In the endless wilderness, the white giant bird flew rapidly over the wilderness, flying in the direction of the sun's setting.

On top of the huge white bird, there stood two figures, one tall and one short.

The slightly taller figure was a young man of fifteen or sixteen years old, with a slightly immature appearance, his hair was a rare dark blonde, and his left eye was slightly hidden by drooping hair, and it was faintly visible that the eye was covered with a miniature telescope, which could see far away even from high in the sky.

The slightly shorter man seemed to be prostrate on the back of a bird, half of his face was covered with a black cloth, and the other half of his face was extremely fierce and rude, as if it was an ugly assemblage, and his head was brushed with a few hairs, which made it even more ugly.

The two of them wore coats with red clouds on a black background, and stood motionless on the back of a bird, looking from a distance, like an artistic combination of handsome and ugly.

"In other words, the goal of this mission is to be careful of the other party's voice illusion, right? Well. ”

Deidara, who was standing on the bird's back, spoke, and the sound reached the scorpion's ears.

"That's what you should consider after resisting the visual illusion of the Sharingan, fighting with the ninjas of the Uchiha clan, you must first consider how to avoid the visual illusion of the Sharingan, if you forget this, be careful of being killed by your own bomb."

The scorpion said coldly, in his opinion, Deidara's strength is indeed a genius with outstanding ability compared to his peers.

At the age of twelve, he officially joined Xiao and became a core member, younger than Itachi, which shows that Deidara's talent is very high.

But there are also many flaws that a young famous ninja should have - arrogance, arrogance.

Overconfidence in abilities can easily become a weakness that others take advantage of.

It was also because of this that Nagato teamed him up with himself.

In the organization, he is one of the few ninjas who can calmly analyze the battle situation.

No matter what predicament he faces, his ability to judge the situation is one of the best.

Because he is a puppet, he has only wisdom, and he has lost human reason.

Deidara, on the other hand, is more of a living person, with a lively personality, but because of this, weaknesses are easily exposed to enemies.

"It's okay, I've already practiced it seriously in order to deal with the illusion of writing wheels. Well. ”

Deidara pointed to her left eye, a confident smile on her face.

"That guy Orochimaru used to have the same idea as you, so he lost to Sharingan. No matter how confident you are, don't look directly at the writing wheel. ”

The reason why the Blood Inheritance Limit is so powerful is that it can't be completely resisted just by exercising.

Especially the unreasonable blood inheritance limit of writing wheels.

One-on-one must escape, this sentence is the best interpretation when facing Uchiha ninjas.

This kind of words can be spread in the ninja world for a long time, which shows the ninjas' respect and awe for the writing wheel.

In the past, there were many ninjas who were confident in their illusion ability, but they all lost to the illusion of the writing wheel eye for this reason.

"Yes, I see."

Deidara said in a perfunctory tone.

"Deidara, if you die, I'm not responsible for collecting the body."

The scorpion's voice was hoarse and deep, unpleasant.

This mission is about Tailed Beasts, and the agreement with the Oni Country will not necessarily take effect.

Either way, prepare for the worst.

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"Very good, today's mission is also over. So, keep up the good work tomorrow. ”

In front of Konoha's Hokage Building, Kakashi encouraged the three Naruto for a moment, and then prepared to turn around and enter the Hokage Building to submit the D-class mission completed today.

"I said, Kakashi-sensei, when can we go on a more difficult mission? Ever since I learned to climb trees, I've been doing boring tasks. ”

Naruto's dissatisfied voice came out, and at first he could still have a passion for D-class missions, but after a long time, this enthusiasm began to decline rapidly.

Now I'm starting to get impatient, hoping that Kakashi can do something and get a more difficult mission from the Hokage.

"You've officially become a shinobi, and it's only barely been a month, and according to my plan, you should do another half a month of D-class missions...... Well? ”

Kakashi couldn't help but stop talking and scratch his head when he saw that not only Naruto, but even Sasuke and Sakura seemed to agree with Naruto's intentions.

After a brief moment of contemplation, Kakashi reluctantly spread his hands and said, "Okay, I see. After that, I'll talk to Hokage-sama and take you out tomorrow on a C-class mission. After that, you have to go back and get ready, especially you, Sakura. You take the money first, go to the pharmacy later, buy some medical drugs, your medicine is almost used up in the previous mission, now it's time to replenish it. ”

With that, Kakashi took out his wallet and gave some money to Sakura.

Sakura took it very politely.

As Kakashi said, the drugs she bought had already run out before.

Even in D-class missions, injuries can occasionally occur.

What's more, this is an outing mission, and the medical supplies prepared must be more complete than before.

After there are more medical supplies, it is not something that Sakura can afford alone.

Naruto clasped his hands behind his head and said nonchalantly, "There's no need to thank Kakashi-sensei, this guy has taken half of our remuneration this time, which he should have paid in advance." ”

"I said you......"

Kakashi looked at Naruto speechlessly.

However, he didn't mean to blame Naruto either, and it was just some simple medical supplies that didn't cost him much.

For Naruto, he always had mixed feelings.

Seeing this face, he was both nostalgic and very guilty.

No matter what purpose he had at the beginning to contact that man who was like sunshine, he inherited a lot of affection from the other party.

It's just that the man who is like the sun is no more.

Because of this, he was sometimes unable to look directly at Naruto's existence.

"Then, tomorrow morning at seven o'clock, you will gather here at the building and go through the formalities of leaving the village."

With that, Kakashi waved his hand and walked into the Hokage building, disappearing from Naruto's vision.

After separating from the three of Naruto, Kakashi went to the Hokage's office in the building alone to meet the three Hokages.

After submitting the D-class mission he completed today, Kakashi spoke, "Hokage-sama, starting tomorrow, I think our seventh class can perform more difficult C-rank missions, are there any suitable C-rank missions that we can do recently?" ”

The task entrustment, for a large ninja village of Konoha's size, is basically never finished. In particular, the basic tasks of C-level and D-level corresponding to the middle and lower ninja have already been hoarded a lot.

Therefore, Kakashi was not at all worried that there would be no suitable C-rank missions to do on Hizashi's side.

After hearing Kakashi's words, Hinata was slightly surprised, but quickly relieved.

Under Kakashi's teaching, the strength of Class 7 has grown, and compared to the rest of the Shinobi groups, the upward trend is very fast.

And at the end of the day, you can basically complete two or three D-class tasks, and sometimes you can complete four or five D-class tasks in a day when you do it quickly.

This is all thanks to Naruto's shadow clone technique.

In the accumulation of this month, except for the days when they were cultivating, the seventh class had completed a total of nearly fifty or sixty D-level tasks, while the rest of the group had completed less than thirty D-level tasks.

With a gap of nearly double, the four of them in the seventh class led by Kakashi faintly have the nickname of 'Mission Maniac'.

Even if it's a D-class mission, completing as many as fifty or sixty in a month is quite an exaggerated achievement.

D-level mission experience has been accumulated, and the seventh class has reached a bottleneck, and needs more difficult tasks to break through their own growth.

Richo took a breath, smoked his cigarette stick, and then spit out the smoke ring, and after some contemplation, as if he had made up some kind of determination, he said slowly: "In that case, from tomorrow, the seventh class will start to carry out C-level tasks." It just so happens that I've just accepted a C-level mission, which is very suitable for you to complete in Class 7. ”

"What is the mission?"

Kakashi asked.

Hinata took out a scroll and placed it in front of him.

Kakashi stepped forward.

"It's rude."

Pick up the quest scroll, open it, and quickly scan it around, cold sweat unnaturally running down your face.

He asked cautiously tentatively, "Hokage-sama, are you sure this is a C-class mission?" ”

Hinata nodded affirmatively, looking at Kakashi with a meaningful gaze.

"You should understand the purpose of letting you go to that place. The affairs of the country of waves cannot be lost, and I am not very relieved that Tenzo is alone. ”

“……”

Kakashi fell silent.

It was a long time before Kakashi nodded solemnly.

"I see. I'll take care of the three of them. ”

Hearing Kakashi's promise, Hinata also breathed a sigh of relief, and a reassuring smile appeared on his wrinkled face.

"Then this C-class mission will bother you, Kakashi."

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At seven o'clock the next morning, the sun had just risen.

According to Kakashi, the three shinobi of the seventh class came to gather in front of the Hokage Building.

After finding the relevant personnel and going through the procedures for leaving the village, it also means that the seventh class has finally ended its boring and boring D-class mission career and has the ability to perform C-level tasks.

"Kakashi-sensei, let's hurry up and carry out the mission, I can't wait now!"

Naruto looked excited, and he couldn't help but want to perform the C-rank mission faster.

It was the first time he had left Konoha when he was so big, and it was a very rare experience for him.

Sasuke and Sakura were similar, but they were both able to restrain their emotions, and even if they were excited, they didn't show their faces, and looking at Kakashi, Sasuke asked:

"Kakashi, what's the content of this C-Class mission?"

In order to be able to perfectly complete the first C-level mission in his life, Sasuke prepared quite enough ninja equipment last night.

Although he knew that he would not meet ninjas in C-level missions, he couldn't help but be excited to prepare a lot of ninja equipment, and his expectations for C-level missions were not less enthusiastic than Naruto's.

Kakashi glanced at him and said, "It's a conservation mission." ”

"Protection mission?"

Sasuke was thoughtful.

Naruto happily asked, "Protection mission?" Do you want us to protect the princess? ”

"Stupid, Naruto, if this mission is to protect the princess of a country, then at least it will be an A-class mission."

Sakura reminded.

Unlike Naruto, Sakura's mastery of ninja knowledge is still very perfect.

Although the protection mission, it is generally a C-level mission.

However, the personnel who need to be protected in C-class missions are ordinary people or businessmen.

If it's a national daimyo or a princess or something, it basically starts with an A-level mission, and may even evolve into an S-level mission.

Maybe the difficulty is not high, but the level of identity determines the initial level of the task, and it is impossible to achieve a real balance.

And people who have reached that level of status cannot lack this commission fee.

Since it's a C-level mission, the protected person is definitely not a big aristocratic class like a princess daimyo. Sakura guessed that the people they were protecting this time were either ordinary people or businessmen. And if it's a businessman, it's just an ordinary small businessman.

If it is a big businessman, he may entrust the ninja village to issue a B-class mission, so that the ninja above the middle ninja can protect their lives on the way.

"Sakura is right, protect the princess or something, Naruto, you don't have to think about it."

Kakashi touched Naruto's head.

"And where are the people we want to protect?"

Naruto asked.

Although the person who protected it was not a princess, Naruto was a little disappointed, but quickly cheered up.

Kakashi turned his head to the side and said, "The other party is already here." ”

Looking in the direction Kakashi was looking, the smile on Naruto's face suddenly disappeared, and the anticipation vanished.

Sasuke and Sakura looked similar, but the disappointment on their faces wasn't as obvious compared to Naruto's.

Walking towards them was a drunken old man with a half-bottle of wine in his hand.

He wears exotic travel clothes and wears a hat with a pointed top and a somewhat unique shape.

Drinking in the morning, and getting drunk to the point of being drunk, directly minimized Naruto's perception of him.

"Cut, it's a bad old man who got drunk in the morning."

Naruto was blunt.

The drunken old man glanced at Naruto.

"Are you the ones who protect me this time? Whatever, they're all a bunch of milky imps, and the shortest one looks not only stupid, but also uncultured in his speech. ”

His words directly made Naruto's fists hard.

Because he was the shortest man in the ranks.

Even Sakura, who is a girl, is a little taller than him.

"Damn, bad old man, I'm going to kill you!"

Before Naruto could rush up, he was intercepted by Kakashi grabbing the back collar.

"What do you want to do? This is our client, and if you kill him, will he be on a mission? It's the C-rank mission you've always dreamed of. ”

"If this is the kind of person I protect, I might as well go on a D-class mission."

Naruto stopped the urge to hit and clasped his hands to his chest, as if seriously considering the matter.

"Once you take the task, you can't withdraw it."

Kakashi glanced at Naruto and told him that it was impossible to revoke the mission at this point.

Moreover, there are all kinds of people who come to the ninja village to entrust the mission, and even stranger and worse than this, Kakashi has seen them all.

It can only be said that as a shinobi, Naruto's concentration is still not enough, and his understanding of the outside world is too one-sided.

It's just a good time to take advantage of this mission to broaden the horizons of the three of them.

"Yes, I paid for it. It's a group of imps, but since it's a ninja, let's do it desperately. ”

The drunken old man laughed.

Naruto cut again, and although he was unhappy with the other party's previous attitude, he also acquiesced to the rule of desperately trying to protect the other party.

After everyone quieted down, Kakashi took the initiative to introduce the old man to the three Naruto.

"This is our client, Mr. Dazner from the Land of Waves. He is a master bridge builder in the country of waves, and our task is to protect him from external factors while he is building the bridge. That's our mission. ”

Kakashi briefly explained the origin of the other party and what he was going to do on this mission.

"A master of bridge building? However, if it's just a bridge, why do you want a ninja to go over to protect it? ”

Sasuke asked incomprehensibly.

"Because the bridge I built will lead to the land of fire, and because of this, it will offend the interests of some people," Dazner said. Recently, there have been more and more gangsters and wandering samurai roaming the construction site, and I need you ninjas in Konoha to clear the gangsters and wandering samurai that are plaguing the bridge-building work for me. ”

"In other words, in the course of the mission, there will be a battle, right?"

The corners of Sasuke's mouth hooked, and he looked eager to try, and his hands were already itching.

"That's right. Forget about ordinary gangsters, those wandering samurai are not good, and some samurai have also carried murders. ”

Dazner replied.

As the word murder was spoken, the atmosphere in the air became slightly heavy.

The so-called murder case refers to a samurai who has killed someone.

Naruto and Sakura's faces turned slightly unnatural.

Sasuke's face was as usual, not frightened by Dazna's words.

"Alright, you two, take it easy, and I'm here. Moreover, the strength of the wandering samurai is generally not very strong, with your strength, be careful, it is not a big problem to deal with. ”

Kakashi comforted.

Naruto and Sakura were much more relieved.

"I hope so, these little ghosts are unreliable, and then we will need you, the second-generation white fang, to help."

Dazner is not ambiguous at all when it comes to summoning people.

Konoha took his money, of course, he had to follow his rules.

As for Kakashi, he was faintly jealous.

After so many years, he is no longer an ordinary bridge builder.

The Fire Nation is known as a powerful ninja, and he is also familiar with it.

Among them, Kakashi is even more at the top.

He didn't know what kind of psychology Konoha was here, and he placed a ninja of this level in the territory of the country of waves, in short, everything needs to be careful.

Thinking of the strength of the ninjas of the Thunder Light Regiment, Dazna calmed down again.

Kakashi didn't defend anything, and nodded in agreement.

After a little rectification, the seventh squad led by Kakashi also officially began to carry out the mission.

At the checkpoint at the main gate of the village, the permission to go out was handed over to the corresponding Konoha ninja for review, and after the review was completed, a group of five people walked in the forest outside Konoha Village, heading in the direction of the country of waves.

Seeing Naruto looking around the road in a daze, the excitement on his face couldn't be hidden, but in Dazna's opinion, he always had a silly look on his face.

"Is this kid okay? It doesn't feel like a ninja. ”

Dazna took a sip of the bottle into his mouth, questioning Naruto's abilities as a ninja a little.

No matter how you look at it, Sasuke and Sakura are more trustworthy and reliable.

"Don't worry, Naruto, this kid is still quite reliable at a critical moment."

"In other words, he's the type who usually drops chains?"

Dazna said with interest.

Kakashi smiled awkwardly.

He then glanced vaguely into the shadows of the woods, without anyone noticing.

Not only the dark department, but even the people of the group were dispatched. Kakashi said to himself.

This escort to Zna to the country of waves to build a bridge is only a superficial task.

The real mission is carried out by the ninjas of the Shadows and the Roots.

In the name of a C-class mission, the three generations placed him in the country of waves, also to prevent the ninja dogs of the country of ghosts from jumping off the wall and making some irrational actions.

In addition to him, I'm afraid there are the rest of Konoha Shinobi, one step ahead, rushed to the country of waves last night and arranged the action in advance.

After suffering several losses in the country of ghosts in a row, Konoha's actions against the country of ghosts are also more cautious every time, preferring to arrange more arrangements than to have accidents and be in a hurry when the time comes.

This is not unexpected.

However, at the moment none of this has anything to do with him.

His mission was only to protect Dazna from the end of the bridge.

The battlefield that is divided will not affect the mission on his side.

The only thing to watch out for is the fourth unidentified force that has intervened in the Land of Waves.

I just don't know which country is behind this unknown force in the name of the Purple Moon People in the underground black market.

"Speaking of which, why did Dazna come to our Konoha to entrust the mission? Mr. Dazner is a native of the country of waves. ”

Sakura asked curiously on the way.

Dazna took a sip of wine, wiped the corners of his mouth, looked drunk, and under the equally curious gaze of Sasuke and Naruto, he said to Sakura, "It's not a big deal, our country of waves is a ninja-free country. If you want to seek help from a ninja, you can only do so by entrusting a ninja village organization from another country. As for why you came to Konoha...... That's because Konoha belongs to the Land of Fire, and we, the Land of Waves, are now planning to establish diplomatic relations with the Land of Fire and build a bridge across the sea that leads directly to the Land of Fire. Although this is only a C-level mission, I pay far more than the average C-level mission. It's because the meaning behind the bridge is different. ”

"That's right."

Sakura nodded knowingly.

"That's right, after all, it is one of the best ninja villages in the six major countries, whether it is reputation or strength, Konoha is a trustworthy ninja village."

Dazna's words also recognized Konoha's ability.

"The Big Six? Isn't it the Big Five? ”

Naruto was taken aback.

"The five major powers were a thing of the past, and three years ago, the large powers in the ninja world increased to six. The sixth great power is the country of demons to the west. You know a little bit about this common-sense problem that keeps pace with the times, Naruto. ”

Sakura sighed helplessly.

"I see."

Naruto nodded, although he didn't quite understand why the Great Kingdom had increased to six, but at this time, he nodded and pretended to understand, it was definitely right.

Sasuke was at the back of the group, glancing at Dazna's back, then quickly lowered his head as if he had never done anything.

There was only one thought in his mind right now—

This client Dazner ...... Problematic!