Just remembered this one.
Summary Time: Chapter 9. The Strongest Ally...or allg.
Mirai get info about the boulder from last time from a random villager. They join the villagers for some drinks. They complain about no one coming to remove the giant boulder because they are too remote. Some drunk informs them someone is abducting women around Mirai's age from local villages...Wait, one of these drunks in a ninja he has the hot springs village's headband. They also add that it not like the Leaf ninja are going to come to their village either and their guest are clearly unimportant like the villagers are; while Mirai thinks of the irony of those statements.
Mirai is given permission by Kakashi to investigate the boulder while he keeps an eye on a drunk Guy. She has a flashback to help train Shikadai, Shikamaru's & Temari's son and in the anime Bolt's best friend, they bicker until Shikamaru shows up. She laments that she is not strong enough to remove the rock. Kakashi has already contacted the leaf asking for someone to help remove it and they will be there tomorrow.
He called Choji and as a joke the drunk villagers are playing the game "Ino-Shika-Cho" comes from. Mirai apparently does not have a close bond with him, only seeing him as Shikamaru's friend and a doting father to Fat Filler. I thought all of Asuma and Kurenia students would be close with her, apparently not. Kakashi greets them with some "underground roasted potatoes." I will skip over the jokes. He needs more potato chips to fuel himself so Mirai takes it upon herself to make him some. So he can finally move the boulder.
5/10. Like I just told Phantom a bit ago this story just seems to be Mirai meeting all the old unimportant Konoha 11 members. So far Kiba, Tenten, and now Choji. Likely we will also see Shino or it will be a joke that they forgot him. The rest. Ino...no she is important cause Ikemoto lusts after her so she is the psychic phone. Lee maybe as well. Unlikely Hinata Sasuke or Sakura as those are seen as too important. We have already seen Shikamaru through flashback every chapter, and Naruto is busy at some summit.
Edited by Bail o' Lies, 19 February 2023 - 09:26 PM.