Journey of Desires

The day didn't start with pizza. Yesterday, after my conversation with Naruko, Hinata approached me, and it was quite difficult to explain the concept of experience, leveling up, and gaining power for certain actions, but I managed.

As far as I understood, she wanted to ask something else, most likely regarding what would happen to her next and where we were planning to leave her, but due to her workload and a little shock from the answer to the previous question, she either forgot to ask the second question, or she herself came to some conclusion.

But oh well, it doesn't matter, what interests me more at the moment is pizza, when we left the world of sins, I had previously collected a huge number of different dishes, and if I don't mind losing all kinds of baked goods and regular dishes, then I don't want to lose my favorite pizza. But all the food I took is not infinite, and if some cupcakes remain cupcakes in any world, well... at least I have never tried any unique one different from the others in any of the three worlds. Then there is pizza... the captain cooked it, and I don't know how he did it, but it always turned out incredible. I taught him how to make pizza, but literally on the second try the student surpassed his teacher.

But!

The main problem is different.

If I ordered literally tens and hundreds of thousands of cupcakes and other things, then Meliodas, although he agreed to make pizza, but after 1200 copies, even his demonic patience was not enough and he stopped.

In short, there are only 1286 pieces left of my favorite pizza, four cheeses with ham and two sauces.

This will only last for thirteen years, an incredibly short period of time that will flow out like water in a bottomless barrel. Maybe I should stop eating two pizzas a week? No, that's nonsense, and I won't be able to make the same one, I've already tried more than a dozen times, and even under the full guidance of the captain, where the result was a pizza that was quite similar, but still not the same.

Hmmm... what if?

***

All this time, the rest of the squad was watching Ban's brainstorming, and seeing the rather frequent change in his facial expression, Naruko turned to Kiliya.

- What happened to him? A short circuit?

- M? Ah! Nothing special, if for some reason he immerses himself in his thoughts, then he stops controlling his facial expressions, this happens quite rarely, but in general nothing special, during this week that you talked, did you notice anything like this?

- No, and does it always turn out something like this?

Standing sideways to Ban, she held out her hands as if presenting a product, Ban at that moment sat with his tongue hanging out in the right corner of his face, like a schoolboy thinking about some theorem in his math homework. However, he noticed the girl's actions and immediately returned to reality, deciding to implement the thought that had appeared to him literally a second ago.

- Hey!

Ban, using his advantage in speed, stood behind Naruko and, squatting down, took her by the legs and turned her upside down, holding her on an outstretched arm, laughed a little and asked.

- And what funny thing did you say about me?

- Nothing!

- Exactly?

- Hmm... well then okay, since there is nothing, there is no need to hold you.

Having let go of Naruko, which caused her to succumb to the force of gravity and fall, fortunately, having managed to put her hands out, which made it less unpleasant to fall, Ban turned around abruptly and returned back to his place.

The girl sat down on her knees on the floor and began to stare intently at the violator of her mental peace.

- Why are you looking at me like that?

The question asked towards Naruko only made her snort indignantly, making a funny face. To understand, the girl looked like a sparrow had confused a fox with a female of its own species and they had given birth to this ruffled thing, in other words, she looked like an indignant bird, but because of the scars-whiskers on her cheeks, she also resembled a fox.

Seeing this scene and shouting "Cute!", Kilia rushed to Naruko, starting to hug her and pull her cheeks. She has a rather strong weakness for cute things, and especially any living species that look very cute, for example, when they were in the fairy forest, Kilia spent most of the time with Elaine because that fairy seemed very cute to her. Hmm... perhaps even the fact that the sister talked more with Elaine than the brother played a role in the fact that Ban never fell in love with the forest maiden, although no, rather she is simply not his type, if in place of the calm Elaine there was some perky and joke-loving girl, then Ban might not have been able to stand it.

***

- Maybe this time, for fun, we should also go through the checkpoint at the border? Considering the distance, there is a possibility that the border Ninja have not yet been notified of the situation in the village and have not been told who should not be allowed beyond the borders.

- I don't care, ask them.

Kilia pointed her finger behind her back and turned all the arrows towards the young Ninja, well, since her sister doesn't care, then the rest will decide who plays at least some role in it

Naruko, having heard such a proposal, immediately agreed, after all, there is a chance that for such an impudent action you can get experience, Hikari still didn't care, and Hinata, having already realized that despite the fact that she was kidnapped, she was treated normally, decided to also express her opinion and also voted in favor of going to the border Ninja. I think it's pretty obvious that she voted like that primarily because in such a situation there is at least a small chance that she will be saved or they will be able to pass on information about where they are going.

- Okay! Then we're on our way to trolling!

***

- Well... but I was right and the border guards hadn't received any instructions about us yet.

- They lived in the same village with me for years and couldn't recognize their jinchuriki! Am I really that forgettable???

A little depressed by the fact that no one even really paid attention to her, Naruko walked thinking about what interesting thing Ban would get for dinner today... I think it's clear that she wasn't worried about this situation at all, and she said the previous phrase only to keep the conversation going.

In fairness, it's worth noting that before setting off on their journey, the brother and sister decided to change Naruko's appearance a little, so that there would be at least some secrecy on the journey. Now the girl was not walking with the well-known pair of ponytails on the sides of her head and an orange but free jumpsuit, but with loose hair, on the right side of her temple there was a long hairpin, and from her clothes a suit similar in style to the clothes of Kiliya and Hikari, though in color it was completely different from everyone else, it was in white and blue colors with small orange inserts in different places of the clothes, although at first glance the suit resembled something like a modern sports suit, but looking closely you could notice that the only similarity was the zippers on the clothes. It is also worth mentioning that the scars-whiskers on the cheeks were collectively decided to hide, after all, this is the most important unmasking factor in this situation.

- Oh, no! Believe me, you are very memorable, even if they want to forget you, they will not be able to, like that gopher, it seems like it does not exist, but everyone knows about it and it is!

After this phrase, Naruko was really offended, however, Ban realized that he had gone a bit too far and decided to immediately make amends by taking a piece of a very tasty sponge cake from the distortion, and this action made the girl immediately forget all her grievances.

- Sold out with giblets, hehe!

This phrase was already said by Kilia, who was having fun with this situation, however, after that she lost interest and began to peer at the road, not understanding why they were traveling on their own feet and not by teleportation, you see, Ban wanted to take a walk, but here's the problem, Kilia's skills are not enough to transfer someone other than herself to places where she had never been before, this is because of Banu, how much he invested in studying the magic of space, no matter if one or a thousand people, and he can be transferred to different places where he has not yet been, this is, by the way, one of the main factors why he was able to create a spell that allows you to transfer between worlds. Still, if he could only teleport to where he had been before, how could he set up magic so that he could be transported to other worlds where he had definitely never been.

- Ban... can I too?

Hikari asked this, it just so happened that in the 2 weeks that she had been traveling with them, she had only once come across the moment when Ban was taking out sweet treats, but at that time she still didn't trust him enough, and now she was very interested in what was so special about this little thing called cake that Naruko was ready to forgive any offense in the blink of an eye.

- Of course! Here, take this one with strawberry flavor, I haven't seen it sold in the local area at all, so it will most likely be a delicacy for you. Oh! Hinata, here you go, you're in the same situation and most likely haven't tried strawberries! Mmm... sister, will you?

- No, I don't feel like it, later somehow.

Although Kilia wasn't interested in sweets at the moment, what happened after the cake was handed out made her turn her attention to Hikari, very happy that she was able to see something like this so soon.

It so happened that Hikari spent her entire life in terrible conditions and it was almost impossible to see anything from her other than crying, sadness or a stone face. And what a pleasant surprise it was for Kiliya when she saw how Hikari literally lit up after the first bite of the cake, her eyes opened wide and literally gave out the whole palette of emotions from the taste boom in her mouth, the pizza that she had already tried 3 times could not cause so many emotions. Well... who knew that Uchiha would turn out to be such a sweet tooth and just one piece of strawberry cake would break through her entire dam of emotions, and on her face you could see an expression of obvious surprise that was replaced by bliss and pleasure. A minute after Hikari finished chewing the treat, she noticed that everyone else stood around, looking at her. Well, how else, because seeing the transformation of a cold and calm person into an emotional one is very interesting and pleasant. Realizing what had happened, Hikari blushed, becoming similar to Hinata, and covered her face with the collar of her outerwear.

Kilia again screamed about cuteness and this time attacked the Uchiha, because of which the second began to feel double embarrassment, filling Kilia's heart with tenderness even more.

Hinata, seeing such a reaction, was hesitant to eat it, after all, something like an ordinary cake cannot hit a person's emotions so hard, but in the end, curiosity overcame her apprehension and fear, and Hinata, although she did not become similar to Hikari a minute ago, also greatly enjoyed the masterpiece of confectionery art.

Well, Naruko and Ban just stood there and could not hide their smiles, watching such scenes one after another.

***

From the upcoming book about the countries of the ninja world "Beautiful Cities and What's Interesting About Them"

"We were passing through the Land of Rain, we have little to say about the trip, due to the weather conditions and the fact that the country was the epicenter of the past two big wars, there are few attractions and unique places in it.

But still, if you ever decide to visit this country, I advise you to prepare a lot of money, since due to the living conditions, the locals try to compensate for this as much as possible with the help of various household appliances.

A huge amount of bed linen, both heat-resistant and waterproof, is right here, in general, this country left us with the impression of not being gloomy or ordinary, it's like a huge store where you can find something funny and unique on every corner.

In one village we found folding umbrellas that were created using the fuinjutsu technique and when folded are sealed in a regular umbrella handle, in another we found heated raincoats, and in the third, very comfortable impermeable shoes that also let chakra through.

In general, I can say that the Land of Rain is very interesting for those who like to look for different unique things and go shopping."