Big Fat Sheep Tsunade

"Ah!!!"

Screams echoed one after another.

The few people attacking Asuma now had burn marks from electricity on their wrist wounds, which reduced the bleeding.

Asuma, standing close, could see clearly—

Such fast, accurate blades!

The force was also controlled to the extreme, just enough to cripple their sword-wielding hands, with no wasted strength.

At this moment, Shisui also finished off his target.

"Tie them up and take them back."

Kyoichi didn't scold them much.

Asuma gritted his teeth, took out ropes from his ninja tool pouch, and bound all the survivors.

Afterward, they cleaned up the surrounding corpses.

The bundles on those people were all plundered wealth, and there were even freshly killed chickens and ducks tucked into their belts, still dripping blood.

Along the way, the captives begged for mercy, but no one paid them any mind.

Eventually, they simply stuffed cloth into their mouths.

The world became quiet.

"Teacher, I'm sorry, if it weren't for me..."

Asuma stepped forward to apologize.

If he hadn't been distracted, his teacher wouldn't have needed to intervene. With their strength, they could have handled these desperate bandits themselves.

"You should apologize to your teammates. If this were a battlefield, you could have been killed or severely wounded just now. Even if you survived, you would have been a burden to your teammates."

Kyoichi said calmly.

Asuma realized his mistake and turned to bow to Kurenai Yuhi and Shisui.

Kurenai Yuhi quickly dodged and said, "Teacher, I also bear a great responsibility for Asuma encountering this situation."

Those were just samurai; they wouldn't know how to dispel genjutsu.

If her genjutsu had been used in time, she could have controlled those people.

However.

In that moment, she panicked.

"What about Shisui?"

"I wanted to attack them to force them to send reinforcements, but I didn't expect they wouldn't save their teammates at all."

Shisui was somewhat dejected and still reflecting.

A smile appeared on Kyoichi's face. "Our Konoha cherishes the Will of Fire; protection and mutual assistance are our tenets. But they are different. They are bandits who live by the sword. If one teammate dies, they might even get less money."

"Understood."

Shisui nodded.

If he had understood sooner, he would have chosen to use ninjutsu to cover their retreat and provide support, rather than the tactics he used.

Kyoichi was very satisfied.

Students like these were easy to teach!

They weren't stubborn and their thinking was sound.

If it were Kakashi or Obito, he would have been angered to death. Moreover, a situation like this was already considered very good for a team of rookie genin.

A normal genin team would definitely be more chaotic than this.

So.

Kyoichi didn't reprimand them harshly. "It's good that you know to reflect. Real combat is entirely different from training or sparring. At least during training, you won't have blood splash into your eyes."

"Yes!"

Asuma felt ashamed.

His teacher was referring to him. The reason he froze for a second or two was partly because blood got into his eyes, and the other reason was that he was genuinely scared.

"Take them back to let the town mayor see if they are the same group of people. Also, after we complete the mission, we'll make some inquiries around here to see where these people had been robbing and return the money."

"Yes!"

These wandering samurai must have just robbed a village.

They had quite a bit of loot, but it wasn't a lot of money to them. Kyoichi had no intention of keeping it.

They returned to the town.

The town mayor was at the construction site for the wall.

Asuma and the others were stunned when they saw Shadow Clones helping to build the wall. They stared for a long time before snapping out of it.

Afterwards.

"Mayor, when we were on patrol, we ran into this group of wandering samurai. Are they the bandits who robbed Baiyun Town before?"

"Yes, yes, yes! It's them!"

The mayor didn't recognize them, but the foreman next to him did at a glance. He had been present during those robberies and had almost lost his life once.

Kyoichi nodded.

So, they hadn't captured the wrong people.

He had Shisui hand the people over to them, then looked around and said, "Asuma, you guys help them with repairs. I'll take a look around."

"Yes!"

Asuma didn't object.

Even though they were from prominent families in Konoha, they still had to do chores like carrying water and farming, right?

That's just how ninjas were.

So, they didn't find anything wrong with it.

Kyoichi left a Shadow Clone behind and walked into Baiyun Town himself.

Before, when using Chakra Sensing, besides detecting the group of bandits from the west, he had also sensed a person with an extremely powerful chakra level. He didn't know who it was, but...

This was the Land of Fire.

After thinking about it, it was better to go and check.

However.

Kyoichi had a vague guess – the Third Hokage assigning this mission clearly indicated a low possibility of rogue ninjas being present. Someone with such a high chakra level was likely that person.

One of the Sannin, Princess Tsunade!

Kyoichi used Chakra Sensing again to probe, locking onto the other person's location.

When he arrived, he was almost certain it was Tsunade, because the destination was a casino. Not only that, but as soon as he got there, he saw a group of people rushing in.

Combining the situation...

They were probably debt collectors.

"I'll just wait outside."

If he went in now, Tsunade might mistake him for a sucker and make him pay her debts.

The problem was.

He didn't have much money either!

Although he had earned some from mission commissions this month, it was a drop in the ocean compared to Tsunade's debts.

Kyoichi sat on a rooftop, a blade of grass in his mouth, watching the show.

A moment later.

From the other side of the casino, a woman climbed out of a window, followed closely by a little girl.

"What a mess!"

He sighed softly.

Shizune had left the village with Tsunade when she was five or six. These past three years must have been spent living like this.

However.

What about that pig that was repeatedly used as collateral?

Hadn't they raised it yet?

Kyoichi watched for a while and saw a group of people chasing Tsunade and the others. But those people were ordinary humans, after all. When it came to chasing and hiding, they were no match for ninjas.

With a turn and a Transformation Jutsu...

Good, they couldn't be found.

"Chasing Tsunade's debts is really tough!"

Kyoichi sighed inwardly.

If the debt collectors were ninjas, they would probably get beaten up too.

The next moment.

He sensed a figure appear behind him.

"You brat, you saw me being chased and didn't come down to help, just hiding here to watch the fun, huh?"

He turned his head.

Indeed.

Princess Tsunade.

Hiss!

Okay...

What a dazzling necklace!

Kyoichi shifted his gaze away and said, "Lady Tsunade, you won't be in trouble. I'm just a poor man, and if I go down, I won't be able to pay off the debt. Besides, even if I pay some back, won't you just gamble again next time?"

One of the principles—

Never lend money to a gambler, even if they are Princess Tsunade.

"Hmph!"

Tsunade didn't argue. She looked at him a few times, then turned her head and snorted coldly.

Gambling is so interesting.

The brat her teacher mentioned had silver hair, and his appearance made her unconsciously think of Tobirama Senju.

He also disliked gambling.

"Lady Tsunade, where are you going...?"

Shizune jumped up, only to see a silver-haired youth sitting with Tsunade. The two turned their heads, and their features bore a three or four-tenths resemblance.

Tsunade ignored her and instead said, tilting her head, "Brat, how about we go down for a drink?"

"You lost all your money?"

"..."

As expected, so annoying!