Ninja at the top of the food chain

Chapter 14 Yuko
Some people say that to measure the level of a ninja's ability, it mainly depends on the mastery and application of techniques.

Lei Luo does not deny this, but he feels that in order to become an outstanding ninja and survive in this troubled world, besides high strength, character is equally important.

After all, the current Konoha is not from Naruto's time, nor is the ninja world as it was after the Fourth World War.The Second Ninja World War outside is in full swing, and the scale of the battle is also expanding.

Born in such an era, it is common for ninjas to encounter life-threatening dangers while performing tasks, and there are various reasons.The hostility of the ninjas in the outer villages, the murderous intent of the vagabonds, the greed of the bounty hunters, and even the hatred of the civilians whose families have been destroyed.

There are many unknown situations that ninjas need to face during their journey. To protect themselves and their companions, they can rely on not only their own strength, but also the determination to dare to kill at critical moments.

Ability, character, both are indispensable.

Unfortunately, Yamanaka Yuko seems to have neither of these two points.

Although her ninja talent was not the best in Lei Luo's class, it could only be said to be unsatisfactory.

Although she is from the mountain clan, it seems that she is not very talented in the family secret arts, and is not valued by most of the mountain clan.Her cautious personality during school is completely different from her current carefree appearance.

Lei Luo still remembers that Yuko Yamanaka at that time was timid, cowardly, low self-esteem, and basically did not communicate with her classmates.

If it weren't for the neighbor relationship, they might not know each other at all.

The relationship between Lei Luo and Yuko Yamanaka seemed to be flat until the graduation of the ninja school.

This is not only because the predecessor spent most of his time and energy on study and training, but did not bother to manage interpersonal relationships; it is also because Yamanaka Yuko's introverted and inferior character is too passive.

This situation lasted until they all became Genin before it got better.

Although the predecessor was not in the same team as Yuko Yamanaka, every time I saw her, I could notice the changes in her.

Optimistic, cheerful, love to laugh... She just got better day by day, and seemed to gradually forget those painful memories of the past.

During a chat, Lei Luo once asked her what made her change like this.

At that time, Yamanaka Yuko didn't answer, but showed a happy smile.

The former did not understand Yuko Yamanaka's smile, but as an old driver, Lei Luo keenly smelled the sour smell of love from the picture in his memory.

Yamanaka Yuko met the other half of her destiny and fell in love, Lei Luo judged.

Facts proved that Lei Luo guessed right. For a long time after that, the predecessor rarely met Yuko Yamanaka, and only occasionally saw her walking with another boy on the street.

My predecessor had some impression of that boy, he seemed to be Yuko Yamanaka's teammate.

It stands to reason that this childhood sweetheart ran away with someone else, and his predecessor should have been touched.

But the fact is that the predecessor didn't feel anything wrong, but was simply happy for Yuko Yamanaka's transformation—this is a pimple, Lei Luo commented.

Originally, things went on like this, and Yuko Yamanaka had a happy ending.

It's a pity that this is not a bloody eight o'clock romance drama after all, but a cruel and dark ninja world.

Bad luck came inadvertently, devouring Yuko Yamanaka's body and mind.

At the beginning, the predecessor didn't know what the specific task was, but only knew that the level of the task was B, and it took the lives of all Yuko Yamanaka's teammates, including their guide Jonin.

And all of this could have been avoided, as long as Yuko Yamanaka's heart could be a little more ruthless.

Later, through Yuko Yamanaka's drunken confession, Lei Luo gradually sorted out the general context of the mission. It seems that when Yuko Yamanaka and her team were clearing out a lair of a rebellious gang, her sweetheart was careless. He was captured by mistake, and his rebellious ninja who was captured was used to threaten the other members of their team.

There is only one enemy left, and it seems that no amount of intimidation can change the outcome, but this is not the case.

It turns out that there is Dainin Village behind this rebellious ninja gang, and that Dainin village is Iwain, and the information was accidentally searched by Yamanaka Yuko's instructor in the rebellious ninja lair.

Because of this, the guide Jonin is deeply aware of the crisis of the current situation.

Their actions were so big that they might have scared the snake away. The location here was a long way from the village, and he wasn't sure if Yan Yin would secretly send ninjas to silence them.

Since it was still an era of peace at that time, instigating rebellious ninja activities in other countries was a taboo for ninja villages, so it was good that Iwagakushi did not get the news, once he got the news, he would desperately want to wipe away the traces.

After all, this involves the face of Da Ren Village.

Time is running out, and every second of delay brings them one step closer to death.

After explaining the stakes to Yuko Yamanaka and the others in a low voice, the instructor planned to throw out Kunai to end the life of Yuko Yamanaka's boyfriend as soon as possible, so as to prevent him from falling into the hands of the opponent and continue to be tortured.

After that, the instructing Jonin would quickly kill the Renin who had no hostages in his hands, and finally lead the other two team members to retreat quickly.

However, the thrown kunai was blocked by Yuko Yamanaka with her body, and she couldn't help but watch her boyfriend die in front of her.

No one thought that Yuko Yamanaka could explode so fast at that moment, and even blocked the Kunai thrown by Jonin. Maybe this is the power of love...

Afterwards, she begged bitterly, facing the mentor Shangren, and also facing the traitor.

This scene moved other people present, and the director couldn't bear it, wondering if he could think of other solutions in the shortest possible time.But in the end, this little bit of kindness redeems nothing.

Time passed mercilessly, and Yuko Yamanaka fell into a bigger abyss.

Without waiting too long, Iwagakushi's Anbe arrived and killed everyone who tried to resist.

The respected teacher died, the sweetheart who supported each other died, and another teammate who shared weal and woe also died, and her spirit completely collapsed.

Just when Iwagakushi Anbe was about to deal with this seemingly crazy girl, Konoha's reinforcements finally arrived too late.

Yuko Yamanaka regained her life, but somehow the details of the mission got out, and she lost her reputation.

Because of her own selfishness, all her companions suffered misfortune, and for a while, she was treated with accusations by everyone.

No team wanted her, and she was rejected for all high-level missions. Since then, her level has been fixed at Genin forever.

Even if the same period has been promoted to Chunin one after another, and some of the talented ones have even become Jnin, she is still just a mere Jnin.

A few months later, when Yuko Yamanaka just came to her senses, she heard the news about the death of her parents during the mission... From then on, she was regarded as a burden, a waste, an unknown thing... No one paid any attention to her , even the other members of the mountain clan respect her at a respectful distance, only the predecessor with a very low EQ still treats her as before.

……

After knowing all this, Lei Luo took a deep breath, looking at the girl in front of him who didn't know when she looked normal, and was still humming a little tune, eating and drinking, and felt a tinge of admiration from the bottom of her heart.

If he had experienced such a series of blows himself, although he could not say that he had a psychological breakdown, at least it would be unavoidable for him to become taciturn in character.

Yuko... such a 16-year-old girl, how did she survive this level of suffering?How did he develop such a lively, cheerful and carefree personality in such an environment?
Unconsciously, Lei Luo thought of Konoha White Fang, and then Naruto.Konoha, even though there is darkness here, it still cannot hide the brilliance of humanity...

Thinking of Yuko living alone, with no companions, and no one to communicate with besides himself and the same, Lei Luo felt a pity in his heart.

"Yuko..." Lei Luo said softly. "Why do you want me to take you on a mission?"

"Huh?" Yuko swallowed the food in her mouth, wondering, "Didn't I tell you before? It's been so many years, I just want to go outside the village and have a look."

D-level missions are limited to the surrounding villages, while C-level and above missions involve leaving the village. Since Yuko cannot receive missions above C-level, there is naturally no reason to leave the village, unless she wants to be a traitor.

"Do you just want to go outside the village?" Lei Luo was silent for a moment, before answering. "Sorry, I can't take you out at the moment."

"Yeah... I see." Yuko didn't show any disappointment this time, and said very calmly, "Your team is full, and I'm really a bit strong, let's talk about it later."

Lei Luo didn't open his mouth to tell her that his team was dead and he was the only one left. The reason why he refused was because he thought of Takeshi Momoji and his son Momoji Ren, plus the experience of Yuko's team...

He didn't know if he would face this kind of choice after taking Yuko out, and he didn't know how he would feel after making the choice.

In short, before he is strong enough, he will avoid this kind of bullshit from happening and cut it off from the source.

Lei Luo stared at Yuko who seemed relieved, and slowly said: "Yuko, my brother has been taken care of by you this month, so I can't help but express it. Well, I happened to capture a ninjutsu in this mission. The scroll contains some physical training methods..."

Yuko rolled her big eyes and said with a smile, "Lei Luo, when did you become so generous? I thought I would have to work for nothing this time!"

How many times did the predecessor take advantage of Yuko... Lei Luo has black lines all over his head. "Needless to say, I'll give you the scroll when I go back, and return it to me after you write it down."

"Okay!" Yuko first clapped her hands happily, and then her face instantly collapsed. "But why is it gymnastics? It's very tiring after practicing..."

"Just be content with it, it's good to have it." Lei Luo also took a piece of barbecue and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing. "Anyway, you have the secret art of the mountain family, and you probably don't like my family's low-end escapism. Practicing physical art can just make your combat system more balanced."

"You're talking about heart turning skills?" Yuko said helplessly, "Don't mention it, those skills require too much talent, and I can master some simple ones at my level, and don't even think about it."

Lei Luo didn't answer, just ate the meat in a muffled voice.

"By the way, what are you going to do about your brother?" Yuko asked.

"What's the matter? You said that shit he did at school? I'll take care of him."

"No, your brother seems to have been stimulated by something at school." Yuko paused for a moment. "He seems to be very dissatisfied with his own strength, and has been clamoring for me to teach him ninjutsu during this time."

Having said that, Yuko sighed. "What do you think I can teach him? Family secrets are not allowed to be passed on, and I don't know other attribute escapes."

"Don't worry about it, I just came back, I will talk to him in the next few days." Lei Luo pondered. "It's a good thing to be self-motivated, but he is so young and his body hasn't grown yet, so it's a little too hasty to get in touch with the attribute escape technique now."

Yuko nodded, "That's fine, as long as you know it in your heart."

After talking about things, the meal is almost finished.

Lei Luo and Yuko went home together, and Lei Luo handed Yuko the ninjutsu scroll from Momochiken and went out.

Lei Luo has memorized all the content on the scroll after flipping through it for the past few days, so it doesn't make much sense to keep it in his hands now.

Looking up at the sky, Lei Luo decided to sneak into the death forest to test the power of time just before noon.

The goal in the afternoon, one is to calculate the specific data related to "acceleration" and its exchange ratio with the gray airflow; the other is to see if the power of time can be extended to the outside world and affect dead objects.

Time passed in the continuous experiment, the sun went down, and the night gradually enveloped the world.

……

As Lei Luo's younger brother, Lei Tong is a very smart child, and he does not lack enough patience and self-control when necessary.

Lei Tong didn't know that his brother was no longer the person he was familiar with, so he was still using his past experience to judge Lei Luo's thoughts and goals.

"My brother should already have the idea of ​​teaching me ninjutsu, but he is still hesitating, so I want him to see my growth with his own eyes, so that he can make up his mind."

He thought so, and he did so.

What is different from the past is that after school today, he did not play with his friends, but returned home early.

Seeing that his brother hadn't come back, the hardworking little Leitong decided to clean up the household hygiene, and by the way, sorted out all the paper materials that Lei Luo left in the hall yesterday.

He wanted Lei Luo to realize that his younger brother was "reasonable" and was no longer a child.

This trip was busy and didn't finish until after seven o'clock.

Since he was not sure when Lei Luo would come back, even though his stomach was already growling with hunger, Lei Tong decided to hold on and did not try to get instant noodles.

He knew that his brother had always hated eating instant noodles by himself, so he decided to wait until his brother came back to cook.

1 minute to 2 minutes, 5 minutes to 10 minutes, half an hour to an hour.

Lei Tong didn't know how long he would have to wait. Hunger invaded his brain, he was extremely exhausted from physical labor all afternoon, and his consciousness gradually became drowsy...

When Lei Luo returned home and saw his younger brother looking at him with a look of lovelessness, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have overlooked something unintentionally.

The clock on the wall slowly moved to the position of 11 at this time.

"Leitong, what are you?"

"Brother, I'm starving to death." Lei Tong didn't explain anything, but cried out weakly.

"Why don't you go to your elder sister Yuko?" Lei Luo took off the torn clothes on his body, picked up a towel and wiped the dirt on his cheeks.

"You're already back, why should I go to her?" Lei Tong muttered with dissatisfaction in his tone.But the next moment, the same focus shifted to Lei Luo. "Huh? Brother, are you injured?"

"Looks like I found some blood left on my body..." Lei Luo thought to himself, but his face remained expressionless. "There was an accident in training, it's nothing serious."

After exploring in the afternoon, Lei Luo was able to eliminate the blood remaining in the body by urging the "countercurrent", but the process was a bit cumbersome, and it was meaningless and time-consuming to do so, so Lei Luo didn't bother to care about it.

Except for blood, other "things" belonging to him, including limbs, organs, flesh and blood tissue, etc., as long as they are separated from his body, they will not be able to produce effects in the "countercurrent" that acts on him, and will still remain in reality.

This abnormal phenomenon was noticed by Lei Luo, which made him feel that his power of time was mysterious and unpredictable, and it was not exactly what he imagined.

After hearing Lei Luo's explanation, Lei Tong insisted on asking even though he was a little out of breath from hunger, "Is brother practicing ninjutsu? Can you train with me?"

'This child's belief is very firm, it seems that he can't escape.However, maybe there is no need to deliberately hide...'

Lei Luo thought to himself, remained silent for a while and did not answer. He just tore open the bucket of instant noodles in his hand and boiled a pot of boiling water.When Lei Tong's hopeful eyes gradually dimmed, he said, "Come with me to the training ground tomorrow morning, and eat now."

Is this agreed?
Lei Tong's spirit was shocked, and even his hunger was diluted a lot. He replied loudly: "Yes!" There was unconcealable joy in his tone.

Seeing Lei Tong gorging on the unnutritious instant noodles, Lei Luo's thoughts drifted further and further away.

He thought of his own training plan for tomorrow, the trend of the Second Ninja World War, and the distant, familiar scenes of the future.Perhaps, the future is not far away, after all—time is on his side...

As for the similar arrangements, Lei Luo also had a plan in mind, and still adhered to the principle of ninjutsu, and would not let this child come into contact with it before the age of ten.

However, not teaching ninjutsu doesn't mean he doesn't teach some other things as well.

(End of this chapter)