Escape From Konoha Chapter 439

  Chapter 439 Choice

  The glare of the sun shone through the gaps in the shade of the trees. Sasuke raised his head and narrowed his eyes slightly, then immediately lowered his head so as not to hurt his eyes from the already strong sunlight.

  It is already the beginning of June, and it has been a while since the end of the wave mission.

  During these days, Sasuke's seventh squad has been performing D-level tasks in Konoha. Compared with long-term and tedious C-level tasks, D-level tasks are easier and more convenient to do. The most important thing is that you can squeeze a lot of free time to do things you like.

  Because his body has been greatly improved not long ago, Sasuke really needs time to adapt to his current body as soon as possible.

  This kind of growth is gradual, and will not show explosive enhancement in a short period of time, which means that Sasuke has enough time to adjust his state.

  But even with this subtle change, Sasuke can feel that when he uses Sharingan, he is getting more and more handy, and there is no sense of blockage when he first opened his eyes.

  If Sharingan is open for a long time, the consumption of mental energy will become very serious, and it will also put a burden on the body.

   But he no longer has this sense of weight, so Sasuke naturally knows what it means.

  Opening Sharingan for a long time will not cause substantial pressure on his spirit and body.

  As long as you pay attention, even in the ninja stage, he can use Sharingan to fight without any scruples.

  Although the power of Yigouyu Sharingan is limited, it is undoubtedly a huge improvement for the current Sasuke to be able to strengthen his understanding of pupil illusion and enhance his dynamic vision.

  The former can increase one's own means of fighting against the enemy, while the latter can cooperate with one's strengthened body to improve one's physical combat ability.

   "The me now can probably beat the me a month ago with relative ease..."

  Sasuke made an objective evaluation of his current growth.

  A month ago, I only used the basic Thunder Dungeon and Fire Dungeon to deal with the enemy, and basically didn't know how to use illusions. In addition, Sharingan didn't have eyes opened, and my body wasn't strengthened. I could still defeat ninjas of the same level. However, Sasuke was deeply dissatisfied with his abilities when he faced ninjas who were much stronger than himself.

  Although he can be regarded as a representative of the elite among his peers, this gap is not enough to bridge the gap between himself and Itachi.

  He deeply remembered that the year Itachi defected, he was only thirteen years old.

  Regardless of whether the Uchiha clan had any accomplices or not when the Uchiha Clan was wiped out, when I faced Itachi at that time, I experienced it firsthand, and there was only one feeling—there was no power to fight back.

  The other party's ninja resume is not much better than his own mentor Hatake Kakashi.

  In terms of strength, I'm afraid the two are on par.

  Although Kakashi speaks very conservatively every time, Sasuke regards that kind of speech as the margin of a strong man.

   "Come here first, and then go to perform the task."

  Sasuke breathed the fresh air in the forest, the goblins in his eyes slowly disappeared, turning into normal black pupils.

  The surrounding trees and ground are covered with remnants of lightning and flame attacks, and there are also a large number of kunai and shurikens scattered all over the place, placed irregularly.

  Ninjutsu and Taijutsu practice is important, but Sasuke has not completely fallen behind Kunai and shuriken throwing skills.

   With the help of Sharingan, he has become more and more proficient in throwing kunai and shuriken. Moreover, even Kunai and Shuriken can effectively block and kill the enemy in many cases.

   "Good morning, Sakura."

   Naruto walked slowly from the other side of the street as if he hadn't woken up, yawned with his hands, and said hello to Sakura weakly.

   "It's almost noon now."

  Seeing Naruto's listless state of lack of sleep, Sakura was a little speechless.

  The sun in the sky has almost risen to the sky. For some reason, the weather today is extremely hot, and the sun is also big and bright. Sakura doesn't want to raise her head to face the sunlight that can sting her eyes.

"Yeah?"

  Naruto continued to yawn, and glanced at Sasuke intentionally or unintentionally. As usual, the other party was standing next to the electric pole with a handsome and cold posture. His body was in the shade of the nearby residential walls, but he found a good place to enjoy the coolness.

   Seeing Naruto coming, Sasuke just glanced at him as usual, nodded lightly as a greeting in response, and then continued to meditate alone.

   "What did you do last night, the task is about to be performed."

  Sakura is very worried about whether Naruto can successfully complete the task in this state.

   "Anyway, it's just some boring D-level tasks... As for last night, I didn't go to bed until three o'clock in the morning. It was because I was too immersed in cultivation, so I forgot the time. Sorry, I won't do it next time."

   Naruto explained, and patted his cheeks with both hands, forcing himself to cheer up and face the next task.

   "Hey, good afternoon everyone, it seems that everyone is here."

   Not long after, Kakashi also arrived as promised and greeted the three of them.

   Kakashi arrives, allowing the three of them to focus on him.

   "Mr. Kakashi, what is today's task?"

  Sakura asked first.

   "Help look after the children in an orphanage, or help clean up some garbage in the alleys that no one has cleaned up..."

   "It's such a boring task again. Isn't there a more difficult task? For example, a C-level task... No, it's better to give us a B-level task."

   Before Kakashi finished speaking, Naruto interrupted Kakashi's words with dissatisfaction.

  Kakashi didn't get angry because of Naruto's abrupt interruption, but patiently explained: “There have been more D-level missions in the village recently, and handling these D-level missions is what a ninja should do. C-level missions are things that will be considered after you are free. After all, you are still inexperienced as a ninja. As for B-level missions…”

   "Don't make a long story here, we killed the Junin in the land of waves! Experience or something, such trivial things, there is no need to care at all!"

  Naruto clasped his hands in front of his chest, looking menacing, his body was overflowing with confidence.

   "That was just an accident, besides, it was just a special jonin who was good at lurking, not a fighting type..."

   "But it's true that we killed that Jonin, isn't it?"

   Naruto said brazenly.

  Kakashi thinks that Naruto's words cannot be said to be wrong. If the rest of the cloud hidden ninjas dealt with by him and the Leiguang group are ignored, Naruto and the three are indeed the winners of the battle.

   That battle was originally arranged by him. The purpose is to test how the three of them grow.

   There is nothing more suitable for training ninjas than the battle of life and death.

  Otherwise, Yun Yin's ninja, let alone succeed, would be silently dealt with by him with the white tooth dagger the moment he showed up.

   And this arrangement is also the meaning of Hokage in it.

  Even if there is no Yunyin, other people will be arranged to test.

   On the contrary, Yun Yin's actions saved Kakashi a lot of effort. There are free testers, and I didn't even think about it at the time, so I arranged for it directly.

  The Lei Guangtuan was hired just to make this arrangement look more reasonable...even though Sasuke saw through it in the end.

   "In short, if you can't do it, you can't do it."

  Kakashi calmly rejected Naruto's proposal.

   "Kakashi-sensei is a miser!"

   "What does this have to do with me being stingy? I've said it many times, leading a team of Jōnin takes half of the reward. That's the village's rule, and it's not something I can personally decide to give. Besides, didn't I just treat you to a big meal a while ago?"

  Looking at Naruto who was angry with him, Kakashi scratched his hair mentally, Naruto was the most difficult to get rid of among the three.

  Whether it is Sakura or Sasuke, they will obey his arrangement and do the things he arranged seriously.

   "Then, after completing the task, Mr. Kakashi will practice with me."

  Naruto made such a request.

   "Can't you just practice on your own... Really, I got it, let me take a look at your growth during this time."

   "Hee hee, I promise to surprise you, Mr. Kakashi."

  Naruto had a playful face.

   "I said you... didn't you intend to let me practice with you from the beginning? The so-called C-level and B-level tasks are just excuses for your devious tactics?"

  Kakashi saw Naruto's mood change so quickly, and immediately understood what was going on.

   "Haha, you saw through."

  Naruto smiled heartlessly, without any embarrassment.

   Kakashi sighed and led the three of them to carry out the mission without saying anything.

   Class 7 has graduated from Ninja School, and it has been over two months.

  The D-level missions done during this period, compared with the rest of the ninja group, the experience accumulation of D-level missions is already very rich.

  In addition, although there are many types of D-level tasks, there are only a few categories if you roughly divide them. For example, taking care of children in an orphanage, picking up garbage, etc., are all repetitive tasks for the seventh class.

  Seeing Naruto and the three of them taking care of the children in the orphanage with ease, and after the head of the orphanage came back, they picked up all the garbage within the scope of the task with skillful techniques, Kakashi couldn't help but sigh at the growth speed of the three children.

   Only two months have passed, and when Class 7 is performing D-level missions, it no longer needs him, the ninja who leads the team, to take care of it, and can handle the mission perfectly by itself.

  Although Naruto and Sasuke say that they don't need teamwork, in many cases, they often give priority to each other's characteristics, clearly divide the work, and improve task efficiency. It's a different kind of teamwork.

  As for Sakura, she is still the same as before, serving as the team's logistics and also acting as a running-in agent.

   Sandwiched between two men, it is really hard for each other.

  Lying in the shade of a tree, the annoying sunlight was blocked out, and opening "Kissing Paradise" to review it again, Kakashi found that today was another extremely leisurely day.

   "Mr. Kakashi, you are too lazy!"

   Naruto, who was a little dirty, stood aside at some point, and glared dissatisfiedly at Kakashi who had been leisurely all afternoon.

   "Oh, these things, you can do it yourself, even if you don't have me as a Jonin to follow, there is no problem at all."

  Kakashi put down "Kissing Heaven" and yawned lightly. After lying down all afternoon, he suddenly felt a little tired.

   "It's not such a problem, our task is completed, and we need to guide us to practice well. This is the job of guiding Jounin."

  Looking at the righteous Naruto, Kakashi had no choice but to agree.

   "Okay, let's guide you to practice today."

  Looking at the sky, there was still a long time before it got dark, probably around three o'clock in the afternoon.

  In this month, there are at least three or four hours before it gets completely dark. He has enough time to guide the three of them.

   Sasuke and Sakura naturally did not refuse, and the opportunity to guide Jonin was hard-won.

   Especially Sakura, her strength is the weakest, if she doesn't practice well, she will easily be dragged down in the team.

   Come to the nearby forest, which is the edge of Konoha Village.

  The territory covered by Muye Village is very large. In the village, there are many open forests.

  And some of the forests are private territories, and will not be disclosed to unrelated people for people to visit or use.

  For example, the Uchiha clan has their own private forest.

  It is also like the oil girl clan, who also owns a forest belonging to their own family, which is specially used for Yuchong.

   In addition, the Nara family also has their own family territory for planting medicinal materials.

   Except for these private forests that have been occupied by major ninja clans, the rest of the small forests are public resources.

   But under normal circumstances, no ordinary people would come here, and most of them would be ninjas who would come to this remote place to practice their taijutsu and ninjutsu.

  Kakashi was also one of the frequent visitors here when he was young.

   "Naruto, first show your cultivation results, let me have a look."

   Kakashi said first.

   "Looking good!"

  As if he has become the center of everyone, Naruto also has the meaning of showing off in his heart, so he readily agreed.

  I only saw him forming seals at a neither fast nor slow speed, then his mouth puffed up slightly, and he released it in one breath.

   "Wind Escape·Big Breakthrough!"

  In an instant, a violent hurricane spewed out from Naruto's mouth, directly sweeping away the leaves and stones on the ground, and the trees not far away were also skewed and shaken under the strong wind.

  The power of Feng Dun is already quite hot.

   "Well, it's not enough to attack the enemy, but as a restraint, it's a good power, and it can cooperate with Sasuke's fire escape."

   Kakashi touched his chin after watching Naruto's Futun Ninjutsu, and commented like this.

  As for the cultivation of wind attribute chakra, since he has even learned the wind escape ninjutsu, the use of wind attribute chakra must be above the passing line.

   Enough to benefit Naruto for a long time to come.

   If it continues to be derived, it can only start to learn the high-level wind escape ninjutsu, or the esoteric level escape technique like his thunder escape and thunder cut.

  However, escapism at the level of esoteric art is too rare, and it is not released, anyone can learn it.

  He used Thunder Dungeon Chidori to derive the Thunder Dungeon Raiche technique, which was recorded in Konoha's sealed book. It's not like Konoha ninjas who were proficient in Thunder Dungeon tried to learn it, but they all ended in failure.

  At the same time, this is Konoha's only recorded lightning escape ninjutsu.

  As for Feng Dun's profound ninjutsu, there is no such move in Konoha.

  Kakashi felt that if Naruto wanted to make a breakthrough in the field of wind escape in the future, the road might not be so easy.

   "I don't want to cooperate with him!"

   Naruto pointed at Sasuke and said.

   "It's just right, I didn't even think about cooperating with a crane like yours."

   Sasuke put his hands in his pockets, looking cool, and ignored Naruto.

   "Okay, stop arguing, you two. When you were in the Kingdom of Waves, you can still work together well to deal with powerful enemies... Forget it, I have already given you the method to improve your strength. Whether you want to learn it or not is up to you."

   "Can't you just teach me more powerful ninjutsu? For example, Sasuke's Chidori."

  Naruto asked unwillingly.

   "I've said this many times. To learn Lightning Dungeon, you need Chakra of Lightning Attribute. Naruto, you've only just mastered Chakra of Wind Attribute. If you want to develop Chakra of the second attribute, this is not something you should consider right now."

   "But Sasuke can use Fire Dungeon besides Lightning Dungeon..."

   "That's because people have started to learn from a long time ago. The most important thing for you now is to have a solid foundation, not to be too ambitious and to care about things that are useless to you at this stage. Becoming stronger is never something that happens overnight."

  Although Kakashi explained it this way, Naruto was still a little upset, feeling that he was being compared by Sasuke.

   "As for Sasuke, mastering Sharingan and Chidori is your current task. If you still have free time, then learn illusion and enrich your own tactical system. I believe you should have some collections at home."

  Kakashi looked at Sasuke.

  Sasuke nodded, he did have some basic applications of pupil-like illusion at home.

   Kakashi can't teach him this kind of thing, and the illusion of Sharingan can only be learned by himself.

   "Sakura's words... Medical ninjutsu should have improved a lot, right? Do you have mastered some emergency operations that can be performed in the wild?"

   Kakashi finally turned to Sakura.

"Yes."

  Sakura hesitated for a moment, then nodded to answer.

   "Is that so, well, Sasuke, and Naruto, you two are here to practice. You don't have to practice separately, maybe you can follow the suggestion I just gave to strengthen the fire escape with the wind escape, and enrich the tactics between the teams. It may be of great use in the near future."

  Thinking of the joint Chunin exam a few months later, it is not only a test of individual ability, but also an extremely severe test for the team.

   "What about you, Kakashi-sensei?"

   "I have something to say to Sakura, because Sakura is different from you, she is a medical ninja."

   "Even so, there is no need to start a small stove alone."

  Naruto doubted whether Kakashi was going to teach Sakura some powerful moves.

   "Hey, you think too much, I'm not a medical ninja."

  Looking at the very suspicious Naruto, Kakashi was a little speechless.

  Actually, among the three, the most troublesome one to teach is not Sasuke or Naruto, but Sakura.

  As he himself said, he knows nothing about medical ninjutsu.

  Maybe proficient in some medical principles, but medical ninjutsu is not a special nature ninjutsu that can be displayed just by knowing the medical principles.

  Leaving Naruto and Sasuke behind, Kakashi took Sakura to another open space in the woods.

   "Mr. Kakashi, you called me here, are you going to tell me something?"

  Seeing that she and Kakashi were alone in the woods, Sakura felt a little uneasy, feeling inexplicably uncomfortable, and nervously asked Kakashi why he called her here.

   "It's nothing, in fact, there are some things, even if I don't say it, you should understand. That is, I am not a medical ninja, so I can't give you any practical and useful experience in medical ninjutsu."

   Facing a medical ninja with professional medical skills, Kakashi didn't think he had the ability to dictate to Sakura.

   Command indiscriminately, maybe there will be some jokes.

   This is also Kakashi's most distressed place. I don't know anything about medical ninjutsu, so I really have no way to give Sakura any substantive advice in this regard.

   "I know, Mr. Kakashi. That, you don't have to feel guilty, this is my own choice."

  Sakura nodded.

   As a medical ninja, Sakura knows this very well.

   Kakashi, who is not a medical ninja professional, can't be her guide.

   "Own choice?"

   Kakashi murmured.

  He knew very well what was Sakura's reason for giving up her excellent position in the medical department and graduating as a normal ninja.

  He doesn't understand love, but he doesn't criticize Sakura's seemingly mindless pursuit of Sasuke.

  Everyone is insisting on what they think is right, even if it seems immature and naive, but this is a necessary part of the growth path.

  Besides, compared with Naruto, who had no father or mother since childhood, and Sasuke, who lost his relatives and clansmen in childhood, Sakura is neither an orphan, nor has he experienced the pain of losing a relative. It is too difficult for her to understand the obsession of those two people.

   Even if he is also an Avenger, he often has no way of determining what Sasuke is thinking in his heart, let alone an outsider like Sakura.

   "What's wrong, Mr. Kakashi?"

   "It's nothing, I'm just thinking about how to develop your abilities next. You know, I'm not good at medical ninjutsu. After teaching you how to climb trees and tread water, I basically don't know where to give you useful guidance. So, I want to hear your thoughts. Do you want to specialize in the field of medical ninjas, or do you want to broaden the rest of your abilities?"

   "The rest of the abilities?"

  Sakura was a little confused by Kakashi's words.

   "Yes, becoming a medical ninja does not necessarily mean that you will become powerless. In the ninja world, there are also medical ninjas with strong fighting abilities. I will help you in the next step of cultivation based on the choice you make."

  Kakashi looked directly at Sakura's face, his eyes became serious.

  (end of this chapter)

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