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Team Minato's journey was extremely smooth.
Minato Namikaze had hired an experienced boatman, and the ninth team's boat safely entered the Land of Water via the sea.
After the boat docked, the team disembarked one after another.
"This is the Land of Water..."
Looking at the white mist surrounding them, Akira felt emotional.
This was his first visit to the Land of Water, and his main impression was: fog!
"It's due to the geography; we'll just walk for a while," Minato explained, motioning for everyone to follow.
"Sensei, where are we going to find information?" Kakashi, who had been silent all this time, asked.
He had been thinking about this mission on the way and felt it was very difficult.
The main difficulty was the instruction: no conflict!
"We'll pretend to be Mist Shinobi and sneak in to find out," Minato stated the plan.
Hearing this plan, Kakashi looked at Akira with a strange expression.
"Sensei, I think you're making things difficult for Akira!"
Akira was covered in black lines.
"Huh?" Minato was slightly taken aback.
"Sensei, have you forgotten that Akira doesn't know the Three Body Technique (Transformation, Clone, and Substitution)?" Rin reminded him.
"That's right, he can't transform!" Obito looked surprised, suddenly remembering Akira's greatest shortcoming.
He doesn't even know the most basic Three Body Technique, and he claims he's not a dead-last?
"He doesn't know the Three Body Technique?" Anko's eyes widened.
"Then was he still instructing us to practice the day before yesterday?" Yūgao felt cheated.
They clearly remembered that Akira walked on water very steadily, so how could he not even know the Three Body Technique?
"Ahem, that was my oversight," Minato rubbed his forehead, taking responsibility.
He really had forgotten.
After these few missions, he had come to regard Akira as a powerful individual comparable to himself. As a result, this powerful individual didn't know the Three Body Technique!
This was awkward.
The infiltration and disguise mission was over before it even began.
"It's... actually, you don't have to worry about me. Just carry out the plan," Akira responded, considering the overall situation.
"What about you?" Minato looked suspicious.
"I can be your bodyguard," Akira grinned.
"Bodyguard?" Everyone was taken aback.
"That's right! My current identity is a wandering ninja (Rōnin), codenamed One-Punch Man! I was hired by you to act as your security detail!"
Hearing Akira's bizarre codename, everyone was speechless.
Although the codename was strange, the bodyguard plan proposed by Akira was feasible.
After all, hiring a wandering ninja for protection was a reasonable scenario in any country.
Quickly.
The rest of Team Minato disguised themselves as Mist Shinobi.
Akira, on the other hand, took off his jacket and tied it around his waist, adopting the rebellious look of a wandering ninja.
"His abs are showing..." Anko stared intently at Akira.
"Don't look," Rin tugged at Anko, while taking a glance herself.
"You two are falling behind," Yūgao turned her head, urging them on, but not forgetting to look a few times herself.
Minato Namikaze felt exhausted.
The boys were fine and maintained their formation, but the three girls in the team kept turning their heads and blushing.
Have you ever seen a ninja patrol team with red faces?
Half an hour later.
Team Minato encountered the first wave of Mist Ninjas.
Two patrolling Mist Shinobi spotted Team Minato and quickly rushed over.
"Stop! Password!"
The command instantly dumbfounded Team Minato.
Even Minato Namikaze stood frozen, not knowing how to answer.
We haven't even entered the vicinity of Kirigakure yet; why do we need a password?
Is the Mist Village's security this strict?
Step!
At this moment, Akira walked over.
"Do you know me?"
Glancing at the two ninjas, Akira's tone was rather aggressive.
"You? Who are you?" The two Mist Ninjas became even more vigilant.
"Oh? You don't know me?" Akira reconfirmed.
"Who are you? Speak quickly, or you'll—"
Splatter! Splatter!
Akira lashed out with a single punch, leaving an afterimage, and directly blasted the heads of the two men.
Thud, thud.
Two headless corpses fell to the ground.
"Since you didn't know me, it means we haven't been exposed..."
Muttering to himself, he wiped his fist on the corpse's clothing.
This scene happened incredibly fast.
From the perspective of Team Minato, Akira simply walked up, asked a few questions, and then beat the Mist Ninjas to death.
What an atrocity!
"This..." Minato Namikaze didn't know how to describe it.
"Sure enough, that's Akira's style," Kakashi was not surprised.
"Didn't you say no conflict?" Obito looked suspicious.
"That's right, I just killed them unilaterally. There was no conflict," Akira said casually.
It sounds like it makes sense, somehow?
Two Mist Ninjas were dead, and the next step should be to bury the bodies.
"It's best not to touch the corpses," Akira reminded them.
"Wouldn't other Mist Ninjas discover them?" Rin asked, puzzled.
"Discover them?"
Akira shook his head.
"No one knows the route we took, so who can be sure we killed them?"
"We just need to deviate from the line a little bit to have a perfect alibi."
Speaking of this, Akira added another sentence.
"The way I see it, they'll blame Stone Shinobi, or maybe Cloud Shinobi, or perhaps Sand Shinobi..."
In the field.
Listening to Akira's serious nonsense, Minato Namikaze pondered it for a moment and thought it was very reasonable.
As Akira said.
All they needed to do was deviate from their course, and they would have the perfect excuse.
Therefore.
Team Minato deviated from their planned course and continued in the direction of Kirigakure.
About an hour later.
Team Minato encountered the second wave of Mist Ninjas.
Unlike the two people in the first wave, this time, there were more than a dozen Mist Ninjas.
"Stop!"
The moment they saw Team Minato, more than a dozen Mist Ninjas rushed over.
"Tell us, whose subordinates are you?" A leading Mist Ninja barked sharply.
This question dumbfounded Team Minato again.
This time it wasn't a password, but the name of their superior?
Step!
It was the familiar footsteps again.
Akira walked over.
"Do you guys... know me?"
"Hmm?"
The dozen-plus Mist Ninjas looked at Akira, all suspicious.
"Judging by your expressions, I already know the answer."
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Before Akira could move, Minato Namikaze and Kakashi moved first.
"Hey! I'm the bodyguard—"