"Dad, what kind of mission is it that requires us to make a special trip here?" Naruto asked, propping his hands on the table, while also trying to peek at the documents.
Minato stamped the document in his hand, put it into a file bag, and replied, "It's a joint mission executed by two teams, I'll explain it to you together later."
Naruto casually asked, "Joint execution, which other team is it? They're even later than Kakashi-sensei."
Kakashi stared at Naruto with dead fish eyes, complaining in his heart, You've already said that, isn't the answer obvious?
"It's us!" Kushina pushed open the door and walked in with her students.
Naruto turned around and said in surprise, "Mom? Hinata, Shino, and Akamaru?"
"Naruto-kun." Hinata happily called out to Naruto, this was the first time they were carrying out a mission together.
Kiba jumped up and down and shouted, "Hey, Naruto! Don't ignore me every time!"
"Oh, definitely next time." Naruto responded insincerely, taking Akamaru from Kiba's shoulder.
Then he and Hinata began to discuss whether Akamaru had grown a bit recently, and it seemed inconvenient to put him on Kiba's head anymore. Akamaru barked and wagged his tail happily, the scene was just like a young couple with a dog son.
"Alright, everyone's here, let me talk about the mission." Minato said:
"The request was sent by the Star Ninja Village in the Land of Bears. The mission is to protect the village's treasure—the 'Star'."
"Star?" Everyone didn't understand.
Minato explained, "Two hundred years ago, a meteorite fell in the Land of Bears. The First Star Shadow at the time discovered that using this meteorite to cultivate could enhance Chakra, and created a secret method based on this, establishing the Star Ninja Village."
Sakura discovered the blind spot, raised her hand and asked, "Um... can the leader of the Star Ninja Village be called a Shadow?"
In the ninja world, only the leaders of the ninja villages of the five great nations can be called Shadow. Back then, Hanzo of the Salamander was so inflated that he called himself a demigod, but he didn't dare to say he was the Rain Shadow. What did the Star Ninja Village rely on?
Minato said somewhat unnaturally, "Well, actually, the Shadow of the Star Ninja Village is not recognized by the five great nations, they just think they can be on par with the five great ninja villages. The five great nations didn't pay much attention to it, and normal exchanges still exist."
Naruto understood in seconds, this was like some countries that don't have any self-awareness, thinking they are very strong and want to squeeze into the five great rogue teams, but the five great rogues basically ignore them.
Minato continued, "Recently, the Star Ninja Village received information that someone is eyeing their 'Star', and there may be people from Cloud Village among them. They feel it's difficult to deal with, so they came to Konoha to issue a mission."
"Those Cloud Village robbers again!" Kushina slammed the table. She and Hinata had both been kidnapped by Cloud Village, and in Kushina's eyes, those people were robbers.
"Kushina, calm down." Minato stopped Kushina from going berserk in time, saving the poor table, and continued:
"Because Cloud Village even has a record of the Raikage personally taking action to snatch secret techniques, we can't determine the level of the opponent this time. I'm worried that one team won't be able to handle it, so I'm letting you go together, but it won't be a simple B-Rank Mission then."
It was true that the Raikage personally took action to snatch things. A few years ago, the Fourth Raikage personally led a team to rob a secret technique, but they were ambushed by a group of mercenaries and almost died.
It was Tsunade who happened to be traveling around who healed him. As for why Tsunade helped him heal—it wasn't because of a doctor's benevolence, but because Tsunade lost a bet with the Raikage...
Naruto gently squeezed Hinata's hand, this girl still had some psychological shadow on Cloud Village because of what happened when she was a child.
So Naruto decided to beat the Cloud Village people to death when he met them. Anyone who bullied Hinata would not have a good end. He had already forgotten that the person who was responsible for kidnapping Hinata in the first place had been beaten to death by Hiashi Hyuga on the spot.
As for the safety of these two teams, Minato wasn't worried. Ordinary ninjas were just delivering food, even if they really encountered the Raikage, the speed of the mother and son's Nine Tails Chakra Mode was no slower than the Raikage's.
In the worst case, Naruto could use the Flying Thunder God Technique to take his friends and run away first. Whether it was the whole family blocking him together, or the whole village blocking him together, it would depend on his mood.
The Land of Bears is adjacent to the Land of Fire, in the southeast direction of Konoha, about two days away. The previous request was sent by ninja hawk.
After walking out of the office, Kiba looked very excited. They had only carried out C-Rank Missions at most, and this was the first time for a B-Rank Mission, and it was also a mission that could be upgraded at any time. This kind of thing was what he, a hot-blooded teenager, liked the most.
Naruto was also a little excited because he remembered that the Star Ninja Village had a secret technique called the Peacock Mystical Method. This method was not simple. After learning it, one could use fighting spirit to transform... Chakra into wings, and then be able to fly!
No wonder others wanted to snatch it. Naruto also wanted this thing, but he didn't need to snatch it. He had a good Uchiha brother. As everyone knows, the Uchiha never steal other people's Ninjutsu.
After everyone packed their luggage, they gathered and set off. Along the way, Naruto occasionally fed Akamaru dog food, and occasionally fell behind the team with Hinata to secretly spread dog food.
Kiba excitedly took the lead in scouting the way ahead. Anyway, he had reconnaissance abilities and was a restless person, so he was allowed to go.
Shino didn't know where he was hiding. If any ignorant person ambushed them on the way, they would probably be counter-killed by Shino.
Kushina gave Naruto a thumbs up in her heart, and then took Kakashi and Sasuke Sakura away, giving them a chance to be alone.
Kakashi felt like he was sitting on pins and needles walking side by side with Kushina. He definitely didn't dare to take out strange books along the way, fearing he would be bored to death. He could only talk to Kushina about Naruto and Sasuke's usual performance, like a salted fish who had lost his dream.
Sakura leaned close to Sasuke and apologized nicely. Sasuke didn't want to pay attention to her because of the poisoning incident in the morning, and walked slowly with his hands in his pockets.
At noon, they casually ate some dry food and continued on their way, until they set up tents at night and cooked with the various tools Naruto brought.
Sakura Bro didn't dare to start because of the blow in the morning, but Kushina and Hinata cooperated very happily.
Kushina looked at Hinata's skillful movements and praised, "Hinata is very good, she will definitely be a good wife in the future."
Hinata's face was red: "I... I will work hard!"
Kushina teased with a smile: "Work hard? Work hard to become whose wife?"
"Huh?" White steam rose from Hinata's head, mixed with the steam rising from the pot.
"It's so fragrant, um um um..." Naruto scooped a piece of meat into his mouth, and then was scalded so badly that he didn't dare to swallow it, but was reluctant to spit it out.
"Ah! Naruto is so cunning, he's actually stealing food!" Kiba ran over rashly and shouted.
"Woof!" Akamaru also joined in the fun.
Then, Kushina raised her spoon and dropped it: "Wait for me obediently!"
"Ouch!"
"Ouch!"
"Woof woo~"
The three people and one dog squatted down to defend their heads, and Sasuke quietly retracted his eager steps not far away.
Sakura looked enviously at Hinata's skillful hands, imagining when she could have such skills.
Kakashi was already used to this kind of scene and was considering taking the opportunity to secretly read a book while keeping watch at night.
And Hinata, who saw this scene for the first time, tilted her head and looked at this scene, the blush on her face faded, and she smiled softly.
Shino calmly took a sip of the soup, it was really delicious, but he really wanted to cry.
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