The Uchiha Orphan's Survival Guide [Naruto]

Because Sasuke and Hayato defected and Naruto left the village to train, the remaining three girls from Class 7 and Class 9 naturally formed a temporary team. After a year of running together, the three of them passed the Chunin Exam together. This time we gathered at the Hokage's office to accept a new mission.

"Escorting the oiran to the capital of Earth Kingdom?" Yui looked at the scroll in her hand and couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.

Tsunade nodded: "The general of the Daimyo of the Land of Earth took a fancy to Miss Junko, the oiran from Tamakikuya in the Land of Fire's Danshu Street during a visit. He wants to redeem her body and take her as a concubine. Your mission this time is Escort Miss Junko to Earth Country until the wedding is completed.”

Yui curled her lips slightly, but Anri just nodded, raised her head and asked, "Where is Miss Junko now?"

"She's been waiting for a long time," Tsunade replied, clapping her hands. "Miss Junko, please come in."

The door to the room was slowly pushed open, and accompanied by a faint fragrance, a stunning woman with gorgeous makeup and a friendly temperament appeared in front of everyone. She knelt down and bowed, and said with a slight smile: "I am pure. I’ve met all the ninja masters.”

As ninjas, the three of them are used to being informal. Even though Yui, who comes from a noble family, has a lot of dissatisfaction with her family, although she learned some etiquette in her family when she was young, she has never restrained herself in this way over the years. Seeing this posture, the three of them could only return the salute in a hurry.

Sakura coughed slightly, relieved some of her embarrassment, and asked, "When will Miss Junko prepare to leave?"

Junko pondered for a moment and replied: "If it is convenient for you ninja-sama, we can leave today."

Anri nodded: "Okay, Miss Junko can leave immediately after packing her bags."

"Then please ask the three ninja-sama to wait for me at the gate of Konoha for a while."

The three of them stood at the entrance of the village and counted the ninja tools. Then they heard the sound of horse hooves. When they looked up, they saw a girl about eleven or twelve years old driving a carriage and stopped beside them.

"I am Xiaoxia, the maid of Taifu Junko." The girl bowed her knees and saluted everyone.

A pair of bare hands slowly opened the car curtain, Junko poked her head out, and called to the three of them: "Please invite three ninja masters to get in the car, let's set off."

As soon as the three of them got into the car, Anri drove the girl into the carriage and held the reins to drive.

The journey within the Country of Fire went smoothly without any trouble, so within a few days everyone arrived at the border of the Country of Fire.

Anri saw that it was getting late, so she suggested: "The road to the Country of Grass is not very peaceful. It's almost night. Why don't we rest here for the night and set off again at dawn tomorrow."

Junko nodded when he heard this and said: "I have lived in the deep courtyard for a long time and know very little about the geographical environment, so I will make all the decisions based on the ninja-sama."

So Anri got out of the car, picked up firewood and lit a bonfire. Since Byakugan could see at night, he asked Yui to hunt some rabbits and roast them. Everyone sat around the fire and couldn't help but chat. stand up.

"The three ninja-sama have been to many places, right?" Junko asked.

Anri tore off a piece of rabbit meat with her mouth, chewing it while replying: "You will often be running around outside when doing missions. Not all ninjas are like this anyway."

She swallowed the rabbit meat and waved her hand: "You don't need to call us adults, just call me Anri."

She pointed at Yui and Sakura again with her elbow and said, "That's Yui, that's Sakura."

Junko smiled softly and asked, "What tasks do you ninjas usually do?"

"Let's do anything. At the beginning, we did some D-level tasks such as catching cats and weeding. I remember there was a cat named Xiaohu, and we caught it several times." Anri threw the finished bones into the In the fire, he clapped his hands.

"Is your employer a plump noble lady?" Sakura raised her eyes and asked.

"Ah, yes, yes, it seems to be the Daimyo Madam." Anri nodded.

Sakura couldn't help but smile: "We also caught that cat, and Naruto was scratched by that cat several times."

"I told you why I saw scratches on Naruto's face several times, and he lied to me and said they were injuries from fighting with enemies, hahahaha." Anri paused, then suddenly clapped her hands excitedly, "I remembered ! Yui, you seem to have been scratched by that cat too!"

Yui scratched her head and said angrily, "That was an accident! An accident!"

As she spoke, she picked up a bone and threw it at Anri. She didn't apply any force on her hand, so Anri easily dodged it.

Junko held her head, looking across the fire at the three people fighting in front of her, and couldn't help but raise the corners of her lips.

"After a while, after accumulating a certain amount of experience, I started doing C-level missions. Speaking of which, our first C-level mission was done together."

Yui nodded: "It was quite thrilling that time. If Anri hadn't successfully killed the enemy, Hayato and I would have been in trouble."

Sakura sighed and said: "I didn't help at all on that mission. It was Naruto and Sasuke who were fighting Shiro. Alas... Sasuke really almost died that time..."

When it came to Hayato and Sasuke, the three fell into silence.

Junko suddenly asked: "How old were you then?"

"About twelve, what's wrong?" Anri replied.

Junko was slightly startled: "Twelve years old, you are still a child..."

Her eyes darkened slightly, as if she wanted to say something more, but in the end she just smiled softly and said, "It's late at night, I'll take my leave first, and all you ninjas, please rest early."

The three of them nodded, tidied up, arranged the vigil rounds, and went to sleep one after another.

Anri was assigned to watch the night before. She sat quietly by the fire and looked at the vast starry sky.

Junko suddenly walked out of the carriage and sat next to her.

"Miss Junko can't sleep?" Anri asked.

"Yes, so come out and get some air."

Anri hesitated for a moment, and then asked: "Miss Junko, do you have anything to say tonight?"

"Just call me Junko." Junko sighed, "I would like to ask, how old is Anri-sama this year?"

"I told you to just call me Xingli." Xingli smiled and waved her hand, "This year is fourteenth, what's wrong?"

Junko couldn't help but widen her eyes after hearing this: "Fourteen? Then you are still a child now..."

"Child?" Anri couldn't help but frowned.

"Yes, kid."

"You became a ninja at the age of twelve, right?" Junko asked.

Anri nodded.

Junko sighed slightly: "Xiaoxia is also twelve years old this year, and she is still a child who doesn't understand anything. Although she was born in Flower Street as a 'bald', she will one day follow my old path, but before that day has to come, When she was a child, I would protect her from any harm!"

"You are only fourteen! A child of your age, even in a place like our Flower Street, is not allowed to receive guests unless absolutely necessary. But when you are twelve years old, you have to walk between life and death. I'm going to kill someone with my own hands! This is not what a child should do!"

Anri couldn't help being stunned, then lowered her head and smiled softly, and said: "What you said is quite new. Over the years, we ninjas have always been like this. We entered the ninja school at the age of six, graduated and became ninjas at the age of 12 and started to perform tasks. , fighting with others, injuries, pain, and death are all accompanying you. The companions who may be drinking and chatting with you today may be killed by shurikens emerging from the dark tomorrow. If there is a war, the ninja school will still be there. Students will be allowed to graduate early and enter the battlefield, and some ninja clans will even bring their children with them when they go to the battlefield..."

"I have a teacher who became a ninja and started fighting at the age of six. I also have someone... I know who went on the battlefield at the age of four. Today is the first time I heard someone say that he was still a child at the age of twelve. , should be protected.”

Junko held her head and smiled gently: "I was really envious of you at first..."

She paused, and her expression suddenly became a little sad: "When I was very young, in order to avoid the war, my whole family had to flee together. But the war lasted for many years, and the war became more and more intense, and our family has been I was homeless, and gradually my savings were all spent... Then one day, the family couldn't bring the pot to the boil, so my parents planned to sell a child for some rice money. The eldest brother was the eldest son and wanted to inherit the family business, so they were reluctant to part with the younger brother. It was my youngest son, not yet weaned, smart and cute, so of course they were reluctant to part with me - I was in the middle, so I wasn't considerate, but I was still a girl, and I could part with it as soon as I gritted my teeth, so they put it all together and sold me to Ren Yazi, in exchange for three bags of rice."

She smiled sadly to herself.

"Renyazi sold me to Flower Street again. From then on, I never stepped out of Flower Street. Since I was fifteen years old, I have been dealing with various benefactors, groveling and flattering, and I can't help it at all! "

"And you ninjas are all equipped with unique skills, happy grudges, and can hold your own destiny in your own hands. I'm really envious of you." She sighed.

"And today I realized that the world of ninjas is so cruel. It turns out that... everyone has such a difficult life."

Anri lowered her head in silence. After a long time, she slowly spoke: "In just over sixty years, there have been three wars, and countless small-scale conflicts and wars. This world... is indeed too difficult."

She patted the grass on her body and stood up. A sharp look flashed in her eyes. She raised the corners of her mouth mockingly and said with a smile: "For the peace he pursues and the Konoha he built for peace, Senju Hashirama, Now it seems like it’s really a joke.”

Junko looked at Yui's face and frowned worriedly: "Master Anri, there seems to be a lot of pain hidden in your eyes. The first thing I learned in Flower Street is to listen. If you don't mind, I can tell you your worries." Tell me something."

But Anri just smiled indifferently: "Miss Junko, you are worrying too much. I should go and ask Yui to get up and change the night watch. It's already late at night. Miss Junko, you should go to bed early."

After saying that, she excused herself and went to wake up Yui, who was still sleeping in her sleeping bag. Junko looked at her back and hesitated to speak. In the end, she just shook her head, tightened her cloak, and returned. On the carriage.