"Obito, have you picked something yet?!" Kakashi asked for the umpteenth time.
"What's your hurry? This is a gift to take back to Rin. Of course I have to choose carefully!" Obito waved a hand dismissively.
"Actually, it doesn't matter what you pick. Look, all these little souvenirs say 'Made by the Love Kidney Company.' You could just buy them back home. I remember these things costing twenty ryo each at Konoha's wholesale department, but they're charging two thousand here," Mitsuki said in surprise, picking up a trinket.
"What? Our village's company made these?" Obito froze, then hurriedly took it to have a look.
"Sasori, doesn't Sunagakure have any souvenirs of its own?" Obito asked Sasori, looking ready to cry. Had he spent all that time browsing for nothing?
"Sure. Isn't that guy over there selling sand? That's genuine Sunagakure sand," Sasori said, pointing at a man running a stall nearby.
Obito watched someone pay several hundred ryo for a bottle of sand, only for the vendor to pull out an empty bottle, scoop up some sand from the ground, and set it on his stall to keep selling...
"Do I look like a sucker to you, Sasori?" Obito asked expressionlessly, pointing at himself.
"Yeah, a real sucker," Kakashi agreed.
"...Kakashi! Are you trying to pick a fight?!"
"Anytime, sucker. Anytime."
"Kakashi!"
"Obito!"
Far above the distant skies... out among the stars...
"Hmm? This planet... it looks like... wasn't this designated as an area for planting a God Tree? What are those things outside it?" A figure stopped before the planet, puzzled by the satellites constantly orbiting it.
Then he took a small handbook from inside his clothes and flipped through it until he found two names.
"Otsutsuki Kaguya, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki. Hmm? Where's the God Tree? According to the