This pce was only temporary though until I could earn enough to get the nd I actually wanted. Holy the only reason I eve up this pce was simply because it wouldn't be appropriate to tinue living at my parents and the nd was free for anyone who wao set up shop there. As I had stated previously the forest of death was not a fuo live for anyone who wasn't me. Poisonous is, pnts, powerful beasts that despite not having chakra could endanger even average in and many other unfun stuff was all found in the forest.-

  My new house despite the illusion wasn't something I kept secret and would be fairly easy to find anyways sihe area around it had been cimed by my beasts. I wasn't surprised as a result to find people spying on it on what I am assuming was Danzo's orders. My sensei had all but stated that the man was responsible for us getting ambushed previously even though there was no evidence of it. The modus operandi simply fit too well acc to her and after she expined previous as he had taken that she knew of for a fact I couldn't help but agree with her.-

  Calling the man a snake would be an insult to snakes as acc to my sehe guy had no moral line he wouldn't cross if he thought the oute worth it and that was a low bar to meet for him. My sensei said that he probably heard about my solid e teique and decided to "acquire" it without letting it reach the vilge, out of greed most likely. Knowing this I quietly made a deal with all the squirrels living in the forest that if they found anyone spying on my home and they pelted them with some of my specially made smoke pellets I'd give the squirrel who did it some good food.-

  You want to talk about unnerving? Imagine hundreds of squirrels spread across about three miles of nd all armed with smoke pellets that exploded when thrown into what was basically mustard gas. Now imagihat they are all manically searg for aupid enough to try and spy on my home to use those pellets on, Danzo issed. He eve so far as to accuse me of attag my fellow Konoha ninjas for no reason. -

  The man got an ugly sp in the face when I told the Hokage who had summoned me to discuss the matter EXCATLY what was going on. Rather tha me into trouble Danzo himself got into trouble since he had deployed shinobi to spy ohout any good reason. As should be obvious the Hokage wasn't happy with this and reprimanded Danzo before asking that I choose a less aggressive method of ter surveiln the future. I agreed and we were effectively sent back to square one as Danzo lost this not so hidden csh and got nothing for his troubles.-

  At the same time I had to figure out a differehod of stopping him from spying ohe answer was simply to employ the squirrels again but this time merely as guards. The psychotic little tree rats were more than happy to keep a in exge for a daily ration of good food. It was a little pricey to buy this small army of squirrels so much food but I could easily cover that amount with two or three k missions.-

  Kiba and Shino also came to visit sometimes and hung out with Naruto and me. Kiba was boisterous and frankly foul mouthed while Shino just silently sat there most of the time getting ignored by everyone except me. Let me tell you nothing bothers a member of the Aburame like getting aowledged. They all had almost no presend were the embodiment of "fa the crowd" energy so getting singled out so casually throws them for a loop. Holy I did it simply because I thought it was hirious to see Shino's rea. We even developed this fun little ninja game that we called Element.-

  It was sort of like checkers or chess except it was based around the five basic chakra natures and only a piece of the opposite nature could remove another piece from the game permaly. If a non-opposing element took a piece that piece came bato py after two turns. You got three of each element at the start and had to take the "chakra" piece of the oppoo win. Like in chess each element moved in a way that ecific to them and simir to how that element worked iy.-

  We ended up spreading the game all over the vilge and further once wot out about it and people started ing to us to get a set for the game. Naruto and Kiba were to bme for that happening as they bbbed about it at the academy and from there it spread by word of mouth. Funnily enough even the Hokage requested a set and gave me a mission to teach him and Shikamaru's dad, Shikaku how to py. They both found the game impressive as it was both easy to py and at the same time held a lot of plexity as well.-

  For example you o keep track of your upkeep to return pieces into py while also making sure you don't run out of a or you risked having a serious handy cap afterwards. Like if you permaly lost all your fire pieces you won't be able to take any of your oppos water pieces and that gave them quite the advantage in numbers. Sure you could take their water pieces out of py for two turns at a time but they always came back like reinforts arriving without you yourself getting any.-

  As any shinobi will tell you that numbers advantage could easily mean the differeween victory and loss. I had to admit though that both of these two were monstrously skilled tactis as they were pnning four or five moves ahead at all times and I only noticed it after seeing the setups going off. Like oime the Hokage purposefully let one of his earth and fire pieces get taken only for them to e bato py now perfectly poised to permaly take two of Shikaku's pieces. The merts that came to the vilge also bought some sets from me in order to sell them to the bored nobles across the nd.-

  Kiba, Shino and I all agreed to give the profits from the game to Naruto si of all of us he definitely the most. It wasn't much but it at the very least allowed him to get a new set of clothes since his current ones were getting in bad dition. In my free time not hanging out or doing missions I worked on mastering my new jutsus until I no longer needed handsigns to use them. It took me about three months in total to achieve that once I had started it.