Because the distance was short, Natsuki and Kai arrived at the Village in less than half a day and then went their separate ways home.
Natsuki specifically went to the Ninja Tools shop and found that Tenten was in charge of watching the shop. His Father-in-law didn't seem to be home.
"Natsuki, you're back!" Tenten excitedly pounced on him.
"Yeah, I'm back. Where's Dad?" Natsuki reached out to support the octopus hanging on him.
"Dad went on a business trip to the Capital City. I've been watching the shop these past two days, but because I often have patrol missions, the shop is often half-open, and the turnover has dropped quite a bit."
Ever since Tenten understood the immense power of money, she had taken some interest in her family's business, because only with enough money could she spend even more recklessly. Leaving aside other things, just talking about Exploding Tags, she only got a million last time during the Chunin Exams, which was still not enough to satisfy her vision for Money Release: Secret Technique.
In Tenten's view, a Secret Technique needed at least ten million tags to start, that was the true Secret Technique.
If her own strength wasn't enough, she would make up for it with Exploding Tags. Enemies she couldn't defeat, she would blast to death with a massive amount of Exploding Tags.
She even secretly imagined facing terrifying opponents like Tailed Beasts. Maybe Money Release: Secret Technique would need to reach a billion or even tens of billions of tags. Anyway, as long as there were enough Exploding Tags, even a Tailed Beast could be easily blown up.
Tenten had also mentioned this idea to Natsuki before. She originally thought Natsuki would laugh at her for being naive, but unexpectedly, Natsuki started to ponder.
Then he told Tenten about the forbidden technique, the Interlocking Exploding Talisman Technique.
It must be said that the Second Hokage was truly a genius. He created many incredibly powerful forbidden techniques, and even the Flying Thunder God Technique was created by him.
And this Interlocking Exploding Talisman Technique could continuously summon Exploding Tags until the target was blown to death.
This forbidden technique was perfect for Tenten. What she lacked least was money, and naturally, she didn't lack Exploding Tags. As long as she could learn this forbidden technique, it was estimated that she wouldn't even fear Tailed Beasts.
As for the forbidden technique being dangerous, it wasn't a big deal. Just let a Shadow Clone be responsible for detonating the Exploding Tags. What's the big deal.
Ever since Tenten heard about the Interlocking Exploding Talisman Technique, she had been thinking about it. Although she couldn't get this forbidden technique right now, she knew that since Natsuki mentioned it, it was naturally possible to get it, and she didn't need to rush to ask. And what she needed to do was earn more money to make her Exploding Tags inexhaustible.
Therefore, she would complain about the business situation of the Ninja Tools shop.
Natsuki pinched her little nose with a wry smile: "Since that's the case, it's better to just spend money to hire someone to watch the shop, or just close for two days. Dad is a capable businessman and has always been earning money for his precious daughter. It's okay if the shop is closed for two fewer days, and hiring someone won't cost much money."
Tenten pouted. She just wanted to earn more money.
Moreover, she wasn't just thinking for herself, but also for Natsuki. Wasn't her family's money also Natsuki's money?
"Alright, alright, I'll watch the shop with you."
Natsuki put her down on the counter chair, then changed the subject, "This time, a rogue Ninja organization called Akatsuki sent two people to infiltrate Konoha, targeting our Village's Jinchuriki, which is Naruto. I, Sasuke, Kakashi-senpai, Kurenai Yuhi-senpai, Asuma Sarutobi-senpai, and a few others worked together to repel the enemy. Then Kakashi-sensei asked Teacher Kai and me to support Lord Jiraiya and Naruto, and we actually ran into those two again, repelled them another time, and after waiting for two days to confirm it was safe, Teacher Kai and I returned to the Village."
Tenten was startled and immediately became serious: "Is this Akatsuki organization very strong?"
Natsuki felt the time was right, so he brought up the Akatsuki with Tenten.
After all, after Tsunade becomes Hokage, the Akatsuki will also become active, and Tenten will have a chance to encounter them during missions. So, he needed to let Tenten understand how powerful the Akatsuki was first, so she would be careful.
As for the matter of the Jinchuriki, this couldn't be hidden anymore.
After all, Gaara's transformation into Shukaku caused such a big commotion. Anyone who was at the competition venue at the time and wasn't knocked out by Genjutsu knew about it.
Naturally, Naruto's Jinchuriki status was no longer a secret.
However, Natsuki was too lazy to complain. With Naruto's reputation as the Nine-Tails fox, only the villagers didn't know the truth. The other Villages weren't fools; how could they not know who the Jinchuriki was? Hiding it like this was completely meaningless and instead caused a lot of negative public opinion, making the Village very uneasy.
This might be the political tactic of the Third Hokage, and it was also a point of criticism among Hokage fans.
Moreover, there was no mention of the Tailed Beasts in the ninja courses at school, let alone the Jinchuriki. Not popularizing such important knowledge was equivalent to modern society's schools not teaching students about nuclear weapons. Students were completely ignorant of such terrifying things, and how could ignorant students understand what world peace was?
Getting off-topic, talking too much is just dizzying.
"Akatsuki, very strong!"
Natsuki answered resolutely, "Although the information on the Akatsuki hasn't been released yet, even Lord Jiraiya is very secretive about it and doesn't dare to be careless in the slightest. They wear black cloaks with red clouds, and you can recognize them as long as you see this attire. The two who came this time, one is the Hidden Mist Village's S-Rank rogue Ninja, Kisame Hoshigaki, one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist. His weapon is the Greatsword: Samehada."
As soon as she heard Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist and Greatsword: Samehada, Tenten felt her radar move.
After all, she had heard Natsuki talk about how powerful the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist were since she was a child. Later, in order to get special Ninja Tools, she even paid people to investigate the seven ninja swords of the Hidden Mist Village. Finally, she chose Lightning Blade: Fang on Natsuki's suggestion.
As for the Greatsword: Samehada, the information and Natsuki both said it was very strong, but Natsuki said it wasn't suitable for her, so she didn't set her sights on it.
Unexpectedly, Kisame Hoshigaki came to their door with Samehada!
Seeing Tenten was interested, Natsuki specifically talked about his fight with Kisame Hoshigaki, mentioning Kisame Hoshigaki's powerful Water Release and the strangeness of the Greatsword: Samehada.
Tenten listened with great interest, but she didn't set her mind on Samehada.
After all, Samehada was a living sword and recognized Kisame Hoshigaki as its master. Even if she snatched it, she couldn't use it.
What made Tenten happy was that her boyfriend, upon appearing, almost killed an opponent that Kakashi-sensei and the other three Jonin couldn't defeat. Didn't this prove that her boyfriend had already started to surpass Kakashi-sensei and them?
She was very proud!
Natsuki looked at this girl smiling sweetly, feeling helpless and doting: "Don't take this lightly. Although the Akatsuki doesn't have many members, every single one of them is super strong, at least having the strength of an Elite Jonin, and some are even stronger than the Hokage. If you encounter them in the future, you must not act recklessly!"
"Got it, got it, I'm not stupid."
Tenten was still smiling, "Didn't you say there were two people? Who was the second one?"
Natsuki's expression immediately became serious: "The second one is our Konoha Village's S-Rank rogue Ninja, Itachi Uchiha!"