NOVEL NEXT Chapter 32: Innocent Taka
[A/N: This chapter was painful to write. Same with the next chap, but this scenario is inspired by something that happened with me when I was 9 years old. Taka's reactions in this chapter are similar to mine back then. But please keep in mind that this is not "exactly" what happened and is just an inspiration. Do not misunderstand.]
The B rank Mission paid them 200,000 Ryo and was split into four equal parts for each of them. Even though Kira had splurged 40,000 Ryo on his weapons, he still had 10,000 left over if he excluded the pocket money that he had saved up until now.
He headed back to his house, fully equipped and ready to try out his new wakizashi, which was the same as a Katana for an adult. He didn't fight on his own, but instead created around 20 shadow clones.
These clones wouldn't be too useful in proper fights as they barely had enough chakra to cast around three to four medium chakra consumption jutsus that were in Kira's arsenal.
But since this was only for practising Kenjutsu, they didn't need too much chakra. Kira watched while his 20 shadow clones fought and in just a matter of three minutes, 19 of them were gone.
After absorbing their experiences, he dispelled the last clone and recast the jutsu. This time, the fight lasted for more than five minutes and Kira repeated the process of summoning more and more clones.
At first, he only focused on raw kenjutsu, but once he saw that the improvement was slowing down, he changed the fighting strategy. This time, the shadow clones created two regular clones and used body flicker in conjunction with their kenjutsu and regular clones.
With this, the variations increased, but the fight also went on for longer. By the time it was night time, Kira was out of chakra as his clones needed to use chakra for body flicker and for summoning regular clones.
'Today's progress was pretty good, I have one more day, but I doubt that I'll make as much progress as today. Maybe it'll be better to train my chakra control even further.'
Learning the basics and improving on them until a certain point was fast and easy, but after reaching this said point, the improvement would normally either slow down, stagnate or in some cases, fall back down.
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Kira met up with his team at the village's entrance and left to the land of fire's capital. The journey was four days long, but they faced no dangers on their path and were able to safely reach their destination.
The capital was very large and was bustling with people who were walking in huge crowds on the wide streets.
Raichi guided them to a huge mansion and knocked on the door, which opened a few seconds later.
"We're shinobi from the hidden leaf."
The woman standing at the door nodded and took a step back to let them in, "The master is in the living room."
Raichi nodded and walked inside while the other three followed behind him. A few seconds later, Kira saw a middle aged man sitting on a comfy chair while tending to the fireplace.
Seeing Raichi enter the room, the man stared at them for two seconds before nodding, "Hidden leaf?"
"Yes." Raichi replied and the man nodded, "Great, I hope that you guys aren't as hard assed like the previous group. If my son asks you guys for something, please entertain him instead of shooing him away."
Raichi frowned, but Sachi was the one who spoke up this time, "Don't worry sir, we'll do our best!"
"That's good. A cute girl like you should make him feel better." he said as he nodded with a satisfied smile on his face.
Originally, Kira didn't really bother with the guy as he only wished to finish his mission and get back home, but when he heard the man's words, he couldn't help but frown.
"You kids can go to my son's room and talk to him. The older guy can stay here and keep an eye on the surroundings." he said as he pointed at Raichi, who nodded and turned to look at his team members.
"Go and do as he says, but there's no need to do anything other than what the mission specified if you're uncomfortable with it.", he said as he activated his sharingan and shifted his attention back to the man in the room.
Taka smirked when he saw the guy's facial expression and left the room silently with Kira and Sachi right behind him. Once they were out of the room, Kira clicked his tongue.
"This is basically a baby sitting mission. It's a B rank only because our client is a bigshot..."
Sachi and Taka nodded their heads in response. They silently walked around the house and opened multiple doors until they found an occupied room.
A small girl who was shorter than Kira watched them with curious eyes while hugging her big doll. Sachi smiled widely and took a few steps forward before crouching to meet the child's height.
"Can you please guide us to your brother's room?"
The girl nodded a vigorously and ran out of her room with the three of them right behind her. They climbed the stairs and followed her while ignoring multiple rooms before stopping in front of a closed door.
"Bwig bother inside!" she said and ran away, leaving the three of them while they stared at the door silently while listening to the moans that escaped out.
Sachi's face turned red while she looked away from the two of them. Even Kira, who had seen multiple videos and experienced the act, didn't know what to do in this situation.
Taka was the only one who looked unaffected as he took a step forward and grabbed the door handle.
"Oy, what are you doing?! Don't open that damn door!" Kira whispered as he grabbed Taka's hand and stopped him from pushing the door open.
"Client told us to meet his son."
Hearing this, Kira didn't know what to say for a moment, but he finally understood what was going on.
"You.... do you know what's going on inside?"
"No. Doesn't matter."
Kira glanced at Sachi who was looking at Taka like he was an idiot.
"Just take him somewhere else and explain what's going on. I'll stay guard here and call you guys when... things inside calm down."