Chapter 25: The Inertia of Fate
"Are you going to tease me?"
Looking at the drunken old man in front of him, Naruto complained loudly in his heart at this time with three points of surprise and seven points of confusion.
This morning, he was excited to make peace with Sasuke, thinking about quickly brushing up on a few simple tasks to start the day's practice, and he just had some breakthroughs yesterday, which made him a little impatient.
However, what he never expected was that when he arrived at the mission sub-office, Kakashi went to pick up the mission and inexplicably brought back a drunken old man, and told them that this time it was a C-class mission.
"This is Mr. Daz, and he is also the employer of this escort mission, and our mission this time is to send this Mr. Daz back to the country of waves safely." After Kakashi brought back the man, he began to introduce the content of the mission on his own.
Naruto stood there with a wooden face, and Kakashi's introduction was completely left and right ear out.
He now feels like a real "dog of the sun" in the words of his previous life, and when he disbanded yesterday afternoon, he was still happy that his recent life was on track and his favorite homeostasis was formed, only to be poured with cold water the next day, ruthlessly breaking his plan.
He couldn't even guess who the old man in front of him was Kakashi's name, it was the one who tried to save the country by building a bridge.
He didn't understand, why didn't the task branch play cards according to the routine? He didn't jump up and down to ask for a change of mission like in the plot, why did this wave of country missions still come unexpectedly?
He really doesn't have the mood to mix with these, and when he has the time to go abroad, isn't it fragrant for him to stay in the cultivation style.
“…… Okay, that's the synopsis of the mission, do you have any questions? Explaining the details of the escort mission, Kakashi asked, looking at the three of them.
"I finally have a serious task, I'm fine." Sasuke said directly.
Obviously, Sasuke's side is already a little tired of the "boring" mission that has been going on in the last few days, and it is a rare good thing for him to be unexpectedly able to participate in the C-rank mission today.
"Neither do I." Sakura followed suit.
Although since the "Bell Grabbing" incident, it can be obvious that Sakura is a lot more capable, but for Sasuke's nymphomaniac, as always, she doesn't care about the "mission", she naturally chooses to follow Sasuke's pace.
"Uh......" Naruto's side frowned, a little reluctant, but considering that the task had already been taken, he didn't say anything in the end, and nodded directly.
"Well, due to this mission, the journey will be very long, you each go back and prepare, and in twenty minutes, meet at the gate of the village." Although noticing Naruto's strange appearance, Kakashi didn't seem to have any intention of asking, and announced the meeting time and asked the three of them to go back to prepare.
"Yes." The three of them answered and disbanded temporarily.
"What the hell is this? The world line is closed? It's not a stone gate to wear. Puzzled in his heart, on the way home, Naruto couldn't help but complain.
If he hadn't been able to feel the solidity of the ground beneath his feet, the slight coolness of the air currents, and the smell of tempura from an izakaya, he would have felt like he had traveled into a two-dimensional world controlled by someone.
It's as if he's forced to reverse every change he makes outside of the plot, which is honestly not pleasant.
"Forget it, it's not too late to practice in between tasks, there is always time to squeeze, and you can't become distracted because of the slightest change, this is the embodiment of the weak." Naruto shook his head, shaking the cranky thoughts out of his mind, ready to take the mission seriously.
Regardless of whether he will encounter Zai Bu and others like in the plot in the future, he must be prepared in his heart, so as not to be in a hurry.
When he got home, Naruto took out a change of clothes, and thought that he might spend the night outside, so he simply brought his pajamas again, and the rest was some toiletries and the like, put them in his shoulder bag, and went straight out of the village.
The ninja had a total of a shuriken, two kunai, a roll of bandages, and a few detonation charms, which he had always worn on his body, so he didn't need to prepare for anything else.
Walking through the walls in the ninja style, he soon reached the meeting place, which was the main gate of the village.
When he arrived, Sasuke Sakura was one step ahead of him, and it was clear that the two of them were also very enthusiastic about going out this time, which could be seen from the size of the backpack behind them.
As for Kakashi, the late king was unexpectedly not sick today, and when Naruto arrived, Kakashi was already waiting for him here with Daz.
It seems that as a ninja, Kakashi still has a minimum of self-consciousness, and Naruto, who was the last to arrive, was sarcastic in his heart.
"Alright, now that everyone is here, let's go." Without waiting for the stipulated time to be up, seeing that Naruto was already in place, Kakashi directly announced the start of the mission without nonsense.
In this way, Naruto and his group of five began to march towards the country of waves.
Although it was Shinobi who had just left school, the process of the escort mission was still clear to everyone, and without Kakashi's orders, Naruto and the others each found their place on the march.
Sasuke took the lead, Sakura walked beside Daz, Naruto was behind, and Kakashi was on the other side of Daz, although everyone walked unhurriedly, but if it was clear in the benefits, Class 7 faintly protected Daz in the middle, and in case of an attack, it was able to react quickly.
Kakashi saw all of this in his eyes, and he was silent on the surface, but his heart was still quite satisfied with the consciousness of several people, if he even needed to teach him this basics, it would be a headache.
Fortunately, the three members of Class 7 didn't make any common-sense mistakes, and everyone seemed to have a solid foundation, although there was a little unpleasantness in the initial bell grabbing, but Kakashi still favored the three of them in the end.
That's natural, in the ninja school, these three can be said to be the top batch, Naruto is the perennial first in the training class, Sasuke can be the top in every course, and even Sakura, who seems to be a complete nymphomaniac, is also the first in the theory class, such a configuration, even if Kakashi is not satisfied, he can't make a better one.
Of course, the above is just enduring the school's grades, and it is another thing to be able to play in the work of a real ninja, and there are some of the top students at Tsinghua University and Peking University who cannot adapt to work and life and are eliminated, and everything has to be seen later.
And no matter how good the grades are, in front of Kakashi, a great god who graduated from a ninja school at a record age of five, it is not worth mentioning.
The group quickly moved away from the village, which was different from the original plot, because the current Naruto was a social animal soul in his thirties, not as "lively" as the original Naruto, so the team had been relatively quiet during the march, only Sakura tried to talk from time to time and Sasuke answered perfunctorily.
Needless to say, Naruto's reason for being quiet was that he didn't have a common language, and on the other hand, he was always paying attention to his surroundings, and he remembered that in the middle of the story, two of his men would come and attack suddenly.
Although these are two rookies who quickly received the bento, even Sasuke at this time can deal with it, but how to say it, be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years.
"It's coming!" On the way, suddenly Naruto secretly said in his heart.
The pace of his feet subconsciously paused slightly, and then returned to normal, the gap was extremely short, and only Kakashi glanced at him thoughtfully.
As Naruto was walking, he suddenly felt two glances of sight, thanks to Fu, who had been monitored by the village for all these years, he was extremely sensitive to his line of sight, even if the other party hid his killing intent or malice well, he would be perceived at a distance of no more than twenty meters or so from him.
This is also the reason why his unconscious footsteps stopped, and he suddenly felt that he was being watched, which was completely subconscious, although he reacted extremely quickly and returned to normal, but what he didn't know was that Kakashi had already understood these details.
"There really are puddles, how did these two guys manage to observe us dozens of meters away under the water? The periscope does not work? Looking at the somewhat abrupt puddle on the ground not far ahead, Naruto guessed the enemy's means.
It was difficult for him to understand how the other party broke through the plane restrictions and cast his gaze.
At the same time, Kakashi, who had also spotted the puddle, remained silent, but his pace was consciously slowing down, and he was obviously adjusting his pace because he had a premonition of the enemy's attack.
Sure enough, the group passed the puddle unharmed, and nothing happened, except for Kakashi and Naruto, the rest of the group didn't notice anything unusual at all.
But just as they were less than twenty meters further, the two of them suddenly jumped out of the puddle, and at the same time, two extremely fast chain blades sped out in this direction, and in the blink of an eye, Kakashi was bound in place.
"What?!"
It was only at this time that Sakura in front of her turned around because of the sudden splash, and couldn't help but exclaim when she saw this scene.
"Haha, first of all, the first one!"
However, Sakura was still behind in even more horror, only to see one of the people holding the chain blade screaming wildly, and the other person yanked the chain in his hand together, and with the sound of the blade cutting, Kakashi, who was tightly bound in place, was instantly divided into several pieces.
"Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura screamed in shock, her face full of disbelief, she actually saw Kakashi being dismembered by the enemy in front of her, you know, just a few days ago, Kakashi was still synonymous with invincibility in her heart, but she didn't expect to be killed by the sudden enemy so quickly, at this moment, Sakura was already at a loss.
However, the enemy didn't give her time to grieve and regain her composure, and just after taking out Kakashi, the two quickly approached, and at the same time, the chain blade in their hands swung up, aiming at Naruto, who was closer to them at this time.
"This reaction is really worthy of Kakashi, it's really a 0.1 second limit spell." Naruto would not be deceived by Kakashi's stand-in technique with the enemy like Sakura, but when he saw all this, he couldn't help but admire Kakashi's stand-in technique in his heart.
As one of the traditional three-body techniques, the stand-in technique is not complicated, but it is absolutely easy to learn and difficult to master, like Kakashi's use of a stand-in at the moment when the enemy attacks and adds to the body, which is like the R flash that he used to dodge the blind monk when he played ADC in his previous life, and what kind of prediction and how powerful the reaction is required.
Otherwise, it would be difficult to achieve such an effect of not only the enemy, but also his own people being deceived, and even Naruto, who had already known how Kakashi would deal with it, could barely see a vague afterimage flying towards the tree in front of them diagonally, which showed its horror.
Stand-in Naruto naturally will, and he thinks that his proficiency in stand-in technique has reached the peak, but when he saw Kakashi's stand-in technique today, he couldn't help but sigh that it was really out of the sky.
"It seems that you guys are the ones that Kakashi deliberately left us to brush up on experience, so I'm welcome." While sighing at Kakashi's wonderful stand-in technique, noticing that the oni brothers had rushed in front of him, Naruto indifferently pronounced the death sentence in his heart.
A thin kunai flickered in his hand, and just as he was about to strike to eliminate the two, he suddenly frowned and stopped his next move.
"Whoosh!"
It turned out that at this moment, a shuriken followed by a kunai flew from behind him, flying over his head, Naruto bowed his head slightly, in case his hair was injured by the shuriken, only to see that the shuriken and kunai came back and forth after two crisp sounds, first the shuriken was connected to the center of the chain of the ghost brother in the middle, and castration continued, nailing the chain directly to a tree trunk facing Naruto.
Almost at the same time, the kunai of the latter arrived right through the center of the circle in the middle of the shuriken at this moment, and further nailed the chain there, the projectile control of this detail, the Uchiha shuriken is worthy of its name!
"What?" This time it was the turn of the ghost brothers to be shocked, the original attack of the two was forced to stop with the flying kunai, and what made the two of them even more cold was that no matter how hard the two of them tried, the chains in their hands were as if they had been nailed to death, they couldn't believe their eyes, it was obviously a kunai thrown by a little ghost, how could they have so much strength.
"Bang bang!"
They didn't understand, there was no time for them to think about this at the moment, only to see Sasuke, who was flying from behind, kick the two of them on the cheeks with his legs spread out, and kicked them to the sides.
Fortunately, Naruto had already met him, and he got out of the way in advance, otherwise he would have almost faced the embarrassing scene of being jumped over his head by Sasuke with his crotch.
"Damn imp, give me death!" The ghost brother who had been kicked off roared, readjusted his body and rushed over again.
However, when Sasuke, who was on full alert, was about to take the other party's attack, the two suddenly turned on the way as if they had discussed it, and one rushed towards Naruto next to him, and the other rushed towards Sakura and Daz behind her in an exclamation of surprise.
Seeing this, Sasuke didn't have time to think about it, so he instantly accelerated and rushed from the side, blocking Sakura in front of Sakura before the enemy could attack Sakura.
At the same time, in the face of the other ghost brother who rushed over, Naruto pulled the corners of his mouth quite helplessly, he knew that Sasuke was kind, but it was better to just let him solve these two guys just now, so that he still had to worry about that side now.
The light kunai appeared in his hand again, facing the roaring rush over I don't know if it was the oni brother or the oni brother, the hair on Naruto's forehead was blown up by the wind, and when the bangs fell back into place, the others had already appeared behind the enemy, and the thin kunai in his hand was dripping with blood.
And the guy who didn't know if it was the oni brother or the oni brother still maintained the direction of the movement that he had just rushed towards Naruto, and the whole person seemed to be still.
"Hiss~"
Then, the sound of the spirit snake spitting out a letter sounded, and it was like the sound of the wind, and the still ghost brother turned his head at this moment, and a handful of red scars from his neck shot into the air, and then fell to the ground with a "poof" and no longer sounded.
At the same time, the oni brothers who rushed in the direction of Sasuke Sakura-chan were subdued by Kakashi who fell from the sky, just in time for the bloody scene on Naruto's side to take place, preventing Sakura and the others from seeing the terrifying scene.
"Cut, it's really going to be in the limelight......" Seeing this, Sasuke couldn't help but muttered in a low voice.
He was about to finish off his opponent, but Kakashi suddenly arrived, making him feel like he had been plucked.
"Kakashi-sensei, you're alright." Sakura asked with surprise.
At the same time, she breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, she was really frightened just now, although she just subconsciously took out the kunwu block in front of Daz, but in the face of the roaring enemy, her legs did immediately weaken, and she didn't know what to do, but fortunately, she finally had a false alarm.
"I'm fine, you're all doing well, especially Sasuke." Carrying the captive Kiristin in one hand, Kakashi said with a smile to Sasuke.
Obviously, Kakashi agreed with Sasuke's "danger" that he was able to take the initiative to save his teammates, although he clearly knew that if Sasuke didn't make a move at that time, the enemy's fate would only be worse.
Thinking of this, Kakashi quietly glanced at Naruto, who had already come from behind, and there was an inexplicable hint of vigilance in his eyes.
"What's the matter, first place, has it finally been solved, wasn't it too scared to move just now?" Due to Naruto's action just now, and the bloody scene was deliberately covered up by Kakashi, Sasuke, who saw Naruto coming up at this time, showed his signature "evil ghost" smile and mocked.
Obviously, for Naruto, a companion who always pressed him in the training class and grabbed the bell, Sasuke had long held back a fire, and now he finally waited for such an opportunity, how could he let it go.
Although he could vaguely see the figure of the fallen figure behind him, and knew that Naruto also dealt with the enemy, Sasuke, who understood Naruto's strength, was not surprised, and he mocked that Naruto was "scared" and motionless at first, and it was up to him to solve the crisis.
At the same time, Sasuke was also proud at the moment, thinking that no matter how strong Naruto was in school, his psychology would not be good in real combat after all, unlike him who could immediately enter the combat state, which made him finally find a place to defeat Naruto.
“……”
However, hearing the taunt of the second pillar, not only Naruto, but even Kakashi on the side was a little speechless, and his heart said that this child's competitive spirit was too strong, so strong that it had already blinded his eyes.
“…… yes, thanks to you Sasuke, you scared the hell out of me just now. What could Naruto say when he saw this, he could only answer like Sasuke.
Not to mention that he is an adult, he will definitely not immediately choke back like a child because of this, even considering Sasuke's situation, he can only say that.
Naruto understands that Sasuke has always been angry because of losing to him in class, because of the relationship between revenge and revenge, Sasuke always desperately hopes that he can do something, knowing that Itachi is powerful, and when revenge is far away, becoming a genius in the eyes of others, the first These false names are gradually more favored by Sasuke, hoping that these false names can prove that the Uchiha clan still has successors, and it also proves that he is still working hard for revenge.
This has become a burden on Sasuke's heart, so if it doesn't affect himself, Naruto doesn't want to stimulate Sasuke, so in the face of ridicule, he just laughs.
Meanwhile, Kakashi had already tied up the remaining oni brothers and summoned the ninja hawks patrolling Konoha to write an intelligence overview report to the village.
After doing all this, Kakashi turned his head to look at Daz, who had been silent on the other side.
"Mr. Daz, I think we're going to talk."