Chapter 24
"Kakashi, how are your three students?"
Sarutobi Hiruzen, who looked haggard and smoking a pipe, sat in his office chair and asked Kakashi who came to report with a smile.
"Um, that's reassuring, isn't it?" Kakashi hesitated.
"Oh, what's the secret? Could it be that Naruto or Sasuke is too naughty?"Sarutobi Hiruzen heard Kakashi's hesitation and asked
"No, it's mainly because, apart from Haruno Sakura, Sasuke and Naruto are too strong. For the D-rank missions they usually take over, they just use a shadow clone to do it. Although the efficiency is very high, I always feel that the two of them are a bit out of place."Kakashi had to complain. It was really stressful to have two subordinates with similar strength to him.
"Really? They are very strong, so it seems that these two kids are not to be underestimated." Sarutobi Hiruzen stroked his goatee and pondered for a moment,"So it seems a bit of a waste of talent to have you do D-level missions all the time, and the rewards for these missions are indeed a bit low. I remember that Naruto has a big appetite, right?"
Since Naruto became Kakashi's subordinate ninja, Sarutobi Hiruzen has stopped providing Naruto with daily supplies. That is to say, if Naruto wants to eat in the future, he needs to do tasks to earn money.
However, ninjas who have just become Genin can only do some of the lowest-level D-level tasks, such as helping villagers harvest crops, finding pets, or handing out flyers to some merchants.
The bonus for D-level tasks is also the lowest. After completing a D-level task, in most cases there is only a reward of one or two thousand taels, and one-tenth of this money must be deducted and submitted to the village finance department. The rest, the leading jonin gets half, and the remaining half is divided equally among the three subordinate Genin.
Moreover, even the simplest D-level task is not something that can be dealt with casually by the employer. If the employer is not satisfied with the final result, the employer has the right to withdraw more than half of the task reward. Even if the task is completely messed up, the employer can even ask for double the reward compensation.
However, this kind of thing rarely happens in Konoha. Ordinary civilians hardly dare to make things difficult for ninjas, and Konoha's ninjas are still quite high in completing tasks.
"Naruto is indeed a big eater. He eats almost all the time except for training. As for his daily expenses, they should all be given to him by Sasuke."
Sarutobi Hiruzen restrained his smile:"Uchiha Sasuke?" Then he sighed. Although he was very happy to see Naruto establish a deep bond and friendship with Sasuke, so that Sasuke could be firmly tied to Konoha Village, but this behavior of relying on Sasuke for food made him feel weird. He felt that in the future, it might become Naruto who was too dependent on Sasuke, rather than Sasuke who was reluctant to leave Naruto. In short, Sarutobi Hiruzen felt that it was better to take precautions.
"Since they are all quite strong, I will make an exception and arrange a C-level mission for you. Let those three little kids go out of the village and broaden their horizons!"
"For a C-rank mission out of the village, is it to escort something or to escort someone?" Kakashi wondered.
"Escort a person to the Land of Waves. Wait a minute, I'll have someone call him over. You guys get to know each other for now."
Sarutobi Hiruzen called his subordinates to call Dazna over.
Looking at Dazna, who was drunk, wearing a pointed straw hat and short-sleeved farm clothes, Kakashi frowned. He didn't like those who drank alcohol every day.
"Hey, Lord Hokage, I heard that you have arranged guards for me, who are they?" Dazna asked drunkenly.
After Kakashi introduced himself, Dazna looked disdainful:"Just him? Didn't you agree to send more people?"
Sarutobi Hiruzen explained kindly:"Of course, in addition to Kakashi, there are also three of his students, who are also strong ninjas"
"Oh, so, let's go, I have to hurry back to finish building the bridge." The drunken Dazna was already impatient when he heard that the staff were ready.
"Mr. Dazna, please be patient. We also need to prepare our luggage. We will meet at the entrance of the village in half an hour."Kakashi responded
""Okay, okay, you better hurry up." Dazna waved his hand impatiently and walked out on his own. It was not until Dazna was far away from the Hokage's office that he slowly sobered up and broke out in a cold sweat.
Because he lied about the difficulty of the mission, in addition to escorting him back to the Land of Waves, he was very likely to be assassinated by others along the way, and it was very likely that there would be ninjas among those who assassinated him.
But he didn't explain it, because once he explained these circumstances, the difficulty of the mission he issued would be raised to B-level, or even A-level, but the reward for B-level missions was too high, almost ten times more than ordinary C-level missions, and he couldn't afford it at all.
In order to cover up In order to hide the truth from the Konoha ninjas, he thought of drinking alcohol, using drunkenness to cover up his guilty expression. In addition, he was a commoner with almost no strength, so it was easy to deceive those ninjas. As for the specific situation after leaving the village and being discovered by the Konoha ninjas, the worst that could happen was that he would complain and cry about his poverty, and they would probably make an exception to help him.
No matter what, when people are desperate, they can do anything except math problems.
Half an hour later, Dazna looked at the three little kids behind Kakashi with a dark face.
"Is this the ninja that Konoha arranged for me? Can a kid like this be a ninja?"
Naruto glanced at Dazna. He knew very well how the mission would develop, but being able to leave the village did make him feel more comfortable, so he didn't want to pursue the fact that Dazna lied about the difficulty of the mission. Besides
, as long as he didn't encounter a super-kage-level existence, who would Naruto be confident of?���You can touch him. As for Momochi Zabuza, he is just average. He can just not make any move and be a cheerleader for Sasuke. If Sasuke is injured after the fight, he can be revived with full health by biting him.
However, Naruto rarely lets Sasuke bite him. First, they practice fighting in the illusion space every day, and Sasuke doesn't have to worry about the consumption of chakra.
Second, Naruto dislikes him. A grown man wants to bite him all day long. Every time before Sasuke bites him, he will take a friendship punch to make sure he doesn't bite the wrong place.
As for Hinata, Naruto always lets Hinata bite his fingertips. It's a complete bad taste.
Sakura was not happy when she heard Dazna's complaints. Although she was very weak and completely inferior to her two teammates, could a mere C-level mission be difficult for her? If she didn't see that Sasuke and Naruto didn't react, she would have wanted to curse.
Kakashi also felt something was wrong, but he didn't think much about it. He said coldly:"My students are definitely not weak. If you don't like it, you can go to the third generation to exchange us."
Dazna felt guilty and didn't dare to complain anymore. He responded in a low voice:"I'm just talking casually. Let's go quickly. I won't pay you if you delay the progress of the bridge construction." It has been nine years since he came to the Naruto world. This is the first time Naruto has stepped out of the gate of Konoha Village.
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From nine in the morning to three in the afternoon, except for a short break to eat some dry food, the group walked a long way.
Finally, when the group passed a puddle of water, Kakashi, Naruto and Sasuke paused their breathing for a second, and then walked forward as if nothing had happened.
At this time, Sasuke, who deliberately fell behind, stepped over the puddle of water. Suddenly, the water rioted, and a huge stream of water rushed out, rushing out two ninjas with disheveled hair, gas masks and fog forehead protectors.
The two of them had special ninja tools in their hands, and they shot out a ten-meter-long spiked chain and killed Kakashi.
A cold light flashed in Sasuke's eyes, and his body disappeared instantly.
Only two"bangs" were heard, and the two had been knocked unconscious by Sasuke and fell to the ground. Then, Sasuke took out a kunai and wanted to give them each a knife to eliminate future troubles.
Naruto immediately shouted,"Sasuke, leave him alive!"
Sasuke looked indifferent, fiddled with the kunai in his hand, put it away, and turned away.
Naruto:(ー`´ー)
Naruto thought to himself,"This little brother is really good at pretending. In addition to the Sharingan, has he also awakened the bloodline limit of pretend escape?"
Sakura next to him seemed to have twinkling stars in her big eyes and cheered,"Sasuke-kun, you are really amazing, so handsome!"
""Yeah."
Sasuke seemed not to care about his victory, but after all, he was praised by Sakura, so he was secretly happy in his heart.
As a teacher, Kakashi was speechless. He wanted to deal with the two attackers by himself, but he didn't expect Sasuke to not hold back at all.
However, since the attackers fainted, he simply dealt with the aftermath.
As for why he was attacked by ninjas, Kakashi looked at him coldly.���Dazna looked at him and said,"Mr. Dazna, I hope you can give me a reasonable explanation later, why there is a ninja attack in the C-rank mission you issued."
After that, Kakashi tied up the two fainted Mist Ninjas and used a weak water escape technique to wake them up.
The two woke up and found that they were tied up. Facing Kakashi's questioning, they looked at each other and gritted their teeth. In less than a few seconds, their faces turned black, and they groaned in pain and shed black blood. Then they closed their eyes and kicked their feet, and they were completely silent.
""Tsk tsk tsk tsk, unprofessional, Mr. Salted Fish!" Naruto started to mock whenever he got the chance.
Kakashi really didn't expect that a ninja who attacked civilians would be so determined to die, which made him, a veteran who had been on duty in the Anbu for many years, unexpectedly fail.
Little did they know that these two ninjas were the subordinates led by Zabuza Momochi when he defected from Kirigakure. They respected and feared Zabuza, and knew that Zabuza would never forgive them if they failed in this mission.
In addition to Zabuza's bloodthirsty killing methods, and Zabuza never kept useless people, so the two knew that they could not survive, so they bit their poisonous teeth and committed suicide by taking poison.