I love the interactions and how done she is with everything! I can relate, on much less... life threatening level? Anyway, it’s cathartic and hilarious.

Well done for 100k! that's quite a milestone, I'm rather proud actually. I loved this chapter, glad to have a relaxing sort of chapter where we see the domestic side of things. thanks for the update, stay safe my g!

Poor Tori, can't see her getting any sort of happy ending easily.

Great chapter, looking forward to the next one.

This is going to be a bit of a long review because I understand Tori's pain about Orochimaru's seals, and I love to see the duality of Tori Mendoza. First off, Orochimaru's seals, I've always equated fuinjutsu to computer programming just because to me it makes sense. So for example this is a piece of commented (annotated) Java code that will print out the word "Hello" 5 times:

/This for loop will loop 5 times
for (int i 0; i 5; i)
{
/This will print out the word Hello, go to the next line and the loop will repeat
.println("Hello");
}

That's easy enough to read on its own and has comments that explain what the code does. I imagine Orochimaru's seals would look like obfuscated spaghetti code, which essentially means it's unnecessarily complicated and difficult to read, and it's all written on one line, because he's a monster. So it would look something like this:

for(int i0;i5;i){ .print("H"); .print("e"); .print("l"); .print("l"); .println("o");}

Except it's all on one line. Last, I love the duality of Tori, in that she has done both of this, "I bullshitted my way into an elite high society social gathering, bullshitted my way into the host's good graces, tricked her into cutting her own finger off, and used that finger to break into a greenhouse full of rare books all while very drunk, very high, and keeping myself alive." and she's also done this, "I wanted to buy a hamster but the vendor kept insisting I get a rabbit and gave me a rabbit to hold, and I got kind of frustrated so I just walked off. With the rabbit."

I hope I explained the comp sci stuff well enough, if I didn't just PM me and let me know. Keep up the excellent work and stay safe.

I LOVE YOU RHIS WAS SO FREAKING GOOD AND SHOWED THE XHARACTERS SO WELL BLESS UOU VJSAVAU

Thanks for the chapter! :D

thank you so much for the update :)

love the new chapter as always, especially Tori's little revelation about Jiraiya's inspiration behind his icha icha books being his teammates. 'l
love the idea of in denial jiraiya being like, 'no this hot pale, long black haired chick in my novel isn't an expression of my repressed homosexual feelings for my teammate orochimaru. that would be ridiculous, I am 100% straight haha'

I don't know whether to feel happy that Tori is (semi) getting along with the trigger-happy mercenaries or afraid for her for the same reason.

I laughed out loud when Tory killed the ninja, took off the seal, he resurrected, she screamed, took the seal off again and he died. Lol that was hilarious. Her, kisame and itachi are a great duo too. Great dynamic. And is jiraya actually using tsunade and orochimaru as an inspiration for his characters? Lol dirty old man

you forgot one!
market men: why don’t you hold this fluffy rabbit and maybe you’ll calm down

Her antics and general everything continue to be a delight, Itachi is a mess and so is everyone else, Kisame is doing his best. Thank you for writing!

I swear that tori's character dynamics with akatsuki are better than even naruto's with the main cast.

Of course she wouldn't be phased after killing the Iwa nin; she has probably killed more people working with Orochimaru lmao I love Tori

Ahahahaha! God I love Tori's snark.