Leaf festival(3)

Leaf festival(3)

After that our food arrived and we ate quickly before paying and heading out to find a jewel smith to socket this emerald into a proper necklace. With most of the village also celebrating the festival there weren't many shops of any kind still working that didn't want to take advantage of the festival to make a profit like Ichiraku. Even with the festival being a great oppurtunity for making money Teuchi still planned to spend the last day enjoying the festival so the ramen shop will be closed then.-

Either way it took some serious searching for us but we eventually found a jewel smith that was still open for business. It was run by a man who originally hailed from the land of iron so he didn't celebrate the festival. He also admitted that it didn't matter if closed or not as he didn't get much business anyways since he literally made jewelry and that wasn't in hot demand most of the time. When I showed him the emerald and told him what i wanted him to do with it he grinned excitedly.

"A fine gem needs a fine setting indeed! You're in luck too as I happen to have a silver necklace that I have been pulling my hair out about finding a stone to set in for but this is perfect." the guy said excitedly and took the emerald to a workbench in the back.

There were a few light "TINK!" sounds as he worked the stone into the necklace in question and soon he returned. He presented the necklace and I saw that it was a beautifully woven silver thread with a flat coin like attachment with a ripple pattern. In the center of the "coin" was the emerald held in place to look like the source of the ripples on the necklace.-

I paid the man the large amount of money he wanted before promptly handing the necklace to Karin.

"What?" She just gaped at the gift in confusion.

"What do you mean "what"? Did you think I was going to wear the thing? It was always going to be yours from the moment i bought it originally." I said honestly.

"THANKYOUSOMUCH!" she squealed happily as she wrapped me in a tight hug that made me uncomfortable.

The rest of the day was a bunch of loud games and celebration for the upcoming year. Karin dragged me into playing a bunch of those games even if they were pretty useless for shinobi like us. I even ended up winning her a giant teddy bear bigger than she was in the rubber shuriken throwing booth. Even though the game was rigged with lopsided rubber shuriken I just adjusted my throwing method to compensate and easily aced the whole thing. The final part of the festival however was the fireworks which i had something special planned for.-

"Are you sure we are supposed to be up here?" Karin asked as we arrived on top of the Hokage mountain.

"Relax, it's not illegal to be up here just not common. Besides this is the best spot for what I need to do." I said calmly.

"You never did say what that was exactly you know?" she pointed out curiously.

"And ruin the surprise? I'd never do such a thing." I said with a smirk.

We waited until the fireworks started and she watched with wide eyes as they exploded above the village. I meanwhile was molding my chakra nice and slowly for the big finale. The final bright red firework went off about an hour later and I finished the last of the frankly insanely complex chakra molding and breathed out to the air above the village. Immediately a massive set of several dragons made of pure fire roared across the sky and high above the village formed the insignia of the village out of fire that lingered for a moment before dispersing into thousands of embers that fell gently and harmlessly to each person currently outside to witness the scene.

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