I followed the girl and glanced around lazily, even though I'd been in the clan's territory the last time I'd taken measurements for the barrier and assessed the terrain. Although, then I was more interested in the features of the already existing defense, created by someone from Uzumaki at the level of "piss off" and able only to report about the intruders in the protected area, but not to detain, as well as the calculation of the total area to be protected and the possible location of key nodes.
The Hatake had been given a hectare or so of land that was completely flat as a table or had been leveled by technicians in the past, with a not-so-large house for the head of the clan and a number of other members' houses along the main street. The rest of the space was taken up by a garden and a few training grounds.
As I'd learned from Sakumo-taicho, his personal training ground was protected by my long-dead father. In general, all clans in Konoha are built according to the same pattern, the Hyuga not counting, and differ from each other only in the amount of land received, depending on the number of people in it at the time of the creation of Konoha, and clan specifics - growing various medicinal plants we are engaged in almost every second in small vegetable gardens at home, and the general plot for the production and sale of medicines is located near the training grounds. The forest where deer are raised is a specialty. Hatake has a nice orchard on his property, either for sale or for his own consumption. What kind of business they're in, I haven't inquired before.
- Nara-san, please wait while I report your arrival," the kunoichi bowed to me as we reached the head's house.
- No problem," I nodded to her and carefully set my burden on the road, the metal clanking.
I gave the girl's chiseled ass a quick glance, then stretched my aching arm and stood still, my back feeling the curious stares of the clan members who'd noticed my appearance. Luckily, I didn't have to wait long - I heard barely audible footsteps, and the owner of the house appeared on the threshold of the house, followed by his escort.
- Ryo-kun, hello," the head of the Hatake clan smiled, swiftly stepping up and patting me on the shoulder, "are you ready?
- Good day to you, Hatake-san," I replied, "as promised, the barrier is ready for installation.
- Great, then follow me," Sakumo nodded, turning around, "everything is ready as you asked.
And I asked you last time to prepare a place in the basement of the house for the installation of the most important part of the barrier complex - a storage unit made of monolithic chakra-conducting metal. The very cube of sixty by sixty by sixty centimeters in size. And the anchors, exactly four dozen in number, in the form of a thick plate with the size of a palm from the same material.
Such a pile of chakra-conducting metal, but not of the best quality, as used to create weapons, but with a fairly decent admixture, cost me a very decent amount of money from the trader from the country of samurai, as the main suppliers. The only thing is that I will take ten times more from the customer, and it will be paid with a discount and as an acquaintance, otherwise I would have raised the price to fifteen.
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