"Who did you learn such behavior from?" Konan wanted to teach Takeshi a lesson. She was kind-hearted girl, but she had never gotten along well with cats and dogs since childhood.
When they were young, the three of them would search for food in the trash can, and it was often that they would encounter cats and dogs trying to snatch food from them, so a fight was inevitable.
Most of cats and dogs aren't this mischievous, but this one in front of her was very difficult to control... Understanding her thoughts based on her expression, Takeshi just wanted to say that he understood what she felt completely!
As he had alot of experience dealing with mischievous young siblings in his past life, and so he had sufficient experience on the Great Art of Scapegoating and how to push the blame , and he can definitely give an answer that will make Konan "satisfied" -- "Meow~ I've learnt this behavior from Jiraiya-Sensei."
'This cat really deserves to be beaten. If it wasn't for me being unable to beat this cat, I would have rolled up my sleeves and started beating right now. A good cat doesn't behave like this and go out of its way to anger people. The most frustrating thing is that his strength is not weak... What kind of bloodline does this cat have? I'll find a cat to mate with him later, let him also experience same pain from his kittens.' She thought maliciously.
Not far away, Rin treated the injured one by one. Because Takeshi was held far away, the injured were in a much better mood, at least not like at the beginning when everyone was so angry.
"Damn cat, how great it would be if everyone in the ninja world united and there were no wars or conflicts... Unlike now, wars can happen at any moment. When people in small countries are injured or sick, there are no good medical ninjas, so they can only take medicine available, hope their body heals on its own or wait to die." Konan said in low voice.
She didn't feel it before, but after meeting Rin, she realized that the gap was so big. For them, injuries that require a quite abit of time of recuperation were resolved like a piece of cake in front of Konoha's medical ninjutsu, and the one healing is actually just a girl who is at most ten years old.
The difference is so wide!
Takeshi couldn't help but fall silent after hearing her. This topic is too heavy, He didn't know how to answer it so he chose not to say anything.
But after thinking about her words he paused for a second, he felt something was wrong. 'What do you mean by a damn cat?! Do you even respect cats? If it weren't for you being pretty and depressed, I would have smacked you!'
"Having grown up in there, how do you feel about Konoha?"
"It's pretty good, meow~. It's stable, and all the facilities are good, but Konoha also has its issues."
Takeshi saw Konan looking at him intently, and he laughed in his heart, and then continued, "If you live in Konoha or around Konoha and take a hot spring bath, you must be careful of a certain white-haired toad sage. That guy is elusive in the hot spring..."
"Boop, Boop, Boop!"
Konan poked the cat's head feeling very annoyed.
As expected, she shouldn't discuss such topics with a damn cat. All her good feelings for this cat were thrown away. Her Sensei is always mentioned in every couple sentences and in bad manner.
'Can't we talk without mentioning my Sensei?' She was angry towards Takeshi. So she kneaded and pinched him in various ways, but she wasn't rough, she still held back quite abit.
After all, this girl is too soft-hearted especially when it comes to cute and adorable pets.
If it were Kakashi or Obito, they would never miss this opportunity. Takeshi didn't mind her 'retaliation'. Since he was willing to poke at someone, he was prepared to be poked back for revenge.
What's more, he also gained a lot of points. It's worth it no matter how you look at it. This group of people contributed more than 700 points in total.
Although most of them were definitely given by Konan, the rest of them also contributed their kindness. The Ame Ninjas are really enthusiastic!
However, the third time is the limit. If he continued to provoke them, he is afraid that this group of Ame Ninjas will fight him regardless of consequences. At that time, he will not be able to get any support from Rin and Minato.
Though his main reason being, he is afraid that he can't earn points if he keeps pushing. The main reason is that this group is weak and has been provoked twice.
Now he is afraid that he can't earn many points if he keeps provoking, as he has experienced, people can also get numb to constant 'playing' from him.
Takeshi looked up at Konan. This cute has unique paper kekkei genkai... Well, he can see that she has great potential.
Takeshi was thinking about how to get some more points from her, because he took a look and found that he already had more than 12,000 points, which could be used to buy the reverse summoning jutsu. (Allowing Takeshi to be summoned to Rin at his choice.)
But he didn't plan to buy it. It's too weak, and the cost-to-performance is very low. It's better to save some points and try Flying Thunder God.
Flying Thunder God requires 20,000 points. It was indeed a lot, but when thinking about it carefully, it wasn't much. At least he felt that he was only 8,000 points short at the moment, and it would be enough if he saved up.
There was no need to waste it on rubbish like reverse summoning jutsu. He decided that in order to earn 8,000 points as soon as possible, he would think about how to get points from Nagato.
Nagato has the Uzumaki bloodline and the Rinnegan Eyes, so his value to the system must be high. He wondered what his temper was currently like and whether he could contribute good amount of points.
After healing the wounds, the Ame ninjas immediately returned to their tasks. Rin was a little tired, and she still had some chakra left, but for the time being, the Sunagakure and the Iwagakure were not making any moves, so after she met up with her team, Minato ordered her to sleep.
Until the evening, Takeshi hadn't found a way to get close to Nagato, As this guy was too lonely, and he didn't get close to anyone except Konan and Yahiko.
Late at night, after everyone fell asleep, Takeshi quietly came out of the room where Minato's Team was sleeping, ready to go to Nagato to find opportunities for points.
However, just after turning the corner, he saw a person just walking out of the house.
Nagato! Even though there was no light around, he seemed to be able to see Takeshi clearly, looking at him through the gap between his bangs.
"What do you want?"
"Meow~ There's a mouse." This was quite embarrassing. Takeshi didn't know what to say for a moment, so he could only make up this excuse.
He didn't know whether Nagato believed him or not, but Takeshi himself believed it anyway, while Nagato obviously didn't believe it.
Nagato glanced at him coldly and warned in a low voice: "Don't get close to me and bother me."
'He was very defensive... 'Takeshi didn't move forward.
Fortunately, at this time, there was really a sound of mouse below - there were no houses around here, and it was close to the forests, so mouse and snakes moving around were normal.
He quickly got under the wooden floorboards and soon caught the mouse with the Wild Lion's Mane jutsu. Nagato frowned, and after a few seconds, he saw the cat nimbly get out from under floorboards and put a black mouse in front of him.
Making Nagato feeling confused 'Why did he give that to me?'
"Meow~ This is a good one, I'll give this to you. Enjoy it!"
Takeshi was slowly getting close to him while speaking, he stretched out his paw.
Nagato's expression was frozen, as he stood there still bewildered, and he stretched out his hand stiffly, hesitating between taking and not-taking, and finally took the mouse despite his nausea.
After Takeshi handed the mouse over, he quickly ran away. Konan came out, took a look, and laughed softly: "It is said that cats only give mouse to children. This may mean that he is cares about you and wants to protect you."
"Really?" If someone else said this, Nagato would definitely not believe it, but he still believed what Konan said.
However, what should he do with this mouse, throw it away or put it aside for now... He couldn't make up his mind for couple minutes.
But after thinking about it, he still felt that it would not be too late to put it aside first and wait until the cat left.
The two were about to go back when a strange sound came from outside. Whoosh~
"What's that sound?" Konan asked curiously. Nagato turned and walked a few steps along the corridor.
After turning the corner, he saw Takeshi squatting in the corner below and spraying water on his paws with Water Release to clean it.
"..."
Nagato fell into silence, looked at the mouse in his hand that was strangled to unconsciousness, and then took a deep breath.
'Don't get angry! Don't get angry! There is nothing to be angry about with a cat...' Nagato turned around, threw the mouse to the other side of the forest with an expressionless face, and then followed the same method to use Water Release to wash his hands.
Konan's mouth twitched, and for a moment, she didn't know what to say. Normally speaking, cats giving prey to others are indeed friendly, but this cat is something else entirely, he simply gave mouse to mess with Nagato.
"Let's go to sleep." Nagato said lightly, and then went back to the house.
Yahiko seemed to be asleep, but they knew that he had just woken up, but he just didn't come out. Takeshi turned around, then opened the panel and took a look.
Wow, nearly a thousand points in an instant! Although Nagato is not as powerful as in the later period, he is still quite powerful with the Rinnegan.
However, with this amount of points, Nagato must have been furious. 'This is embarrassing, but... meow~, it's all for the sake of making points.' Takeshi quietly returned to his room, and saw that except for Obito who was snoring, the other three were sitting and looking at him, with odd looks.
"Go to sleep, it's late." Minato smiled at Takeshi, and then made a gesture to Rin and Kakashi, mainly Rin.
Kakashi didn't care what the cat did or whether cat would be beaten, as long as he didn't die, it was the same to him.
Rin was different. She had to worry about whether the cat had done something bad again, whether it would cause the other person to be unhappy and affect their cooperation, etc.
But since the Sensei said to sleep first and made a gesture to silence, she couldn't say much.
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