Other World Chimera
Time to go

"I'll be leaving soon" The words startled the two girls as they left Tomoka's lips. Despite not having the full picture, the seriousness depicted in Tomoka's expression alarmed them.

"Leaving? Where are you going?" Hinata hopes it's not far away or dangerous. Although of the three Tomoka was the strongest, he couldn't help but worry about his safety.

"Can we go with you?" Nozomi herself refuses to leave Tomoka's side just like that.

“Yes, I'll be gone for a while. Where it's a bit difficult to say because there's something I need to check. Finally, the two of you can't go with me because I have to keep my departure a secret.” After saying that, Tomoka sighed. He knew it would be difficult but this was too much for him.

“I will leave the village for a while. I need you two to help me or rather imitation me to keep up appearances. I don't know when I'll get another chance to do what I'm going to do so can I count on you two?” After saying that, Tomoka gave the two girls a small smile.

"always. I just want to know why or for what you go.” No matter how Nozomi disliked Tomoka's idea of leaving, she wouldn't let him down.

“Mhm, you can also count on me. It's just we're worried about you.” Hinata felt anxious about all this, but her trust in Tomoka was enough to contain her nervousness.

“I think I can share some of what I planned” After saying that, Tomoka started her explanation. He left behind some unspoken things so as not to worry about the two gems in his life. By the time he finished, the sun had already set and the girls had already made and perfected his plan.

All of this happened because a good month had passed since their team was formed. D-Ranked missions are nothing more than manual labor jobs with little or no risk possible. Tomoka had decided to leave so that she could finally check the blind spot on the map that she had made a long time ago.

As for Tomoka, she did not care much about carrying out this mission. The plan was to request a C-ranked mission around the same time as Naruto did. This way he might be able to hijack Naruto's first C-rank mission where he will meet Zabusa and Haku. Anyway, all of that is for the future.

Until now Tomoka was more interested in the empty spots on her map as she began to theorize about it. For example, where the Ryuchi cave is located, or it could be storing a relic of the past that is forgotten. It might even be where some of the Otsutsuki technology from the past resides. Although the latter did not make much sense. Either way, Tomoka would finally scratch the itch that had plagued her curious mind for so many years now.

'If I don't find anything there, at least it could be a good place to hide my base of operations. In the end I was confident that I would be able to obtain something valuable from this expedition. It will also help a little with Hinata and Nozomi's dependence on me'

[Yes, the girls need to relax a little. They become too attached to you. That's not healthy.] Kurama has to agree with Tomoka. Over the past month, the two girls were getting more and more clingy by the day. It was not that Tomoka disliked her, but she also knew that the girls needed to lower their tone or that it could cause trouble.

'All right, buddy, buddy, it seems like it's just the two of us for a while' After saying that, Tomoka started preparing for what she needed for her little trip in the wild.

[I won't play any games with you.] Kurama is still salty about Tomoka cheating whenever they play inside the mindscape.

'You're not trying to win if you're not cheating.'