Journey of Desires

As a result, the brother returned from the samurai after 4 hours, looking disgruntled and even a little annoyed. So what happened?

- What's wrong with the samurai? Why do I see such a disappointed face? Isn't he real?

- That's right. I spent 3 hours looking for this samurai, asking everyone I could, but all I got in response was a bewildered face that literally had only one eye expressing the thought "Samurai? Where would he come from in our town?". In the end I found only a building described by that visitor from "Tanuki Abode", it turned out that this samurai was just traveling and was here for a couple of days.

Yeah, I get it. For Ban, the interest in studying the edged weapons of this world is almost as great as my interest in playing board games. Still, there is chakro-conducting steel here, which is not so rare, at least a great number of samurai of the land of iron use such blades. And it's a material he's never encountered before.

- Don't feel bad, why don't we go to Orochimaru? It's his country, and he owns several kusanagi blades, you can buy the one he gave to Sasuke in canon.

- O_O. Oh-oh, you're a genius! Let's go right now!

He was about to run off to find the village of sound, but as soon as he got to the door and noticed I wasn't going anywhere, he made a puzzled face. I had to show him at the window, but we arrived in the evening and Ban spent 4 hours looking for the samurai, the time was approaching midnight, and we don't like traveling at night.

***

The next day, as usual, Ban got up too early from excitement, and then pulled me to look for information about Orochimaru. The diner was a good place to get something to eat first, and after a quick bake, we went to look for someone with information about the sound village. Kirihyoro Town landowner's office, 20 minutes after brother and sister's breakfast.

- Come on, come on! Just tell me how to find the village of sound and you won't get hurt again! Ban stood on the desk and held the man's leg, two minutes earlier he had burst into the office and started asking how to get to the village of sound, the man was rather startled. I wonder when it would get to Ban that if he had asked calmly, he would have been answered. Still, the location of almost all Shinobi villages from what I understood from conversations with the locals is not a big secret.

- Just let him go! He must have misunderstood you.

- What's there to misunderstand?

- Ban gently put the man on the floor and sat down beside him.

- I! Need! To! Know! Where! Is! Sound Village! Trade, I want to trade with the local kage. The man immediately became puzzled, yet he thought that this blue-haired bandit broke in and asked for information about the location of our country's village, and this information is needed by this bandit to sell to the enemies of the village of sound.

- Ah! Yes, of course! I'll mark it on the map now, just please get away from me and give me space. In the same instant, Ban was literally in different corners of the room in 2 seconds, and when he returned to his original place, he was already holding a map and a piece of scribe coal in his hands.

- Show me!

***

Thanks to the twins' speed, they found themselves in the vicinity of the place the man had indicated earlier. There was no ninja village in sight, but there were ninjas with a sound protector that jumped out at you with a kunai and shouted "Halt!".

Ban decided not to waste any time, ignoring the warnings and walking straight towards the sound chunin he just smiled and looked at the poor ninja as if he were the greatest treasure that could be found in a place like this.

The ninja did not hesitate and struck Ban with his kunai when he got close enough, of course the shinobi was not strong enough to cut through Ban's muscles, but he was able to cut through the bloody skin, which was commendable. It was useless, but the wound healed half a second later. Ban grabbed the chunin by the shoulder and, with a polite smile, voiced his demands.

- I want Orochimaru. I don't care how you can get my message across or through whom, I need to meet with the snake sannin. You can tell him I can help him fulfill his lifelong dream. Now, unless you want to become a eunuch, get out of here and do my bidding. Five seconds later, the shinobi was gone.

- Mmmm, I think you overdid it, he was still doing his duty, though I must admit your methods worked this time. Maybe in this world I won't have to deal with all the conflicts between you and all the other people.

- It doesn't matter, what matters now is when we get to talk to Orochimaru.- Aren't you forgetting something?

- Uh. No?

- How are they gonna find us? We'll have to sit and wait in this place, where's my favorite chair, get it please.

Raising his hand Ban formed a black and white distortion in the space from which slowly floated out a rather large chair with a back and upholstery in the form of very soft wool of the monster from Purgatory.

- Thank you, and now we wait. Would you like to play a game of cards? I don't know how long we have to wait anyway.

- Come on, I did manage to pull out two wins last month, and I'm determined to make it three wins this time!

***

Orochimaru stood on the edge of the balcony and watched the fruits of his experiments with the cursed seal fight in the arena below. At the moment, the strength of people under this seal is quite mediocre, this experiment so far shows rather bad fruits, but for a scientist a negative result is also a result.

Just at the end of the fight, a man who looked about 25 years old, in the clothes of a chunin of the village of sound, approached Orochimaru in the room.

- Lord Orochimaru, 8 minutes ago, chunin Hakato Mikashi returned to the village. He is extremely scared and kept rushing to you, asking to convey information about two violators of the security border of our village, and also does not stop saying words about the invulnerable Oni. When questioned in more detail, he said that he met a very tall man who completely ignored all warnings and as a result Mikashi was forced to strike this man, but his attack not only failed, it could not damage anything except the skin, and even that wound on the skin healed within a second.

In response, he heard only a hoarse laugh, and a short phrase.

- Well, we are already finished with the tests anyway, lead to where Mikashi is now.

***

- Lord Orochimaru! I met a very tall man who...

The chunin was about to report to his kage, but Orochimaru interrupted him, saying that his words had already been conveyed to him.

- Is there any other information?

- Yes! Lord Orochimaru, this Oni caught me in a hold and threatened to inflict very serious wounds, and told me to go to you and convey the words that he can help you fulfill the wish of your life.

- Where is he now?

- I don't know, Lord Orochimaru, but when I left he remained in place without giving any intention of going anywhere.- Lead the way.

***

It will soon be 20 minutes since we started our game, but the situation still doesn't want to go in my favor, it looks like the first match this month will be Kiliya's.

- And don't you feel sorry for your brother's self-esteem? Would you give in for the sake of decency?

- He-he, brother, and remind me, who of us never gave in when we first started this tradition?- Karma?

- Karma!Then we continued in silence, and yet it is unfair, with her skills and direction of the magic section she can remember absolutely all the cards that have already been shown and which ones have not yet been shown, yes, it is almost the same as looking at the opponent's cards through an x-ray. It is possible to defeat her only with the help of incredible luck, when she simply does not have any useful cards left at the end to show at least some kind of resistance.

***

And at that moment, when the deck of cards had already been spent and the only remaining cards remained in the hands of the brother and sister, new guests arrived at the meeting place of Ban and the Chunin of Sound. These were Orochimaru and that same Chunin, Sanin decided not to take more people since, apparently, the person who wants to meet him has enough strength to completely ignore the Chunin, and therefore taking the Sound ninja to help is tantamount to sending them to certain death, which is an extremely wasteful way to manage a ninja village, especially in the conditions of such a small and new village as the Sound village.Naturally, Ban and Kilia immediately noticed Orochimaru's arrival, but they did not express any intention of stopping the game.

- Welcome, my name is Ban, and this is my sister Kilia. Please sit down, as soon as we finish our game I will explain why I called you.

In addition to the two chairs on opposite sides of the table, there was another one in the middle, although it was on the opposite side from where Orochimaru and his subordinate came from, and he had to go around the table to the other side.

Sanin approached the chair, thinking that if chairs and a table appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the clearing, it meant that the interlocutors were either knowledgeable in fuinjutsu or rich enough to spend scrolls on carrying ordinary furniture.

- Mikashi!

- Yes! Lord Orochimaru!

- You are free to return to the village.

Chunin glanced warily at the blue-haired Oni, then said "Yes!", and headed back to the village. Coincidentally, the match between the relatives ended at that moment.

- Yes! Brother, you lost again, +1 to the score in my favor, hehe!

Ban only sighed in disappointment and turned his head towards Sanin, after which he returned to a good mood in anticipation of receiving an excellent example of a weapon for his collection.

- Well, I don't like to play long conversations, so I'll tell you the gist briefly. I need an excellent sword, I know that you must have Kusanagi swords, I need the one with the best chakra conductivity. In exchange, I want to sell you information about the types of immortality and also give you the DNA of an immortal being.

- Hoo? I'm surprised that you know about my main goal, I must admit I'm interested in this kind of exchange. Regarding the chakra of the Kusanagi sword, there are no problems.

At that moment, Orochimaru opened his mouth wide like a snake and took out a sealing scroll, after which, having fed chakra into it, the very same Kusanagi sword appeared on the table.

- Here it is, tell me about immortality, if this is information that I did not know before, then I am interested in an exchange, a blade in exchange for the DNA of an immortal.

- No problem! But it turns out unfair, then in exchange for information about immortality, I need you to tell me where I can find scrolls about the era of warring states, I need information about 100 or 200 years old, scrolls concerning the Uchiha, Senju and Sarutobi clans, about that old.- Okay, it will be an equal exchange. Information for information, and an item for an item.