirlpools...
also had a lot of people~
"What do you think of the Land of Whirlpools?"
"..."
Hearing Han's question, Utakata fell silent for a moment, a calm expression on his face. "It's good..."
He paused...
"At least I've been very happy here."
Although he didn't have much money...
He could no longer feel the tension, fear, and disgust he used to feel. It was as if...
this country had accepted him!
You have to understand...
He wasn't just a shinobi, he was a Jinchuriki!
His face showed deep emotion...
"It's really an incredible country!"
"Yeah!" Han also nodded, a trace of confusion in his eyes as he murmured, "It really is incredible."
No wonder Roshi had been unwilling to leave the Land of Whirlpools for so many years. It seemed it wasn't just because he couldn't bear to part with those seventeen hot pot restaurants, but because this place...
had accepted monsters like them!
After coming here, he also felt himself integrating into this country at an incredible speed.
Including the food, housing, transportation, entertainment...
He had already gotten used to it all.
"The Daimyo of the Land of Whirlpools is indeed just as the entire shinobi world says..."
Han looked at Utakata, who was also a Jinchuriki beside him...
"Amazing!!!"
Using incredible laws to erode the conflicts between shinobi and ordinary people, tailed beasts and humans, and humans and humans.
Coupled with universally education, children no longer discriminated against tailed beasts, no longer feared shinobi, and simply viewed shinobi as a profession.
And...
The Land of Whirlpools was indeed gradually moving towards its goal...
Using shinobi for manual labor, charcoal burning, clothing production...
It was simply an incredible idea!
Of course, if you were a shinobi, you still received some preferential treatment when participating in work.
But this did not prevent ordinary people's perception of shinobi from changing from cold and cruel...
"I've found that I'm very happy living here too!"
It's just that the money he worked so hard to save over several years of missions was spent so quickly. The currency of the Land of Whirlpools was truly detestable; it just didn't last!
And then...
"Boom~!"
Suddenly, a brilliant light flashed...
"Boom boom~!"
Immediately after, as fireworks bloomed one after another in the sky, the program officially began.
"Hey, hey, you finished yours, stop reaching for mine." Utakata said irritably when he saw Han's hand secretly reaching for his snacks again. "I need these to last until the show ends!"
This Iwagakure Jinchuriki...
Is too shameless!!!
...
"When did you get back?" Uzumaki Jun asked, looking at Tobi, who had been eating nonstop beside him. He was taken aback and asked, "Didn't you eat today?"
You're acting like a starving ghost~
"You understand, Lord Jun," Tobi raised his head, a somewhat embarrassed smile on his face as he scratched the back of his head. "We don't need to eat, it's just because..."
It's too delicious!!!
After so many years without tasting the delicacies of the Land of Whirlpools, eating them again now...
Tobi felt he was so moved he could almost cry.
"As for how I got back..."
He glanced at the red-haired child next to him who was looking at him curiously...
This must be that little baby Lord Madara liked so much back then. To think he's already this big now~
I think his name is Itachi, right?
Tobi nodded at Itachi with a smile, then looked up at Uzumaki Jun again, wearing a helpless expression...
"The mortgage I took out last time isn't paid off yet, so..."
He didn't finish his sentence and just lowered his head to keep eating.
After all...
Some things didn't need to be stated so clearly, and if he said anything careless about the Finance Minister and that stern-faced god heard about it...
Tobi shuddered...
Better to just eat!
Hearing Tobi's words, Uzumaki Jun, who was beside him, was speechless...
Just how obsessed is Kakuzu with money?
To think that even though Black Zetsu sent out thousands of White Zetsu and couldn't find Tobi, Kakuzu the debt collector managed to find him in the end?
Indeed...
No wonder most people in the Land of Whirlpools who owe money are afraid of Kakuzu.
He sighed, looking at Tobi who was still eating away...
"It's good that you're back..."
His face showed emotion...
"Last time I saw Boss Madara, he asked how you were doing. Asked if you were still eating dirt. He said if you weren't happy..."
He looked up at the fireworks suddenly exploding in the sky...
"To tell me to bring you back..."
"I..." Hearing Lord Jun's words, Tobi's eating movements suddenly stopped. He stared blankly at the pancake in his hand, then looked down at the red-haired child secretly reaching out to grab his pancake. After a moment of silence, he handed one over, a foolish smile on his face as he said, "This one is delicious. Lord Madara liked eating these very much back in the day!"
Even later, when he was too old to chew properly, he would still buy one and keep it on his person, waiting until it got cold...
Then give it to him to eat...