Ye Feng and the other two knew Yamanaka Keiko meant no harm, and having a lively girl on the team could add quite a bit of fun to a dull mission.
Starting the next day, for two days in a row, the number of people Ye Feng's party of eight encountered rose sharply. All eight became busy screening everyone, though most were ordinary people and wandering ninja. They had not seen a single bandit or missing-nin.
The eight worked until evening before they finished screening everyone they had encountered and began looking for somewhere to set up camp.
"We've only been out here two or three days, and we've already run into so many people. Won't there be even more later?" Yamanaka Keiko began complaining as soon as she sat down to rest.
"Be grateful. We're only screening people. At worst, it's tiring. Stick it out for five or six days, and we should be about done. If we run into powerful missing-nin, we could even suffer casualties." Nara Shikahira would rather the mission continued like this until it ended.
"I actually want to run into some missing-nin and show them what we can do." Yamanaka Keiko even showed a hint of anticipation.
Minato Namikaze and Fujiwara Inomura both shook their heads slightly with wry smiles. Powerful enemies were not easy to come across within the Land of Fire, or they would not have brought Genin teams along. If they really did encounter formidable opponents, one or two would be manageable, but if there were more, neither of them could guarantee everyone else's safety.
Usually, however, good predictions failed while bad ones came true.
On the fourth day, the two teams arrived at a village. Though it was small, plenty of people came and went.
Fujiwara Inomura frowned slightly and