Naruto: My Hunting System

Chapter 21: Getting the 'Rabbit'

'It smells really good...'

He wanted to eat.

A good piece of skin was burnt from a large rabbit. It was the superior type to standard rabbits, this rabbit dropped purple orbs as well.

Blood dripped from the big rabbit.

Nawaki, who thought he was going to be expelled, came up with the idea to put his previous plan into practice.

He cut down a tree, then without touching it, he cut it into the shape of a leaf.

Three of the shadow clones held the big rabbit and took the blood and wrote seal patterns on the wood using their chakra.

After he made seals by hand, the injured large rabbit was pulled into the center of the ground created in the wood.

"It worked!" His eyes sparkled.

The moment he touched the wood with both hands, it was gone.

"Hahaha!" He laughed out loud.

The main body startled again at the sound of his clone's laughter.

Although he was the one who commanded to try to seal a rabbit on a wooden board, it was awkward in many ways, most notably the laughter.

'If you're laughing like that, it means it worked-'

He stopped thinking. The shadow clone's laughter drew unwanted attention from a gigantic four-meter-tall flaming red lion.

Feeling in the 'skin' when he received the shadow clone's memories, Nawaki wasn't confident to challenge this lion yet and because of that, he walked away even further.

After night came, it was like the reign of adult monsters.

Giant rabbits appeared more often, as did dire green wolves and lions.

There were also some monstrous monsters like the black dragon, a gray lizard with a body length of 20 meters.

His shadow clones have died to this type of lizard a few times.

Nawaki didn't let the power go to his head, he wouldn't just risk it without having at least a 50% chance of winning.

Despite imagining that he could get better orbs, the current ones are still very useful to him. With the speed of digesting the orbs increasing, he needs to at least have a large enough stockpile that he doesn't care even if he died fast in the hunting dimension.

Although...

As long as he doesn't comply, Nawaki won't do anything dangerous with the main body. Of course, he still went after the super-huge bunnies.

Each super huge bunny would drop five weak red orbs and one small purple orb.

- -

Outside Nawaki's room, Tsunade was knocking on the door.

With no answers, she opened it and confirmed her suspicion.

She made a shadow clone. The clone left and she entered.

Sitting on the edge of the bed, she reached over and rubbed his face with her hand.

'He looks like a sleeping angel...' She murmured in her mind with a gentle smile.

Her finger touched his hair, she liked the feeling and played with his hair between her fingers.

Thinking about why Sarutobi-sensei wanted Nawaki's presence in the Hokage's office made her have complicated feelings...

- -

It's been two days since Nawaki entered the hunting dimension.

He was almost ready to commit suicide...

While it would be nice to be able to stay that long inside the hunting dimension, it would be bad if I wasted so much time outside.

Although...

He didn't need to commit suicide, he didn't even know where he came from, but he felt horrendous pain as he sank into the darkness.

He who was in dark mist form in the shadow was still caught by an attack from an unknown enemy.

Whether intentional or not, he wouldn't know...

'Was it the black dragon? Or was it a gigantic lizard?' He could make some speculations, but the moment he died, not even the shadow clones survived to see what happened, as it disappeared the same instant he was killed.

When he regained his sight, he was in his room again.

Nawaki was sweating, and his body was convulsing with pain.

"Nawaki?"

Hearing his Sis's sweet, soft voice, he looked to the side and saw that she was using the green mist to heal him.

"Thank you, Sis." He smiled at her.

"My pleasure." She breathed a sigh of relief to see that he was okay. Although he was in pain, and sweating the world, Tsunade found no bruises on his body.

Looking toward the window, seeing that it was dark, he asked, "Is it Tuesday night?"

"Mmm?" Tsunade arched her brow. She found his question strange: "No, it's still Sunday."

"Sunday?!" Nawaki was stunned.

The fact that it's still Sunday... Does that mean he spent 2 days and a few hours in the hunting dimension, but only a few hours at most?

It was unbelievable...

He already had the suspicion that there was a time difference, however, it was never that exaggerated...

"Hey, Nawaki?" She touched his forehead.

"Oh yes, did you ask anything, Sis?" Nawaki turned his attention to her.

"I said that the Hokage requested your presence." She sighed, "Not just you, Granny Mito too."

"Mhm? Because?" Nawaki asked, "What does he want with me?"

"You'll find out when you get there." Tsunade said as she stood up: "Wash up and go, Granny Mito is waiting for you in the Hokage's office."

"Okay..." Scratching the back of his head. He left the thought of trying to get the board out with the rabbit sealed inside for when he got back.

- -

Nawaki arrived at the door of the Hokage's office.

Beside him, the assistant knocked on the door, "Hokage-sama, Nawaki Senju-sama is here."

"Let him in." Sarutobi's voice echoed.

Nawaki entered the office.

In addition to the Hokage behind a wooden table wearing the standard Hokage hat hiding his black hair, he had a small goatee and a pipe in his mouth when Nawaki walked in.

He smiled at Nawaki as he took the pipe from his mouth and blew out a ring of white smoke.

"Mikoto?" Nawaki was confused when he saw that Mikoto was also there and with her was a couple in their 35-40s.

The woman had a very kind smile as she looked at Nawaki. The man seemed to have a more rigid expression, however, Nawaki felt no hostility coming from the man.

His Granny Mito was talking to the woman Nawaki assumed was Mikoto's foster mother, but stopped when he entered and looked at him.

The beautiful woman's words confirmed Nawaki's suspicions.

"Hello, Nawaki." The woman said with a gentle smile, "I am Mikoto's mother, Manami Uchiha. And, (she nudged the man beside her) this hard-faced man is her father Kenshin Uchiha."

"Hello, Aunt Manami and Uncle Kenshin. It's a pleasure to finally meet you." Nawaki said with a polite smile.

"..."

Nawaki was surprised to find that when he introduced himself like that, Kenshin Uchiha's rigid expression eased a little, and even a small smile curved his lips.