Once all the meat was grilled, everyone started eating.
Nothing particularly special happened. If anything qualified, it was probably the people from Kumogakure being startled by how much Hinata could eat.
After the meal, Naruto dragged Yugito Nii into their villa to play cards.
Since Yugito Nii was a beginner, Naruto very generously sold Kakashi to her for three hundred ryō.
To serve as her adviser and strategist.
Kakashi: SO? Had my price dropped again?
The atmosphere around the game was great, but it did not last very long.
About an hour later, Samui came over to call Yugito Nii back.
Afterward, Naruto chased Kakashi around to discuss some gossip. Once he had made the outwardly reserved but inwardly passionate young man blush, he ran back to his room with Hinata to sleep.
Incidentally, Naruto and Hinata had started sleeping in the same room a long time ago.
But they did not sleep in the same bed.
Since they had brought sleeping bags, each slept in their own.
However, ever since they had made their relationship official, their two caterpillar-like sleeping bags would unwittingly inch together as they slept at night.
Do not ask. If you did, the answer was sleepwalking.
As for Kakashi, once the cheeks beneath his mask returned to their normal temperature, he looked up at the starry night sky. After his gaze drifted as he thought about who knew what, he picked up that book about Lightning Release again.
He found a quiet corner, studied it on his own for a while, and then fell sound asleep.
The next day.
With the sky barely light, everyone got up, packed, and continued toward Kumogakure.
As for the two villas, Naruto left them there after putting up a sign outside.
The sign essentially said: this was a place