Naruto: Starting with Tsunade

Chapter 22 Summoning Beasts

When school was over, Aokiji went straight home, and as was his custom, he checked to see if anyone had sneaked into his house.

There were signs of slight wiping on the dust on the windowsill. Aokiji was on high alert. Holy crap, was his house burgled?

"Meow..."

Aokiji was startled and looked in the direction of the sound. It turned out that an orange cat had wandered into the house at some point.

Aokiji breathed a sigh of relief; it was just a cat.

Stray cats are still quite common in the territories.

The Uchiha clan and the Ninja Cat clan have always had a good relationship, and many members of the clan use Ninja Cats as their summoning beasts.

If adults are like this, children are also influenced to some extent, and when it comes to choosing a pet, cats are the first choice.

Aokiji chased the stray cat out of his house and didn't think much of it.

Instead of worrying that the stray cat was a ninja cat spying on him.

If it were truly spying on me, the cat wouldn't have made a sound to draw my attention.

Using a ninja cat to monitor oneself—what kind of lunatic would be so bored as to use such a method?

I'm not an important person.

He has good talent, but without awakening his Ice Release ability, the psychopath would send someone to specifically monitor him.

He shook his head, closed the window, and drew the curtains, looking like a thief.

With no one around, Aokiji bit his thumb, drew a line on his palm, and pressed down with one hand.

"Spiritual communication techniques."

With a bang, white smoke billowed up and dissipated, revealing a snow-white fox out of thin air—the fox spirit.

Aokiji couldn't command the other summoned beasts, so he had to settle for second best.

The fox spirit, upon arriving in the unfamiliar surroundings, paused for a moment before spotting Aokiji's face. Her bright eyes lit up, and she bounced around excitedly, asking, "Is this the outside world?"

"Yes, this is my home." Aokiji asked, "How's your Reverse Spirit Summoning Technique going with your grandmother? Can you summon me to the Aurora Ice Domain?"

"It can't be that fast. I'm only just starting out in many areas of chakra."

The fox spirit is related to Bao Si by blood and inherited her talents. After recognizing her ancestor, she is now cultivating with Bao Si.

There are countless generations between Bao Si and the fox spirit. Calling her "great-grandmother" countless times would be too troublesome, so the fox spirit simply called her "grandma."

"Then when you go back, please ask your grandmother to help me send a spirit message back."

To return to the Aurora Ice Domain, Aokiji needs to use the fox spirit as a mouthpiece and then have the spirit beast there send him back via reverse teleportation.

The space available for cultivation at home is too small, so he needs to go there to begin his cultivation.

"What kind of host is this? I rarely come all this way, and you're just telling me to go back? Is that how you treat a host?"

The vixen pouted, a hint of dissatisfaction in her words.

She had finally managed to come to the outside world, so naturally she didn't want to go back so soon.

Others?

Aokiji's lips twitched. It hadn't been that long since they last met, so what kind of knowledge had that old woman instilled in the fox spirit? Why was she speaking more and more human-like? She didn't seem as innocent as when they first met, and she wasn't so easily fooled anymore.

"Okay, okay, it was my fault. I'll treat you to dinner."

The fox spirit's eyes lit up, and she swayed her snow-white tail.

Aokiji apologized, took the leftover fish from the refrigerator, placed it on a plate, and handed it to him: "Remember to ask your grandma to call me back after you finish eating."

The fox spirit symbolically sniffed with her nose, but did not take a bite.

Seeing that she didn't eat immediately, Aokiji asked, puzzled, "Is there a problem?"

"I want it cooked."

"Didn't you used to eat raw food?"

"Things are different now. My grandmother said that if I work hard to cultivate myself, I will one day be able to become human. I need to adapt to the human way of life first."

"You haven't even taken human form yet, have you?"

The blue pheasant has a flat beak; it finds it troublesome.

The fox spirit said bluntly, "It tastes best when it's cooked."

Aokiji was speechless.

From frugality to luxury is easy, from luxury to frugality.

This vixen has become so picky about food; I should have known better than to feed her cooked food in the first place.

Well, since he needed her help, Aokiji complied and went to cook.

While waiting, the fox spirit wandered around the house, filled with curiosity about everything. After a short while, a childish voice rang out: "The food will be ready soon, so don't run around. If I eat it all, don't cry and scream; I won't make it again."

"Okay~"

The vixen responded and planned to return to Qingzhi. When she passed the bed, because of her original height, she caught a glimpse of something under the bed. With a curious attitude, she stretched out her paws and found it was a book. She flipped through it curiously, and suddenly felt that she had opened a new world.

Seeing that the fox spirit hadn't responded for a long time, Aokiji became puzzled. He left the kitchen and went to his room, where he saw a furry creature lying on the ground, doing something.

Aokiji curiously approached to take a look and found that she was reading a book. She couldn't help but laugh. The book was full of words. Could she understand it?

Then he discovered something very awkward: it didn't matter if he couldn't understand the words, as long as he could understand the pictures.

Jiraiya forced this thing on him, even though he had said he didn't want it. What if someone found out and misunderstood? Aokiji wanted to throw it in the trash, but then felt it was a waste to throw it away (crossed out). After all, it was a gift from someone else, so it wouldn't be good to throw it away. He just put it under the bed, never expecting that the fox spirit would fish it out.

Just as the fox spirit was engrossed in reading, a hand suddenly reached in and took the book away.

The fox spirit, unable to study because her books were confiscated, was very unhappy: "I haven't finished reading them yet!"

Aokiji coughed twice: "This kind of thing isn't for little kids like you."

"It's not like I haven't seen it in real life."

Aokiji stared in disbelief: "Huh? You've seen it? Where?"

The fox spirit scoffed, "Yes, in the freezing cold."

Holy crap, who's playing this kind of trick?

You have to go down there in the dead of winter, aren't you cold?

Aokiji thought about it for a moment and he understood what the fox spirit was referring to. At that time, the fox spirit was a "wild monster" who wandered around picking up scraps, so it was normal for it to cooperate with some animals.

After studying the knowledge in the book, the fox spirit concluded: "So, humans and animals are not much different in that respect."

"Uh..."

Aokiji was speechless, unable to continue the conversation, so he changed the subject: "Are you going to eat or not? If you don't eat, I'll eat by myself."

Upon hearing that there was food to eat, the fox spirit immediately forgot what she had just been looking at. After eating and drinking her fill, she then expressed her desire to go out and play.

Aokiji grabbed her by the back of the neck, lifted her up, and said with amusement, "Why are you always going on and on?"

The fox spirit playfully stuck out her tongue, chuckled憨厚ly, and with her fox-like face, said seductively, "Please, Master. The world is so big, I want to go out and see it."

Aokiji placed the fox spirit on the ground and sighed softly, "You only call me master when you're asking me for a favor. This is only allowed this once; don't do it again."

The fox spirit has lived in a world of ice and snow since childhood, so it's understandable that she rarely comes out.

"Yay, I love you the most, Master."

The fox spirit was overjoyed and pounced into the blue pheasant's arms.

Due to inertia, the blue pheasant was pushed over and then defiled.

The fox spirit stuck out her pink tongue and licked her cheek as a sign of affection.

A warm, soft tongue licked her face, causing a slight itch. Aokiji pushed the fox spirit away and straightened his face, saying, "But before we go out, I need to make three rules with you."

"Don't even mention three chapters, three hundred chapters are fine too."

Seeing her readily agree, Aokiji couldn't help but chuckle: "Do you know what 'three rules' means?"

"have no idea."

really……

Aokiji gave her some instructions, otherwise he wouldn't take her out to play next time.

It's quite common for ninja beasts to speak human language, so Aokiji wasn't too worried about her being discovered. His only concern was that no one would find out about her origins.

Upon hearing that she couldn't not go out to play, the fox spirit hurriedly agreed, promising not to let anything slip.

From then on, Aokiji frequently traveled between Konoha and the Aurora Ice Zone for training.

(End of this chapter)