Chapter 008

"Kubisaki Pass is a very famous place in the Land of neck. It was the capital of the country fifty years ago. But this is not the reason Kubisaki Pass became famous. Kubisaki Pass is well known mainly due to the ghost castle. That ghost castle eat anyone who approached. Everyone who entered the that castle didn't came back. So we should stay in the forest," the merchant leader, Mr. Yamamoto said.

He was persuading the Team Guy not to take shelter in the ghost castle. When they were about to reach Kubiwokiru, the new capital of the Land of neck, the weather went bad and rain started to fall. So they searched places to take shelter from rain. Neji found an old castle and suggested to stay in the castle until the rain stopped. But the merchants opposed that plan strongly.

" They're just meaningless rumors. Ghost doesn't really exist," Neji still didn't believe what the merchants said.

But after hearing Mr Yamamoto's words, Ten Ten remembered that ghost castle. That ghost castle was actually a summoning of Kōza Kubisaki, the Daimyo of the land of neck fifty years ago. And it was a giant chameleon and called Shiromari. Its master died before he could release the summon. But Shiromari was very loyal, it didn't dispelled itself. And it was still performing the mission ordered by its summoner, to devour all enemies who approached the castle. Moreover the name of this place is also made the passerby more afraid.That was the origin of the ghost castle.

' Naming ability of Land of neck Daimyo was really terrible. What were they thinking when they named the capital? How could they give their capital scary names.' Ten Ten thought.

(* Kubisaki= neck splitting, Kubiwokiru= neck cutting)

In original time and space, Naruto, Kiba and Hinata encountered this castle during a mission. Later they found the summoning contract with the help of Kōza Kubisaki's soul. Then they destroyed the summoning contract to release Shiromari. And Ten Ten thought that some times later, Shiromari was caught by Pain and became a summon of the Animal Path. Of course that was only her imagination.

'Anyway I should save that poor little chameleon'

It was not due to its strong shapes shifting ability or because she wanted a cool summon like Sanin or Team 7. She wanted to save Shiromari because the kindness in her heart didn't allow her to neglect the suffering chameleon.

"Hehe hehe," she smiled greedily.

After a few discussions, they decided to continue to stay in cave and not to go to the ghost castle. Ten Ten told Gai that she wanted to investigate that ghost castle with her shadow clones. After thinking a few seconds, Gai allowed her but he suggested her to disguise her clones as normal travellers by using transformation jutsu. Ten Ten agreed and used kage bunshin no jutsu.

"Shadow clone jutsu"

Then five Ten Ten appeared around them and then the clones rushed out of the cave after using transformation jutsu. Next, they waited for the rain to stop.

About thirty minutes later, the rain stopped and they continued their journey. They didn't encountered any obstacles on the way and reached to Kubiwokiru smoothly. In this way, the first C ranked mission of team 3 was completed after some twists and turns. After completing the mission, they decided not to rest in the Kubiwokiru and to return immediately.

On their way back, Ten Ten received information from her clones. According to the information she got, it took 1about an hour to search the summoning contract even five clones searching together. After all,she was not the child of destiny. So she didn't get the help of the old Daimyo soul. And the location of the summoning contract was also keep changing. Therefore her clones decided to left a clone for keeping the summoning contract.

She reported Gai about that and sped up to Kubisaki. When she arrived at the ghost castle, her clone was waiting her at the gate of the castle. She took the summoning contract from her clone. Then she bit her finger and wrote her name on the scroll. After signing the summoning contract, she felt like she could understand the chameleon and it could also understand her words.

"Hi Shiromari, nice to meet you. I'm Ten Ten. Can you change into your original form." Ten Ten said.

Then the castle shook and changed into a giant green chameleon.

"Wow, that's awesome," looking at the giant chameleon, Rock Lee shouted.

" Ten Ten, I think you're a step to become a legendary kunoichi like Tsunade sama. Lady Tsunade can summon a giant slug that has healing ability. Although your summon is a chameleon that can transform into a castle, it was about the same size compared to Lady Tsunade's summon. But you have to report to Hokage sama after returning to konoha," Gai gave her a bright smile and said.

Although Neji did not say anything, he already planned to find about giant summon after returning to the village.

"You had worked hard along time. You must be tired now, right?" Ten Ten said to Shiromari and undo the summoning jutsu. Then they continued to travel.

Three days later, team Guy reached to the entrance. Returning was faster because they didn't need to wait normal people like during mission.

After arriving to the hidden Leaf, they directly went to the Hokage office to report about the mission and Ten Ten's summon. If you signed a summoning contract with ordinary animal, the village would not care as ordinary summon were only useful for tracking and sending information scroll. But you must report to the village when you signed with a giant summon because giant summon had strong attack power. Although they were not comparable to tailed beasts, they were still scary and powerful existence for ordinary ninja. The village recorded the shinobi who own giant summon because they were very useful in large scale battles.

After reporting to the third hokage and receiving their reward, they walked out of the Hokage office.

"Alright, go home and take a rest. Come to the third training ground tomorrow morning. I have something to teach three of you. And we should take a new mission only after resting in village for a month. " Guy said and then disappeared with a 'swish'sound.

The three genin looked at each other and sighed. After saying goodbye to her two friends, Ten Ten returned to home. On her way back to home, she was thinking how to use the points she recently got. She was rewarded Three thousands points after she signed summoning contract. After all, having a cool and big summon was also a characteristic of a legendary kunoichi. So she had 8428 points right now.

She decided not to upgrade attributes by adding points because she thought it was wasting her precious points. She could upgrade her attributes by training. Although it was difficult and needed time, she decided to upgrade her attributes only by training. And she believed it would made her foundation stronger. She thought she should use her points to get something she could not get by training like bloodlines and kekkei genkei.

However bloodlines and kekkei genkei were very expansive. Even Shimura clan bloodline that could increase her wind release aptitude a little was worth 3000 points. Yuki clan bloodline could greatly increase her water release talent and give her ice release if she was extremely lucky. And its price was 8000. Powerful bloodlines like Jugo's clan bloodline, Kaguya clan bloodline, Senju bloodline, Uzumaki bloodline ,etc were classified into ordinary bloodline and extraordinary bloodline. Moreover the prices of these powerful bloodlines were at least 10,000 points. Among Otsutsuki related bloodlines, Uchiha bloodline was the cheapest and costed 9000 points as it could only give her S grade fire release talent. And surprisingly Hyuga bloodline was the most expansive and costed 25,000 points. But it was reasonable because she would definitely get Byakugan and an innate ability which allowed her to expel chakra from any of the tenketsu in her body after obtaining Hyuga bloodline.

To buy kekkei genkei, she had to meet some requirements. For example, she must had an extraordinary level Senju bloodline, S grade Water release talent, S+ grade Earth release talent and A grade Yang release talent if she wanted to buy wood release. Although buying kekkei genkei was more complicated than buying bloodline, the price of kekkei genkei was cheap except for dojutsu kekkei genkei like sharingan, blood dragon eyes and red eyes. The price of most kekkei genkei release were between 3000 points and 10,000 points. The more the requirements for kekkei genkei, the cheaper the price of kekkei genkei. The price of wood release was only 5,000 points as it had many requirements. The prices of Sharingan and Shikotsumyaku were 10,000 points because their requirement was only to have their clan bloodline.

Ten Ten used 5,000 points to upgrade her Senju bloodline to extraordinary level. Then she checked her status. After obtaining extraordinary Senju bloodline, her upper limits for physical attributes and her aptitudes for water release, earth release and yang release increased. She planned to buy Uchiha bloodline when she had enough points. Then she would buy Hyuga bloodline and Uzumaki bloodline. She wondered will she get Otsutsuki bloodline after buy Otsutsuki related bloodlines.