Chapter 44 Departure, B-level mission! (Ch 44)

Since becoming Chunin, Naraku and Kakashi have been very busy. In addition to participating in B-level missions, they also need to lead the Genin to do some C-level missions as captains. Most of the time, they are apart from each other.

Half a year has passed in a flash, and it is already late autumn.

It had been nearly a month since Kakashi and Naraku last took a vacation together. Now that they finally had overlapping vacations, they naturally headed to the training ground to see how much progress the other had made.

bass–

Kakashi cut the fireball apart, took a deep breath to calm his over-rapid heartbeat, and complained:

“Too many Fire Styles!”

“Then learn some water jutsu quickly, Kakashi. I remember you have water attribute chakra, right?”

Naraku smiled and clasped his hands together, making seals one after another.

Fire Style: Phoenix Fire Technique!

Kakashi quickly stuck the knife into the ground at his feet, and his hands left a trace.

Earth escape·Earth flow wall!

A thick and wide earth wall rose in front of Kakashi. The raging flames hit it and spread out in all directions along the wall, like a lotus made of flames.

Kakashi didn’t stay for long. He immediately drew his sword and dodged behind the wall. He knew that Naraku would definitely have another trick up his sleeve.

There was a whistling sound that cut through the air behind him. He didn’t even bother to look at it. He used his knife to block it to his side and felt a huge force hitting him.

I turned my head slightly to look, and behind the blade that was coming at me was indeed Naraku’s smiling face.

He frowned: Why does this guy look so successful? He clearly defended himself…

The next second, Naraku saw Kakashi’s eyes become blank and he fell straight down.

After a while, seeing that Kakashi showed no sign of waking up, Naraku squatted down, stroked his forehead with his right hand, and raised his left hand with a sword finger: “Release!”

The person who was lying on the ground immediately jumped up, and looked around nervously as if something was chasing him. After he recovered, he showed a “speechless” expression to Naraku.

“Another illusion?”

“Yes, and,” Naraku shook his finger proudly, “it is the completed version of the Chunin Exam at that time.”

“I didn’t even realize I was tricked this time…very impressive.”

Kakashi praised honestly that he never hid his feelings when facing Naraku.

The fight was almost over and neither of them wanted to continue, so they started packing up and prepared to go home for dinner.

While collecting the kunai and shurikens scattered on the training ground, Naraku casually asked, “Kakashi, do you have any missions scheduled after this vacation?”

“Not yet,” Kakashi put the knife back on his back and tightened the straps, “We’ll see when the time comes.”

Naraku came back after picking up the weapons: “Then let’s find someone to go with us.”

“Okay, it’s been a while since we went on a mission together.” Kakashi agreed without hesitation and asked, “What’s for dinner?”

“Why am I the one thinking about this again?…How about pork chop rice? After you finish eating, buy two skewers of tricolor dumplings.”

“OK.”

…

Vacation time always passes so quickly. Naraku always feels like he took his vacation yesterday, so how come he has to go out on a mission the next day?

In fact, the holiday has been over for four days.

This time, before they even stepped into the Hokage Building, they ran into Minato Namikaze coming down from the building.

“Minato-senpai.” ×2

“What a coincidence, I was just about to look for you, Kakashi, Naraku.”

Seeing the two people’s puzzled expressions, he raised the documents in his hand and said with a smile: “There is a difficult B-rank mission here. You all happened to be here, so I applied to the Hokage to let you be my teammates. However, if you have other plans, it’s okay. Let’s talk about it next time.”

Naraku and Kakashi looked at each other, then looked at Minato and said in unison: “Let’s take it.”

Minato said happily: “That’s great, but we are still short of a few people, and they have to be Chunin, do you have anyone you can recommend?”

The two of them spoke at the same time: “Senior Dai.”

“Matt Dai…” Minato thought of this ninja who was rumored to be extremely good at physical skills. According to age, Dai is actually a senior, so he nodded in agreement, “He is indeed a very strong teammate. I will look for the remaining vacancies.”

He paused, then said, “Let me first tell you about the mission. It’s like this…”

Following Minato’s introduction, Naraku and Kakashi also had some understanding of this mission.

To put it simply, this is an escort mission.

The employer is Matsukata Tsuyoshi, a famous nobleman in the Land of Fire and the head of the Matsukata family.

As a top noble prince, Matsukata had a vast and rich fiefdom under his jurisdiction, extremely strong financial resources, and many samurai and ninjas under his command.

At the same time, the entire Matsukata family is also an important source of missions for the Konoha ninja. Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen has specifically instructed that this mission must be completed successfully and the other party’s trust over the years must not be let down.

According to Matsugata Tsuneshige, a family under his command that was accustomed to producing samurai had rebelled and colluded with other forces to betray him, so he decided to strike first.

Although the Matsukata family had its own armed forces, they were still very cautious and issued a mission to Konoha, mobilizing two jonin and six chuunin to protect the head of the family, Tsuyoshi Matsukata, and his children, just in case.

“Okay, go home and get ready. Meet at the village entrance at 8 o’clock tomorrow morning.”

“Okay.” ×2

Early the next morning.

Naraku and Kakashi rushed to the village entrance, Minato and Might Guy had already arrived and were talking about something.

The four of them greeted each other, waited for the rest of their teammates to gather, and after counting the number of people, everyone set off together.