{Yamagishi Pub, Miyazaki Town}

{8:13 PM, 2nd July 13 Yrs ANB}

{3rd Person POV}

"...So what's the story man, where you running from..." Hanzou spoke after the tension between them had calmed down somewhat, Ren drank a couple more shots as he relaxed on the chair.

"Konoha," Ren replied. Hanzou's eyes widened, if he was correct in his guess then Ren's was more valuable than he thought. To Hanzou Ren didn't look old enough to have the confidence to move around in the Land of Fire while being a Konoha missing-nin.

"You should really dip from the Land of Fire my man, you would be found out quite soon if you continue to stay here," Hanzou spoke, he didn't have any beef with anyone, he was just a bartender who worked part-time as the gatekeeper to the black market.

'He's quite young and has a lot of potential still left to tap, I wonder why he ran away from Konoha...' Hanzou thought as he poured another glass of sake for Ren.

"I know, I just ran away today" Ren replied, he gulped down another glass of sake and used his healing chakra to burn through the sake again, Hanzou's eyes twitched at the blatant disregard for his job but he let it go when he saw Ren's young face.

'He's from Konoha too like him. Maybe he would fit well with Aoi's team, I could get a pretty hefty amount of cash if I could get him to join Ame. A Konoha-trained medic nin...' Hanzou thought as Ren finally settled down, he was still looking around the room but his chakra wasn't actively searching and scanning around for threats.

"Look man I'll be honest with you, you can't run around the Land of Fire if you are a Konoha missing-nin, yet stay away from all the major shinobi villages, if you get caught you will simply meet their veterans in the T&I department. Especially since you know medical Ninjutsu" Hanzou advised. Ren nodded, his words made sense, he was also planning to move away and mingle with the missing-nin as he slowly eliminated them.

Konoha's medical Ninjutsu is basically untracked by the rest of the Shinobi village. Sure a lot of shinobi villages knew how to use the mystical Palm Ninjutsu, but no one had mastered those techniques like a Konoha shinobi.

'First I need to attack those places that Hokage-sama mentioned. Then I can plan ahead, maybe move to the Land of Noodles. I hear the food there is good...' Ren was thinking about his next plan, Hanzou looked at Ren who was lost in his thoughts and he started to get anxious.

"Hey, tell you what I know someone who is going to pass by the town in a couple of days, he's a Jonin trained by Konoha so you would be safe in his team." Hanzou tried to sell the idea to Ren.

'A Jonin missing-nin from Konoha, interesting, I never checked the Bingo book so it could be anyone but I could stick around to check their level, if nothing else doing a last bit of service to Konoha before taking a vacation.' Ren thought as he nodded at Hanzou to continue.

Hanzou could see another stack of money enter his pockets as he explained, "His name is Aoi Rokushō, he was a Konoha missing nin but right now he is a reputed member as a Jonin for Amegakure, if you could become part of his team you could also join Amegakure. You know their leader Hanzo is called the demigod. He can take on all three of Konoha's Sanin together in battle."

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'He's selling this a little too much isn't he,' Ren thought as he nodded at Hanzou, anyway no harm in checking it out, it was just a backup plan anyway.

"Alright, I need to buy some supplies first though, any idea how you go into this sacred place?" Ren joked.

Hanzou nodded and he stood up and went back through the curtain, Ren waited as he tracked him going around the bar with his sensing. After a few moments, he walked back out and then motioned for him to follow.

The entrance to the Black Market was underneath the pub, Hanzou showed Ren the way as he explained, "Almost all Black Market have the entrance underneath a pub at the same place, next time you could simply walk till here, do you have your mask?" Hanzou asked.

Ren nodded as he pulled out the fox mask that Kakashi gave him, Hanzou looked at the mask in amusement, "You have a sick sense of humor man, the Kyuubi really..." He chuckled before he continued. "...anyway just introduce yourself with a nickname when you deal with people in there, and change into a new mask every time you visit."

Ren nodded as Hanzou waved goodbye at him, "Come back in the evening 2 days later if you are still looking for a team, take care man."

Ren looked at Hanzou's retreating back for a moment before he put the fox mask on his face as he went through the doors. He didn't know what he was expecting but the Black Market was quite empty.

There were just 4 shops/fronts in there along with a wide area to move around. Ren read through the four signs placed in front of the shop front.

'''Bounty'''

'''Supplies'''

'''Armor'''

'''Missions'''

'Huh, there are fewer things here than I expected, except for the essential this place is basically a network hub...' Ren walked closer and walked up to the Bounty station.

The man behind the counter sat up in excitement but his excitement died down when he heard Ren's words, "Can I get the latest Bingo book?"

Ren applied chakra to his throat changing the tone of his voice, the man behind the counter nodded lazily as he reached down, and there a small book at Ren, "1000 Ryo"

'That's kinda expensive for a book,' Ren thought as he threw a 1000 Ryo note at him and left. He went through the supply list attached to the shops as well, everything had a 20% markup in the black market as this was just a hub for missing-nin.

'There might still be spies from all the hidden villages here so I need to be careful.' Ren thought the black market was a lot less exciting than Ren thought. It was just a boring place where unknown shinobi hid in the shadows and lurked around.

'Well unknown for everyone else...' Ren thought as his eyes glittered behind his mask.

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[Kaito Imai Lv 34]

[Sora Uesugi Lv 52]

[Haru Hirano Lv 46]

[Kichirō Nozawa Lv 66]

[Yori Hoshino Lv 51]

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Ren suppressed a grin as he locked onto the chakra signatures of his next target, all of them had red names so that meant they were all hostile.

'Sora Uesugi, he's barely Jonin level so he would be the perfec-' Ren's thoughts paused as he sensed a massive chakra source enter his passive sensing range. He walked away from the shops and casually leaned against the wall.

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