Naruto: I'm Really Not a Pokémon

And his three subordinates should have no problem dealing with some ordinary pirates.

Qing decided to continue tracking the two men.

However, it is always inconvenient to track by diving in the sea using water-style ninjutsu, and the opponent's ship is also accelerating continuously using water-style ninjutsu.

At this time, the speedboat was finally about to leave Qing's perception range.

Let’s not talk about how Qing, whose pursuit was fruitless, will return.

After checking the small boat in the port and confirming it was intact, Jianchuan Ju and the other two found some supplies stored by the pirates and began distributing food to the children.

This is the time when the excellent handling ability of Mei Terumi, a Genin with a full year of experience, can be demonstrated.

It seems that Mei Terumi, at such a young age, can manage these messy kids in an orderly manner.

And he soothed the children's emotions with a gentle tone that was completely different from before.

This made Jianchuan Ju, a guy with an adult soul, feel ashamed.

"This is nothing. I've done a D-rank mission before, playing a ninja game with a rich merchant's kid. That's called..."

It seemed to have stirred up some unpleasant memories, and Mei Terumi involuntarily shivered.

Upon hearing this, Tachibana immediately thought of a series of outrageous actions by a certain 'Gold Release ninja' in the original work, and couldn't help but cast a sympathetic glance at Mei.

"Take away that weird look of yours!"

Seeing Mei Terumi's expression, which was like a frightened kitten, Jianchuan Tachibana decisively gave in and moved closer to Zabuza.

Zabuza looked at the interaction between the two with disdain and continued to clean his short sword. But he seemed to have thought of something and looked up at the two again.

"After Captain Qing comes back, will he let us continue to chase the pirate ships that are out?"

Mei Terumi thought for a moment and then gave her answer.

"Probably not. It's too difficult to find a pirate ship on the sea. That's why there are so many pirate groups composed of ordinary people around the Water Country."

"Besides, we are on a rescue mission after all. We still have so many children to bring back. We can't just wait here for the pirates to come back and die."

"Oh." Zabuza seemed to be just asking casually. After hearing the answer, he just replied coldly and continued to wipe the dagger with his head down.

But what Mei Terumi said makes sense.

Previously, a few people woke up a few pirates. Although they were all small fry, they didn't know much more information than those kids.

But the three also learned that the pirate ship left the port again yesterday. Usually, it would stay out for at least ten days and at most a month.

It is indeed impossible for the Qing team to stay here and wait for opportunities.

We can only rush back to the village as soon as possible and report the situation here. Then the village may issue tasks and send other teams to deal with the remaining pirates.

Oh, by the way, there is another piece of information. We learned from these pirates that their captain and deputy captain are extremely powerful and can control strong winds and so on.

However, the three of them were dismissive of this. With the weak strength of these cannon fodder pirates, any random Genin who could use wind escape would probably be as powerful as they said.

Even if Zabuza formed a seal and released his Water Dragon Bullet Technique, the pirates would think that he was a powerful man who controlled the sea.

Just when the three of them were bored and waiting for Qing to come back from investigation.

The 'danger prediction' in Jianchuan Ju's mind suddenly sent out a series of warnings. Although not in a hurry, he still subconsciously turned his head to look at the sea.

Then his pupils dilated slightly and he muttered to himself.

"Why are you back at this time?"

In sight, a ship with a black sail was slowly heading towards the island. It was the pirate ship that the three had just discussed.

"what?"

Zabuza, who was standing by, heard Jianchuan Tachibana mumbling something and asked.

Jianchuan Ju quickly stood up and motioned his two teammates to look over.

"That pirate ship is back. Let these kids find a house to hide in first."

Fortunately, thanks to Jianchuan Ju's early discovery, the pirate ship was still quite far away from the island.

The three of them immediately directed the children, who did not yet understand what was happening, to hide in several houses far from the coast.

Seeing that the children were all hidden, the three men leaned over behind a wooden house at the back of the harbor and watched the pirate ship slowly approaching the island in the distance.

Jianchuan Ju was still somewhat confused.

"Didn't you say you left the island yesterday? Why are you back now?"

Instead, Zabuza on the side said in a sinister tone.

"That's just bad luck for them!"

Chapter 28 Sneak Attack

The sky was already beginning to turn white.

Seeing that they were about to return to their home lair, most of the pirates on the ship relaxed a little.

There was no other way. The original intention of this voyage was to rob a merchant ship, and the preliminary intelligence had already been obtained.

Who would have thought that less than a day after setting sail, their captain seemed to have received some news and angrily ordered everyone to prepare to return.

In view of the captain's long-accumulated power, all the pirates did their jobs honestly and no one wanted to provoke him at this time.

Only now, when they were about to reach the shore, did the pirates become a little more unbridled.

As the sailboat slowly entered the harbor, a pirate threw down a rope and shouted.

"Old York! The ships are all in the harbor, why aren't they coming out?"

"Haha, this old guy must be slacking off again!"

"I guess Old York didn't expect us to come back so soon."

The many pirates on the ship laughed and put down the planks, preparing to disembark.

However, when a middle-aged man with a big beard and a tricorn hat walked out of the cabin with a gloomy face, everyone fell silent and shrank out of the way like quails.

"Captain, Old York is probably slacking off again. I'll go call him now!"

The pirate, who had been smiling just now, immediately slid down the boat nimbly along the rope and ran towards the cabin at the harbor.

At this time, another younger scarred man walked out of the cabin, ignored the pirates cowering on the side, looked at the big man standing on the side of the ship, and spoke.

"Fish Ghost, is the campsite a little too quiet today?"

The bearded middle-aged man called Fish Ghost did not turn around, but just snorted and said.

"It's probably because of those two people, but you should still go and take a look. Otherwise, they will gossip about you to the master of the house again."

After hearing this, the scarred man didn't say anything else and jumped directly from the boat to the shore.

But just at this moment, the small wooden house at the port slowly opened.

An old man in tattered clothes walked out of the wooden house with an anxious look on his face.

"York, you he"

Before the first pirate to get off the boat could open his mouth to reprimand, a man and a woman, both wearing masks and dressed as ninjas, came out of the wooden house behind Old York.

Just when all the pirates were still a little surprised, the scarred man stepped forward quickly.

"Master Coral, Jiu. Why are you here directly this time?"

The scarred man's voice became weaker as he spoke.

The two masked men did not seem to pay attention to his words, and were still led by Old York in front of them, approaching the pirate ship.

The scarred man lowered his head slightly in embarrassment and made some room, but he had no intention of stopping the other party.

However, the scarred man who lowered his head and retreated did not notice that Old York, who was approaching him and the boat, had a strange smile on his face.

Just then, a loud shout came from the pirate ship.

"Fishfang! Get out of the way!"

A moment ago, the scarred man named Yuya was still looking down and daydreaming. When he heard his captain's shout, he subconsciously stepped back.

However, he was still a little slow, as Old York, who had approached him at some point, suddenly accelerated and rushed forward.

"choke--"

All he saw was a flash of white light passing by. Yuya had no time to pull out his weapon, so he could only quickly stretch out his arm to block the attack.

Blood splattered everywhere in an instant, and Yuya's forearm was actually cut off on the spot.

Yuya endured the pain of his broken arm and kicked Old York away, while using the force to continue dodging backwards.

However, the attack was not over yet.

The two masked ninjas had each pulled out several shurikens and hurled them at Fish Tooth.

Just when Fish Tooth thought he was doomed, a strong gust of wind swept in, sending him flying several meters away and scattering all the incoming shurikens, allowing him to dodge the fatal blow.

Only then did Yuya see that after the kicked 'Old York' fell to the ground, a cloud of white smoke exploded with a 'pong' sound, and then it turned into a bandaged boy without eyebrows.

It was none other than Momochi Zabuza.