After actually trying it, though, he found it was pretty good. It just wasn't as delicious as the food in the Land of Fire.
"All right, kids, get cleaned up and take a bath or whatever. We'll call it a day after that. Tomorrow morning, we're setting out on our mission."
"Okay!" the four of them replied in unison. They hadn't come here to go on a spring outing; they'd come to carry out a mission.
They were already in mission mode.
"Then I'll go take a bath first. Or Yahiko can come with me," Minato suggested. They often did that at home, anyway.
Yahiko didn't mind, so the two of them went into the bathroom and started bathing.
Jiraiya pointed upstairs. "As far as I know, there should be another bathroom up there. You can use that one."
"What about you, Jiraiya-sensei?" Konan asked.
Jiraiya waved his hand. "I'll wait for those two stinkers to finish before I bathe. You girls go ahead. Don't worry about me."
So Kushina and Konan went upstairs, while Jiraiya waited downstairs for Minato and Yahiko to come out.
The time passed quickly, and the night came and went.
After bathing the previous night, the five of them had each found a room to rest in.
There were plenty of rooms in the apartment, more than enough for all of them, so there was no need for everyone to cram together.
After a quiet night, the five of them got ready to set out. Once they'd eaten breakfast, they left Central City.
As soon as they left Torifu's ninjutsu range, rain poured down in sheets. Fortunately, they had the Cloud Spheres he'd given them the day before. The rain couldn't reach them at all; the spheres absorbed every drop.
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