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At the request of all members of Team Minato, Akira Tsubaki once again offered to treat them.
But he chose a ramen shop as the location.
"Hey, aren't you being too stingy?" Obito expressed dissatisfaction.
A total of 500,000 Ryo! Akira Tsubaki took 350,000 Ryo for himself, and he invites us each to eat a single bowl of ramen?
"I'm stingy?"
Akira Tsubaki smiled. "Boss, three bowls of ramen."
"Huh?"
Obito was impatient.
Four people, why order only three bowls of ramen?
Whoosh!
Suddenly, Namikaze Minato appeared.
Seeing his Sensei, Akira Tsubaki guessed that this rest period might be ruined again.
"Urgent mission, go to the Hokage's Office immediately."
Leaving this sentence, Namikaze Minato vanished instantly, leaving Team Minato speechless.
This mission came too fast? At least let us eat the noodles, right?
"Guests, the ramen is ready~~" As soon as the ramen was served, the slackers from Team Minato ran away.
"Hey! Your noodles!" the ramen Sensei shouted.
"Keep them for now, and we'll eat them when we come back from the mission!" Akira Tsubaki replied from a distance.
Come back from the mission to eat?
The cheerful cook's face turned red and stiff.
When you come back from your mission, these will be moldy.
"Father, it seems they haven't paid yet?" A little girl poked her head out and reminded him.
"Oh? That's right!"
Hokage's Office.
As soon as he entered the office, Akira Tsubaki saw a Ninja covered in gauze.
Only his eyes and nose were exposed; the rest of his face was tightly wrapped.
"Who is this?"
Obito muttered under his breath.
"I don't know," Akira Tsubaki shrugged.
"That's Ibiki Morino," Kakashi recognized the man.
Good grief.
How many injuries did it take to end up looking like this?
Seeing that all of Team Minato had arrived, Sarutobi Hiruzen tapped the desk, signaling for silence.
"Your mission this time is to proceed to Supply Station No. 3! Ibiki Morino will inform you of the specific mission content."
"Get ready; you leave in one hour."
After speaking, Sarutobi Hiruzen immersed himself in revising his documents.
An hour passed quickly.
Team Minato, along with Ibiki Morino, left Konohagakure together.
"Hey! Is that you, Kiki?" Akira Tsubaki leaned over to the man in gauze and nudged his shoulder.
"Akira, please use my full name!" Ibiki Morino turned his head, looking slightly annoyed.
"You can just turn your head; why turn your entire body?"
"Because my neck is injured."
Well, it seems the injury is quite serious.
Ibiki Morino was in the same class as Akira Tsubaki. The difference was that Akira Tsubaki was placed in Team Minato (Class Nine) after graduation, and the other was in Class Three.
The main reason Akira Tsubaki hadn't recognized him initially was because he was wrapped too tightly.
"Tell me about the mission," Akira Tsubaki asked.
"This mission is complicated."
Next, Ibiki Morino explained the reason and content of the mission.
After listening, Team Minato looked visibly deflated.
In short, this mission required Team Minato to rebuild Supply Station No. 3, because the station had already been destroyed twice.
In view of this constant destruction, the Third Hokage decided that the rebuilding of Supply Station No. 3 would be carried out by a Ninja squad.
In this way, reconstruction and defense were integrated.
"So, your injury was caused by Sunagakure's sabotage team?" Akira Tsubaki asked.
"That's right! And my two teammates also died."
Ibiki Morino's tone was sad.
All his teammates died, and he was the only one who returned alive.
"Is that so…" Akira Tsubaki rubbed his chin.
Before a war, infiltration, sabotage, and assassination were standard operations for every Ninja Village.
The most critical objective was to destroy enemy supply stations.
If the frontline troops didn't receive effective supplies, their combat effectiveness would plummet.
The simplest example: Party A has a steady stream of Kunai and Detonating Tags, while Party B has a limited supply.
The outcome is obvious.
Akira Tsubaki pondered.
"Rebuilding the supply station isn't difficult, but the difficulty lies in: can we defend it?" Akira Tsubaki asked.
Even with the addition of the half-disabled Ibiki Morino, there were only four and a half people in Team Minato.
How were they supposed to defend a supply station?
Sunagakure's sabotage team simply needed to sneak over in the middle of the night, throw a few Detonating Tags, and the supply station would be gone.
"This task is extremely difficult~~" Kakashi also said with emotion.
Passive defense requires a large number of people. With a small team, they were at a huge disadvantage, especially when the enemy had the advantage of stealth while they were clearly exposed.
The Next Afternoon.
The group rushed to Supply Station No. 3, which had been reduced to ruins.
Reconstruction work began.
Kakashi took a hammer and 'clanked' to fix a wooden board to a tree trunk.
Obito was sweating profusely, hauling a pile of scattered boards.
Rin and Ibiki Morino squatted on the ground, sorting the available planks.
Only Akira Tsubaki.
He was holding a plank in his left hand and a hammer in his right, deep in thought.
Ninjutsu: Gravity Orb (A+ Rank) [Mass Evolution]
Staring at the doubled Rasengan, Akira Tsubaki was lost in thought.
"What is this? Rasengan is doubled, and the name has changed?"
According to his initial guess, the doubled Ninjutsu should only change in rank, but that didn't seem to be the case now.
Just looking at the name, he could tell this Ninjutsu had deviated from the Rasengan's original trajectory.
"If it doubles again, wouldn't it become Planetary Devastation (Chibaku Tensei)?"
Akira Tsubaki made a bold guess.
"Hey! Look everyone, Akira is slacking off!" Obito suddenly yelled.
Immediately afterward, the other three looked at Akira Tsubaki, who was in a daze.
"Don't talk nonsense, I'm thinking about strategy," Akira Tsubaki said sternly.
"Really?" Obito looked suspicious.
"Akira must be thinking of a way to defend the supply station," Rin defended Akira Tsubaki.
"Keep working," Kakashi remained expressionless.
Seeing this, Ibiki Morino was a little confused.
Akira Tsubaki, the Dead Last, was openly slacking, and Team Minato didn't react much?
Were they used to this?
Whoosh!!!
At this moment, a strange wind blew from a distance.
Following the wind, more than a dozen Detonating Tags floated in.
Seeing this situation, the group retreated more than ten meters.
Under everyone's gaze.
More than a dozen Detonating Tags floated down onto the area of Supply Station No. 3.
Boom! Boom!!
They exploded.