Moving forward

Moving forward

I closed my eyes and extended my senses through the natural energy until I found the disturbance created by my lizard and the girl.

"Follow me." I said and started heading that way with my sensei and Shizune following me.

Soon we reached a couple miles away and approached an inconspicuous looking tree that didn't stand out at all. "Enemies are gone you can reappear now." I said and my lizard began to slowly become visible again.

"Who are you?" the girl asked in confusion as she looked at me while dismounting my lizards back.

It wasn't hard to figure out why either as Mizuhe was on my shoulder and Ren and Akasha were leisurely making their way here as well. In the shinobi world someone like me with such an easily identifiable feature like my many beasts should not be a secret to the other villages at my strength. As a result this girl who was the younger sister of the leader of the bloodline resistance faction in the hidden mist should know all the worth knowing names of the other villages. The trick here however was that I was pretty much a total secret beyond my tutelage under my sensei.-

The other villages only knew that I was learning medical ninjutsu from my sensei and was decent at it but as far as everything else worth knowing was concerned they were in the dark. In a manner of speaking I was seen as an extension of my sensei like Shizune was rather than a combatant in truth. Sure the information that I was learning under my sensei was valuable to know for the other villages but it also served as a red herring to distract them from my other sides. This was something my sensei had long explained.-

"Nobody worth remembering Miss Terumi." I said politely as I desummoned all my beasts other than Ren.

This was a political matter at this point so I was planning to treat it as such. Like I was taught in the academy I wasn't going to expose shit nor was I going to volunteer information unless specifically told to. I may as well be a tree for all the good speaking to me would accomplish. The girls seemed to pick this up and pouted a bit before ignoring me and turning to my sensei.

A horse hair wide faced brush worked wonders for getting the stuff unstuck and as a bonus Ren seemed to enjoy the feeling. The girl was the most surprised at how docile Ren seemed while I worked but didn't do anything beyond watch. Once I was done I smiled and flopped down to take a nap under the speechless and helpless looks of everyone else present. We were in a rare bit of chilly weather at the moment with plenty of clouds to block out the sun so I wasn't going to waste such a perfectly good oppurtunity for a nap.-

About two hours later there was another puff of smoke and Enma reappeared which woke me up.

"Good lad, you get it." the monkey king said giving me a thumbs up before handing my sensei a response scroll and vanishing in another puff of smoke.

My sensei quickly read through the contents of the scroll before sealing it and putting it away. "Make room Kenzo we are going to the land of water." she said and I did as told.

"Get on the scorpion so we can set off Miss Terumi." my sensei said to the girl who looked very reluctant but did as told.

"It's warm?" she muttered in surprise after sitting cross legged in the center of Rens back.

My sensei and Shizune both mounted Ren as well and the scorpion set off in the direction specified at full speed which was not as fast as we could run but still much faster than by normal carriage. Unlike a horse that did best on flat terrain Rens legs let it run over uneven terrain without any issue at all and as a chunin level chakra beast it was pretty fast as well.

It took about two days to reach the land of water with us stopping only to rest and give Ren a break. At one point I collected fish from a river to feed Ren and let us eat as well as I roasted them over a fire release technique. Nothing crazy just a simple fire without the smoke that would give away our position and some of a seasoning blend that a merchant we treated gave us as a gift. Ironically it was popular in the land of water according to the girl who was surprised to find us using it.