Meiqin helped Kushina out of the hot spring, a look of confusion and reproach on her face. "How can you get so weak from just a hot spring soak!"
"I told you to come out earlier, but you wouldn't, and now you're suffering the consequences!"
Kushina's small face was flushed red. She shot a fierce glare at a certain person and said weakly to Meiqin, "It won't happen again, Meiqin."
Meiqin held a hangover soup, scooped some up with a spoon, blew on it gently, and brought it to Kushina's lips. "Hmph! Open up!"
"Meiqin, you're so kind!"
Kushina's eyes were narrowed into crescents, her slender legs dangling weakly on the bed.
Tsunade downed the hangover soup in one gulp, watching the other four feed each other mouthful by mouthful, and snorted dismissively.
Lin Yu was feeding the little loli Kurenai Yuhi some hangover soup. However, for some reason, the girl's eyes were open, but her mind was still unclear. She stared at Lin Yu with her big eyes, and the soup he fed her dribbled down the corners of her mouth.
If it weren't for Kurenai's cuteness, Lin Yu would have liked to just grab the bowl and force-feed her!
"Kurenai, this is hangover soup. Be good, drink it, okay?"
Kurenai Yuhi blinked, her small head feeling dizzy. "This is so hard to drink, I want to drink alcohol! And... grab grab!"
Upon hearing the last two words, Tsunade, who was lying on the bed, blushed. She suddenly remembered a small claw on her chest on the way back while Lin Yu was carrying her. She hadn't paid much attention to it because it was so small, but now it seemed it belonged to this little girl, Kurenai!
"Grab grab?"
Lin Yu looked at the little loli with confusion as she made a gesture with her small hands towards him. Wasn't this the same gesture he had made to Kushina earlier?!
"Alright, I'll take care of Kurenai. Lin Yu, you can leave now."
Tsunade climbed out of bed and took the hangover soup from Lin Yu, the blush on her face not fading.
Lin Yu felt that flash of white was almost blinding. He quickly coughed and said righteously, "Tsunade, look at all of you, you're all drunk. If some malicious person were to attack you at this moment, I think I should stay and protect you!"
Lin Yu patted his chest. "Don't worry, I guarantee..."
*Smack! Bang!*
Lin Yu looked at the tightly shut door in front of him and winced. Forget it, his temper had already been somewhat appeased for today. Next time!
Lin Yu hummed a tune and left the corridor.
However, not long after, a startled cry came from the women's room.
"Kurenai! What are you doing!"
"Hehehe! Grab grab!"
...
In the following days, Lin Yu and the women visited all the towns and cities in the Land of Hot Springs, and the items they bought were so numerous that dozens of sealing scrolls couldn't hold them all. This made Lin Yu envy Obito.
To have an extra dimension that allowed Kakashi to "throw trash" around so casually was truly doting!
"Want to see the sea?"
"As the saying goes, facing the sea, with spring blossoms..."
"Speak human language!" Kushina glared at Lin Yu.
"You've been in the Land of Fire for so long, don't you want to see the scenery of the sea? That beautiful scene of rippling blue waves and the sky merging with the water! Seagulls and birds intertwining, the sunset reflecting on the sea, that scene is truly... indescribably wonderful!"
Lin Yu described the sea as majestic and magnificent, but in his heart, he knew that the sea was nothing but salt fish and salt fish, with nothing interesting to see.
Ah! The sea, you are full of water!
Ah! The sea, you are so salty!
Lin Yu's words only managed to fool Meiqin and Kurenai Yuhi. The other two were completely unmoved. Tsunade, having seen much of the world, already knew what the sea looked like. Kushina, who had lived in the Uzumaki country since she was a child and was near the sea, was indifferent to the sea, which was nothing but water.
Seeing Meiqin's yearning look, Kushina quickly said, "Meiqin, don't believe his nonsense. The sea isn't fun at all, and there's no beautiful scenery!"
Meiqin hesitated. She had never seen the sea before and wanted to see it.
Lin Yu saw the desire in Meiqin's eyes and clapped his hands. "How about this, those who want to go will go with me, and those who don't want to can have free time!"
"Free time?"
Tsunade, who was just a bystander,'s eyes lit up at the words "free time." She had been cooped up for too long! She wanted to go to a casino and gamble a few times!
"Ahem! Then you guys go. I still want to look around. It's rare to get out of Konoha, so I can't come back empty-handed!"
Lin Yu said this to Tsunade without blushing or her heart skipping a beat. He disdained it. Except for Kushina, you, Tsunade, bought the most. And you can't come back empty-handed. You're probably just itching for cards, and you won't be satisfied until you lose everything and come back empty-handed!
Kushina looked hesitant. She didn't want to go out to sea, nor did she want Lin Yu and Meiqin to be alone together. This guy, like a starving ghost, would definitely devour Meiqin!
No! They absolutely couldn't be alone together!
Kurenai Yuhi also stood on tiptoe, raising her small hand high, and said, "I want to go too!"
"Okay, you're half a person!"
Lin Yu raised his eyebrows at Kushina. "Kushina, are you going? The sea is a lot of fun!"
Kushina instinctively crossed her arms, a look of panic on her face.
"I, I'm not going! You bad guy!"
Kushina would never go on a boat, no matter what. Who knows what unspeakable things Lin Yu would do to her again!
"Then it's decided. I, Meiqin, and little Kurenai will be in one group. Kushina and Tsunade will be in another group. We'll meet here again in seven days."
"I don't want to be in a group with Tsunade, I'll play by myself!"
"Tch! As if I want to be in a group with you!" Tsunade rolled her eyes at Lin Yu and wanted to turn around and leave. She couldn't wait!
Lin Yu stopped Tsunade and whispered something in her delicate earlobe. Tsunade's eyes grew brighter and brighter, and then she looked at Kushina with little stars in her eyes!
She's a rich woman!
Lin Yu pulled Meiqin and Kurenai Yuhi towards the boathouse, confident that Tsunade would take good care of Kushina.
This was because he had told Tsunade something: Kushina's fortune started from billions of ryo!
With Tsunade's methods, it should be easy to trick Kushina out of tens of millions of ryo, which would be enough for Tsunade to gamble for a few days.
...
Land of Water, Kirigakure.
Obito, wearing a spiral mask, walked through the prison where prisoners were held in Kirigakure. His scarlet three-tomoe Sharingan observed the disheveled prisoners in the surrounding cells.
These people's future roles would be as experimental subjects or bargaining chips for resource exchange. They had no other way out; this was the price of becoming a prisoner.
Behind Obito, a small, green-haired, purple-eyed "youth" followed with a numb expression. He wore the attire of the Fourth Mizukage, it was Yagura Karatachi.
In the dark corridor, their footsteps stopped in a relatively clean cell. It was located deep inside, and the person imprisoned there was of unusual status.
"Hero of Sunagakure, wielder of the Scorch Release Kekkei Genkai, Yagura, is that you?"