Wok Shadow Ninja

Chapter 58: D-Rank Missions

Kurenai whispered to Asuma, keeping her voice very low. The six youngsters felt it wasn't appropriate to eavesdrop and focused on eating their meat.

Asuma initially shook his head, but under Kurenai's insistence, he could only nod awkwardly.

He coughed, attracting everyone's attention. "...Hahahaha, there seems to be something I forgot to ask. Well, you all know me now, I'm Asuma Sarutobi, my dream is... I want to understand the true meaning of jade. Now it's your turn, introduce yourselves one by one."

He originally wanted to say "just say whatever you want," but under Kurenai's gaze, he had to change his tune and make it a serious "self-introduction."

Ino had been waiting for this question. She quickly raised her right hand and said cheerfully, "I'm Ino Yamanaka, my dream is to become an outstanding kunoichi like Lady Tsunade!"

Shikamaru's expression was a bit awkward. Seeing everyone staring at him, he casually replied, "I'm Shikamaru Nara, I don't have any big dreams, I just want to marry an ordinary woman and live a peaceful life."

Asuma's smile was a bit stiff. Finally, he looked at Choji.

Choji scratched his face. Did he have any dreams? Did he? Probably not!

"My name is Choji Akimichi, I think... I want to eat all the delicious food? Does that count..." Seeing Asuma's ambiguous smile, he quickly changed to a relatively correct statement for a ninja. "I want to train hard and become an excellent ninja, not allowing anyone to insult my companions, and eat delicious food during breaks?"

Team 10 was done. Next was Team 8.

Kiba Inuzuka was the most proactive. "I want to become Hokage!"

Ino smiled and nodded. Young man, even if you count this life, your next life, and the next, you still won't become Hokage!

Shino Aburame thought for a moment. "I hope to become a ninja who attracts attention."

Finally, it was Hinata's turn. The little girl hesitated for a long time and stammered, "I hope... I hope to become braver, like Ino, and I hope to gain my father's approval, and I hope..." Not knowing what to say, she summarized, "I hope to become an outstanding kunoichi."

Asuma and Kurenai exchanged glances. They both felt that this child had a clear understanding of herself. She indeed lacked courage and confidence. Compared to the confident Ino, her shortcomings were very obvious.

After the happy dinner, Team 10 was officially formed.

Since they were ninja of Konoha, they needed to work. Whether they came from ninja clans or commoner families, a ninja's job was to carry out various missions.

Jiraiya's bankbook was picked up by Naruto. The string of zeros on it dazzled Naruto's eyes. Was that money really earned from writing novels? The streets were full of sallow and emaciated farmers. With such a low literacy rate, how many people read books? Most of his money was saved from doing missions.

The ninja world had a clear division of missions.

First were S-rank missions, which concerned national secrets.

Then there were A-rank missions, concerning the movements of ninja villages and nations.

Next were B-rank missions, requiring ninja to participate in battles, with a high probability of injury or even death.

Then C-rank missions, where there was a possibility of injury during the mission.

And finally, D-rank missions, which did not require combat and would not endanger life.

Strictly speaking, the Mizuki incident could be considered a B-rank mission, but it couldn't be made public. Considering that Shikaku and Inoichi were there to protect them, the village gave them credit for a C-rank mission each, with a reward of 50,000 ryo per person.

Genin missions were basically D-rank, occasionally involving C-rank missions.

Chunin would handle most C-rank missions and all B-rank missions.

Jonin were powerful and only responsible for A-rank and S-rank missions.

New ninja like Ino and her team could only take on those trivial D-rank missions at first.

She had no objections to this. Even someone like Orochimaru had done 16 D-rank missions, what did she have to complain about?

Imagine Orochimaru rolling up his sleeves, squatting in the fields to weed, feed pigs, and pick up trash... Ino felt she had no right to be pretentious! Just do the mission honestly!

However, the first mission stumped her.

Weeding the farmland in the village!

It sounded easy, and it looked easy, but seeing the worried farmer sighing beside the field, Ino felt that things were not that simple. She didn't think a farmer who had been farming all his life couldn't do weeding, so his expression seemed to indicate that there was more to this weeding mission.

Shikamaru, who also liked to think things through, stood by the farmland and carefully observed.

Choji didn't have as many thoughts as them. In his view, it was reasonable for him to contribute his strength in a team with two brains. He even liked this mode of cooperation.

He rolled up his trouser legs and went into the field to weed.

Two minutes later...

"Ouch."

"Help, Shikamaru, save me... Am I dying..."

Choji lay weakly in the mud, his back and thighs covered with fist-sized leeches.

The water in the paddy field was 20 to 30 centimeters deep, and it was full of leeches.

This was the main reason why the farmer issued the D-rank mission.

Choji had strong defense. A few stabs with a kunai or kicks wouldn't break his skin. But leeches were different. They sucked blood, making Choji pale, weak, and looking like he was on the verge of death.

Shikamaru valued his best friend greatly. He said to Ino, "You take care of the water, I'll treat Choji."

The leeches on Choji weren't actually difficult to deal with, just salt and fire would do the trick. But seeing the dense mass of them, Ino still felt a bit disgusted.

She thought for a moment. "Alright."

Shikamaru went to find salt, while she stood by the farmland, carefully examining the water in the field.

She definitely couldn't use Water Dragon Bullet here. The mission was clearly stated: weeding, not destroying the farmland! One blast of Water Dragon Bullet, and there would be nothing left.

Should she stand by the field and let her shadow clones weed? That wouldn't work either. There were so many leeches here, the shadow clones would disappear after being sucked a couple of times.

Asuma watched from afar, clearly not intending to help. This mission had to be solved by themselves.

Ino walked around the farmland and quickly found a low-lying area. She calculated and used Earth Release to dig a reservoir and a canal, then used Water Release to divert the water from the farmland, along with all kinds of bugs, into the reservoir.

By the time Shikamaru had removed all the leeches from Choji, she had almost finished the initial cleaning of the farmland.

With the biggest obstacle in the mission cleared, the remaining physical work was left to Shikamaru and Choji. Seeing that the sun was about to set and the two young men hadn't finished yet, Ino had to go down to the field and help.

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