Chapter 137: The Anbu's Unrestrained Private Life
After Sakura had pretended to be drunk...
Yūgao turned to drink with Shino. They were drinking the higher-proof sake, and as they drank, they played a small game that was similar to a drinking game but required the use of chakra and taijutsu skills. The drinking chants also came one after another.
Sakura was truly amazed. She had no idea high-level ninja were so good at having fun.
Now that she had joined the Anbu, she could be considered to have entered the ranks of mid-to-high-level ninja. Before, she had not known what these high-status Chunin and Jonin were like in private. Now that she was one of them, she had finally witnessed their unrestrained behavior after completing their daily missions...
However, she should have thought of it earlier. Kakashi still walked around with a little yellow book every day!
The Anbu fought and killed all day long, or carried out extremely tedious and arduous missions. The psychological pressure was immense. They were not Puritans or ascetics. If they didn't have a proper way to relax and vent their pressure, they would have probably become psychologically abnormal long ago, let alone talking about the Will of Fire.
That was why Shino took pleasure in scaring new recruits, and Yūgao, after getting familiar with her, also showed a bad habit of liking to tease her juniors.
It's not easy for anyone. Now that a tender new recruit had arrived, of course, they had to have some fun with her...
"Ah, damn it, I lost again!" Yūgao said with a pout, drinking two cups of sake in a row.
When they had started playing, they had been competing in taijutsu. Yūgao clearly had the advantage, winning more than she lost. Shino, seeing that he couldn't win, had then used genjutsu as well, and the scales of the game had immediately and completely tipped in his favor.
However, the taijutsu foundation that the two displayed in the game was something Sakura couldn't compare to. Although her taijutsu was very strong, it was all propped up by the powerful strength and speed brought by the Monstrous Strength Technique and Sakura Rush, as well as her extremely fast reaction speed. If she were to play this game with her two Anbu seniors, she was afraid she would lose miserably—unless she cheated by activating Sakura Rush.
Just then, Yūgao's eyes darted around, and her gaze landed on Haruno Sakura, who was sitting silently in the corner, eating yakiniku and watching them drink, pretending to be a transparent person.
"Yo, little girl, why aren't you talking?" This woman said with a charming smile, scooting her butt over to the girl's side. She stretched out her left hand, wrapped it around the girl's waist, and with a gentle pull, she had tucked Sakura into her embrace.
Hn, tucked in...
The girl was instantly dumbfounded. "Uh... Yūgao-san, what are you doing!"
"Not talking, not drinking, and just eating by yourself at a drinking table is unsociable, you know~" the half-drunk woman said, dragging out her words, her tone carrying an intoxicating, flirtatious air. "You have to drink three penalty shots! Come on, give this lady a smile~!"
"Yūgao-san, you're drunk...!" Sakura was pulled into another's embrace and curled into a ball. The woman's delicate, pointed chin was pressing on her head, and she instantly felt herself trembling!
Yūgao ignored Sakura's protest and asked to herself, "Do you want sake or beer?"
"Uh, no sake, b-beer is fine!" the girl said hastily. If it's just forcing me to drink, that's fine. I can still drink!
"No can do. You can only choose sake~"
Wow, then why did you ask me to choose! Sakura complained in her heart. Sake it is, then. The girl reached for the alcohol. She was thinking of quickly drinking it to get it over with. Being held like this... was too embarrassing!
However, Yūgao Uzuki, who had already been promoted to queen, was not so easy to deal with...
She slapped away the girl's small hand, took a small sip of sake, and held it in her mouth. "Sakura, you've got it wrong. You're supposed to drink this one..."
Sakura's eyes instantly widened. She flailed her hands and feet and looked towards the man who was sitting as steady as a mountain on the drinking table. "Shino-san, save me!"
Itō Shino smiled but said nothing...
How could Shino possibly stop the beautiful sight of a great beauty teasing a little girl!
What's more, if he were to stop Yūgao at this time, he was afraid he would be chased and chopped down by her tomorrow.
"Sorry, Tobi. Although you're very strong, at a drinking table, what you're competing in is not combat power, but presence! As a junior, it's very normal to be overwhelmed by a senior's presence. You're still too green! If you can't resist, just lie back and enjoy it~" Shino recited silently in his heart.
"Don't move!" Yūgao held the girl down.
Mwah~!
Haruno Sakura felt a coolness on her face. A drop of clear sake slid down her cheek.
"Mwah~" It turned out to be the female ninja's lips opening and closing, making a kissing sound.
"Haha, you're blushing, you're blushing!" she laughed without any grace.
"Hahaha!" Shino followed suit and laughed without any integrity.
Sakura wiped the alcohol from her face and rolled her eyes hard at the two of them.
The evening's gathering did not last too late. After all, there was a mission the next day.
When it was over, Sakura let out a huge sigh of relief.
Phew~~ I'm finally free!
This was the first time she had ever dealt with such a scene, being teased by a great beauty and all.
And to make matters worse, she couldn't even fight back!
After all, she was a senior, and they weren't in a battle. She couldn't fight her, and she didn't know how to refuse.
For a moment, she didn't know how to react and could only silently endure it—if not enjoy it—like a bullied little wife.
She had been a virgin in her previous life. In this life, she had mostly been in contact with girls of the same age. When facing girls of the same age, with her aura and her fame, others wouldn't dare to joke with her like this. As for Hinata, Ino, and the others, they were not this kind of queen-like personality.
So she was really not good at dealing with such an enthusiastic older-sister type.
If you added the intimate teasing, then it was even more unbearable.
Yūgao Uzuki's personality, was she only like this when she drank, or was she just very enthusiastic with people she was familiar with?
She was thinking about this all the way back.
The next day, they gathered as the sun was just rising.
The morning glow had not yet dissipated, and there was a purplish-red cloud on the horizon.
The three of them, neatly dressed, arrived at the rooftop on time to gather.
Sakura was still wearing the black bodysuit from yesterday, with a sleeveless vest over it. Her bare arms wore white elbow guards and black gloves. Her hair was tied in a high ponytail, looking neat and capable.
Unlike most ninja, she rarely carried a ninja tool pouch. Her thighs were not strapped with a dart holster. Apart from a few scrolls in her vest pocket, she was basically empty-handed, looking very clean.
This was because she rarely used ninja tools in battle. Even in hand-to-hand combat, she mostly used her monstrous-strength fists. When she really needed to use a ninja tool, she could just condense an ice kunai or an ice dart with her Ice Style.
The hardness of ice increases as the temperature decreases. In extremely cold conditions, for example, around minus fifty degrees, the ice condensed from pure water is no less hard than steel under natural conditions. So even without infusing chakra, they were still good ninja tools.
Of course, it had to be admitted that an important reason why she used ninja tools as little as possible was also to save money...
In contrast to Haruno Sakura, who practiced minimalism and was empty-handed all over, Shino and Yūgao were fully armed: besides their essential waist pouches and thigh holsters, which were stuffed full of ninja tools, the two also each carried a long sword on their backs, their vest pockets stuffed with all sorts of scrolls.
The two of them looked at Haruno Sakura curiously, wondering why she wasn't carrying any ninja tools, but they didn't say anything.
When the Anbu were carrying out a mission, their style was to maintain silence as much as possible.
Do not ask about matters unrelated to the mission.
Sakura was already a Chunin who had been through many battles. There was naturally a reason for her to dress like this. Now was not the time to ask.
Only the captain briefly introduced the content of the mission. It was a patrol mission. The location was somewhere in the north of Konoha, where intelligence had shown that Sound ninja had appeared.
This could be a combat mission, but it was more likely that they would find nothing.
The enemy might have just been passing through there. After all, the Sound's hideout was nearby, in the border area a little further north.
What Squad 14 needed to do was to patrol the area where traces of the Sound ninja had been discovered and look for possible Sound ninja gathering points or their tracks.
However, Shino also said that that place was too close to Konoha, so it was unlikely that there would be a Sound ninja base.
After introducing the mission, Yūgao and Sakura silently nodded, and then the three of them began to travel in silence.
And so, Sakura's first Anbu mission began.
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