Aburame Shibi selected for a while, and his gaze landed on a mission.
Escorting a caravan to the Grass Country Trading Company. The rank was B-Rank, and the bounty was 400,000 ryo. Reasonably speaking, the bounty for a B-Rank mission generally wouldn't be this high, but this mission seemed a bit special.
The scale of the caravan was large, and the mission specified upon release that multiple squads could accept it, so the remuneration offered was also quite generous.
Aburame Shibi thought about it for a bit and decided to accept this mission.
This mission was the one with the highest reward among the missions their squad could accept. Even excluding the portion split away by other squads, it was still quite considerable.
He naturally didn't lack money himself, but letting Hyuga Satoru and the others split a bit more remuneration was naturally a good plan.
"Hello, help me take this mission." Aburame Shibi pointed expressionlessly at the mission on the list and said to the ninja at the administrative desk.
"Ah, it's Shibi-sama. I'll process it right away," the administrative desk ninja replied and immediately recorded it.
Aburame Shibi thought for a moment and asked, "Aside from our squad, has any other squad taken this mission?"
The person in charge thought for a moment. "There should be one other squad, but I don't remember which squad it was."
"Is that so?" Aburame Shibi nodded and looked back at Anko and the others.
He saw Hyuga Satoru standing in the middle looking unkempt, while beside him, Uchiha Rin and Anko-who had failed to find the whitening secret technique-still seemed to be whispering about something.
"Uh..." Noticing Hyuga Satoru's resentful gaze, Aburame Shibi suddenly felt a chill wash over him. "The mission has been accepted, we'd better hurry over..."
He shuddered as he spoke.
At the gates of the Leaf Village, Hyuga Satoru looked into the distance and saw a fairly large convoy parked there.
When he drew closer, he suddenly heard the sound of arguing coming from ahead.
The few of them furrowed their brows and quickened their pace, and a surprising scene came into view.
A tall ninja wearing a green tight suit was constantly bowing to someone, speaking all sorts of apologetic and pleading words, while a ninja beside him wearing the same style of tight suit kept pulling him back.
"Father! Why are you apologizing to this kind of person? At worst, we just won't do this mission."
"Guy! You don't understand. If we don't have the bounty from this mission, we won't be able to make a living much longer."
After scolding the ninja who was pulling him, the tall ninja once again bowed to the leading Jonin, burying his head deeply into his chest.
"Please forgive us! I promise I won't commit a similar mistake again!"
After seeing that person's appearance clearly, Hyuga Satoru was momentarily stunned. "Dai-senpai?"
"Satoru, do you know that ninja?" Uchiha Rin looked at him in surprise.
Anko, beside them, felt a trace of worry well up in her eyes and explained to Uchiha Rin, "Rin, his name is Might Duy, and he's the father of our classmate from the same year, Might Guy."
"Oh," Uchiha Rin acknowledged. She didn't have much of an impression of Might Guy, only feeling that he looked somewhat familiar. In fact, she basically didn't pay much attention to the weak classmates in her class.
Right at that moment, the Jonin standing in front of Might Duy showed an impatient expression, waved his hand at Might Duy, and said, "Go on, go on! Consider me unlucky to have actually recruited you two fellows into the squad."
"Isn't it just that we knocked over a cargo crate? We've already cleaned it all up, why do you have to be so aggressive and unforgiving?" Might Guy finally couldn't help it, clenching his fists and glaring angrily at that Jonin.
"Guy!" Might Duy grabbed him and said anxiously, "It's already not easy for him to let us join the squad. It was my clumsy doing, hurry up and apologize to Captain Ryosuke."
Guy wore a wronged expression, almost bursting into tears. "But we've already cleaned it up."
Roughly hearing the whole story, Anko felt a trace of anger surface in her eyes. "How awful."
Hyuga Satoru furrowed his brows. After thinking for a moment, he strode forward quickly.
"Hey! I'm asking if you guys have finished discussing it yet or not? Our caravan is about to set off, if this goes on it will delay the schedule."
Hearing the caravan leader's impatient voice, the team-leading Jonin named Tanai Ryosuke wore an apologetic smile and said somewhat sheepishly, "So very sorry! We'll handle it right away."
His gaze shifted to Might Duy and the other, abruptly turning into disgust and aversion.
"Did you guys hear that? The caravan is about to set off, you'd better hurry up and leave! Don't delay the caravan's schedule."
Right at that moment, a voice came from behind.
"Hold on!"
Tanai Ryosuke looked over, and his brows instantly furrowed. The Byakugan? A Hyuga ninja? What are they doing coming here?
Hyuga Satoru smiled slightly at the flustered Might Guy and his father.
"Guy, have you already graduated?"
"You are... Hyuga Satoru?"
Recognizing Hyuga Satoru, Guy scratched the back of his head with some embarrassment.
"I just graduated and haven't been assigned a team-leading Jonin yet, so I came out with my father first to do missions and subsidize the household expenses."
"How come you came here too?"
"I'm here to complete a mission as well," Hyuga Satoru said with a smile.
"Guy... who is he?"
"His name is Hyuga Satoru, my classmate from the same year. Father, you should have heard of him-that genius of the Hyuga Clan who awakened the Second Bloodline," Guy introduced to Dai with an excited expression.
Although the two didn't have much contact during their school days, a distinguished genius with a dual bloodline limit would always leave a deep impression on everyone.
"So it's him!" Might Duy swung his right fist and gave a firm clap into his left palm, revealing an expression of understanding.
Hearing the conversation between the two, Tanai Ryosuke also narrowed his eyes slightly, sizing up Hyuga Satoru up and down. Although he hadn't heard of any dual bloodline limits, that bowl-cut kid just said they were classmates from the same year, which meant this fellow was just a newly graduated brat.
"Hey, you just said you came here to complete a mission as well?" Ryosuke stared at Hyuga Satoru with narrowed eyes.
"This mission is a multi-squad mission, we've naturally accepted it as well. Is there a problem?" Hyuga Satoru stared back at him.
"In addition..." He turned his head to look at Might Duy and Guy, saying with a smile, "Dai-senpai, Guy, since this squad is unwilling to keep you, why not come to my squad instead?"
"Satoru, how can this..." Dai and Guy became flustered.
A trace of coldness flashed through Tanai Ryosuke's eyes. "Brat, you said you accepted this mission-do you have evidence? This is a B-Rank mission after all. If I were your team-leading Jonin, I would absolutely never let you come over to cause trouble. You..."
Before he could finish his words, he suddenly heard an indifferent voice arrive.
"Are you teaching me how to do my job?"
Tanai Ryosuke was momentarily stunned and looked toward the source of the voice. He saw a ninja wearing dark sunglasses and wrapped entirely in wide robes holding up a mission assignment form directly at him.
"This is the assignment form for the mission we accepted, that counts as evidence, right? Furthermore, I agree to let these two join my squad, do you have any objections?"
After seeing the newcomer's appearance clearly, Tanai Ryosuke's body suddenly began to tremble uncontrollably, a trace of terror welling up in his eyes as he stammered out.
"S... so it's Shibi-sama. You should have said so earlier, I... how would I ever dare to have any objections to you?"
Are you kidding? Daring to have objections to Aburame Shibi?
Aburame Shibi's reputation within the circle of Konoha Jonin was simply too huge-he was a super hardcore badass! Regular Jonin were just sending food when facing him, and the ninjas who fought him met extremely miserable fates, getting eaten by bugs until not even scraps were left!
Tanai Ryosuke looked at Hyuga Satoru with an expression of bitter despair. If you had just said earlier that your teacher was Aburame Shibi, would I have bothered to offend this ruthless person?
It's over. Should he look into moving to a different village to live from now on?
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