Dumbfounded Kumogakure Ninja
And so, this Elite Jonin Kumogakure squatted there from daytime until evening...
I've been squatting here since dusk until late at night...
I stayed up from late at night until the early hours of the morning again...
Gulu, gurgling, gurgling, gurgling...
"I'm so hungry!!! Damn it, what are they doing inside?! They've been yelling all day! The sun's almost up, and they're still yelling?!?"
Tsunade and the other girls knew that Makoto Ito was at home with some errands, so they didn't go home. Going home now would be far too awkward...
So, only Makoto Ito, Samui, and Mabui were in the house that day...
As the sun rose, many ordinary people in Konoha came out and set up stalls...
This Elite Jonin Kumogakure arrived at a stall...
"Boss, give me two steamed buns!"
"Alright! Judging from your Ninja Headband, you must be a ninja from Kumogakure, right?!"
"Yes, I am a ninja from Kumogakure!"
"It seems like there's going to be some kind of meeting soon. Are you here to participate in the meeting?!"
"Yes! I came to this meeting with our Lord Raikage. I'm quite curious about Konoha, so I came out for a stroll..."
"Yes! Konoha is very different now than before! Let me tell you, do you see those villas over there? That's the home of Makoto Ito, the head of the Konoha Military Department Head!"
As for our Konoha's Captain Ito, he may not be particularly old, and we commoners may not know much about his strength, but there's one thing we all know!
This elite Kumogakure Elite Jonin somewhat curious...
What is it?
The vendor was speaking with a smug look on his face...
"That's definitely our minister's method for picking up girls!!! Let me tell you, it's absolutely amazing!!!"
"Oh? Tell me more!!!"
"Sigh! How can I go into details about this?! Anyway, just know this: our minister is incredibly skilled in that area! Sometimes he can go on for days on end!!!"
"That..."
"Here you go, your steamed bun!"
"Oh, okay, thank you!"
The small vendor looked at the Elite Jonin from Kumogakure with a half-smile on his face!
"If I'm not mistaken, you've been eavesdropping here all night, haven't you?! Isn't our minister incredibly awesome?!"
"So he did that inside the house?"
"Hey, you silly boy! Do I even need to ask?! I heard that your Kumogakure gave our minister two beautiful girls?! And our minister already took them home!!! I'm so envious of our minister!!! Hehehe..."
This Elite Jonin Kumogakure only now realized! He'd been eavesdropping all night! Those strange noises weren't anything special! It wasn't an interrogation! It wasn't torture...
They were simply doing that kind of thing!
But why are Samui and Mabui shouting so happily?!
Did those two really betray the village?!
Hateful!!!!!
I must go back and report to Lord Raikage immediately!!!
The Elite Jonin Kumogakure turned to leave...
"Hey! You haven't paid yet!!!"
"Oh, right, right! How much?!"
"Twenty thousand taels!"
"How much?!!!!!! I buy you two buns and you charge me 20,000 taels! Are you robbing money?!!!"
The vendor was smiling as he spoke...
"How can you call it robbery? Robbery doesn't come as fast as this! Let me tell you, this is an order from the village leadership: anything sold to outsiders like you has to be sold at a higher price! This is the rule, and if we don't sell at a higher price, we'll be fined!"
"How much does one of your steamed buns cost normally?"
"If you're from this village, five buns for one tael!"
"You're clearly robbing me!"
"I already said, this isn't robbery, there's no way to make money faster than this!"
"I... I won't give it to you!"
"Hey! You dare not pay me on our Konoha turf?! You little brat, you're pretty arrogant!"
"I'm a ninja! How dare you, a mere ordinary person, speak to me like that?!"
"So what if he's a ninja?! It's not like we don't have ninjas in Konoha!!! What are you being so arrogant about?! Everyone come and see, this ninja from Kumogakure is eating steamed buns without paying!!!!"
Right after the small vendor finished speaking...
Suddenly, two Kunai flew around the stall with a whoosh...
Seeing only Minato Namikaze and Kakashi Hatake, they instantly used the Flying Thunder God Technique to arrive here!
"Greetings, ninja from Kumogakure Minato Namikaze, the vice-commander of the military! I heard you don't want to pay? What's wrong? Do you want to experience pain?!"
The moment this Elite Jonin saw Minato Namikaze, he broke out in a cold sweat...
"The Fourth Hokage... Minato Namikaze! And Konoha's technician! Kakashi, known as the Kakashi the Equal!!! Hey, hey, hey! I only ate two steamed buns, is that enough to bother you two?!"
Minato Namikaze's warm smile was still hanging there...
"Stop talking so much! I'm just asking if you're going to pay or not! If you don't, then I'm going to treat you to meatballs!!!"