Ninja Pot Shadow

Choji had great faith in the Third Hokage, and at this moment he showed a thoughtful expression.

Ino continued, "Grandpa San-san said they have committed many evils. You are so kind, how can you just stand by and watch them do evil and bully the villagers? Punishing evil is promoting good!"

It has to be said that the "talk-no-jutsu" skill is actually quite useful. After Naruto learned of Jiraiya's death, he truly hated Nagato. He probably had never been so heartbroken in his life. In the end, he was able to put aside this hatred, which was related to Jiraiya's teachings and his own ability to convince himself.

Did she manage to persuade Choji at this point? Ino didn't know, but after she finished speaking, the gloom in her heart caused by the murder had dissipated considerably.

That's right, punish evil and promote good! Thinking about it this way makes me feel much better.

"Choji, being kind-hearted is not wrong. You don't need to apologize to me. There's nothing wrong with holding firm to your bottom line. But at the same time, don't let down those who trust you. Don't waste your talent. Protect the kind and punish the evil."

With a righteous expression, Ino summarized, "With great power comes great responsibility!"

It was clear that Choji's eyes held something completely different from usual.

Ino coughed at the right moment, and Shikamaru, who was covered in blood in the distance, immediately staggered. In order to change his good brother's mindset, he was really going all out. He did not dodge or avoid the naginata in the bandit's hand, as if he could not dodge it in time, and let the other party cut a bloody wound on his arm.

"Shikamaru!? You're not allowed to bully Shikamaru!" Seeing his best friend injured, Choji couldn't hold back any longer. He launched a "human bomb" and smashed the bandit who had injured Shikamaru into a bloody mess.

"With great power comes great responsibility?" Asma pondered this sentence carefully. Having left the village in his youth due to rebellion, he found it increasingly profound.

He doesn't regret what he did back then. Who hasn't made mistakes when they were young and impetuous? But looking back now, he realizes that he has indeed let down many people's expectations and failed to shoulder the responsibilities that should have been his.

Kakashi, who started killing at the age of six, didn't think there was any profound meaning in those words. To him, it meant that the greater the ability, the more people he could kill. He had killed more people than Ino and the others had ever seen. He had been surrounded by darkness since childhood and had hardly ever seen the world of light. Ino's words of deceiving children had no effect on him at all.

Asma wanted to discuss something with him, but he just mumbled "uh-huh" and "yeah" in response.

……

The bandits tried to resist, but with the boost of chakra, the ninjas' strength and speed far exceeded those of ordinary people. Even Sakura, who had a low will to fight, could easily take down the bandits. The six of them swept through the bandits like a whirlwind, and completed the task of clearing out the bandits an hour later.

The bandit leader, a tall, curly-haired man named Buggy, was knocked down by Shikamaru with a single punch, and the bandit leader Touka, who had led them into the trap, was also dragged out of the almost ruined second checkpoint by Choji.

With the two leaders captured, the remaining bandits were powerless to resist and had no choice but to kneel down and surrender.

When Naruto heard that everyone was looking for the village chief's granddaughter but they were severely short-handed, his desire to show off in front of his classmates overcame his murderous thoughts. It was truly a case of "showing off is fun for a while, and it's even more fun to keep showing off!"

His multiple shadow clones finally proved useful, instantly creating hundreds of shadow clones that searched room by room, leaving no stone unturned, from rice jars and cupboards to under beds. Finally, he found the village chief's granddaughter, a little girl who looked to be only six or seven years old, in one of the bandit leaders' hidden rooms.

Everyone was so engrossed in the fighting that they had completely forgotten about the mission; it was Shikamaru who finally remembered it.

Once the hostages were rescued, the rest was simple.

Of the more than two hundred bandits, those who died from fire, drowning, or were killed by the six of them totaled more than one hundred, with the rest all wounded.

The seventh and tenth classes are here to train, and incidentally, to see some blood and gain some practical experience, not to slaughter. That's enough.

"Hey." Ino sized up the bandit leader, Buggy.

The bandit leader was quite tough, sticking his neck out and remaining silent, while the bandit Dongfeng beside him was kowtowing repeatedly, saying things like "Please, sir, spare my dog's life."

Ino is just an ordinary person. She looks down on those who fawn over her, but she quite admires this man who is unyielding in the face of power.

“Hey, aren’t you afraid of dying? We’ve killed more than half of your men today, including forty or fifty of them. I don’t mind killing one more.”

Bucky sneered, "Kill me if you want, no need for further explanation."

"You are not afraid of death?"

"What's the use of being afraid!"

The bandit Dongfeng, standing to the side, kept babbling on and on: "Master Ninja, spare my life! I'm afraid of dying, spare my life, I'll do anything!"

Ino knocked the guy unconscious with one punch. He kept rambling on and on, saying he didn't even mention any of his skills. What good would it do to just beg for mercy?

She casually asked Bucky, "I heard from this guy that you designed the knock-off? You know anything about architecture?"

Bucky was a little curious and looked her over carefully. His lips moved slightly, but he didn't say anything in the end.

"Alright, he's a tough guy. Serve his sentence well, but don't die." Ino turned and left.

She left Bucky, who seemed to know a lot about architecture, with a glimmer of hope before going to clean up the battlefield.

Putting everything else aside, we have to retrieve the shuriken and senbon that were thrown out earlier; we can't let Naruto get away with them again this time...

She not only picked up ninja tools, but also other things.

The valuables inside the stronghold were spoils of war from the ninja mission and did not need to be handed over to the village. Shikamaru, Sakura, and the others were still adjusting to their mindset after killing people, their faces pale. Choji was even vomiting profusely. They had no interest in the dilapidated stronghold, but Ino was full of energy and began to plunder it.

Chapter Sixty-Three Training

Shikamaru frowned slightly: "They're not worth much money anyway, why are you picking up these things?"

"You don't understand!" Ino waved her hand. "This is my way of dispelling the gloom in my heart, and it only works for me! You all get some rest and don't worry about me!"

Shikamaru tilted his head and pouted, muttering a couple of times, "Women are such a hassle."

Ino wanders through the dilapidated mountain village.

Gold ingots? Put them away.

Pearls? Wow, they look pretty lustrous. I'll keep them.

Banknotes issued by the Land of Fire? They're all stolen goods, take them!

After searching thoroughly, Ino finally found a whole box of gold bars, all of very standard size and style, definitely not melted down by the bandits themselves.

Is this normal? She's never been a bandit before, so she doesn't know if this is normal or not. Anyway, put it all away!

She's short of money, really short of money!

In order to build a big cauldron, she even planned to hire Kakuzu to cause trouble. Now she has no shortage of anything else, except money!

There's no reason not to turn down gold that's offered to you.

She gave the odds and ends to Shikamaru and Naruto as souvenirs, but happily kept all the gold, jewels, silver, and banknotes.

The group escorted the village chief's granddaughter down the mountain, received a receipt for completing the mission, and then handed the captured bandits over to the local government for imprisonment. As expected, they would be sent to perform forced labor. Ino ignored the bandit leader.

They rested in the village for a day before returning to Konoha to complete the mission.

A week later, this peaceful little mountain village welcomed another group of outsiders.

Dressed in long black robes and hoods, the group appeared quite mysterious. After some probing, the leader roared in fury, "What? Buggy and his gang were wiped out by Konoha ninjas? Damn Konoha! How dare they provoke the Kurosuki clan! We must go back and tell the boss that the clan's gold business cannot be ruined!"

……

After entering Class 10, Ino's student life was completely over.

A ninja not only needs to know ninjutsu, but also needs to learn a wide range of skills.

Kakashi appears composed, but due to his childhood and youth experiences, many of the missions he undertakes are primarily assassinations.

Asuma is completely different from Kakashi. He served as the guardian ninja of the Daimyo of the Land of Fire, and with the help of the Third Hokage, both overtly and covertly, his mission often involved protecting important people.

As his subordinates, Ino and the others must learn how to protect the mission objectives.

The lesson learned was that during the previous campaign to wipe out the mountain bandits, they forgot about the village chief's granddaughter in the middle of the fighting. If the granddaughter had died, their mission would have been a failure, and it would have been useless to wipe out any more mountain bandits.

This time it was just pure luck.

The target has no combat ability whatsoever, how can we protect him? Should we start with Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet? The enemy might be killed, but the target will also be swept away.

Asma's instruction to them was simply to run! The most important thing was to escape with the mission objective, get to a safe place, and then consider killing the enemy.

"We are ninjas, not samurai. During a mission, the safety of the target is our top priority." Asuma held up one finger: "Hmm, let's say the target is the daimyo's wife. Tell me, how would you manage to escape with her?"

Fatty Choji ate snacks on the side; he didn't need to worry about things that required brainpower.

Ino and Shikamaru each frowned in thought.

It's impossible to carry a daimyo's wife through the forest like a ninja would; ordinary people don't have chakra, and their bodies can't withstand that kind of ordeal.

"A carriage?" Ino tried to say.

Shikamaru corrected her: "Wrong, it should be a donkey cart..."

Ino stared in disbelief: "A donkey...a donkey cart?!"

This world has horses, but not just the horses in the Land of Fire, but the horses in the whole world are no good. They're short, weak, and lack explosive power. Most importantly, they have terrible tempers and will kick up their heels or even turn around and bite people at the drop of a hat. The horses here are no good, so Shikamaru suggested using donkeys...

The next day, Ino and the other two started playing "donkey cart drifting" on the training ground.

"Turn, turn! Turn quickly, damn it, ah—! Help!" In this life and the next, Ino is driving a donkey cart for the first time.

The donkey ran incredibly fast under her whip, but the cart was destroyed and the donkey died just as quickly. In the end, the donkey cart crashed into a large rock. At the last moment, Ino used a substitution technique to avoid dying along with it.

Choji is the best at donkey cart drifting, and the donkeys really like him. Shikamaru, who has experience in raising donkeys, is next. Ino is the worst. Actually, it's not that she's bad, but the donkeys are a bit afraid of her, probably because they think her ghostly aura is too strong.

They need to learn donkey cart drifting, poison identification, and many other skills such as disguise and infiltration. They don't need to be experts, but they should at least know how to use them. It's basically the same training method used for special agents, and Ino and the others need to learn all of it.

……

After the mission to wipe out the bandits, Asuma began special training for Team 10. As he intended, this team was incredibly hard-working, with some practicing Water Release techniques, others secret techniques, and still others taijutsu. Goodness! Anyone who didn't know better would think they were about to go to the battlefield to participate in the Ninja World War. They just graduated, did they really need to push themselves so hard?

He never trained like this when he was young.

The same intense competition also occurred in Team 8. Hinata, Kiba, and Shino all worked very hard, burying themselves in their training, and none of them gave up!

Inspired by this atmosphere, Kurenai and Asuma felt embarrassed to slack off. After all, the younger generation was working so hard, and the two adults were just strolling around all day? Was that appropriate?

This generation of genin doesn't need any special training at all.

However, the Third Hokage insisted, and vaguely mentioned the Chunin Exams six months later, so he had no choice but to obey.

Asuma, who was skilled in fire-style techniques, became Ino's sparring partner.

Asuma may not reach Kage level, but he is definitely an elite Jonin. His abilities in all aspects are very well-rounded with no weaknesses. During the Konoha Crush, Asuma fought enemy ninjas one punch at a time, which was truly awe-inspiring and domineering.

Training Course.

Asma asked, "Are you ready?"

Ino stood by the river: "Asuma-sensei, I'm ready."

The two people stood ten meters apart and simultaneously formed hand seals.

Asuma completed the hand seals first, then took a deep breath, gathering chakra in his throat: "Fire Release: Great Flame Technique!"

This is a family ninjutsu of the Sarutobi clan. If we don't consider the Sharingan, the Sarutobi clan and the Uchiha clan are about the same in terms of fire release techniques.

"Water Escape·Water Formation Wall!"

Ino's hand seals were a little slower. She had already mastered the Water Wall, a B-rank ninjutsu, but like the Water Dragon Bullet, the Second Hokage could simplify the Water Wall hand seals to two. She didn't have that ability yet. Her fingers turned into afterimages as she mobilized her chakra and quickly formed four hand seals.

The Second Hokage's Water Barrier differed from those of other ninjas. While the other ninjas drew water from underground to form a barrier of water that rose from below, the Second Hokage's Water Barrier was much more flexible. Ino unleashed a water barrier containing chakra, which merged with the water in the natural environment. Then, a silver ribbon of water rapidly spun around Ino, transforming the torrent into a barrier without any blind spots, attempting to withstand the impact of the Fire Release: Great Flame Technique.