"Haha, yes, I suppose it would be difficult for the ninja to sleep with that noise."
"Oh no, the ninjas have their own room, thank god. I swear, that man is so loud I could hear it from down stairs!"
"Haha, thank you ma'am, that has really lightened our worries."
"It's my pleasure," and with that she walked away.
The captain turned to his men, "all right lads you heard her, the ninjas sleep alone. When it's dark we'll wait until he falls asleep, and then we'll hit them hard!"
I have to admit, I'm impressed, especially by the way he extracted information from the woman gaining exactly what he wanted to know. Smooth talker that one.
I looked at Ko and he nodded to me. I was surprised, I didn't realise he was also listening in, then again, I suppose that should be the least qualifications for a jonin.
He cleared his throat and spoke, "Yami, I was thinking, perhaps it's best if I take the night shift tonight. It's not healthy for a young child like yourself to stay up so long."
Ping!
Quest Alert!
Stop the pirates from stealing Gembu' rings! Rewards:
+500 EXP Failure:
Main mission get's an automatic fail Do you accept?
Y/N?
"It's fine sensei, I got it," I replied accepting the missing. I quickly finished my fish and soup, munching on the loaf of bread, "it'll be easy, trust me."
Ko raised an eyebrow but nodded, "very well, if you insist."
By the end of dinner Gembu was shit faced drunk. Ko had to actually drag him to his room ad tuck him in. China did her best not to laugh loudly at the man's condition, especially when he began to sing songs about how much in love he was with a woman from his hometown.
China took first watch, she lasted till around midnight when she came and 'woke' me up. I got ready and walked out, as I did I noticed Ko get up from his bed, look at me and node. I sent a node back at him, I was ready. I walked into the corridor and used the hotle key to open Genbu's door. I walked inside and climbed up the walls, pushing myself into a corner of the room and sat there, waiting.
"Snore!" the waitress was right, he did snore like a log. I waited an waited and waited. It was around one in the morning when I saw a ladder being placed on the other side of Genbu's window.
I'm guessing the pirate captain got Genbu's room number from the waitress. I heard whispers as the pirates climbed up the ladder. I saw Saku, the captain, reached the window and slowly pry it open with a knife.
"Quite! He's sleeping!" he whispered to his men shutting them down. He looked around, and blinked, "no ninja's! We're good!" He took one step in, and I moved.
I leaped off the wall and landed right before him, "boo!" "Ah!" Saku cried as he leaped back in surprise, falling backward and falling three stories down, landing on his men.
I blurred through different hand seals before finishing them with the tiger seal, "fire release: flame bullet jutsu!" I spat out globs of fire down at the pirates, causing them all the panic and fall off, dropping the ladder in the process.
I fired a few close to their legs, but none of them reached, they were just warning shots. They yelled in panic as they ran away, screaming about crazy ninjas. I smiled and closed the window, that should keep them at bay.
Ping!
Quest completed!
Stop the pirates from stealing Gembu' rings! Rewards:
+500 EXP "What happened?" asked a drowsy Gembu as he looked around.
"It was just a bird Mr. Gembu, please, go back to sleep, I'll watch over you," I told him with a smile edging him back to bed. I then spent the rest of the night watching over him, only stopping at six when Zumo came to revile me.
When I walked into our room Ko was already awake. He looked up from the book he as reading and smiled, "good job."
"Kept an eye on me did you?" I asked already knowing the answer.
"The Byakugan has many uses, chief among them being the ability to keep track of your allies," he said with a smile.
"Did you sleep much?" I asked washing my face in the bathroom.
"I slept enough after you took care of those pirates. Good job on that by the way, I expected you to be more...deadly, I'm glad you showed restraint." I nodded, but didn't say anything.
We left at around ten that day, Gembu groaning in pain from his hangover while Zumo yawned a lot, guess he wasn't used to sleeping for so long.
But before I left I decided to leave a little something behind. Tucked within the floorboards of the room I used in the inn was one of my fanged daggers with the Flying Thunder God seal. It was just in case I ever need to place to crash, I know right now the chakra usage for such a trip could probably kill me, but just in case.
Around six in the evening we found ourselves coming down a particularly steep hill. We just passed a bend when Gembu stopped and smiled, "we are here."
Sitting across a river was a village built into the side of a mountain. It had light light up all along it's roads and up in the mountain I could see a shrine of some kind glowing brightly with people there celebrating something.
"Is is a festival?" China asked.
"Yes, it's call the festival of the leaves," Gembu smiled as he kicked his horse into motion, with us following behind, "you see, this land wasn't always called the land of tea. Once upon a time it was called the land of Crumbling stone. In the past, before the time of ninja villages, during the time of warring states, the people of this land used to be mighty warriors, wielding not swords or knives, but hammers and maces. Because, the monsters we fought were more...difficult to deal with."
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