[Naruto + Curse] Magician's Guide to Reemployment

Before the numbness of exhaustion completely kidnapped Qing Shui, he finally saw the familiar blond hair at the end of his field of vision.

Seeing his companion in such a miserable state, Inoue hurriedly scrambled and almost tripped over a tree root exposed above the ground. The tree was old, and there were still a few fungi growing in the folds of the bark. Half of the thick roots twisted out of the soil, like veins popping out from under the old man's shriveled skin, or some malignant cyst.

Qingshui gasped for breath, the hot pain spread from the lungs to the throat, and the sound of the lungs closing sounded like an old broken bellows. These pains that seemed to crush him into pieces eventually radiated from the back of his tongue with an indescribable sweetness, and he smelled a rotten smell like death.

The golden color at the edge of the field of vision is getting closer and closer, starting from a vague shadow and smudged out as if mixed with water. In Qing Shui's consciousness, which was gradually losing touch with reality, a dark curse was faintly conveyed. The numbness and pain from the surprise attack reunited his scattered thoughts in a very short period of time. Under this conflict, his gathered consciousness captured the figure of the man who was catching up again. The man with slender eyes formed a seal with his hands, It seems to be the Mao gesture, but slightly different.

Don't do what he wants. The companion who fought side by side fell in front of him, and the man suddenly appeared between them. Inoue connected the two things in the blink of an eye.

There is no way he would leave the clear water behind.

The distance between the two shortened sharply, and they fought several times again in the blink of an eye. Just when Minagawa, who had lost his patience, was about to follow the same example and use the technique to deal with another boy, the man with more combat experience was suddenly attacked by a slight violation. At the critical moment, he retracted the hand that was about to form the seal, and with the adaptability he had honed over the years in his wandering life, he quickly pulled out the kunai from his ninja bag and turned around to block.

Then the steel blades collided, making a clanging sound, and in the night that had fallen not long ago, a cold light burst out with an unprecedented momentum. You can even vaguely see the sparks that bloomed when they rubbed and collided, and the dazzling light and shadow of the sword instantly tore open a wound in the night.

The short blades meet in the blink of an eye. Minagawa pressed his hands against the handle of the kunai, feeling numb and aching due to the strong shock transmitted from the blade. This posture was quite unfavorable for Minagawa. Just parrying the opponent's attack instantly put him at a disadvantage. The attacker had already occupied a high position, and with the inertia of the sprint, the force exerted on the knife forced him to move back at least an arm's length away, and now it was a stalemate. Minagawa knew that he needed to get out of this dangerous passive state quickly.

At the same time as the idea came to his mind, his upper body had already accumulated force and bounced up like a spring, pushing the knife stuck to his face back a few inches. The attacker who came out halfway had obviously thought of the same thing. He drew in his abdomen and bent his legs. Taking advantage of his momentary inability to defend himself, he landed two quick and hard knee strikes on his lower jaw and supraclavicular fossa, and his whole body moved smoothly. Flying out according to the action and reaction force of his kunai swing.

At the same time, before Minagawa could see the attacker's face clearly, his vision went black due to the blows that landed on vital parts. He lost his center of gravity and hit the tree, and then scattered leaves fell to the ground. The latter, however, did not make the same amount of noise. Instead, the man flipped his torso quite lightly in the air and landed silently next to Qingshui. But the force exerted on her was not completely exhausted. When she saw that the man was about to move away from her, the man suddenly grabbed Qingshui's collar deftly, and with the force exerted by Minagawa, he pulled the young man towards her. Pulled up later. I don't know where the energy came from, but he was thrown directly out of the range that might be affected by the current movement.

Of course, Qing Shui was still smashed to pieces when he landed. All this happened in a very short period of time, and due to the dim light of the sky, Qing Shui was unable to see clearly who the person who came was. He could only vaguely catch the man not far away, jumping back quickly, stepping on a tree like a cat, and running straight out like a spring. At that time, Minagawa had stood up again. He was finally annoyed by the continuous disturbances and was determined to end the fight quickly from now on.

Although he was concerned about the whereabouts of his companions, Inoue still clearly knew that stopping Minagawa's behavior at this time was the top priority. Just as Minagawa's hand seal was about to be formed, three kunai flew towards him accompanied by shurikens. The man's hand movements remained unchanged and he dodged lightly. At the same time, Inoue also held the kunai tightly and approached Minagawa head-on.

Minagawa didn't blink, and made a movement like praying. Just when his index finger and middle finger were twisting together and about to touch the pad of his thumb——

His movements were still interrupted. The person who silently came around behind him slashed at his lower back. Being attacked from both sides, Minagawa had no choice but to free his hands, subconsciously trying to stop the blade with the aura of cutting iron like mud from continuing to approach his body. The person who appeared behind him had a very low center of gravity, with an elbow firmly pressed against his waist, which happened to restrain his movement to avoid moving backwards. At that time, Inoue's kunai also rubbed against the side of his face, causing a bloody gash. Minagawa couldn't give in, so he swung his palm upwards and hit Inoue in the face. Then he realized that what he was holding in his other hand was just an empty scabbard. Behind him, the knife that was originally in the scabbard appeared in the attacker's other hand and suddenly stabbed his shin. At this moment, Minagawa also quickly closed his fist, twisted his body, and moved his elbow back.

The blade and elbow touched each other at the same time. At this moment, Shimizu and Inoue finally recognized the identity of the fourth person hiding in the darkness.

That was clearly the little red who was supposed to stay at the hotel at this time.

A heavy elbow hit her shoulder and neck. Although Rongjima released the scabbard in his right hand in time to reduce the intensity of the force on her vital parts, he still could not completely avoid it. She remained silent, and before she knelt down because of Minagawa, she swung the blade back and cut off the man's tendon.

Gongjima protected his head, rolled several times on the ground to relieve his strength, avoided Minagawa's kunai, and then used a substitute technique to separate himself from the broken wood behind Inoue in the distance.

"Koizumi?!" Inoue stared blankly at the red dot falling from the sky - a few hours ago, they had a quarrel. Although to put it bluntly, it is more like Inoue's unilateral venting. He suddenly felt awkward. Shame, surprise, joy, relief that reinforcements had arrived, and concern for Cage Island's physical condition were all tangled into a mess. "How did you...?"

How did you find this place? Cage Island knew that there were a lot of unsolved problems waiting to be thrown out at the same time, and the number would probably make her whole body drown in them. But now is not the time for leisurely chatting. She then turned away and stated in a calm tone: "We'll talk about it later."

This reaction suddenly seemed a bit angry in Inoue's eyes, but unfortunately the person involved knew nothing about it. In this tense atmosphere, the young man suddenly scratched his cheek, and a bright smile that was completely inappropriate for the current situation appeared on his childish face. He muttered, but his words were extremely clear: "Although it seems strange to say it now, it's really a big help that you showed up in time, Xiaoquan."

Another straight shot.

Minagawa was lame in one leg, and he was still carrying all the injuries from earlier, so his movements were naturally not as strong as before. If we seize this flaw and launch a general attack, perhaps today's battle will end with the victory of Team 9. This idea naturally popped into Inoue's mind. The long battle was finally coming to an end. He breathed a sigh of relief unconsciously and his morale was high. With this thought in mind, Inoue was no longer worried about the safety of the boy he was leaning against under the tree. So when he saw a bit of red pointing towards the culprit who caused this embarrassing fight, he naturally asked, "Then I will ask you to take care of this child and Zong Si for the time being."

"Xiaoquan's body probably hasn't fully recovered yet, so leave it to me..." The young man looked sternly and locked his eyes on the man in the distance. With his outstanding physical strength, his speed remains undiminished. But at this moment, Minagawa didn't give way at all. His hawk-like eyes approached Inoue, showing a strange sense of confidence. His hands once again pinched his chest like a bird's head.

Just before the bird's beak was about to close, a figure crossed the well. In the moment of his shock, the opponent's knife hilt had hit his abdomen menacingly. After Congjima hit her friend hard, she threw the person backward. Then she twisted her body in the air and slid half a step back on her feet to stabilize her forward momentum. The girl had expected that Inoue must have thoughts of resistance, so in the blink of an eye she threw out the knife she had just used to hit the friendly soldiers.

Minagawa's handprint happened to be formed. Inoue was full of doubts and had no place to ask. After his brain stopped working for a short time, he saw a red and thin figure swaying as if it had been hit by a stray bullet. He actually leaned forward and fell face down. Inoue only felt that his back seemed to hit something - he later remembered that this direction seemed to be where the boy was living - they squeezed together and flew back for a distance, and then the caged island was thrown out The knife was close to his armpit, grazing the back collar of the children who had tragically become his backing, piercing through their clothes and nailing them firmly to the ridge of the tree behind them.

But he couldn't care about that now.

"Koizumi——!"

"spring!"

As if calling her companion's name would heal her, Inoue and Shimizu shouted out at the same time. Inoue subconsciously struggled forward, but was stopped by the knife holding his arm back to the original position.

Minagawa limped towards Cage Island dragging a leg that was unable to move. The latter's body stiffened due to the pain of the sudden fall, with half of his face buried in the mud and unable to move. Her breathing sounded like a butterfly whose wings were wetted by the rain, making the grass beside her face tremble as if she was frightened. Rongdao's arms were bent at his sides, as if he wanted to save his face from the grass and earth, or as if he was about to escape in embarrassment.

Under Inoue's increasingly violent struggles, the man finally shortened the distance between him and the girl to zero. He lowered his head, stepped on the back of the poor prey that fell into his trap with his uninjured left leg, and used the sole of his shoe to crush her face further into the moist soil with malicious intent. The breathing space was squeezed again, and Cage Island had some difficulty breathing. "How pitiful," Minagawa sighed with squinting eyes. He raised his head and looked around. Hypocritically, changing from his previous taciturn appearance, he asked casually, "What? Are you planning to give up on your own companion? She I tried very hard to save you just now."

Correspondingly, with his movements, Inoue struggled even more. He shouted hoarsely, trying to stop the other person's behavior with words, wishing he could tear a piece of flesh from the man's body. The blade of the knife was finally pulled out from the tree trunk. The boy's usually clear green eyes were already bloodshot and red due to emotion, as if they were about to bleed in the next second.

At some point, the pain and numbness in Qing Shui's body receded like a tide. However, before he could take a few steps toward his companions, he was stopped by Cage Island's voice. It was a loud noise they had never heard from Yidianhong before.

Her voice was still calm, but the volume was louder than ever before, and she even gritted her teeth. There seemed to be some strange power in it, which shook both people to the spot in an instant.

She said: "Don't come over, don't come over, you two idiots!"

The pair of slender eyes that looked like they were born on the head of a cold-blooded animal stopped looking for prey with great interest, and their eyes fell coldly on the girl who issued such a warning. On the desolate dome that belongs to the night alone, there are clusters of blue smoke-like clouds. It is unknown where they were swept here by the wind. The clouds are pressed together and crowded into layers of melancholy dark colors. The ninja shoe that had crushed Congjima's head was removed.

Minagawa knelt down and dug his broad knuckles into the girl's dark hair. He seemed to be caressing her gently for a while. Then the man slowly tightened his grip, grabbed the root of Rongjima's hair, and pulled her hair back. rise. The hiss whispered in her ear, like a poisonous snake spitting out its seeds. Minagawa sighed with half admiration and half mockery: "You are quite brave, are you ready to sacrifice for your companions?" Then he changed the subject and commented gloomily and maliciously, "Should I say you are kind or naive? Okay? Anyway, it will be the same after dealing with you and then dealing with them."

A dense stinging pain instantly erupted on his scalp, but Rongdao didn't even move his brows. Minagawa was never able to see even a hint of fear or pain on that still immature face. This unexpected reality suddenly caused a thread-like flinch and wariness to crawl into his mind, and something sharp suddenly appeared in his mind. Something touched his amygdala like an electric current, triggering a subtle tremor in the cerebral cortex.

That shuddering impulse disappeared in a flash, like white lightning in a thunderstorm.

It was this hidden fear that helped Class 9, because the hesitation and suspicion caused by it allowed the three people on Cage Island to survive.

A ray of cold and thin moonlight poured down from the clouds, illuminating the face of Cage Island through the gaps in the forest leaves. An almost mysterious smile appeared between her brows, which had always been as pale as water, as if the truth had come to light. A certain emotion attached to him caused Minagawa to have the illusion that he was looking in the mirror. When her pressed fingertips touched each other, Minagawa let go of his hand as if he was electrocuted, and hurriedly jumped back a few steps.

Why can that girl move freely in his area? Why does she appear to be in no pain? Could it be that his magic technique couldn't do anything to a mere young man? Does she also have a realm of birth? Countless questions hit his head one after another, and the warning that was originally like a tiny spark instantly spread into a sea of ​​​​fire.

“The field unfolds—all things are hidden.”

At that time, the girl who was originally controlled by him murmured in a tone that was as light as a sigh, but quite determined.

He retreated so eagerly that he fell into the trap woven for him by Cage Island and Qing Shui. While Cage Island stopped their progress, Qing Shui keenly discovered a little code word that Hong handed to him in the blind spot of the man's vision.

Almost all of the sharp weapons left in Shimizu's ninja tool bag hit the bull's-eye.

twenty-three.

At this time, Minagawa did not realize that he was being set up, and the fear of losing control of the technique caused his brain to fall into a brief blank, which was undoubtedly playing into Gongjima's plan. She relied on her remaining strength to stand up neatly and pressed forward faster than Minagawa could retreat. Under the cover of the ninja tool thrown by Qing Shui, the kunai stabbed straight into the man's left chest. Minagawa Kankan, who recovered from his slow reaction, used his hands to parry, and the blade penetrated his entire palm.

Before the moon was obscured by clouds again, Minagawa finally saw that there was no mysterious smile in those eyes - perhaps it was just an illusion he had during his extreme suspicion and wavering - it was clearly reflecting him at this moment. With a twisted expression of disbelief, the corners of the culprit's mouth slightly raised as he held the murder weapon pierced through his palm, breaking the reality calmly.

"I lied to you."

Yes. Nothing happened.

The anger that swept over him after realizing it made Minagawa almost hysterical, but at the same time, the huge question still hung above his head and remained unresolved - why did this girl act so calmly, as if she had not been affected? The painful oppression of his magic. Even if she didn't destroy his realm of birth, this alone was shocking.

"Haruki! Throw the knife to Izumi!" Qingshui suddenly stopped twenty-three meters away from the Minagawa two, turned around and shouted towards Inoue. Under the sudden reversal of the situation, Monk Joji was confused not only by Minagawa, but also by Haruki, who had not received the Cage Island code. He just pulled the knife out of the tree, and at Qing Shui's urging, he immediately threw it at the two fighting men.

At this time, both of Gōjima's hands were clamped by Minagawa again, and he was about to fall into a disadvantage. When Minagawa avoided the blade coming from the air, she severely stepped on the kunai that Minagawa had not yet pulled out of the wound, and the wooden handle almost submerged into the blood-stained wound. At the moment when Minagawa was wincing in pain, Gōjima folded his waist, raised his face and bit the handle of the katana with his teeth. Ignoring the smell of rust between her lips and teeth that was getting stronger due to the impact, she held the man's wrist with her backhand to restrain her. She bowed her head and nodded as she used force to close the distance. Using the action of shaking her head to one side, she swung the blade fiercely towards Minagawa's hand. Face door.

As a last resort, Minagawa dodged backwards in embarrassment. At the critical moment, the sharp blade still slid from the bottom of his brow bone to the cheekbone, leaving a large trace of blood on the thin layer of sebum surrounding the eyeball. At the same moment, his left leg that was not restrained bounced up at lightning speed, and a kick that took almost all of Minagawa's strength hit Gongjima's soft abdomen without any compromise. Cage Island suddenly flew out like a kite with its string cut off.

The wind blowing from a distant place is mixed with a subtle earthy smell, which is the message that the humid rainy night is coming. Sakura belatedly appeared behind the door curtain of the women's hot spring. Her face was still flushed with the redness of soaking in the hot spring for a long time. She looked quite satisfied, as if her soul had been sublimated. Sasuke and Naruto stood in front of Kakashi, one on the left and one on the right, one with a cold face and his arms folded, and the other with a smile on his head. The silver-haired Jonin put one hand in his pocket and held the orange novel he always kept in his hand with the other. He lazily raised his eyelids and said listlessly: "Oh, it's finally out."

The girl stuck out her tongue and clasped her hands together in embarrassment: "Sorry, it took a little too long." As she spoke, a shy pale color appeared on her cheeks again. The other two boys in Class 7 looked like they had just finished a quarrel. They refused to glance at each other. They turned their heads away angrily and looked in the opposite direction. Seeing the beautiful girl who looked like a rare animal in the class appear, the stinky attitude she had just been wearing suddenly weakened and she stopped. Naruto smiled playfully, his eyes narrowed into slits, and he made a sound that was a little noisy at night, but it sounded like a vibrant season reviving in the cold wind in the blink of an eye. The young man, who has been smoking the cool guy's character since he was a child, squeezed out a soft snort from his nose, but did not comment on it.

Kakashi closed the page of the book, and the corners of his lips under the mask turned up softly. He tilted his head slightly, and his eyes that were not covered by the crooked forehead protector turned into indulgent crescents: "It doesn't matter, we didn't wait long. Besides, come here This place is just for you to relax, it doesn’t matter if you come out a little later.”

In the midst of the riotous fights in Class 7, Kakashi raised his head as usual and looked at the gray-white sky where the clouds were getting darker. The dark green leaves fluttered on the crown of the tree, making a soft rustling sound when the wind passed overhead. The pale moon disk has been blown away by the wind for most of its body, like a horseshoe lying in the sand.

The showers at night began to show their signs, with abundant water vapor rolling out from the clouds and falling into the rushing wind, soaking the scorched earth with the moisture that was about to fall. Kakashi judged the coming storm from these signs, so he lowered his eyebrows helplessly and thought to himself.

I'm afraid I won't be able to get back to Konoha tonight. Forget it, let's just give these children and myself a short vacation after working hard all the way.