Morning.
Ayane was teasing the caged birds in the corridor, with a gentle smile on her fair and clean face.
At the other end of the corridor, Rizu, who had already washed up, saw this scene. The beautiful picture was frozen at this moment. Rizu was a little distracted when he looked there.
It must have been several years ago that I met Ayane.
At that time, he did not expect that Ayane could stay with him and become his maid.
"Good morning, Master Rizu."
After Ayane saw Hizu, she calmly stood up, stopped teasing the caged bird, and smiled gently and respectfully at Hizu.
The pure white pupils give people all the beauty in the world.
Every time he saw Ayane's look, Hizu kept having questions in his mind.
Has she accepted the fate of separation?
Did she really obey the Zong family?
There was no resentment or hostility in her eyes.
It seemed that because of the years of getting along with him, she had let go of her prejudice against the Zong family.
"Good morning, Ayane."
Hizu is not a deliberately indifferent person, both he and Ayane know this very well.
But precisely because he is too gentle, he must give people a serious and cold image.
His gentleness may be a disaster for the Hinata family and may also cause harm to others.
His gentleness once hurt his younger brother Hizashi, so he didn't want Ayane, the maid who had followed him for several years, to be hurt as well.
"I heard that you are going on a mission, right?"
"Yes, Master Rizu. I'm very sorry. I may not be able to serve you at any time in the future."
Ayane bowed apologetically.
"It doesn't matter, our Hyuga family is also part of Konoha. Don't worry, your leader Sakumo Hatake is an excellent ninja."
Rizu seemed to know something.
"Is this something that Master Rizu requested from the patriarch?"
Ayane's pure white pupils have a gentle color without impurities.
Nizu didn't answer.
He passed by Ayane with a calm expression.
Ayane looked at the time, it was almost time to gather, and was about to leave.
"that……"
Rizu's voice came from behind.
Ayane turned her head and looked at Hizu doubtfully.
Hizu did not turn around, but turned his back to Ayane.
"Please protect yourselves."
After saying this, Rizu's pace suddenly quickened and he disappeared at the end of the corridor.
Unlike those cold and arrogant clans, Rizu always has a soft heart.
Ayane just had a gentle smile on her face, as if she heard Hizu's words, but she seemed not to hear them.
She tied the forehead protector to her forehead, and her long, dark, silk-like hair was spread down. She stopped in the corridor for a while, then raised her steps and walked towards the outside of the Hyuga clan.
I don't deserve to be treated like this, Master Rizu. This sentence stayed in her heart.
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After yesterday's priceless barbecue meal, the atmosphere in the team was relatively harmonious.
Sakumo also gained some understanding of the three people in the team.
Chiba Shiraishi is a medical ninja. We haven’t seen much about his personality, but overall he is an ordinary ninja. However, his medical ninja profession has given him a lot of points.
Hyuga Ayane, who comes from a wealthy family, has a gentle and considerate personality, and occasionally a little bit of evil, which is in line with the lively personality of young people. Most importantly, she is very good at eating.
Uchiha Ruri, the genius of the Uchiha clan, judging from the brief battle yesterday, his skills are no weaker than those of ordinary jounin. Special note, money.
In the eyes of the Shiraishi trio, the ninja Sakumo Hatake, known as the Konoha White Fang, has a casual personality and is not as ruthless as people in the rumors make him out to be. He is also a poor guy who can't even afford a barbecue.
The shame of jounin.
After all, there is always a big gap between facts and rumors, and getting along with Sakumo has become very casual. Sakumo has no airs about being a jounin at all and can communicate with anyone on an equal footing.
At ten o'clock in the morning, the members of Sakumo's team gathered at the gate of Konoha Village.
"I just went to Hokage-sama to accept an A-level mission. Let's use this to practice."
Shiraishi's lips twitched, and he knew that this team was not performing an ordinary mission.
Using A-level missions to practice, Shiraishi can feel the miserable mission career with no bright future.
It's probably too late to quit now.
"lets go."
Sakumo saw that although the three people had different expressions, they all obeyed the arrangements honestly, so he couldn't help but nodded and disappeared from the place.
Shiraishi and the other three were not slow in their movements. The moment Sakumo disappeared, they all started to catch up.
Because the most important thing for a long journey is to maintain sufficient physical strength, ninjas will not run very fast during the run, otherwise even jounin will be unable to bear it.
"Sakumo-sensei, what is the content of the A-level mission?"
Shiraishi saw that neither Ruri nor Ayane had the intention to ask about the content of the mission, so he took the initiative to speak.
Sakumo didn't hide anything: "A large-scale battle is taking place on the front line. Our mission is to eliminate the enemies lurking in the Land of Fire. They often attack supply convoys transported from Konoha and destroy the towns of the Land of Fire."
"Is it so serious? In other words..."
Bai Shi vaguely guessed something.
"Ah, your guess is good. A-level missions may turn into S-level missions at any time, because even ANBU cannot fully grasp the whereabouts of those lurkers. That's why a ninja with white eyes is placed in the team. Our mission Just wander around the Land of Fire and eliminate all enemies that appear within Byakugan's field of vision."
How many ninjas there are among them, how many ninjas are chunin, and how many jonins are all unknown.
This is why Sakumo said that A-level missions may turn into S-level missions at any time.
"Is it just our group?"
Liuli asked calmly, not scared by the content of the task.
"Of course not, there will be a detachment of ANBU to cooperate."
Shiraishi and the other two nodded, feeling a little more relieved.
If there is a detachment of ANBU to cooperate, the work should be much easier.
There are a total of seventy people in the ANBU, with two captains and deputy captains. They serve as the Hokage's personal guards and generally do not go out directly on missions.
Under the captain and deputy captain, there are four ANBU divisions.
Each squad has a squad leader, each squad leader has four squads, and each squad has four ANBU ninjas.
In other words, a squad leader plus sixteen ANBU from four squads, a total of seventeen ANBU ninjas will cooperate with Sakumo's team to eliminate lurking enemies in the Land of Fire.
The rest of the journey was speechless. An hour after leaving the village, Ayane immediately opened her Byakugan and scanned the surrounding environment to see if there were any enemies lurking within the Byakugan's detection range.
Ayane's Byakugan detection range has a radius of five kilometers, which is a greater breakthrough from previous years.
Another hour later, Sakumo at the front of the team made a stop gesture.
The four of them landed on a clearing and stopped.
"Take a rest here first."
The most important thing for a team is discipline. Since Sakumo is the captain, the three Shiraishi will naturally obey it unconditionally.
After sitting down, Sakumo said: "Going further is a dangerous area, where we may encounter ninjas ambushing us at any time. The three of you have very good theoretical scores in school, and you should know the basics of the team. Please cooperate."
"Are they the three principles of medical ninja?"
Shiraishi asked.
Sakumo nodded.
The so-called three principles of medical ninja were stipulated by Tsunade, one of the three ninjas.
The first point - the medical ninja must not give up treatment before the team member dies.
Second point - medical ninjas cannot fight on the front lines.
The third point - the medical ninja cannot die before the members of the team.
Therefore, there is no shame for medical ninjas who avoid fighting, and there is no shame for medical ninjas who accept the protection of others.
"Next, I will be responsible for the advance. Ruri and Ayane, you two must stay with Shiraishi at all times. Even if there seems to be no danger around you, you are not allowed to prioritize fighting. Even if you encounter a situation where you have to fight, Ruri You are responsible for attacking, Ayane is responsible for protecting."
"yes!"
Understanding and being able to do it are two different things, but Sakumo can only trust the cooperation between the three of them for this kind of thing.
After resting for ten minutes, Sakumo led the three of them to move forward.
As Sakumo said, going forward is a dangerous area where safety cannot be guaranteed, and battles may occur anytime and anywhere.
"At one o'clock ahead, about 2,300 meters away, there are seven Sunagakure ninjas ambushing there. Two are hiding underground, three are hiding behind trees, and the other two are hiding in the grass."
Suddenly, Ayane, who kept her Byakugan open, shared the information observed by her Byakugan.
"Follow up."
Sakumo's pace suddenly quickened and he ran quickly towards the one o'clock direction pointed by Ayane.
Under Byakugan's insight, all ambush and concealment are exposed to the sun, leaving nothing to hide.
The distance of two thousand three hundred meters is not long, and it took less than three minutes to reach the enemy's ambush circle.
"Teacher Sakumo, should we be careful..."
Just when Ayane was about to say something, Sakumo disappeared from sight.
Under Byakugan's detection, only a flash of sword light was seen, and the chakra reaction of the five Sunagakure ninjas disappeared directly, turning into cold corpses.
There were two others who fled towards them in a panic. They were probably frightened by Sakumo's surprise attack at that moment.
"There are two targets right in front. The teacher specially sent them here for practice. Let's just use fire escape to deal with them."
Ayane sighed.
Bai Yan could clearly see where the enemies were coming from, how many targets they were targeting, and what methods they used to target them.
This is not a battle at all.
Liuli's seal has already been formed.
Two huge fireballs were spit out from his mouth in succession.
The two people who fled here did not expect the fireball to arrive at such a perfect time, as if the time had been determined and turned into coke in the fireball.
