Talking Is No Match for a Beating

Naruto introduced them. "I'm Naruto, this is Sasuke, and this is Hinata Hyuga."

"This is our team leader, Jonin Natsuki."

Gu looked at Hinata in surprise after Naruto's introduction. "You're from the Hyuga Clan? My apologies for the discourtesy."

As he spoke, he bowed to Hinata.

Then he bowed to Natsuki as well.

"Konoha actually sent a jonin to oversee this mission. We are deeply grateful."

There were plenty of people named Natsuki. Ordinary people would never connect the name to Uchiha Natsuki.

He had bowed to Natsuki because Natsuki was a jonin.

After all, for missions like theirs, even a chunin would normally be more than enough.

Gu was very good at reading people. He roughly guessed that a teacher was bringing disciples out for experience, or that they had simply picked up a mission along the way.

After all, in a great village like Konoha, there were more missions than ninja. To prevent missions from piling up,

the village imposed mission completion quotas on its ninja.

Some ninja would take on missions along their route when traveling to certain places.

This was actually a misunderstanding. Those outside the Ninja World had no idea about Konoha's current situation.

Ever since the three thousand Sarutobi Army soldiers had returned to Konoha, almost all missions had been snatched up.

And because of the Mission System, Advisor Elder Hizashi was currently managing things.

Natsuki only wanted to see how Naruto and Sasuke performed, so he could pick missions whenever he liked.

No one else could even dream of it.

It was already good enough to get a mission at all, let alone take one conveniently along the way.

Even people who specifically waited around for missions might not get one.

Seeing how humble the other man was, Natsuki decided not to make