Chapter 39: D-Class Serial Mission, The Loss of the Cow
"Go for it! Youngster! This is youth! ”
"Yes, Mr. Akai!"
"Yes......"
"Naruto, why do you look so spiritless?"
“…… Be! Suddenly looking up, Naruto pulled his neck and roared in response, satisfying the arrogant blue beast beside him.
Maitkai Kamishinobu was away from the village for most of the year, and once he was in the village, he would personally take Li and Naruto to exercise.
Before dawn, he was about to be called up to run around the village, but what was most difficult for Naruto to accept was Maitkai's indescribable taste.
Before dawn, the three men in green tights were already running around the village, and the most terrifying thing was that two of them were so excited that they seemed to have been beaten with chicken blood.
"Naruto, this can't be done, if you always lack spirit like this, you will be surpassed by Xiao Li one day."
"Huh." Listening to Mr. Akai's admonition, although he knew that the other party was kind, he couldn't help but hehe.
(With the attributes of a hot-blooded fool, can you have infinite spirits?) This kind of thing completely lacks material conditions and theoretical derivation, right? )
However, Akai didn't care what Naruto thought in his heart, he ran in front of him shouting the goal of running ten laps around the village before breakfast, and he was sweating like a symbol of youth, and Naruto, who ran between Akai and Li Luo, had a strange expression.
At this time, when the three of them were walking through the path between the village and the forest, they unexpectedly met Tiantian's father, who was struggling to drag the truck, and Tiantian, who was helping to push and support the truck.
"Every day!"
"Huh!? Naruto, Lee, Maitkai ...... You've been exercising so early, huh? The ball-headed girl, whose face was red with a tired face, asked as she wiped her sweat.
"Do you have a break today. You're buying, what about the cows? Maitkai asked as he ran in place.
"The ox stepped on a sharp stone and broke its leg, and it was not far from the village, so I tied the ox to the side of the road and brought the goods to the village every day." Tiantian's father, a middle-aged man in a black and gray cloth robe, stood up in front of the car and said at this moment.
Although he runs a weapons shop and always gives discounts to students and teachers every day, he still has to work hard to run a business, and if he goes out to buy goods before dawn, the ox pulling the cart is injured, so he has to be a cow to pull the cart himself.
"Hahaha, since we met it today, let's treat it as a mission, Brother Shoujiu, don't you mind inviting us to breakfast, right?"
"Of course...... That, of course, is no problem. Tiantian's father didn't know how to refuse, and wiped the sweat on his forehead and responded with a smile.
(Please, Uncle Kai, invite our three big stomachs to breakfast, isn't this car of goods in vain?) )
In any case, Maitkai walked to the front of the car without saying anything, untied the rope from Tejiu Tianfu's body, and put it on himself, and then he pulled the truck forward in front. In fact, Uncle Kai is much stronger than the cow, and he is completely enough to pull alone, but Naruto, Xiao Li, and Tian Tian's father are still helping to push and support in the back.
As for Tiantian, she was called by her father to take a cow.
The four of them pushed the goods all the way back to the village and Tiantian's weapons shop, and then Maitkai did not stay at Tiantian's house for breakfast as he said before, but took Naruto and Xiao Li directly to continue running around the village on the grounds that the workout had not yet been completed.
The car was pushed all the way, but Akai's previous training goal had not been reduced at all, and he was still running ten laps. For this, both Akai and Xiao Li took it for granted, Naruto could only endure it even if he smiled bitterly, anyway, he couldn't bear it before Xiao Li.
When the three of them ran back along the same road, they happened to meet Tian Tian who was crying on the road and walking back again.
"Tiantian, didn't you go to the cow?"
"Cow, my cow, it's gone." Covering his face with his hands, squatting on the ground and crying and crying, a cow is a lot of assets, even if the economic level of Konoha Village is much higher than that of the whole country, a strong cow is a big animal of great value.
"Haha, I thought it was just a D-class delivery mission, but I didn't expect it to be a serial mission. Naruto, Xiao Li, your task today is to help Tian Tian get her family's lost cow back, if you can't do it, today's training plan will be doubled! ”
"Yes, Mr. Akai!" Hearing this, Xiao Li's blood boiled and he responded directly with confidence.
(Please, you at least know the specifics before agreeing, what if the cow has been eaten by the beast?) )
He vomited in his heart and shook his head.
Naruto bent down and reached out and patted Tiantian on the shoulder, and said, "Okay, anyway, you are also a ninja apprentice, how can you not find an animal as big as a cow?" Is the tracking class in vain? ”
"Ah Hua, Ah Hua is very obedient and obedient, it didn't go away by itself, it was stolen by someone." As he spoke, Xiao Tiantian, whose eyes were swollen from crying, took out a broken rope from his pocket, and the moment he saw the rope, Maitkai and Naruto, who was originally unconcerned, suddenly turned pale.
"This is the mark of being cut off with a sharp weapon. Every day, you are doing the right thing, and this situation really cannot be rushed to the past. Now, take us live. ”
As the strongest military organization in the country of fire, Konoha is a bit similar to the government soldier system, and is worshiped by the entire country of fire, so the economy is rich, so the villagers are simple, the road is not forgotten, and the night is not closed, and this kind of thing is not done by the villagers of Konoha Village, because it is not worth it, going to prison for a cow or even losing the identity of a villager of Konoha Village.
"Teacher Kai, this mission may require a battle, if the other party is not very strong, can you not interfere?" Under the guidance of Tian Tian, the group was rushing in the direction of the lost cow, Naruto, who was carrying a katana, said this.
This is not a weight, this knife is used by Naruto when he is training with Akai after he is ready to exercise, because it is impossible for himself to really hurt Akai Sensei, so Naruto is carrying a real knife that has opened the blade.
"Well, let's talk about it when the time comes." At this time, Akai, who had always seemed reckless, was cautious, he did not agree directly, but only said that he would talk about it then.
The four of them came to the location where the cow Ah Hua was lost every day, and there were still traces of blood and the cow lying down under the tree, and at the same time, there was a scar on the trunk.
"Ah Hua, it was here before, I let her stay here, it has always been very well-behaved, and the result is ...... As a result, when I came back, it was gone, woo, it was taken away, it's nothing, they, they won't kill it, right? Poor Ah Hua, I'm sorry for you. ”
Amid the sound of daily weeping, Naruto walked to the side of the tree trunk and stared at the scar that had been chopped out.
"It was chopped by a large axe weapon weighing at least sixty kilograms...... Every day, don't cry, if we act fast enough, you still have a chance to rescue your family, if we slow down, we will only have to eat hot mouths. ”
"You...... Are you saying Ah Hua is not dead yet? Tian Tian automatically filtered out Naruto's later words and asked.
"If it were you, would you hack a cow to death and carry it away? Of course, it is taken to the resting and camping place, and then slaughtered, and if you care about the taste, you will also set up a pot to cook the soup...... Every day, you listen to me explain, the liquid in my mouth really doesn't mean that I have anything wrong with Ah Hua. ”
After being teased several times in a row, Tian Tian finally couldn't help it anymore and chased Naruto and beat her, but her emotions finally eased up.
"Alright, alright. Now it's time to perform the real technique and rescue Hana from her abduction at the hands of the exiled ninja. Objective: Rescue Ah Hua who is still alive. Clapping his hands, Naruto looked straight and said so.
"With Teacher Akai's level, he should have noticed the traces of the other party, but the teacher didn't say anything now, obviously he was unwilling to interfere, so ...... Xiao Li, every day, with the tracking knowledge you learned in the ninja school, find the traces of Ah Hua's departure. ”
"Naruto, how do you know that your opponent is an exiled ninja?" Suddenly, Akai, who had been holding his arms in his arms on the side, asked.
"First, of course, because of the traces of weapons left on the trunks. Second, Konoha is in the core area of the Fire Country, if it is just an ordinary outcast, it is actually difficult to cross the border so far, close to Konoha Village, and in addition, the grass ninja of the Grass Country in the west of the Fire Country is at war with the rain ninja of the Rain Country. Therefore, I think it should be the escape of the country of grass or the country of rain, right? Personally, I'm inclined to be the ninjas of the country of grass, which is weak and the ninja village is weak, so their shinobi prefer to use heavy weapons. ”
"Don't underestimate each other because of preconceived notions, arrogance and contempt, these are the enemies of ninjas."
"Yes, Mr. Akai." At this moment, Naruto bowed his head in convincing convincing, because Maitkai was teaching himself an important ninja lesson.
"Naruto, Lee, I'll find it!" At this time, Tian Tian shouted softly, and after calming down, she used a small brush to take out a small brush from the ninja bag, swept the ground nearby, and found the human and animal footsteps that had been deliberately hidden and concealed.
(Finally found the trace?) It's good, all that's left is to rush straight over and fight. In fact, Naruto's tracking homework is far better than that of Tian Tian and Xiao Li, because he has mastered the Feng Yuan Breath Technique, so Naruto has put a lot of thought into the course of tracking and anti-tracking, but Naruto didn't say that it was all based on the efforts of Tian Tian and Xiao Li, if the rescue was timely and saved the cow Ah Hua, it would be good, if it was a step late and failed, then this matter was not a good thing for Tian Tian.
Of course, by the way, there is such a thing as a tooth sacrifice, Naruto will not say it.