Naruto: I'm Not a Pokémon

"Give me at least one third!"

In fact, what Jianchuan Ju cared about was not the issue of reward, but the fact that Jianchuan Ju's own fighting style did not involve much use of melee weapons.

Of course, it doesn't mean that Jianchuan Ju can't use a sword. After all, due to the ninja characteristics of the Hidden Mist Village, the ninja school teaches some basic swordsmanship.

However, Jianchuan Ju still positions himself as a ninjutsu ninja, or even a medical ninja. The use of weapons actually affects his ability to form hand seals and release ninjutsu.

Normally, when you really need close combat, a kunai is barely enough. When you need to cast a hand seal, just throw the kunai out to interfere with the enemy, and you won’t feel bad if it is thrown away.

Previously, he wanted to repair the pair of swords because of their ability to blow away enemies, which was almost like the beggar version of Shinra Tensei. As for reforging them into swords, Jianchuan Ju was a little hesitant.

Ichiro Shimotsuki seemed to see what Jianchuan Tachibana was thinking and began to persuade him.

"Don't think that the magic tool seems very powerful. I have lived for so many years. I have seen many ninjas who were complacent because they got a powerful or strange ninja tool. In the end, these people basically indulged in it and their strength stagnated."

"But ninja swords are different. Excellent ninja swords will better display your strength as their masters grow."

Just when Jianchuan Ju was moved by what old man Shimotsuki said and was about to agree to the other party.

Suddenly there was a hurried knock on the door outside the room.

Chapter 53 Small meeting on the boat

Jianchuan Tachibana gave Shimotsuki Ichiro an apologetic smile, then stood up and opened the door.

Outside the door was Mei Terumi, who looked a little anxious.

"What happened?"

Seeing that Mei Terumi looked a little strange, Jianchuan Tachibana immediately became serious.

Mei Terumi glanced at Ichiro Shimotsuki standing beside her somewhat uncomfortably.

"Teacher Qing asked us to come over. There is something that needs to be notified."

"What about the mission to protect Mr. Shimotsuki?"

After all, he is the protection target of this actual mission, and it is not good to always leave the old man alone.

However, as a man of great age, Ichiro Shimotsuki could tell from Mei Terumi's expression that something important must have happened.

He said with a very cheerful smile.

"It's okay, you go ahead, Orange boy. What kind of danger could there be on the ship? I'll study this ninja tool here, and we'll talk when you come back."

"Thank you Mr. Shimotsuki for your understanding. Lanzai, you stay here to protect Mr. Shimotsuki's safety."

He first apologized to Ichiro Shimotsuki, and in the second half of the sentence, Jianchuan Ju made arrangements for Lan Zai.

"Quack~ (v)"

The combat power of Lanzai, who has just evolved, is not weak. On a passenger ship sailing like this, even if he encounters danger, there will be no problem in making some noise to delay the arrival of Jianchuan Ju and others.

The old man just smiled when he heard it and didn't take it too seriously. Instead, he waved to Lanzai to show his friendliness.

However, Jianchuan Ju's words when he walked out of the cabin still made old man Shimotsuki excited.

"Mr. Shimotsuki, I will consider the weapon forging. You can use this time to think about the forging direction."

After saying that, without caring about Ichiro Shimotsuki's excited expression, he closed the door and followed Mei Terumi who seemed a little anxious.

"What happened?"

"Come in first and then talk."

Since the team members bought tickets and boarded the ship together, their rooms were basically next to each other. It only took them a few steps to reach Qing's room.

The first thing Jianchuan Ju saw when he entered the room was not to look at Qing and Zabuza who were already seated, but to look at the two small coffins standing in the corner of the room.

"Two living people were sealed in ninja tools for so many days, and Qing teacher was able to sleep well."

Seeing that Mei Terumi had already brought Jianchuan Tachibana over, Qing did not explain the situation directly.

Instead, he habitually formed hand seals and released a perception ninjutsu to make sure that no one else was eavesdropping.

Then he looked at his three disciples and spoke.

"Just now, I received information from Ninjago of Yagura Karatachi. The Land of Water has officially declared war on the Land of Fire."

After saying this, Qing paused and looked at his disciples.

However, when Jianchuan Ju heard the news, his heartbeat just quickened slightly, and he didn't have any other special reaction.

When I first learned that the Third Ninja World War was about to begin, I was nervous and anxious for a long time.

However, the Hidden Mist Village has yet to officially intervene in the war, and has long since calmed down.

Hearing this news now, I felt like a rock had finally fallen from my chest.

Zabuza put his hands behind his head and spoke with an indifferent look on his face.

"The village has been preparing for war for two months. It's not surprising that they've officially declared war now, right?" Qing didn't feel unhappy when he heard Zabuza's somewhat arrogant voice. Instead, he felt relieved.

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 think about it, in such a large ninja family, how could it be possible that all the people are as pure and flawless as Bai and snow?

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

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. Jianchuan Tachibana's current swordsmanship level is not even among the best among the students in the ninja school. But after all, he is only 10 years old, so he can still practice a little 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.