Next, Pakura went and informed her Genin students, Maki, Ryu, and Renji, about this B-rank assignment they would be participating in.
This news made them excited.
However, she calmly addressed their excitement by telling them they might not get to fight any ninjas and explained the reason why this mission was Ranked B.
It involved observation and information gathering on other ninjas, which was complex, rather than direct combat difficulty.
Then, she took her team to the Genin Corps Department.
She informed the Department Head, Isamu, about the mission and gave him the list of chosen Genin from the Genin Corps Department that Satei had given her.
Isamu, upon reading the list, was slightly surprised.
"Um..." he began, questioning the selection, "wouldn't it be bad to have fresh Genins part take in this mission, even though it has less chance of Fighting any Ninja?"
Pakura replied while pointing towards her students, who were standing nearby.
"My team is also consists of fresh Genins, It doesn't matter if there are two more. I will protect them if situation turns bad."
Isamu nodded, accepting her reasoning and confidence.
He then told Ryota to inform these Genin Corps members that they had gotten a B-rank mission.
Ryota, after looking at the list, nodded and went towards the Facility building of the department.
The five Genin selected for the mission from the Genin Corps were: Two 3-years Genin shinobi named Haruki and Kunoichi named Nao, a 2-years Genin Kunoichi named Misa, and two fresh graduated Genin Kaiji and Mukade.
Upon getting informed of the mission, they all gathered at the open area of the Department where Pakura waited with her Team of Genin Maki, Ryu, and Renji.
Kaiji looked at the gathered team of nine ninjas, one Jonin and eight Genins.
'What kind of mission is that for 9 ninja are needed and even a Joni—' he thought, the large number unusual.
'Huh?! Is she Pakura of Scorch Release?!' Kaiji remained shocked for a moment, staring intently at the Kunoichi Jonin.
Her fair skin, brown eyes, green hair styled in a bun on top of her head with a hair needle, and two strands with orange tips framing her face—
Wearing a sleeveless, backless top, tight pants, an obi, purple arm-warmers, and bandages around her thighs and ankles—
Was none other than the Pakura he remembered from the anime.
The only difference was that her eye sclerae were white, unlike from the reanimated Pakura with Grey or black Sclerae he remembered from the anime.
Smack!
While Kaiji was staring at Pakura with shock, a punch hit him sharply on the back of his head.
"Aow! What the Fu— are you hitting me for~?" Kaiji was about to curse but stopped upon seeing that it was Maki, one of Pakura's students.
Her most notable feature was her purple markings on each cheek and she was looking at him with a small growl.
"WHY ARE YOU LOOKING TOWARDS PAKURA SENSEI LIKE A PERVERT?!" she demanded.
Kaiji replied with calm expressions, trying to defuse the situation.
"I was... Just shocked to find that my current mission also involves a Jonin, nothing else," he stated truthfully, referring to his status as a Genin Corps member.
Hearing this, Maki seemed to calm down slightly.
She also knew that Genin of the Genin Corps Department didn't have the luck like her to have a Jonin as their Sensei, let alone Elite Jonin like her Pakura Sensei.
"Sorry~!" she said quietly before going behind Pakura, who was scanning the gathered Genin from the Department.
Kaiji then looked at his team, the five selected Genin Corps members.
He found that he knew pretty much all of them aside from Haruki and Misa.
He said hello to Nao, who also responded politely; after all, Kaiji's first mission was teamed with this Senior Genin Nao, along with Kuita.
He then said hello to his former batchmates Renji, Ryu, and Mukade.
Maki had already said hello with a smack to his head.
Then Pakura spoke, addressing the entire group and telling them about the mission details.
"Our mission is to collect information from Loran City," she stated, announcing the location.
"I hope you all has heared About that city.
And we also need to keep watch over the activities of Leaf Ninjas who are going to Loran City for mission."
She paused, looking at their expressions.
While she had already told her own team about the details of the mission, so they didn't show much reaction, the other Genin also displayed not much reaction.
The only person who was totally dumbfounded after hearing this mission's details was Kaiji.
'HUH?! WHAT? LORAN CITY?? LEAF NINJAS???'
His mind raced, frantically collecting the dots from his anime knowledge.
'Mission of team Minato did take place before 3rd Shinobi War,' he recalled.
'And Naruto with Yamato would come from future timeline 20 years to stop Anrokuzan, who is actually a missing-nin of Sunagakure...'
He looked at the slightly sickly and lean physical Genin with brown hair, his teammate and former batchmate, Mukade.
'And that missing-nin actually is Mukade, this same Mukade who is standing right besides me.'
A small thought entered his mind.
'What would happen to timeline if current Mukade and Future Mukade who is currently in identity of Anrokuzan, minister of Loran City meets?'
He quickly dismissed that thought.
'No, that's not much matters,' he told himself. 'Our mission is only to keep eye on Minato Team and Information Gathering.'
Kaiji had no doubt that this mission was obviously related to the movie's events of the Lost Tower Arc.
However, a question still lingered in his mind—
Was Sunagakure involved in that Arc's events in the original anime timeline?
The shock of Kaiji was obvious on his face, visible to everyone.
Pakura had noticed it and asked him about it. "Kid," she inquired, looking directly at him.
"What are you so surprised about?"
Kaiji, upon hearing this, snapped out of his shock.
Everyone was looking at him. He chuckled lightly, forcing a casual demeanor.
"Well," he said, fabricating an excuse quickly
"It's my first time of B-rank mission that even involves other villages Ninjas. I was just surprised at that."
Pakura nodded, accepting his explanation.
Renji came forward and put his hand on Kaiji's shoulder and said with a smile.
"It's our first B-rank mission as well," he reassured Kaiji.
"And don't worry. We have three senior Genins and Pakura Sensei who is very strong, and take care if situation turns worse."
Nao also added reassurance.
"Yeah," she said with a small smile. "Our mission didn't even involves much fights. You don't need to worry."
After telling them all the necessary details of the mission, Pakura gave the command.
"Alright everyone, Let's get moving!" she said, her voice clear.
Everyone nodded and started moving towards the mission location, the Loran City.
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Hello guys, I write this to tell you that from tommorow my exams are started that will continue till 5 June, though main subjects will be over till end of this month with 4 days of break between last exam, So till 1 June no chapter would be coming.
Though I wanted to write till Chapter 50 before my exams start and was writing as fast as I can but still able to complete only 48.
Well whatever, Next chapter would be coming on 1 June means start of next month and I will try to upload atleast 4 - 5 chapter which I would be writing those Chapters during break between exams.
Till then please wait, I would definitely not going to drop my Fic as I myself wants to complete it.
Oh and one more thing, some of you were saying that MC is talentless, don't worry about this, soon MC would be using his anime knowledge to his advantage a lot and Shukaku in poster isn't only for show...
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