It's better to be a rebel ninja than to be a Hokage

Time flies, and it is already May.

The survival drill of Class 7 took place two months ago.

In the past two months, Class 7 has been carrying out the commissions issued by the village and working together.

Now, under the leadership of Kakashi, Team 7 has shown some signs of "close cooperation".

Naruto also had his own feelings during this time.

The most intuitive feeling is that Ninja makes money too fast!

Team 7, which is made up of a bunch of ninjas who have just become Genin, can only accept D-level ninja missions.

These missions were nothing more than ordinary tasks that had nothing to do with the ninja world, such as finding lost pets and helping with farming.

However, such a D-level task has a high commission of 5,000 to 50,000 taels.

Even though these commissions have to be deducted by the village for tax before being divided equally among the ninja squad members who carry out the mission...it is still a considerable income.

And occasionally there would be wealthy people like Lady Shijimi, the wife of the Fire Country Daimyo, who would issue a D-level mission that was nothing more than finding a cat, but would raise the commission to the D-level maximum of 50,000 ryo.

So Naruto saved a lot of money in the past two months.

I didn't expect that I couldn't make any money despite working so hard in my previous life, but in this life, after only being a ninja for two months, I already have some signs of financial freedom.

However, Naruto also knew that although the fact that he could make money so easily as a Genin was related to the high commissions for the ninja's missions, it was inseparable from the big tree of Konoha.

As the most powerful Fire Nation among the five major nations in the ninja world, the reputation of Konoha Ninja Village attracts countless people from both home and abroad to entrust their commissions to Konoha's ninjas.

Probably only Konoha can be so comfortable as a Genin in peacetime, but it may not be the case in other big countries.

The Land of Earth had taken advantage of the Akatsuki's combat power because of its reduced armaments and the loss of a large number of commissions.

The Water Kingdom's blood mist policy resulted in years of isolation.

The Sand Village in the Land of Wind has even reached the point where it is determined to take the risky tactic of attacking Konoha in order to maintain the operation of the village.

The Land of Thunder is still expanding its combat capabilities and its actions are extremely violent.

In fact, as long as you shift your gaze slightly away from Konoha and look at the entire ninja world, you can easily realize that the shadow left by the Third Ninja World War has not yet dissipated.

The so-called peace lasted only a brief period of more than ten years.

Konoha has only maintained its dominant position, which has allowed the village to recover so quickly on the surface, but the corruption in the dark is no different from that of the other four countries.

If you want to defect from Konoha, you must understand that the current peace in Konoha cannot represent the entire ninja world.

Fighting is still the main theme of the ninja world.

Naruto warned himself in his heart.

Once you fail to make the right judgment, it will be difficult to deal with danger when it comes.

——"Well, this concludes Team 7's request to find the lost cat, Tiger."

The Sandaime's voice interrupted Naruto's thoughts.

The complicated thoughts in his mind were just a blink of an eye in the eyes of others, and Naruto's momentary daze did not attract anyone's attention.

In the center of the task assignment counter of Konoha Ninja Village, the Third Generation used a brush to paint one of the places on the commission form black, indicating that the task was completed.

He held a pipe in his mouth, his eyes wandered over the members of Team 7, and finally fixed on Kakashi: "Among the ninja classes that graduated at the same time, Kakashi, Team 7 that you lead has completed the most missions so far."

Hearing the praise in the Third Hokage's words, Kakashi scratched his head in a very humble manner and said, "Thank you for the compliment, Third Hokage."

"This is a fact, there is no such thing as praise or no praise."

The Sandaime took a deep puff of cigarette. There were three ninja teams that successfully became Genin this time, namely Team Seven, Team Eight, and Team Ten.

Combining the mission completion status of each class over the past two months and the reports from the jonin in charge of the class, the three members of Team 7 are the ninja class with the best coordination.

The reason behind this...

The Sandaime looked at Naruto.

At this moment, Naruto was staring at the struggling cat in Mrs. Shijimi's arms.

Naruto's contribution to the team's running-in was even greater than Kakashi's. He got along with his two partners based on their personalities, like prescribing the right medicine for their condition.

In the past two months, there were always quarrels in the other two classes, but nothing like that happened in Class 7.

This is all thanks to the conflicts between the three members of Team 7, which are always cleverly resolved by Naruto.

The Sandai suddenly remembered Naruto's dream of becoming Hokage during the Book of Sealing incident.

It seems that Naruto is working hard to grow towards his dream.

Feeling relieved, Sandai took the pipe from his mouth, exhaled a puff of pungent smoke, and closed the commission form in his hand; he had already made a decision.

"Team 7's next mission is to protect someone, and the mission level is C!"

The Sandai spoke out the decision in his mind.

The third generation's words made Naruto's expression stiffen.

While Naruto was staring at the cat Xiaohu, Mrs. Shijimi, who was holding Xiaohu and leaving the task assignment office, passed by another person who entered the task assignment room.

The person who came was a sloppy old man wearing reading glasses, holding a bottle of wine in his hand and looking drunk.

"The client is here."

Noticing that Naruto was not the only one coming, the Third Hokage spoke again at the right time to confirm the man's identity.

"Team 7's C-rank mission is to escort Mr. Dazna, a bridge-building expert, back to the Land of Waves, and to protect his personal safety until the bridge in the Land of Waves is completed!"

It's Dazna after all!

Because Naruto is not as close to the Third Hokage as in the original work, his original method of asking for a C-rank mission from the Third Hokage by force is not advisable.

When Naruto was staring at the cat Xiaohu, he was thinking about how to get Team 7 out of the vortex of the D-rank mission as soon as possible.

Before I could think of a solution, I didn't expect that the Sandai would take the initiative to propose that Team 7 carry out a C-level mission.

In Naruto's defection plan, the upcoming Joint Chunin Exam is the key to his plan.

He is not the original Naruto, so he cannot talk the Nine-Tails out of his wits. Although the Eight Trigrams Seal that seals the Nine-Tails is still effective, the overflow of the Nine-Tails' chakra is increasing day by day.

So he had to ensure that Karin, who came to participate in the Chunin Exam, would become his partner. Karin had the same sealing technique as Uzumaki Kushina, which could help him suppress the Nine-Tails.

Moreover, Karin has no sense of belonging to the Kusagakure Village, which killed her mother.

After the defection after the Chunin Exam, Naruto was confident that he could win over Karin to his side.

However, the Chunin Exam that began shortly afterwards was usually not something that Genin like Naruto, who had graduated less than half a year ago, could participate in.

Naruto had thought about why Kakashi in the original work let the three members of Team 7, who had just graduated from the Ninja Academy not long ago, take the exam.

The most reasonable explanation is the Wave Country incident, which was called a C-level mission in the original work but was actually a B-level mission!

The mission in Wave Country allowed Team 7 to grow rapidly, leading Kakashi to judge that Team 7 was strong enough to cope with the Chunin Exam.

But after all, there is the precedent of Umino Iruka's death in the Nine-Tails Rebellion, and Naruto is not sure about the exact time when Dazna issued the commission to Konoha.

Naruto had already given up on ever meeting Dazna again as in the original story.

That's why Naruto has been working so hard on team 7 in the past two months. By then, he just needs to find a way to get team 7 to receive one or two truly C-level missions.

After Kakashi saw the cooperation of Team 7, he encouraged Sasuke, who had always been eager to become stronger quickly, to go with him to lobby Kakashi to let Team 7 take part in the Chunin Exam.

If this doesn't work, Naruto has a backup plan that's not as effective.

For example, directly talking to Karin who was going to Konoha to take the exam.

But without the identity of a Chunin Exam candidate, he had no way of knowing when he would come into contact with a ninja from another ninja village.

There is a great possibility that Naruto will be targeted by Danzo again, and Karin is not the kind of guy who is foolish enough to trust others easily. Sasuke in the original work only gained Karin's favor by accident.

...This backup plan is dangerous and not easy to use.

So Naruto has been planning various plans.

but now……

Looking at Dazna in front of him, Naruto felt that even if some things changed, they were still destined to meet.

For example, it is still Team 7 that has accepted Dazna's commission - and all the problems that Naruto was worried about just now disappeared at this moment.