Naruto: I'm Not a Pokémon

Jianchuan Ju was also caught off guard by this situation. He just said that he didn't mind and hurriedly left the ward.

It was only after I walked out of the ward that I realized that the girl's appearance seemed somewhat familiar.

But the other person is also very good-looking, and if he has seen me before, he should remember me.

Besides, this girl wasn't a ninja, and he didn't know many ordinary civilians. Since he couldn't figure it out, he simply gave up on investigating further.

"But Nanako? The Snow Clan? Her full name can't be Setsuna, right?"

Jianchuan Ju feels that he has once again refreshed his understanding of naming in the ninja world.

Chapter 38 New Mission

The next morning, the Hidden Mist Village was shrouded in fog as usual.

Jianchuan Ju arrived at the training ground early today, mainly because today's daily tasks were a bit strange and did not include the most common training tasks.

Instead, tasks like "say hello to ten people" and "walk ten kilometers" appeared. The system usually gives tasks that can be easily completed under the current circumstances.

This reminded Jianchuan Ju of the situations when he left the village twice before.

Considering that Qing did not come to the training ground yesterday, Jianchuan Ju guessed that there might be some new tasks today.

Sure enough, not long after, Ao and Zabuza arrived at the training ground one after another. Ao did not start to instruct the two in training as usual, but said to wait for Mei Terumi to arrive first.

Seeing Zabuza's expression of 'I knew it a long time ago' next to him, Jianchuan Ju was even more certain that today was definitely not a simple training or an ordinary mission.

Not long after, Mei Terumi also came to the training ground. She looked at Jianchuan Tachibana, who had listened to her confession yesterday, with some embarrassment. Then she found that the three of them were staring at her with wide eyes, and Mei Terumi was also a little puzzled.

"Why are you standing here instead of training? Are you waiting for me?"

Qing, who was about to speak, looked at his disrespectful disciple and immediately began to doubt himself.

Am I being too easygoing? Should I be more serious with them next time?

But after thinking about it, I realized that I had important things to do today, so I put aside my complicated emotions for the time being.

For safety reasons, Qing first formed hand seals and performed perception ninjutsu. After confirming that there was no one else around, he explained the whole story to the two disciples who did not understand the situation.

"That's basically the situation. Today, the Jounin Karuji will arrange for a ninja tool shop funded by civilians to assign us a task. We will escort a clerk to the Land of Craftsmen to order ninja tools."

"Of course, although this mission is to cover up a secret investigation, if you don't want to have another failure record in your mission resume, we must complete this open mission as well."

After listening to Qing's account of the series of events, Jianchuan Ju felt that his imagination was still not rich enough. Such a task was just thrown to his team?

Even though there is a senior ninja named Qing leading the team, there is too little known information right now. Where should we start the investigation?

"We only have information about a merchant who is suspected to be from the Kingdom of Craftsmen. Which direction should we start our investigation from?"

Before Jianchuan Tachibana could speak, Terumi Mei asked Qing the same question.

Qing did not answer Terumi Mei's question immediately, but instead asked the three disciples a question.

"How much do you know about the Kingdom of Craftsmen?"

Seeing that neither of her teammates had the intention to speak, Mei Terumi answered directly, "The Land of Craftsmen is a small country located between the Land of Fire and the Land of Water. The country is very short of armed forces, and the Craftsmen's Village is basically full of highly skilled craftsmen. Their combat power ranks last in the entire ninja world."

"However, thanks to the excellent ninja tool forging ability of the Artisan Ninja Village, the ninja tools they forged are highly respected in the five major countries. Not only do they have regular ninja tools, they even often forge some advanced weapons containing chakra metals. This allows them to get along with all the major countries."

Ao nodded. What Mei Terumi said was what they learned in class at the Ninja School.

"You are right, but what I want to say is that due to political pressure from all sides and the taxation of the Country of Craftsmen, in fact, all the sales of ninja tools and the import of materials in the Country of Craftsmen are strictly controlled by the chief of the ninja village. His status in the Country of Craftsmen is not inferior to that of the Daimyo of the Country of Craftsmen."

Jianchuan Ju asked thoughtfully after hearing this.

"That is to say, unless the smuggling was done by the leader of the Artisan Ninja Village, but that doesn't make sense. Privately reaching a deal with the internal forces of his country will not bring him much benefit. On the contrary, it may offend our Kirigakure. For a small ninja village with no strength, it is too costly."

"Or maybe it was done by some profit-driven people in the Kingdom of Craftsmen. If that's the case, then the Craftsmen Village, which has strict control over domestic materials and finished products, should have more or less known where these things went." "But all this is based on the premise that the merchant is indeed a merchant from the Kingdom of Craftsmen, or the materials are indeed from the Kingdom of Craftsmen."

Qing gave him an approving look and added.

"Yes, so our main target for this investigation is the chief of the Artisan Ninja Village. The clerk of the Ninja Tool Shop who is to be escorted in the open mission will also trade with the chief of the Artisan Ninja Village under our accompaniment, which will facilitate our investigation."

Terumi thought about it and asked her own question.

"So how long do we stay here? After all, what if we can't find any results in a short period of time?"

"Don't worry, the person who issued the mission was arranged by Yagura Kuji. He will cooperate with us and stay longer. And it doesn't matter if we don't find any results in the end. After all, it's just a personal commission from Yagura Kuji."

Zabuza, who had been watching his two teammates and Qing discussing the mission without being able to get a word in, raised his head slightly when he heard Qing's last words, but still didn't say anything.

On the contrary, Jianchuan Ju agreed with Qing's words. To be honest, when he saw the village destroyed by pirates during the mission and the children who were abducted and trained as assassins, he was also very angry and wanted to punish the murderer.

However, so many days had passed since the incident, and Jianchuan Ju had long lost his original indignation. After all, in this chaotic ninja world, everyone's life was worthless.

Jianchuan Ju felt that it was not wise to get involved in the struggle between the civilian faction and the ninja faction for the sake of some strangers and offend either side.

Of course, if he had the strength of the Six Paths level at this time, it would be a different situation. Jianchuan Ju might hold high the banner of justice and sanction these people.

"How dare you, you scoundrels, do such a thing! Spicy Tiansai!"

"Okay, now that you understand the details, let's go to the Mizukage Building to receive our mission."

Qing spoke again, interrupting Jianchuan Tachibana's daydream of punching Pain and kicking Six Paths, and signaled his disciples to follow him and head towards the Mizukage Building.

In cases like this where the client designates a person to complete a task, the village usually verifies the task and then notifies the task team to come and collect the task.

However, since Team Qing has already arrived at the mission acceptance point, it saves the village a lot of effort.

Although the reward for a designated mission is often higher than a normal mission, it is still the price of a C-level escort mission after all.

The Qing team will also conduct investigations in secret.

Therefore, the entire team, even Zabuza, did not think there was anything wrong in earning a little more money from Karatachi Yagura.

Because they didn't want to attract too much attention from other people, especially those family ninjas, they didn't rush to the Kingdom of Craftsmen after receiving the mission.

Instead, just like an ordinary mission, he took his time to go to the Ninja Tool Shop to meet the person who issued the mission to understand the mission situation.

They each went back to make their preparations before departure, and then took the clerk with them and left the Hidden Mist Village.

Chapter 39: Transform Zabuza!

On the way to the port, Jianchuan Ju noticed that Zabuza was always looking at the target of their escort on this mission from time to time.

Unable to help but feel curious, he leaned over and asked in a low voice.

"What's wrong Zabuza? Did you notice something wrong with him?"

As he spoke, Jianchuan Ju also looked at the clerk.

His gray hair was tied into a ponytail, and his bronze face was covered with deep wrinkles. But he looked like an old man, and his body and head seemed to be separate. It was already autumn, and he was only wearing a short-sleeved grey coarse cloth shirt, exposing his muscular body, and one of his arms was almost as thick as his waist.

Looking at it this way, it does seem a bit strange.

"That guy seems to be a blacksmith."

Zabuza answered Jianchuan Tachibana's question subconsciously.

"Blacksmith? That's it?"

Jianchuan Ju was also speechless by this guy. What's so strange about the person in the Ninja Tool Shop being a blacksmith?

Zabuza finally withdrew his gaze and said hesitantly.

"That old man seems to be a very famous forging master in the village."

Now it was Jianchuanju's turn to be stunned. After all, he didn't have much demand for ninja tools in his daily life. The only requirement he might have was that they were cheap. He had never paid attention to any forging masters.

However, before Jianchuan Ju could say anything, the old man spoke loudly to the two of them.

"Hey! Are you two little brats saying bad things about me? I, an old man, have very sharp ears!"

The two men looked at the old man with dark faces. He was obviously not far away, but his voice was very loud.

Although I don't know whether it's due to years of blacksmithing or old age, but judging from the current situation, this old man is obviously severely hard of hearing.

I don't know how I heard their discussion.

Jianchuan Ju didn't know what was wrong with his head. In order to ease the embarrassment, he actually started talking like a child.

"Grandpa, we were just talking about how you are a great blacksmith."

However, as soon as these words came out, Zabuza, Mei Terumi, Ao, oh, and Lanzai, all immediately looked at Jianchuan Ju with eyes as if they were looking at some magical species.

After receiving the looks from his teammates, Jianchuan Ju wanted to slap himself twice.

But the old man didn't notice these, but laughed heartily with great enjoyment.

"Haha, you have good vision, kid. I am the famous Shimotsuki Ichiro, and my father is a legendary swordsmith who once participated in the creation of seven ninja swords."

There seemed to be something wrong with what the old man said, but before Jianchuanju could think about it, Zabuza reminded him.

"Your father participated in the forging of seven ninja swords. Have you forged any famous swords?"

Jianchuan Ju saw that the old man's expression paused for a moment when he heard Zabuza's question.

"Hahaha, of course I inherited my father's forging skills. He forged the Thunder Blade *Ya and the Double Blade *Akira, which are among the best even among the Seven Ninja Swords."

"So you've built the woooooo yourself."

Seeing that the white-haired old man looked like he was about to cry, Jianchuan Ju hurriedly covered Zabuza's mouth as he was about to speak and forcibly pulled him aside.

Really, even though he’s wearing bandages, this guy still can’t control his mouth.

"Stop talking, have you heard of any other famous swords besides the seven ninja swords in the Hidden Mist Village?"

After saying this, Jianchuan Ju hurriedly turned around to look at old man Shuangyue. Fortunately, he spoke in a low voice this time and the other party didn't seem to hear it.

However, the old man seemed to have lost interest in talking to the little ghost, and continued to walk forward on his own. Seeing this, everyone had no choice but to quickly follow him. Zabuza shook his head, broke free from Jianchuanju and returned.

"Of course not, so my goal is to seize one of the Seven Ninja Swords and become one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen."

Looking at the fire of ambition in Zabuza's eyes.

All Jianchuan Ju could think of was the strange scene of this guy carrying a beheading sword as big as a door panel, crouching down and hiding in the Mist Hidden Technique to carry out assassinations in the future.

He seemed a little pitiful, so Jianchuan Ju decided to guide him a little.

"Zabuza, which ninja sword do you want to use most in the future?"

"Of course it's the Broken Blade* Beheading Sword!"

Sure enough! This guy has been going astray since he was so young!

"Why would you want to use a beheading sword? You are not even as tall as the sword, so it must be inconvenient to wield it."

Zabuza was somewhat accustomed to being teased by Jianchuan Ju, so he just rolled his eyes at the other party, as if he was too lazy to answer such an idiotic question.

Thinking about the guy's future height, Jianchuan Ju had to persuade him from a different angle.

"You know all the characteristics of the seven ninja swords, right?"

"Of course it's clear!"

"So what are you good at?"

Although Zabuza was a little annoyed by Jianchuan Tachibana's question, he still answered the question seriously.

"Swordsmanship and water ninjutsu."

Jianchuan Ju looked at the other party with a dark face, looking completely ignorant. If the future adult Zabuza said that he was good at water escape, it would be fine. But now he only mastered one offensive ninjutsu, the Water Dragon Bullet Jutsu with forty-four seals, and he still had the nerve to say that he was good at water escape ninjutsu?

"Your fighting style is more inclined towards assassination, the Mist Hiding Technique and the Silent Killing Technique."

"Yes." Zabuza did not refute but nodded in agreement.

"But you can see that the beheading sword is obviously of a bold and open style. Not to mention that the huge blade is not convenient for concealed actions, even the huge sound of breaking wind caused by slashing in the Mist Hidden Technique is enough to make the opponent alert before being attacked."

"And think about it, if you swing that door-like sword, the wind it creates might even blow away some of the fog."

After hearing Jianchuan Ju's description, Zabuza was stunned and even stopped moving forward.

"I just think that Biwa Juzo is a bit weaker, so it should be easier to take over the position of a ninja sword from him. And the bloodthirsty style of repairing a broken sword will suit me better."

Upon seeing this, Jianchuan Ju immediately increased his strength to guide.

"Then have you ever thought that Biwa Juzo is weak because his beheading sword is too weak? What about a broken sword that can be repaired by bloodsucking? Have you ever seen any other ninja sword that breaks into two pieces easily?"

After being asked this question, Zabuza could no longer hold back.

In his mind, he imagined himself fighting with the enemy, and then his beheading sword was easily cut into two pieces by the opponent. Then he held the sword handle and crawled to kill other small fry, recovered the broken sword, and turned back to fight the enemy.

At this moment, Zabuza seemed as if his worldview had collapsed.