Chapter 143
Since the distance wasn't far, Natsuki and Gai arrived back at the village in less than half a day, and then they each went their separate ways.
Natsuki specifically stopped by the ninja tools shop and found, to his surprise, that it was Tenten manning the shop. His father-in-law didn't seem to be around.
"Natsuki, you're back!" Tenten exclaimed, jumping up with excitement.
"Yeah, I'm back. Where's Dad?" Natsuki asked, lifting the octopus he was carrying.
"Dad went to the capital on a business trip. I'm looking after the shop for these two days, but since I also have regular patrol missions, the shop's open and closed half the time, and business has been down a lot."
Ever since Tenten realized how important money was, she'd taken the family business a bit more seriously. After all, the more money they had, the more she could splurge freely. For instance, those explosive tags—during the Chūnin Exams, she'd only managed to get a million of them, which still wasn't enough for her dream of a Kaidō: Ōgi (Explosive Path: Ultimate Secret Technique).
In Tenten's mind, an Ōgi had to start at ten million tags—that was a true ultimate technique.
If her strength wasn't enough, she'd make up for it with explosive tags. If she couldn't defeat an enemy in battle, she'd just blow them up with a mountain of explosive tags.
She'd even secretly imagined scenarios where she might have to fight a Tailed Beast—maybe for something like that, she'd need ten billion or even a hundred billion explosive tags. As long as she had enough, even a Tailed Beast could be blown to bits.
Tenten had mentioned this idea to Natsuki before, thinking he'd laugh at her for being a bit nuts. But to her surprise, Natsuki had actually thought it over seriously.
Then he told her about the forbidden technique—Kakezan Kibaku Fuda (Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags).
It had to be said, Tobirama really was a genius—he'd created so many incredible forbidden techniques. Even the Flying Thunder God no Jutsu was his creation.