As we walked the road Karin decided to discuss our future wedding so we could have the details all hashed out to save us the trouble later.
“It won’t be a small affair given our fame so the venue will need to be able to accommodate that many people, perhaps on top of the Hokage mountain?” I suggested but she shook her head.
“That would be disrespectful and give the wrong impression. We could use one of the training grounds.” she said and I frowned.
“It might work though we’d have to transform it as those places are usually quite destroyed from people training there. What of food?” I asked and she frowned as well.
We both knew that the amount of people and in particular big eaters that would come to our wedding would be very large so catering for that was going to be a serious problem.
“I suppose if we were to use a freshness seal we could have the food made well in advance and only serve it as needed though we’d need to have someone watching the foods to replenish whatever was running low.” she suggested and I nodded in agreement.
“I can post a B rank mission for it since while it is a simple enough job the one responsible will have to deal with many powerful shinobi interacting with them potentially.” I said seriously.
“Might need to make it an A rank just in case the pay of a B rank mission isn’t enough.” She said and I nodded.
We got more and more into the details of our wedding with things like the dress code and whether or not my beasts would be attending as that served it’s own set of challenges. We got through most of everything we could think of and I even wrote it all down so that we could refine it later if we needed to.-
About a quarter of the way through the trip through the land of grass while we were just finished with our initial planning we crossed paths with some troublesome people. I recognized the black cloaks with red cloud patterns on them anywhere after having fought Kakuzu and as I later learnt Hidan. This time however It was a blonde haired man with a youthful face and eyepatch over his left eye and a white satchel at either side of his waist.-
Next to him stood what I immediately identified as yet another abomination similar to Kakuzu in that it held no lifeforce save a single part that produced chakra within it. The exterior however I could tell was nothing more than a puppet with a hunched turtle like figure and dark skinned head with cornrow hair.-
“Hey Sasori my man are either of these two worth anything?” The blonde asked the puppet abomination casually like Karin and I weren’t standing here.
“The boy is Kenzo Mizuyama, potential S rank target with a bounty of two million ryo. The girl has no bounty. I advise we retreat as the full extent of Kenzo’s power is not known and his medical prowess renders my poisons near obsolete. Kakuzu and Hidan found him troublesome to deal with as well.” the puppet abomination spoke in a deep gravelly tone.
“Tch, and here I hoped I’d be able to show off my art.” the blonde who I recognized from the bingo book as Deidara said annoyed before the two of them left.
I didn’t bother trying to stop them as I had no reason to bother doing so and with Karin here I didn’t want to risk harm coming to her if they targeted her. While I was sure I could handle both of them with ease protecting someone at the same time would prove quite tricky especially against the puppet that had admitted to using poisons. A small injury on Karin and things would turn desperate as I’d need to remove it before it could spread or risk her life and believe me the time involved there was not long at all.-
“Who were those two?” Karin asked seriously.
“The blonde was Deidara of the explosion release, an S rank rogue nin. As for that other one Deidara said he was Sasori so I assume due to that puppet body we saw that was Sasori of the red sands, another S rank rogue nin.” I said seriously.
“Are S ranks so common now?” she couldn’t help but ask while looking at me oddly.
I shook my head with a chuckle “Not common no. In fact the discovery that those two are part of the same group as Kisame Hoshigaki, Itachi Uchiha, Kakuzu and Hidan is a concerning one as that’s six confirmed S ranks all banded together which is more than any of the five great villages has by quite a bit. Konoha despite being the strongest of the villages only has five if you count Naruto as a Jinchuriki.” I said seriously.
“Should we report this to Sensei?” she asked worried after understanding how dangerous this group was.
I nodded and weaved the handsigns for the summoning jutsu before biting the tip of my tongue to draw a drop of blood that I smeared on my thumb before slamming my palm onto the ground. A cloud of smoke immediately appeared and soon cleared to reveal my cat holding a sandwich in it’s mouth. I felt my eyebrow twitch at that but chose to ignore it as I quickly penned down the information I got and stuffed it under my cats collar to be delivered to my sensei.-
I sent the pesky creature back to the village with orders to deliver that information as soon as possible. We were too on edge from the run in with those two to continue our casual chatting and it was only after we stopped to camp out that we relaxed again. Neither of us were fully relaxed as there was no telling if those two might change their mind and come back for me.-
I had my senses fully extended to make sure they couldn’t sneak up on us but they never came back even a full day later so I declared us safe for now. I also got a faint pressing sensation at one point that I knew to be the opposite side of a summoning contract telling me my summon wanted to be summoned for some reason. This was one of the reasons summons were so popular as if the summon was left behind you could use it to send messages across vast distances.