Naruto: I'm Really Not a Pokémon

After seeing Jianchuan Ju's series of abnormal behaviors, he closed his eyes, formed the "Wei" seal with one hand, and concentrated his mind, and began to perform perception ninjutsu.

Zabuza and Mei Terumi did not say anything when they saw this, but jumped off the boat in tacit understanding and formed a "卍" formation with Jianchuan Tachibana to protect the small boat behind them.

Faintly, an invisible ripple spread out from Qing's body to the surroundings.

The enemies hiding in the dark naturally noticed the alert posture of the three little ones and Qing who was performing perception ninjutsu.

Without waiting for Qing, who had already discovered their hiding place, to launch any attack, two masked ninjas walked out from behind a huge rock on the shallows.

Judging from their figures, they should be a man and a woman, both dressed as members of the Hidden Mist Village assassination team. They are wearing ANBU vests and cloaked masks on their faces, with the Hidden Mist Village logo printed between their eyebrows.

Only the Anbu of the Hidden Mist Village are so stupid that they would print the village logo on their masks, as if they were afraid that when they did something bad, others would not know which village did it.

The two men just walked out so openly, without any attacking gesture, and seemed to have no hostility at all.

However, Jianchuan Ju's mind still had the "danger foreboding" that did not stop, so he did not dare to relax.

The male ninja ignored the three children who were still on guard and instead spoke directly towards Qing.

"Blue Jonin, we are on an ANBU mission, searching for a group of missing persons from the Land of Water. We do not wish to have a conflict with you."

When they saw that the other party was dressed in ANBU attire and directly pointed out Qing's identity, they let down their guard a little, but still held their weapons tightly and waited for Qing's order.

After Qing pondered for a moment, he explained the situation.

"I am leading a team to carry out a C-rank mission. I do not intend to offend you, and it will not affect your mission."

After all, the Hidden Mist Village is not entirely harmonious, and Qing doesn't want to have any conflicts with these Anbu members during the mission.

The two ANBU members didn't seem to want to stay any longer, and didn't say anything after hearing that. They just glanced at the people, turned around without saying a word, and quickly left towards the back of the island.

Seeing the other party finally leave, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and put away their weapons.

The three little ones were still waiting for Qing's next order, but Qing stood there motionless with a thoughtful look on his face.

"Teacher Ao?" Mei Terumi called out after approaching Ao.

After being awakened by Mei Terumi, Qing spoke to everyone with a serious expression.

"Those two are not right. The Anbu will not casually tell others about the mission! And from what I perceive, the woman is the Jonin, but the one who spoke is a Chunin man!"

Seeing Qing raising doubts, and thinking of the previous crazy alarm of "Danger Prediction", Jianchuan Ju also became suspicious of the two people, and continued to speculate along the lines of Qing's words.

"There aren't many female jonin in the village. Maybe that jonin happened to be known by Qing-sensei, and she didn't want to be known by others when she spoke?"

"Fake ANBU?" Mei Terumi and Zabuza exclaimed in surprise.

Qing did not continue analyzing, but turned back to look at Daz, who still did not quite understand the situation.

"Mr. Daz, you should return to the village first. Leave the rescue to us. It's not safe to stay here."

"Then I'll trouble you all, ninja masters."

Daz also knew that he, an ordinary person, could not play any role here. He immediately untied the chain, left the empty ship behind, and returned alone.

When Qing saw Daz start the engine, he immediately stopped hesitating and ordered the three disciples: "Ming, you will lead the team to continue the mission. I will catch up with the two and confirm the situation."

"There won't be too many pirates left on the island. If the mission is completed, wait for me near the port. If there is any danger, fire flares in time."

"Yes, Captain." The three answered in unison.

After saying this, Qing was still a little worried and added another sentence.

"It doesn't matter if the target of the mission is not on the island. After you deal with the remaining pirates, I will consider how to find the pirate ship when I come back."

"Teacher Qing, don't worry. We can deal with these ordinary pirates." Mei Terumi frowned and said somewhat dissatisfiedly.

Seeing Mei Terumi speak confidently, Qing said no more.

He turned around and quickly chased in the direction the two men had just left.

Chapter 24 Let Them See Ninja

Looking at Qing's quickly leaving back.

Zabuza, who rarely showed concern for others, asked.

"Captain Qing, it won't be dangerous if he chases after them alone, right?"

However, when he turned around, he saw that Mei Terumi seemed to be indifferent, and suddenly he felt that his words seemed a bit redundant.

"Don't worry, Mr. Ao's ability to save his life is one of the best among the village's jonin. You should just focus on the next mission." Mei Terumi spoke directly to ease Zabuza's worries.

Jianchuan Ju heard this and complained in his heart. "Don't underestimate Qing's ability to save his life. He is a man who can survive even if he is hit by the Ten-tailed Beast Ball in the future."

Mei Terumi naturally couldn't hear the complaints in Tachibana Jianchuan's heart, she just thought that as the acting captain, she had done a good job in calming the mentality of her two teammates at the moment.

Then he began to call the two of them to move towards the pirate camp.

However, in order to bypass observation at the port, the shoal where the fishing boat was docked was a little far from the port where the pirate camp was located.

The three of them moved quickly through the forest, but Zabuza was still thinking about the two ninjas who were suspected of impersonating Anbu.

After hesitating for a moment, Zabuza spoke first.

"Those two people just now seemed to have a deep hostility towards us."

Jianchuan Ju, who was concentrating on his journey and jumping onto the next tree, was a little surprised at Zabuza's sharpness.

"Indeed, the enemy initially intended to launch a surprise attack when we landed."

Jianchuan Ju was very sure of this, as he had seen other ninjas in the village before.

When those passerby ninjas have no hostility or desire to attack you, they will not trigger the 'danger prediction' alarm, and it will not be such a strong warning.

If they had not discovered the other party in advance and taken precautions first, they might have been attacked by the other party's ninjutsu the moment the ship docked.

"And now that I think about it, the other party does not look like an Anbu ninja. Almost all Anbu ninjas in the village carry swords, and their clothes have hoods to hide their identities."

Mei Terumi joined in the conversation as she walked forward.

But what she said was something Jianchuan Ju had not noticed before. As for hiding his identity, Jianchuan Ju was too embarrassed to directly complain about his village to his teammates.

"So, what is the other party's purpose in coming to this remote island and pretending to be an Anbu?"

This time, neither Mei Terumi nor Tachibana Kengawa could answer Zabuza's questions.

Although he had some guesses in his heart, Jianchuan Ju did not speak them out at this time. Instead, he quickened his pace.

"Okay, it's Mr. Qing's job to track down those two people. We can just focus on the rescue."

In the end, it was Mei Terumi who ended the conversation.

Although the three were discussing the two ninjas, it did not delay their journey.

They gradually slowed down their pace until they approached a low hill in front of the camp.

It was a little different from what they had expected. It was clearly past midnight, and they thought that even if there were some pirates in the camp, they should have rested and fallen asleep by now.

But there were actually many figures moving around in the camp below the hill.

With the help of the light from the torches in the camp, the three of them looked down carefully. The most eye-catching thing was an open space like a training ground surrounded by a group of houses.

At this moment, there were more than twenty children fighting each other in this open space, while at the edge of the open space, a few slovenly-dressed pirates stood in twos and threes, pointing and gesturing at the children.

The three even saw a child who looked to be only 5 or 6 years old, who had been stabbed in a vital spot by his opponent's kunai and was lying on the ground, his life hanging in the balance.

One of the pirates who was on guard nearby walked up to the fallen child very skillfully and picked him up with one hand, as if he was throwing away garbage, and threw him to a corner at the edge of the venue.

At this time Jianchuan Ju also noticed that in that corner there were several children piled up in a mess, their lives or deaths unknown, and no one was paying attention to them.

While doing all this, the pirate never stopped chatting and laughing with his companions.

The child who had just defeated his opponent threw away the kunai in his hand regardless of his injuries. He staggered to a table with food on the other side of the open space, grabbed the food and swallowed it in big mouthfuls.

This caused the pirates to laugh wildly.

When the other children who were still fighting saw this scene, they only paused for less than a second before immediately continuing their fierce fight.

"Is this... a battle... training? Are the pirates selecting backup personnel?" Mei Terumi, who witnessed it all, spoke with anger in her voice.

Jianchuan Ju hurriedly held down Terumi Mei's shoulders to prevent her from being too impulsive. While holding down Terumi Mei's palms, he could clearly feel her slight tremors.

Jianchuan Ju naturally knew that this was not fear, but a trembling of anger.

"Calm down! Pirates are desperate people who don't think about the future, let alone spend time training their children."

Hearing this, Mei Terumi suppressed the anger in her heart and looked at the pirates below.

Zabuza also spoke up: "Those pirates in charge of guarding are very weak, they are basically ordinary people."

The three of them were not too far away from the camp at this time. It was not difficult to see the strength of these pirates from their figures and movements. It could even be said that most of them were not as good as the students who had not yet graduated from the Kirigakure Ninja School.

And judging from the weapon configuration and attire, he doesn't look like a ninja.

On the contrary, the children who were fighting were all holding kunai, and their movements during the battle also vaguely had some of the style of the Mist Ninja.

Then, the three of them looked at each other.

"Those two fake Anbu." Jianchuan Ju said with a serious look on his face.

"This is a serious matter." However, although Mei Terumi said that things were serious, there was no trace of retreat in her tone.

Even Zabuza, who was standing by, although he appeared calm on the surface, was actually filled with anger in his heart.