Pretentious Bastard

"Brother Fugaku." Minato appeared beside Fugaku with the Flying Thunder God. Fugaku said calmly, "All taken care of?"

"Yes." Minato nodded. "Their logistical supplies have already been cut off."

"Is that so." Fugaku withdrew his Sharingan. "Then the mission is over. This mission delayed us for several days. I wonder if Mikoto has come yet."

"All right. I wonder too. I wonder how that kid Jin is doing as captain." A faint smile appeared on Minato's face as well. Just like that, the two people, each carrying their own worries, rushed back to camp.

"This mission is mainly patrol. The location is the Fifth District. We'll rendezvous here in four hours." Jin explained the mission he had received from Sakumo.

Furuno Tetsuji could not stop complaining. "Captain, when exactly is this patrol mission of ours going to end? When can we get on the battlefield and kill enemies?"

"Idiot Tetsuji. What's wrong with patrol? We don't have to go to the battlefield," Morikawa Hotaru said irritably.

Jin just looked at his teammates calmly. To be honest, patrol was pretty good. It was safe and easy. It would be fine if they just muddled through like this until the war ended...

"All right, Sister Mikoto and I will be one group. Brother Tetsuji and Sister Hotaru will be one group. Dismissed!" After Jin finished giving his instructions, he left with Mikoto.

Morikawa Hotaru shook her head and sighed. "That kid Jin, why does he look more and more like a captain?"

"Hmph! The reason we can't get front-line missions is all because that kid Jin is a coward! Why doesn't he dare go fight Lord Sakumo?" Tetsuji complained, only for Morikawa Hotaru to roll her eyes at him and ask a soul-piercing question: "Do you dare?"

"Let's carry out the mission..."

These peaceful days continued all the way to the end of the war. Every day after the mission ended, Mikoto would take Jin to the Uchiha Clan's camp for extra meals.

And every day, when Jin was not freeloading food and drink, he was sneaking into the tent that belonged solely to Kato Dan to sleep in... Don't ask why he did not go to Minato's place, because whenever Minato had no mission, he would always drag him up and strictly make him train.

As for why Kato Dan did not say anything? It was just because he spoiled him.

Kato Dan's tent.

Jin was sprawled on Kato Dan's bed, sleeping soundly, when a figure suddenly appeared beside the bed and said speechlessly, "Sure enough, this kid really is here." Immediately after, a hand pinched Jin's nose.

"Mmph... mmph...!" Jin struggled in his sleep, then suddenly opened his eyes and sat up from the bed. Looking at Minato beside him, he said pitifully, "Brother Minato, someone was trying to kill me! Chasing me in my dream!"

"All right, all right." Minato helplessly held his forehead. "Let's go. Lord Sakumo called you over."

"Oh, okay." Jin got out of bed, still bleary-eyed, and followed Minato in a daze. "Brother Minato, what mission is it this time?"

"To the front line," Minato said calmly.

Hearing this, Jin only nodded slightly. "Oh, that's fine. It's just going to the front line."

"...What! You want me to go to the front line?!!"

Command headquarters.

Sakumo rubbed his temples as he spoke to this little disciple of his. "Jin, your squad has to go to the front line this time too."

"Ah... Master, our squad is actually fine just carrying out some patrol missions. The main thing is that our squad has too few combatants. Going onto the battlefield would just be pure feeding." Jin carefully retorted.

After hearing this, Minato silently complained in his heart: Feeding? Who exactly would be feeding whom? Honestly... there aren't many chunin now who are a match for this kid, right... well, except me.

Instead, Sakumo explained very patiently, "Your mission is to participate in finishing off enemies after the major battle and clean up the battlefield. There won't be much danger."

"Uh... can I refuse?" Jin looked at Sakumo eagerly. After all... up until now, he had never personally killed a single enemy. That Toad Oil Flame Bullet that time did not count... because he had not seen it himself.

"There is no room for refusal." Sakumo directly vetoed it with one vote. "Hurry up and go explain the contents of this mission to your teammates."

"Oh." After receiving the mission, Jin left with his head drooping.

Looking at Jin's departing back, Sakumo said thoughtfully, "Minato, do you think this child Jin has some resistance toward going onto the battlefield?"

"Because he's still young, I suppose," Minato analyzed. "Jin still hasn't taken that step."

Hearing Minato say this, Sakumo became curious. "I wonder how many days this kid will need to recover when the time comes? Anyway, my first time took a full five days..."

Jin arrived at the agreed meeting point. The other three had already been waiting there. Seeing Jin arrive, they hurriedly said, "Hello, Captain!"

"I told you, you don't need to do that." Jin blinked helplessly. He had no idea which bastard had come up with the idea of greeting him, calling it a way to increase the captain's presence?

"This mission is to the front line," Jin said briefly. Among the three, aside from Furuno Tetsuji, whose eyes sparkled, the remaining two girls only felt a chill... the battlefield...

"I'm not finished yet." Jin interrupted Furuno Tetsuji, who had already immersed himself in slaughtering on the battlefield. "Our mission is to be part of the group responsible for finishing off enemies and cleaning up the battlefield after the front line finishes fighting."

"Ah..."

"Oh? That's fine, that's fine..."

The front-line battlefield.

The two armies faced each other. The Sand Ninja side was clearly exhausted in morale... After all, they had fought for so long, and Konoha felt to the Sand Ninja like a cockroach that just would not die.

Jiraiya summoned Gamabunta, and several of Konoha's higher-ups stood in neat rows on Gamabunta's back. It was incredibly imposing.

"Wow! Look! Isn't that Captain Minato?" Morikawa Hotaru's eyes shone.