"Okay, boys, enough playing. Let's start our journey now." Alexander said. He had Hats and Berry caught in two hands.
They had been after Douglas the whole time and had run around in the forest. He had to knock them up because they were even seen by normal people.
"But he lied to us, punish him too." Berry pointed at Douglas.
~I'm gonna regret bringing these three with me.~
"Douglas, you are not allowed to speak for 24 hours as a punishment." Alexander declared and started walking away from his shrine. Yalo was on his shoulder, happily looking around. The kid had a really slow growth.
"But..." Douglas protested.
"Don't speak or it will become 48 hours," Alexander added.
They walked out of the forest and came to a small but lively town. Just one look around showed him what kind of town it was. It was a place filled with gambling dens and brothels.
"Just my luck, the first place we arrived turned out to be this place. Well, I need to learn where I am first." He contemplated.
"Hats and Berry, intel gathering, where we are, geography, people, religion, history, anything. Okay?" He instructed them with a serious look.
Both of them saluted, "Yes, boss."
Alexander then went to a bar there. Though it looked more like a casino.
He went ahead and took a seat around which a lot of people sat. He started hearing whatever the people were saying.
From it, he quickly found out he was in a place called Tanzaku town. It was in a country called Fire Country. He also heard about another problem brewing in the Land of Rain. With this, he knew where he was going to head next.
He ordered some ramen for himself and a glass of milk for Yalo because that was the only decent thing he saw on the menu.
"Ummm... ummmm"
Alexander looked at Douglas who was trying his best to not speak, "Ah, I nearly forgot you were with me. I'll order for you too."
He was about to call for a waiter but then a drunk blonde woman came to him and rudely talked. "Oye, go away old man, I want this seat."
Alexander saw the woman. She seemed young and he couldn't help but take a glance at the assets because they were just too big compared to normal human standards.
"There is enough space, you can take a seat anywhere you want." Alexander calmly replied.
"HAAAA?! No, this is my place. I sit here every day." She persisted.
A little girl was then seen pulling her sleeves, "Tsunade-sama, don't bully the elders. Let's just share the table. there is enough space for all of us."
Tsunade huffed and sat down close to Alexander. Then she looked at Douglas innocently eating his noodles.
"Hey, boy... give me that Ramen, I am hungry." She shouted at him and pointed her finger at his bowl.
Douglas paused midway while slurping some noodles, he looked rather surprised that someone would call him so disrespectfully. Only Alexander and his friends were allowed to do that.
"Tsunade-sama, that his someone else's food. I will order for you, please wait." The little girl said and ran away to the counter.
Douglas decided to ignore the disrespect because he needed to stay quiet for 24 hours and he also liked women with big assets. He had this theory that women big assets had big hearts and should be cherished.
"Haha, sure, child. lead the way." He said and Tsunade's body suddenly started levitating.
Shizune was shocked but just took it as some ninja ability and lead the way to the hotel they were staying at. After helping them they were back on their way.
"Where did Hats and Berry go? They should have returned by now." Douglas said with sign language. It took him half an hour to learn how to say this and then successfully saying it.
Soon they came to a street where a lot of people were gathered. "I think we found them."
They bypassed the crowd and saw what was happening. They found Hats sitting on the back of an unconscious man and Berry was pecking at another man.
"What is going on here?" He asked loudly.
"Oh, they attacked us and wanted to catch us to sell." Hats answered.
"Yeah, even when we won fair and square they attacked," Berry added. Hearing Berry, Hats facepalmed.
"So you two were gambling?"
"No, we were gathering intel, I got a lot of it. Here, check this out." Hats gave him a notebook with his fluffy paws.
Alexander looked at it and read all the information. About the geography of the world, cultures, and major events.
He was interested in these Hidden villages thing. These were villages where the country's Shinobis reside. He found out about the 5 major nations too. He also found out that the tailed beasts were feared around the world now and were enslaved and sealed in humans to be used as war tools.
It enraged him and he decided to start looking for them before he did anything else. And for that, he needed a high-level source of intel. So, going to an area under conflict would be best because high ranking men can be found in warzones as easily as dirt.
*Sigh*
"Good job, Hats. But you will not be leaving my sight from now on. You are too chaotic. Berry, you too. Stop following Hats everywhere." He scolded them.
Everyone around them just looked at the bizarre interaction taking place between a man, cat, and a bird.
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Sakumo Hatake received the orders from Hokage and went to check out the big shrine in the forest. But he didn't find anything there. From questioning the locals he found out that people saw a mysterious man a few days ago. The man looked old, had a young man walking with him and there were also a talking cat and bird.
The intel was too bizarre but it also became more of a reason to understand what this threat meant. So he went in the direction people reported the strange of going and he eventually reached the Tanzaku Town.
But he was late again, the people again reported the bizarre details and that the old man went towards the road leading to Ame.
This alerted him, he knew that he must find this man and understand why he was going to Ame. The man could have been a spy transporting important intel about Fire country.
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