Chapter 135: Gathering Information...Maybe?
Chapter 135: Gathering Information…Maybe?
*Author Note*
Sorry guys, I will stop posting double chapters every Sunday. There might still be the occasional double chapter, but certainly not every sunday.
*End of Author note*
It took Yuna, Naruto, and Jiraiya a few more minutes to reach their first destination: A small village that was simply called Tria Village. There is nothing remarkable about it and will only be used as a resting spot by the trio.
As soon as they entered the village, Jiraiya started to ogle women as a perverted smile appeared on his face.
“Hehe, I will do some research and see if I can get some information about our target.
Without another word, Jiraiya vanished into the crowd under the judging gazes of Yuna and Naruto. Yuna could only shake her head and started to speak.
“Well, I am not sure how reliable he is, so I guess I will try to collect some information as well. What do you want to do, Naruto? “
Naruto only disinterestedly shrugged his shoulders.
“You know that I don’t like stuff like that, so I guess I will be looking for a hotel to spend the night in.”
Yuna nodded her head in acknowledgment and moments later, she had transformed into a mature beauty that looked to be in her late twenties.
“See you later, Naruto.”
Similar to Yuna, Naruto also used a transformation to make himself look older and nodded his head towards Yuna.
“See ya.”
Seeing Yuna disappear into the crowd just like Jiraiya, Naruto couldn’t help but chuckle a little. He didn’t know what she wanted to do but was pretty sure that she wouldn’t conventionally gather information either.
‘Oh well, it’s nee-san so it should be fine.’
It has been about an hour since the trio arrived in Tria Village and Jiraiya was currently enjoying himself. He was walking down the main road of the village, with two beauties clinging to him and were fighting for his attention. Jiraiya paused for a moment and wondered when he picked up the second one but decided not to think about it too deeply. The more beauties the better.
A little bit later, Jiraiya entered another bar to have some more fun, but when he did he almost face-planted into the ground due to what he saw. A single mature woman sat at a table that was almost exclusively filled with thuggish-looking men. As for her looks, she looked pretty much like Yuna, but about 15 years older. She was currently in a glaring contest with one of the men, while the remaining table was completely silent. Moments later, both of them lifted their glasses and started chugging their contents like crazy. Moments later, the woman, the transformed Yuna, smacked her empty glass on the table and let loose a loud burb that echoed through the whole bar.
“HAHAHA, another victory! Who else dares to challenge me!”
“Haha damn, she won again. What the hell!”
“How the hell can she drink that fast!”
“Hehe, I am sure she is especially got at swallowing c…*Smack*”
Yuna casually punched the last person in the stomach before he could finish speaking and started laughing again.
“Hahaha! You sure talk big for someone who didn’t even finish half his glass before I was done with mine.”
Loud laughter broke out as the people at Yuna’s table kept bantering with each other.
Jiraiya, meanwhile, needed significant amounts of willpower to look away from Yuna’s table. He had no idea how she did it, but it seems Yuna had somehow befriended the local thugs.
“Jira~ What are you doing? Let’s sit down already.”
Hearing one of the women he was currently hugging, speaking to him, he managed to wake up from his contemplations and nodded his head.
“Haha, sorry, sorry. I thought I just saw someone I know, but that must have been my imagination. Come, come, Let’s sit down.”
Despite happily talking, with the two women beside him, Jiraiya couldn’t help but put some attention on the table Yuna was currently occupying. After Yuna won another chugging contest, one of the thugs asked a question that made Jiraiya sweat a little.
“Haha damn, how can you drink this fast? Are you a shinobi and using one of those jutsu things?”
The atmosphere immediately turned a little colder when that question was asked. Even in the land of fire, there were quite a lot of people that would rather have no contact with shinobi at all.
A mysterious smile appeared on Yuna’s face. She looked left and right and then slightly moved forward, causing the other people at the table to automatically do the same.
“Hehe, that’s right. Do you want to see my most powerful jutsu?”
The thugs around the table widened their eyes when Yuna said that, but couldn’t help but be curious about it. They felt that something interesting would happen, so all of them simultaneously nodded their heads.
Jiraiya, meanwhile, had not the slightest clue where Yuna was going with this. No matter how he looked at it, showing these thugs that she was a shinobi would not help her in any way, but even he couldn’t help but be morbidly curious about what Yuna is going to do.
Yuna started to clumsily form hand seals. Although these thugs had pretty much no idea how jutsus worked, they had at least seen shinobi use hand seals before. After taking almost ten seconds to form three hand seals, Yuna kept her hands in the ram seal and closed her eyes to concentrate. It seems like she was trying to concentrate really hard, as a deep frown was on her face, but a few seconds later, she reopened her eyes.
“[Transformation Jutsu]”
A minuscule poof of smoke appeared and as soon as the smoke vanished, all the thugs looked at Yuna completely dumbfounded. After using that jutsu, Yuna seemed to be genuinely out of breath while almost nothing had changed about her. The only visible change was that there were now two white fox ears on her head.
A deafening silence took over, but moments later it was broken by roaring laughter.
“HAHAHA, what the hell!”
“Gahaha, you actually grew fox ears!”
“Damn! Can you teach me how that works? I wanna grow a horse co…*smack*”
“Can you bastard stop spouting profanities!?”
Another round of roaring laughter echoed inside the bar. One person at Yuna’s table, however, had different thoughts.
“What is the point of growing a bunch of animal ears? I don’t want my women to have any animal parts.”
Yuna seemed to be shocked by that sentence. A sad pout appeared on her face as she lowered her head. Even her fox ears were lowered as she looked at the person who said that like a sad d… fox.
“You… don’t think it is cute?”
This time, the fox ears were animatedly moving around, causing the person she was looking at to stare at them in fascination. Moments later, he noticed what he was doing and a small blush appeared on his face, that was naturally seen by the surrounding people.
“Gahaha, look at him blush!”
“”I don’t want my women to have any animal parts” he said, hahaha! No animal parts my ass.”
“Wait, doesn’t that mean even a woman could grow a horse co…*SMACK*”
“What the hell is wrong with you man!?”
“GAHAHA, just wait for me to get strong enough to make a tail as well. Then you bastard will have to call me the Fox Goddess. As my believers, I will even pay for the next round of drinks!”
Everyone at the table lifted their glasses at the same time and clinked glasses with each other.
“””””To the Fox Goddess!””””
“Hahaha, that’s right, worship me!”
Yet again laughter echoed through the bar, while Jiraiya could no longer understand what was going on. He had not the slightest clue why Yuna was doing all of this. Befriending a bunch of thugs might have been useful, but there is no way a bunch of low-level thugs would have any important information. What happened next, however, truly surprised Jiraiya.
Yuna yet again finished her drink and loudly smacked it on the table. She seemed to be quite drunk already, but the other people at her table weren’t fairing much better either. A deep sigh escaped Yuna’s lips, which was noticed by everyone at the table.
“Haha, what’s with that sigh? Is something wrong.”
Yuna gave the person who spoke an annoyed glance but started speaking anyway.
“Of course, there is a problem. I wanna gamble! What’s the point of getting drunk if you can’t gamble at the same time! But gambling is forbidden in this town. That’s so annoying. Who thought that was a good idea? I wanna gamble~ Someone bring me another drink! This Goddess is thirsty! GAM-B-LING~”
The surrounding thugs were surprised by that. They couldn’t help but glance at each other, while Yuna was chugging yet another glass. After a moment of silent communication, all of them nodded their heads to each other and the one sitting closest to Yuna started to whisper to her.
“There might be a place where that is possible, but no one is allowed to know about it.”
Yuna’s eyes shone with excitement and she was just about to exclaim loudly when she quickly blocked her own mouth.
“You are not joking, right? Show me the way then. Gogo, let’s hurry, I wanna get started already. Bill! Someone bring us the bill!”
Although the people around her were slightly surprised at how easily Yuna agreed to do something illegal, considering the way she acted around them, however, they quickly understood that this certainly wasn’t the first time that she spent time in the greyer areas of the law.
A few moments later, the whole group left the bar, and while doing so, Yuna winked a Jiraiya, which was noticed by quite a few of the thugs and made them suspicious yet again. Jiraiya, on the other hand, really wanted to curse Yuna. She did all that acting to win the trust of these people and now she destroyed all of it in an instant. Naturally, one of the thugs immediately asked Yuna what that was about.
“Do you know that guy?”
Yuna, however, only laughed out loud.
“Haha, of course not, but that perverted geezer was looking at my tits pretty much from the moment he entered the bar, so I should at least show him that I noticed, hahaha!”
This caused the whole group to laugh yet again, while Jiraiya couldn’t help but blush a little. He wasn’t blushing because Yuna claimed that he was looking at her breasts, which he was not, he was blushing because he was constantly staring at her while she was trying to get people’s trust was incredibly suspicious and might have even caused problems in whatever plan Yuna had.
There was, however, something else that truly bothered Jiraiya. As far as he knew, this town did not have an illegal gambling place, so either his informant didn’t know about it or he didn’t tell Jiraiya about it. Both of these options didn’t sound very good to Jiraiya.
“Jira~ You are all distracted again~”
“Haha, sorry, sorry. I will give the two of you my full attention from now on.”