Orochimaru, running away with a bucket

"Orochimaru! Well done!"

Jiraiya went to pick up the fish happily. Before Orochimaru used his lightning release, he wanted to show off his excellent fish-catching skills. Fortunately, he did not volunteer, otherwise, he would be embarrassed again.

"Orochimaru, well done!"

Tsunade smiled and put her arm around Orochimaru's shoulders, watching Jiraiya pick up the fish, "Hey, Jiraiya, those fish over there are going to be washed away by the water, hurry up!"

"Tsunade! You have time to just sit there and watch, why don't you come and help!"

Jiraiya noticed that Tsunade was watching him pick up the fish, and he shouted in dissatisfaction, "It's okay if it's Orochimaru, but she was the one who used ninjutsu to electrocute the fish, so why should Tsunade just watch?"

"Orochimaru and I are good friends, right?"

Tsunade looked at Orochimaru with a smile on her face.

"Whatever you say."

Orochimaru turned his head and looked to the side, not wanting to be involved in the endless quarrel between the two.

Crack-!

The branches in the bonfire made crackling sounds as they burned. Around the bonfire were grilled fish skewered with sharpened branches. A triangular structure formed by three branches had a metal lunch box suspended by steel wire. The soup in the lunch box had turned into white fish soup.

The oil brushed on the grilled fish sizzled and was sprinkled with seasonings. In order to make the fish more flavorful, Orochimaru used a kunai to cut each fish a few times before grilling.

Smelling the aroma of grilled fish, Jiraiya and Tsunade couldn't help swallowing, even Sarutobi Hiruzen did the same, swallowing and feeling even hungrier at the aroma.

I don't quite understand you ninjas...

Orochimaru noticed three people who were eagerly waiting for the grilled fish. Jiraiya and Tsunade were fine, but Sarutobi Hiruzen, as the Hokage, was an adult. He couldn't be said to be useless in cooking. The food he made was barely edible.

Even if you're a ninja, you have to be careful about what you eat when you're on a mission, right?

"Okay, you can eat."

As soon as Orochimaru finished speaking, he saw Jiraiya and Tsunade, like starving ghosts, couldn't wait to pick up a grilled fish and start eating it.

Sarutobi Hiruzen still cared about his dignity as the captain. He waited until Jiraiya and Tsunade took action first before reaching out and picking up a grilled fish.

I was so foresighted. I can’t imagine what the food would have been like if I hadn’t brought any condiments…

Orochimaru thought of the grilled fish without any seasoning and full of fishy smell.

"The fish soup is ready too."

Orochimaru divided the fish soup into four portions, just enough for everyone to drink a few sips, and took out some dry food from his backpack.

Sarutobi Hiruzen took the dry food handed to him by Orochimaru and said in surprise: "Orochimaru, you are very well prepared!"

"This is my first mission outside the Fire Nation, so I wanted to be fully prepared and bring anything I might need."

Orochimaru took a bite of the grilled fish and was quite satisfied with his cooking skills.

"Orochimaru, your cooking skills are amazing!"

Jiraiya wolfed down the grilled fish and the dry food in his hand, took a sip of the fish soup, his cheeks puffed up, and gave Orochimaru a thumbs up.

"Jiraiya, swallow what's in your mouth before you speak!"

Tsunade clenched her fists and glared at Jiraiya fiercely, wanting to punch him on the head.

Jiraiya was so scared that he moved his butt away.

Tsunade snorted and looked at Orochimaru who was eating slowly, thinking that she must bring her along on future missions.

She had heard that many ninjas had complained about the food problem, saying they couldn't eat or sleep well when on long missions.

If you have teammates who are good at cooking, you should take advantage of them.

Orochimaru had no idea that he was being targeted by Tsunade because he was decent at cooking, and he was still thinking about whether there was any way to read Konoha's forbidden techniques.

After thinking for a long time, I realized that judging from the current situation, it is simply a dream to want to touch the forbidden technique. The only thing I can do now is to improve my strength.

She didn't want to learn forbidden techniques, she was just simply curious and wanted to broaden her horizons.

Forbidden Technique, or wait until her strength reaches the level of Jonin.

Or wait until she has the strength of a Jonin, and when she runs away, she can directly destroy the Konoha Library that contains the forbidden techniques.

Sarutobi Hiruzen, who was happily eating grilled fish and drinking fish soup and taking a bite of dry food, had no idea what his good disciple, whom he was particularly satisfied with, was thinking about and rebelling against Tiangang.

Volume 9: Chapter : The Sneak Attack of the Wandering Ninja

Dark clouds obscured the moon. Sarutobi's team spread out their sleeping bags and rested near the campfire. The flames could drive away most wild beasts and also provide warmth on nights when the temperature dropped.

"Tsunade, your sleeping bag is over there."

Orochimaru looked at Tsunade who was coming over, and then looked at the sleeping bag that was rolled up but not yet unfolded.

"Squeeze in!"

Tsunade grinned and squeezed into Orochimaru's sleeping bag.

A single sleeping bag is fine for one person, but it would be very crowded for two people.

"How about I squeeze in with you guys?"

Jiraiya smiled obscenely and approached Tsunade and Orochimaru. Just as he was about to squat down, Tsunade's fist hit his calf.

"Ahhhhh! My legs, my legs!"

Jiraiya howled in pain, rolling around on the ground holding his legs.

"Do you still want to squeeze in?"

Tsunade held out her hand towards Jiraiya and clenched it into a fist.

"No no no!"

Jiraiya shook his head repeatedly, lifted his injured leg, and used his hands and feet to quickly move away from Tsunade.

It's not good to relax too much...

Sarutobi Hiruzen lay on the tree trunk, watching everything happening below, closing his eyes and pretending to be asleep. He glanced at the dark bushes in the distance from the corner of his eye, and was looking forward to the performance of his three disciples.

"Orochimaru, did you notice that?"

Tsunade rested her head on Orochimaru's chest, glancing off into the distance out of the corner of her eye, and whispered.

"They've been lying in ambush for a long time, waiting for us to let our guard down."

Orochimaru yawned, squinted his eyes, and hugged Tsunade in an intimate and familiar manner, as if he was chatting with a very good friend before going to bed.

"It seems Sarutobi-sensei wants us to solve it ourselves."

"Sarutobi-sensei should have noticed it."

"I wonder if that idiot Jiraiya has noticed."

"Jiraiya isn't that stupid."

Orochimaru and Tsunade "chatted" for a while, and seemed to be very tired from the day's journey, so they fell asleep quickly. Jiraiya lay in the sleeping bag with a painful look on his face, as Tsunade's punch on his calf was really painful.

Those guys, aren’t they going to take action yet?

Jiraiya half-pretended to be in pain, covering his calf and secretly glancing over there.

A moment later, as the Sarutobi team fell into a "deep sleep", the people lying in ambush in the dark prepared to take action.

"A ninja team from the Hidden Leaf Village? They really don't have any vigilance at all."

"He's just a brat, and the ninja leading the team is so irresponsible, hehehe!"

"I thought Konoha would send some tough and tough guys, but Konoha is nothing more than this."

"It seems that Konoha has not recovered yet, otherwise they would not allow a ninja of this level to carry out a mission with several children."

Four people dressed in tattered linen kimonos, dressed like wandering ninjas, walked out of the darkness.

"Alright, let's get started. Water Style: Mist Hidden Technique!"

The leader of the four carried an umbrella on his back and formed seals with his hands. Thick fog spread and soon covered the area where the Sarutobi team was.

Several shurikens and kunai flew out from the thick fog and aimed at Sarutobi Hiruzen who was lying on the tree branch, hitting his body and spurting blood.

Two wandering ninjas came to the sleeping bags where Orochimaru and Tsunade were resting, and another wandering ninja came to Jiraiya's sleeping bag, pulled out the wakizashi from his waist and stabbed the three of them. They would not show mercy just because the people they were going to kill were children.

boom--!

When the smoke cleared, the three people who were pierced by the wakizashi, Orochimaru and Tsunade turned into wooden stakes, and Jiraiya turned into a frog doll with its tongue sticking out and making faces.

"Oh no, it's a substitution technique! Ah!"

"How dare you launch a surprise attack on Jiraiya-sama! You're quite the daredevil!"

A foot flew out from the thick fog, and the wandering ninja fell to the ground with a scream. There were deep footprints on his face, and his collapsed nose was bleeding. Jiraiya looked at the wandering ninja lying on the ground and looked around. The thick fog blocked his vision, making him unable to know the situation of Orochimaru and Tsunade.

Just as Jiraiya was about to rush towards Orochimaru and Tsunade, he heard Orochimaru's voice coming from the thick fog.

"Wind Release: Gale Wind Palm!"

Orochimaru clasped his hands together and a fierce gust of wind blew away the thick fog.

"asshole!"

Tsunade punched a stray ninja in the stomach.

The wandering ninja's expression was distorted, his eyes were wide open and his mouth was wide open. He was hit by Tsunade's terrifying punch and fell to the ground without even a scream.

Another stray ninja rushed towards Tsunade, kunai in hand.

"Tsunade, get down!"

Tsunade heard Orochimaru's voice and immediately squatted down.

"Art fire escape ho fireball!"

Orochimaru quickly formed seals with his hands, and spewed out hot flames from his mouth. The flames formed a fireball, swallowed up the wandering ninja and flew dozens of meters forward amid his screams.

boom--!

The fireball exploded, scattered flames burned on the ground, a charred corpse fell to the ground, and a burnt smell filled the air.

Tsunade was amazed at the power of Orochimaru's Fire Style, but she didn't feel envious at all. She saw how hard Orochimaru worked in his training. If it were someone else, even if they couldn't reach that level, they wouldn't be much behind.

Orochimaru smelled the burnt smell and looked at the charred corpse, frowning slightly. It was her first time killing someone and she didn't feel anything at all.

Although she had prepared herself mentally, she still didn't expect to feel nothing after killing someone.

"Orochimaru Tsunade, are you guys okay?"

Jiraiya was thrown to the side of Orochimaru and Tsunade, and looked up to see the tree trunk covered with kunai and shurikens. Sarutobi Hiruzen hung his head, holding his head with both hands, and shouted in despair: "Sarutobi teacher!"

Orochimaru and Tsunade followed Jiraiya's gaze and were also shocked by the scene.

Suddenly, a ninja umbrella was thrown into the air, opened and began to spin.

"The art of ninja is like rain and dew thousands of times!"

The person who had not appeared before and seemed to be the leader of the wandering ninjas appeared. The thousands of arrows fired from the rotating ninja umbrella were like rain, not only covering Orochimaru and the others, but also not sparing his own people.

"Tu Escape·Tu Lu Returns!"

Orochimaru slapped his hands on the ground, and a large stone slab flipped out of the ground. Tsunade grabbed the stone slab with both hands and lifted it up to block the shooting Senbon.

"It's useless. My Senbon has no blind spots. You little brats, prepare to die!"

The ground cracked, and the wandering ninja looked down to see a pair of pale hands reaching out from the cracks in the ground and grabbing his feet.

The wandering ninja screamed as he was pulled into the ground, with only his head sticking out. The ninja umbrella fell to the ground without control.

"Well done, Orochimaru!"

boom--!

Tsunade threw the large stone slab to the ground, clenched her fists and walked towards the wandering ninja with only his head exposed, with an unusually bright smile on her face.

"What did you just call us? I didn't hear it clearly!"

"I want revenge for Sarutobi-sensei!"

Jiraiya angrily walked towards the stray ninja whose head was sticking out of the ground.

"You...you guys, don't come over here!"

The wandering ninja widened his eyes and looked at Tsunade and Jiraiya who were walking towards him in horror.