I myself had been to a few of these merts dispys and I was usually very disappointed. Most of the beasts they had were ordinary creatures that had the ti ce of being chakra beasts and thus not worth my time or money. A sensitivity to chakra didn't mean that a beast could bee a chakra beast despite that being the primary indicator that was used to determi. Capturing actual chakra beasts however was a tricky and usually dangerous business so these merts rarely risked it ahus g in good quality beasts.-

  That said the mert Teuchi told me was currently in town was one I was familiar with and knew for a fact did try and capture chakra beasts sihe risk had an equally great reward if she succeeded. I leisurely made my way to the bazar area that these sort of merts occupied in the vilge all the time and ignored most of the orying to trick me out of my money. Not to say these merts were scammers as that was a fast way to get put in a early grave when you dealt with ninjas as your tele.-

  It was just that the hype they tried to peddle their wares with rarely stood up to reality even if they did operate in a manner like advertised. That said I did stop at a few pces that my senses found something moderately iing in. One such pce was an herbal trader who had a gihat was attrag an above average amount of natural energy. The man tried to sell me some wolf grass or other expensive herbs but my i was only in that ginseng. Another pce I stopped was a traveling "antiquities dealer" that was in fact just a grave robber for abaombs.-

  The reason i stopped at such a disreputable pce was that he had jeweled egg that he clearly didn't realize held a sealed unborn chakra beast. The seals were frankly ingenious as the unbor revented from hatg but fed chakra and natural energy from the air to improve it's talent and power upon birth. Basically the person who made this set of seals was artificially creating a powerful chakra beast but judging from the jewels on the shell had lost the egg or had it taken from them before they could cim their prize.-

  I had not idea how long the seals had been in pd thus feeding the unbor but I did know where the egg came from, Uzushiogakure or the vilge hidden in the whirlpools. In other words this jewel egg had been taken from the grave of someone from the now long dead Uzumaki vilge. The peddler tried to spew some bullshit about where he got it to upsell the price but I ft out pointed out the identifiers that he missed and then gave him a generous but firm price for the egg.-

  Finally though I reached the beast mert and saw the tomboy woman with short bck hair and muscur physique sitting back smoking a cigar silently. "Boy! I had worried I'd have to track you down after hearing you were outta the vilge!" she said with a hearty ugh when she saw me walk up.

  "Just got back today in fact, hope you have something good saved up for me Toge." I said not surprised at the mase way she spoke.

  "You're lucky your taste is is all inclusive as I just so happen to have a powerful ohat I 't sell sino one else wants it, not for ck mind you." she said as she got up and walked over to a metal cage with a bck cloth over it.

  She pulled the cloth away to reveal what was in the cage and I admit that I was halfway tempted to think she was messing with me as it was a sheep of all things. You know the fluffy things that are universally knorey items, yeah one of those.

  "Don't go letting this soft and harmless look fool you this fucker damn near killed me to capture. Got this weird ability to turn things it steps on explosive, bastards fast too. It's why I got chakra suppression bands on it since I don't want it to blow up my cart." Toge said seriously while the sheep erfectly calm and ag like any normal one as it ate some food pellets from a bowl.

  Chakra suppression bands were as the name implied bands that were made specifically to deprive a chakra user from their chakra via special seals. I personably didn't like the things because they messed with my senses as I couldn't get an accurate read on someone's chakra if they were wearing ohat said I wasn't doubting Toge at all as even with the bands on it the sheep had a heavy tration of chakra near it's feet.

  "You want to e with me?" I asked the sheep and it paused mid chew and then nodded. "Alright I'll get you in a moment ahose bands off you but you 't go blowing things up uand?" I said with a smile and the sheep nodded with a relut look at Toge.

  "You never cease to amaze me with the critters kid, I'll sell it to you for fifty thousand this time even if it's worth more just to get it outta my hair. Also don't think I didn't notice that look ya bastard, you were pnning to blow up my shit weren't you?" She said while gring at the sheep that just snorted and looked away.

  I paid Toge and had my new beast follow me out of the market as I ighe looks I got si was a sheep of all things.

  "Is that a sheep?" Shizune asked with a fused expression after she found me oreet.

  "More or less." I said with a shrug.

  "Why do you have a sheep?" she asked still very much fused.

  "It's a chakra beast and I bought it for my colle. Apparently it make anything it steps on explosive, sounded like a useful ability to try and copy." I said holy.

  "Like paper tags?" she asked surprised.

  I just shrugged again "No idea since I haven't tested it yet, speaking of want to e with?" I asked and she nodded.

  Toge wasn't messing around when she said it was fast as it was able to keep up with us after we started jogging which for shinobi at our level meant we were moving quite quickly. Eventually though we got to ay training ground and I got to see it's chakra ability in a and I was not disappoihe way the ability worked was actually quite simple but was equally useful and ingenious. Basically the sheep molded it's chakra into a fire nature and the a "stamp" where it put down it's hooves that acted like a sort of ndmine as the chakra went dormant until triggered somehow. The explosions were pretty strong too as they were about the equivalent of a grade 1 paper tag that might as well be a frag grenade.