Chapter 187 - 187. To the land of waves

"Alright team get your gear prepared for at least a 1 week trip and meet at the gate in an hour." Kakashi says and disappears in a swirl of leaves.

I already have everything I need so I hop over the roofs towards konoha gates. I wonder how I should handle this mission. I guess I'll just wing it and see what happens.

I wait for about 45 minutes and Kakashi and the old man are the first to show up. He looks me over a bit. "Where's your supplies for the week?" I show him a seal on my under arm.

I chuckle and say "Seals are so useful shame they only teach exploding ones in the academy." this seal keeps people from wondering where things pop out from and adds a few hidden bacon sandwiches for emergency use.

"Not many people can make seals like that so they took it out of the curriculum. But I do think we need to rework the academy to be more useful." Kakashi says pulling out his little orange book.

Apparently they toned it down a lot after the war it didn't use to be so crap. During nonwar time they let everything slack that's why everyone seems so useless now. Even Kakashi got rusty with no real threats.

A few minutes later Sasuke shows up followed by Sakura. She blabbering about going out on dates with him after they get back. Ugh I hate fangirls. But honestly the only way to get it out of her is to beat it out of her or show her the real world.

We ready up and check out at the gate for our mission then start heading towards the land of waves. Along the way sakura is chatting with the old man about his village. He explains how it used to be a nice place before Gato trading moved in ruining the economy with bandits and cutting off trade unless it was through him. Which is why he is currently building a bridge to help the village.

At this point Kakashi is narrowing his eye as Gato trading is a well known tyrant who often uses mercenaries and rogue ninja to solve his problems.

We keep walking out of the land of fire for a few hours. When suddenly my eyes pick up 2 ninja hiding in a puddle using genjutsu. Sadly that doesn't work on me with the rinnesharingan. I flash Kakashi some quick unnoticeable hand signs and keep walking after I get a nod.

After we pass by the puddle the two ninja inside flash out wrapping a chain that connects them by their gauntlets around kakashi. With a quick tug his body is shredded into meat. But that's only a cheap genjutsu.

At this point sakura is in full blown panic and Sasuke looks pale. The two ninja I identify as mist ninja quickly rush at Tazuna. I throw a knife at the chain pinning it to the ground, causing it to jerk them to a stop.

Before they can recover I'm in front of the nearest one throwing a Chakra enhanced fist at his gut. With a sickening sound blood sprays out of the rebreather mask on his face. I'm pretty sure I just pulverized most of his internals.

Grabbing the chain still connecting him to his partner I give it a quick yank towards me. The other ninjas feet leave the ground flying towards me in shock. My foot swings up catching him right in the chin hard. His neck snaps back with a nice bone snapping noise I ended up breaking his neck, teeth and jaw in one shot. His body jerks for a few seconds then becomes still.

Sakura off to the side throws up all over the ground. Sasuke just looks a bit pale after all he's seen dead bodies before.

I check the bodies for loot after I cut the heads off and store them in a scroll. Bounties are bounties man I'm still pretty poor in this world. I grab their chain gauntlets and anything else that has slight value storing it in another scroll. I also discretely take their souls I can do this as long as it's within a minute of killing someone. I just learn a few basic water Justus as these guys were low rank.

Kakashi popped out of the woods. "Nice job Ryan. I take it you know who they were?" he asked.

"Gozu and Meizu, hidden mist chuunin and rogue ninja. Both c rank I believe according to the bingo book." I respond finishing up my looting.

Kakashi nods and looks at Tazuna. "I believe it's time we hear the truth. As you can probably tell the job was a simple c rank escort not a B to A rank protection mission. so you lied, we can just leave and return now."

Tazuna starts panicking and explains that the village couldn't afford a higher ranked mission as this was all the money they had. he explains how he had to sneak out to hire us so he could finish the bridge and help his village.

I've seen this stuff before and know there are starving children. We always save the children. I can put them in my kamui until I store them in the stasis storage for the kingdom.

"I suppose we can help on the condition we get the full payment and a partnership when the village is up and running smoothly." I suggest.

Kakashi and Sasuke are fine with it and since Sasuke is fine with it so is Sakura. Who is now keeping a good distance away from me now. I burn what's left of the bodies and we start heading towards wave once more.