Reading: Wakfu: Chronicles of the Lost Ninja (English Translation)
"Alright, I think that's a long enough break." Liok said, getting everyone to go back to their seats.
"Whoever wants to read next better catch." Drako drawled out while carelessly tossing the book into the air.
"I'll do it!" Declared the self-proclaimed super-pervert as he caught it.
Episode 2
When Naruto awoke, it was to the feeling of being the sorest he had ever been in his life. Blinking the bleariness from his eyes, he found himself still inside that weird cave he had found himself in earlier, only now he was laying on what looked and felt like a pile of cotton and a slightly ragged blanket covered him from the chest down. Not seeing anyone from his current position but hearing undistinguishable chatter, Naruto to sit up only to wince as almost every single joint in his body popped at the exact same time with a series of loud cracks before falling back down with a grunt.
"Well, that's what happens when you don't move your body for long periods of time." Tsunade, in medical mode, explained to rest of the group of people.
"Ooh, that's really gotta hurt!" Chouji said to the group, who were all in agreement. That did not look pleasant.
'Kuso! Not a smart idea, not a smart idea at all!' He thought with a grimace, his muscles seizing up erratically. Thankfully, before he could end up hurting himself, an elf-looking girl and an old man popped into view and held him in place until the spasming settled down. When it did, he took in a few gasping breaths before coughing like crazy as the air irritated his suddenly dry throat.
"It's not a pretty picture, as you can plainly see." The Slug Sannin said.
"How long does it take to pass, Tsunade?" Kushina asked, worried about her son's wellbeing.
"Well, if it were a normal person or any other ninja it would probably take months, maybe even a few years, considering they were petrified by who knows how long. But if it's the brat we're talking about, with his bullshit healing, you just have to give him a day or two." Tsunade replied to the blonde's mother to try to calm her down.
"Easy there lad, de-petrification sickness is quite the nasty experience from what I've been told. Amalia hurry up with that water! The boy's probably more parched than a desert right now." The old man called out behind himself.
"Is petrifaction really that bad?" Lee asked.
"If what the old man said is true, it is a very bad experience" Shikamaru droned in response.
"Calm down you old coot, I got it already." A green-haired girl said as she appeared at his side, a makeshift bandage covering her upper arm, a large cup-shaped leaf in her hands, and an annoyed expression on her face. Kneeling at Naruto's side, she lined the leaf up with his lips and slowly started to pour. "You better be grateful, it's not every day you get hand served by royalty you know." She said in joking haughty tone as Naruto happily consumed the refreshing liquid.
"Well, the girl certainly has a prideful streak, but she does have a point; that's probably the first time Naruto's been treated by a princess" Kurenai commented.
"Ohoho! I wouldn't say that!" Kakashi chuckled, remembering all the times the blond had been treated or interacted with royalty. "If I remember correctly, there was Koyuki and Shion. Kami only knows how many he met while I wasn't around."
"Are you serious?" cried a dismayed Kushina.
"I can attest to that" Sakura spoke up, also remembering those moments.
"…and I still don't have grandchildren yet?!" Kushina yelled furiously and incredulously, drawing skewed looks from the younger generation.
"A-a-ano, N-Na-Naruto-kun is too young to have children Kushina-sama." Hinata stated shyly.
"That's no excuse, I want grandbabies now dammit!" The habanero screamed with a petulant pout.
"Mah mah, calm down dear. I'm sure he had a good reason." Minato tried to calm his wife, knowing how she could be sometimes.
"You see for our time, in times of war, it was normal for couples at the age of 15 to have one or two children." Jiraiya explained upon seeing the confused looks of the rookie eleven.
"Yep, we had Naruto when I was 22 years old, the best ten months of my life." Kushina sighed dreamily, oblivious to Minato's horror-filled face as he recalled the cravings and mood swings of his wife. Without a doubt, those had been the worst months of his life. Drako and Liok could only send a military salute with tears in their eyes and with a banner on their back saying… "You are the male of all males".
"But leaving that aside, I tried several times to get that kid laid with no results! I even started to wonder if he batted for the other team." The white-haired pervert declared, not noticing the deadly fist of the redhead Uzumaki descending on his head until it was too late.
"You will not corrupt my beautiful baby!" Cried a furious Kushina, conveniently contradicting what was previously said. That was when all the young people and teachers knew for certain that this was the mother of the whiskered Uzumaki.
*Gulp, gulp* "Haa… haa… thank you," He said hoarsely with a weak smile, relief rushing through him as the water seemed to sooth the aches and soreness a bit. A smile that quickly vanished however as the greenette was shoved out of the way by the elf-girl who got right up in his face.
"Well, without a doubt, she gets down to business fast" Kurenai said.
"Good, you can talk. Now how about you start answering some questions?" She demanded, her voice and expression completely serious as she looked him dead in the eye with suspicion. "Starting with who you are and why you were imprisoned within that statue."
"Serious and dedicated, just like all kunoichi's should be. Unfortunately, all we tend to get are fangirls that give a bad name to the real dedicated workers!" Kushina commented, earning agreements from all the other women in the group except Ino, Sakura and Hinata, who only looked to the ground in shame. The first two for obvious reasons and the third because she was very shy, which could be the end of her in a mission.
Not seeing any reason to lie, Naruto slowly nodded his head before speaking. "My name is Naruto, Uzumaki Naruto… I'm a shinobi of… Konohagakure no Sato." He said slowly with the occasional cough cutting in. "I was fighting a man… a member of the Akatsuki who… who attacked my village. He… he sealed me in the statue… I don't know why." And it was the truth, last he had checked Nagato had wanted a certain giant fluffy ball of malice he contained, not to turn him into a lawn ornament.
"Even now, when it's not even inside me anymore, that oversized hairball is still causing problems." Kushina groaned.
"Well, there's always someone who's not happy with the world." Shikamaru drawled.
Her gaze narrowing, the elf-girl opened her mouth to ask something else, but was cut off when the greenette dragged her away with a pointed looked, followed by the old man and a kid with a large blue hat. "Dally, keep an eye on him in case he tries anything." He heard one of them say out of sight.
"I'd say she's not careless, but considering she left an idiot on watch…" Kakashi trailed off.
"No problem Ruel, he won't get past me." An unknown male voice said before an orange hair guy holding a small dagger-like sword with an eye walked into view with a cocky smirk.
"Yeah, cause dealing with a sickly blonde brat will be sooooo hard." A deep sarcastic voice said from the sword as the eye flickered from Naruto. "I'm shaking in my prison just thinking about it."
"Oh shut it Rubilax, no one asked for your opinion!" The assumed to be Dally yelled at the sword before plopping down just at the edge of Naruto's vision where he proceeded to get in an argument with his sword when it insulted him again.
"EEEEEEE! The sword speaks!" Ten-ten screamed, excited by the new information.
'Oh great, another freaky sword. And to make it better this one can even talk.' Naruto thought with a mental groan, thinking back to all the other unusual weapons he had to deal with such as Samehada and the Kusanagi before shaking his head.
"In his defense, I saw how his first encounter with Samehada went down, so his hatred and aversion to it is pretty well justified" commented Jiraiya.
'Ugh, not the time for reminiscing, I need to find out if Konoha is alright.' He berated himself. 'Now think, you're extremely exhausted for some reason and need to recover fast. Hm, can't get the Kyuubi's help as he's probably still pretty pissed earlier.' Naruto thought with a frown before mentally slapping himself. 'Duh, senjutsu! The natural energy should speed up my recover a lot.'"
"Of course, Naruto's senjutsu also works as a radar and way of healing himself!" Ino said in excitement, but then she saw the dark faces of the adults and the expressionless face of Shikamaru. "What, isn't that a good thing?" she asked in confusion.
"Normally it would be, but now? No, it isn't. When Naruto realizes that there is no Konoha anymore, how do you think he's gonna react?" asked Kakashi, the realization reached the group of young people, Naruto is a very lively person who values life very much but who finds out that he no longer there are elementary nations, no longer Konoha, there are no friends anymore.
With his plan of action decided, Naruto took a long deep breath while closing his eyes. A second later, his entire body went deathly still, with even his breathing seeming to halt as he slipped into a meditative trance and began to draw a minute amount of natural energy into his body.
"That's what Naruto does to use nature energy? Pssh, that's so easy, even I could do it!" Kiba commented with arrogance, only to be quieted to hear the laughter of the two beings that brought them here.
"Hahahahahahahaha! What a good joke! Jajajajajajajajaja! I-I-I can't breathe! My stomach hurts!" Cried a guffawing Liok, followed by Drako who fell to the floor laughing so hard, he was unable to speak.
Their laughter quickly got on Kiba's nerves, and with a visible vein pulsing on his forehead he yelled, "What's so funny!"
"You! You say you'd be able to do it but I'm telling you now, Naruto has full control over Senjutsu while Jiraiya still needs help from the toad elders to be able to use it, and even then, he can't use its full power! So, the fact you think that you of all people could use it easily?! Laughable!" said Drako, a nice big condescending smirk plastered on his face.
"While the news of Naruto being able to control the Senjutsu perfectly is incredible, it is true; using Senjutsu could kill you if you aren't careful" Jiraiya warned, corroborating what the young people said.
"I have a hard time using it myself, or rather I can only use it for a few seconds. If I try to stretch it out, it could turn me to stone and kill me." Minato said with total seriousness, wondering how Naruto managed to master a technique of that level so easily without dying.
-With the others-
"What is wrong with you Eva?" Amalia demanded after dragging Eva to another part of the cavern, Ruel and Yugo standing behind her. "Can't you see he's exhausted? He needs to be resting not dealing with you interrogating him."
"I'm just being cautious Amalia. We have no idea who this guy really is or if he's actually telling the truth. For all we know, he's a homicidal maniac who was turned into a statue as a punishment." Eva retorted with a huff as Amalia cringed at the thought. "And so far everything he has told us sounds like a load of dragoturkey dung. I for one have never heard of a place called Konohagakure or of this Akatsuki before, have you?"
"Well, if we take into account that young Naruto would never hurt a fly in bad faith, and was sealed away for who knows how long, I would disagree with what she said." commented Gai, followed by several nods from his fellow jounin.
"If I may cut in," Ruel said as he got in between the two girls with his arms held up in a placating manner. "While I have never heard of them in such phrasing, I do recognize the words themselves. They're ancient tongue." He said, earning intrigued and confused looks from the trio.
"Well, now we know that our language, or at least certain parts of it are considered very old, but that suggests that there may still be people who know about the elemental nations." said Minato, paying attention to what was mentioned by Ruel.
"Possibly, but that doesn't reassure me much." Tsunade said.
"You mean like the writing where his statue was?" Yugo asked, getting a nod.
"The very same Yugo, which is odd since it has been a dead, almost extinct language for as long as anyone can remember. Some say it even predates the gods themselves." Ruel explained "So that fact this youngster not only knows it but speaks it so naturally is quite odd, especially since he doesn't seem like the… scholarly type to me. He could be a descendent of one of the old tribes, which would explain why his name is also in ancient tongue. Or maybe he's a treasure hunter, which must mean he has a lot of Kam-"
"Dead? Dead language?" Sakura muttered. She knew what that meant.
"Then it's just what I feared." said Kakashi. "Naruto's woken up in a world where the elemental nations don't exist anymore.
Most of those in attendance adopted looks of grief and sympathy, the only exceptions being Shino, who's expression couldn't be seen beneath his clothes. Neji, who remained stoic as ever, though there was a hint of remorse. Finally, Shikamaru looked more morbidly curious if anything.
"Putting how troublesome this is aside, anyone notice how the old man said that our language is prior to the "gods", implying that they actually exist." He commented.
"I don't know about these gods of theirs, but if I can tell you for certain that the Shinigami is very real. After all, I had to give up my soul to be able to seal the Kyuubi away." said Minato, the memory of that day running through his mind clear as day.
"Well, before you break your brains thinking about it, when Ruel talked about the deities, he was referring to the 12 gods that "govern" their world." Drako explained.
"There's a different god for each of the twelve races; a god for the Iop, a goddess for the Sadidas and so on and so on." Liok added.
"I say if we want to know more about what's happening and these so-called "gods", Jiraiya should get back to reading!" The busty blonde hokage snapped, growing irritated. Jiraiya took the hint and continued.
"So what DID he say?" Eva asked pointedly, cutting Ruel off as he was about to go into a rant about money.
"Eh-hem, well I'm a little rusty but I believe he said that his name is either Whirlpool Maelstrom or Whirlpool Fishcake, depends on the context really, and that he is a ninja of a Village hidden by Tree Leaves." The shovel-wielding man stated, earning himself a bunch of odd looks. "As for Akatsuki, it means either dawn or daybreak, again depending on the context."
"'Whirlpool Maelstrom' actually!" Kushina chirped happily when she remembered the meaning of her son's name, who reminded her so much of herself in attitude.
"Personally, I don't know if I should regret every time I called him Fishcake." Kiba foolishly pondered out loud, and only two seconds later he was sent to the floor by a strong blow from the redhead mother, who had a downright murderous look on her face.
Liok and Drako only raised posters with the number 10 on them.
"For your own sake, you'd BEST regret it!" Kushina snarled as a shadow began to cover her face, her hair rising up and swaying in the air like the nine tails of a certain giant fox. Drako, Liok, Minato, Jiraiya and Kakashi were huddled together in the corner with numerous Talismans and crosses, praying that they did not become collateral damage. The others were either confused or were smirking at the soon-to-be dead dog boy.
Tsunade, being the least affected, snatched the book from Jiraiya and started reading, all the while listening to Kiba's screams of pain and agony.
"…That makes even less sense then when we didn't know what he was saying at all." Eva said bluntly.
"Probably cause the lad's still delirious from de-petrification sickness. An old friend of mine had it once after flirting with a Huppermage's girlfriend, poor fellow thought he was a gobball for three days before coming to his senses." Ruel said with a somber chuckle. 'I wonder how old Toot is doing these days. Probably still playing Gobbowl with the old gang I bet.' "I doubt anything you get out of him will be of any form of coherent until he recovers."
"See, I told you." Amalia said with a victorious smirk as she turned back to Eva. "Now let's just let him rest for a bit. Once he's all better you can interrogate him all you-" The leafy girl suddenly stopped midsentence, her head snapping back towards where their 'guest' and Dally was while a large shiver ran through her. "Do you feel that?"
"Huh, what's this now?" Tsunade said, rereading that last part.
"Just keep reading, you'll see soon enough." Liok said from his place in the corner.
"What? Is something wrong?" Eva asked worriedly while reaching for her bow, Ruel holding his shovel threateningly, while Yugo's palms gained a soft blue glow.
Instead of answering verbally, Amalia started walking back the way they had come from in an apparent daze. Stumbling past Dally, who was still arguing with Rubilax and hadn't noticed her at all, she soon stood above Naruto with a look of awe on her face. "He's so… so peaceful, so welcoming." She muttered while attempting to get closer only to get held back by Ruel and Yugo.
"Wait, what? Ok, could someone please explain what's happening to that troublesome princess." Shikamaru asked, ignoring the practical torture of his fellow shinobi.
"You heard Liok, just keep reading dammit!" Drako snapped back.
While they were busy doing that, Eva took a look at Naruto with narrowed eyes as she spotted an odd orange coloration forming around his eyes. Drawing her bow, she pulled back the string as a yellow energy arrow formed and she held the tip right up to his throat. "Stop whatever it is you are doing to the princess right now or else you're going to have a new hole to breathe through." She said coldly, pressing the tip against his neck only to stare in shock when it couldn't pierce his skin.
"Hey! What the hell are you trying to do to my son, dattebane!" Kushina yelled furiously at the screen, a battered and traumatized Kiba lying at her feet.
"Hey, relax Kushina! Being in sage mode causes the user's skin to become extra resistant to damage, so something like that wouldn't affect him in the slightest!" Jiraiya belted out quickly, knowing from experience what the elder Uzumaki's temper could be like.
"That's still my boy she's trying to hurt!" shouted the mentioned redhead.
She was then greeted with the sight of yellow eyes with rectangular pupils as Naruto's eyes snapped open and locked with hers. Faster than the elf-girl could blink, Naruto had gotten within her guard and knocked her an inch the wall with a palm strike to her abdomen. It was only thanks to Naruto's weakened condition AND him holding back a lot that she wasn't a bloody smear.
Chouji gave an impressed whistle. "Damn! even when he's exhausted, Naruto's pretty strong in that state." He said. only to receive a nod from the white-haired Sannin.
Speaking of which, Naruto had slowly gotten up on his feet with his legs wobbling badly, his breathing heavy, and sweat already pouring from his brow when he was suddenly bowled over by Amalia after she managed to escape from her friends' grasp thanks to the distraction. Expecting an attack, the blonde prepared to strike her away as well only to be understandable baffled when the girl suddenly wrapped her arms around his chest and started nuzzling her head against his chest with a content sigh.
There were several reactions to this scene; Kakashi, Kiba and Chouji were green with envy, Kurenai and the girls were a little shocked and slightly bemused, Hinata was bright red (though with anger, envy or embarrassment couldn't be determined), and Gai and Lee started screaming about the attractive power of Naruto's youth (They were promptly silenced by Liok).
Kushina stared at the screen with a look that was both full of hope and full of malice, Minato wasn't sure whether to be happy for his son or worried. Jiraiya giggled perversely, whipped out his notebook and started scribbling away so fast that smoke rose from the paper itself. Two seconds later, his head was smashed into the ground with a smoking bruise, courtesy of Tsunade's fist.
"Uhhhhh, what are you doing?" He asked in confusion while prying the girl off of himself with his senjutsu enhanced strength.
"So warm, so cozy, so amazing." Was Amalia's response as she struggled to get out of his grasp until he 'gently' tossed her across the room where she collided with Eva and Dally, who had just finished freeing the girl from the wall
"Classic Naruto, attracting the female gender since time immemorial" said Drako with laughter in his words.
"Okay, I take back what I said earlier. This guy packs a wallop." Rubilax's muffled voice said out from the pile of bodies covering him.
Struggling back to his feet, Naruto turned to the two remaining standing people in the cave, the old man and the hat kid. Seeing their guarded stances but sensing no real hostility from them, he slowly raised his hands up in surrender while his eyes slowly turned back to normal. "Easy, I don't want to fight."
"You could have fooled me," Ruel said, glancing at his down companions while pointing his shovel at the whiskered teens throat.
"I was only defending myself against Surudoi and Happa over there." Naruto said, slowly sitting down as his legs started to give out under him. "They were the ones to jump me out of the blue like that."
"…only Naruto would name a princess and a woman capable of killing him something like that, without any hesitation whatsoever" Tsunade groaned as she rubbed her forehead for a second, then she extended her hand and a bottle of sake appeared in it.
"Only because you did something to Amalia." Yuga said while pointing his glowing hands at him.
"I have no idea what you're talking about. I didn't do anything to this Amalia person you keep talking about." As soon as Naruto finished speaking, an arrow made of ice struck his side and caused his body to rapidly freeze over until only his head was left exposed.
"Ice arrows! I want some! GIMME, GIMME GIMME!" An excited Ten-ten screamed once again, looking about ready to leap up in excitement. Two seconds later, the ribbons reemerged from the seat and tied her in place once more.
"I'm starting to think ALL of team 9's members are weirdo's." Drako whispered to Liok, who gave an unsure shrug.
"Then you won't mind chilling for a bit and explaining that odd eye trick of yours then, would you?" Eva asked rhetorically while dusting herself off, a small trickle of blood oozing from her lip as she glared at the imprisoned blonde.
"Whatever you say Surudoi-san, not like I have much choice in the manner." Naruto said with a roll of his eyes. Despite how he was acting, he was still exhausted as hell and even if the ice wasn't encasing him he doubted he'd make it more than five feet before collapsing again.
"What did you just call me?" Eva asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Uh Surudoi-san duh. I have to call you something since you haven't given me your name yet."
"That's not what I… ugh Ruel what did he call me?" The elf-girl asked with a sigh as she rubbed her forehead.
"Ms. Sharp, it's actually quite fitting if I do say so myself." The old man said with a chuckle while Dally and Amalia finally got back on their feet.
"I support the old man's notion." A slightly amused Shikamaru droned. Some of the others laughed at that.
Rolling her eyes, Eva stumbled over to where Naruto was imprisoned and crouched down till they were eye level, keeping another ice arrow trained on him the entire time. "Well then… whiskers," A grin spread across her lips when she saw Naruto's lip twitch slightly in annoyance. "Start talking."
"Uh Oooh! Lesson one: don't provoke the beast." Drako chuckled.
"Will you stop that, this is supposed to be them reacting, not us you moron." Liok whisper-yelled while whacking the Madara-look-a-like across the head, getting a flipped bird in response.
"Hai Hai, calm down would you, no need to be so harsh Surudoi-san. The Gama eyes were just a side-effect of Sennin Modo, I was using it to boost my recovery some. I have no idea why it affected your friend like it did…uh we are talking about Happa-san over there right?" Naruto asked while tilting his head towards Amalia as she and Dally finally started to get up. Unfortunately, as the greenette was getting up she tried to use the wall Eva had crashed into for support only for it to end up falling apart into rubble that tumbled all over the orange-haired boy, much to his sword's amusement.
"Should I feel sorry for the poor boy?" Kushina asked herself, tapping her lips with her finger thoughtfully. "... Naaaah."
"What I'm curious about though, is why that Amalia girl reacted like that to Naruto's senjutsu." She continued, paying close attention to the screen.
"Well, it's simple enough, but it would be better if you see for yourself." Liok said to the group.
"Yeah, that would be Amalia," Eva said in dull tone as she watched the girl apologize before turning her attention back to the iced blonde. "So what exactly is this Sennin Modo?"
"It's a technique I learned from my summons, the Gama clan. I use it by connecting to nature and drawing in natural energy to create senjutsu chakra." Naruto explained, getting Eva's eyes to widen before she facepalmed.
"…That would definitely explain Amalia's reaction," Ruel said while Eva nodded.
"Yeah, Sadidans are very in tune with nature, so someone tampering with it would definitely make them act strangely. Especially in Amalia's case given she's a Sadida princess." She said while slowly lowering her weapon. "Speaking of which, how are you doing over there princess?"
"In simpler words, senjutsu acts like a stimulant, sexual or not depends, that affects her and her people, but more the former in her case." explained Drako.
Jiraiya thought about it carefully. "Well, that would make sense. If these Sadidas are so connected to nature, then it only seems natural for them to be affected like that."
"That's a bit worrying." Kurenai said, looking a tad wary. "If senjutsu stimulates them so much that they get aroused by it, imagine what would to them if someone with dark intensions used it!"
"An understandable worry Kurenai, but the risk of that happening is rather small. Senjutsu is one of the most dangerous arts you can learn, with most of those attempting it ending up dead." Minato said, getting the genjutsu mistress to calm down.
"But, wasn't Naruto able to figure it out in a month?" Neji asked, joining the conversation for the first time in a while.
"That's just how the brat is." Rebuked Tsunade, rolling her eyes with a humored smile. "Hey Minato, how long did it take you to figure out the Rasengan?"
Minato blinked at the sudden question. "What? Uh, three years give or take."
"And it took me months to figure it out myself." Jiraiya piped up, catching Tsunade's drift. "Naruto on the other hand, managed to get it all down in less than a week!"
"If any of you ever talk about what just happened again I'll have you thrown in the royal dungeons until you're Ruel's age!" Amalia yelled with a massive blush on her face as she refused to look at Naruto directly.
The massive smile growing on Kushina's face was starting to look more and more like the smile of a certain cat from a certain wonderland, very disturbing if you ask this humble servant.
"How old is Ruel anyway?" asked a puzzled Ino.
"Very old." Drako replied.
"Ruel is an Enutrof, their race ages either slowly or quickly depending on the circumstances. In some cases when they reach their 60s, they maintain the strength and vitality they had at 30 and can even improve a little more. The only problem with them is their greed, which can sometimes be equal or superior to Jiraiya's perversion; they go absolutely nuts over just a single gold coin." Liok explained to the group.
"Sounds almost like the Uzumaki's." said Kushina, referencing to the longevity of the Enutrofs.
"I'll take that as 'I'm okay.'" Eva said with another sigh before sitting down and reluctantly allowing her ice spell to end. "I'll give you the benefit of the doubt for now, but know I'll be keeping an eye on you Whiskers."
"Whatever you say Surudoi-san," Naruto said while brushing some of the melting ice off his shoulder.
"Now that we've all calmed down, perhaps we can talk a bit more civilly," Ruel said while taking a seat himself, chuckling again when he heard two loud growling noises coming from the pair of blondes as they grabbed their stomachs at the same time. "And preferably over a good meal by the sounds of it."
"Oh boy, Kami help them if Naruto is as tired and hungry as he says he is." said a depressed Kakashi. He remembers the times that he'd invited his students to lunch after a day of practice. That child must have a black hole in his stomach or something.
"I'm with you there Kakashi." Said and equally depressed Jiraiya, because he had suffered from the same pain as Kakashi when he took his student on their training trip.
"Yeah, something to eat would be absolutely delightful right now." Amalia said while plopping down next to Eva, her face still red as she stared at the cave floor.
"Uh, guys," Yugo said, getting everyone's attention. "Shouldn't we help Dally first?" He asked while pointing to the still buried orange-aired boy.
"Is he even still alive?" Kiba asked. The others just shrugged their shoulders, unsure themselves.
"Don.. worra abo.. meh, thish is no…ing, I'll …e out of he.. …o …ime." Dally's muffled voice called out as one of his free hands made a thumbs-up sign.
"There's your answer Kiba." Shino said in his usual monotone.
"You heard the Iop, he's fine, now let's get some grub going finally." Ruel said while making a simple firepit that he lit by making sparks with his shovel. Then reaching into the bag hanging from one side, he pulled out a variety of fruits, vegetables, and fish that he was about to start frying up when Naruto asked a simple but very powerful question.
"What's a Iop?"
- End Chapter -
"Well, I think that's all we'll see for now." said Liok
"Go take a break, grab something to eat and we'll be back later." Drako instructed to the group, who promptly started 'ordering' food while they began to discuss what just seen.
-End Chapter-
AN: Thanks to Anonymous Ideas for translating this chapter.