Naruto: My Progress in Konoha

On the other side.

Shizuko Mizutani stood by the mountain road, her mind turning over and over. She was worried about the safety of Qingming and Ryosuke, and then she was thinking about what she should do if the enemy came.

Time passed slowly as she waited anxiously.

After an unknown amount of time, a burst of hurried footsteps suddenly came from a distance.

Shizuko Mizutani woke up instantly, and her spirit was stretched to the limit at this moment.

‘Who is it? ’

‘Qingming? No, his footsteps are not so heavy. ’

‘Ryosuke? No, the steps are too big, this is the footsteps of an adult. ’

‘It’s the enemy! ’

In an instant, Shizuko Mizutani got the answer.

At this moment, all the thoughts in her mind disappeared.

Shizuko Mizutani approached without hesitation.

On the mountain road, two bandits were running one after the other.

While running, they did not forget to look back from time to time.

There was fear on their faces, as if they were worried that something would catch up with them.

Whoosh~

Suddenly, a sound of breaking through the air came from the side.

The bandit in front hadn't seen the object clearly, and his calf was pierced by a kunai.

"Ah!"

A scream came out of his mouth, and then he stumbled and fell heavily to the ground, rolling several times, looking very embarrassed.

The bandits behind him saw this and stopped immediately, looking in the direction where the kunai came from with great nervousness, and then saw a little girl half a person's height walking out of the forest.

At a glance, his sight was attracted by the thing on the girl's forehead.

Not long ago, two demons wearing the same thing slaughtered dozens of them, and now they met another one.

This made him extremely scared.

However, when he saw the girl's pretty face, he couldn't help but have a glimmer of hope in his heart.

Without any hesitation, he fell to his knees and cried, "Please forgive me. I joined them out of necessity and have never done anything bad.

I have two children at home, about your age. If I die, they will not survive.

They are so young and so pitiful.

Please, for the sake of the children, let me go. I will never do bad things again."

While speaking, he kowtowed several times, with such force that his forehead bled.

The miserable appearance made Shizuko Mizutani feel a little bit of pity, and she thought to herself, "Is what the other party said true? If so, I will kill him, child."

Just when Shizuko Mizutani was struggling with herself and could not make up her mind for a while, and the bandit showed a look of relief on his face, a kunai suddenly shot from a distance and accurately nailed into his throat.

Qingming flashed in front of the bandit, then suddenly pulled out the kunai, letting the blood splatter.

Then, he walked to another frightened bandit and calmly stabbed his chest with a kunai, ending his life.

"Qing, Qingming."

Shizuko Mizutani looked at Qingming and stabbed.

"Don't think too much when doing a mission."

Before she could continue, Qingming waved his hand to interrupt her and said, "Don't forget the mission requirements."

After that, he walked down the mountain on his own.

Shizuko Mizutani stood there, stunned for a long time, and then murmured, "Kill all the bandits."

That's right, the requirement of their mission this time is to kill all the bandits on Xiaohei Mountain. Letting any of them go, strictly speaking, will be considered a mission failure.

It's not that Qingming is so persistent about the mission, he is not Kakashi, the reason he did this is just to let Shizuko Mizutani understand that the mission is the mission.

Thinking too much when performing a mission can easily go wrong.

In the foreseeable future, for a long time, their 17th class will be a whole and will perform missions together. Qingming doesn't want to be dragged down by stupid teammates one day.

So, be ruthless when you need to be ruthless.

Of course, this is also a stopgap measure.

It is impossible for him to do whatever the village asks him to do. Wouldn't that make him a task tool like the Root Ninja?

When his strength improves, he can naturally make a choice.

At this stage,

it is better to be a good tool!

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Down the mountain.

The three of them gathered together again.

Furukawa, who had disappeared for several hours, also reappeared.

His eyes swept over the three people one by one, and finally just said "not bad", and then led the three people to the direction of the village.

Perhaps considering the unsafe outside, Furukawa did not plan to camp outside, and prepared to take them back overnight.

Qingming agreed with this.

If possible, he wanted to stay in the village all the time.

Unfortunately, this is impossible.

In fact, from now on, he will have to leave the village from time to time to perform tasks.

Now I just hope Furukawa will take it easy and not take too many C-level tasks.

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In a flash, several hours passed.

Early the next morning, Qingming and the others returned to Konoha Village. The journey was smooth and unpredictable, which made Qingming feel unreal.

‘Sure enough, I am not the protagonist, and the world will not revolve around me. ’

Qingming felt a toothache when he thought that Naruto would eventually reach S-level in any mission.

‘Fortunately, I don’t have the protagonist’s halo, so I won’t be so unlucky. ’

Qingming secretly rejoiced in his heart.

“Okay, let’s go back and rest.”

Entering the village, Furukawa stopped and said, "There are no tasks for the next three days, so you can relax properly."

"Goodbye, teacher!"×3

Qing Ming and the others replied weakly.

"Okay, let's go!"

Furukawa waved his hand and motioned for them to leave.

After Qing Ming said goodbye to his two companions, he hurried towards the Uchiha clan.

After returning home, Qing Ming sat on a chair for a while before taking off his equipment.

Although this mission lasted only one day, it felt like a long time had passed.

And he also went from an ordinary person who had never killed a chicken to an executioner who took more than 20 lives with his hands.

Although he convinced himself that these people were all worthy of their death, and even had the leisure to pay attention to the state of mind of his teammates, looking back now, he still felt a little uncomfortable.

The scenes before those people's deaths kept replaying before his eyes, making him unable to even lift up his energy to practice.

However, no matter whether you can raise your spirits or not, you cannot let go of your cultivation.

Qing Ming forcibly stabilized his mind, and began to perform the 'Art of Reflecting the Heart' meticulously, as if he were a beginner.

There were no accidents in this mission, and it didn't take much chakra to kill the bandits, so he had plenty of chakra in his body.

Of course this cannot be wasted.

As a result, Qing Ming developed his proficiency in the 'Art of Reflecting the Heart'.

Seeing the increasing proficiency on the panel, Qing Ming's heart calmed down unconsciously.

Soon, the chakra was exhausted, and Qing Ming began to refine chakra again.

After the chakra was filled up, he practiced the 'art of reflecting the heart' again.

In this way, after two rounds of practice, it was already noon. Qing Ming couldn't hold on any longer, so he washed up casually and fell asleep.

In the bedroom, Qing Ming didn't know what he was dreaming about, and his brows wrinkled and relaxed from time to time.