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As the humiliating summon scroll disappeared quickly within puff of smoke. Takeshi stared at him for a few seconds, and his score panel instantly increased by two to three hundred points. 'This increase, should I push for more... Forget it, let's reward him with a Special cat food!'
Takeshi bought one, threw it over and said, "Meow, this is a reward for you."
"Reward?" The Nekomata stared at the packaged meal next to his paws. 'Oh, this is obviously sympathy! He's looking down on me!' He sneered, but... happily tore open the packaging and ate immediately the special cat food, making purring meows from time to time. This meal is too difficult to resist!
If the Ninja Cats in the Ninja Cat Castle knew about this scene, they would probably be shocked - this is their King Nekomata ? The king of cat castle? He seems to have no regard for his image whatsoever. But in the face of such delicious taste and benefits, why would he care about image?
Nekomata knew by now that this food is not only delicious, it can also accelerate the improvement of cats physical abilities and improve their own chakra. His physical abilities and chakra were ranked top in the Ninja Cat Castle, but there hasn't been any improvement for awhile and his growth has stagnated.
However, with the help of this cat food, he can continue to grow again, he can already feel the effects. He understood that this cat food actually increases is the upper limit of one's potential and talent, not just a simple strengthening.
It's no wonder that the Nekomata is so giddy and excited. It's a quite difficult battle to keep striving for progress and trying to improve despite reaching upper limit of Natural talent and potential. It feels like a never ending losing battle. So his current reaction is understandable!
Takeshi glanced at the panel and saw that after including spending on the cat food given to this damn white cat, he had left over more than 300 points. Well, after all... Why not? He should treat himself afterwards too!
"Meow!" Takeshi called, then got up and walked towards the orphanage. Nekomata had already finished the special ninja cat food, and when Takeshi returned, he immediately followed behind him.
He was still a little uncomfortable with his current situation, but the important thing for this cat was that he knew that if he wanted to gain something, he had to pay first. Since he has already paid with his dignity and status, now he will have to pay with his labor power and grunt work next.
"What should I do?" the Nekomata asked as he followed.
"You can maintain your royal dignity and demeanor. Remember to prepared to be called without notice. Keep training hard and try to get stronger, you are still quite weak now." Takeshi didn't actually care about his new subordinate.
But, he did gain points by making this stupid cat surrender. And, if he encounters a situation where he is stuck fighting an opponent and cannot protect Rin during the battle in the future, Rin can also use Summoning Jutsu to summon Nekomata to protect her.
After all, Nekomata has a certain fighting ability, and after feeding some special cat foods will be quite useful at emergency situations.
As for the reason why he needs to maintain his Royal dignity... he needs maintain some image and respect for Takeshi to poke at him to get more points. If he is completely beaten and subservient, he will just kneel down and accept the bullying and get used to it. 'Howcan I collect points that way?'
'Me? Weak?' Nekomata was felt hurt, suffering from light emotional damage. He thought, that as the king of the ninja cat castle, his strength was one of the best among the cat ninjas, as even the Uchiha clan members are respectful to him when they meet him. But compared to this black cat, he is indeed weak. The white cat sighed softly.
This damn Takeshi is so absurdly strong at such a young age. The key question is that the ninja world has never heard of such a ninja cat sub-species... What is his origin?
Takeshi walked in front, monitoring the points panel. The white cat still resented him, he felt sure that he made right steps to increase his points. very good! 'Keep it up, maintain your royal dignity and demeanor, and contribute more points to me so we can eat more special cat food.' Takeshi secretly encouraged.
'I'm just afraid that if I don't plan this well, this cat would be useless after couple more encounters and then I will really have one less person to collect points from. Well, Since I have him bound by Summoning Jutsu, I can also summon him into various situations to collect points... But wouldn't this be abit too cruel?' Takeshi was considering this seriously in his mind.
"Meow?" Passing by the orphanage, Nekomata stopped and meowed in confusion. This meow meant 'you won't be returning here?''
"Meow~ You stop and tell Kabuto, I'm going back to Konoha."
"Meow!!!" Nekomata's face was horrified, and he instantly provided more than a hundred points for pushing him to face the snake man's student alone. This was not what he wanted. 'Why sacrifice me like this?', Nekomata stood there for sometime reconsidering his choices. As he is terrified of going near anyone connected to that Snake man.
Takeshi didn't linger and ran past the orphanage, heading towards Konoha.
After some deliberation Nekomata stopped hesitating and marched forward. The cat's face was gloomy and uncertain, he felt like he was walking towards his doom. He took a long time to move the his paws for each step as he walked to the orphanage.
No matter what, he still had to follow that order, otherwise what would he do if his access to the special cat food is gone?
So he keeps marching while cursing. He just wants to deliver the news, then start rushing towards the Ninja Cat Castle as fast as possible. From now on, he wouldn't leave his castle... Wait, that snake man broke into his Castle openly last time.
Thinking of this, Nekomata felt sad again. It seemed that it was not safe to return to his castle. He should think more about how to get more treasures from the Takeshi.
He jumped to the roof of the orphanage and roared, after looking around he saw Kabuto sitting beside a pond, catching a fish. What he saw made him feel horrified.
This child was not just killing the fish, he was cutting open the belly of the fish, shaking it around and then using medical ninjutsu to revive the fish in a few seconds. Repeatedly, it so was extremely cruel. The Nekomata stood there frozen.
"Huh? Where's Takeshi?"
"He said he needs to return to Konoha immediately, so he sent me to inform you about him leaving." Nekomata spoke each word carefully, then immediately ran away after he finished speaking.
Konoha is too dangerous, it's best to go home as soon as possible!
Takeshi had rough guess what was going to happen. He didn't understand why Nekomata was afraid of Kabuto at first, but he figured it after thinking some further.
Orochimaru gave Kabuto that cat encyclopaedia which had a lot of information about the cat species, including ninja cats, so where did his detailed information come from?
There is no doubt that the only ninja cats Konoha knows about is Nekomata acquainted with Uchiha. For others, it is almost impossible to go through Uchiha clan for visiting the ninja cat castle without their permission, but for someone like Orochimaru, it is a matter of whether he wants to visit it or not. Once he wants to visit it, he has countless ways to openly or discreetly enter the Ninja Cat Castle.
The Nekomata probably suffered a lot in the hands of Orochimaru, and it left a psychological traumas 'But I got Rin a new Summon Beast. She will be very happy knowing that it won't be just me there to protect her in the future. ' Takeshi thought to himself.
Well, he will tell Rin the good news later. Rin is usually in the medical corp or the hospital during the day, but she did not go to the hospital today because Academy was not in session today, so Nohara Aizawa did not need to go to Academy. She decided to stay at home to accompany her father and Spend time with him.
When Takeshi came back home, she was using the medical ninjutsu she learned from Kabuto along with massage to help treat Aizawa. Although it couldn't actually heal his leg fully, it could relieve some of his usual pain.
"Meow!" Takeshi saw that she was massaging Aizawa without noticing him, so he called out to attract their attention.
"Oh, Takeshi you are back." Rin raised her head, but did not stop her actions.
Takeshi came closer and watched for sometime. He waited until the end of the massage to give her the good news, about the situation in which Rin could summon another ninja cat in the future. Of course the Nohara family are very happy.
With one more summon beast, Rin would be safer when working outside, so her parents urged her to use Summoning Jutsu to summon the other cat quickly. Rin didn't refuse and formed hand seals then used Summoning Jutsu. Sure enough, she sensed another creature connected to the summoning contract, which was also a cat, a white cat with two tails.
Within a second, the white cat appeared under the jutsu. He looked up in confusion, and then recognized that this was the house of the Nohara family. He immediately got up angrily and said, "I just returned my castle and you pulled me back here! Are you kidding me, send me back?"
"Meow~ what's the big deal? Be calm!" Takeshi slapped him on the head with a paw. Isn't he just being summoned? he will need to get used to this new reality and way of life, he's a Summon animal now.
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