Festival Fun

"Woahh!!!" Naruto looked over the railing of the new town that's bustling with activities.

"This town's festival is even larger than the previous town's festival…" I muttered after seeing the new town. This place was quite a distance from the previous small festival town that we were in a few days ago…

"Alright, let's gather information in this town. We can also start your training, Naruto." Jiraiya said as he began to walk down the long steps into the town.

While he did so, he glanced at Sasuke. That Uchiha boy… was extremely sly with the Sexy Jutsu, and he was able to convince the legendary toad sage to let him tag along on this journey to find the Fifth Hokage after digging up information from Naruto.

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As we entered the town, I looked around the crowded streets. There were people everywhere, walking around with bright masks on their faces, and they were wearing vibrant clothes. Stalls selling food, trinkets, and souvenirs lined up along the main road. Somewhere, a band was playing music, and laughter filled the air.

Colorful banners fluttered the streets, and the chatting and laughter of people filled the air. Even the aroma of freshly cooked food waffed up into my nose.

Compared to the small festival village we were at a few days ago, this town is teeming with life.

Though, I suppose it's a good thing since it'll allow me to more easily cover my meet up with Itachi. I'm sure that he's still lurking around the perimeter of my location. Unless he is called away by Pain of the Akatsuki, that is.

"Awesome!! This is my first time seeing such a large festival!" Naruto's eyes gleamed as he looked around.

"Downtime is important too! You and Sasuke should go have some fun before we start training. The festival should continue for some time, so we'll stay here for the duration." Jiraiya placed his hands on his hips and spoke to Naruto with a big smile on his face.

"YES!!!" Naruto cheekily smiled and took out his chunky froggy wallet that's almost bursting.

"Oho!!! That's one fat wallet! You're rich!!" Jiraiya celebrated as he pointed at Naruto's wallet. He then began to implement his plan to swindle Naruto's money with the three taboos of a Shinobi: Alcohol, women, and money.

I watched with a bland face when Jiraiya spoke about the tree taboos because those three things are the shit I'm going after.

I just haven't touched Alcohol yet due to my underdeveloped body. I didn't want to kill my brain cells before even reaching the ripe age for drinking.

After Jiraiya took the chunky frog wallet, he took out only a bit of money for Naruto before sneaking away to 'gather intelligence'.

"Okay!! Let's go get something to eat, Sasuke!" Naruto said as he felt his tummy grumbling. It screamed for food.

While Naruto spoke, a trio of people caught my eyes, so I refused: "Go by yourself. I'm going to go and explore on my own."

After I said that, I walked off into the crowd and disappeared from Naruto's sight.

"Che! You needs to be around you to have fun anyway!" Naruto huffed and then walked off to have fun. He thought it'd be fun to have Sasuke on the journey, but all he has been doing is being a pest!

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"Well, well… look who we have here?" I flickered onto the rooftop of a nearby building and stalked the three people that caught my eyes.

I was hoping that I'll eventually meet these three, but who would've thought that they'd appear in a place like this?

"Oh man! I can't wait until we get the next contract!" A short girl with white hair and pink eyes said excitedly as she ate some stall foods. Contrary to her short body stature, she is actually a 22 year old woman.

She and her two friends are a part of a wandering ninja clan who work as mercenaries, mostly taking assassination contracts.

"We need to take some time off too, Karenbana. Continuously making money without spending it just makes no sense." A tall man with an orange wig of spiky hair smiled charmingly as he rubbed his fingers on his right hand gauntlet.

"I agree with Ishidate, Karenbana. You're too bloodthirsty." A fat man with an ugly face said as he reached his hand out to rub Karenbana's white hair.

"Don't touch me with your fat hand, Kongo!" Karenbana spitefully looked at the large Kongo and smacked his hand away.

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My goals were clear when I targeted this group of three who appeared in the Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom movie. What I want from them is the Petrification Gauntlet from Ishidate, and I want to fuck Karenbana and copy skills from her.

I followed these three for quite some time since I wanted to wait until they were secluded before I made my move.

Lucky for me, these three decided to split up to have their own fun after checking into a luxurious hotel in the heart of the town.

"Time to act." I said as I transformed into a doll-like little girl who's around seven years of age.

I also made two shadow clones who transformed into rough looking men who looked like the scum of society.

They all knew their purpose, and I summoned them early so that we could set up the playing field in a swift manner.

My first target was Ishidate, the supposed leader of the group. All I wanted from him is the Petrification Gauntlet that's on his right hand so that I can play with it.

The Gauntlet's first ability is to petrify its foes. If the petrification is left alone over time, it will become permanent.

The Gauntlet's second ability is to manipulate stone telekinetically. In a sense, it's similar to Gaara's ability to control sand telekinetically.

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Ishidate's goal was clear when he separated from Karenbana and Kongo. Like many men, he wanted to see the local women and taste their sake. He knew that with a festival as big as this one going on, he would be able to find some decent stuff.

So after he separated from his two comrades, he went to find a secluded venue that offered both of the services that he wanted.

Just as he walked past a secluded alleyway, she heard a little girl's weeping voice.

"No… pwease don't do this!"

After the little girl begged, the voices of two men could be heard coming from the alley.

"Shush, little girl!"

"Hehehe! We finally got her!"

Usually, Ishidate wouldn't care about what happens to some random little girl. After all, these events happen way too often in the Shinobi world.

However, the little girl's voice sounded very melodious, and he saw that she looked extremely cute. His eyes shifted into the alleyway and he spotted the cutest little girl that he had ever seen in his life.

Many intrusive thoughts appeared in Ishidate's head at that moment. One of such thoughts is that… perhaps he can take the little girl and groom her to be his future wife. Another thought of his is that if the little girl looks that cute, he wondered if the mother looks just as nice.

No matter what, he would gain something from intervening with the brutes of the alleyway. They don't look that strong either.

Hence, Ishidate walked into the alleyway and silently crept up onto the brutes who were dealing with the struggling little girl.

"You people don't deserve to live!" Ishidate arrogantly said as he reached out his Petrification Gauntlet to grab one of the alleyway brutes.

"What!?" One of the brutes yelled out as he turned around. However he seemed to be too slow, and he was caught by the Gauntlet.

The eye on the Gauntlet opened and a purple line pattern appeared on its target. After the purple pattern came the Pterfication ability of the Gauntlet. The brute began to turn into stone, but before the petrification even reached 20%, the brute disappeared into a puff of smoke.

"NO!" It's at this moment that Ishidate realized that he had fallen into a trap.

When he looked up towards the remaining brute and the little girl, all he saw were red eyes.

"Demonic Flame Prison!" I smirked and activated this Sharingan Genjutsu that I received from merging two Genjutsus together.

Instantly, Ishidate fell into the Genjutsu, and his body began to smoke. This indicates that his body is being damaged in real time due to Yakumo's Kekkei Genkai.

Puff!

I returned back to my normal self and pulled out my Kusanagi sword. Although it's sometimes a hassle, I've always carried this sword with me.

*Ring~*

The bells that I had set up beforehand also rang, and multiple Genjutsu clones of myself appeared all around Ishidate. Each of them also had the Kusanagi sword unsheathed.

Even if Ishidate comes out of the Flame Prison Genjutsu, he would find himself to be in a sound based genjutsu. And both of these Genjutsus are equally real thanks to Yakumo's Kekkei Genkai.

SLASHH!!!

I sliced off Ishidate's right arm and retrieved the Gauntlet before throwing the arm back at Ishidate.

Likewise, the genjutsu clones copied my movements and slashed their swords, slicing Ishidate's body like they're cutting butter.

"???" Ishidate was confused when he returned to reality due to the sudden pain. However, he soon realized that his head was on the ground along with his body limbs all littering around him.

He wanted to scream, but his head was already detached from his body… and the light of the world soon disappeared from his consciousness…

"This toy is now mine." I said towards Ishidate's pile of remains as I returned the Kusanagi sword and wore the Gauntlet.

"Let's try it out first." I imputed some chakra into the Gauntlet before I kneeled down onto the ground and touched Ishidate's body parts.

The eye of the Gauntlet opened before sending purple lines of chakra into Ishidate's body and turning everything including his blood into stone.

"Awesome!" A smirk flashed across my face before I stomped on the petrified remains.

The remains broke and turned into pebbles from my stomp. They didn't even hold the shape of human remains anymore.

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