Rasa

"How do you feel? You're about to head to the Front Lines. Feeling nervous?"

Shinnosuke Sarutobi smiled and asked as Qingyun came over to him.

"I'm fine! I'll just treat it as a special mission. What's there to be nervous about?"

Qingyun shrugged and answered casually.

Shinnosuke Sarutobi studied Qingyun's composed face, which looked no different from usual, and found that he truly showed no trace of nervousness or fear.

Then he looked at the other ninja heading to the Front Lines for the first time. Even Uchiha Fugaku, the genius of the Uchiha Clan's current generation, was only putting on a calm front. Deep in his eyes, a little nervousness still showed.

Shinnosuke Sarutobi inwardly praised him. Qingyun was not only powerful and exceptionally talented, but remarkably steady, too. What had Shinnosuke himself been like the first time he went to the Front Lines?

Excited, frightened, nervous, and wound tight. Compared with Qingyun now, the difference was night and day.

As Qingyun chatted with Shinnosuke Sarutobi, he glanced over the assorted ninja and spotted a few familiar faces among them.

There were the Ino-Shika-Cho team and Uchiha Fugaku's team, for instance. Beyond them, Qingyun even spotted Hyuga Jun and several of his former classmates.

Qingyun paused in surprise. He had not expected Hyuga Jun and the Uchiha Yungang Brothers to have graduated early as well.

Still, it made sense when he thought about it. All three were reasonably talented, and after two years of honing their skills, graduating a year early was nothing extraordinary.

Hyuga Jun's Byakugan could see through enemy disguises, so it was only natural that he had been assigned to escort the supplies.

Since they were still within the Land of Fire, even if ninja from Sunagakure planned to intercept and kill them, they would not