"What are you whispering about?"
Shiho suddenly leaned her head in, startling Karin so badly she nearly jumped, every hair on her body trembling from head to toe.
"What are you doing?" Karin complained.
Shiho wore a backpack, her left arm around Karin's shoulders and her right hand resting on Wu Yu. "Nothing. It just feels like... ever since we met today, you two have kept avoiding me to whisper to each other! Do you have some little secret?"
There were plenty of secrets. Which one did you mean?
Wu Yu said, "Karin asked which beauty the protagonist would go after in the next volume of my novel. She wanted to charge up to request a character, and said she wanted the process customized too."
"Charge up?" Shiho looked utterly confused.
Karin panicked. "Who asked? Who requested anything? Who wanted anything customized?!"
Shiho laughed. "Speaking of novels, Wu Yu, what volume is yours up to now?"
"The third volume should be going to print soon, I think." Wu Yu thought for a moment. "What, Auntie, you're reading it too?"
"Spare me. I do keep up with it, but I haven't bought it to read—Karin has it at home anyway, so there's no need to buy it."
"You didn't need to add that last part!" Karin cut in irritably.
"Haha."
After leaving Konoha through the main gate, Wu Yu took out a map of the Fire Country and checked the city name against the mission document. Once he confirmed their destination, the three of them sprang forward with whooshes and accelerated away.
After the Third Tsuchikage used the Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique to make a person as light as a feather, one only needed water-walking techniques to "step on air" and fly through the sky.
Ordinary ninja did not possess a secret