Backyard of hot spring hotel.

The pear trees are thick and fragrant, and the moonlight is like water.

Although this hotel is in a remote corner of the food court, it is located upwind near the seaside.

Therefore, whether it is the noisy hawking noise on the street or the smell of various fried and barbecued foods, it cannot disturb the guests living inside, making it appear quiet and elegant.

The only drawback is that the treacherous boss here, like his son who is a ninja, is the type to take care of others, so he specially allocated a courtyard with a "children's hot spring" to Yiyong.

If an adult sits in the hot spring, he can only squat in it with his knees bent like a big dog. The size is smaller than the bathtub at Yiyong's house.

But for Kyuubi, who is only the size of a palm, it is a paddling pool that can be used for backstroke repeatedly.

Kyuubi poked its pointed little head out of the hot spring, and grabbed the ice-cold drink straw placed on the edge of the "playing pool" with its thin fangs, biting the mouth of the tube into a pit.

A mouthful of cold drink poured into his body. He half-closed his eyes and let out a happy sigh like Mouri Kogoro's.

"Hmm! It's so comfortable!"

It sounds quite bitter to say.

Before being subdued by Uchiha Madara, it had never looked down upon humans and was too lazy to try their entertainment methods.

But when he was captured by Senju Hashirama and imprisoned in the Jinchūriki's belly for more than fifty years, even breathing outside air became a luxury.

Although the traveling companion on this trip is not talkative and has a lackluster personality and bloodline, this is the first time that Kyuubi has been to a place so far away from Konoha in half a century.

Although it uses someone else's body, the sensory enjoyment is not false, and the depression caused by thirty hours of boring travel is finally released.

It put its furry, wet head against the rocks at the edge of the hot spring and lay there for a while, but did not hear any movement in the room before slowly opening its eyes.

He hesitated for a while before shouting: "Uchiha brat! Do you want to come with me?"

[It’s hard work for that kid to be my mount, so just think it’s me being extra merciful! Hum! Most people don’t have such an honor. 】

However, there was only silence in response to Kyuubi's rare kindness.

There was no response from Yiyong's direction, but there was no malicious intent at all.

[You probably didn’t ignore me on purpose. What on earth is that kid doing? 】

Kyuubi frowned humanely and crawled out of the hot spring. The steaming chakara from his body immediately dried his hair, making it look fluffy and soft, as if he had changed clothes.

He walked quietly to the room.

There, Yiyong changed into looser clothes and was sitting cross-legged at the table, his head lowered and not making any sound.

As for the table, there is a map of the Kingdom of Water drawn by Konoha's reconnaissance team, but there are only a few rough places with special markings on it. The location of Kirigakure Village only has an exaggerated circle and a question mark. That is

A place where Konoha ninjas have never been.

If Kyuubi hadn't observed carefully and saw that Giyuu's body was rising and falling slightly at a very low frequency, it would have thought that the kid had died in some accident.

"Fell asleep?"

Kyuubi flicked his tail, but he wasn't surprised at all.

"After running for thirty hours straight, how can a mere human being endure it?"

It snorted weirdly: "You are running so hard, but you still missed the boat. If you don't enjoy this village well, what's the point of running so fast?"

As he said that, Kyuubi synchronized the memory of the tailed beast chakra in Anjurou's body as if he remembered something, and his expression became even more gloomy.

"It's almost the same over there! I think you might as well just tire yourself out!"

Maybe it was because the word "death" was included in his last sentence, which touched Yiyong's sensitive vocabulary, or maybe it was just that the sound was a bit loud, and it actually made Yiyong wake up and raise his head.

He looked at Kyuubi with anxious double eyelids: "Have you finished soaking it?"

For the first time, Kyuubi felt a little guilty in his heart for waking up Giyuu.

But this feeling was immediately dispelled by its stubborn nature.

"That's all. I thought it would be very comfortable!"

It answered insincerely.

"..."

Yiyong was not interested in hot springs in the first place, and even less so now.

He was silent for a while and glanced at the clock on the wall. It was now nine o'clock in the evening.

Jiyong withdrew his gaze and stared at Kyuubi's stillness, which made the latter slightly twitchy. It wasn't until Kyuubi was about to bar his teeth that he asked: "Kyuubi, what else do you want to do while you are here?

?"

【Um?】

"What's the meaning?"

Kyuubi looked at him suspiciously, "This doesn't seem like a question you would ask."

"I was just thinking that if it were me who had been imprisoned for more than fifty years and couldn't go anywhere, I would definitely want to see the outside world."

Giyuu narrated calmly, thinking about Anjurou's words before he left to ask him and Kyuubi to get along well.

The so-called thinking from Kyuubi's point of view should be like this.

"what is this?"

Kyuubi wrinkled his nose fiercely.

"Kid, are you pitying me?!"

[It’s not Uchiha Madara’s fault that I’ve become like this! 】

"What's so pitiful about you?"

Jiyu's answer surprised Kyuubi, and he continued to describe his thoughts.

"I just hope you can eat and play whatever you want tonight.

"When we go to sea tomorrow, you can either stay with me honestly or get rid of your clone.

"I don't have the extra attention to focus on restraining you. It would only be a waste of precious time."

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"As expected, he's still that annoying kid!"

Kyuubi snorted coldly.

"Without me, do you think you can come back from the Kingdom of Water alive? There are two of my companions in that village. Since you want my help, is there anything wrong with meeting my needs? We are originally from different sides.

Just take what you need.”

[Although I didn’t have a good relationship with them before, these two guys have very gentle tempers.]

"Whether I can leave alive is not my priority."

Yiyong gently stroked his sleepy eyes, looking less tired than before.

"If because of your wanton behavior, I have to distract myself, causing the rescue operation to be delayed, and someone is killed, then I would rather commit suicide after this matter is over, and die to apologize."

He said it casually, but Kyuubi only felt a chill on his back, and then a chill all over his body.

"Tonight is a special situation. There are no ships going out to sea, so I will stop here.

"But if you plan to put your own sensory enjoyment as the top priority and interfere with my actions after arriving in the Kingdom of Water, as before, then after tonight, you can cancel the clone on your own. I can't take you there.

.You will only become a problem."

Kyuubi was so angry that he really wanted to die in front of him on the spot.

"Since you think I'm a trouble, why are you saying that after tonight, do it now and expose this clone. I'm useless to you anyway, right? Why bother?"

"Aren't you going to enjoy yourself tonight?"

This time it was Yiyong's turn to be confused, "Even if you have to release the shadow clone tomorrow, all the feelings and memories tonight will be brought to the original body, right? Do you want to come here in vain? You have come here, didn't you say so?

If so?"

"..."

Kyuubi finally understood.

Here, you are using yourself to help the volunteers in exchange for opportunities to play, so these two things are actually the same thing.

But in this kid's mind, taking him out to play and asking him to help are two independent events, and there is no exchange relationship.

I don’t know why, but this kid’s words are obviously very irritating, but he still feels warm in his heart because he is not treated as a tool.

[Although they are the same race as that bastard, there are still some differences after all. 】

"Who wants you to pretend to be kind!"

It flicked its tail, rolled its eyes, and suddenly had an idea.

"Then let's make a promise! Tonight, you can buy me whatever I want to eat, and you can play with me whatever I want to play. When we get to the Kingdom of Water, I won't be able to feel anything I do anyway, so I'll just

How about following your orders?"

"no problem."
To be continued...