Naruto: I Borrow from the Future

"So, as long as the battles on other battlefields are decided first, and reinforcements arrive, our situation will improve!" Hyuga Himon said excitedly.

He has been in the Iwagakure battlefield for more than two months.

During this period of time, although he and Kurenai Yuhi did not encounter any serious life-or-death dangers because of Aoya's main combat force, he was still very panicked.

Like that Jonin from Iwagakure before, even when he launched a sneak attack first, he was still able to withstand it without taking any damage, and then retaliated by knocking him flying in one move!

He could barely parry such attacks; if he were attacked two or three more times, he would probably be seriously injured.

Konoha is currently on the defensive in the Iwagakure battlefield, and they don't know when Iwagakure will launch a major offensive. How could he not be worried?

However, Qingye immediately poured cold water on his enthusiasm: "This is just an ideal situation. It is still unknown how long our defenses can hold out. Iwagakure may not give us the chance to wait for reinforcements."

"Then what should we do?" Kurenai Yuhi was at a loss.

"There's no other way, I'll just have to stockpile more explosive tags."

Qingye sighed softly.

Hyuga Hido started considering whether he should try to get some loans.

……

The 15-day deployment mission has come to an end.

The three members of the Qingye team returned to the Konoha ninja camp, carrying the corpse of an Iwagakure Jonin and two Iwagakure Chunin who were already half-dead.

After leaving the task of reporting to Kurenai Yuhi, Aoya went straight back to his own tent where he lived alone.

This time, he easily defeated an Iwagakure Jonin without taking any damage, which will surely cause quite a stir in the Konoha camp.

Having already experienced the direct confrontation and single-handedly killing a special Jonin squad, Aoya was already quite used to these things.

The makeshift camp was very rudimentary.

The bedding, the table, and the wooden cabinet were all temporarily made using the surrounding trees.

On the rough wooden table was a small bottle. After Qingye returned, she picked up the bottle, poured out some blood, smeared it on her palm, and formed a hand seal:

"Spiritual communication!"

With a thud, a crow landed on Qingye's palm.

The crow had soft, clean feathers and bright, lively eyes. After being summoned, it gently flapped its wings twice and greeted Qingye.

The Uchiha clan also has its own contracted summoning beasts, which are usually ninja cats and ninja crows, and some people also contract animals such as ninja hawks.

However, unlike the monkeys of the Sarutobi clan, the summoning beasts of the Uchiha clan are generally not used for combat, but rather to provide some auxiliary functions.

Aoya was quite lucky; he had some talent in space-time ninjutsu and was able to master the summoning technique.

After graduating from the ninja academy, he contracted a ninja cat and two ninja crows, which were usually used to deliver messages.

Taking out the letter from the bamboo tube in the crow's leg, Qingye quickly read it and her mood grew increasingly heavy.

This letter was sent from the Uchiha clan of Konoha. Aoya usually relied on this to understand the situation of the Fourth Shinobi World War on the battlefield.

The letter stated that on the battlefield in Kumogakure, Minato Namikaze repelled the AB duo for the third time, and even after killing a large number of Kumogakure ninjas, he escaped almost unscathed.

As the letter stated, the great battle on the Cloud Village side is probably unable to continue.

What follows will likely be some small-scale conflicts, and in that case, Minato Namikaze might be transferred over at any time.

"The repayment period for the three-tomoe Sharingan is less than half a month left... This is agonizing!"

If there were still one or two months left to repay the loan, I wouldn't have any lingering concerns.

But there's only so much time left. If Minato Namikaze arrives a little later, and the battle at Kannabi Bridge comes a little later, then once I've paid off this chakra loan, I can borrow the next one and boost my talent even further!

In that case, not only would the Battle of Kannabi Bridge be relatively safe, the entire Shinobi World War wouldn't pose much of a danger to him either.

Damn it, couldn't Kumogakure hold out a little longer?!

"Open the properties panel."

Qingye silently recited the command in his mind, and then went directly to look at the numerical value.

【数值：精6（7）、体8、力5、速8、忍7、印6、幻8、贤9】

Total of 58 points.

The two months of fighting and training only raised his physical skills from level 7 to level 8.

With this level of strength, whether they can survive in the upcoming battles is probably only a 50/50 chance.

"The explosive tags I have left are basically all the ones I got from mission rewards over the past two months... less than a thousand in total!"

"There's not much money left in the house."

It's all that Iwagakure Jonin's fault!

Despite being a Jonin, he didn't even receive a bounty.

It should be noted that the explosive tags that Qingye squandered during his two and a half years of filling in the lines were basically the bounty given to him by a great benefactor on the Fog Shadow battlefield.

At that time, Qingye encountered a kind-hearted man named Kurosuki Raiga on the battlefield. Seeing that he was seriously injured and in great pain, Qingye couldn't bear to see others suffer so much, so he helped him relieve his pain.

In return, Aoya took Kurosuki Raiga's corpse to an underground exchange and exchanged it for a bounty.

Aoya had asked him before, and Kurosuki Raiga didn't say he disagreed.

That single ticket brought Qingye a bounty of 35 million taels!

With these resources, plus the inheritance left by his two parents whom he barely remembered in this life, Qingye managed to exchange them for a large number of explosive tags, thus safely passing through the period of his genin and chunin strength.

Otherwise, he would have died on the battlefield long ago!

But after the incident with Raiga Kurosuki, Aoya wasn't so lucky anymore... Once, on the battlefield of Kirigakure, he encountered an elite Jonin from the Kaguya clan, and in the end, he managed to kill the opponent by feigning death and launching a sneak attack.

After the bombing, not even a corpse was left, and naturally, the bounty was gone too.

With a major battle imminent, and not even having four-digit explosive tags, what's the difference between participating in the battle and suicide?

"Only ten days left..."

Qingye looked at the remaining loan repayment time on the system panel.

Lately, he's been thinking sometimes about whether he should just defect!

He would avoid that life-or-death battle and wait for the next loan opportunity in ten days or so. At that time, he wouldn't mind becoming a rogue ninja.

In any case, Qingye had no qualms about defecting!

Of course, that's just how I think about it; anyone with a rational mind wouldn't do it that way.

The method of defecting directly is too crude!

Wouldn't faking your death to escape be better than defecting outright?

However, faking death is not easy to do, so faking injury might be a more feasible solution.

Pretend to be wounded in battle to avoid the impending war and safely get through this final loan repayment period.

But this also has problems!

Why are you faking your injury?

If you don't control yourself well when fighting someone, your feint can easily turn into a real injury!

Moreover, given the level of medical ninjutsu in this ninja world, ordinary injuries will heal in three to five days, and even serious injuries will recover in a short time.

Furthermore, if I were to intentionally get injured, what if some unforeseen event occurred, such as Konoha failing to hold out and the Iwagakure army advancing while I was recuperating in the camp... I wouldn't even know how I died!

"It's difficult!"