Naruto: I'm Really Not a Pokémon

"The village has been preparing for war for two months, so it's not surprising that they're only now officially declaring war, is it?"

Hearing Zabuza's somewhat arrogant voice, Ao felt no displeasure, but rather a sense of relief.

After returning to the village, they might directly receive war missions. What Qing is most worried about is that the two disciples who have just graduated for less than a year may have problems with their mentality.

But now seeing the condition of Jianchuan Tachibana and Zabuza, Qing was no longer worried and continued.

"Kokutagi Jonin's original intention was that if we had not completed the mission, we should rush back to the village as soon as possible. He probably didn't expect that we would find the target of the investigation so quickly."

The few of them couldn't just get off the boat and run back to the village from the sea now. Besides, there was a living person, Ichiro Shimotsuki, who needed to be escorted. The so-called rushing back as soon as possible was naturally nonsense now.

"So after we return to the village, will we be assigned war missions?"

Mei Terumi, who had been a little nervous from the beginning, asked.

This is also the issue that Jianchuan Ju is most concerned about. After all, the village cannot send all the ninjas to the battlefield as soon as the war starts. It would be best if they could have more time for development.

"It is not certain yet, but the first batch of troops to establish an outpost may have already set out. Even if we receive a war mission in the future, it should be an independent mission in the form of a small team."

In fact, Qing didn't tell the whole truth.

According to common sense, new jonin like Qing are not important combat forces and will not be transferred away specifically.

However, Qing is still a perceptive ninja.

The Hidden Mist Village is not like Konoha, which has the Hyuga, Aburame, Inuzuka, and various other sensory ninja families, and can easily form a professional sensory team.

If the village really needed to organize a sensing unit and transferred Qing away, the team would probably be disbanded. In order not to worry the disciples, Qing did not mention this possibility.

As the disciple who had followed Qing the longest, Mei Terumi vaguely guessed some of the situations, but after thinking about it, she chose to remain silent.

But after all, participating in the war is something he will do after returning to the village, so Qing decided to change the subject.

"I called you here for another reason. I have already sent the general information of this investigation back to the Jounin Kujira through the Ninja Owl. I didn't intend to tell you which family was specifically doing the smuggling."

"Captain Qing is afraid that we will be involved in the internal fighting in the village." Jianchuan Ju made a timely comment.

"Yes, but considering that you may need to be more careful in the future, I decided to remind you."

Having said that, Qing rubbed his eyebrows and his voice became slightly lower.

"It is recorded in the account books this time that the Xuezhi Clan and the Taitun Clan were both involved in smuggling. But it is not certain which family trained the pirates before."

"The Snow Clan?"

Jianchuan Ju was a little surprised. He didn't have much impression of the Taitun family, but the Xue clan was the famous Kirigakure bloodline family.

Since the character Bai, who is a member of the Snow Clan in the original work, is very likable, Jianchuan Ju has a certain filter for this family.

But thinking about it, it makes sense. How could everyone in such a large ninja clan be as pure and innocent as snow, like Haku?

Zabuza may have no good feelings towards these ninja families because of Karatachi Yagura. He sneered and said.

"They'd better not think about doing anything behind my back!"

Qing did not refute anything. He said these things to his disciples just to remind them to be safe.

It’s okay inside the Hidden Mist Village, but on the battlefield, the attack may not necessarily come from the front.

"In short, you should be more careful next time."

Jianchuan Ju and the other two nodded in agreement at the same time.

Chapter 54 Successfully Returning to the Village (Fifth Update! Please Subscribe!)

A somewhat unfamiliar blade flashed through the air.

The masked ninja stepped back effortlessly, dodging the attack.

However, before he could rejoice over this, a short figure appeared behind him.

"Bang~"

With a dull thud, the masked ninja's back caved in and he spat out a mouthful of blood before falling to the ground.

It was only then that the slender blue figure appeared.

It was the newly evolved Blue Boy.

"Blue, good job!"

Seeing that all the enemies had been eliminated, Jianchuan Ju immediately walked up and touched Lan Zai's head.

"Quack~(～￣▽￣)～" Lanzai happily enjoyed the praise from his master.

When Mei Terumi saw that the battle here was over, she walked up to Qing and said with some sarcasm.

"Teacher Qing, the enemy seems to be looking down on you. They even sent out Genin."

Qing could only smile helplessly.

This is the third attack Team Qing has encountered in the past two days, since they got off the passenger ship and returned to the Water Country.

At the beginning of the first attack, the other side even sent a Jonin to lead an attack team of several Chunins.

Fortunately, with the reminder from Jianchuan Ju, Qing was able to hold back the opponent's senior ninja in the first place.

And after a brief test, the jonin realized that he could not kill any member of Team Ao, so he chose to retreat in order not to reveal his identity.

In this attack, the enemy only left behind a few Chunin corpses and ended the attack hastily.

After Qing examined the bodies of these Chunins, he found that there was indeed a tooth with a spell engraved on it hidden in the mouth of each of them, and the identity of the attacker was revealed.

After the first attack, the three little ones were on high alert for a long time, fearing that they would be ambushed again.

Who would have thought that the senior ninja never showed up again in the subsequent attacks, and the quality of the attackers became worse and worse, and they were visibly perfunctory.

In this last attack, most of the enemies were only of the strength of ordinary Genin.

Qing did not take action, but just stayed beside Shimotsuki Ichiro and watched the enemy attack. Jianchuan Ju and the other two eliminated all the enemies without much effort.

In fact, Qing didn't quite understand why the enemy arranged the attack in this way, and why the senior ninja didn't show up again.

Moreover, he had already passed the information back to Goji Yagura a few days ago.

Now the account book in his hand and the two ninjas from the Land of Craftsmen were just ordinary evidence. Ninjas usually didn't pay much attention to evidence, and only needed a result.

"Forget it, let's go. We'll be back to the village soon, let's speed up."

Qing shook his head helplessly and motioned for his disciples to follow.

Starting to hurry on the road again, Zabuza walked up to Jianchuan Tachibana with small steps and spoke with some disgust.

"I think you should return the knife to me. Don't let the enemy kill you directly because of using it."

Obviously, Zabuza, who had defeated his opponent long ago, came to complain after seeing the horrible swordsmanship of Jianchuan Tachibana.

Jianchuan Ju smiled awkwardly and began to defend himself.

"Well, I only dare to try it out because Teacher Qing is here to help."

Previously on the passenger ship, Jianchuan Ju finally agreed to Shimotsuki Ichiro's suggestion and decided to use part of the "Flying Peacock Twin Swords" as reward and materials to let the other party help build a new weapon.

However, it would take time to forge a weapon, so Jianchuan Ju asked Zabuza for his spare dagger.

First, you can practice swordsmanship when you have nothing to do.

Secondly, Jianchuan Ju thought that even if his swordsmanship was not good enough, carrying a short sword on his back could mislead his opponents and prevent them from getting close to him rashly, so he could make better use of his long-range advantage.

"Tsk, with your level, it's useless to try it out. You should practice the basic skills."

It's no wonder Zabuza mocked him; Tachibana's current swordsmanship level isn't even among the top students at the Ninja Academy.

However, he is only 10 years old, so he can still practice a little more later.

Moreover, Jianchuan Ju also thought of the scene of the previous battle against pirates. Some close combat is always inevitable in ninja battles. Having a better melee weapon will avoid the embarrassing situation of being directly cut off by the opponent's kunai.

"Hehe, maybe your swordsmanship will be worse than mine in the future."

Jianchuan Ju thought that maybe one day he would draw some melee skills and his swordsmanship would immediately soar to the sky, so he immediately stopped caring about Zabuza's words.

However, Zabuza didn't think so. He glanced at Jianchuan Tachibana with disdain and didn't want to talk to this guy anymore.

"Hehe, don't worry. Even if I'm better than you, I won't fight with you for the long knife and stitches."

Jianchuan Ju put his arm around Zabuza's shoulders and forced him to continue listening to his bragging.

Zabuza's eyes were almost rolled up to the sky at this moment.

However, Jianchuan Ju still noticed the handle of his short sword. There was a ring there at some point, and the steel wire ninja tool that he had given him was tied to it.

"These two guys."

Qing and Mei Terumi, who were walking in front, looked at each other, feeling helpless about the two noisy teammates behind them.

The five of them accelerated all the way back to the Hidden Mist Village, and finally completed the mission safely without experiencing any attacks.

"I'm back. It feels like this mission lasted a long time."

Walking into the village gate, Mei Terumi couldn't help but stretch herself, obviously feeling a lot more relaxed.

"It's mainly because the journey took too long, and the actual task didn't take much time."

Jianchuan Ju replied casually that it took more than ten days just to travel back and forth, and during that time he also had to find opportunities to do daily tasks.