"What a ce , I also happen to prefer my normal look as well." I joked and she ughed.

  "Alright mister serious, where to ?" she asked still smiling.

  "Hmm, I suppose we could go see the merts that are here to peddle their stuff for an obse mark up. I may even buy something if you ask nicely." I said casually and her eyes lit up.

  When I said the merts had marked up their stuff obsely I meant it. The first pce Karin dragged me over to look at was a jewelry mert selling third rate jewelry such as bumpy pearls on a string or dull colored sapphire earrings with poor workmanship at the price of top grade jewelry!-

  The mert knew his trade though and was sweet talking Karin by saying how well this or that suited her pale plexion ht red hair. I pyed with the natural energy he stuff to test it and was surprised that one of the items had an above average affinity with the stuff, not amazing like the crystals in my chamber at home but better than normal.-

  "I'll take this piece." I said calmly f over the exact price listed and giving the mert a look that told him I wasn't iating fher.

  "O-of course sir!" the man said nervously while taking the money as I swiped the rather ugly emerald neckce.

  "Why that thing in particur? It's hideous." Karin asked bluntly and fused after we left that stall.

  "Oh I know that but this emerald has something special about it that actually makes it worth far more than what I paid. I figure that after removing the stone aing a proper top grade neckce made for it it would be worth more than that whole stall." I said calmly and she looked at the dull dark green stone in shock.

  "I don't uand what's so special about it though?" she said still very fused.

  I chuckled "Watch." I said and held it up and began to el natural energy into the stone.

  Immediately the dark and dull can to ge into a deep and bright green that captivated the attention and had you unsciously staring at it.

  'Hmm, this would be a good medium fenjutsu. I'll have to work on making one for it but it shouldn't take more than a few days after I get it refitted.' I thought after seeing this effe a.

  It wasn't surprising at all as many special objects had features like this though admittedly genjutsu reted effects were quite rare in natural stones such as this. The effect of the emerald though wasn't overly strong so I'd say whatever genjutsu I e up with for it won't exceed B rank. Anyways we moved on to other stalls to see what was being sold after that. Karin teo appreciate more shiny things which was not particurly surprising since most people do.-

  Shiny things just tend to appeal to us instinctively for some reason as humans. It was where gold and silver got their value finally in fact as we discovered the really pretty rocks ahe rest is history you should know fairly well already. Yeah it wasn't because we kneroperties the stuff had but literally just because it retty and not super on. Like not rare or anything but most of the time it wasn't found above ground so it seemed that way to our primitive aors.-

  I didn't find anymore special items during this walk through the merts but that didn't mean I didn't buy anything else. Karin begged me for a few items that I bought for her si seemed to make her happy. It was merely a make up set from the nd of snow, a emerald green bundle of silk from the nd of silk and a book she took a fancy to. Holy I hadn't a clue what the appeal for these items were but she was smiling happily so I suppose it didn't matter.

  "Lets go grab some ramen from Teuchi for lund then go find a jeweler for this emerald." I suggested when I heard her stomach growl.

  "Okay!" She said cheerfully.

  Whe to the ramen shop it had a few ers and Teuchi was busy in the back making ramen quickly and fluidly. Rushing around the shop with a notepad was his daughter Ayame with her usual tied up brown hair and pin clothes.

  "Wele! Take a seat and Ayame will be with you shortly!" the man called when he saw us.

  "Oh Karin you look amazing! Your hair must have taken you forever to get up with how unruly it normally is!" Ayame said plementing Karin after ing over.

  "You have no idea! I had to spend almost an hour just to get it into these buns and ahirty minutes after that to keep it there!" Karin pined and I chuckled.

  The twossiped a bit and Ayame took our orders before rushing off as the shop was too busy for her to stay long to chat. As we waited I casually pyed around with weaving a genjutsu with the emerald aually came up with ohat would prove useful for Karin since she was going to be an iryonin.-

  It was a simple genjutsu that used the emerald to sort of hypnotize whoever it was used on to not feel any paihey were looking at it. I casually tested the handsigns I khat would recreate the chakra molding for the jutsu while I waited and once I was satisfied I tested it on a random dude.

  "That's not a half bad trick there friend, been suffering from that bruise since yesterday so it's o not feel it for ohe guy said with a smile.

  "Why didn't you get it treated if it's b you so much?" Karin asked fused.

  "Aw it's not really that bad miss, just a big ol bruise from dropping a box on my foot is all." the man said waving it off.

  I casually reached over to the mans leg and used mystic palm to find the issue and then fix the issue in all of about a sed before dropping the genjutsu.

  "Eh? The pains gone!? You must be one of those docs from the hospital then, what luck!" the man excimed in surprise.

  "You had a broken toe by the way, hairline fracture really so your thinking it was just really bruised isn't surprising." I said calmly.

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