Konoha, Mission Office.
The members of Team 3 left the Mission Office and headed toward the village gate.
Just moments ago, Team 3 had accepted a B-rank mission.
The situation in the Ninja World had recently begun to grow genuinely tense. Even supervising Jonin like Orochimaru had been reassigned to carry out various missions, leaving them with no time to lead teams. Uchiha Kiyoshi's class, along with several classes before and after theirs, had been completing missions on their own for the past few months.
The focus of missions had also shifted from being varied to leaning more toward intelligence gathering and assassination. The mission Uchiha Kiyoshi and the others had just accepted was an intelligence-gathering mission. Since it required entering the Rain Country and they might encounter Amegakure teams, its difficulty had been rated B-rank.
"Given the current situation, war will break out soon. Konoha Year 35... the Second Shinobi World War really could break out around this time."
Since the timeline of the Naruto world itself contained some inconsistencies, Uchiha Kiyoshi did not know the exact timing of the Second Shinobi World War. There were many matters related to time that he could not judge, so he could only make guesses based on the information he possessed.
That was the case now. Even as merely a Genin team, they could sense the feeling of an impending storm. Even Nawaki, who was usually so carefree, had begun to feel nervous for once. Yet beyond his nerves, he was also excited and frustrated. He was excited because he could earn merit in war, and his path to becoming Hokage depended on it. He was frustrated because he feared Tsunade would not let him go to the battlefield. Even with their current missions, Tsunade had interfered several times. If not for