Journey of Desires

Today, Ban was visited by melancholy, this time it was not the effect of a curse but a normal mood swing, this condition is rare, but it is inevitable, about every six months Ban gets the mood to think everything over.

The first time something like this happened even before he received immortality, and for the first time seeing her brother like this, Kilia was quite worried about not understanding what was happening, she even thought then that someone cursed him ... He-he, who knew that after more than a thousand years her fears would be justified and they would really be cursed.

***

How long I have lived, and lately I have noticed more and more how quickly time flies, it seems like only yesterday we were sitting in a cozy room with the snow falling outside the window discussing what weapon to choose for Hikari ...

And then BAM! And another four weeks have passed, not so many events have happened since the arrival of the Ninja world, but I received a lot of emotions that I needed so much.

So the last weeks, if you compare them with what was in the beginning, turned out to be quite calm, but what can I say? You could even say that they were monotonous! But daily sparring was able to keep me in a good mood, it turned out that I don't necessarily lose interest in battles with those I've already fought, but it's enough for the enemy to show visible progress each time.

So, what am I getting at?

Huh? Exactly, Hikari!

We spent half a day choosing weapons, although she agreed to almost all types of weapons that I gave, but I didn't see any delight or instinctive understanding.

I believe that absolutely every person has their own weapon, no matter how idiotic or strange it is, that will suit them perfectly and which they will simply instinctively understand how to use, how to hold... But with Hikari... Not a single type of everything that I had in stock suited her.

Nodachi, Wakizashi, Tanto, Longswords, Sabers, Daggers, Clubs, Spears, Scythes, Naginata, Halberd, even Hapesh! And a dozen more types and their subtypes!

NOTHING suited her.

Oh-oh-oh-oh, it was so interesting, I haven't felt such curiosity about battles or new cities for a long time.

As a result, we decided to go around the local forges where they constantly asked for some rare types of weapons, and here one word led to another, we went around 4 forges in a couple of hours, and as a result, one very irritated blacksmith named Genichiro lost his nerve, after we tried everything unusual that he had, I even bought Shuangou, which were clearly inspired by the blades of Kiba from the village of the hidden Mist, the blacksmith took us to Mifune, and it turned out that he is the main supplier of blades for Mifune's students.

Mifune recruits students once a year, and then periodically trains them, in fact, for samurai who show the best results in training, this becomes a privilege, training with the greatest master. Although not at the level of a personal student, but even so, such a bonus is very rare and useful.

Genichiro brought us to Mifune for one simple reason, it turns out that Mifune is a collector, and during his life he has collected many types of weapons received from defeated enemies, and he is always happy to pass these blades to a new owner, yet his worldview does not allow him to throw weapons to rot in the ground, and if they find a new owner, Mifune will only be happy.

Of everything that we saw in the general's collection, we saw 3 types of weapons that neither I nor the blacksmiths had.

Namely, the Uchiha clan Gunbai, Sai and chakra-conducting combat cestuses. To my surprise, the Gunbai did not fit at all, as did the Sai.

But!

Hikari was used to fighting with her fists, she always used the reinforcement from Yachihoko and fought with techniques, hands and feet, and it turned out that the cestus, which allows you to parry weapon strikes with your hands, and also, thanks to the infusion of chakra into them, cause increased damage and are incredibly durable!

In general, fighting with a man who beat off my Nodachi with bare hands was very interesting, I experienced something similar only in sparring with Escanor. And Hikari became more and more skillful and skilled every day!

***

While Ban was replaying the events in his head, which, by the way, at first was just a trait of his character, but now has become a necessity for unloading his mind, Hikari and Naruko were training at a training ground for samurai a hundred meters from their temporary place of residence.

At first, Ban wanted to ask for access to the site as a rent for money, but they gave them another condition, namely periodic sparring with the samurai students, sparring with someone who has a unique fighting style is quite useful for training, so now once a day Hikari or Ban conduct several fights with novice samurai.

There are quite a lot of samurai who are trained from childhood, but there are also those who decided to follow this path later, for such people the training course of the Iron country was created, if in the great ninja villages in total there are on average about twenty to twenty-five thousand ninja, then in the iron country there are about thirty-five thousand samurai, but if Shinobi are concentrated in their village, then the samurai after training choose the place where they want to serve, having previously completed two years of service in the place where the command will send them, and they are distributed throughout the country, and there is not a single village where there would be less than two samurai, or a city where there were less than three hundred warriors, which is why the Iron country is the safest for civilians, but because of the weather conditions there are not so many people who want to live here. Right now, the sparring between Hikari and Naruko was over, Naruko hadn't managed to win a single victory in the last month, she was inferior in pure strength indicators, and using techniques was prohibited, after all, this was close combat training, and considering Hikari's strength in techniques and her capabilities, the chakra allowed in the duel would not have given any advantage.

- Losing again, hmm! Hikari, am I getting stronger at all? I feel like there's no point in these sparring matches.

- You are getting stronger, it's obvious.

- Huh? Obviously?

- You haven't lagged behind the results you showed before for the third week already.

- Are you kidding me?

Hikari realized that she had expressed herself too unclearly and hurried to explain, after all, she would never offend her friends, because of how she was treated before, she had... So to speak, a natural bookmark in her head, not wanting to be like those cruel Uchiha, she tries to be as kind and understanding as possible, fortunately, she always has Kilia in front of her eyes, as an example of a person who almost never gets into fights and has a kind heart, but at the same time, if necessary, can arrange a real apocalypse. Waving her hands in denial, she said.

- No, no, no! I'm also getting stronger, Ban puts in more effort and praises every time, and this means that if you maintain the same level of difficulty for me, then this means that you are getting stronger to the same extent as me.

- Oh! I didn't even look at it that way, but... I still think that a simple kunai doesn't suit me, I want something better

- You chose the weapon together with Ban, if he said that a kunai suits you best, then it's true, and if you took something else, you would be weaker.

Nodding in agreement, Naruko headed towards the locker rooms, it's worth putting on warm clothes before returning home, and Hikari followed her.

When they changed clothes and left the building, literally on the opposite side of the street they saw Kilia walking holding the hand of a little boy whose eyes clearly showed that he had recently been crying. Deciding to approach her, they asked.

- We're done! And who is this?

- Hm? This is Takashi, he got lost, I found him outside the city, he wanted to take a walk and got lost, managed to go a hundred meters behind the hill, after which he got carried away and forgot which side he was coming from, eventually going even further. I'll take him back home now.

- Was he able to tell me where he lives?

- He's Aunt Natsumi's son.

- Aunt Natsumi? Who is that?

- She sewed us new clothes, in fact, your winter jacket was made by her!

Poking Naruko in the chest with her finger, Kilia turned around and walked towards the building where the boy's mother lives.

***

- How delicious!

Naruko enjoyed the buns baked by Aunt Natsumi, it turned out that she is a jack of all trades and in addition to making clothes, she also cooks very tasty and bakes baked goods quite often.

Now all three were approaching their house as Kilia stopped, feeling a familiar aura in the house, she said.

- We have guests.

- Mnyami, huh? Who?

But she didn't hear an answer, Kilia headed inside, after which Naruto herself shrugged her shoulders and followed her.

When they entered inside, they saw two people, Orochimaru who looked somehow wrong, at first she didn't understand what was wrong with him but decided to put this question aside, the second person was a rather famous person, a teenager with large round glasses and gray hair, or more precisely, Kabuto.

Entering inside, they heard Orochimaru greet them, and Kabuto next to him bowed his head, as if saying that he was also greeting them.

Having sat down next to Ban, she still became too curious and she fulfilled Ban's request, which he told her two weeks earlier, after which...

- Pfff! What?? Ahem ahem ahem...

- What is it?

Kiliya was curious about what happened to Naruko, but Ban gave her the answer.

- It looks like she looked at Orochimaru's status.

- And what's wrong with that?

In response, Naruko quickly took the piece of paper and began to rewrite what she saw, and Orochimaru, tormented by curiosity, still asked.

- What does this mean?

- Well... If briefly and more clearly, then she has a place like a kkeigenkai that allows you to evaluate people at a glance by looking at information about them, I recently asked her myself, when we meet next time, to look at your status and rewrite it on a piece of paper.

They spent the next few minutes in silence, warm tea and cookies made in the best confectionery in the kingdom of Arthur from the seven deadly sins are no joke, but everything came to an end, and Naruko finally finished, putting the paper aside a little.

Ban looked at Orochimaru with a request in his eyes, to which the Sanin created a concentration seal to use a rather simple but useful technique of shadow cloning of an object, usually it was used to create additional copies of shurikens by directing them at the enemy, but it can be used like this, one sheet was taken by Ban, one by Naruko and Kiliya and one went to Orochimaru himself and his student.

Name: Orochimaru (Uchiha)

Race: Human, Chakra user (Shinobi), Naga.

Title: Genius Scientist

Age: 51

Level: 198

HP: -/-

MP: 0/0

CP: 54000/54000

RP: 2230/2230

Ki: 6900/6900

Prana: 7800

Strength: 1344

Stamina: 9098000

Speed: 3670

Dexterity: 12302

Wisdom: 140

Intellect: 270

Control: 29666

Achievements: Kage's Disciple, Genius Scientist, Sanin, Desiring to Live, Smartest, Traitor, Kage, Immortal.

Passive Skills: Flexibility, Regeneration (Absolute), Physical Immortality (Absolute), Spiritual Link, Super Endurance, Poison Immunity (SSS Category), Parallel Existence.

Active Skills: Non-Elemental Shinobi+ Techniques, Elemental Shinobi+ Techniques. Summoning Technique: Snakes, Shapeshifting: Yamata no Orochi, Sharingan, Mangekyo Sharingan, Amaterasu, Susano'o, Fujin.

Elemental Affinity:

Wind: 105%

Fire: 56%

Water: 43%

Lightning: 41%

Earth: 21%

Life: 100%

Death: 80%%

Yin (Adaptive): 99%

Yang (Adaptive): 99%