Chapter 68 - Telling secrets

"Hello, gentlemen and beautiful lady. I just want to ask, did you just come out of the oven? Because you are super hot."

For some reason, as soon as I said the pickup line, everyone just shook their head, except Yahiko. He just had no idea why everyone looks disappointed.

Even though I knew my pickup line was lame, I still kept a straight face.

"Where did this idiot come from?" One of the hooded men spoke at me with a deep voice.

Although it was a deep rough voice, I instantly discerned that it was the voice of a woman. I didn't know why that woman was pretending to have a deep man's voice, but it sure was not a convincing act.

I looked at Mei to see her reaction. I didn't care much less about these pubic opinions, but rather only for this lady.

"Oh my, You are such a gentleman. Thank you very much.

I am very flatted by your words. My name is Tsuko, just your average rice trader. Nice to meet you, shinobi-san." Mei gave off a natural smile and introduced herself.

Anyone will fall into her lovely smile and fully trust her words without any suspicions, but she can't fool this big brain me.

She clearly gave off an air that she didn't enjoy my flirting, but she still kept a polite smile and introduced herself with a fake name and fake job.

Since Kirigakure always kept everything in secret, she was probably confident that I wouldn't know anything about her. Little did she know, not only I knew her real name, I even knew her damn future and her forever single status.

'Is she hiding her info because of her possible secret mission, or do every Kiri shinobi just lie whenever they speak to foreigners?

There are 13 hooded men. If I add Mei, that would be 14 shinobi on a mission. This is definitely not a simple mission, that's for sure. I just hope they aren't related to our mission?'

"Nice to meet you too, Mrs.Tsuko. My name is Genji, an Iwa shinobi. I am currently on a mission with my 3 students.

If I'm not being rude, are these hooded gentlemen your bodyguards? I am just a bit surprised cause this is the first time I saw a merchant hire this many bodyguards."

I asked Mei, but for some reason, that deep-voice hooded woman is the one to became restless and replied back instead of her.

"What do we have to do with you? Just mind your own damn business! Also, I know you are trying to flir..."

Before she goes anymore further, her fellow people quickly covered her mouth and reprimanded her.

"I am very sorry about that. As Genji-san predicted, they are indeed my bodyguards. I am heading to Kenta Village to sell rice to them. But I heard that bandits around that place are very fierce and scary. Since I am just a weak woman, I hired as many bodyguards as I could." Mei answered me faithfully.

' Cat MountVillage? Isn't that also our mission village? Oh god, they are definitely involved with our mission, alright.'

"Oh my. What a coincidence. Cat Mount Village is on the way to our mission. We are planning to rest there for nights and continue our way to the mission. Maybe we could accompany each other?"

"I am very grateful for your offer, but as a person in the line of business, I don't trust people easily, even Shinobi! I am afraid I have to decline Genji-san's offer. Maybe next time."

Mei politely declined my offer without sparing any second to consider. I knew she would decline the offer, but I still wanted to ask to find out more about their mission.

As I kept pestering Mei with more questions, annoyed Mei had no choice but to give signal others to prepare for departure to leave me as fast as she could.

"Well, Genji-san. I wish we chat more, but it's time for us to leave. It's been a pŀėȧsurė meeting you and your students. Goodbye." Mei gave us farewell.

I gave her a polite farewell speech in response. My students also waved their hands to farewell Mei and her bodyguards.

After they are gone, I returned to my seat and started to eat Dango, which Yahiko ordered.

"Sensei, I didn't know you were so desperate to find a girl. Just because that merchant nee-san is very beautiful, how could you even ask to accompany her during the mission? I am a bit disappointed in you, Sensei." Konan spoke to me first.

"Yeah. I could feel that you were being too forceful to that nee-san. You kept asking those useless questions. Hahaha." Nagato also spoke.

"Well, I knew Genji-nii's research was hard, but I never knew it would be this difficult. But that merchant nee-san sure was beautiful. She might be the prettiest woman I have ever seen in my life." Yahiko also blabbered.

I stopped eating and looked carefully at my students. I didn't expect them to be this innocent and easy to fool. As their teacher, I decided to lecture them a bit.

"Did you three honestly think that pretty lady is a merchant? Did you all think I approached them with that pickup-line without knowing it is lame?"

To my question, all three of my students looked at each other conflicted.

"As your master, here is a life-saving lesson. Do not trust anyone easily!! That pretty lady said she is a merchant, but did you actually see her selling rice? Unless you are sure, don't blindly trust anyone.

For my information, that pretty lady is Kiri shinobi, and all her bodyguards could be said the same."

All of my students seemed shocked at my words.

"Are you really serious? That pretty nee-san is Kirigakure shinobi???" Yahiko asked loudly.

I quickly hit his head to warn him. This kid is just too similar to loud-mouth Naruto.

"Merchants are the people who always greedy about money. The number of that bodyguards is just too much. Even if there are ferocious bandits, she could just go to another place to do her business. Her story had just too many holes." I answered them logically.

"Then, you used that lame pickup line to approach and get intel from her? But does that mean you already knew she is a Shinobi before she introduces herself?" Nagato asked me.

"Yes, you are correct. You are still young to know this secret, but since you all are my first cute students, I don't mind telling. That pretty lady's real name is Mei Terumi, and she has 2 Kekkei Genkai, which are lava and boil. So don't get into a long-range fight with her in case you fight her. She might be the next Mizukage candidate."

"But if she is Mizukage candidate, then she should be quite famous. Why didn't she hide her face or something, then?" Konan asked this time.

"To answer your question, it's because of current Mizukage has this mental problem where he literally hides everything about their village from others. He even announced a policy to isolate Kirigakure from the rest of the world just to keep all kinds of secrets in Kirigakure.

I am sure Mei trusted this Kiriagkure secret policy too much and never thought about other village shinobi would actually know her. It was definitely a mistake on her part."

"Wait, then how do you know all bout this, Genji-sensei?" Yahiko asked me innocently.

I just told an S-rank secret to them, and he wants to know more? Even Onoki doesn't know about Mei at all.

"Now, that's enough for secrets. The rest is for you to find out by yourself. Also, don't tell anyone about secrets I told you here, even to that old man Tsuchikage."

I am sure these kids won't ever betray me. If I tell them not to disclose, they will definitely bring it to their tomb. That's how much trust I had in them.

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"Oh my god, that Iwa shinobi was annoying as hell. How dare he try to flirt with Mei-nee with his shitty skill! Why didn't we kill him and his pests there?"

It was the deep-voice female who spoke out. Since there was no one around them, she talked with her real voice.

"Shut it, Ringo!!! You almost ruined out us there. Just because you are promoted to one of seven swordsmen, don't get too ċȯċky. Do you even know who that shinobi is??

He is Genji!! Top A-rank shinobi and soon to be S-rank!!

He even stands the same ground with Konoha's S-rank shinobi, Tsunade. I am not too sure if we can even kill him with all of us together." one of the hooded men warned Ringo.

"Who cares about his rank? As long as Kiba (Twin blades) is with me, then I won't be defeated." Ringo was full of confidence.

"No! Kinhu is right. Current you would just be butchered by him. I heard that he already has the S-rank ability. But other villages just aren't willing to acknowledge him due to jealousy.

Also, even if we can defeat him, Mizukage-sama told us not to make any commotion. Now is not time to fight him." Mei informed Ringo, so she won't get too complacent. Besides, she was speaking the truth.

"Anyway, enough about him. Focus on our mission for now."

""""Yes, miss!!!!""""

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After filling our belly at the Dango shop, I ordered them to move. But rather than walking, I decided to summon Eagle. It was not because I was lazy, but since Mei and her underlings have the same destination as us. I was worried they might interfere with our mission.

That's why I decided to reach there first and complete our mission before Mei and others might interfere. After finishing our mission, I will see what Kiri shinobi are up to.

I didn't summon Boss Eagle this time. I can't just summon him just for transportation. He is the boss of eagles, I had to give him face too. I summoned an eagle named Biller. He is a speedy eagle who has absolutely 0 attacks but faster than any other eagles.

We quickly rode on his back and flew to Cat Mountain Village. On the way, I told Biller to fly at high altitude, so Mei and others won't find us.

It didn't take long for us to reach Cat Mountain Village. But rather than a small peaceful village, what greeted us were a large number of Suna shinobi encircling it.

"What the heck? This isn't even part of Suna territory, and why the hell there are large platoons of Suna shinobi here? Now, how am I suppose to do our mission?"

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[A/N: Sorry for not posting lately. I had to fix my computer since it had a few problems. Also, I was searching for good pick up lines madly, but no luck at all. So spam me, that is if you have good ones. hahahaha]