“So they even have beekepers?”
“Well the black marketers who settled there aren’t just gonna live off of weapons and money, you know, so there must be an original community there who supplies life necessities.”
Since the merchant who had sold the honey wine had gotten it from Soraku and then visited Konoha, that meant that there had to be some way of communicating with the community inside Soraku.
“I wasn’t able to find them, but you guys are Team Eight, specialised in hunting people down, aren’t you?” Kurenai said with a mischievous smile on her face. She looked pretty serious about it.
“Just leave it to us,” Kiba said, “As long as me and Shino and Akamaru are there, it’ll be a piece of cake!”
Kiba stood up at the end of his declaration, and Akamaru who had been letting Mirai do as she willed now stood up as well without any prompting to go next to Kiba.
Mirai watched Akamaru leave her, and said in a voice that showed how reluctant she was to say goodbye:
“Shinomaru’s going?”