"Thank you, Teacher!"
Kurenai quickly ran out of the classroom. Seeing Shiro Akira a few meters away, she asked with a bright yet puzzled expression, "Akira, why did you come here at this time?"
Immediately afterward, she seemed to realize something. Her expression dimmed slightly as she looked at Shiro Akira and asked, "Are you going out on a mission?"
"That's right!"
Shiro Akira smiled and rubbed her head comfortingly. "This time, I'll probably be away for quite a while. You need to take good care of yourself at school, and don't fall behind in your training either. Understand?"
Kurenai nodded, then took the initiative to hug Shiro Akira.
Shiro Akira hugged her back and gently patted her back.
After quite a while, Kurenai took the initiative to separate from Shiro Akira. She wiped the tears from her face, forcefully suppressed the reluctance in her heart, and looked at Shiro Akira with a firm gaze. "Go. I'll wait for you to come back."
After saying that, she turned around and returned to the classroom without the slightest hesitation.
Because she did not want to hold Shiro Akira back.
"Heh!"
Seeing this, Shiro Akira smiled faintly. "She's grown up."
Half an hour later, Shiro Akira successfully reunited with his shadow clone and Kakashi at the village gate, then went over to report to Hyuga Hizashi.
"You two are Shiro Akira and Hatake Kakashi, right?"
Looking at the two boys before him, Hyuga Hizashi smiled lightly and nodded. His eyes carried a trace of appreciation. "I've heard of your names as geniuses for a long time. I hope your performance next won't disappoint me."
One of these two was White Fang's son, while the other was a disciple of both White Fang and Lady Tsunade. Their identities were far from simple.
He just didn't know whether their reputations were deserved.
"We won't disappoint you, Captain."
Shiro Akira replied with a light smile.
Kakashi said nothing, but his eyes made his attitude clear.
"Haha! I'm looking forward to it."
Hyuga Hizashi laughed heartily. "Wait another half hour. Once the time comes, we'll set off."
"Yes!"
Half an hour quickly passed. Under Hyuga Hizashi's order, the supply convoy departed, moving toward the battlefield in the Land of Rivers as quickly as possible.
They spent the next day traveling, and the journey went very smoothly. They did not encounter anyone blind enough to cause trouble.
Seeing that they were less than a hundred kilometers from the front-line camp, Hyuga Hizashi warned, "Everyone, stay alert. The road ahead is the most dangerous part. Keep your spirits up. Ono, lead the scout team ahead and make sure no enemies are approaching."
Logistics routes were key targets for both sides. There was no harm in being careful.
"Yes!"
A Jonin named Ono immediately led four Chunin forward at high speed. Before long, they vanished into the forest ahead.
"Ah!"
"Boom!"
Before Shiro Akira and the others had traveled another thirty kilometers, screams suddenly came from the front.
Then a signal flare shot into the sky.
Seeing this, Hyuga Hizashi immediately raised his hand to stop the convoy's advance. At the same time, he instantly activated his Byakugan.
Everything within a two-kilometer radius entered his vision.
"Found them!"
The next moment, Hyuga Hizashi locked onto a position roughly one kilometer to the front-right. There were a full twenty chakra sources.
"There are enemies. It should be an elite Sand Ninja team. There are twenty enemies: two elite Jonin, eight Jonin, and ten Chunin."
"Ono and the others have already been sacrificed. Tanaka, lead your team and stay behind with Akira and Kakashi to guard the supply convoy. Everyone else, follow me."
As he spoke, Hyuga Hizashi directly led the team and charged toward the enemy.
With the Byakugan, he had confirmed that there were no other enemies within a two-kilometer radius, so naturally, he had to move the battlefield away from the supply convoy.
Otherwise, even if they could wipe out the enemy, the supplies might still be destroyed.
More importantly, the team included nine Genin, including Kakashi and Shiro Akira.
If the battlefield unfolded beside the convoy, once the fighting began, it would be very difficult to ensure the safety of Shiro Akira and the other Genin.
On their side, including himself, they had one elite Jonin, six Jonin, and excluding those left behind to guard the convoy, six Chunin who could be deployed. They were at a numerical disadvantage.
But there was nothing else they could do.
Besides, numbers did not necessarily determine victory or defeat.
"Yes!"
The others responded and followed under the leadership of several Jonin.
"Akira, we…"
Kakashi looked at Shiro Akira with some eagerness.
"You stay here. I'll go."
Shiro Akira frowned slightly. After leaving that sentence behind, he created a shadow clone, then his entire body turned into a bolt of lightning and vanished from the convoy. In just a few breaths, he caught up with Hyuga Hizashi and the others, who had set out first.
Kakashi: "…"
Damn it! Akira was clearly saying he didn't trust his strength.
Kakashi turned to look at Shiro Akira's shadow clone with a resentful expression.
Shiro Akira Number One spread his hands helplessly. "That was all the main body's decision. It has nothing to do with me. Don't look at me."
Kakashi wanted to hit someone.
Who was he trying to fool?
Wasn't he Shiro Akira too?
On the other side, Hyuga Hizashi and the others felt a flash of lightning streak past their eyes and were startled at first.
Then, through his powerful vision, he clearly saw that the lightning was none other than Shiro Akira.
"Bastard! Why are you disobeying orders and acting on your own?"
Hyuga Hizashi cursed loudly and prepared to speed up to catch up with Shiro Akira and stop him.
However, he was horrified to discover that he could not keep up with Shiro Akira's speed at all. Shiro Akira was at least twice as fast as him.
In the blink of an eye, Shiro Akira had already pulled far ahead.
At the same time, Shiro Akira's voice reached his ears from up ahead. "Sorry, Captain! The enemy outnumbers us, so I can only reveal my strength!"
The others also heard it, and they all exchanged stunned looks before catching up to Hyuga Hizashi and asking, "Captain, this…"
"Hurry and keep up! We can't let that kid take the risk alone. Otherwise, there'll be big trouble!"
Hyuga Hizashi's face darkened as he accelerated again.
This was reckless.
Were all young people nowadays this arrogant?
He had already decided that if they survived this battle, he would definitely give that brat a proper lecture.
Did he not know that if something happened to him, Tsunade and White Fang would explode on the spot?
"Yes!"
The others responded and sped up to follow.
At this moment, Shiro Akira had already pulled several hundred meters away from them. From a distance, he saw twenty Sand Ninja charging toward him from three hundred meters away.
Shiro Akira stopped directly and stood on a large branch.
Then he raised his head and glanced at the sky.
At this moment, the sky was covered in gray clouds, as if rain might fall at any moment.
Seeing this, Shiro Akira immediately grinned.
The heavens are truly helping me.
At this moment, the Sand Ninja also saw Shiro Akira.
"Captain, confirmed. There's only one person, but more than ten others are rapidly approaching from several hundred meters away."
A sensor ninja among the Sand Ninja immediately confirmed the situation on the opposite side and reported to one of the elite Jonin.
"Haha! Looks like he's an arrogant little genius who doesn't listen to orders! My favorite thing is torturing geniuses to death! Go! Kill him as fast as possible!"
The leading Jonin, Kurosha, sneered and immediately charged toward Shiro Akira at extreme speed.
The other Sand Ninja also followed in a surrounding formation.
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