Naruto's sudden flash of flair nearly snapped Kakashi's back. Speechless, he looked at Naruto, When did I miss the part where you became a money-grubber?
Upon hearing this, Tazuna immediately began to play the victim, saying that the Land of Waves was poor and all their hopes were pinned on this bridge, and they really couldn't afford to commission a B-Rank Mission.
Finally, Tazuna launched his ultimate move: moral blackmail.
"Even if you're unwilling to protect me, it doesn't matter. If I die, at most my daughter and my eight-year-old grandson will resent Konoha for the rest of their lives, weeping day and night.
It's okay, I don't blame you, it's not your fault."
Tazuna's eyes flickered with a strange light.
Kakashi scratched his head, feeling that this matter was troublesome, Sasuke's mouth twitched slightly, and Sakura's expression was also very unsightly.
Only Naruto wasn't buying it, saying very calmly, "Oh, well, there's nothing we can do then. How about we take the trouble to go to the Land of Waves?"
Tazuna was very pleased, thinking his plan had succeeded, and revealed a sly smile.
The teammates all felt that Naruto was brewing something bad, and Kakashi chose to cooperate with Naruto's performance: "You want to continue the mission?"
"No, I mean it's not good for them to resent Konoha all the time.
So how about we take the trouble to go to the Land of Waves and kill his daughter and grandson as well? A family should be together neatly.
Of course, before that, let's kill the culprit who falsely reported the mission level."
Naruto looked at Tazuna with ill intentions.
Tazuna was so frightened that he sat down on the ground with his butt: "How can you do this? No, you, you can't do this!"
"If you eat a bowl of noodles, you have to pay for a bowl of noodles, it's a matter of course. We can't be doing the work of a high-level mission and getting paid for a low-level mission, right?"
Naruto said with confidence, we are in the right on this matter, the matter of falsely reporting the mission level can be big or small.
To put it mildly, he is just being greedy for small gains. If he is willing to reconcile and make up the commission, this matter can be turned over, or the mission can be abandoned.
To put it seriously, he is deliberately concealing information, suspected of plotting to harm the Fourth Hokage's son and the Uchiha family's genius teenager, and it's no problem to let their family be together neatly in the style of ninjas.
The most hateful thing is that this guy is playing moral blackmail, wanting to get something for nothing, how can there be such a good thing, just like when you read novels... those who understand, understand (not saying how much to reward, at least give a recommendation vote, dog head to protect life).
In the end, Tazuna sincerely apologized, requesting Team 7 to continue protecting him, the matter of the mission level would be explained to Konoha later, and the commission would be made up.
Whether to continue the mission, Kakashi felt it didn't matter, with his strength he was enough to deal with emergencies, it wouldn't be that the Kage of some village was blind and personally came to assassinate a contractor.
Sasuke wanted to continue to train and see the strong outside the village, Sakura followed suit.
Naruto mainly wanted to test his current strength to see if he could have a dance-off with Zabuza.
So the group continued on the road, inevitably eating when hungry and drinking when thirsty, and camping at night... bullshit, it didn't take long to reach the seaside pier, and then they had to travel by water.
Sitting on a small boat with an engine, Naruto felt very novel, obviously on land there were still carriages, but the boats in the water had engines, the tech tree was strange.
"We've already arrived here, Mr. Tazuna should explain your situation in detail." Kakashi opened the topic.
After sitting down, Naruto took out melon seeds from the scroll and started munching on them with relish, not forgetting to share some with his teammates, come on, start your performance.
So Tazuna told a story of the Land of Waves being dominated by the evil merchant Gato, continuing to try to gain sympathy.
Naruto summarized the general idea as follows:
[Gato is unbenevolent, treating all things as straw dogs, the people of the Land of Waves live in misery, arousing the anger of both gods and men. Yet the people dare not resist.
Fortunately, there is the construction foreman Tazuna, who wishes to build a bridge to awaken the courage of the people, with the heavy burden resting on his shoulders...]
After listening, the atmosphere was heavy, but Naruto didn't feel much. If they don't resist themselves, who can they blame for being oppressed?
In The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, Master Kong Xing said it well, even Zhang Sanfeng might not be able to challenge the Shaolin Temple if thousands of monks swarmed him!
Ahem, that's a bit cowardly, but the principle is there. So many of you workers, don't you dare pick up hammers and sickles... don't you dare swarm him?
If that doesn't work, you can go to the underground black market and post a mission to assassinate Gato, just mark it as a D-Rank Mission with an extra note that Gato is very rich.
Maybe a kind old man in his nineties will take on the mission, saying he doesn't care about the reward, he's just curious how much money Gato has.
Of course, if you really dare not give the reward, then we'll sit down and have a "heart-to-heart" talk. It's not that I'm stingy, it's just that there's a spendthrift woman in the organization who asks for money every day.
Naruto was lost in thought, and the boat was about to reach the dock.
For the first time leaving the Land of Fire and stepping on foreign soil, Naruto was filled with emotions... and just wanted to shout, "Bring the boat over here!"
...
After landing, they had to walk a stretch of road to reach Tazuna's house, and Zabuza could attack them at any time on this road.
Naruto took out a stack of Exploding Tags and took another stack from Sasuke's ninja tool bag and handed it to Sakura: "Sakura Bro, take this for self-defense."
Sakura was the least lethal in the team. If Zabuza picked on the weakest, let Sakura give him a surprise.
Sakura's hands trembled: "Too... too many."
Good heavens, dozens or hundreds of Exploding Tags. The money she's earned from missions since graduation probably isn't enough to buy these.
"It's okay, just return them to me when you're done using them or not. And Sasuke's family has a business in this area, so you can get a discount at his house in the future."
Naruto was very generous, and Sasuke nodded in agreement, just taking care of his teammates.
Sakura carefully put them away, and Inner Sakura waved her fist: "I've never fought such a rich battle before!"
As they walked, a mist gradually rose, and suddenly a sound of rushing wind rang out.
Kakashi pushed Tazuna down and shouted, "Crouch!"
The three little ones reacted quickly and squatted down. A large sword, two or three meters long, spun over their heads and hit a large tree.
A figure darted out of the forest, stepped on the hilt of the sword, and arrogantly turned his back to the crowd.
"I didn't expect to encounter Kakashi of the Sharingan, no wonder the Demon Brothers failed."
Kakashi had already recognized Zabuza, his face... his face couldn't be seen, but his eyes were solemn, and he stopped the eager Sasuke: "It's Zabuza, the Demon Man of Kirigakure, this is not an opponent you can handle. Form the Manji formation and protect Tazuna."
As he spoke, Kakashi raised the Forehead Protector blocking his left eye, revealing the Sharingan.
The three quickly stood in position, protecting Tazuna. Naruto looked at the angle and felt that he could be blocked by Kakashi.
So Naruto secretly made a hand seal, intending to give Zabuza a surprise.
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