Bathing Under the Moon?

By the campfire, Tamao said excitedly:

"Haha, I didn't expect Big Brother to have mastered the correct way to use Izumi!

From now on, when we encounter such selective issues, we'll just ask Izumi.

If she gives advice, we'll do the opposite. I reckon we can avoid most of the risks!"

When the Uchihas heard this, their eyes lit up. They thought it made sense.

The way they looked at Izumi immediately changed, filled with the joy of turning trash into treasure.

Izumi suddenly felt the coldness of the world.

"Let's all rest!"

Ingetsu said.

Hearing this, the Uchihas quieted down. They sat around the campfire, divided into groups, and took turns resting.

At this moment, at the back of the group, Yakushi Nonō, dressed in a nun's habit and with a voluptuous figure, got up from beside Mikoto. She tiptoed over to Ingetsu.

The two exchanged a look.

Ingetsu, through her round-rimmed glasses, knew what this woman was thinking with just a glance.

Nonō put on a smile, then adjusted the hem of her skirt around her ample curves. The long nun's dress outlined graceful arcs as she gracefully crouched down, kneeling on the grass.

Nonō felt that she had been well-behaved and diligent throughout the journey, and it was time to talk to Ingetsu about her compensation and conditions for joining the team.

"Once we reach the Land of Grass, I'll have to leave the team to carry out a mission," Nonō stated as calmly as possible.

As soon as she said this, the Uchihas and Kurenai Yuhi beside them were startled awake. Everyone remained silent, watching Ingetsu and Nonō.

After spending so many days together, everyone had come to recognize the professionalism and abilities of this blonde nun.

She was a reliable medical ninja.

She wanted to leave the team.

It was a real shame.

After Nonō finished speaking, her gaze gradually softened. Suppressing various emotions, she chose to meet Ingetsu's eyes, attempting to play on their emotional connection.

The appearance of this young Uchiha youth before her helped to calm her uneasy emotions considerably.

However, Nonō hadn't spent much time with Ingetsu and couldn't gauge the appropriate level of interaction.

In her opinion, the man had killed the Hokage's son and the monks of the Temple of Fire without batting an eye. His strength and presence far surpassed hers.

Facing someone like him.

It was like facing an iceberg.

Nonō forced herself to maintain her nun's composure, wearing a pure and holy smile, trying to use her usual way of interacting with people to reduce the oppressive feeling emanating from him.

Ingetsu tossed a dry branch into the campfire and said calmly, "Just say it directly."

Nonō's eyes lit up, and she nodded. "You... you mentioned... compensation before."

"Oh."

Ingetsu's expression remained calm. He suddenly raised his right hand towards the side of the nun with the round-rimmed glasses, opening his five fingers. The space suddenly trembled.

The next moment.

Splash--

A wooden bathtub appeared out of thin air, landing heavily on the grass. Water splashed out of the tub, and the flower petals within had already sunk to the bottom.

"Uh..."

The Uchihas were startled awake by the commotion and stared blankly at the large bathtub by the campfire.

Everyone was confused. What did Captain Ingetsu want with the bathtub?

Even Tamao, who had the most wild ideas, was stunned.

This scene left the gentle and virtuous Uchiha Mikoto, Kurenai Yuhi, and Uchiha Izumi dumbfounded.

A bathtub...

Could it be that the captain's promised compensation to her was an invitation for a moonlit bath?

There were even rose petals at the bottom of the tub.

How romantic!

There were so many people around the campfire... Mikoto, Kurenai, and Izumi felt a mix of emotions.

"Ah, this... this... this!"

Nonō was gobsmacked, frozen in place. She never expected that her discussion about compensation with him would start this way.

Tamao suddenly darted out and leaned over the bathtub, using the campfire's light to see the rose petals inside. His eyes widened, and after a long moment, he sighed with emotion:

"How slutty!"

Nonō's neck creaked as if it were stuck, her gaze fixed on the familiar bathtub and the flower petals she had scattered into it, bit by bit, with her own hands.

After listening to Tamao's rant.

Nonō silently pulled down her hood, obscuring her face, biting her lip tightly, her whole body trembling, her toes digging into the ground beneath her skirt.

That was her bathtub!

And her bathwater!

Embarrassed, embarrassed, so embarrassed her scalp tingled.

The immense shame of a girl's private belongings being observed by strangers exploded in Nonō's mind, leaving her brain completely blank.

She felt as if she were undergoing some form of torture.

Under those sharp, scrutinizing gazes.

Nonō suddenly felt as if there was no place in the Ninja World that could accommodate her.

Ingetsu, acting as if nothing had happened, calmly said, "Oh, this is the interest on your payment."

You brought my bathtub with you while you were escaping!

Thank you so much.

Captain Ingetsu!!

Nonō's heart felt like it was bleeding from embarrassment, and she felt murderous, but given that she couldn't defeat these Uchiha, she abandoned the thought.

She had wondered why such a large new bathtub had suddenly disappeared.

All this way.

Nonō knew Ingetsu might have some kind of Space Ninjutsu, but she had never thought of it!

After a long silence.

Everyone looked at the silent Ingetsu and Nonō, feeling the atmosphere had suddenly become awkward, completely unsure of what had happened.

They were utterly confused.

At first, Nonō had gone to discuss payment, and the captain had thrown out a bathtub.

Could it be... that this bathtub was the payment?

That would be a deal-breaker!

Nanfeng and the others knew the inside story, but the three of them weren't sure if they should speak up right now.

After a long while.

Nonō managed to control her overwhelming shame and said with a wry smile, "Hahaha, Captain Ingetsu, you're joking, right? You... didn't you say the payment was related to my mission? How did you know it was a mission Danzo personally gave me?"

Finally getting to the main point.

Ingetsu nodded and calmly said, "Yes, tell me about your mission first."

The nun, having been bombarded by shame, had a large portion of her brain blanked out.

Nonō subconsciously said:

"My mission was to assassinate someone. I planned to stake out Mount Kikyo, his usual route..."

Before she could finish.

She froze.

Her eyes lowered slightly, looking at her own lips, and she was shocked to find that the Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal had not been triggered.

"Your mission is canceled!"

Tamao suddenly moved away from the bathtub.

"Canceled?"

Nonō looked at Tamao in surprise, raised her hand to adjust her glasses, and then looked at Ingetsu, her face blank with confusion.

Ingetsu lightly nodded, indicating that Tamao was correct.

Tamao chuckled mockingly:

"The Root Organization is gone. Before we escaped the ninja village, Shimura Danzō was personally killed by Brother Ingetsu!"

As soon as these words were spoken.

Nonō's eyes trembled, and she gaped dumbly, her body stiffening.

This news was more impactful to her than the previous wave of shame that had exploded in her mind.

Uchiha Mikoto also trembled, a storm of emotions churning within her. She looked up, her beautiful dark eyes staring directly at Ingetsu.

She seemed to understand.

The reason why these clan members were following Ingetsu so steadfastly.

The Night of the Clan Annihilation.

Before the escape.

So Uchiha Ingetsu had brought these clan members to launch such a frenzied revenge against Konoha's upper echelons.

"You've also felt the strangeness within your body. If Danzo were still alive, you wouldn't be able to reveal the details of the missions assigned by the Root Organization."

Ingetsu looked directly at Nonō's trembling eyes and said calmly, "Join us!"

Nonō fell into thought.

A long time ago.

She no longer wanted to serve the Root Organization and only wished to manage the orphanage peacefully for the rest of her life. Before undertaking missions, she feared she might not return, so she made all the arrangements for the orphanage.

But now...

Someone told her.

Konoha's upper echelons, that person who held high authority, employed cruel methods, and had always threatened her into doing his bidding, was dead. Killed by the Uchiha youth before her with his own hands.

The organization she once belonged to had been destroyed!

Danzo...

Was truly dead. Otherwise, Nonō knew the Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal would not have been automatically removed.

Seeing that Nonō was still in a daze, Ingetsu immediately pulled out his trump card and said gently, "Agree, for the sake of that child, Yakushi Kabuto!"