My Life as Itachi's Crow

Chapter 116: An Evenly Matched Opponent

Land of Hot Water.

Uchiha Itachi had been running around with Shizune for several days…

During the day, they had to go out and look for a little boy who used to do odd jobs at Kikyo's clinic, someone the shrine maiden had taken in when she was practicing medicine here. At night, they had to search for Tsunade, who was in some unknown tavern or casino.

One bottle of wine, one bag of money, a whole day lost at the Land of Hot Water casino.

Because Shizune had learned about Nawaki's soul ascending to heaven, she showed great tolerance towards Tsunade. So these past few days, Tsunade had been living quite freely, her reputation as a "big sucker" growing louder by the day.

Until…

A curious crow was grabbed by the wing by a desperate, money-losing Tsunade and placed on the gambling table, "This ninja crow! I'll stake it for one million ryo, no, one hundred thousand ryo!"

"How can it be that expensive! We don't have any ninjas here, ten thousand ryo at most!" The dealer's eyes darted back and forth, trying to push down the price Tsunade proposed.

Kitahara looked around the gambling table in a daze. What's going on... I'm just an innocent bystander!

Tsunade was overjoyed, "Deal!"

Kitahara: "..."

That day, the villagers of the Land of Hot Water finally remembered their fear from the Third Shinobi World War... a long, prosperous commercial street was destroyed in an instant.

That day, a woman clutching a wine bottle fled in panic. Yet, no matter where she fled, a crow with an energy ball in its beak followed closely behind…

All the casinos and taverns in the Land of Hot Water unanimously put up signs: Tsunade is forbidden from entering.

However, Tsunade couldn't be bothered with these trivial matters now, because she had found a new source of fun.

Inside the inn, Tsunade stared intently at the dice cup on the table, examining it over and over for a good while before saying, "Open it!"

Kitahara, in its Crow Daitengu form, sat opposite her and nodded at Shizune, who was acting as the dealer, "Caw…"

"One, two, three, small. Lady Tsunade wins!"

The old woman, acting young, shamelessly raked in the money on the table. She even seemed somewhat listless, "Ha, won again!"

"..."

Kitahara, having lost money, was not in a good mood.

And no matter how you looked at it, it was impossible for it to lose. It had calculated the probabilities based on the data from all of Shizune's previous dice rolls...

Kitahara had used all the knowledge it possessed, short of calculating how many joules of energy Shizune's wrist tremor expended to shake the dice cup. Logically and reasonably, there was no way it could lose!

As for something bad happening because Tsunade won, Kitahara had no time to think about that anymore.

It and Tsunade had been gambling for days. It originally wanted to win all of Tsunade and Shizune's money, then leave with its cub.

You, a famous big sucker in the ninja world, dare to resist a chosen one like it?

Unexpectedly…

It and Tsunade were actually evenly matched opponents.

Both their gambling skills and their luck were rotten to the core!

The Crow Daitengu turned its head and looked at its own cub. After all, it didn't carry money on its person... Uchiha Itachi shook his head with a troubled face and turned his empty pockets inside out…

How could they carry so much money on a mission!

They had lost continuously all morning today, and the amounts were not small... To put it nicely, the two of them would have to rely on hunting to get back to Konoha.

At this moment... what should be done? It might have to learn from Brother Crow!

Kitahara pointed a claw at Shizune, while its other claw gripped the table tightly, "Caw!"

You must be cheating!

Tsunade sipped her tea nonchalantly, "If you flip the table just because you lost a bet, no one will want to play with you in the future..."

Her heart was far from being as calm as her face. Emotions were constantly churning inside. She had won a lot of money today... and had discovered an excellent gambling partner!

"Caw!"

The Crow Daitengu asked with difficulty, Is there a money exchange nearby?

"There is. I can provide you with a piece of information. Just give me a ten percent cut after it's done." Tsunade put down her teacup and said seriously, "There's currently a fellow in the Land of Hot Water with a not-so-low bounty..."

The feeling of being toyed with was not pleasant…

The words must be heard, but the table must still be flipped...

The chakra in Kitahara's hand instantly erupted. The entire table instantly shattered into pieces. Gambling, once is enough, never again!

It just wanted to see how peculiar Tsunade's gambling luck was, not to let others see that its own gambling luck was even more bizarre!

Seeing the departing Kitahara after its outburst, Tsunade didn't care, even whistling leisurely with a particular mood.

Under Shizune's puzzled gaze, she let out a light laugh, "Losing so much money, yet still not seeming to care much..."

"Lady Tsunade, it felt very dangerous just now..." Shizune's face and demeanor had fallen.

"The reason it's angry isn't because of losing money..." Tsunade sighed lightly, as if sympathizing, "It's the self-loathing of being unable to kick a gambling addiction!"

Shizune: "..."

This reason sounds so familiar, where have I heard it before!

The target for Kitahara and Uchiha Itachi was a rogue ninja from the Land of Earth. Although the other party might have come to the Land of Hot Water to escape something, the bounty of three million ryo…

However, the intelligence Tsunade provided was outdated. This woman was truly a bit unreliable... By the time Kitahara and Itachi arrived, the target's location was already a field of ruins.

"It seems someone got here first..." Itachi squatted down, carefully observing the battle traces:

"Very powerful Wind Style and Fire Style ninjutsu. It seems he was dealt with in an instant, and it just ended not long ago..."

Of course, it hadn't ended long ago...

Because the culprit was still here…

Kitahara looked at a shattered ANBU mask on the ground, with several black blood vessels wrapped around it, "Caw..."

Hit the jackpot!

A slight breeze blew past, carrying the nagging voice of a certain fellow from the small woods.

"The bounty is three million ryo, one Earth-attribute heart from a Hidden Stone ANBU, a ninja sword, paper bombs... no matter how you calculate it, it's not enough to make five million ryo!"

The speaker had no intention of hiding at all. After muttering for a while, he suddenly said loudly, "Hey, I remember your bounty is one million eight hundred thousand ryo, right?"

"The Land of Wind is very poor after all. When I..." The respondent's voice suddenly became terrified, "Kakuzu, what are you trying to do?"

"Idiot, to earn money, of course! And I just changed to an Earth-attribute heart, so I suddenly feel my Wind-attribute heart isn't up to par..."

Miserable screams echoed endlessly…

"Watch out!"

A dense array of diamond-shaped shuriken shot out from the woods! Uchiha Itachi grabbed the crow and his body spun sharply, disappearing from the spot.

Hearing the pained groans in the woods had not yet ended, Itachi said in surprise, "Are there many people ambushing inside?"

"Caw!"

Although being distracted in battle is a major taboo for ninjas, what if someone has many hearts?

"I thought it was some small fry!"

A sturdy figure walked out of the woods. Even though he had just dealt with his companion in an internal conflict, there wasn't a single drop of blood on him.

He raised his head, his dull, lightless eyes looking at Uchiha Itachi, "Your face is very familiar. You must have a bounty at the money exchange..."

(End of this chapter)

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