After discussing it for a while at the dango shop, Obito and the others still failed to decide on a gift the five of them could give together. They decided to ask the other teachers at the school and Mu Yue's friends before making a decision.
After they split up, Obito first went home for dinner. Once he finished eating, he returned to the streets of the Main City Area.
Actually, even before this gathering, Obito had been thinking of giving Mu Yue something, so he had already had an idea for the gift he would give Mu Yue personally.
Although Obito did not know much about calligraphy, he knew how to ask. After speaking with the bookstore owner, he learned that the brush, ink, paper, and inkstone used in calligraphy all had their own particular standards.
Originally, he had wanted to make a calligraphy brush with his own hands for Mu Yue, just as Mu Yue made ninja tools. Later, he realized that making brushes was too difficult and that he was not cut out for it, so he temporarily gave up on the idea.
He chose to make an inkstone instead. It was relatively easier.
To Obito, an ordinary inkstone was just a stone with a hole carved into it. More complicated ones merely had some designs engraved onto the stone. He felt that was something he could do.
After asking many grandfathers and grandmothers, Obito finally got three stones suitable for making inkstones from an old man who liked calligraphy.
Overjoyed, Obito paid the old man, bought an inkstone from the bookstore, and then began figuring out at home how to make one himself.
Obito did not start right away, because he had not even decided what shape the inkstone should take.
Obito took out a sheet