Chapter 71 - Killing Bandits

After visiting the village, I went to find my students. There are currently 5 factors involved in this farce, Suna, Kiri, bandits, Suna-missing nin, and us with villagers. Since there are many factors, I decided to cut them down a bit, starting with bandits.

I already got the approximate location for the bandits' route from the village head. Next, I just have to release several eagles to find their hideout from above, one of the many perks of having eagles summons.

Following Biller's instruction cry, I managed to find the hiding place of Yahiko and others. It is located deep inside the mountain, a pretty safe place. Three of them were patiently waiting for my arrival.

"Hey, brats. Did you miss me? I see you have found a nice place to hide."

Three of them immediately turned their heads to me after hearing my voice. Even though we separate for only 2 -3 hours, it seems they were a bit afraid. Well, since it is their first time outside of Iwagakure as shinobi, I didn't blame them.

"Genji-sensei, you finally showed up. I thought you have forgotten about us and enjoy yourself. Did you bring anything delicious?" Yahiko asked me while running around me.

"Why would I bring something to eat when I went there to collect intel? Stop thinking only about food. If you are hungry, then eat a food pill."

"Tch, I bet you ate all the delicacy village provided, hmph."

"Enough about this, get ready for battle. When my eagles find bandits' hideout, we will go and wipe them out."

"Finally, some action, cool!! We going to kick their ȧss, right Nagato?"

"No, Yahiko. You three are not just going to kick their ȧss. You three gonna kill them. This is also a test for you to see if you have what it takes to be proper shinobi. Listen, KILL them!!! Don't you dare spare or mercy any bandits!! Am I clear?"

Hearing my words, three of them all immediately became quiet. I could see their face is full of worriedness. Killing might be too harsh for them, but since they chose the shinobi way, they can't exactly complain.

"I know you all are afraid to end someone else's life, but it is your job as shinobi. You have to get used to this all the time."

"But can we just beat them up and teach not to do ever again?" Yahiko naively asked.

"Listen, Yahiko. Human nature does not change simply like that. If you let your enemy go, one day they will come and bite you, unless you have special talk no jutsu."

Since the atmosphere was heavy, I tried to close the killing conversation off from them. Luckily it worked as my innocent students got curious about talk no jutsu.

"What is talk no jutsu? Some kind of S-rank jutsu?" Nagato asked me. Yahiko and Konan also looked at me for an answer.

"Talk no jutsu is the very powerful jutsu that can persuade your enemies into allies and increase the power of your allies. It's literally motivational speech with powerful effects."

"What's that? Motivational speech? Can we turn enemies into allies, just by talking? What the heck, you must be joking!" Yahiko told me.

"If you master this jutsu, you can persuade Kage-level shinobi or even more powerful shinobi to your side. But this jutsu is not something that you can learn. It is something you naturally possess.

Iwagakure had that person who could use this jutsu. But unfortunately, he was ȧssassinated by enemies due to his jutsu. It's up to you to believe me or not."

'Hehe, 'unfortunately' my ȧss! I am just glad he drop dead earlier.'

"Wow!! I didn't know such powerful jutsu existed. How can we check if we possess such jutsu, Genji-sensei?" Konan asked me.

Just as Konan asked, the eagles sent to search for bandits' hideout arrived. They successfully found the bandit base. However, they couldn't find the mine no matter how they searched. It seemed like the bandits have done well in concealing the mine location.

"Alright enough about talk no jutsu. It's time to head out and hunt bandits. I won't come with you guys. It's solely up to you three to hunt down the bandits. For the 3 months, what I taught you should be enough to deal with mere bandits. But don't let your guard down.

Follow the eagles to bandit base. Now go!"

Yahiko and others seemed to be relaxed a bit and head out to kill bandits. I said I won't follow them, but of course, that was lying.

'I sent eagles to search for three targets, which is bandit base, mine and finally that Suna missing-nin. According to the village head, he should be on this mountain somewhere.

But eagles couldn't find him after 3 hours of searching. To be able to hide from eagles' eye, not bad!'

I summoned 20 more regular-sized eagles.

"I want you all to find Suna missing-nin. He should be somewhere in this mountain. Find him!! Whether he is inside the cave or under the ground, I want you all to find him.

Biller, you also join the search. You can use 'mighty eagle's cry' to control all the birds to help you search for missing-nin."

"Alright, Genji. It's been a long time since I played hide and seek. It should be fun, hehe! Alright, all of you eagles, follow me!" Biller ordered eagles.

I needed to find that missing-nin to sow discord between Kiri and Suna. Since their mission targets are different, this is the only way to create conflict between them. I must find that missing-nin before Pakura and Suna shinobi do.

After sending eagles for search, I started to follow my students sneakily.

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Yahiko and Nagato transformed into those guards while Konan used genjutsu on captured guards to get info about the hideout.

After obtaining the intel from those two guards, all that left is to kill them. Three of them looked at each other with awkward eyes. They were all hesitated... NO, they were scared to kill.

But after some time, I finally saw Nagato resolved eye and took out Kunai and slashed one of the guard's neck, thus killing him. It didn't even take 1 second.

'Oh my, I didn't expect Nagato to be the one to kill first. Damn, where did the kind Nagato go? Man, Iwa brainwashing is no joke at all.'

Yahiko and Konan were all stunned by sudden Nagato's killing.

"What are you doing, Nagato? At least tell us before you gonna kill him."

Nagato was shaking, but he still showed his resolved his eyes to Yahiko and answered him.

"Yahiko, we don't have time for this. We will eventually have to kill. We are lucky that our killing targets are mere bandits. I decided to restore my clan and become a strong shinobi. I can't drag myself just for killing!

Yahiko, you should also resolve up. Are you just gonna let her do the killing for you?" Nagato said while indicating Konan.

Yahiko instantly looked at Konan to see her shaking as well. As gentlemen, he can't let the girl kill. He clenched his sword hard and slowly walked up to the other bandit.

He hesitated for a long time, but he finally managed to strike down his sword to bandit's head. He was shaking a lot until he decided to throw up. Nagato and Konan also couldn't hold it and threw up. I ordered the eagle, which guided them to the base, to console them secretly.

After rounds of vomit, they eventually got better and started to plan to kill bandits in the base.

Yahiko and Nagato transformed into bandits and went inside the base to steal the goods and cause ruckus inside. Then, they lured the bandits to ambushed location and blow them up with explosion tags, set up by Konan.

After the ambush, they went to kill the remaining bandits in the base. Although the feeling of kill is still new to them, they did quite well in controlling their emotion.

While they were busy hunting down the remaining bandits, I sneakily captured the bandit head to question him later. But before that, I need to congratulate my students on stepping into the real shinobi world.

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"So what is the plan, Mei-nee?" Ringo asked Mei while walking towards the Cat Mountain Village.

"We are just going to pretend as regular rice merchant and stay at the village for a few days. We will contact the bandit spy in the village and get the location of the bandit and mine hideout. After that, we just have to stay at the bandit base and protect them until they excavate the mine."

"Ahh, what a boring mission. Just protect bandit? Why not kill them?"

"Mei-san, trouble!! There is at least over 70 Suna shinobi encircled the village!!"

"What?? But how? Did they figure it out chakra metal mine?" No one answered Ringo as they all didn't know.

"Calm down. We don't know that yet. We will stick to the original plan and see if we can go in." Mei ordered.