Chapter 3: Squads
There is always a special sense of mystery in the dark base, and in Yuzang's imagination, it will probably be as eerie and terrifying as Orochimaru's research base. After walking through a dark stone passage, what unfolded in front of him was a completely different scene.
In the underground space opened up by the earth escape, the neatly arranged small houses are lined up, a bit like the cells in the prison. However, these cells are not simple, not much different from the houses where the villagers of Konoha live on the ground, but they are repetitive in form.
From time to time, you can see the dark part of the cloak entering or leaving the house, and after opening the door, you can't see the inside at all, and there must be some illusion or something at work. In this way, this house should be the only place where the members of the Shadows can relax and have their own secrets. Inside, it may be the owner's personal belongings, or it may be the only place to relax and rest when you are tired.
"Don't look at it, you'll get a room. We are not allowed to carry any personal belongings other than ninja gear and forehead guards when we are on a mission. These things are kept in your own room. After those of us enter the shadows, we all need to forget that our previous names were only codenames. The dark part who led the way said casually, stopped in front of a small house, and stretched out his hand to Yuzo: "Where's the scroll?" Leave it to me! ”
Hand him the earthy scroll and watch him walk into the house with the scroll. Although he was curious about what this scroll was for, Yuzo suppressed his curiosity and waited quietly.
Inside the room, the dark part took off his mask, revealing a middle-aged face of vicissitudes. Looking at the scroll in his hand, he began to break the seal. After opening it slowly, I read it carefully, and my face was a little surprised.
"The Raven Squad? The squad that specializes in assassination and elimination of enemies, and the squad leader crow is a bloodthirsty madman! Is it really good to put a newcomer in such a team? The dark part hesitantly looked at the scroll in his hand, of course, there would be no mistake in the words on it. This made him wonder what the three generations of Hokage thought, why he would do such a thing.
After thinking about it for a while, he finally chose to hang it up without caring about himself. Maybe it's a high-level battle again, and once you get involved and stand on the wrong team, you really don't know how to die. This kind of thing, it's better to treat it as if it didn't happen, anyway, there is no problem with ordering the letter, even if you really find yourself afterwards, you are not afraid, just follow the rules.
Rolling the scroll up again, he walked out the door and said to Yuzo, "Come with me, I'll take you to pick up your things and distribute the house, and send you to the team you want to join."
Following the shadows all the way, Yuzo came to another location. It's a lot simpler here, with bare rocks and dirt everywhere instead of being as neat and clean as before. In the doorway of an iron gate, another dark part was standing like a ghost. Silently, it looks like a lifeless sculpture.
The leading dark department said to him: "There is a newcomer, give him a new set of equipment." In addition, there is the allocation of small houses and so on, including taking him to his own team, please! ”
At the same time, he handed over the scroll in his hand and turned to leave.
This dark part didn't mean to say much, pushed open the iron door and looked for a while, then walked out with a large bag of things, and after sending them all to Yuzang's arms, he said, "Come with me."
Yuzo had no choice but to hold his things and follow him.
Back in the area of a small house, they stopped at the door of one of them. The dark department took out a bunch of keys and took them out after selecting them for a while, handed them to Yuzo and said, "This is your key, no one else in this room except you, including the captain of the dark department, has the right to enter without permission." In the future, it will belong to you, but if you don't have the strength to protect it, no one will care about you. Now, let's go in and tidy up your stuff. Then follow me to your squad and be mentally prepared! ”
Without much hesitation, Yuzo took the key and opened the door, and walked in to quickly organize his things. Issued to himself included a dark uniform, a cloak, a short knife, and some kunai shuriken detonation charms and other ninja equipment. There are also several brand new masks with different patterns. I still have some money in my ninja bag and put it away, including a photo of Ino and a red hairpin.
After changing into a uniform, putting on a mask, and wrapping himself in a cloak, Yuzo pushed open the door and stood beside the shadows. So far, except for Kakashi's fake shadows, these two shadows haven't revealed their code names or anything like that, and Yuzo doesn't know what to call them.
Without waiting for Yuzo to say anything, the dark department turned around directly and said again: "Follow me."
When he arrived at a place that was obviously a document room, he took a form and gave it to Yuzang: "This is the entry information, just fill it out yourself, and then put it in a folder and give it to him." Speaking of this, he pointed to a dark department sitting next to him and continued: "The identity information of the members of the dark department is not qualified to be known except for the chief captain and Hokage-sama, after filling it out, follow me to the team you have already divided to report."
Holding the pen and filling in things like height, weight, age, gender, etc., Yuzo thought about the scroll as he thought about it. It's already written about the team you're assigned to join, right? It doesn't seem to be randomly assigned, and you can go wherever there is a shortage of people.
After writing these things, I put the materials in a folder and sealed them and handed them to the dark department who had been sitting there, and left the place with the dark department who led the way.
There are also many buildings in an underground space. However, they are all relatively large dojo-like houses, and it is said that each squad has such a dojo, where teammates practice against each other, understand strength, practice cooperation, and so on.
The dark department came to the door of a dojo, knocked on the door, and the inside was quickly opened, and a fox mask appeared at the door: "Oh! Is our new guy coming? We were all very sad after the unfortunate death of that teammate last time, but what kind of newcomer is this time? ”
As he spoke, he saw the twelve-year-old, more than a head shorter than him. You know, he himself is only seventeen or eighteen years old.
"What's going on? Is it a little ghost? Or the kind that just graduated and is only twelve years old, right? How did this imp get into the shadows? There must be someone bending the law for personal gain! But you dare to send it to us, don't you know our Raven-sama's nickname?! He seemed to talk a lot, and his chatter was different from the dark part he had encountered before.
"Silverfish, be quiet." A rather majestic voice interrupted the silverfish's words, and a tall dark man with a height of about one meter eight walked out: "I'm a crow, the captain of the team." What about your code name? ”
The crow was not polite, and directly ignored the dark part of the way. The dark part that led the way didn't say anything, and directly disappeared in place without mixing the matter between their teams.
"Shower, it's my code name, Captain!"
"Okay, let's come in first and get to know your teammates and future captains." After hearing the answer, Crow walked directly into the dojo, and Yuzo slowly walked in.
The space inside is indeed very large, and the floor is solid rock instead of the wooden floor of a general dojo. Except for the whitebait who had just opened the door and the crow who was the leader of the team, there was only one person inside. With Yuzang's own words, it's a complete four-person squad. The leading ninja of the upper ninja strength plus the three subordinates of the elite strength of the middle ninja.
"Silverfish, you've seen it. He is good at physical skills and is a master of swordsmanship. In the squad, it belongs to the type of attacker and attacker. The cross-legged crow pointed to the dark part of the person he had just met, who was dissatisfied with Yuzo's twelve-year-old child, and at the same time saw the silverfish snort disdainfully, not caring about Yuzo's appearance at all.
"This is Ze, who is good at medical ninjutsu and has the ability to perceive chakra, and belongs to the support staff in the team." The crow pointed to the other dark part and said, if you look at the figure, this Ze should be a woman.
Sure enough, after the crow introduced her, she was sitting cross-legged and nodded politely to Yuzang, and said, "Please take care of her!" "It's a very beautiful girl's voice, and she shouldn't be too old, about the same as a whitebait.
"As for me, I'm good at earth escape and fire escape, and I'm a ninjutsu type ninja. Now, tell us what you're good at, Shower! The crow's voice was flat, like a pool of stagnant water.
"If I have to say it, I'm a physique-type ninja, but I also have my own blood inheritance limit, line escape ninjutsu!" Yuzang has nothing to hide, there is no need for this kind of thing, and it will definitely take full strength to carry out the task after that. Most of his own strength is on the line.
Hearing this, the three people reacted differently. The silverfish jumped up at once, and shouted in surprise, "So you are that genius!" Okay, I've wanted to fight you for a while, so let's have a fight! ”
Ze was obviously a lady, and subconsciously covered her mouth with her hand to express her surprise. However, because of the mask, she looked a little discordant when she covered the mask.
Raven glanced reproachfully at the whitebait, which suddenly withered like a deflated balloon.
He still didn't show any surprise, and his tone was still as calm: "It turns out that you are a genius who has become famous recently, in that case, let me try your strength." I'll keep my hand, and you'll have to do your best. ”
He said this, but he didn't have the slightest taste of looking down on people, as if he was talking about ordinary things.
Yuzang felt a bloody murderous aura like a substance rushing towards his face as soon as the crow stood up, and there was a feeling of tightness in his chest and difficulty in breathing.