Chapter 19: The Wave Country Mission
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At the Konoha Gate. The giant gate more than ten meters high shows the spirit of Konoha, which makes the ninjas who come and go seem so small. Everyone in the seventh class was already waiting here, waiting for the girl who was long overdue.
"Hmph, you're late, vase!" Sasuke snorted impatiently at Sakura. Originally, Sasuke didn't know how to call people nicknames, but they were all broken by Sakura.
Sakura raised her eyebrows, "Wrong! I arrived on time! Also, don't call me a vase, facial paralysis!"
"If it's not a vase, how can you explain that you're dressed like this?" Sasuke said with a sneer.
Naruto followed suit, "Wow, Sakura-chan, you're not sick, are you?, you're dressed like this!" and then rubbed his right hand against his chin and thought solemnly, "However, Sakura, who is not feminine, actually looks like a woman when she dresses up, this world is really amazing!"
Bang! Sakura gave Naruto a solid pop, "Thank you so much for the compliment!"
Sakura is wearing a gorgeous kimono today, her usually neglected hair has been carefully groomed, and her hair is coiled up high, revealing a smooth forehead, and she is wearing a pair of small clogs under her feet, which highlights her delicate feet.
This outfit really doesn't look like a ninja who is going out on a mission.
There is actually a reason for dressing like this, Sakura's mother has always criticized Sakura's image problem, in her mother's opinion, Sakura usually washes her face casually, combs her hair, and puts on an unaesthetic ninja uniform and goes out of the house is simply unkempt, shame of the family, "You kid is so lazy, how can you find a boyfriend in the future!" "I'm disappointed you, let's wait for my sister to be born about this kind of thing!" Sakura responded silently in her heart.
However, today, the mother-sama finally broke out, and the change of clothes that Sakura brought on a trip to the far away door was actually two sets of the same style of Konoha uniform, and there was no facial cleanser, "If it goes on like this, others will think that there are three boys in the seventh class!"
In short, Sakura also went out with a broken heart.
Putting away the vicious expression, Sakura quickly changed her face, her eyes had changed to an ambiguous smile, and her blue eyes looked at Sasuke with a hint of coquettishness, "Are you beautiful?"
Sasuke blushed for a rare time, "Cut!" and twisted his head away with a proud face.
Sakura instantly opened her mouth and laughed in disgrace, "Hahahaha! Sasuke will be shy too!"
"Alright, Sakura......" Kakashi interrupted Sakura's performance, "put away the transformation technique!"
"Huh, is this a transformation technique?" asked Naruto, scratching his finger at the big bag on his head.
Sasuke frowned, surprised in his heart, it turned out to be a transformation technique, and he didn't realize that he was so close just now, when did Sakura even do such a good job of covering up chakra fluctuations!
"Hehe, it's still Kakashi-sensei who is amazing, and I can see through it all at once!" Sakura smiled playfully and untied the transformation technique, this time she still had a new image, her hairstyle combed the original middle part into bangs, and her clothes changed from the usual shinobi uniform to the short-sleeved top and cropped pants of ordinary girls.
Kakashi's face was silent, but he sighed secretly in his heart, this hand transformation technique was indeed played beautifully, if it wasn't for the hand knife that leaked a little breath from Naruto, Kakashi wouldn't dare to protect himself and find out that it was a transformation technique. Sakura's talent is really unreasonable, Naruto's previous transformation technique is already amazing, and Sakura's ability to progress from the use of ninjutsu in the open fire in just a few months to the current quiet, even if it is just a simple transformation technique, it is also amazing.
"Sakura-chan, I didn't think you would be dressed as a normal girl!" Kakashi teased Sakura-chan slightly.
Although uniforms have been issued in the village, the new generation of ninjas usually only wear their own clothes, but like Kakashi's generation, most of them have come down from the battlefield, and their style of dressing prefers to be uniform, simple and practical, which is very different from the ninjas who grew up in peacetime.
At this point, Sakura, who doesn't apply powder, is just like Kakashi.
"Hey, it's too much for you to say that! I can still dress up at this level! This is to maintain the good image of our Konoha ninjas outside the village!"
As she grows older, her facial features gradually open, and Sakura gradually has the feeling of a little beauty in the comics.
However, born from the heart, Sakura's temperament in the original book is weak, and now Sakura looks more confident and vibrant, and there is a heroic spirit between her eyebrows.
The seventh class was chatting, and it didn't take long for Uncle Dazna to come over, and the group officially began their mission journey to the country of waves.
Located east of Konoha and across the sea from Konoha is a very small island country, and the narrowest position of the strait between Ha no Kuni and Konoha is no wider than a large river, which is the location of the bridge built by Dazna.
Although Dazna hides the truth, Sakura, who has read the original book, still remembers the reason behind it.
The Land of Waves was once a small and peaceful country, but everything changed after the arrival of Cardo. Cardo, who was the owner of a shipping company in the past, colludes with the mafia and wandering ninjas behind his back to smuggle controlled products and dominate other companies' companies and even small countries in order to make huge profits. A year ago, Cardo set his sights on the country of waves, and through violence and wealth, he controlled all the maritime transportation on the island, as well as the lifeblood of the country of waves. Under Cardo's constant bloodsucking, the country of waves soon became a poor country.
The bridge built by Dazna is the sword that breaks the blockade of Cardo, and therefore Dazna has become a thorn in Cardo's eye and a thorn in his flesh.
These things that Dazna concealed, with Konoha's intelligence ability, it is not difficult to know, and Sakura guessed that this task was probably deliberately given to the seventh class by the Hokage. Logically speaking, although Cardo is rich, he is still an ordinary person in nature, even if he colludes with wandering ninjas, he will not be too strong, otherwise he will be attacked sooner or later.
The seventh class took over this task, one is to find a task of moderate difficulty to train the seventh class, and the other is political considerations, after the bridge in the country of waves is repaired, it will inevitably rely more on Konoha, so it is also very important to build a good relationship in advance, as for the loss of a little employment cost, it is nothing.
Kakashi should be well aware of the possible ninja confrontation in the mission, otherwise how could an ordinary person in Dazna convince an elite ninja in just a few words?
If you're reading a hot-blooded manga, you might not be aware of this, but Sakura, who is in a real world, understands the key with just a little thought. Many things that seem unreasonable actually have developed into those reasons.
The only thing that surprised Konoha was that Cardo could hire a ninja of this level who would never behead again, and hiring a wandering ninja itself was very risky, and many wandering ninjas would kill their employers and steal all his money, just because it was easier to do so than to complete the task. In addition, being provoked by an employer or believing that the employer has exposed their whereabouts can also cause a wandering ninja to kill the employer. In fact, if it hadn't been for not beheading him again, Cardo would have been slaughtered a long time ago. Konoha probably couldn't have imagined that Kado would be so stupid and dare to hire a ninja of this level, and he wouldn't die if he didn't die.
Sakura began her first mission abroad in a daze.
With the footsteps of the ninja, it only takes three or four days to travel from Konoha to the country of waves. But there was also Uncle Dazna, who was an ordinary person in the team, and the whole trip was extended to more than two weeks.
The team hikes along the main road, travels during the day and camps at night, or rests for the night in the towns they pass by. At first, the journey was quite fresh, and the three people in the seventh class had only been to the neighboring village to do tasks at most, and this was the first time they had left Konoha so far.
Far away from Konoha, ordinary towns are very different from Konoha . The biggest difference is that ninjas are no longer everywhere, more than 95% of the ninjas in the Land of Fire are in Konoha Village, and at most you can only see ninjas on missions in other places, Sakura and they have become a rarity, and they have tasted the feeling of being watched by the animals in the cage.
The armed forces patrolling the city are often soldiers who know how to use some superficial chakras, these people are okay with ordinary thieves and bandits, but they are far from the wandering ninjas, but fortunately, with the prestige of Konoha, ordinary ninjas do not dare to come here to make trouble.
In contrast, a small country like Ha no Kuni, because it doesn't have its own ninja village and ninjas, even people like Kado can bully her. This is the sorrow of a small country!
Another noticeable difference is the architecture in the city. The buildings of Konoha can be built more grandiose and magnificent, or delicate or grand or bizarre because of ninjutsu, while the buildings of the towns outside Konoha tend to be low and simple, and there are not so many tricks.
Along the way, Sakura observes carefully, savoring the different style of this place, while secretly vigilant against the attacking ninjas that may appear at any time.
However, two weeks later, seeing that he was about to cross the border of Konoha and enter the country of waves, there was still no hostility, and the journey was as calm as ever, as if Cardo was completely unaware of Dazna's return. It's impossible.
The closer you get to the country of waves, the more likely you are to be attacked. Knowing this, Dazna and Kakashi were as calm as ever.
On the contrary, Sakura herself was nervous, and once she almost thought someone was watching them, and shot a kunai directly into the distance, but she didn't find anything.
On this day, Sakura and the others arrive at a city on the border, where they will rest for the night, and then travel for three days in one go back to Dazna's home.