"Asma-sensei? What emergency is happening in the village? Or is there something important about the task?? "Ino wears a sand-proof and sun-proof gauze material jacket, wrapping his whole body tightly, and even if it's hot, he doesn't hesitate to use chakra to keep the temperature stable. She was sensitive to the seriousness of Asma's face, and similar emergency communications from Konoha were also very rare, indicating that it was likely to be a more urgent and difficult task ahead, and it could also be that something major had happened in the village, whether it was good or bad.

"Ah, that's right." Asma threw away the cigarette butt in his hand: "News has just come from the village that there is an urgent task on the side of Kawanokuni that we need to cooperate to complete. ”

"Cooperation?" Shikamaru was keenly aware of the difference in Asma's words.

"Yes, this mission is S-class! As for the content, it's to help the Sand Shinobi rescue their Shadow with Kakashi's seventh class. ”

"Shadow? Do you mean I love Luo? Has a monster like him been captured? Shikamaru was impressed by the formidable foe he had encountered in the Shinobi exam three years ago, not to mention that this foe had since been infected by Naruto's charisma and turned from a murderous scourge into a reliable friend.

Sasuke's defection to the war is also an unforgettable part of Shikamaru's memory.

If it weren't for the appearance of my Airo in that battle, I am afraid that in the face of guys like Jun Malu, Konoha Xiaoqiang would have suffered heavy losses. At that time, Xiao Li's strength was still too low, not enough to resist such a powerful blood inheritance as the corpse bone vein.

"I love Luo? Has he become a Kazekage? Ino didn't seem to know the news yet, but she didn't particularly care about this: "Let's not talk about this first, since he is already a wind shadow now, his strength must be very strong, who can capture him?" ”

"According to the current information, it was done by three people from the Xiao Organization, two of whom are Deidara and the Red Sand Scorpion, both of whom are well-known rebels in the ninja world and are powerful." Facing the dazzling sun, Asma lit a cigarette again and glanced at Ino: "Let's find a place to rest first......

"Oh! Yes! I want to rest! I want to drink water! I want to eat! Ding Ci, who had been lying in the hot sand for a long time without moving, jumped up when he heard this, rode away, and began to look for a suitable place to rest.

In the desert, there are not many suitable places to rest, and it is generally a little shady on the back of the towering sand dunes.

After a few people sat down, took advantage of this cool water to rest, and Ding Ci was finally allowed to eat a little, Asma continued to talk about the mission.

"According to the content of the intelligence, after the Akatsuki organization captured the wind shadow, they are fleeing into the territory of Kawanokuni, which is why I said before that the mission location is on the side of Kawanokuni. It is unclear what exactly these people want to do, and what their specific purpose is. However, Shinobi's pursuers have been following him all the time, so he shouldn't lose his target. As for us, we are expected to arrive at the rendezvous site at noon tomorrow, and according to the route, it is likely to collide head-on with the members of the Xiao Organization by then, so we must be extremely careful in this mission! ”

Asma said as she spat out a smoke ring and took a sip of water.

Including Ding Ji, they are more careful when drinking water. After all, this is in the desert, and ninjas can use water to create water, but if you accidentally save water because of this, it will be a serious problem.

Ninja is such a profession.

Killer? Soldier?

Maybe it's the product of the combination of the two, both of which have some characteristics, but are mixed with some other things.

"In that case, we still seem to have some time to spare..."Shikamaru touched his chin and thought.

As a wise man in the squad, even Asma, who is a mentor, often asks for Shikamaru's opinions and suggestions, and sometimes Asma even has the illusion that his brain power is starting to regress more and more, which is probably the relationship between Shikamaru taking on almost all the tasks that require mental work.

Of course, someone's brain is starting to shrink, and it's just someone's own delusion. Most of the time it's just because, he spends too much thought on certain things, and there is negligence and slackness in this area.

For example, the woman whose eyes are bright fiery red.

To get back to the point, when Shikamaru used some of the information he got to deduce and summarize in his mind, Ino spoke a little out of place:

"Isn't there three people in the Xiao organization? And who is the other person? ”

Hearing this, Asma fell silent for a while.

"Shinomiya Yuzo."

He could still only say the name, and then looked at Ino with some concern with a shocked expression on his face.

However, what he feared did not happen, and soon Ino's face gradually calmed down, and he continued to drink water as if nothing had happened, and then took out the snacks he had scavenged from Ding Ji, and began to quickly eliminate them under the complaining gaze of the plump little fat man next to him.

The situation was a little weird, Shikamaru hurriedly pulled his teacher and took two steps out, and said in a low voice, "Asma-sensei! If you want to hide it, you will always keep it hidden! What do you say it now? Even if it's just an irrelevant name, it's okay! ”

With Shikamaru's extraordinary IQ, when he first asked who the enemy was, he noticed Asma's abnormality, such as just saying the two names and then changing his mouth and proposing to take a break to change the topic, and subconsciously glanced at Ino at that time.

So, he also thought about cooperating.

Unexpectedly, all of them suddenly changed their minds and told the truth as soon as they were asked.

So in the first place, why hide it!

"Ed..." Asma's forehead was sweating: "I naturally subconsciously hid it at the beginning, but then I thought about it, I couldn't hide it for a while, and when she saw who the enemy was, she wouldn't know... So as soon as she asked, I said directly, maybe it would be better..."

"Otherwise, would you have a better way?"

“……”

As soon as Asma's words came out, Shikamaru stopped talking. Concealment and confession to say which option is better, no one can say clearly. After each choice has been decided, no one can know whether the other choice is better at that time, and there is no such word as "if" in terms of the irreversibility of time.

At this time, it was actually a little different from what the two people imagined, although Ino's mood swings were there, but they were really not very big, and they were not complicated.

She was actually happy and looking forward to it, because she would soon be able to meet this guy who hadn't shown up for more than two years.

Different from the superficial situation that many people know, Ino has actually had some connection with Yuzang in the past two years. At first, it was just that Yuzo unilaterally handed over some things to Ino through some secret means and at the right time, such as small items such as letters or card hairpins.

Because they are all little things to please girls, and the behavior is relatively secretive, so no one has found out yet.

It should be said that at least Asma and Shikamaru have not been discovered yet.

Although Shikamaru has excellent intelligence and is very good at judging the truth of things according to various details, but in some ways, maybe it is the trust of his childhood friends and his current teammates, or he is born with no special sense of smell for the state of women, in short, Shikamaru, who was involved in seeking Naruto's help in retrieving Yuzo from the beginning, has not been aware of this fact until now.

When Ino gradually stopped actively looking for Yuzo, although he also felt a little weird, but in the end, he only thought that it might be that Ino gradually recognized the so-called reality.

For this, Shikamaru can't say what he thinks about himself.