Naruto: I'm Really Not a Pokémon

"We just hope to let these children stay for a while. The Water Country has a special department to deal with such situations. Some of the children may be sent to ninja schools as war orphans."

Qing still explained the situation to his three disciples.

Such situations, where orphans are taken in during missions, are not uncommon in this chaotic ninja world; there are many such orphanages throughout the Land of Water.

For other children whose families are still alive, the daimyo will issue D-rank missions and arrange for a genin squad to send them home.

It’s just that because there are too many hidden secrets in this mission, Qing needs to return to the village as soon as possible to report the situation, so he wondered if he could let these children rest in Apple Village for a while.

After imparting some mission experience to his three disciples, Qing went directly to find Daz who was comforting the villagers.

He briefly explained his request. Of course, Daz would not refuse such a thing. After all, it was just a temporary placement for these children for a few days, and people from the Water Country would come to take over later.

Even because the village had just been attacked by pirates and many villagers were killed or injured, Daz felt that it was acceptable to keep these children in the village.

Apple Village itself is a village with abundant resources, but its economy is not developed due to its geographical location.

Moreover, in this attack, the young and strong people in the village did not suffer much loss because they were out fishing, so it was not a problem to feed a few more children.

After some explanation, everyone prepared to leave and return to the village early to report the situation.

"Thank you, ninja-sama, for rescuing these children."

Daz knew that they were in a hurry to leave, so he didn't try to persuade them to stay, but just bowed deeply.

Jianchuan Ju took a last look at Ringo Ayuri who was still sobbing in her father's arms, and still didn't say much to Qing.

Although he may become a genius ninja in the future.

But first of all, I couldn't explain how I knew her future talent. Secondly, I was just an ordinary Genin now, and even if I recommended a genius to the village, it wouldn't bring any substantial benefits.

Besides, he has just been reunited with his father, and it is unknown whether he hopes to become the "genius ninja with lightning escape technique" in the future.

So Jianchuan Tachibana only left a kunai for Ringo Ayuri before leaving.

"If you want to become a ninja in the future, you can ask your father to take you to the Hidden Mist Village to find me."

Jianchuan Ju rubbed the red hair of the little girl who was only four or five years old, then turned around and left gracefully.

Leaving behind the middle-aged man who had a confused look on his face, not knowing what the kid was doing, and Ringo Ayuri who had a glimmer of light in her eyes.

"Let's go, Ju. What are you dawdling about?"

Hearing Mei Terumi's cry, Jianchuan Ju also put Lan Zai on his shoulders, swung his hands behind him, and started the ninja run mode.

On the other side, in the Hidden Mist Village, there is a ninja clan’s territory.

Two ninjas, a man and a woman, wearing ANBU masks, knelt on one knee in front of a desk.

"Take off the mask, do you really think you are an Anbu ninja?"

A somewhat cold male voice came into the ears of the two.

"Yes, Patriarch" x2

Upon hearing this, the two of them obediently took off their Anbu masks and put them aside.

The jonin female ninja among them looked up at the head of her family and spoke.

"Master Patriarch, Island No. 2 has been discovered. When we were preparing to receive the seeds, we encountered Team Qing on their way to carry out a mission. Jiu and I were not sure we could keep them, so we had to retreat."

"Okay, I get it. Collecting seeds through pirates is not a good idea. Let's stop for now."

The cold voice didn't seem to care much about it.

"I remember that kid named Momochi Zabuza was from the Blue Team, right?"

"Yes, Chief. We also saw him on the island. Should we get rid of him?"

I don't know why the head of my family would mention a Genin. Although Zabuza Momochi is indeed quite famous in the village recently, he is just someone else's sword.

"Nothing, you guys can leave first. Just accept some normal missions recently. The war is about to start, don't do anything unnecessary."

After saying this, the man waved his hand, signaling the two to leave.

After the two men left in an instant, the man looked into the dark corner and muttered to himself with some emotion in his voice.

"The brat is indeed an eyesore, but the one who is even more of an eyesore is that guy Yagura Karuji."

Chapter 34: Ninjutsu and Bloodline

Seven or eight days have passed since Jianchuan Ju and his companions returned to the Hidden Mist Village.

As soon as Qing returned to the village, he reported the situation of the mission to the higher-ups.

It is clearly a time of war now. Even if we don't count the kidnapping of Water Country civilians, the appearance of unidentified ninjas pretending to be the Anbu of the Hidden Mist Village within the territory of the Water Country should be a very serious matter.

However, the village did not seem to take this very seriously. They just said they understood it and let the Youth Team carry on as usual.

"Perhaps the village has already arranged for the Anbu to investigate the matter, and thinks we don't need to know the follow-up."

This is how Qing explained to the team members.

However, it doesn’t matter what the village leaders think. After all, these things are too far away from them, a few Genin.

What made Jianchuan Ju the most uncomfortable was that in this mission, when there were two Chunins in the battle between three of them, the ninja mission record only recorded that one C-level was completed.

It was after this incident that Jianchuan Ju realized that for missions issued by outsiders, if the ninja team finds that the difficulty of the mission does not match the published information while performing the mission, they can choose to give up.

However, if the task is completed in excess, the village will not upgrade the task level afterwards.

After all, the mission commission fee is limited. Since the person issuing the mission will not compensate the amount, the village leaders are even less likely to register a higher level mission.

Of course, if it is a war mission issued within the village, it is possible to be given a higher-level mission reward afterwards, but this treatment is generally only given for missions above level B.

Anyway, this mission seems to have come to nothing.

After returning to the village, everyone wanted to continue completing some C-level tasks, but the number of tasks in the village was too small recently.

Over the past few days, he only completed one C-level mission, which was to protect a merchant in the Hidden Mist Village. There were no accidents during the mission, and he just accompanied the merchant on a tour in the Hidden Mist Village.

Helplessly, he had to wait for the right task while carrying out his daily practice.

Jianchuan Ju was actually quite happy about this, but Hoshigaki Kisame had recovered and been discharged from the hospital a few days ago, which left him with one less person with whom he could exchange water-style ninjutsu.

I don’t know how his new team is going.

Jianchuan Ju completed his daily tasks as usual today, and then went to the training ground to do some routine training.

These days, Lanzai said that he might be about to evolve, and now he just needs an opportunity. So Jianchuanju wanted to accompany Lanzai to do some basic training.

The next step is to try to see if you can learn the new skill "Water Wave" that Lanzai has just mastered after upgrading.

There was no way. This skill was too similar to Prince Naruto's Rasengan. Jianchuan Ju felt that if he didn't learn it, he would be letting down his identity as a Genin.

Although the water waves condensed in the hand were not a pure chakra ball, but a light blue water ball, it did not cause high damage like the Rasengan under the extreme form change of compressed chakra.

However, the water balls created by water waves can be thrown, which is more advanced than ordinary Rasengan.

Just when Jianchuan Ju was thinking about all these things, he found himself at the training ground.

But Zabuza was not seen today. Only Mei Terumi was sitting alone at the edge of the training ground, holding a booklet and reading something.

Jianchuan Ju originally planned to walk over quietly, but he didn't expect that she would notice him first.

Mei Terumi turned around and looked at him in a silly way.

"What are you researching? Why do you feel like you've lost your soul?"

It was rare to see Mei Terumi acting like this, and Jianchuan Tachibana found it a little funny, so she asked.

Mei Terumi hesitated for a moment, but still answered.

"My father's previous research notes were about studying the fusion of water and earth attribute chakras and bloodline limits."

Jianchuan Ju was slightly surprised when he heard this.

He knew about Mei Terumi's father; he had once been a powerful Jonin in the village and was Ao's senior.

According to Qing himself, he had taken good care of him, a junior, and had helped him on many occasions.

It's just that he suffered serious injuries while on a mission a long time ago, and was unable to continue serving as a ninja.

Fortunately, I am still alive and my previous connections are still there.

Therefore, Mei Terumi's life in the village is much better than that of pure orphans like Tachibana Kanegawa and Zabuza.

Jianchuan Tachibana had always been puzzled. In the original work, Mei Terumi clearly had double bloodline limits, so why was she just an ordinary ninja now?

It now appears that these two bloodline limits were indeed fused by Mei Terumi herself later, but she received some help from her father during the development process.

There are roughly two types of bloodline limits. Physical bloodline limits such as the Shikotsuki bloodline, the Sharingan, and the Byakugan are mostly inherited from ancestors related to the Otsutsuki clan.

The bloodline limits of jutsu such as Ice Release, Molten Release, and Boiling Release can be achieved by fusion of two chakras of different natures through the ninja's proficient mastery of the properties of chakra to form a new jutsu.

After this bloodline limit is successfully fused, it can also be inherited by one's offspring.

The future Mei Terumi should be considered the first generation of bloodline ninja.

"Hey, you're a Genin now and you're already researching things like fusing bloodline limits?"

Although he admitted that Mei Terumi was definitely a genius, wasn't it a bit too early for her to start studying the fusion of two chakra properties at the age of ten?

When Mei Terumi heard that Jianchuan Tachibana actually looked down on her, she immediately became angry.