23 Chapter 23
After forming the hand signs of summing jutsu , Aoki kneaded a chunk of his chakra on his right palm and smacked it down on the ground.
Next moment , he felt a strange but very strong attraction pull from something. He did not resist it and dissapeared from the forest of Training ground 9 with a small cloud of smoke.
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Not even a second passed and Aoki felt solid sensation of ground under his feet but his focus was somewhat disturbed as he felt like vomiting his guts out. During the transportation now , he made a mistake to try and sense the movement which was too fast and confused his mind.
He took few seconds to regain his bearings and finaly glanced at the different surroundings from the Training ground 9.
The damp ground and the huge plants. The more than one meter long grass which continued to stretch for kilometers. Now he was sure that he had arrived at some place and the only way to find out its name would be meeting someone else.
Mind's eye was a convenient skill in such situation. So Aoki used to its full extent for a second and recorded everything in more than twenty kilometers radius around him. After that he lessened the supply of spiritual energy and the radius immediately changed to 500 meters around him. Maintaining this much for two or three hours wont be a problem for Aoki.
He had seen several species in different areas which was unexpected. Aoki had thought before that there would be only one species but that did not seem to be a case.
Futher behind him , the one with biggest chakra signature was there. So Aoki decided to head towards its direction. This area seemed to be inhabited by foxes and the one with biggest chakra signature was more than ten meters tall with one thick several meters long tail.
Aoki had the map in his mind so he skillfully avoided some areas where swamps were located and finally reached near a humongous red Torii gate. The fox from before looked like a child's height compared to the Torii's size.
He passed through it without trouble and stopped after advancing a few meters because he was immediately surrounded by three foxes. Aoki did not worry though as he had sensed no I'll intent from their chakra signature. He decided to greet them first as per good manners.
" Hello. My name is Kitamura Aoki and am a human as you can see. It if does not trouble you then can you please tell me the name of this place ? I'm clueless as I've just arrived here after using summoning jutsu in Hope for forming a summoning contract. " It was slightly difficult to be so polite but Aoki did with without sounding awkward somehow.
The three foxes looked at each other for few seconds and completely relaxed their expressions while introducing themselves.
The biggest of the three with white skin with some yellow parts was called Sadatoki. The other two were twins. Both of them had dark grey skin colour and were called Ashiya and Minami. Minami was the only female of three of them.
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After the introductions , Aoki was invited inside by them while explaining the situation. Aoki was surprised to find that this place was actualy the Shikoku forest from anime.
Apparently other than slug clan , there existed many other clans while occupying different areas of the humongous forest. The fox clan was one of the strongest ones in the whole forest.
The atmosphere inside their territory was breathtaking. A wide rock mountain was located here and many large caves were carved inside it. The largest one in the middle housed the shrine of the clan and the Fox Elder lived there.
Aoki was guided by Minami towards the entrance of the shrine and she told him that the Elder had summoned him. Aoki stood at the entrance for about a minute while feeling the pressure from the only chakra signature inside the cave. Even 100 Jiraya combined would not have as much chakra as the Fox Elder.
The only saving grace was that Aoki could feel no hostile emotion from the chakra signature. So he wiped the sweat from his forehead and slowly walked inside.
Aoki could not believe that he would see a huge temple inside a cave. In front of him was a lake. A huge temple was located in the middle of the lake. The structure seemed be only one storey but the height of the temple easily surpassed two hundred meters.
A shiny bridge made of some kind of red wood was suspended on top of the lake and connected to the temple. Aoki did not hesitate and stepped on the bridge because he was told to mmet Fox Elder and the insane chakra signature was definitely currently inside the temple.
