Naruto: Senmei Asahi

At 6 p.m., the weather was beginning to cool down, and pedestrians on the road had already begun to decrease, but the town still felt lively. Although the nightlife in the ninja world was not as colorful as in his previous-life, people always come up with some ways to spend time and pass those long nights.

With the mission's goal in mind, Ueno and Keita sneaked into the small town again, Asahi and Shinohara stayed in place, ready to deal with any unexpected situation.

After Ueno left, Asahi went closer to the forest and pulled out his tools such as steel wire, explosive tags, and shuriken from his ninja pouch, and started setting traps. 

"Hey! What are you doing?" Shinohara jumped next to Asahi, and curiously asked. 

"Setting traps." Asahi replied. 

Shinohara hearing this, wondered, "Didn't Ueno-sensei say that we don't have to fight the enemy, what are you setting the traps for?" 

"Just in case." Asahi said indifferently.

"Okay… Then you continue, and I will rest for a while." Shinohara's lips, apparently dismissive of Asahi's caution. 

This mission was just to inquire some information to determine the purpose of those Sunagakure ninjas stationed here. If they wanted to destroy that group of sand ninjas, Konoha would naturally send Anbu's elites to do it, without Asahi having to do anything on his own.

As long as their small group of people act with caution, they simply do not need to enter into combat against the enemy. 

Moreover, this mission was about gathering information, even if they were to be accidentally exposed, it would immediately followed by an escape, there was no need to desperately fight with the enemy. 

Compared to Shinohara's inattentiveness, Asahi was nervous about his life. If he died in this mission in some unknown way, or died in the hands of some unknown extra, his efforts in the past few years would be wasted.

Although the possibility of engaging in combat against the enemy was very small, Asahi still wanted to be fully prepared. 

The waiting time was passing very slowly and honestly it proved to be difficult. Hiding on a big tree, he could fully understand why Sasori of the Red Sand was unwilling to wait for Deidara. Without a good and patient mentality, waiting for others while doing nothing was really difficult.

Fortunately, the academy had professional courses in this area. While waiting, Asahi had nothing to do, so on the one hand, he was alert and paying attention to all of his surroundings, on the other hand, he was practicing his hand sealing speed and proficiency without wasting any time.

"Someone is coming!" Nearly at eleven o'clock, Asahi faintly felt something, and immediately whispered a warning to Shinohara.

After waiting for around 5 hours, there was finally movement coming from the town. 

Shinohara was also a genin with many years of ninja experience. Although he didn't found anything wrong for the moment, but when he heard Asahi's words, he immediately got vigilant.

It didn't take long for Asahi to recognize the incoming silhouettes of Ueno and Keita, but the sky was too dark and the distance was far away. Asahi could not determine whether the two were they themselves, or the enemy had just used Transformation Jutsu to become them.

"It's Ueno-sensei and Keita!" Shinohara whispered. 

Having said that, Shinohara still carefully concealed himself, not even showing a single part of his presence.

This was quite a relief to Asahi, at least his teammate was experienced. If it was Obito, or Naruto, they would immediately charge ahead to meet them. 

"There are people chasing them!" Shinohara whispered. 

"It looks like they have been exposed! The enemy is comprised of seven people, they should be our targets." Asahi said. 

"What do we do?" Shinohara asked anxiously. 

"Wait for Ueno-sensei to come over and tell him that I have set up traps. If we can kill one or two of them by relying on this trap, we are not incapable of finishing off the rest by relying on the rest of us." Asahi quietly got down from the tree while talking. After climbing down, he hide in the ground using earth style. 

There were seven people on the other side, and there's no way to know what their specific strength was.

'This battle is hard to fight!'

When Ueno approached Asahi's location, and determined that he could see his movement clearly, his right hand made a retreat hand seal without exposing it to the enemies. 

It seemed that Ueno did not want to fight with them, but that's okay. After all, there were still three people in the town about whom they were still unknown to what their purpose was. It was not a wise choice to fight if there was a possibility of their opponent getting reinforcements.

After seeing Ueno's hand seal, Shinohara retreated directly, Asahi was also planning to retreat, but just at that time, the seven Sunagakure ninjas caught up with Ueno and Keita. Although they haven't been completely stopped by them, if left alone, the two of them were likely to fall into a desperate situation. 

For Asahi, retreat was right now the best option, after all Ueno had already issued an order to retreat. 

But what the ninja world despises the most were cowards, and the education of Konoha until now was to always value your ​​peers. If he retreated in this way, sat back and watched his teammates fight by themselves but remained indifferent, then even if Asahi returns alive, his reputation would be going downhill.

Especially if the Third Hokage were to know that Asahi had abandoned his companion and just ran away alone, he would probably take away all focus from training him. 

But if he could successfully save Ueno this time, Asahi would be able to ask him for ninjutsu in the future. He believed that at that time, Ueno would not refuse. 

Looking at their opponents, there were seven people, two versus seven sounded like almost no odds of success. If this group of Sunagakure were to finish Ueno and Keita, and continued to track him down, he would not be able to escape. 

"It seems that the only option is to fight!"

Asahi had already determined the answer in his heart. If things were to go south, even if he had to abandon his teammates, he would immediately run away. But if there was still an opportunity, he would kill the enemy!

They keep approaching... 

[Earth Style ∙ Headhunter Jutsu] 

When the Sunagakure passed by the ambush site laid by Asahi, he took a decisive shot. The target of his attack seemed to be a nine years old ninja. If this ninja happened to not be vigilant in advance, there was a great chance that he would be killed by this sneak attack. 

*Thunk* 

After pulling the careless Sunagakure ninja into the ground, he cut his throat directly and killed him completely. 

"There is an ambush!"

When one of the sand ninja found him, he immediately warned. 

Immediately after his silhouette appeared, Asahi threw six kunai at the nearest sand ninja. The angle of the kunai were tricky. Although the Sunagakure ninja barely escaped the kunai attack, he did not notice that on one of the kunai there was a steel wire attached to it, which Asahi cut off releasing his trap. 

*Shou*

*Shou*

*Shou*

*Boom*

*Boom*

*Boom*

Countless shuriken and kunai shot from the dark from all directions. Some kunai had explosive tags attached to them, shaking the earth slightly in their explosions.

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