With the address given by Tsunade, I wandered around the Hokage building and finally found a small office in an inconspicuous corner. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info I knocked on the door and entered,

I saw that there was only a ninja wearing a puppy mask in the office who was writing a book, and when I came in, he didn't react at all, and he didn't even raise his head.

"That...... I was introduced to the shadows by Tsunade-sama," I smiled awkwardly and handed over the note, "This is Tsunade-sama's letter of introduction." ”

The ninja in the puppy mask finally looked up, took the note and tore it to shreds after looking at it, stood up and led me to the room behind another door, the walls were covered with various masks.

"Don't ask, pick a mask and put it on. Masked Ninja said.

I chose a white fox mask to wear on my face, the material of the mask is very good and hard, and it seems to be able to withstand some damage.

The ninja in the puppy mask looked at the name on the mask's original location and said, "When the shadows are on a mission, it is strictly forbidden to reveal their true identity casually, and after wearing the mask, you can use the name 'Saigyoji Yu'! Now, I'll take you to the test. ”

What is this "Onizuka Tengu" that sounds like a fake name? I secretly complained in my heart, it was hard to hear! And the name "Tengu" was taken casually for the dog mask!

Tengu opened a secret door in the floor and led me into a dark secret passage. After walking for a long time, Tengu suddenly stopped: "It's here." He opened a secret door, and the bright sunlight poured in, and the strong contrast between light and dark made me squint, and at that moment, a ninja wearing a mask suddenly rushed in front of me, holding a kunai thorn in my chest!

I looked at him faintly, and after the kunai pierced into a film of water that was transparent and invisible in the dark, he couldn't get in! The cat-faced ninja who attacked me was stunned for a moment, and retracted the kunai to get out of the way.

"Makoto, isn't this newcomer very good!" a voice suddenly came from behind the cat-faced ninja, "I didn't react at all! Is such a weak ninja going to be sent to the shadows? It's still a female ninja!"

"She's blocking ......" the cat-faced ninja's voice was a little hoarse.

"Hmph!" I was very unhappy with the dark part of my contempt, not only did I have no eyesight, but I also discriminated against women!

"Alright, don't make a fuss!" Onitsuka Tengu took me into the room and handed me a form, "Mahaku, you and Makoto are responsible for assessing her!"

Mashiro came out of the darkness in the corner, and to my surprise, she was actually a long-haired female ninja, and the black tights on her body showed off her bumpy figure. Although her face is covered with a mask and her voice is disguised, I somehow feel that she is a little familiar, and she must be a big beauty!

"Saigyoji Yuu...... Follow me," Mahaku took the form and glanced at it, and said as he walked, "Hokage-sama applied for you to be a Class A Shadow Officer, so you must fight with the two of us at the same time to pass the assessment!"

“…… Class A Shadow Officer?" I raised my eyebrows, and I always felt that Tsunade was making some kind of moth for me!

"The ninjutsu that is powerful and uses is very special, and in order to protect the secret of their identity, they are a type of dark ninja who are specially allowed to act alone, and they are both Class A personnel......" Mahahiro explained lightly.

We've walked out of Konoha City and come to a remote training ground on the outskirts.

"There is no other rule except that you can't make a dead hand, and if one side admits defeat or loses combat effectiveness, it will stop immediately...... Let's get started...... "Mahaku stood more than ten meters in front of me, looking at me quietly with autumn-like eyes, and slowly pulled out the knife on his back with his backhand! When he really faced the enemy, Mahaku's frivolity just now seemed to disappear in an instant, leaving only serious eyes staring at me!

Bell--!

Draw the knife, rush - slash!

The distance of more than ten meters passed in an instant, and the long knife slashed through a white trajectory in the air, and the whistling sound brought by squeezing the air made people shudder!

A simple knife, but with an irresistible momentum!

Ding--!

Chakra quickly condensed in my hand, and an ice sword with a faint cold air appeared in my hand in the blink of an eye, blocking the blow!

From the point of view of weapons, no matter how hard the improvised ice sword is, it can't stop the sharp and tough long knife of Zhenbai, and under just one blow, small cracks appear on the body of the ice sword! There is no doubt that if there is another blow, the ice sword will unexpectedly shatter into several pieces!

However, I used the strange force technique, just by exerting force on the spot, I completely suppressed the true white who had accelerated through more than ten meters, and the real white momentum of the breakthrough, under my understatement, was completely frozen in mid-air, unable to advance or retreat!

True white eyes stared, and I smiled coldly at her!

Then, I turned slightly with my left foot as the axis, stomped off the ground with my right foot, and kicked at Zhenbai's waist with a fierce kick, kicking the unstoppable Zhenbai dozens of meters away!

"Secret Technique, Stone Needle!"

Taking advantage of Mashiro's attack, Makoto in the cat-faced mask finally completed his ninjutsu, and the two kunai tails were tied with black strings and shot at me!

I didn't have time to dodge, and there was no need to dodge! Two layers of pale cyan water blocked the kunai before it hit me, but the kunai bypassed the water film as if it were alive!

"Mahaku, take advantage of the moment!" Makoto shouted quickly!

The rope is full of Makoto's chakra, and I can't break free for a while, but the person who is really tied up is not me, but Makoto!

"Ninja Rush!"

Chakra turned into an electron and poured into Makoto's body along the rope, disrupting Makoto's nervous system! Learning from Tsunade's chaotic body rush, the principle is to turn Chakra into an electronic attack on the enemy's nervous system, so that the enemy's nerves fall into confusion and the body is uncontrollable! However, the disadvantage of this technique is that it can only be used in close quarters, like me, with the help of the opponent's rope to attack remotely, the consumption is very large, but the effect is average, I estimate that this technique can control Makoto for three or four seconds at most! I've always felt that this ninjutsu consumes too much and the effect is average, but through this ninjutsu, I've developed a very powerful auxiliary ninjutsu!

Makoto, whose nerve signals were in confusion, suddenly knelt on the ground, and the ninjutsu that bound me was not broken, and he fell to the ground softly.

"Solved a ......!" Taking advantage of Makoto's fall, I condensed an ice clone and put kunai around Makoto's neck, signaling that he was out.

At the same time, Mahahiro didn't go to the rescue of her teammates, and her next offensive was finally brewed.

"Konoha Stream: Dance of the Three Days and Moon!"

Divided into three, the three true whites raised their long knives at the same time and rushed towards me, and the three sword lights waved in the air! The close cooperation between the shadow clone and the main body, the sword light surrounded on three sides, so that the locked person had no room to dodge under this move, no matter which direction he dodged, he would be attacked by one of them. How could this exquisite sword technique, which was the move of the Moonlight Wind in the original book, be used on her? For a moment, I thought of this question...... I see!

However, no matter how exquisite the knife technique is, it is useless to slash people!

"Water Escape, Mirror Flower Water Moon!"

The perfect encirclement of the Dance of the Three Suns and Moon revealed a huge flaw under the influence of my water escape, which I easily dodged!

"You've already lost!" I said softly as I stepped up behind Mashiro.

As soon as Mashiro's stunned eyes appeared, there was an extra handful of kunai on his neck!

"How is it possible-I've already solved the illusion!" said Mashiro, a little incredulous, "Why did you still get deceived!"

"That's because she used more than one illusion technique...... "The authorities are obsessed with bystanders, and Cheng can see it more clearly, "This is why this technique is not called illusion but water escape!"

"That's right, the main body of this spell is not illusion...... It's the real thing!" I said with a slight smile.

The technique of mirroring the moon is actually composed of two parts. The first part is a superficial illusion, and the second part is the refraction of water to disguise my true location. This ninjutsu is just a small trick that I developed in my idle and boring days, but for those who are new to it, the effect is quite good. To put it bluntly, the illusion part is used to make people crack, and people often begin to lose their vigilance after cracking this part of the ninjutsu, thinking that they have seen through this ninjutsu, so that they can easily believe that what he sees is true. Even if he was still vigilant, if I deliberately shouted "Shui Dun" and created water, it was very likely that he would think that I was deliberately confusing the public in an attempt to hide the illusion hidden in the depths of ninjutsu, and after "seeing" this, he would no longer suspect anything.

Before the Dance of the Three Days and Moon slashed me, there was only less than a second for me to use my ninjutsu, which may be the reason why Mashiro was deceived by my ninjutsu - ordinary people can't do such a complex ninjutsu in such a short time. Especially the part of the refraction of water, the chakra does not fluctuate much, and it doesn't feel like a powerful ninjutsu. As everyone knows, the strength of ninjutsu does not depend on the amount of chakra consumed. Illusion doesn't need to pull the enemy's entire consciousness into the illusion in order to kill or damage the enemy. In the fierce battle, a small illusion made the enemy's judgment of his movements worse than ten or twenty centimeters, and it is very likely that it is the difference between stabbing and stabbing the heart.

"Your technique, on the surface, only uses illusion to change the position of the body, and since the change is not large, it can be very realistic," a tengu who was silently watching the battle from the side also said, "The key is the water layer that refracts the light! Even if it is not enough to crack your illusion, you must also see through the second layer of this ninjutsu secret! Otherwise, you will still be deceived like Mashiro! What a delicate ninjutsu...... To be able to complete this ninjutsu in such a short instant, Saigyu Temple, your water escape...... Very strong!"

"That's a good point...... I almost didn't react when I heard the name Yuu Saigyuji, "So, in that case, have I already passed the exam?"

"What do you think...... Have you already won against us?" Mashiro, who I held hostage with kunai, laughed at me without any nervousness, and I looked back at her with a quiet smile.

Bang bang!

Makoto and Makoha, who were held hostage by the clone, turned into two clouds of smoke at the same time and dissipated! After disarming the shadow clone, Mahahiro and Makoto appeared one after the other, sandwiching me in the middle. It's really not so easy to defeat a ninja who can become a dark side, no wonder the real white just now didn't hit my illusion, it turned out to be just a shadow clone! Looking at their appearance, the battle just now was just a warm-up to deceive information, right?

Can't beat it or can't beat it!

"You didn't say just now, you have to win to be considered successful!"

I put down the kunai and said calmly, "But if you want to fight, then fight!"

"Hehe," Mahaku and Makoto looked at each other, and Mahaku suddenly smiled, "Very good, then, I announce-"

"――Yu Saigyoji passed the assessment and officially became a ninja in the shadows!"

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Mahaku later told me that passing the assessment only needs to be recognized by them, and it is not necessary to win the examiner.

“…… If only those who win the examiner can become the Shadow Division, then the Shadow Division will not be able to find a few people in a year!" Mashiro explained.

Indeed, although the full name of the Shadow Division is "Assassination Tactical Special Unit", which does sound cool, it does not mean that the ninjas in this unit are all ridiculously strong ninjas. In the final analysis, this is just a force that directly belongs to the Hokage, mainly for the Hokage to undertake some tasks that are inconvenient to reveal their identity. In principle, this unit only recruits ninjas of the middle ninja level and above, and the average combat power is indeed very strong, but the top powerhouses will not stay in it. In the original book, aren't the shadows who protect the three generations of Hokage also helpless against the enchantment of the four of them? The real powerhouse will not stay in the shadows for too long before they will turn into Konoha Shangnin! So, as long as I show enough strength to complete the task in the assessment, I will be able to pass, even if Tsunade applies for the A-class qualification for me, there will not be too many changes!

Mahaku leaned close to my ear and said softly: "What's more, your water escape, in fact, I have also heard a little, if you get a water gun technique, it will be troublesome, Miss Nakashinobi Haruno Sakura ......!"

It is not difficult for people who know me to guess my identity, just by looking at the ice sword, they can guess a rough idea! Although it is said that the identity should be kept secret, but between the ninjas in the shadows, it is not a big deal to guess each other's identities - especially between the members of the same group, the identity is impossible to keep secret, as long as you look at the ninjutsu used, you will know who it is, and sometimes the captain will go to the team member's house to call someone to do the task. Therefore, as long as it can be kept secret from the outside world, it is fine. However, Mashiro's straightforward pointing out my identity is probably a kind of counterattack to me who easily dodged the Dance of the Three Days and Moon just now!

For Zhenbai's words, I just smiled faintly and didn't say anything. If you want to see through your identity, Mahaku's ninjutsu is also not recruiting yourself, right?

However, I always feel that Mashiro has a faint hostility towards me as a woman!

Passing the exam doesn't mean I'm a qualified Shadow Ninja from now on, and after receiving three sets of Shadow Uniforms (actually just black tights and a white suspender) and a spare mask from Mashiro, Mashiro told me that I would have to go through a two-week closed training next, including stealth, tracking, concealment, assassination, reconnaissance, and other training.

After going home and explaining to my parents Kazuhaku that I was going to carry out a top-secret mission that would last for a few weeks, and then getting a good night's sleep, the next day, I changed into a dark uniform, put on a fox mask, and went to the headquarters of the dark department!

"Saigyoji Temple...... Report!"

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A month later, one day in mid-June.

After two weeks of training, I have mastered the skills necessary to be a dark ninja, and I have officially started my life as a dark ninja as "Saigyoji Yu".

To be honest, as a ninja in the shadows, my life hasn't changed much from before I entered the shadows. The biggest difference is that I used to go to the task assignment office to choose tasks freely, but now I am assigned tasks by the headquarters of the dark department. In addition, the tasks of the dark department are no longer those simple D-level tasks during the lower ninja period, dealing with flowers and plants, and the tasks of the dark department generally have a certain degree of danger, and there may be battles from time to time, such as patrols, or boring surveillance, etc.

Other than that, it's no different. After completing the task, or during the holidays, I took off the mask and I was still Haruno Sakura, living the daily life of Haruno Sakura, practicing, resting, and so on.

On a hot noon, Shiro and I were enjoying our meal at the same dessert shop where Kakashi had last time.

"How's it going, Shiro?" I said with a smile at Shiro, "This shop tastes good! Try this double skin milk, I like it the most-"

My words were interrupted by a red shuriken shot into the beam. This color...... It's a gathering order from the dark department! I'm obviously on vacation today, so what's going on in the dark department to call me in?

"Shiro, I'm sorry......" I said helplessly, "I'm afraid I'm going to have to go first......"

Bai smiled softly and said, "It's okay...... If you have something to do, go first!"

After checking out, I jumped on the roof, put on my fox mask, and followed the shadows that signaled the rally!