2 Unforeseen Spar

Itachi ended his Genjutsu and ordered the boy to return to the surface where he come from because he sensed someone approaching his location. He still has many questions he want to ask, but now was not the time to sate his curiousity.

Who can blame him. He just heard something ridiculous from the boy's mouth just now. Something about the god or whatnot. Itachi suspect something was wrong with the boy's head. He truly want to believe that, but all the evidence said otherwise. His coming back to life, the regression of age, strange creature, and the blindness that plagued him after excessive use of Mangekyou was nowhere to be seen. All sign pointed that what the boy Bell said was true.

Somewhere deep within his heart he really hoped the boy was crazy. Well, no matter. At least he knew where the exit was.

Itachi turned his attention away from the boy distant back toward the approaching footsteps and raised his blade slightly, ready for combat. But he was taken aback when he finally saw the one approached him. With sword in hand, she was more beautiful than Konan or other female shinobi he had ever saw in his life.

Blond hair swaying lightly behind her as she walks closer to him. Itachi sight was caught by her light armor that show a lot of her womanly charm, especially around her chest. Just a bit more and he might be able to see her nipple. She remind him of certain Konoha shinobi.

Even though his expression was looking flat as always, his heart was slightly taken aback by the girl's breathtaking appearance. Itachi can only turned his attention to the other aspect of the girl, analyzing her closely.

She is similar to the boy earlier, they both used armor. But unlike the boy, the woman in front of him looked dangerous. The way she walks, her bearing, her weapon. He knew right away the woman in front of him is not amateur like Bell Cranel.

Still, Itachi doesn't feels nervous in the slightest as he looked at the breathtaking woman in front of him.

Why?

He had the confience of Uchiha.

The woman stopped right in front of Itachi, looking at him with flat look, then at his sword before moved to the Minotaur's crystal leave untouched on the beast body.

Her beautiful golden eyes locked into his onyx eyes, "You killed it?"

"Hn." Itachi let out a hum of aknowledgement.

"..."

"..."

They both stood there together with the same flat look on their face.

No one say anything, they both just looked at each other silently.

It was the woman's companions who broke the silence. A group of people approached their location in a hurried gait, one of them shouted arrogantly, "Aiz! Did you get the beast?! I killed two other trash on the other side of the floor."

Bete stopped his boasting and frowned when he saw Aiz was not alone. "Huh? Who the hell is this guy?"

A female stopped beside Aiz and asked, "Aiz, did you got it?"

"Tiona, he had already take care of it." said Aiz

"Ah, no way!" Tiona exclaimed.

She turned to Itachi, appraising him."Hm, I never saw you around here..."

Tiona mused, looking at Itachi closely. "Yup never saw you."

"You're so full of yourself Tiona, it's not like you knew everyone in Orario." Another one said as she walked closer from behind. She's similar to Tiona in appearance, a twin? Itachi thought silently.

"Ooh? I may not know every single adventurers in Orario, but at least I would know if someone as handsome as him would to stay in the city." Tiona flirted shamelessly, eyes never leaving the young Uchiha even for a single moment, taking in the sight of his dashing appearance and cold demeanor.

He was without a doubt the male version of Aiz Wallenstein! Tiona shouted with glee in her heart. And if what Aiz says is true then the young Uchiha is without a doubt a strong adventurer. This fact stirred her amazon blood in her vein and made her heart throb violently in her chest.

Strong and handsome, Itachi is exactly every amazon's dream guy. Not even an hour has passed since he arrived in this world, but he had already locked on by an amazon woman as boyfriend candidate.

"Hey Fynn! here! here! we're here!"

"You guys already take care of the escaped monsters?"

"Yup! we're done here! what about we have a feast after this? New guy I'll treat you tonight, consider this my apology for today matters." said Tiona as she leaned closer to Itachi. His body tried to evade the body contact with a stranger but he hold back the impulse. There's no sign of hostility from her and it might be a good idea to mingle with human from this side of the world, that is if what the boy said earlier was to be any true.

Itachi blinked, he can feels something soft pressing against him as Tiona put his hand around her breast.

'Did she flirt with me?' Itachi glanced at Tiona.

'It's been a forever since someone touched me so intimately.' Itachi mused, 'Well, it's not a bad thing to mingle with other human once in a while. Beside....'

Itachi glanced around the bunch of people around him and concluded that unlike certain organization, they didn't seems like a dangerous group of people trying to share their pain with the humanity by destroying the world.

"Apology your ass! Tiona! you just want to flirt with him didn't you! Admit it!" The twin started to argued with each other over him. Meanwhile, his attention was already moved on to the newcomer they called Fynn. He is small just like a child, but he had a feeling the child is nothing but ordinary.

Fynn apologized to Itachi for letting the Minotaur escaped to the upper floor and attacked Itachi. In the end, they invited the young Uchiha with them to a feast in the city as a sign of apology, though it was the twin who had forced Fynn into it despite Bete disapproval.

'Fuu... my day couldn't get any better than this.' Fynn sighed silently.

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"So, Itachi was it?"

"Hn, it's a pleasure to meet you Loki-sama."

"Ma, drink up. No need to be so wary of the little old me." Loki grinned at him.

Itachi lips twitched slightly. Even though Itachi showed the same flat look as always, Loki managed to learn something from his face.

She was able to see that the man was kind of wary when he learned she was a goddess. She lived together with Aiz that never showed any expression on her face for a long time, so she was somehow adept at reading this kind of people.

Still, to think someone never heard of someone as famous as Loki, not to mention showed a wariness toward her... or is it just goddess in general? This intrigued Loki slightly even though she had little interest in the opposite gender.

"So, which familia are ya?" Loki asked as she squeezed Ais in a protective hug as though she was trying to protect Aiz from something. She had no idea why though. Her body just moved on it own, earning her a slap to the wrist.

"Here, try this. It's on the house." An attractive woman with grey hair stopped beside Itachi as she put a mug in front of him. Itachi glanced at her and immediately recognized the woman. He raised the corner of his lips, "Thanks."

"It's nothing, especially after what you did earlier. I should be the one that should be saying thanks." Taking a glance at the Loki familia around him, she gave Itachi a lingering look. "My name is Syr by the way. Well, take your time." The woman gave him one last smile and go back to her work, slightly intimidated by scary aura coming from Tiona.

The presence of grey haired woman clearly made Tiona pissed, she clearly flirting with Itachi openly right in front of her. 'It's on the house my ass! Just because he saved you once from tripping yourself doesn't give you the right to flirt so openly' Tiona grumbled.

Seemingly not realizing Tiona anger, Itachi took a sip of the wine and turned to Loki, "Loki-sama... I'm new here, so it would be weird if you knew about me."

"Ah? Really?! then Itachi... that means you have yet to join a familia, right?" Asked Tiona, her eyes lit up in delight. "Why don't you join ours?"

Her bad mood faded in the blink of an eye. The fact of how a new adventurer could be strong enough to kill a Minotaur, a monster designed for veteran adventurer without a familia escaped her love struck mind.

"No way! Impossible!" Bete shouted, clearly against the idea. "We had no idea what kind of man he was, not to mention our family only accept the best. Just because he killed a minotaur didn't make him the best."

"Bete! shut your trap! you just don't want Itachi to get any closer to Ais, right! Feeling threatened are we!"

"What did you say?!"

"Both of you, calm down." The woman said with calm yet strict voice. Immediately, both Tiona and Bete huffed and stopped bickering. It was the aloof woman with pointed ears that remain silent the whole time.

Itachi gave her a curious glance. Her position in their group seemed higher than Bete and Tiona, they listened to what she said, or is it something else?

"Itachi is clearly not a newby, so he might already had familia. So it's rude to invite someone like that Tiona."

"Uuh... sorry."

"So, Itachi... you still haven't answered Loki question. Did you belong to any familia?" Asked Riveria, looking right into his eyes.

Itachi silent for a moment, "No, I'm currently not in any familia." He then turned to Tiona and smiled. "There's no rush Tiona, if we are fated, I might join your familia in the future."

Bang~!

Bete slammed his hand against the table. Clearly furious. "Are you underestimated our familia brat?!"

"No, it's not something like that." Said Itachi, seemingly undisturbed by Bete intimidation. "Currently I still had pressing matters that must be done. So I can't... join any familia right now."

Itachi was not lying at all and Loki was right when she said Itachi seemed wary of her. As shinobi from another world the terms of goddess is not small matter.

And there's is a goddess in the flesh right in front of him. Without enough information it was not a wise thing to mingle with them. Who know what kind of power the gods have toward the childs in their familia or anyone around them for that matters.

That's why Itachi was very careful with the words he say. Who knows if Loki able to tell if someone speak a lie in front of her. Even among the Shinobi there're some who had this kind of ability, not to mention a god.

Still, even though Itachi explanation didn't seems to convince Bete who keen on challenging him. It was annoying even for Itachi to have someone mocking him constantly amidst the watching bystanders.

"Pretty boy! Don't you have the guts to face me?!"

"Bete, that's enough..." said Aiz, she can't seems to take anymore of Bete insults toward Itachi.

Not only this didn't stop Bete, but he only got more angry that Aiz choose Itachi side rather than him. Before he managed to lash out, a voice entered his wolf ears.

"Bete was it... as you wish, I'll accept your challenge."

"Itachi?!" Tiona startled, "Hey! Do you know what you're saying? Bete is Level five! Even though he looked stupid, he's very strong, that's for sure. You should forget about it."

"Tiona! It's too late." Bete grinned savagely at Itachi, "He already accepted my challenge and I won't stop before I teach him a good lesson... with my fist, hee-hee. Don't worry, I won't left a permanent damage, though I can't say about his face. hee-hee."

"Don't worry Tiona, Aiz. It's just a spar. I'll try not to hurt Bete too much." Itachi calmed the worried gazes directed at him.

"This little..." Bete grin froze. Fury flashed in his eyes.

Riveria narrowed her emerald eyes at the mysterious Uchiha. 'He doesn't seems to be afraid and showed no reaction when he learned Bete was level 5. Why? He doesn't seems like someone who easily got carried away by his emotion... could it be he had the confidence to fight against level 5 adventurer?'

"What is it... what happened?"

"Someone is gonna fight with Bete from the Loki familia!"

"Are you serious? That Bete?! Who have the guts?"

"It's true! Look at that!"

The crowd inside the Tavern was buzzing in excitement as they watched Bete confronting Itachi. Without hesitation, the crowd followed the Loki familia as they walked out from the building.

A bulky female dwarf looked at them with annoyed expression on her face.

"Mama mia..." All of the female employees glanced at her, rather nervous.