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"I would gladly teach you Kichiro-san, but may I ask why the sudden interest?"
There was truly no other option.
"A recently curiosity of mine after reading a report about insect users outside of Konoha, they used bees, mosquitoes and even ants, it would be quite disadvantageous if I were to encounter such enemies since I do not have fire affinity."
Shino pondered for a moment thought with all the clothes on him not much could be said about what kind of face he was making.
"We aren't the only clan who created a symbiotic relationship with insects, and Iwagakure posses our rival clan within their ranks. But don't worry there are many ways to deal with them in both friendly and hostile manner."
"Honestly speaking I never expected from any of you to mention about killing insects since... you know."
"That's a reasonable assumption but as I said before there are clans and individuals who also have formed a symbiotic relationship."
He wasn't offended or at least he didn't seem like it but he was a person of rationality and logic, so a polite conversation could be engaged though I had my doubts if he could talk for long period of time if it wasn't anything related about insects.
But it was interesting to hear about other insect users besides them, those little creatures are deadly even if they weren't controlled by somebody since I witnessed time ago a shinobi meet the shinigami with the help of an entire colony of bullet ants, that scene was brutal.
"Okay, but I'm kinda more interested in the caleo...I forgot the family name."
"Is not a family name but an order Kichiro, Coleoptera is an order formed by variety of beetles."
"Right, but the thing is that I want to know as much as possible from them."
Shino crossed both arms and fell deep in thought.
Quite frankly, I had no idea if Fū had any sort of relationship with the insects and all the information I would be taught might be for naught but it was better be safe than sorry.
My thoughts came by the fact that Naruto possessed cute whisker marks which were sensitive if I may add.
"Very well, first we will learn about the habitat preferences…."
Since I wasn't paying attention until he spoke, I recently noticed that he had a miniature board and pictures around him, how did he get them so fast?
Shinobi things I guess.
It wasn't as boring as I expected, maybe it was that Shino knew how to explain and teach to keep his listeners interested about the subject.
Either way most of my doubts had been clarified thanks to him, if he had a request for me then I would gladly fulfill it with my best of abilities at later date.
"I'm hungry…"
Maybe he didn't know that or just forgot since he was so absorbed in his own explanations about beetles, but that didn't change the fact, Shino didn't offer anything to eat or drink despite being known as common courtesy to guests. If he did offer something to eat then I wouldn't have been feeling hungry and be tempted by the many foods stands or restaurants all over the streets.
There were many options around making it difficult for me to chose one, and my stomach screaming at me gave me even more pressure to decide as soon as possible.
But everything was settled with Naruto's favorite place, I wasn't talking about my Naruto of course.
"Oh welcome to Ichiraku's!"
Thought it would have been better if the cute daughter was receiving me rather than the father.
"Hello, what do you recommend to eat?"
"Well I personally recommend the Shio ramen, but Miso ramen is the people's favorite." Teuchi truly gave off the aura of a good guy, but I still would rather to talk to his cute daughter.
"I will take the first one but in junior size."
"Junior?"
Teuchi's face of confusion helped me to remember the fact that the word wasn't really into their vocabulary.
"A small portion, half of it, you know."
"Oh…"
As expected from a relative fast food stand, he didn't take more than a minute to prepare my ramen and serve it, since everything was already prepared and organized. From my perspective it looked like a small buffet.
"There you go"
"Thanks!"
The small bowl served in front of me was the responsible to satisfy my hunger thought I wasn't completely full, but I never planned to eat too much that might result bad for my health or make me puke if I were to overexert myself with any kind of physical activity.
"Onii-chan!"
"Naruto? Weren't you sparring with Kimimaro?"
It had already been predetermined that Kimimaro would fight against team 7 to analyse their teamwork and personal strengths and weakness, it was a recent agreement with Kakashi after he got healed by Tsunade, though she didn't cure his illness. She simply delayed and removed some of the symptoms.
"Ughhh! I really don't know how he's that good! I mean not even the three of us were able to land a hit!" Of course Naruto wouldn't take a defeat well, she loved victory over defeat and her pride wouldn't allow it.
"A great guy, isn't he?"
After all he was jounin ranked shinobi who would become a kage ranked shinobi.
"Hmph! Soon I will be able to kick his ass!" Her determination was firm as always.
"Wait, where is he?"
I was surprised for a moment when he wasn't around, after all I tasked him to accompany Naruto back if they were training together, honestly it was to put my mind at ease nothing more.
"Oh, he went to get more groceries."
Unless he had another task he wouldn't leave her side.
"Okay, so what do you want to order?"
"Oh, I'm not in the mood for ramen."
"Oh well this is a street filled with food related business so take your pick."
I was laughing on the inside after hearing her reply, to succeed in educating her about a proper diet, though her addiction to sweet could do a little work there and there.
"I want to use this!"
"Your coupon for a discount at the Akimichi restaurants?"
"Yep! I almost forgot about these, can you believe it?" So she was practically saying that she had forgotten about those coupons for over 3 years? Would they even still be valid for consumption?
"Well now the idea is very tempting, some protein after a good day of exercise." I didn't have the heart to crush that happy smile of hers.
"One more but to take away, please."
"Sure!"
Since I was a self-proclaimed good guy, buying one for my faithful servant would be the least I could do for him.
"So what are you doing here, Onii-chan?"
"Well I didn't feel like cooking today and I wanted to grab a bite before meeting with you but you found me first. By the way which list he is doing?"
"The number three."
"Yep we have time."
Groceries list were divided in numbers and number three was a long list and expensive as well.
Everything for a balanced diet.
Despite how painful it was to my greedy heart.
"Here is your order."
"Nice!"
After receiving the ramen from Teuchi I quickly paid the amount and left a small tip for him, after all I enjoyed the meal; it was the least I could do to express my satisfaction.
"Thanks for coming"
To witness the beauty of raw meat slowly changing color and becoming juicy as well, and who could forget about the smell it expelled with every passing second which our nostrils didn't fail to notice It only made our stomach roar in hunger demanding to be fed as soon as possible, it only became worse after pouring BBQ sauce on them.
"The wait is killing me."
Even more since it was me the one who was constantly moving them around the grill for a perfect cooked meal.
"Yeah, it smells amazing!"
"This seems ready."
It was very juicy looking and no signs of being raw seemed enough reason for to consider them ready to be eaten.
"Yup."
"Let's test it out then.."
Not giving her any room for a reply it quickly went to my mouth in an instant, law of the jungle.
"HEY!"
"Mhmm, it was almost ready."
I didn't even finish to chew the last and with my chopsticks another one fell prey.
"This also seems ready."
"And this one…"
"Not fair!"
With that said Naruto was no longer going to endure my tactics and immediately digged on the food and snatched the best looking one right from the grill's center. Our eye made contact and I noticed the glint of sweet victory in her as she quickly attempted to chew her reward but attempted was the key word.
"HOTHOTHOT!"
I might have been eating them directly but what she didn't know was that I had been carefully moving them outside the fire so it wouldn't be that hot the moment I decided to eat them.
That was deception at its finest.
Much to my surprise the discount coupons were still valid but even with the discount I still paid quite the sum of money, after all meat wasn't exactly cheap to being with. Also we ate like 3 rounds, so there was nothing to complain about.
Kimimaro found us first after the restaurant shenanigans, if it wasn't for the storage scrolls he would be carrying a lot of bags around.
With the family finally together we went to our usual spot at the park where Kimimaro ate his ramen with the utmost gratitude towards me, to our luck tupperware with properties to retain heat existed so the ramen didn't get cold or he would have to wait until we arrived at home.
The sun was still up in the sky, the weather was nice, the grass seemed soft at the touch.
And clouds were moving at the wind's whim.
Perfect environment to lay down right there to watch the clouds.
However having a cute imouto next to you made things even better.
And in a blink of an eye the mission date arrived.
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