Temporary Squad!

In response to Furuno Tetsuji's words, Minato only said calmly, "These are all people who wanted to go to the battlefield but never made it back."

"This... this is war..." Though this was far from Morikawa Hotaru's first time cleaning up after a battlefield, her scalp still tingled despite herself.

By comparison, Uchiha Mikoto was having a much harder time adapting. She had already run off to the side and started vomiting...

"According to the records left by Second Grandfather, members of the Uchiha Clan usually awaken their eyes after experiencing tremendous shock or the death of a loved one." Inside Kato Dan's tent, Tsunade was explaining it to the others. "But someone like Jin, who awakened them this way... should be the first."

"It was Jin's first time killing an enemy. Maybe that was the tremendous shock he suffered," Sakumo analyzed calmly.

"Huff..."

Jin slowly opened his eyes, only feeling weak all over.

"Kid, how do you feel?" Tsunade asked softly, green chakra glowing from her palm as she gently pressed it to his forehead, checking whether there were any other problems with his body.

Jin said nothing. He did not even show any expression. In his mind, all that surfaced were scene after scene of himself killing enemies with his own hands.

"Do you need to return to the village to recuperate?" Sakumo looked at Jin's abnormal state and asked with some concern.

After all, rumor had it that members of the Uchiha Clan would undergo a huge change in temperament after awakening their eyes.

Everyone was waiting for Jin's answer. After a while of silence, Jin understood that this was his fate as a ninja. After all, he was no saint.

"No, teacher. I know this is a path I have to walk as a ninja." Jin shook his head slightly. Seeing this, everyone finally relaxed. After telling Jin to rest properly, they each went off to handle their own work.

After all, everyone present held an extremely important role.

"Awakening my eyes this way... I guess I've surpassed ninety-nine percent of the Uchiha Clan, right?" Jin shook his head with a bitter smile.

For a long time, Jin did not receive any missions. As for the members of his squad, they were reassigned. Furuno Tetsuji was assigned to the combat squad he had been dreaming about, Morikawa Hotaru was sent to logistics, and Mikoto was assigned to the Uchiha.

With no captain and no missions, Jin spent every day wandering around.

Uchiha Camp

A head of black hair as smooth as if it had been washed with Rejoice and a head of eye-catching blond hair appeared in everyone's view.

"Jin, Minato, you're here." Fugaku was conducting special training for the other members of the Uchiha Clan. When he saw the two of them arrive, he handed the training tasks over to someone else.

"Brother Fugaku." Minato greeted him politely. Over the past half month, whenever Minato had free time, he would come with Jin to the Uchiha Camp to freeload meals. There was no other reason—Mikoto's cooking was pretty good.

Jin, meanwhile, smoothly took the sword from Fugaku's hand and started playing with it... only the awkward part was that the sword was almost as tall as Jin himself.

"Interested? Want me to teach you?" Fugaku crossed his arms and looked at Jin. Jin pursed his lips and grumbled, "Forget it. Right now, all I ask is to fight if I can win, and run if I can't. Carrying a sword is way too much trouble."

Minato seemed to be inspired by those words and blurted out, "Then why don't you learn the Flying Thunder God? With the Flying Thunder God and your Sharingan, you'd definitely be able to display even greater strength."

"Mm... want to try?" Jin was also rather looking forward to seeing just what level of strength he would have after obtaining the Flying Thunder God.

Just as the two of them were excitedly preparing to take action, Fugaku's words stopped them in time. "Jin, have you practiced using your Sharingan?"

"Hm?" Jin, who had been about to move, looked at Fugaku in confusion. "Doesn't it just work automatically after you awaken it?"

"Idiot!" Fugaku slapped Jin on the head. "Who told you it can be used right after you awaken it? Can you open and close your eyes on your own?"

"Huh?" Jin had not expected there to be another layer to it. Before Jin could finish being confused, Fugaku continued, "The Flying Thunder God requires talent. Let's put that aside for now. With high-speed spatial movement, can your body handle it?"

Minato, standing to the side, had clearly overlooked this problem as well. He looked at Jin awkwardly. "Mm... sorry, Jin. I really didn't think of that... after all, I haven't really practiced much either..."

"That's exactly why. Although your chakra control is outstanding, it's only for some ninjutsu below B-rank. For higher-level ninjutsu, your chakra reserves definitely won't be able to keep up." Fugaku nagged on like an old father.

"So I have to train hard, then?" Jin said helplessly. Fugaku nodded affirmatively.

"Train next time." A steady male voice rang out. Sakumo walked up beside the three of them with a helpless look. "Fugaku, Minato, Jin, the three of you will have to work a little harder."

"Is there a mission, Senior Sakumo?" Minato asked. Sakumo answered briefly, "Hidden Sand should be preparing to launch their final attack. Your mission is to hunt down a team of Sand ninja who killed our reconnaissance squad."

"Hunt them down? Isn't that supposed to be the Anbu's job?" Jin asked curiously. After all, while he did not truly know the specifics of the Anbu's missions, they were called the Anbu... shouldn't they be the ones handling these things?

"I've sent all the Anbu out. Right now, the only ones capable of forming a temporary squad are the three of you," Sakumo explained.

Jin silently retorted in his heart: The capable ones are Fugaku and Minato, right? I'm probably just here to make up the numbers.

"Your targets are two jonin and two chunin. This is the intel. Set out as soon as possible." After giving the mission briefing, Sakumo left directly.

Minato and Fugaku studied the intelligence and some details of the operation, while Jin quickly slipped over to Mikoto's side...

"Sister Mikoto, Sister Mikoto!" Jin hurriedly slipped into the temporary kitchen. When the people inside saw that the newcomer was Uchiha Jin, they were not surprised at all... after all, they saw him several times a day.

Not to mention, this six-year-old child in front of them was already a chunin... he could be called the youngest chunin in history. (It was just that Kakashi would later catch up to this record.)

"What is it, Jin?" Mikoto asked softly. Jin frantically rummaged for food while saying, "I have a mission. I need to stock up on food. Otherwise, if I eat soldier pills every day, I won't grow tall."

"Hm? Another mission? Can you finish eating that much... hey... be careful on your mission!... This child... sigh!"

Mikoto watched Jin, who had picked up a backpack and already run off, and could not help worrying. When her companions saw this scene, they could not help laughing. "Mikoto, why do I feel like that kid Jin is so much like your son?"

"Exactly, exactly. Doesn't this look just like a mother worrying when her son travels far away? Hahahahaha..."

On the other side, Jin's ridiculous appearance, with food stuffed in his mouth and a huge bundle on his back, left Fugaku and Minato dumbfounded...

"Are you going on a mission or going on a picnic?" Fugaku asked irritably.

Jin laboriously swallowed the beef jerky in his mouth and retorted, "What do you know? What if I go and never come back this time? I can't become a starving ghost, can I?"

Minato smiled with a face full of sunshine. "With Jin, this little bundle of joy, it looks like this mission definitely won't be boring."