Reliving the days of putting you under pressure at school

New squads arrived one after another, and the survivors of the old defense squads were finally relieved.

Suzuri and the other seven had managed to complete their mission and returned to the main camp together.

Mitaraishi Anko excitedly approached the newly arrived squad.

Among the new rotation squads was the team of Yamanaka Mei, Nara Saku, and Akimichi Takashi!

"Mei! You've come to the front too?"

There had been few girls at the Ninja Academy, so Anko and Yamanaka Mei had known each other well at school.

Yamanaka Mei took Anko's hand and said, "We finally finished over a month of super-boring D-rank missions, and our teacher agreed to bring us to the front!"

Mitaraishi Anko suddenly felt as though a lifetime had passed.

Back at the Ninja Academy, they had both dreamed of completing exciting, difficult S-rank missions for the village and becoming kunoichi like Princess Tsunade.

But only after coming to the front, facing death time and again, seeing corpse after corpse, and confronting one terrifying ninjutsu after another did she realize how peaceful and comfortable life at the Ninja Academy had been.

Anko suddenly felt that Princess Tsunade, with her great fame and prestige, must have endured even more painful experiences. Otherwise, she would not have left the village with Shizune for parts unknown.

Sarutobi Neito, a young jonin of the Sarutobi Clan, had brought the Ino-Shika-Cho Formation of Nara Saku, Akimichi Takashi, and Yamanaka Mei to carry out their first wartime mission.

Dule Jiong watched the squad enviously. The Ino-Shika-Cho Clans had always been vassals of the Sarutobi Clan, and their genin formations were generally instructed by Sarutobi Clan jonin.

A stable team and a trustworthy jonin teacher—Dule Jiong dreamed of joining a squad like that.

By contrast, having Orochimaru as his own squad's teacher was