Naruto the Genius

Chapter 53 Evil Ninja
The young team went first, protected by Hinata, while the old team was protected by Naruto and Choji. At this time, Naruto noticed that the man named Kikusuke had quietly left. Naruto created a wooden clone to help push the cart, and he quickly followed behind Kikusuke. The two of them moved quickly in the woods, one after the other. With Naruto's strength, Kikusuke didn't notice it at all. Naruto, who was hiding in the dark, found that Kikusuke stopped his steps, and an enemy appeared in front of him. He was holding a strange pair of crutches in his hands, with a strange mark on his face. It was the third of the evil ninjas, Luka.

Kikusuke was not afraid of such an enemy. He immediately formed a seal and launched the ninjutsu "Flower Shuriken, Flower Dance". A large number of petals floated up and attacked Luka with the sound of wind like shurikens. Unfortunately, Luka easily blocked them with the crutches in his hands, and Luka kept mocking Kikusuke. Kikusuke kept running around Luka and released the ninjutsu, Flower Ninjutsu. A large number of flower shurikens fell from the sky, not only covering the entire area around Luka, but also this kind of shurikens would explode, and Luka was completely covered in the explosion. However, this was blocked by Luka using a water-style ninjutsu. Kikusuke immediately performed an illusion, Mirror Flower Water Moon, but this level of illusion was just a simple illusion seal to break.

At this moment, Kikusuke immediately performed the Flower Ninjutsu, and a large amount of flames rushed towards Luka from all around. Luka, who had just released the illusion, had no time to deal with it and was about to die in the flames. It can be said that Kikusuke's use of Flower Ninjutsu has reached the extreme. Unfortunately, Fire Escape has no advantage over Water Escape, and Flower Ninjutsu is only at this level. Luka is protected by Water Escape and is still safe in the flames.

Luka said, "It's a pity that the Flower Ninjutsu has no effect on me. It's my turn next. Water escape, water bombardment." A stream of water rushed towards Kikusuke. Seeing that his most proud ninjutsu didn't work, Kikusuke was already discouraged and was knocked to the ground by the water column, losing the ability to move. Luka walked towards Kikusuke step by step, ready to kill him. At this moment, Kikusuke had closed his eyes.

Naruto immediately took action, jumped out of the woods, kicked Luka and knocked him back, dropped two smoke bombs, carried Kikusuke on his back and quickly ran into another forest. Kikusuke opened his eyes and found that he was not dead, but someone was carrying him. When Naruto put him down, Kikusuke found it hard to believe that a Genin could save him from Luka. Naruto stared at Luka and said, "We accepted a D-level escort mission, which only protects you from attacks by bandits. Now that ninjas have appeared, this is beyond the scope of our mission."

Kikusuke lowered his head when he heard Naruto's words. He knew what Naruto said was true, but it was impossible for him and Yurikosuke to complete this mission alone. Naruto knew that he was not going to hide it deliberately, so he said to Kikusuke: "If you can tell me everything you have hidden from me, then I can consider helping you one more time, but you must tell everything in public."

Hearing Naruto's words, Kikusuke said with a guilty look on his face: "Thank you, Naruto, I will definitely tell you everything."

At this time, Naruto's Wood Clone was protecting a convoy full of old people and children with Choji. Suddenly, the convoy was surrounded by a stream of water, but after a while, the stream dispersed again. At this time, Naruto just came back with Kikunosuke. Seeing this scene, Naruto knew that Luka found that this team did not have the person he was looking for, and must have gone to find the team in front. Naruto, who was worried about Hinata's safety, pushed the truck at a fast speed, and the others tried their best to keep up and catch up with the convoy in front. With the efforts of Naruto and Choji, they finally caught up with them before Luka found them.

Seeing Naruto, Choji and Kikusuke approaching, the one called Shun didn't react, and Hinata didn't have time to react when she saw Naruto appear. Instead, the one called Yurunosuke rushed over, grabbed Kikusuke and said, "Kikusuke, how's it going? Did you kill the enemy?"

Facing Yurianosuke's question, Kikusuke sighed and said, "No, the enemy was very powerful, and the ninjutsu I used was something I had never seen before. Not only did I fail to kill the enemy, I was almost killed. Fortunately, Naruto showed up in time, otherwise I wouldn't be standing here."

Yurikosuke looked at Naruto, and was amazed that Naruto could save Kikusuke. He felt grateful to Naruto, but also felt guilty. But Shun seemed to take everything for granted, and continued to watch coldly. Kikusuke walked over and said to Shun, "We have to be honest, otherwise they will not protect us anymore."

Shun asked back, "Why? Didn't Konoha send them to help us?" Upon hearing this, Yurianosuke lowered his head and said to Shun, "The mission they received is only a D-level mission to protect us from bandits. If it is to protect the daimyo, the mission level will rise to A-level, which is beyond their mission scope. They can choose to give up."

Although Shun was very cold, he was still very smart. After hearing what Yurunosuke said, he knew that he was in the wrong and that he would be killed if he lost the protection of Naruto and the other two. He turned around and stopped talking. Kikusuke walked to the middle of the crowd and said, "Actually, my name is not Kikusuke but Kikunojo. Yurunosuke is Yurunosuke, and this one is the daughter of the Daimyo of the Country of Vegetables, Princess Haruna." Hearing that it was the daughter of the Daimyo, the old people present were a little surprised and very happy to meet the princess. Princess Haruna was still as cold as ever.

Yuri no Cho continued, "There was a coup in the country of vegetables. Three brothers called "evil ninjas" bribed most of the officials in the country of vegetables. The daimyo ordered us to protect the princess. But the three evil ninjas are very powerful. They all use some ninjutsu that have never been seen before, and they will do anything to achieve their goals. Everyone is very afraid of them. We are afraid of lack of manpower, so we issued a mission to protect the caravan. Because we are absconding secretly, I can't say it directly. I'm really sorry."

Haruna interrupted, "And I'm afraid you'll run away after hearing about this. The strength of the evil ninja is simply beyond your ability to resist. Even if you don't run away, you'll be killed in the end. But as long as you can protect me, that's fine. As for you, I can't control you!"

Naruto couldn't stand such people. He walked up to her and said, "Do you think everyone has to surround you? Just because you are the daughter of the daimyo, everyone has to take risks with you? I tell you, this is impossible. If you do this again, I won't care."

Haruna looked away after hearing what Naruto said. Yuri no Jo came over and said, "Naruto, please don't mind. We really need your help, but the two of us are no match for them."

Naruto said: "You can protect Haruna, but you must follow my command from now on. Only in this way can her safety be guaranteed."

Yurikuni nodded, indicating his agreement.

(End of this chapter)