Memories of the land of sound I

Matsuo, writing his last piece for the transatcion that day. had already planned out his path back to konoha, every path was hidden and secure from bandits and ninja. All he needed to do was go, and maybe use the last of his bomb tags leftover from his adventures in the land of sound.

He was more blatant when he entered and left his abode this time, not bothering to hide his chakra and location. When he started to talk with the old merchant he said "Bad news old coot, the client deemed it was no longer needed to make the books of power. But the quality of this work is way higher than the last few." He gave a minor booklet to him, these booklets were used to show that they had reached a high enough level to use seals by lightning land fuinjutsu masters.

These types of books of power were some of the highest quality on the market, this was your chance to learn seals for the entire year. There was at least a month inside of these, most had over five months of time invested. While Matsuo used only a few weeks of extra time for this, it was close to the top in terms of quality. He got about ~4800000 ryo for it, it was a fair amount for a quick estimate. Before he set out he said "The client said that if another 'need' for your services appeared, that I will be hired again to contact you. Since you don't try to get in the way of business and don't try to break through me and my client's confidentially, I hope we can do business again, it was one of the easiest jobs I've had."

Then Matsuo ran with the full speed of his self made jutsu from before, with another jutsu that you would find familiar. It was changed a bit, but it was still from that panicked run from konoha. When he entered his hotel appartement, he started to reminisce of the old days, when he was poor af.

Those were the days, back at that time after his look over the mountains. He ran with less panic and more intrest in his little trick, while he tried to do something with the chakra propeling him he didn't have enough knowledge to do that. What he did was, to make some chakra burst while he was in the air.

Not that it made much of a difference, the cost for chakra was at least afordable for long term use. If you take into his chakra volume only, if you looked at other ninja then this cost less than one percent to use for an entire day.

After a few days of eating rations to survive while traveling, he was able to arrive at the land of sound. That place brought out a lot of good memories, and explosions. Ahhh, back then he was still controlled by his body in a major way.

He still remembered it well, when he met that wench, and the time he killed her. Those were the days, really.

Matsuo started to add the finishing touches to his novel, remembering.

-Flash back-

Matsuo was tired and took a break, he was close to a village. But he liked not to be known for now, he was still a minor player in the big ninja world. He trained his fists and kunai, mainly his kunai though. With the ease he handled it, he learn far more than he did taijutsu.

The system didn't supplement his knowledge, it added to his affinity and muscle memory. But not real world experience, he was still a green horn. And he wasn't about to escape his status, not if he had a say.

While he was playing, a girl walked up behind him "He... Helf... Help..." So this made him jump and start to take out his bomb tags, ready to see another explosion. But what stood before him was a starved girl, who's beauty pierced through her dilapdated state.

Matsuo gave her some water from the river close by, and some random fruit he picked of some tree. Though, it was too high for her too take. After she ate and drunk she collapsed due to exaustion, meanwhile Matsuo was wondering what to do with her.

'Maybe I can use her as a mission? Seduce the girl and get some cool skill? I should first look at her surcimstances to play her like a fiddle.' He didn't sleep for the night, when dealing with a stranger you need to be as vigilant as possible. Luckily for him, a fruit that his skill told him wasn't poisonous had caffine in it.

Which was poisonious for most insects, but didn't bother a human like him, it actually helped him. After waking up, the girl, that wasn't a complete mess now. Did her best to kowtow, or whatever she did "Thank you so much! Respected elder please help me! Although it is shameless, please help me once more!"

The girl who he found out was called miro, was tricked by the sub-standard transformation jutsu he used. He suspected that in her stupor, she didn't realize she begged some kid for help. She probably only saw the fact that he was throwing kunai like those legendary ninja, and thought he could help.

To exploit this, Matsou made himself look like a old master. An old ninja master, that showed deteriorating health. The deteriorating health a cover for his meagre strength at the moment "Calm down child, explain your circumstances first. If possible, I will help you. The will of fire won't let down a child in need." He added that will of fire bullshit as a show of authenticity, most old coots in the land of fire believed in it with a burning passion.

"W-well, me and my childhood friend were falsely judged as guilty for a crime we didn't commit. I was able to escape, but my friend wasn't as lucky." She seemed a bit ashamed when she talked about her escape, she had used her body to bribe the guard on duty. That was what Matsuo predicted, her value as a prostitute lowered.

Matsuo frowned at that loss of value, but the woman took it as sadness to her situation "T-the village I live in has no ninja, s-so it isn't that dangerous." After she heard her last words, the difficulty of this mission decreased.

[Challenge: Help Miro sachiko save her lover and childhood friend, Kaya Aki

Reward; communication 101, Miro's appreciation.]

The first one was pretty good, the second was pretty useless. he would rather get some cash, or info on some potential money making. The fact that she had a lover already made him falter, but that free book was worth it "It shouldn't be that big of a problem, but I won't go on a massacare. Where is your village?"

Miro pointed in a direction, and Matsuo picked her put like a steel support beam while he was a strong construction worker. Miro not used to being picked up and moved, thought that he would pick her up like a princess. When she pouted, Matsuo dropped her and said "If you have a problem with what I'm doing, then I'll leave. I don't care, I won't take your bullshit."

Miro was a bit shocked "No, no. I don't have any problems." Taking that as conformation, Matsuo picked her up again. The hot thin teenager, Miro, had great looks even when almost starved. What would she look like after not becoming a starved shit?

-Flashback end-

Back then he was tricked by her beauty, I was still a greenhorn back then. My body made horemones that made me more trusting, like the one in devil's breath. Fucking terrifing, Hyoscine. If he fond something similar in this world, he would destroy all, and I mean all traces of its existance. He would kill all its users, and turn all its sorces to ash. This wasn't even for his own safety, he had gained a little perk that stopped horemones like that from effecting his mind, it was a kind of retribution for the failure it caused him to experience.

He had trust issues for an entire year because of that bitch, his eye goudging ways were, how do I say. Stolen credit, one of the other kids did that in a crazed rage.

But he had broken free of being a greenhorn and hyoscine with that bitch's life as the sacrifice, a worthy trade in his books. It was actually a steal, that bitch's life was worth less than a grain of sand in his eyes.

-Flashback for the second time-

After Matsuo broke through the slum village and established the girl and her lover as having his support, he stood on top of a nearby hill with the girl. Strangely he took over an entire village for her, he didn't even know why. Just kidding, missions are cool.

[Challenge: Take over hirum village while keeping 70% of it's population alive.

Reward; Ruling 101, takeovers 101]

Miro said "Wow, who'd think I was a wanted criminal a while ago. It's all thanks to your help, thank you for everything elder." Matsuo laughed with his characteristic laugh, that he made up, and said "No need to thank me, this little tangent was entertaining. The will of fire is strong here, and is in all your hearts."

That will of fire bullshit was seen as bullshit by everyone that lives in the village, just as he planned. They all believed he was a psycopath using the will of fire as an excuse for his, 'habits' "You don't need to play yourself down elder, you've brought great rulers into place."

Matsuo's body language changed, being an illusionary creation. The body others see can be controlled however he wanted, though most ninjas just use their own body movements as an anchor "Haha, don't get ahead of yourself trash. The moment I leave everyone go into an all out brawl, this will bring out the latent will of fire inside you, or all of you will die. The rewards far outpace the costs."

The old man illusion made a crazed smile, until a lot of blood started to spew out of him. This was an automatic function that Matsuo made in his spare time, for a challenge.

[Challenge: improve one of the three basic academy jutsu.

Reward; Chakra usage skill.]

The real Matsuo was shocked and felt, very angry. He would kill this traitor of a hore, and benifit. First he wondered how he was tricked quickly, his idea was his body. He still remembered his teenage years, when he got played by some girl. It was uncharacteristic of him, so he looked up what it might've been. He set up a perk that stopped all horemones from effecting his mind over a certain threshold.

The challenge? Miro's life, speaking of her "I've tricked you all along, after you fed me my mind started to clear up. I know you were lusting after my body, while also satisfying your more exotic urges." She had a tone of disgust, then another person entered, her lover "She would never do an old coot like you, unless my safety was at risk you filthy corpse."

Meanwhile, the challenge request just failed. And after he added that lover, and a random bonus. It went through, the old illusion laughed "I would never touch your body hore, I was thinking of getting a maid recently, or a bomb tag maker." The illusion was laughing crazily, enough that they didn't see the bomb tags appearing everywhere, hidden but not well.

Matsuo had learned how to link bomb tags after eachother in his recent adventures, he used a lot of bomb tags recently. But around 20 bomb tags would be enough, he had killed a few ninjas on his path to this place. Most of them had bom tags, and they were very light so he could carry about 200~ with ease. He used about another twenty bomb tags to make it look like he could use nature transformation.

He was still in shock, and was using bomb tags to lighten his mental burden. He wasn't ready to kill someone with his own hands, he activated the bombs and thought to himself 'Cool guys don't look at explosions, they just walk away.' To calm down his mind down.