Chapter 143: After a Period of Leisure, There's Always an Urgent Mission
"Hey, I say... can't you two leave a survivor?"
Shino's voice was a little gloomy.
With the death of the rogue ninja, the mission was over. The three of them took off their masks in unison to let their faces breathe.
After a mission was completed, under safe circumstances, the Anbu would also relax and chat casually for a bit. After all, no one could really work like a robot, with their nerves constantly tensed.
The mission they had received was to investigate and arrest ninja who showed signs of defecting from the village. If the other party resisted arrest, then life or death was naturally not a concern, and they were to attack with full force.
However, the opponents were only Chunin-level ninja. Was it really necessary to attack with full force and not leave a single survivor...
Yūgao stood on a high place, letting the wind blow, and rolled her eyes at her captain irritably. "Shino, how can an Anbu's strike be sloppy? Of course, you have to take them down with a thunderous blow!"
"Your swordsmanship is too sharp. An ordinary person simply can't block it. The seniors in the Interrogation Division have already complained to me several times, saying that we always bring back dead people," Shino said as he skillfully cut off the corpse's head and sealed it in a scroll. "Next time, why don't you let me be the main attacker? I have better control over my attacks and can injure without killing..."
"Captain, if you don't think Yūgao-san is suitable, how about you let me be the main attacker?" the pink-haired girl said, sitting on a rock and swinging her little legs.
She said with a grin.
Sakura's current position in the squad was that of a powerful cannon.
Basically, she only had a chance to act when they encountered a fleeing enemy or a strong defensive ninjutsu.
Although Anbu missions were tedious and dangerous, for Squad 14, with their three Jonin-level combatants, they could even hold their own against a Kage-level powerhouse, let alone dealing with these Chunin-level small fry.
So most of the time, the missions they carried out were not considered difficult or dangerous. It was not as she had imagined, that every mission would be against a powerful opponent, or even a Kage-level existence.
An opponent like today's was actually the norm.
Thus, a scene of crushing combat power and overflowing output would often occur.
Yūgao was proficient in taijutsu and was the team's assault specialist. Most of the time, she would be the first to launch an attack.
Shino was the team's mainstay, an all-rounder in ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu. He was responsible for grasping the battle situation and controlling the rhythm of the fight. The remaining enemies were left to him.
As for the final leftovers, they had to be dealt with by Haruno Sakura.
Like today, to be able to get two kills (heads) was considered a burst of good luck for her.
To this, she was also a little impatient.
"Don't mess around, Tobi. Just do your own job. This is the essence of teamwork."
Shino shook his head and directly rejected the girl's request. He put away the scroll, took out a mission book from his clothes, drew a big red cross on the headshot of the killed rogue ninja, and then flipped through the back, only to find that this was already the last page.
"The 13th one. Is it related to Orochimaru again? Orochimaru's spy activities have been so frequent lately, and so many have been exposed. Is something wrong... Forget it, let's not worry about it! The mission is complete. Let's go back!" Shino closed the mission book, his spirits also lifted. He was also quite impatient with these low-to-mid-level Anbu missions.
Even a battle like today's was not common on this mission. It was already a lot for them to have encountered real rogue ninja several times in the thirteen investigations. Generally speaking, ninja who were reviewed by the Anbu would honestly confess under the effect of the truth scroll, and they usually had only made some minor mistakes, so the worst result was just being dismissed from their post and investigated.
"This kind of mission is so boring. I still hope to meet a real opponent!" Sakura pouted and said with the fearlessness of the ignorant.
Yūgao and Shino looked at each other and shook their heads with a smile.
An experienced and powerful Anbu like Shino and Yūgao would usually no longer be assigned such missions. But Shino also knew that there was a rookie in the team now, and this was a necessary break-in period.
"Tobi, you're still just a rookie. Of course, you can only take some simple missions at the beginning to let you get familiar with the rhythm of the Anbu. This has nothing to do with how strong you are," Shino said, shaking the mission book in his hand and explaining. "And we are a newly formed team. You are a newbie, and although Xi and I know each other, we have rarely teamed up to fight together. The three of us still lack some coordination, so naturally, we won't be rashly assigned some more dangerous missions."
Yūgao then took over Shino's words and continued, "Don't be in a hurry, little Tobi~ Our mission completion rate so far is 100%. After we go back this time, we should be assigned some higher-level missions!"
Shino put away the mission book, and with a fire jutsu, he completely burned the corpses to ashes. The three of them then cleaned up the scene and left, chatting idly.
"Speaking of coordination, I think your current positioning of me is wrong," Sakura, who was running at the back, said. "You don't understand my full strength at all. Whether it's close range or mid-to-long range, I have enough output. There's no need to arrange me at the very back, to only be responsible for casting a few ninjutsu from a distance during a battle."
"That's why I said we lack coordination!" Shino said, flipping his mask to the back of his head, looking like his head had been rotated 180 degrees. "Last time you said you wanted to charge to the front, and then your water jutsu almost cut me down too. Tsk tsk tsk!"
Yūgao turned her head and said with a smile, "A ninjutsu with too much power and too wide of a range is better off staying at the back and sniping! The work of charging at the front can just be left to the precise, sharp, and not-so-easy-to-cause-friendly-fire swordsmanship of me, Yūgao Uzuki!"
"My nin-taijutsu is also fine! And with my Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals!" the girl with the cat-face mask argued. "Super-sharp Body Flicker plus close-range attack!"
Shino turned his head and rolled his eyes at the girl.
"You have the nerve to say that. Last time you and Yūgao were going for the same target, you used that Body Flicker to get behind the person, and Yūgao almost chopped you down along with them. And your Star Cannon Hammer also almost hit Yūgao... that coordination was something else."
"Captain, you've done something like that too, haven't you," Yūgao's voice came eerily. "That time last month, don't say you've forgotten. I had just charged over, and you hit me from behind with a Great Fireball. I almost thought you wanted to kill me, Shino!"
"Hehe," Shino let out a dry laugh. "That was actually me using the ninjutsu first, and then you charged over, right? You really can't blame me!"
"So it's my fault then, Lord Itō Shino?" Yūgao's eyebrows rose, her tone becoming dangerous.
"That's right, that's right, Shino just knows how to pass the buck! And that thing last time, it was clearly Shino's problem too, but he's just too stubborn to admit it!"
As a transmigrator from the internet age, Haruno Sakura had long since mastered professional skills like jabbing and directing the rhythm of an argument.
She roasted Shino until he was completely routed.
Squad 14 thus entered their daily routine of exposing each other's embarrassing moments and directing the rhythm of the conversation.
After returning to Konoha and reporting the mission, because the mission was completed quickly, Squad 14 was given a few days of leave.
Shino, threatened by Yūgao with the exposure of his past embarrassing moments, had no choice but to treat them to another luxurious big meal.
After finishing the big meal and disbanding, Sakura touched her round little belly and felt that life was really comfortable.
Easy missions, luxurious feasts, leisurely daily life.
She suddenly felt that this kind of life was also quite good!
Then, the next day, when she was caught by Shino and her leave was declared to be over, the feeling of comfort instantly vanished.
"Sakura, urgent mission, gather at the Hokage Tower! By the way, go and notify Yūgao. I didn't see her!"
Shino said and then rushed off.
"Uh..."
When she wanted a challenging mission, all she got were boring patrols.
When she wanted to be a lazy salted fish, her leave was immediately cancelled.
This life is impossible! /ragequit!
The pink-haired girl resisted the urge to make an indecent gesture at the sky.
She silently took out her Anbu uniform.
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