In the woods, a black shadow flickered by, but just as this black shadow approached a big tree surrounded by several people, a hand seemed to appear out of thin air, pinching the back of the black shadow's fate very accurately.

"Meow! ~" The captured black shadow let out a panicked cry, and when I looked at it again, it turned out to be a tanuki cat.

"Alright, it's done." The owner of the hand carried the poor tanuki out of the shadows of the woods, who was not Naruto.

Kakashi was told them over the radio, and Naruto stood still waiting for their turn.

"I said how much you don't like your master, do you think about running away every day?" Naruto, who picked up the cat and looked at it, couldn't help but complain.

The tanuki's fur was smooth and shiny, and it was obviously living well, and there were no scars on its body, proving that the owner had not abused it, but that's it, this little tiger, the pet of the Lady of the Fire Country, ran away every now and then, making almost all the shinobi remember him.

If Naruto remembers correctly, even a few years later, after Konohamaru's group of little guys graduated, they were still using this cat to brush tasks, which shows that cats are creatures that are not familiar with them.

However, this is indeed a good task for Shinobi, unlike those D-class tasks such as watching children or weeding, Mrs. Daimyo is quite generous, such as this time, as long as they send the cat back unharmed, they can get a reward of 20,000 taels.

This is not counting the village's commission, in other words, it can be understood as after tax, so there are five thousand taels in equal distribution, which is quite comfortable compared to this stage of their forbearance.

Don't underestimate these five thousand taels, through the observation over the years, the face value of the currency here is about the same as the neon country in his previous life, but the price is much cheaper, so if you calculate the purchasing power, it is obvious that the currency here in Konoha is more useful.

What can you do with 5,000 taels, you can buy about 40 discounted bento boxes at the convenience store near his house, you can eat fifteen bowls of that kind of ramen with two oversized barbecued pork slices in Ichiraku Ramen, you can buy a set of seven exquisite shuriken plus two kunai, or you can exchange it for a detonation charm.

This number is still quite tempting for Shinobi, especially a self-reliant person like Naruto, so Naruto actually wishes that this little guy would run away every day.

After a few moments, three figures swept along the trees in the forest, it was Kakashi and Sasuke Sakura.

"It's hard work, let's go." Kakashi glanced at the honest tanuki cat who was caught on the back of Naruto's hand, nodded, and led the three of them directly to the mission sub-office.

Catching this cat, today's task should be pretty much the same.

It's been almost a week since the bell was grabbed, and Naruto was notified to return on the third day, so counting the time, they had been working together as the seventh squad for three to four days.

Naruto didn't know what Kakashi had taught Sasuke and Sakura after he left that day, but when he saw the two again, he obviously felt that the spirits of the two were a little different, and there seemed to be an indescribable feeling.

Of course, the more obvious thing is the tape on Sasuke's face and Sakura's changing hairstyle when they meet, and from this point of view, Kakashi's methods should not be very gentle.

But none of this has anything to do with Naruto, and he doesn't care about the changes between the two, as long as it doesn't affect him, everything will be fine.

Through the tasks of the past few days, Naruto felt that their cooperation was still okay, although they were all D-class missions, but the three of them worked together under the guidance of Kakashi, each performing their own duties, and usually completed the task quickly and well.

Naruto saw it in his eyes and felt that if he continued like this, maybe he would really cultivate a tacit understanding between the three of them like he had done before.

From this point of view, these seemingly boring tasks accepted by the lower ninjas and the necessity of the upper ninja's guidance are reflected, which should be a set of non-wartime ninja training standards summarized by Konoha.

Through the accumulation of little by little from easy to difficult, to form a tacit understanding and trust between the lower ninja team, coupled with the correction of the upper ninja's guidance, the ninja who came out in this way does not seem to have the killing intent in the blood mist, and the edge is exposed, but in fact, after the baptism of time, the upper limit of the Konoha ninja is much higher.

This can also be seen from the fact that Konoha won the ninja world war three times before and after its establishment, after all, in addition to the mutual deterrence between high-end combat forces, the battle on the ground battlefield is the mainstream, and these, naturally, rely on high-quality lower ninja as the foundation.

Of course, these have little to do with Naruto, after all, he is a pillar of strength, and his innate positioning is not the so-called "foundation", and the direction he has been working towards is not, compared to the fight on the battlefield on the line of life and death, he still likes the mode of "I go up A, and the other side falls".

However, this path can really be said to be obstructive and long, especially in the cultivation after the disbandment of the past few days, he still can't feel the traces of the nine tails, which makes him a little discouraged.

Crossing into Naruto's body but not making the Nine-Tails Chakra, this is simply comparable to crossing Marshal Cheng and discovering that the train is about to reach Huanggutun, and there is a crooked neck tree in front of Emperor Cheng.

This is a pain that is really hard for others to feel.

But he hasn't given up yet, at least until he gets the seal key of the fourth Hokage and opens the seal, he won't give up.

Of course, not dying does not mean hanging from a tree, he is now focusing on the development of the Wind Escape Chakra change is a red heart two preparations, although due to the short period of time, there has been no breakthrough in the nature of the chakra, but in the past few days, he has preliminarily mastered the Wind Escape Great Breakthrough through the shadow clone cultivation, and it is not far from learning the Wind Escape Gale Palm.

At this time, it seems that this body is worthy of being born with an affinity for the wind attribute, and the learning of the basic wind escape is very smooth, so smooth that he himself can't believe it.

You must know that when he first practiced the Spiral Pill, it took him more than a year just to break through the water balloon stage, and the current cultivation speed is simply divine speed.

However, it is fair to say that the experience gained from the cultivation of the Spiral Pill and the chakra control skills are also an important part, and these early accumulations have indeed brought him far more benefits than the Spiral Pill itself.

Thinking of all this mess in their heads, the group came to the branch office and handed over the struggling tanuki cat to Mrs. Daimyo, who was very excited when he heard the news, and the four of them received their remuneration from the office staff, and after sharing the task reward, Kakashi announced the disbandment.

Naruto, who was in a hurry to finish today's practice, nodded and left alone, completely unaware of Kakashi's meaningful eyes behind him.

As for complaining loudly to the three generations of Hokage about the task being too simple and asking for a change of mission as in the original plot, it is impossible for him to do it.

First of all, not to mention that the three generations generally don't stay in the task sub-department, even if he is, he doesn't have the time to go to the country of waves to protect others from building bridges, he is now eager to break it in half for a minute, and his daily routine tasks and practice arrangements are full, but fortunately, he has developed the habit of sleeping only five or six hours over the years, otherwise twenty-four hours a day is enough to choke.

Moreover, although the trip to the country of waves plays a role in the growth of Naruto and Sasuke's mentality and learning to climb trees in the plot, it is completely chicken ribs for him.

He is an old guy in his thirties with a psychological age, and his three views have been fixed, so he can't talk about any spiritual growth, at most, he will improve his cognition with the broadening of his horizons in the future.

Not to mention tips like climbing trees, they're all instincts that have been carved into the DNA, and you can't fall off even if you let him sleep on the trunk of a tree now.

Therefore, at this time, he can't wait to carry out these simple tasks all the time, earn some living expenses easily and happily, and his serious practice will not be delayed much, this kind of homeostasis is what he needs now.

As for Zai Bu and Shiro, he didn't have much interest in the two of them who had a strange bond in Naruto's eyes.

Unlike YY novels, which can turn Bai YY into a woman, Naruto knows that in reality this guy is a good-looking man, although he is indeed a little curious about how Shiro looks good, but when he thinks of the other party's gender, he is not grateful.

That's fine, without their involvement, the somewhat twisted Kiristin wouldn't have died at the hands of Kakashi, and wouldn't have been dug up from their graves in the four ninja wars, and Naruto wouldn't have wasted time like a marionette in the land of Naraush Zibo.

As for the bridge, Naruto couldn't help but sneer when he thought of it, he could only say that it was a bit whimsical to expect a bridge to change a poor and weak country.

In his last life, he had learned the dragon slaying technique for more than ten years, and if he still believed what the old man of the country of waves said, then he would have really learned it in vain.

Not wanting to solve the superstructure, essentially changing the reality of the country being blocked within the islands, counting on building a bridge to change everything, this can only say that the people of this country have not awakened, and in such a country, it is useless to build ten bridges.

Is it harder to destroy a bridge than to build one? Cardo, a businessman with the nature of the underworld, since he can hire a ninja of this level who does not kill again, can't he hire some rock ninja or make some detonation charms?

Therefore, Naruto doesn't care about the mission of the country of waves at all, where there is oppression, there is resistance, and the people of the country of waves are still engaged in this set of appeasement, which shows that they still haven't really suffered, and the compromise with the ruling class and the evil forces is proof that they still have illusions, and Naruto is not interested in going all the way to save such a group of guys.

At the end of the day, a ninja is just a weapon, and those who want to resist will eventually learn to master the weapon, rather than waiting for a well-meaning "weapon" to come and save them.

So at this time, he went home and took a shower without any psychological burden, and then picked up his lunch box and rushed to the stream to continue today's practice.