"Yo, you're back."
Naruto raised an eyebrow at Sasuke as he returned carrying an electrically charred wild boar.
"As expected of the Boar Slayer."
Sasuke's face was cold and rigid. He didn't want to acknowledge Naruto at all, and he even wanted to dig a hole right there and bury himself.
Seriously, he had searched the entire area, but apart from this boar with a breath left in it, he hadn't seen a single other large animal.
Wild boar: Guess why I dared to charge straight at you?
In fact, this entire territory belonged to this wild boar. It had always ruled this area. When it wanted vegetables, it found some wild fruit; when it wanted meat, it randomly rammed an animal that wandered into its territory to death.
A few years ago, for some unknown reason, all the dominant creatures around this territory had vanished. With no tiger in the mountains, the wild boar became king.
Pig Three took advantage of this power vacuum to grow rapidly, eventually becoming the king of this area after fighting many battles.
As for where the previous kings had gone?
Naruto & Sasuke & Konoha's little cuties: "Ehe." ('∇')シ┳━┳
Those kings had all tasted pretty good. In a way, this counted as belated seasoning with cumin-after all, fate had secretly demanded payment for all its gifts.
"Huh? Why is it a wild boar again?"
Karin rubbed her chin as she looked at the boar Sasuke had brought back, sinking into thought.
It seemed her first encounter with Sasuke had started with a wild boar, too.
Mm, arigato, Mr. Boar.
Hinata set down her basket full of mushrooms and watched Sasuke deftly butcher the boar, looking a little puzzled.
Why... was it a wild boar again?
Though it felt strange, and she kept feeling