Mayuri's card from Naruto

Chapter 9 Test
An open space in the forest of Konoha Village.

Lu Nie stood under a tree with mixed feelings. At the moment, he was still thinking about the day before yesterday when Orochimaru visited his parents and said he wanted to take him in as his disciple.

As one of the three ninjas and future Hokage candidates, and with the permission of the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, Orochimaru was able to personally visit Nara Shikakichi and his wife and make his request. This in itself shows how much he values ​​Shikakie.

This kind of relationship is not the team leader assigned after graduating from the Ninja School, but it goes one step further and can truly inherit the master-disciple relationship and be regarded as the close disciple who inherits the mantle.

After all, your team leader is just your boss. How much he is willing to teach you and how many ninjutsu he wants to teach you depends on his heart. And those with a strong master-disciple inheritance generally don't keep anything to themselves, but hand over everything they have in their chests.

The most obvious example is the complete period of Team 7 in the future. Kakashi is the leader teacher of Uchiha Sasuke, Naruto and Haruno Sakura, but the only one who can be regarded as the true inheritor of his ninjutsu is Sasuke.

Likewise, such a thorough and solemn visit, while showing that he valued her, also meant that there was no room for maneuver, unless one wanted to offend Orochimaru.

So whether Lu Nie was willing or not, from the moment Orochimaru came to visit him, he had already become his disciple. There was nothing Nara Lu Ji could do about this.

Today is the day for their first meeting after he became Orochimaru's disciple.

call!
There was a sound of wind rushing over suddenly, and then a girl who looked about eight or nine years old, wearing a Genin forehead protector and a fishing net outfit, jumped down from the branch above her head as Lu Nie raised his head and landed lightly beside Lu Nie.

"A kid from the Nara clan?" The man stood up and raised his eyebrows when he looked at Lu Nie's clothes which were full of Nara clan style.

"It's good that you're here."

Before Lu Nie could reply, a familiar hoarse and magnetic voice suddenly sounded near the two of them, as if someone had been waiting here for a long time and suddenly spoke, which scared Lu Nie and the girl.

"Orochimaru-sensei!"

"Orochimaru-sensei!"

Two childish voices rang out at the same time. Compared to Lu Nie's somewhat unmotivated voice, the girl's shouting sounded much more energetic, and it also showed an irrepressible fanatical admiration.

This made Lu Nie involuntarily move a little further away from her.

At this moment, he had already figured out who this seemingly immature girl was.

Wash red beans with your hands!
The only disciple of Orochimaru who survived when he defected from Konoha.

The reason why she is said to be the only survivor is because Lu Nie is not sure whether Red Bean is the only disciple after Orochimaru Rope Tree.

Although she didn't have any achievements worth mentioning, she was taught by Orochimaru, so she had some talent. If she was too stupid and had no talent, Orochimaru wouldn't have valued her and taught her, and passed down the contract of Ryuchi Cave.

"Please introduce yourself. My name is Orochimaru, and I'm your future team leader. I like to explore and learn all the ninjutsu in the world. I hate people without talent and those who are hopelessly stupid." Orochimaru led the two to the open space next to them, stood face to face with a distance of five or six meters between them, and asked.

"I'll go first, I'll go first! My name is Mitarashi Anko, I'm just ten years old and will be graduating from Konoha School soon! I hope to become a powerful ninja like Lord Orochimaru! Hate, well, there's no one I hate for now." Mitarashi Anko raised her hand first and shouted before Kaname Shikagawa.

"Nara Lune, I'm six years old. I'm still studying at Konoha School. I like to do some research that I like. I hate troublesome things that are not related to research." Seeing Orochimaru's gaze turning to him, Lune also opened his mouth and briefly introduced himself.

"Before I teach you, I need to test you. You can use all the means you can use to attack me with the determination to kill me. Don't hold back. I need to know your current strength and ability."

Orochimaru licked the corner of his lips, and a bell fell from his raised finger. He drew a circle around himself with his foot, "Do you see this bell? As long as any one of you can grab it from me, you will pass the test. Of course, for fairness, I will stand still in this circle."

"What if we don't get it?" Red Bean raised her hand, and she seemed eager to try. Of course, she knew that they couldn't defeat Orochimaru, but if they just wanted to get the bell, with the cooperation of their teammates, it would still be possible, right?

Thinking of this, Hongdou glanced at Nara Shinai beside her, and felt that her thoughts were a little too confident.

"That means the test has failed, and there will be severe punishment." Orochimaru's smile suddenly took on an indescribable sense of creepiness and pressure.

"Of course, if you can do it, I will also give you a reward." Orochimaru said, and a palm-sized scroll slipped from the sleeve of his arm. Under the gaze of Kaname and Red Bean, Orochimaru used hand seals to untie the scroll.

Pong!
After a burst of smoke dissipated, a huge scroll nearly as tall as a person appeared in front of Orochimaru.

"This is the summoning contract scroll of Ryuchi Cave! If you can grab the bell, or perform well enough, then after the test is completed, I will write your two names on it." Orochimaru's tone was full of temptation.

Hongdou's body was already trembling from the stimulation.

Psychic beast!

Who doesn't want to own a powerful psychic beast?

Especially since it is the sacred summoning beast of Orochimaru, one of the three ninjas!
Without Orochimaru's provocation, she was already full of fighting spirit. Lu Nie took a deep breath, and he vaguely felt that this reward seemed to be aimed at him.

But no matter what, this reward from Orochimaru also touched his heart. Under the influence of the talent card, his desire to study the Dragon Cave, one of the three sacred places for summoning beasts, has become somewhat boiling and impulsive.

Even if it was just a fairy technique, it was worth Lu Nie's best effort.

"It seems that you are very satisfied with this reward. Let's begin." Orochimaru threw the scroll onto a tree on the side, indicating that the assessment was about to begin.

The man named Lu Nie on the field looked at each other, and did not attack at the first moment. Instead, he ran away from where he was at a rapid speed, far away from Orochimaru's sight.

"Are you trying to catch them by surprise? Or do you want to get familiar with your partner's skills?" Orochimaru watched the two's actions, with a little satisfaction in his eyes. If the two of them just rushed over like a bunch of fools, he would be a little disappointed. "You should know the secret techniques of the Nara clan, right?" Mitarashi Anko obviously knew something about the Nara clan. After she left Orochimaru's sight, she asked about Luna the first thing she did when she stopped.

Lu Nie nodded.

"That's fine then. You use the Nara clan's secret techniques to assist me, and I'll be the main attacker. As long as you seize the opportunity and cooperate with me well, and if Lord Orochimaru can't dodge, we have a chance of grabbing the bell." Red Bean immediately assigned the tasks.

She didn't expect Lu Nie to be able to help, not because she didn't trust Lu Nie's talent, but because he looked too small. As long as Lu Nie could use the shadow secret technique to help her at the right time, she might be able to succeed if she seized the opportunity.

Lu Nie didn't want to refute her. After all, her arrangement didn't sound wrong.

"It's fine for you to be the main attacker and I to be the supporting one, but there is no tacit understanding between us, and it will be difficult to develop tacit understanding in a short period of time. If there is a third person, it would be better if this third person is from the Yamanaka clan. Using the secret techniques of the Yamanaka clan, we can achieve mental communication with his spiritual secret techniques as the center." Lu Ni first approved Hongdou's request, and then denied her question about seizing the opportunity.

Mature and experienced ninjas can cooperate to a certain extent without being particularly familiar with each other. But it is a bit wishful thinking to expect two people who are not even Genin to cooperate well in a strange situation.

"Then what do you say we should do?" Hongdou's cheeks puffed up in anger.

"Since there is no tacit understanding, then we don't talk about tacit understanding." Lu Nie said calmly: "We divide the offensive into steps and then distribute the steps.

We just need to follow the established procedures and do our own corresponding steps. We don’t need to think about what our partners are doing and how we should cooperate with them. We just need to execute step by step.”

"Is this okay?" Hongdou thought about it carefully and felt that what Lu Nie said did make sense, but she still had doubts: "Will this work?"

"Of course it won't be that easy. This is just a trick. With Lord Orochimaru's vision, he will be able to see through it immediately.

So our only chance is the first time, he may not expect us to choose this tricky method to fight. So we don't need to think about many tactics, just prepare one set. "Lu Nie shook his head, he himself had no confidence.

After discussing the tactics, as well as some simple coordination methods and gestures in the dense forest, the two immediately took a detour back to the test site.

Si—Chen—Mao—Yin!

The art of dragon fire!

A blazing pillar of fire suddenly shot out from the dense forest behind Orochimaru, who was still standing in the circle. The blazing pillar of fire headed straight for Orochimaru and directly hit where he was, turning that place into a sea of ​​fire.

But soon, at the top of the fire column, a rotating water curtain rose from the ground and collided with the fire column.

In an instant, a large amount of fog began to spread around.

Hongdou's eyes lit up instantly as she performed the Dragon Fire Technique. She immediately winked at Kaname and created a shadow clone, which ran quickly towards the direction of Orochimaru together with the original body.

When she launched the attack, she had already memorized where the bell was hanging on Orochimaru's body, and rehearsed the steps she should take many times in her mind based on the location.

Lu Nie also rushed out from the dense forest. Before the mist disappeared, a black shadow under his feet instantly turned into a black rope, swinging on the ground like a vine, and flew towards the direction he remembered in his mind.

When the mist just dissipated and both sides regained some vision, Luna's shadow had successfully connected with Orochimaru's shadow. At this moment, the two Red Beans also took the opportunity to come under Orochimaru, one attacked Orochimaru, and the other reached out to grab the bell hanging on Orochimaru's waist.

Orochimaru saw what Red Bean did, but in an instant, he felt his body lose some control and became numb and sluggish for a moment. In that instant, Red Bean's fingers touched the bell.

The cooperation between the two, whether in timing or tactics, was surprisingly tacit. It seemed that the two people in front of them had not just met, but had been a team for a long time and knew each other well.

There was a flash of surprise in Orochimaru's eyes.

Just as Hongdou grinned and was about to pull the bell down and put it in the center of her palm, her steps suddenly stumbled, and her forward fingers brushed against the bell on Orochimaru's body.

A snake snaked up from Red Bean's feet, quickly restraining the two Red Beans and making them unable to move, while the other Red Bean who attacked Orochimaru was grabbed by the hand by Orochimaru. He threw it out with a bang in the air and exploded into a cloud of smoke.

Lu Nie's shadow binding technique was not enough to affect Orochimaru for too long. So what Lu Nie said he could create was just that moment of stagnation and opportunity.

After dealing with Red Bean, Orochimaru's gaze fell on Lune. What he saw was Lune's fingers forming hand seals like a butterfly flying through flowers.

Orochimaru waited with great interest for Luna to finish the hand seal, and then he was covered by a black curtain that suddenly rose from under his feet.

Shadow coffin!

The black shadow curtain only existed for a moment before it collapsed and faded, revealing Orochimaru with scratched skin inside.

"It's a very interesting technique. Why have I never seen it in the Nara family?" Orochimaru ignored the scars on his body that were soaked with blood, and stared at Luna with interest. He instinctively felt that this ninjutsu was related to Luna.

"The bell is in my hand, Teacher Orochimaru." Lu Nie, whose face was a little pale due to the great consumption of chakra, raised his right hand. A familiar bell in his hand was swinging and ringing.

"Interesting, this strange ninjutsu, is it actually a feint? The shadow binding technique bound me, a strange shadow secret technique attracted my attention and cut the rope of the bell, and finally a shadow seam technique was used to take away the bell from my body." Orochimaru quickly deduced Lune's method.

Is even red beans part of your plan?
His eyes swept over Red Bean who was still struggling on the ground. Orochimaru, who was very familiar with the Nara clan, subconsciously included her in the calculation. There might even be a little understanding of himself in this.

(End of this chapter)