[Naruto] Raiders of large dogs

"Squad leader?" Realizing that Yuki was absent-minded, Inaba asked with concern.

At this time, the two had completed their investigation mission and were hiding in a hidden place in the forest waiting for their return journey.Although Xue was still performing tasks neatly as usual, she always gave people the feeling of being dissociated, like a puppet acting only on instinct.

"Sorry, I'm a little distracted. After resting, let's go and send the information back as soon as possible." Xue seemed to have just found Inaba next to her, and she was dazed for a few seconds before she realized it.

"What's on your mind for the team leader?" Inaba didn't answer, but looked at the girl with concern, "Is there anything I can do for you?"

After a moment of silence, secretly looking at Inaba, after confirming that the other party really cared about her, Xue lowered her head and said softly, "Inaba, um, I want to ask you a question...male Don't you...all prefer quiet and mature girls?"

Seeing the girl's masked head swaying around with no place to rest, completely different from the sub-leader who usually gave orders calmly, Inaba recalled the girl's secret conversation that she had overheard before.

Is it because of someone you like?

It seems that the team leader's recent anomalies can be explained.Inaba scratched her hair in a complicated mood, and slowly said after thinking about the words: "This, should it be said that it varies from person to person? You can't generalize it."

"But no one likes a murderous, unfeminine, boring brat..." Thinking of the difference between herself and that strange woman, Xue was left with endless frustration.

There is simply no chance of winning.

"No." Inaba hastily denied, "The sub-leader is actually very cute, just keep it like this..."

Snow didn't answer, and the conversation between the two couldn't continue, and they could only move forward to Konoha wordlessly.

Although I wanted to ask about the situation of the woman when I handed over the task with Tsunade, I didn't say anything because of the pile of documents on the desk and the irritable expression caused by Master Hokage's overtime work.Before going to the assembly room to change her uniform, Yuki was dragged into the empty office by Sakura.

"Why are you still so leisurely!?" As soon as she stood firmly, Xiao Ying grabbed Xue's shoulder and blasted towards her like a cannonball, "Just as you slowly finished the task, the situation is not good now!"

"What, what?"

Seeing Xue still staring at herself dully, Sakura patted the girl's cheek with her free hand: "Be sober! Show your courage to carry out the task! Now Kakashi-sensei has a strong competitor by his side!"

Xue finally remembered the woman who talked with Kakashi, and her heart seemed to be tightly bound by silk thread. Did her guess come true?The girl hurriedly looked at Sakura waiting for her explanation.

"Hey, you really don't know. Didn't Mr. Kakashi accept a mission before? The mission is to personally guard a woman. Although the target's information is classified as confidential, I still took a peek at it when I was helping the master. .”

"...Sakura, you are violating the confidentiality policy..."

"Shut up! It's not for you!" Squeezing Xue's deformed face, Sakura lowered her voice and said, "That person is the daughter of a wealthy businessman in the Land of Fire, who was also executed by Mr. Kakashi a long time ago. The goal of an escort mission. This mission seems to be because her father has some troubles and placed her secretly in Konoha, and then take her back after solving the problem."

"She named Kakashi-sensei to take over the task. She must have some plans, and the task time is half a month! A few days ago, Ino saw them go shopping together in the shopping street, and they were talking and laughing!"

The stern tone of her friend and military adviser made Xue Ye nervous: "Then... what should I do?"

"Idiot! Of course, hurry up and keep an eye on Kakashi-sensei!" After finishing speaking, Sakura pushed Yuki and urged her to change into a private server to find the silver-haired Junin who was being targeted by other hunters.

Although she wanted to keep an eye on Kakashi, Xue didn't know what to do, so she could only linger at the door of the dormitory for a while before taking out the key and opening the door.

Before walking in, the stranger standing in the familiar room made the girl wonder for a moment whether she had gone to the wrong dormitory, and she took a step back reflexively.Scanning the floor again to confirm that it was Kakashi's dormitory, the girl was relieved.

However, after Xue saw that the woman she had met with was hugging the big dog doll she had put on the sofa, the two looked at each other and didn't know how to talk.

"Snow? Is the mission over?" Hearing the movement, Kakashi poked his head out of the room, his widened dead fish eyes seemed a little surprised by the girl's sudden arrival, and his tone was full of panic that could not be concealed.

"Well, it's just a reconnaissance mission..." Looking at the woman who stood up and looked at her, Xue felt the pain in her chest almost overflowing her eyes.The beast's lair broke into the uninvited guest in this way, and Shanmao felt a strong sense of danger of the territory being invaded. When facing the woman, he couldn't hold back his murderous look, "Who is this?"

Feeling that the cat was about to pop out its sharp claws, Kakashi scratched his head and hurriedly walked between the two: "This is Ms. Hayama, the client of the task. Uh, we are old friends, so if I want to ask her something today... ..."

As he said that, the silver-haired Jonin stretched out his hand to appease the beast that seemed to be about to jump up, but he didn't want to be avoided by the girl lightly.

"Then...the teacher is busy, I have to deal with some follow-up work, so don't bother me." The girl didn't dare to look at the man in front of her, but bowed her head in salute, and ran out of the dormitory with a word. Leaving behind Kakashi and Hayama who had no time to react.

Although she knew that her behavior was naive and emotional, but the uncontrollable unwillingness and loss made Xue's rationality suddenly lose ten years.

Ran to the training ground in a panic, the girl ran into a small bush next to her, found a corner in the bushes, hid her breath and squatted down.

The dormitory that originally belonged to only two people still stepped into other people.

The kitten was surrounded by cascading branches, and Xue felt the tranquility of the surroundings and hugged her knees in a daze.When the girl realized that a stronger of the same kind was involved in the predation, she instinctively withdrew from the hunting ground after comparing the difference in combat power between the two sides.

If the teacher is happy, it seems that I can safely retreat to the dark and pay attention to him silently.Xue suppressed the unnecessary restlessness in her heart, and let her thoughts fly with the sound of insects, until the branches on the moon did not think of leaving.

Like a wandering spirit wandering the streets, Xue thought that it was time to go back to the Anbu dormitory, and maybe she would have to move her luggage back tomorrow.

Just as he was engrossed in his thoughts, someone grabbed the girl by the back collar and dragged her like a cat into a shop by the street.

"Master Tsunade?!" Snow looked up and found that the person holding her was her immediate superior, and the strong smell of alcohol was still coming from her body, which made people hold their breath.

"Why are you hanging around here? We've been looking for you all day!" Complaining dissatisfiedly, Tsunade didn't give Yuki a chance to escape, but dragged her into the long-lost izakaya. A resident member of the Ye Ninja Wine Club.

"Looking for me?" Letting her boss drag her hood, Yuki looked at Tsunade suspiciously, she should have completed today's task.

"Hiccup." Hiccupping, Tsunade threw the snow onto the middle pedestal, staring at his restless subordinate with drunken eyes, and said, "Sakura was thinking about having a birthday party for you tonight, but she came out I went on an urgent mission and couldn't find you, so I can only ask you to apologize."

"Ah..." Only then did she remember that today seemed to be her 16th birthday. Xue supported her forehead in frustration, thinking that she could stand beside her teacher when she grew up, but she tasted the bitter taste of failure on the same day.

"It's the little wild cat from Kakashi's family!" He was interrupted by the red bean behind him with a bear hug before he got ready, and the acquaintances around him also surrounded him.

"... Tsunade-sama, even if Shizune gives you permission to drink today, you can't bring minors into the izakaya." Asma looked at Hokage-sama whose face was already flushed with a cigarette butt in his mouth.

"Oh, it's okay! This guy is an adult in a certain sense today!" Tsunade laughed loudly as he slapped Yuki on the back, almost slapping his precious subordinate into the solid wood table.

Hearing this, Hongdou immediately knocked a large glass of wine that was almost overflowing in front of the girl, "Then we must have a good celebration!"

"Hongdou, it's not the age to drink yet." Hong tried to stop Hongdou, who played out of common sense, but with little success.

"It's okay, didn't you drink before?"

The wine glass in front of her reminded Xue of the first night she got drunk, and subconsciously said: "But I have made an appointment with the teacher not to drink..."

Suddenly mentioning the culprit that caused her depression, Xue's depression, which had been dissipated by the lively atmosphere, came back to her heart again, and the rest of the words stuck in her throat and she couldn't say it.

Seeing his subordinate slumped in front of the table with a slumped face, Tsunade raised his wine glass in distaste and took a sip: "Ha! You young man who hasn't grown up, don't be sad all day long, what's going on?"

"If only I had a character like Tsunade-sama who can't be defeated by any difficulties..." Yuki complained childishly, perhaps drunk from the alcohol that filled the air in the izakaya.

"I'm not as invincible as you imagined." Hearing the girl's whisper, Tsunade's eyes cleared a little, and he didn't know where to look while holding the wine glass, "I just know that once I run away, even things that have a chance to win will There is no hope at all, so thinking about it will bite the bullet and give it a go.”

"Youth is the best capital for gambling." The beautiful Hokage-sama took a sip of his sake and looked at the girl with an indescribable aura.

Xue clenched her fists on her knees tightly, her unyielding temperament finally broke through the fog with the smell of alcohol and obsession, and threw all the messy emotions off the cliff.

"It's normal to have distress in adolescence." Hongdou took the opportunity to poke his head over and encouraged, "The most important thing to become an adult is to learn to drink! As long as you have this, you can forget all the troubles. back!"

"Enough is enough, Adzuki." Yuhi Kuren powerlessly blocked the adzuki on top, but unexpectedly, Hokage-sama at the side showed his prototype again after 2 minutes of being sloppy.

"Oh! That's right! You understand it very well!"

Surrounded by adults arguing loudly, only Xue stared at the wine glass in front of her and let the time pass slowly.

Finally, the girl made up her mind.

He raised his wine glass violently, swallowed the extra drink in one gulp, and could almost hear the crack of the table when he smashed the empty glass on the table.

The people who were still making noise were staring blankly at the back of the girl standing motionless in front of the table.Just when he thought nothing happened, the Bobcat, who had not moved a second before, suddenly flashed out of the store in full view, and disappeared into the night like lightning.

"...Is nothing wrong..." Seeing this scene, the red bean wine also sobered up a lot, and asked others with a guilty conscience.

"...Anyway, Kakashi is around."

"That's right."

After the discussion, the group of drinking buddies continued to drink as much as they should, and punch as much as they should, and put this episode to the back of their minds.

And in this night where no one was paying attention, the beast with bright eyes was rushing towards Konoha's single ninja dormitory at top speed.

The author has something to say:

Make a strong confession tomorrow!Then the day after tomorrow, I will update this volume with another chapter, and it is time for the familiar hoarding of manuscripts... This time, there are really no manuscripts left, so... I will update it later...