[Naruto + Curse] Magician's Guide to Reemployment

"I refuse. This is not part of our mission." Dian Hong's cold and decisive voice was like a basin of cold water falling from the sky.

When she said this, her eyelids were still drooping lazily, and her shoulder blades were as soft as puddles of water against the wooden wall of the hotel. Inoue was in a daze and turned to look at Cage Island in disbelief. But the girl's expression was as solid as a rock, and she didn't move at all.

"But we can't just sit idly by and do nothing!" Inoue tried to argue with reason, "He's just..."

He's just an innocent kid. It has nothing to do with the mission of Team 9, nothing to do with Konoha Ninja Village, and nothing to do with Cage Island, Shimizu, or Inoue. Now that the task has been completed, it is inconvenient to add unnecessary complications. If something unexpected happened again, the three genin without Genjian's followers would be in trouble. This principle is simple and easy to understand. In fact, it doesn’t take much time for Lingdao to talk. Unfortunately, with such a useless sense of righteousness, the young boy was easily inspired to act bravely by the little boy who was trapped in a dangerous situation. But those who held the other party hostage were two wandering ninjas. Earlier, they had seen a wanted/wanted/order for one of them on the dilapidated earthen wall at the entrance of the village. The amount of the reward was astonishing. It was obvious at a glance that it was not what made the three of them. A good genin who can escape unscathed from a confrontation.

Being too aggressive is reckless and reckless. If he chooses any one of them, he will die badly. Rongdao pursed his lips silently.

Perhaps her expression was too indifferent, or she expressed her position that the three of them should not act rashly too firmly. In short, when Inoue came into contact with her furubo appearance, the second half of the sentence he was about to blurt out disappeared. fly. His expression was as if someone had punched him. Shock, anger, and disbelief intertwined together again after a brief pause. It was so complicated that it reminded Congjima of the paint can he knocked over when she was four years old.

Someone had looked at her with this expression before.

Qing Shui intervened in the gap between the two of them at the right time, determined to ease the current atmosphere before things got worse: "Calm down first, Haruki." He intentionally or unintentionally blocked Inoue's view of Cage Island, naturally Di raised his hand to clasp the shoulder of the same period and pushed him back a little, "What Quan said is not completely unreasonable. If you act rashly at this time, it may cause more chaos and irreversible consequences. Am I right, Quan?" "

"But do we really have to do nothing?" Inoue stiffened his shoulders and stood almost motionless. He still didn't give up, his eyes seemed to be burning with two dark fires, so bright that he even bared his teeth and claws. For Inoue Haruki, such a tone seemed too stiff, and could even be said to be a clip/gun/belt/stick.

Rongdao's lips moved, and it looked like he was sighing silently, making almost no movement. If you look closely, it seemed like he was just taking a simple breath. Qing Shui had a bad premonition for a moment. Something was not good. He vaguely heard from his intuition that someone had sounded the alarm.

The girl was finally willing to raise her eyelids, revealing her blue eyes like glass beads embedded in the eye sockets. She seemed to be really wondering about this, even though the look was so light that it was almost hidden in the girl's clear irises.

"What can we do?" she asked.

"We can at least try to save him. If we don't try, we will be no different from the perpetrators." Inoue said loudly, "Then I will definitely regret today's decision in the future. I don't want to regret it."

But these powerful words did not stir up the slightest splash in Cageshima's calm expression. Just looking at her expression, it seemed that Inoue was just saying polite words to her, such as "The weather is really nice today." Gongdao waited patiently for the boy to state the entire sentence. She seemed to nod, but her movements were very gentle, as if to express "I heard everything you said clearly."

Then she said, "So I'm asking you what to do."

At first glance, Qingshui almost thought that Longdao had compromised with Inoue, but under her calm tone, Qingshui subconsciously remained alert. No, it's never that simple. His hunch was correct. Rather, it was his animal-like sensitivity that gave him room to turn the tide before and in the future.

Probably confused by Dian Hong's sudden question, Inoue briefly lost his response. It can be seen that he did not make any plans, and this work often falls on Qingshui's shoulders. This is really an unexpected situation. For now, even Qingshui himself still has no clue. What's more, he is still weighing the pros and cons, so where can he find the thought to arrange the rescue plan beyond the mission.

The sky has become gloomy, and the beautiful sunset is about to be extinguished by the gray night.

"...very weak."

Qingshui vaguely heard the quiet tail of Cage Island. Her voice was very soft, but it had a fatal blow and would not be affected by anything. Inoue was a little far away from her, so by the time the wind reached his ears, these words had already dispersed into dandelion catkins. More like a dream or an auditory hallucination than the actual sound she made.

"Did you say something, Koizumi?" Inoue subconsciously turned his head and bowed in the direction of Cage Island.

Cage Island repeated it, and this time they heard it clearly.

"I said - Inoue, Qingshui, including me, the three of us are very weak. What are you going to do to save others, Inoue?"

The hot glow burned on her irises. Inoue and Qingshui realized that this was just a reflected illusion. Under this warm illusion, the girl's eyes were like eternal ice and snow, and even metal was warmer than hers. The rays of light fell into her eyes and cooled in the depths.

Inoue lowered his head in silence, his fists hanging on the ninja bag on his leggings, clenched tightly. His voice had an extremely suppressed tremor: "So you have to ignore innocent people until they die?"

"He didn't suffer because of us." Cage Island stated.

"Is this the reason why you asked us to ignore him until death, Koizumi?" Inoue's expression was obscured by the shadow of his hair, making it difficult to see clearly. He suddenly stopped gritting his teeth, like a cumulonimbus cloud brewing with thunder and lightning.

Rongdao tilted her head slightly, and a lock of hair beside her ear fell down following her movement. She corrected patiently: "It's a suggestion."

It was too late to act on the lingering bad premonition at this time. Qingshui failed to stop the explosion on the well. In fact, this explosion was far beyond his imagination.

"I can't do it. If I have to watch innocent people suffer disaster, if our power is not to save such people from fire and water... I don't agree with you, Xiaoquan. If you can obviously lend a helping hand but let others If they suffer, then the pain they endure is because of us.”

The person being criticized looks away casually. Qingshui vaguely remembered that she seemed to have been in this attitude from the beginning, indifferent to everything. Rather than being indifferent, it was better to say that her eyes had never held anything.

Reflecting, watching, but never participating.

Before Qing Shui could buffer the conflict, she asked lightly, "What does that have to do with us?"

Her tone was calm, not affected by the uncharacteristically aggressive Inoue. She moved her gaze back to the face of the young man who was confronting her, with an unadulterated slight doubt in his expression. It's like a student who, with a strong desire to survive, asks the teacher a question after encountering a difficult problem in class. This is by no means an attempt to go against the grain of his contemporaries, but a desire for knowledge that is so pure that it is almost naive. It was at this time that Qing Shui, who was still sober and rational, smelled for the first time in this girl of the same period an inhumane and arrogant arrogance that belonged to a talented person who knew he was gifted.

Although that moment only passed in a flash of lightning, and there was no time for witnesses to savor it, it was enough to shock the little ninja who had just graduated from the Ninja School.

At the same time, this became the last straw that intensified the conflict to the point of no return.

"How could you say that?" This silent questioning can be clearly read on Inoue's face. For the first time since he and Qing Shui met, Inoue interrupted Qing Shui's words and prevented him from trying to reconcile the atmosphere.

He asked: "Is that what you think, Koizumi?"

"Everything other than the mission has nothing to do with you, even if an innocent person was robbed, tortured or even died in front of you, and you could have given a helping hand, so that he might have survived, even then you You also firmly believe that this has nothing to do with you, right?"

The anger had completely burned the four words "be cautious in words and deeds" from the young man's head. He uttered even more harsh comments without hesitation, and this kind of words and deeds seemed to be the same as what Longjima and Qingshui remembered. Haruki Inoue is a far cry from that. He was probably too disappointed with the attitude of the same period, and children of this age lacked self-control. However, even though he was full of passion, the harshest words he could hold back were always polite and restrained: "I just realized that you are such a selfish existence."

"I don't think this has anything to do with you. It's because of you that we're staying here. It's because of you that we're seeing this happen. If it weren't for your physical inability to keep going, we wouldn't Because there is endless debate here about whether to help or not. Xiaoquan, you can’t escape the blame.”

Rageshima's gaze stayed on Inoue's face, and after a moment he calmly walked away from him. She lowered her eyes and did not respond to the other party's questioning.

"Even if I am alone, I will not allow myself to stand by and watch." With only this sentence left, Inoue threw down his baggage and slammed the door.

Broke up unhappily.

Qing Shui sighed, picked up the package that was thrown to the ground by its owner, and looked at Cage Island without hesitation, but finally said nothing. He looked like he was stuffing everything he wanted to say back into his stomach.

After a while—actually it was only a minute, but Qingshui felt a little restless—he sighed and said, "I'm going to see Qingshu. You... just stay here if you want." "

After this farewell, until the sunset fell into the deep sea and night fell, there was no sign of the other two members of Team 9 on Cage Island.

After a short rest, my body, which was exhausted from the mission of leaving the village earlier, finally stopped clamoring to go on strike at any time, but it was still far from returning to the state it was in its heyday. When Lengdao walked out of the room, the owner of the hotel where they stayed temporarily was wiping wine glasses at the bar. He saw her sleepy-eyed at the end of the stairs, and the man greeted her warmly.

"Little girl, haven't you had dinner yet? My wife has just cooked rice, and there is always more to eat. Why don't you join us too?"

Gongjima politely thanked the innkeeper for his kindness and asked: "Boss, have you seen a Konoha ninja with short blond hair and a brown ponytail, the two teenagers who came here with me?"

The man thought for a while and shook his head: "I haven't seen your companions since they left in a hurry in the afternoon. Why, haven't those two boys come back yet?"

The hotel owner's wife happened to open the curtain of the back kitchen at this time. She was a little surprised when she heard this and said: "Oh, it's about time." She quickly looked around the store and confirmed that there was no fourth person in the lobby on the first floor. The voice said, "No one in this area will go out at this time. You should have seen it, a child in the village was kidnapped by that man earlier."

The store owner nervously interrupted his wife and changed the topic. It's just that his tone was a little stiff, as if he was a thief with a guilty conscience. Finally, he made a concluding suggestion to Longdao to reduce travel at night, and agreed with the three people's behavior of staying in the hotel.

"I hope your companions can come back soon."

Lengdao was silent for a while, then said without warning, "No, it was me who held them back."

The man looked at the girl confusedly, obviously not understanding what she was referring to. Longdao lowered his eyes and did not continue what he just said.

At this time, where exactly Inoue and Qingmizu are, and whether Qingshui and Inoue have a round have not yet been answered. It was completely dark. As the landlady mentioned just now, the streets of the entire village were in an abnormal silence, with only the swirling wind lingering lonely outside the window.

She recognized it. Especially in her three years as a magician, she had witnessed too many faces distorted by fear, and that was not a rare sight.

Just before the innkeeper was about to reopen a lighter topic, Longdao raised his eyes: "That wanted guy, you seem to be afraid of him. Can you tell me why?"

The perfunctory lie was pressed on the back of the man's tongue, as if a thousand pounds of pressure had been exerted, and he couldn't say it out. He blamed it on the little girl's cold and bright eyes, which stared at him so quietly, as if they were transparent. Mirror.

How can peace and sharpness be concentrated in the same individual? How can these two qualities be blended into a subtle temperament?

He subconsciously made a swallowing movement, and after a brief struggle, he gave in.

"That started a few months ago."

Pain, severe pain. As the sharp, overwhelming pain that almost penetrated the penis and penetrated into the mental level receded, a heavy numbness replaced it.

He couldn't feel his body anymore. It's like being in a dream. His knees hit the ground hard according to the force of gravity. The sharp-edged stones were embedded in his flesh. The warm numbness made him almost unaware of the loss of blood. Qingshui's proud head was not cushioned when he fell, and when it hit the ground, it sent a tooth-piercing shock back to his brain that was about to lose consciousness.

The cerebral cortex slowly fed back this impact feeling to Qingshui himself, and he was somewhat unconscious.

But Qing Shui was clearly certain that he had never seen that kind of seal gesture. It took him a while to find his breath, and from his blurred vision he saw Inoue rushing towards the man who had just formed the seal at an extremely fast speed.

The man on the wanted warrant. The only man to worry about now. Although Inoue has lowered the difficulty and only needs to focus on that opponent, but...

Sure enough, it was still too reluctant.

If Quan was there, there might be a chance. Maybe. Qing Shui thought this in a daze, and then his more realistic guesses were like falling rocks that crushed those meager ideas to pieces. There was not much chakra left in the same period earlier, and the stopover in this village was to take care of the exhausted little red. In this case, even if Longdao comes to support, it will only be one more victim.

For a moment, Qingshui wanted to give up, but then the unwillingness took over again in the tearing. A red, tired but inhumanly calm face flashed through Qing Shui's mind. He suppressed his complex expression and tried his best to support his body.

But first he had to find his arm, and now he could barely feel anything.

……

For Inoue, negative emotions disappear faster than they came. When Qingshui set off from the hotel and found the boy's figure a little further away, the owner of the figure was squatting on the spot, facing the direction of the stream, muttering something to himself.

Hearing the footsteps behind him, Inoue stared at his reflection on the water, pursed his lips and said, "I seem to have gone too far."

After all, as a child in his early ten years, his ability to control his emotions to avoid hurtful words is still a bit inferior. Even Inoue, who is naturally gifted with outstanding empathy, cannot avoid this. Although he hurts other people, his gentle nature will also make Inoue bear the corresponding pain and guilt. not to mention……

Qing Shui said nothing. He stopped behind Inoue, who was blaming himself, and sighed silently.

It's hard to say what is right and wrong, but the two sides of the debate just now have a foregone conclusion, and it is destined to be irreversible.

Inoue lowered his eyes, looking a little painful or confused: "In my impression, Koizumi shouldn't be like this."

"Maybe you are too idealistic about Quan. She does have the right to refuse, instead of everything going smoothly according to our expectations." Qingshui said. Perhaps there is still a considerable part of Longdao Spring itself that has not been exposed to the public, and this is just the fleeting tip of the iceberg. He knew instinctively that that might not be such a bad thing.

It can reach a more three-dimensional and more real synchrony. This is a stage that Class 9 must go through sooner or later. They should not have been so naive that they have to impose their will on others, even if it is what they consider to be justice.

Inoue looked like he wanted to refute him for a moment, but in the end he didn't make a sound.

They finally unanimously made a choice to track a certain distance in the direction where the boy was kidnapped in the village - if they could catch the tail of the two wandering ninjas, they would do their best to save the child. And if it gets too late and the traces of those people are not found, it is not suitable to pursue them. In this case, they will return to the hotel and wait until dawn the next day to contact the ninjas of Konoha before making plans—— The plan is clear. Inoue cooled down his head from the heat of the moment and admitted that it was not a wise idea to call on the weak-minded Kageshima at this time.

From Qingshui's point of view, the positions of the two men at the same time could not be said to be completely wrong, but it was obvious that they could not listen to his persuasion. As a result, Qingshui was inevitably in a dilemma. But the choice of letting Inoue leave the hotel alone is far more dangerous than the choice of leaving Kageshima alone in the hotel. With this idea in mind, Shimizu chose to give priority to keeping up with Inoue, whose behavior was more difficult to predict. As for Cage Island, she was much more reassuring in a sense.

perhaps. At least that's what Qingshui has judged so far. At that time, the sky was still as bright as a white fish belly.

The process of capturing the target figure was unexpectedly smooth, but at the same time, the fight was inevitable. According to the plan agreed upon during the march, Qingshui chose a more conservative ambush without hesitation. However, this method of fighting is a gamble with only one chance for anyone in Class 9 when there are more than one target and the distance is less than ten meters.

Once you choose to attack, there is no turning back.

It's neither lucky nor unlucky. The plan progressed smoothly in terms of eliminating one of the opponent's combat forces, but then the rescue mission became more difficult because it alerted the enemy.

The two wandering ninjas walked one behind the other. The man who was slightly behind carried the kidnapped boy on his shoulders like a bag of rice.

Shimizu saw the right moment and used ninjutsu to distract them, while Inoue was responsible for the surprise attack. The accident happened when the ninja who was targeted for attack was caught off guard and fell into a trap.

The wandering ninja who realized that he was being attacked reacted very quickly and threw a few kunai with his backhand. As the detonating charm hanging on the kunai handle ignited, he quickly distanced himself from the position where Inoue and Shimizu were ambushing.

Probably due to the situation, the idea of ​​taking back the hostages is far better than rescuing their companions. The man ignored the fact that the ninja who had been knocked down before was still within his attack range. He curled his lips with a nonchalant look on his face, lowered his eyebrows to a sharp angle, and his eyes were as cold as those of a creature living underground. He only glanced at him lightly and sent chills all over his body. .

He was born with a sinister look. His eyes were long and narrow, his complexion was pale, he had a towering aquiline nose, and his lips were mean and vaguely stubborn. Perhaps these characteristics make him always look suspicious and treacherous, and when he moves his eyes, there is a hidden implication that everyone in the army has a hidden agenda.

At that time, Inagata had just hastily carried the person they wanted to rescue on his shoulders. Because he also wanted to prevent the unconscious child from being harmed twice by the kunai and detonating talismans flying through the air, his movements to escape to the side were inevitably awkward. The fierce heat from the aftermath of the explosive fireworks penetrated the fabric on the shoulders of his vest, and the fangs bit down not far from where he landed.

Qing Shui wanted to call Inoue's voice to retreat earlier, stuck in his throat, and the words that had not yet had time to form were compressed and deformed, and finally became a short dumb cry. The man who had hidden his figure in the commotion just now appeared on the other side of the fire curtain without anyone noticing. He knelt forward at a sharp angle and hit Inoue's face.

The power saved by this action was so great that even though Qing Shui was now about fifty meters away from them, he still felt a creepy sense of crisis creeping up from the back of his neck onto his Tianling Cap while seeing the situation clearly.

He took out several shurikens from his ninja bag and threw them all towards the man with a twist of his waist and abdomen. Inoue glanced at the approaching crisis behind him with his peripheral vision, and with his still immature body, he held the boy under his arm - before he could completely avoid it - the blond boy instinctively raised his other arm to protect his head and face. The arms are tensed to receive the enemy's threatening knees.

It was the sound of banging against trees.

Part of the shuriken thrown by Shimizu disappeared into the man's arm, and the other part melted into the night together with the ninja sword that the man unsheathed and slashed to the ground.

Inoue rolled in the forest to relieve his force. The arm protecting the unconscious little boy's shoulder was aching after bearing the impact of more than two people's weight. The other arm used to protect the key parts and directly bear the knee impact was already in pain. Somewhat exhausted. It seems that it will be difficult to recover for a while. The blond boy coughed a few times. The sharp metallic breath spread from the depths of his throat like rising mist, and pain grew rapidly like weeds and vines.

With the shuriken that cut off the man's movements, the place where Shimizu had originally hidden his figure was exposed like a desert with nowhere to hide during the day. The man pinched the shoulder of the injured arm with one hand, and shook the arm holding the handle of the knife twice casually, as if he was confirming the extent of the injury or doing some warm-up exercises.

Qingshui bowed slightly and lowered his center of gravity, his heart vibrating powerfully and rapidly in his left chest. He licked his dry lower lip, slowly and with some difficulty swallowing the sparse saliva secreted due to high nerve tension. He stared at the adult man in the distance warily. Because he had not blinked for a long time, the muscles around his eyes felt a vague soreness. This soreness was temporarily difficult for him to detect due to the highly active adrenal glands. .

No, he might not be staring at the man himself.

The man named Minagawa Munomi seemed to sense something, and his originally slender eyes widened slightly. He turned around——

Nailed not far away from him, they fell into the weeds and on the tree trunks, a total of three kunai wrapped with wire. The detonating talisman was tightly tied to it with iron wire, and the fire on the fuse was approaching the end at this time. When he looked back, everything seemed to be in slow motion, quietly and slowly——

"Oh!"

The hot fire exploded in an instant.