"He is not like the oalked about before, so don't worry about fag another situation simir to what we faced before. I don't think Renji is going to behave like that again, at least until we reach Konoha," Yukihiro said.

  "Yes, sensei," Kaida replied.

  All of them went to the carriage. Yukihiro knocked on the door twice. Hiroto ope and asked,

  "Oh! Yukihiro, long time no see. Renji told me that due to some plications, we have to travel with you guys. Thanks for doing this for us."

  "The pleasure is all ours, Hiroto-sama. We are ready. Please gather all the necessary items so we start the journey as soon as you are ready," Yukihiro said.

  "Okay, just give us 10 minutes," Hiroto replied a back to the carriage.

  Seeing the versatioween Hiroto and Yukihiro, all three genin became sure that Hiroto was worth proteg. As for Renji, he could be used as a meat shield during an enemy attack.

  While thinking that, an evil smirk appeared on their faces. If Renji had seen this, he would have felt areme sense of danger in his life.

  After 10 minutes, Hiroto came out of the carriage, followed by Renji. Yukihiro told them that he would carry Renji while Kaida would carry Hiroto on his back.

  Renji, knowing that Yukihiro was the stro persohat they were doing this to gain his fiveness, but he couldn't be more wrong. Kaida was strong and fast enough to save Hiroto in most cases, while Yukihiro was right behind Kaida to defend against any attack.

  However, since Yukihiro traveled at the back of the formation, if a surprise attack came from the rear (which is often the case), there was a high ce that Renji might not even survive, as none of the ninjas present had any thought of saving him.

  After instrug the bodyguards and the rest of the people to tihe ride as normal, Yukihiro and Kaida each made a shadow e to travel with the caravan. Their es had enough chakra to st at least four days before dispersing.

  After that, they carried Hiroto and Renji on their backs, and all four of them started using Wind Instantaneous Movement Jutsu and Body Flicker Jutsu to travel rge distances, occasionally running to refill their chakra before using movemeed jutsu again.

  ...

  While they traveled, Kazuki was able to reuh the remaining ninja. He sighed when he saw that only five of them had survived out of their inal twenty.

  "Were you guys able to kill any of them?" Kazuki asked the in.

  One of them stepped forward and said,

  "No, when we found them, they had already dealt with our two brothers. Sihey were distracted, we decided to go directly for the kill, but suddenly their ninja dog started barking, and they were alerted. Another problem was that, uher Konoha ninjas who fight bravely till their st breath, they used their brains and started to flee. Seeing two such young ninjas ruhought we could catd kill them and e to your aid.

  But they had quite a rge amount of chakra and were also quite profit in Body Flicker, so we were uo catch them. While we were chasing them, the leader used the signal to retreat, so we had to stop the chase.

  What about you, sir? Were you able to kill that jonin?"

  "He was not a jonin—well, at least not officially. He was also a brat, but an unusually strong o looks like Konoha has anenius among their ranks. We have to send our report to Tsuchikage-sama.

  Even though we failed this mission, these details are much more important than killing some civilians, as this genius of Konoha 't be uimated," Kazuki said, and then thought,

  'I still remember the Yellow Fsh of Konoha. That guy was truly a beast, and from the looks of it, this one is going to be too. I just hope Kage-sama will be able to find some solution for this problem.'

  After that, they all went toward their temporary base, where Kazuki made a detailed report about the mission and their losses a it to Iwagakure using a messenger hawk.

  "Kazuki-sama, what should we do now?" one of the in asked.

  "There is nothing we do. Sihey were able to prepare a trap for us, it means their sensing capabilities are higher than our captain's—much higher than ours. So we 't even follow them. Let's just wait for orders. Until then, focus on your recovery.

  Yuzi, you know some medical jutsu, right?" Kazuki asked another in.

  "Yes, Kazuki-sama. Do you need some help?" Yuzi asked.

  Kazuki nodded and showed the deep cut he had suffered during Kaida's first attack. All of the in were surprised that Kazuki was even alive after suffering such a lethal wound.

  "Kazuki-sama, please take a seat. I will try to heal it as much as I ," Yuzi said hurriedly.

  Kazuki nodded and took a seat, but he was deep in thought.

  'I am lucky that he used fire chakra in that attack. Otherwise, even if I had escaped from the fight with Toshi's help, surviving after so much blood loss wouldn't have been possible.'

  ...

  While they waited for orders from Iwagakure, Kaida and the team were running at full speed toward the Land of Noodles.

  They had to stop at night since Hiroto was old and couldn't sleep while moving, so at night they made a makeshift camp usih-reted jutsu. Two people guarded the camp while the others rested.

  Throughout the journey, Kaida remained pletely alert. Even though the mission was important, the most important thing for him was still his and Yomi's lives. Now that he had spent so much time with Yukihiro, Ryota, and the Kiba duo, he couldn't rule them out from his priority list.

  But they were too devoted to Konoha, and making them prioritize their lives over a mission would be foolish. They were from a vilge where even White Fang, Kakashi's father, was criticized to the point of suicide just because he chose his teammates' lives over a mission.

  So he wasn't going to die trying to ge their minds, but if he could, he would try to save them as well.

  By doing the same thing for two days (running + movement jutsu), they were able to plete a 2-week journey in 2 days. If they hadn't had a statue of pints in human clothing named Renji, they might have arrived earlier.

  After reag the city, they went straight to the daimyo's pow that they were ihe city and in front of the daimyo's pace, they could finally rex. Even though they hadn't faced any attacks during their travel, they still maintained plete vigince.

  Upon reag the daimyo's pce, they stopped a little way off so Hiroto and Renji could prepare for the deal. From then on, it was their job.

  After fixing their appearand taking a little rest, they approached the guards.

  "We are Konoha representatives for our test colboration. We had to arrive early due to some circumstances. Could you please pass this message to Lord Daimyo?" Hiroto said with a polite smile.

  " we please first see your identification papers?" the guard asked.

  In the ninja world, it is not difficult to ge your appearand pose as someone else. After cheg their papers, the guard passed their message to the daimyo's office, while Hiroto and Renji were asked to wait in the pace's guest area.

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  (A.N: Thanks for reading ^~^. You add this o your library if you like the story.)