Pokémon Ninja Scrolls of the Mizukage

Chapter 33 Follow-up
The return voyage was smooth and did not take much time.

However, when the pirate ship approached Apple Village, they were greeted by villagers holding various weapons and with hatred on their faces.

There was no way. Although several people took down the pirate flag, the black sails of the pirate ship were still too hateful.

Besides, this ship had only just come to Apple Village to plunder, which meant that the villagers didn’t have any long-range weapons, otherwise the welcome to Team Qing might have been even warmer.

Fortunately, Daz and Hugo had already returned to the village, and when they saw the few people get off the boat, there were no misunderstandings.

"Dad! Mom!"

Just as Jianchuan Ju and his companions got off the boat with the seven kidnapped children from Apple Village, all the other children ran crying to their surviving family members.

Only the little red-haired girl who had been following Jianchuan Ju since she got on the ship was still standing beside him in a daze.

However, the little girl was not unresponsive. Her body was shaking, tears in her eyes were slowly flowing down her cheeks, and she stared blankly at the figure standing in front of the villagers.

Hugo, the man rushed to the little girl like a madman and hugged the girl's thin body.

"Ameyuri~ My little apple, I'm so glad you're okay."

Even though his daughter was kidnapped, this middle-aged man was still strong enough to rush to the Hidden Mist Village alone to launch the mission. This middle-aged man, who looked haggard from beginning to end, now hugged his daughter tightly and burst into tears.

Everyone felt emotional when seeing this scene. Even some children from other villages who were still on the boat were infected by the atmosphere and started crying uncontrollably.

Seeing the scene around him, Jianchuan Ju felt a sense of satisfaction in his heart, but then he wondered if he was being too hypocritical.

I had clearly never thought about saving those ninja school students from Zabuza before, but now I felt moved by saving a few strange children.

I am really bad at this.

and many more!

Jianchuan Ju suddenly widened his eyes and stared in amazement at the red-haired girl he had rescued.

"Yuri Yu? Apple Village? Yuri Ringo???"

My goodness, this somewhat silly kid is actually the holder of the 'Thunder Blade*Ya' among the future second generation of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, the lightning style genius Ringo Ayuri who died young?
The killer who, during the Fourth Shinobi World War, used two lightning swords and superb lightning-style ninjutsu to strike down the lightning-style ninjas of the Hidden Cloud Village and made them flee in all directions?
Now that I think about it, the kid's shark-like fangs and red hair are exactly the characteristics of Ringo Ayuri.

But I don’t know if there’s a genetic problem on the Water Country side, there are just too many people with fangs.

People like Mangetsu Hozuki, Kisame Hoshigaki, and Juuzou Biwa, all of them have sharp teeth.

So Jianchuanju never paid much attention to this before.

No, if you think about it this way, these fangs are also members of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.

Ever since I traveled through time and found out that my name contained the character "橘", I had secretly wondered if I could get into the fruit group of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen and get a ninja sword to play with.

I just realized now that I have this neat row of white teeth. Will it make me look a little out of place in the future?

Thinking of this, Jianchuan Tachibana turned his head and looked at Momochi Zabuza who was in a daze beside him.

Jianchuan Ju knew that although this guy had a bandage on the lower half of his face, he actually had a mouth full of small fangs.

"Hey! What's that look in your eyes?!"

Zabuza, who was watching the group of crying kids getting off the boat out of boredom, seemed to sense Jianchuan Tachibana's gaze and immediately glared back fiercely.

"Haha, don't be so sensitive Zabuza, I just thought you seemed to have grown taller in the past few days."

"Go to hell!" Zabuza became even more furious upon hearing this, and he wanted to draw his dagger immediately and fight to the death with Jianchuan Tachibana.

"Okay, you two."

Mei Terumi stopped her two stupid teammates speechlessly, then walked up to Qing and asked.

"Teacher Qing, what are you going to do with these children from other villages?"

"Let's talk to Village Chief Daz first. After all, some of the children's hometowns may have been completely destroyed, and it won't be possible to send all the other children back in a short time."

"Do you want to entrust the villagers of Apple Village to send these children back?" Jianchuan Ju also came over and interrupted.

"We just hope to let these children stay for a while. The Water Country has a special department to deal with such situations. Some of the children may be sent to ninja schools as war orphans."

Qing still explained the situation to his three disciples.

It was not uncommon to collect orphans during such missions in the chaotic ninja world. There were many such orphanages in various places in the Land of Water. For other children whose families were still alive, the daimyo would issue some D-level missions and arrange for the Genin team to send them back home.

It’s just that because there are too many hidden secrets in this mission, Qing needs to return to the village as soon as possible to report the situation, so he wondered if he could let these children rest in Apple Village for a while.

After imparting some mission experience to his three disciples, Qing went directly to find Daz who was comforting the villagers.

He briefly explained his request. Of course, Daz would not refuse such a thing. After all, it was just a temporary placement for these children for a few days, and people from the Water Country would come to take over later.

Even because the village had just been attacked by pirates and many villagers were killed or injured, Daz felt that it was acceptable to keep these children in the village.

Apple Village itself is a village with abundant resources, but its economy is not developed due to its geographical location.

Moreover, in this attack, the young and strong people in the village did not suffer much loss because they were out fishing, so it was not a problem to feed a few more children.

After some explanation, everyone prepared to leave and return to the village early to report the situation.

"Thank you, ninja-sama, for rescuing these children."

Daz knew that they were in a hurry to leave, so he didn't try to persuade them to stay, but just bowed deeply.

Jianchuan Ju took a last look at Ringo Ayuri who was still sobbing in her father's arms, and still didn't say much to Qing.

Although he may become a genius ninja in the future.

But first of all, I couldn't explain how I knew her future talent. Secondly, I was just an ordinary Genin now, and even if I recommended a genius to the village, it wouldn't bring any substantial benefits.

Besides, he has just been reunited with his father, and it is unknown whether he hopes to become the "genius ninja with lightning escape technique" in the future.

So Jianchuan Tachibana only left a kunai for Ringo Ayuri before leaving.

"If you want to become a ninja in the future, you can ask your father to take you to the Hidden Mist Village to find me."

Jianchuan Ju rubbed the red hair of the little girl who was only four or five years old, then turned around and left gracefully.

Leaving behind the middle-aged man who had a confused look on his face, not knowing what the kid was doing, and Ringo Ayuri who had a glimmer of light in her eyes.

"Let's go, Ju. What are you dawdling about?"

Hearing Mei Terumi's cry, Jianchuan Ju also put Lan Zai on his shoulders, swung his hands behind him, and started the ninja run mode.

On the other side, in the Hidden Mist Village, there is a ninja clan’s territory.

Two ninjas, a man and a woman, wearing ANBU masks, knelt on one knee in front of a desk.

"Take off the mask, do you really think you are an Anbu ninja?"

A somewhat cold male voice came into the ears of the two.

"Yes, Patriarch" x2
Upon hearing this, the two of them obediently took off their Anbu masks and put them aside.

The jonin female ninja among them looked up at the head of her family and spoke.

"Master Patriarch, Island No. 2 has been discovered. When we were preparing to receive the seeds, we encountered Team Qing on their way to carry out a mission. Jiu and I were not sure we could keep them, so we had to retreat."

"Okay, I get it. Collecting seeds through pirates is not a good idea. Let's stop for now."

The cold voice didn't seem to care much about it.

"I remember that kid named Momochi Zabuza was from the Blue Team, right?"

"Yes, Chief. We also saw him on the island. Should we get rid of him?"

I don't know why the head of my family would mention a Genin. Although Zabuza Momochi is indeed quite famous in the village recently, he is just someone else's sword.

"Nothing, you guys can leave first. Just accept some normal missions recently. The war is about to start, don't do anything unnecessary."

After saying this, the man waved his hand, signaling the two to leave.

After the two men left in an instant, the man looked into the dark corner and muttered to himself with some emotion in his voice.

"The brat is indeed an eyesore, but the one who is even more of an eyesore is that guy Yagura Karuji."

(End of this chapter)