Chapter 27: The Changed Mission of the Land of Waves
"Kakashi, why are you back?" A familiar ninja asked in the office.
Kakashi replied: "Well, come back and see if there are any tasks you can take on. To avoid having to make another trip."
Kakashi was talking here, but Naruto leaned next to Team 8 and saw the mission they took on.
After reading it carefully, Naruto breathed a sigh of relief.
It turns out that the task taken by the eighth shift is actually related to the shipping company established by Cardo.
This made him a little confused, why didn't this task appear in the original work?
In fact, the emergence of this mission has a lot to do with Naruto.
Before today, Naruto's Team 7 had taken on many tasks, one of which was to clean up bandits.
It is precisely because the bandits have been eliminated that this chamber of commerce wants to go to the Country of Waves and transport the goods across the sea to the Country of Tea.
Then transport the precious tea leaves from the Kingdom of Tea back to the Kingdom of Fire for sale.
"Naruto-kun..." Seeing Naruto approaching Team 8, Hinata's face turned as red as the burning clouds in the evening sky.
Yuhi Kurenai saw Naruto approaching and Hinata's shy look, and joked: "Kakashi, why don't you let Naruto join our eighth class?"
"Teacher Kurenai!" Inuzuka Kiba said: "There's no need for a theoretical genius like Naruto to be in our eighth class. We can't tolerate a genius like him here, hahaha!"
Of course, the genius that Inuzuka Kiba said was not a compliment.
"Red, it seems that your disciples are practicing very well." Kakashi said in a lazy tone. "Maybe we can ask them to learn from each other."
Although Inuzuka Kiba's words were directed at Naruto, they were equivalent to attacking Kakashi in disguise.
In fact, with Kakashi's personality, he would not care about such trivial matters.
However, Naruto had a special status. He was the son of his master and his wife, and he had shown him an incredible talent.
The combination of the two made Kakashi suddenly say such a thing.
Kakashi would say something like this, which was somewhat beyond Kurenai's expectation: "It's not impossible to have a competition or something, just wait until Team 8 comes back from the Land of Waves."
The "tit-for-tat" between Kakashi and Kurenai attracted the attention of many people in the Hokage's office.
One of them, a ninja, said: "No need to wait, look at what this is."
He held up a freshly prepared mission scroll in his hand.
"'C-level mission: escort Dazna, the famous bridge builder of the Country of Waves, back to his hometown safely until the construction of the Bridge of the Country of Waves is completed. The reward is thirty thousand taels."
This is the mission of the Kingdom of Waves in the original book!
Kakashi didn't hesitate and reached out directly to take the mission scroll.
"Really, we are in such trouble." Inuzuka Kiba complained in a low voice.
"Traveling with a guy like Naruto is really a disgrace to the Inuzuka family's reputation."
Naruto's eyes narrowed slightly as he listened to Inuzuka Kiba's words, but in the end he said nothing.
He is no longer a child, and nothing can be changed by just talking.
During the competition, use more strength. Naruto just made a mental note to his teeth.
As for Aburame Shino, the last member of Class 8?
Sorry, his presence was so low that everyone ignored him unintentionally.
"Come on a mission?"
When Naruto told Sasuke and Sakura about this, Sakura was greeted with questions.
It's not like she hasn't heard of peer missions.
Sometimes, due to the same mission execution location or other reasons, several ninja teams will gather together and travel together.
The advantage of this is that security is greatly increased.
Team 7 and Team 8 traveling together is equivalent to two jounin joining forces, greatly increasing the safety factor.
Of course, the disadvantage of this is that the cost is too high.
It is much more cost-effective to have one jounin per team.
Therefore, this situation only occurs when you are on the road.
"Why do we have to compete in peer missions!" This is what Sakura wants to complain about.
Compared to Sakura, Sasuke seemed very happy: "Don't worry about competitions or anything like that. Use your undisputed advantage to crush them like bugs!"
Not only is he not afraid of this competition, but he is looking forward to it very much.
In the afternoon, Classes 7 and 8 met at the gate of Konoha.
The caravan and bridge-builder Dazna are already waiting here.
Looking at Team 7 approaching, although Ya looked disdainful on the surface, he was actually very serious in his heart.
After all, there is Sasuke in Team 7!
In Inuzuka Kiba's view, the strongest and best among their current generation of ninja school graduates is undoubtedly Sasuke.
At the same time, the most difficult opponent in this competition is Sasuke. This is what Kiba thinks.
"Everyone is here, let's get ready to go." Yuhi Hong said.
Thanks to the caravan, Classes 7 and 8 did not need to travel on both feet this time, but sat on the caravan's donkey cart.
In the original work, Zabuza's demon brothers were ambushing not far from Konoha, and Team 7 was attacked not long after.
But this time, Naruto looked around carefully, but found no trace of the ghost brothers.
"Because there were too many people this time, the ghost brothers chose to give up?" Naruto thought to himself.
Even if the Kijin brothers have poor combat awareness, they still know that it is not easy to mess with too many people. You know, there are two jounin here! When two jounin cooperate, the combat power is not as simple as one plus one equals two.
However, Naruto's behavior of observing his surroundings was interpreted as Naruto being 'scared'.
He burst out laughing and said, "Naruto, what are you afraid of? Those little thieves on the road will be scared to death when they see me! You don't have to worry."
Naruto sneered in his heart. Little thief? I hope you can still smile so happily when you meet Zabuza.
After leaving the village, the journey was uneventful. Just before dusk, the caravan camped on a grassy area for the night, while Classes 7 and 8 gathered together to prepare for a "friendly competition."
"There are three people on both sides, how about a single battle, best of three games?" Kakashi said.
Yuhi Hong nodded, indicating that she had no objection.
"So, Sasuke will fight Kiba, Naruto will fight Shino, and Sakura will fight Hinata. What's the order of battle?" Kakashi added.
Inuzuka Kiba objected: "We hope that I will fight Sakura, Shino will fight Naruto, and Hinata will fight Sasuke."
If there is a best-of-three-game system, then the order of battle is very important. Although Ya is aggressive, it does not mean that he is stupid. His changed order of battle is the same as the principle of "Tian Ji Horse Racing".
The upper-class horse (Kang) fights against the middle-class horse (Sakura), the middle-class horse (Shino) fights against the low-class horse (Naruto), and the low-class horse (Hinata) fights against the high-class horse (Sasuke).
Unfortunately, Sasuke has no interest in fighting Hinata.
"I object." Sasuke said, "I can fight three games by myself! I want one, fight three!"
Now that there is such a disagreement, it can only be decided by luck.
Yuhi Hong glanced at the six people: "Then, let's decide by drawing lots."