Chapter 111: CH 111
Tayuya chuckled, "You would think so wouldn't you shithead, but that fucker never let us go anywhere. He just kept us cooped up in that stupid little underground rat's nest of his. He only let us out to go on missions that kept us in Ta no Kuni, so no, I'm not as worldly traveled as you think I fucking should be."
Naruto held up his hands in defense, "Damn, it was just a question. No need to bite my head off." He turned to Shikamaru, "I think you might be on to something with the whole 'women are troublesome' thing. I would say that out loud, but as often as you say it, it might make people wrongly think that you're gay."
Shikamaru gave Naruto an irritated glare, but let it pass as he figured it was too much hassle to stay mad about something like that. Tayuya had another question however, "So why exactly do we need to go for reconnaissance in Mizu no Kuni?" Kakashi answered her, "Well it's been about ten years since any reliable information came out of that place, what with all of the on again off again fighting that was always taking place, so we're heading in to get good scope of what Kiri has as far as military, or anything really."
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(The Next Night)
By nightfall of the previous day they had made it to the shores of Hi no Kuni and had boarded a ship heading out towards the island nation of Mizu no Kuni. In order to barter passage aboard for the entire squad, Naruto had to enlist the services of his Kage Bunshin as deckhands. This led to Naruto being cursed out every single time he came on deck by his clones turned sailors.
As the rest of the team were below deck, Shikamaru was doing absolutely nothing, while Tayuya was practicing with her flute, Naruto was up above, ignoring his belligerent clones bumping into him and giving half-assed apologies.
"Hey Naruto, what are you doing out here?" Kakashi came up above and found the real blonde amid the batch of fakes that were hard at work.
Naruto dispelled one of his more rowdy clones with a punch after it elbowed him in the ribs, "Not much, just thinking. Hey Kakashi, when you make Kage Bunshin do they ever try to mess with you, or is it just me?"