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[Minato Namikaze]

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The food was great, he didn’t know that Coffee and Cake could taste so great. Maybe it was because he hadn’t eaten in for a while, maybe it was because this place had seemed to both heighten and dampen his senses at the same time. Minato took a sip from the cup, the coffee was a nice compliment to the piece of cake. The bitterness of his beverage was evened out by the sugary sweetness of the cake. Minato smiled as he took the last sip from his cup, placed it down on the dish, sat back and let out a large - satisfied - sigh.

‘Thank you for the food.’ Minato smiled as his muscles began to relax, he’d found him in a position that didn’t come around often. He was relaxed, and he felt no sense of imminent danger. It was nice.

‘You’re welcome! Now how are you going to pay!?’ Mina smiled, her words bringing forth a realization inside of Minato. He didn’t know what currency they used in this world, let alone this place specifically. Minato sat forward and looked at Mina with a worried and embarrassed smile.

‘Well…’ Minato began as he pulled out a relatively small pouch and opened it up. Minato looked into it and began counting. ‘Two… Three… Four… I have forty thousand Ryo on me…’ Minato finished, gesturing for Mina to take out was was appropriate. Mina leaned forward and peeked into the wallet. Mina pulled out a hand full of notes, examining them carefully as she did so.

‘Hmm…!’ Mina seemed to exclaim as she laid the notes out on the table in front of him, even her body language was outgoing. She seemed to be taking her time, carefully examining each note as she did so. There were five notes in total, each one had the number one hundred printed on it. It was a lot of money, but Minato wasn’t going to eat and then run without paying. He would just suck it up and pay what he needed to pay.

‘This should be enough!’ Mina finished as she took two notes and placed them in her dress pocket. Minato took the other notes and placed them back in his wallet as Mina returned her attention to the slight unhappy look on his face and laughed.

‘You’re still new, but the currency here is Omnillium!’ Mina laughed. ‘I just used my best judgement on how much Omnillium was in that money of yours!’ Mina continued as Minato nodded his head. His conversations with Mina had been enlightening, and he was now understanding what this world was like.

‘That’s fine, I-’ Minato began as he felt a familiar presence enter the restaurant. Minato turned his head to see a man walking through the room. His hair was black and his bangs partly coloured his eyes. He wore a dark blue, high-collared cloak that covered most of his body, save his feet and head. This man was definitely a ninja from his own world. Minato was so focused on this man that he didn’t notice when Mina took her leave. Something about the way the man presented himself seemed so familiar to Minato, but he just couldn’t figure out what it was.

Minato watched as the man strode through the Cafe and to the front counter, talked with Mina for about a minute, and then left with a bag of food. Minato placed his wallet back in the pocket of his jacket and proceeded to follow the man out of the shop and towards the entrance of Ambrosia. He didn’t mean to be so rude. In fact, he wasn’t even thinking about that. But he needed to find out where this Ninja had come from and where he was headed. Maybe this world had a Hidden Village, maybe it was just a coincidence. But he had to find out.