After a three-day trek, Kakashi Kato and his ten children were far away from Konoha Village.

At this time, it was less than twenty kilometers away from the border of the Fire Country, which was also a port village that traded with the Land of Water.

They will arrive at the village by tonight, and then early the next morning, take a boat to the Mirikage Village, the land of water, and then go to the Mist Shadow Village for a week-long academic exchange activity.

In the first three days, Ai Kato and Kakashi assessed ten children three times.

Maybe because both of them became ninjas at the age of five, in the face of the results of the assessment, they seemed a little reluctant, even Hinata Ningji, who had the best overall performance, was still a little worse in the eyes of both of them.

And today, it is inevitable that there will be an assessment of the children, and it is also the last assessment on this journey.

"Kakashi, the weather is a little nice today." Ai Kato looked at the cloudless sky and said very unnutritious topics to Kakashi beside him.

"It's a great weather for washing clothes and drying quilts." Kakashi nodded in agreement.

"Then we can't afford to waste such good weather......"

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After a private chat that was not heard, Kakashi and Ai Kato stopped and turned to face the ten children behind them, who were slightly tired.

Although they were already slow to control, it was still a bit tight for a 10-year-old, so they were tired of keeping up with the pace.

"Kids, there's something I want to tell you." Ai Kato said directly to the ten children in front of him.

When the ten children heard this, they raised their heads and looked at Ai Kato and Kakashi slightly confused.

"That's right, Kakashi-sensei and I have a very important matter to deal with right now, and it will take about half a day. So then, there's still about 20 kilometers from here to the next village, and you'll need to make your own way, can you do it? Ai Kato explained to the ten children.

"We can, Ai Kato!" After the ten children glanced at each other, Representative Nara Shikamaru took a stand.

Ai Kato showed them the map on the second day of departure, and the only way to get from here to a seaside village is the road they are walking now, so as long as they are not fools, they don't have to worry about not being able to find the road at all.

"Although it's still early, don't be slow on the road because we're not there, just go to the village and settle down first." Kakashi paused at this point and continued, "There are quite a few bandit gangs operating around here. ”

"Bandits?"

Hearing Kakashi's words, none of the ten children looked scared, but half of them seemed to be eager to try, especially Naruto.

They all know about bandits, and bandits are not ninjas, they are just ordinary people.

The task of cleaning up the bandits that the ninja takes can only be counted as C-level, and basically a team of one middle ninja and three lower ninjas can easily complete the cleaning task.

So after hearing that there are bandits nearby, they don't have feelings of fear and worry.

After all, they thought that the sum of ten people must be stronger than the squad of one middle ninja and three lower ninjas, and it was still a very simple thing to deal with the bandits.

"Don't be too proud, there are many bandit gangs now, but there are shinobi in them, but they can't be easily dealt with." Kakashi said emphatically, but there was some emotion in his heart.

In the face of any enemy, you can't take it lightly, and if you are too arrogant, it is easy to "overturn".

This group of children still has too little experience, and the comfortable life in school makes them think that strength is the only condition for determining victory or defeat.

"We see, Kakashi-sensei." Naruto spoke, but his expression betrayed him and he still didn't take it seriously.

Half a year ago, Ai Kato told him that he had the strength of the middle ninja, so he naturally didn't pay attention to the lower ninja.

Under normal circumstances, one ordinary middle ninja can deal with three ordinary lower ninjas!

Although Naruto has not become a ninja yet, because Ai Kato inadvertently said half a year ago, he is a middle ninja, and he can deal with three lower ninjas, so even if there is a lower ninja among the bandits, it is irrelevant in his opinion.

"Okay, then we'll take care of things first, and we'll meet you in the village in front of us as soon as we're done." After Kakashi said this, he and Ai Kato left the place using the teleportation technique.

A group of ten children continued their journey towards the village ahead.

"Shikamaru, do you think we might meet the bandits?" On the way, Naruto asked Nara Shikamaru.

Nara Shikamaru was the smartest person in their class, and many of their ideas were come up with by Shikamaru when they were in school.

"I don't think it's very likely, if there are really bandits, we can't not have met them once in the past few days, Kakashi-sensei, they probably said this on purpose to scare us." Nara Shikamaru thought for a moment and then spoke.

Being able to make such a rule-based analysis at this age, Nara Shikamaru is indeed worthy of being a child of the highly intelligent Nara family.

However, he still guessed wrong, what is the real routine of Ai Kato and Kakashi.

"Well, I still want to really meet the bandits, and then I won't teach them a good lesson." Naruto sighed, a little disappointed that he didn't have a chance to meet the bandits.

"That's a lot, don't think so much, let's go to the village early and have a good rest, we have to get up early tomorrow morning to take the boat." Nara Shikamaru shook his head, he wanted to rest more than to deal with the bandits, he was indeed lazy.

"I don't have time to have fun these days, Sakura-chan, let's go shopping together when we get to the village in front of us." Yamanaka Ino, as a girl's focus, is naturally different from boys, and she prefers to go shopping for clothes and snacks compared to fighting and killing.

Fortunately, she is only ten years old now, and she has not yet awakened a strong hobby in makeup.

"Okay." Sakura Haruno smiled and nodded, her hobbies were actually similar to those of Yamanaka Ino. Just like in the original book, when the two gave Naruto Hinata a wedding gifts, they both chose the same mirror.

Because of the absence of Kakashi and Ai Kato, the pace of the ten children in the group slowed down a lot, and it took two hours to walk a distance of about ten kilometers.

They were walking to a forest that was shaded by the sun, when suddenly six tall men came out of the woods next to them, each with a long knife in his hand.

With this look, they really met a bandit!

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