Journey

The famed city of gambling was not exactly a day or two away. Mugen found himself passing through all sorts of terrain heading there: rocky,windy,sandy,cold,ponds and lakes. All on foot since he couldn't afford to waste time. That said, rushing too much might not be all that good.

He stopped in a forest on the way to catch his breath and spent the night. The daylight was already beginning to fade. Mugen once again stared at the sky as it transformed into the night. The cold didn't affect him much, in fact, it didn't affect him at all so he just laid down and slept on one of trees without covering himself up.

As he was awoken from his slumber by the sun's rays caressing his eyelids, he saw something sleeping on his chest. It was a small cute looking animal. He couldn't determine its species not that he knew much about this world's species in the first place. He whispered to the little thing , while petting its fur, it looked similar to a white cat with black lines covering its tiny body.

"Get up little thing,it's morning, time to wake up." Mugen lifted it up by its fur and stare into its now opened blue sleepy eyes. Mugen laughed," Well now,little one. This pillow has an appointment." Mugen put it down next to him. Mugen got up and stretched his muscles and limbs. He then got ready to leave.

Purr..purrr. The little thing made purring noises and looked as if it didn't want him to leave. He sighed,"I'm sorry little one but i really can't bring you. I must go. Surely your parents must be looking for you." Surprisingly the little thing nodded in disapproval. "Even so, i must go.' Mugen told the little thing. Mugen jumped down from the tree and landed on the ground.

He ran (you know how) quickly and a few minutes later he was out of the forest. He jumped(ninja style) on a tree to gain a better look around. He took out a map and determined the direction. All this happened in a few seconds.

PURR. Something rubbed against his foot. "Well, it seems i'm quite popular today." Mugen said as he looked at his foot. His eyes widened slightly in shock. "You're!" It was the same cub/kitten from before. He took it up to make sure he wasn't hallucinating. It was the same one from before. "But how?" Mugen thought.

While he was a baby and wasn't advanced and fast as the likes of rock lee when serious, he had quite a fast speed. He was faster than the academy students like konohamaru and the rest and the perhaps average genin. Then, again that damn cat gave all the genin a run for their money in their d-rank mission.

Mugen decided to liken this small kitten to the cat that gave all the newly promoted genin a headache.

"If you're this persistent, i have no choice then do i? You will serve me from now on. Approve?" mugen said to the little kitten as he put it on his shoulder. His shirt would be too cramped for it.

"Purr." the little kitten nodded in approval. Mugen smiled in response,"Time to go." They jumped down and sprinted(again,you know how).

He got to the town on the eighth day. Any ordinary infant would have called it quits on the first day but he wasn't ordinary was he.

The city gates were quite showy. Large metal gates with a $ engraving. Mugen noted as he entered and stopped a while to take a look around. "This seems to be the main street." mugen thought in his adult voice(from previous life).

There were all sorts of stalls on the sides of the road. Clothing stalls that sold garments, Food stalls with chocolate bananas, octopus balls, ramen and there were some larger restaurants for barbecue and such. And of course 'entertainment' like the favorite places of the pervy sage.

Little mugen walked with his hands in the pockets of his white shorts. His dark blue shirt had a v neck cut unlike the uchiha's outfit. A pouch containing his kunai and other equipment was strapped around him like cross bag on his right shoulder and a white striped kitten on his left of course.

Mugen calmly walked in an alley. 'Glacial Style : Glacial clone jutsu' mugen recited as he performed the hand signs. He was working on the speed of his handsigns to obtain speeds like itachi ,in his free time but he was nowhere close as yet. Mugen gazed on the passer bys from the alley and mentally commanded his clone.

'Transform' The clone recited. Mugen looked at it through the corner of his eyes. His mouth slightly turned up. "not bad" he thought as he saw the result of his clone's transformation. Giant scary tanned muscles, scary scars kriss crossing on his head and running across his body and face. He gave off an invisible pressure.

"Go. You know what to do." Mugen commanded with his back turned as he walked off. Fwish. The clone disappeared. While the clone did his job ,he had to scout the city for traps and escape routes and such in case the plan went south. The clone already activated his sharingan and hid them under dark red shades.

"This city is hailed far and wide as the city of gambling. Gambling must be the way of life here. On the way i even saw some kids gambling food. With that being said, since gambling is so revered here. The tallest or biggest building in this city should be the biggest gambling business here. I should ask for directions just in case." Mugen's clone thought as he went on to his work. He was right. The central most and largest building and also gambling house 'Crazy Riches'that was his destination.

He hurriedly entered and thought one thing as he eyed the insides of the building and the outside he saw before entering,"quite flashy'. "Well then, time to play,huhuhu" (think orochimaru , admit it when he's not being gross, he cool in an evil way) mugen's clone walked upstairs to the second floor to gain the qualifications to go to the third floor. The arrangements were as such :

There were five floors. The 1st was a appetizer of slot machines and gaming boxes for the ordinary folk, entry was free. The second floor was part of the main dish and had the cards,chips and all the money you could find. It was quite a sight, gamblers faced ruin here since they were all persistent and didn't know when to quit. There dreams ended there or so he heard. The wealthy kids throwed money around there for fun. As for the third, that's where the big businesses heads such as big time merchants and corporate bosses ran wild. Now there was where the ground was fed with money. Millions and even Tend of Millions were thrown about there, to enter costs a hundred thousand.The fourth and fifth floor were exclusively reserved and owned by the boss of Crazy riches,Known only as Lord Oro. Apparently he rented out the fourth floor as a hotel for the more 'famed' guests. The fifth however was where he lived.

He started with dice and memorized the probability of results and movements of the big winners and shakers (dealers) for a while before starting. It went smoothly. He then did the same for the rest of the games with a few tweaks and additions where necessary. Card games like poker and black jack,roulettes,dominoes,etc. What surprised the clone was that even a street side game like guessing where the object was after shuffling under three cup-like things were used as well. With blank as his role model he did the planned to do the best he could.

The result of his 4 hours of hard work astonished even him. It was a sum total of ONE MILLION!! Mugen decided to push his luck a bit since it would be fun. His gains went up to 50 million after another 4 hours. The rich kids and small bosses were quite 'fat',though playtime is over. It was time to go up to the third floor. The watching eyes were praising,envious,jealous and showing a wide array of emotions as he headed up with his large sum of money. Granted it wasn't JUST his sharingan, his luck was quite something as well maybe even as formidable as zoro's.

Some of the body guards that were overpopulating this place made some calls, the 'Undercover ones' blabbed as well. They weren't the only ones too, the rich kids cried to daddy. He could feel their eyes on him. If it wasn't for his intimidating aura they would have most likely jumped him by now. He smiled a little as he climbed the stairs (again,think orochimaru but less gross and more handsome(muscular now though).

Elsewhere mugen's original body had already inspected every nook and cranny of this town with his sharingan active. He waited behind the casino'CRAZY RICHES' where his clone was at. He leaned on the building. After a while something crossed his mind. "Hmm" mugen thought with amusement showing on his baby face it was quite the hilarious scene. Mugen weaved some hand signs and another clone appeared, "scout out the building for any 'surprises'." Mugen ordered.

Fwish. The clone vanished. Mugen closed his eyes and waited. He had the sudden urge for a meal. He had noticed a restaurant on the other side of the street when he first got here. He decided to go in.

Mugen parted the curtains at the entrance and went in. He had transformed himself into a handsome young man. He held a striking resemblance to orochimaru's disguise in the chunin exams in the konoha crush arc in the original series, the sound ninja at the preliminary's.(not girl,in the fight with third.)However he changed the eyes to blue and hair to white. His hair strands were so thin you could make out the lines in ever one if you looked closely.

"Hey waiter,I'll have lemonade with some octopus fried rice with onions."(sanji's charity lunch to gin in the beginning). mugen said in the man's voice.

Mugen sat at a table in the corner. He waited for his dish while he occasionally activated his sharingan to take a look at the situation outside. Suddenly someone came to his table. It was a bombshell blonde with shoulder length hair tied into loose pig tails. She had beautiful brown eyes and a violet colored diamond mark on her forehead. Her lips which had soft pink lipstick was very alluring, and pulled you in.

"Can I sit here?"She asked as she came up but mugen was wide eyed in amazement and sizing her up so he didn't answer. After a while of silence, she helped herself and sat down in front of him.(setting is similar to where jiraiya and naruto found her). "I'll just help myself then." she said.

"My,my what a beauty you are. I think i'm in love." Mugen said as he stared into her eyes and exited his daze. He supported his chin with his hand, his elbow was placed straight on the table.

Tsunade stared at him.