"Multi Shadow Clone jutsu"
*poof* white smoke is busted surrounding us like a ring of smoke. When the smoke is cleared fifty clones of myself appeared from the ring of smoke.
Everyone except me was shocked and most of the people's mouths are wide open enough to fit a chicken egg. Looking at them I am satisfied.
I looked at Inabi, since she has Byakugan, she can see through the clone's secret. When I look at her, she already looked into me. The clone near to her went next to her and whispered into her ear, "Inabi can you keep silent about my secret? Don't reveal it"
I looked at Jiro Watanabe, "now let's begin the hunt"
His face has a trace of fear. As my swarm of clones started to attack, he performed a series of hand seals, Tiger → Hare → Boar → Dog or Ram → Dog → Ox → Snake
"Earth Style: Mud Wall jutsu"
A large earth wall rose to five meters height from the earth obstructing the view. Thirty of my clones punched the wall at the same time. Due to several series of punches the earth wall is broken and collapsed.
Seeing the earth wall is broken, he used another jutsu, Ram → Horse → Snake → Dragon → Rat → Ox → Tiger
"Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet"
The flame is in the shape of a long dragon that attacked the clones surrounding him. The clones were busted into smoke and disappeared. The remaining clones are counter-attacked using water release since water can suppress the fire. Three clones performed hand seals, Tiger → Ox → Tiger → Rat
"Water Style: Water Bullet Jutsu"
The water sprayed like a jet from the clone's mouth. The water jets attack the flame dragon, mist is formed and covered the entire area.
Hand seal tiger, "body flicker jutsu", I moved in front of and punched him using a chakra-infused punch into the sky. The remaining clones jumped above him and kicked him to the ground.
*boom* a small crater was created upon his landing and lost consciousness. During this time ten clones attacked bandit followers and all of them were beaten down. Clones possess the same abilities as the original which includes the physical powers, as long as the clone has sufficient chakra, they can battle like the original. So, this is not a miracle.
After confirming he is alive, I looked at the others, they were awed. Jiraya run towards me and hugged me while laughing, "You are awesome Hirata to be able to defeat a jonin in five minutes"
Tsunade came to me and punched Jiraya away from me. Looked at every part of my body,
"I am fine Tsunade, so stop now it is embarrassing"
After confirming I am ok, she punched me hard, I flew like a thrown rock five meters and landed on my back on cracked earth due to my impact.
Everyone surrounded me, I looked at Tsunade, "now I am injured Tsunade"
"hump… this is what you earned by soloing jonin when we are still here"
I chuckled, "sorry, let's take some rest and we continue"
After two hours of break, we tied everyone and especially the missing-nin, his chakra points were blocked by Inabi and we tied him tightly so that he won't escape. But after discussion, we decided to kill him. Having jonin prisoner while executing a mission is far more dangerous and he is on the hit list so killing him won't blame us, finally, it is much easier to transport a dead body than a living body.
I killed him and sealed his body inside a sealing scroll. This is our first kill which put us in a sore mood. But there is nothing we can do since we are living in a kill-or-be-killed world.
We resumed our journey to Tanzaku village. The remaining journey is smoother, after two days of travel we finally reached Tanzaku village.
"Mr. Goro we safely escorted you to your destination and our mission is completed if you can confirm to us we will return to the village."
"Yes, Hirata-sama" and he took a scroll and gave it to me. I am surprised by his way of talking. After the last battle, his way of talking is changed. With this, our mission is completed.
We stayed for the rest of the day and replenished our supplies for the return journey. During dinner
"Since we will depart tomorrow morning, we use reaming journey as training for stamina."
Everyone liked this idea and accepted to do so. The next day our return journey to Konoha started with a running race.
------------------- AFTER THREE DAYS -------------------
After three days of running, we finally reached Konoha's main gate. We took four hours of break daily to avoid complete wear out of our bodies and be safe in emergencies.
Reaching Konoha we directly went to Hokage tower. At the reception, my mother is working diligently. Looking at her after a long time triggered my memories of our first meeting in this world and my eyes are filled with tears.
My mother noticed me and hugs me tightly, "thank god you are all right"
Just when she is relieved, Tsunade intervened, "aunty I am also here, you forgot about me."
My mother chuckled, "sorry, Tsunade-sama. You are all good right?"
Tsunade smiled, "yes aunty", next moment she become serious, "but I am not ok with Hirata, aunty"
"Please Tsunade, it is already over. So, why don't you leave it?"
"Hump…" Tsunade turned her head to the side while folding her hand across her chest.
My mother looked at my behavior and asked me suspiciously, "what did you do?"
"It's nothing mother. I have to report to Hokage-sama, so can you information about us. I will tell you at home, please."
Mother nodded and went to inform our teachers. Everyone sighed but Tsunade, "you escaped this time. There will be no next time."
"Give it a break Tsunade-sama. Please, you are already nagging me for the last three days."
"You are lucky to be able to escape unscratched, but luck won't help you every time. So, you must be punished so as not to repeat."
There is nothing I can do other than endure her nagging. Compared to my mother's over-protective nature, Tsunade's nagging is better.
After five minutes, we are standing in front of Hokage.
"it seems the mission is a success since everyone is in good shape."
"yes, Hokage-sama", we replied.
I took three scrolls and placed them on the table, "the first scroll is mission completion acknowledgment. We also eliminated the bandit lair along the way. But the bandit leader is Konoha missing-nin from bingo book no 20, Jiro Watanabe.
I requested Mr. Goro to update the mission to B rank along with doubling the mission rewards. The second scroll is the mission upgrade agreement that I prepared. As for the last scroll has the body of missing-nin, Jiro Watanabe."
Listening to our mission summary Hokage's eyes brightened, "good performance all of you. As expected from our students. You can take three days' rest and submit an individual report about your performance after three days. You are dismissed."
After that, we left the tower and parted ways. At the reception, I met my mother, "where are Hana, Matsuda, and Misaki."
"Hana went to the academy. Matsuda and Misaki were with aunty Sari."
"Ok mother, I am going home", I waved my hand at mother and left.
"Take rest sweetie", waved her hand at my back.
Hana is seven years and joined the academy this year. She is a very hard-working and lovable girl. She is like a sister to me and my mother takes care of her as her daughter. Matsuda and Misaki were left with grandma Sari, who is a neighbor to us when we are not available at home to take care of them.
At home, I went to my room, removed my battle gear, and fell on my bed. The soft bed comforted me and soon fell asleep not knowing when.
By the time I woke up the day become night and I heard Hana's voice along with door knocking.
"Brother, if you are awake come for dinner."
"Ok Hana, give me ten minutes I will come down."
A month later, after I brought Hana home, the village announced a new act for refugees, the "Refugee Empowerment Act". Due to the overflow of refugees to Konoha, the population is nearly doubled and half of them were civilians, who are not from any clan. Not only refugee orphan children were also included in this act.
Under this act the villages, everyone must contribute to the village by making donations and a pay cut for employees towards the development of the village. Under the special clause of this act, orphan children can be adopted into their family or clan, but they must follow child rights.
Another major incident is the establishment of a civilian council since half of the population of Konoha is civilians. This council is part of the Konoha council and represents civilians in governing Konoha.
After ten minutes, everyone is sitting for dinner and enjoying our family time.
After three days, the last mission report is completed and submitted at the mission center along with others. Our team is assembled in the training ground by teacher Danzo. Just when we are discussing the teacher Danzo came and we greeted him.
"Today I will personally see your progress. Don't think of escaping using the mission as an excuse. If your head has a little bit of useful brain in it, you would have already noticed this mission is an assignment for you."
'I know it this is assignment mission', I looked at others' faces. From their expression, it seems they already guessed it.
Looking at our expressions teacher Danzo looks elated, "now let's start a training session. Rules are the same as before. Any types of attacks are allowed as long as you can defeat me."
Just like that the training match students vs teacher begins. This battle continued for a straight two and half hours and ended with students losing against their teacher. That is we lost against our teacher Danzo in this mock battle.
"You will take a week off as a training period and after a week another mock battle will be present. Show me your training results. See you after one week."
After the mock battle training session, we were worn out completely so, we went home to rest. The next day I went to the training ground to continue my training. For this week's training session I want to start with summoning jutsu.
The summoning jutsu allows us to summon a beast, which supports us in our battle. But to summon a beast, first, we should form a contract with that beast clan. Now the question is how to find the right summoning beast for me.
While I am thinking Jiraya tried to punch me, my body reacted and avoids the punch. Due to my diligent practice, my body builds up muscle memory which enables me to avoid the punch.
"What heck are you doing Jiraya?"
Jiraya laughed, "You are sharp as ever Hirata"
'sigh… forget it, "now tell me what are you doing here?"
"you see teacher gave me an assignment, but I got bored so I decided to take stroll and ended up here. Forgot about me, tell me what are you reading"
I showed the summoning jutsu seal, "I am reading summoning jutsu"
Jiraya excited, "hoo… teacher showed me once. But when I asked him to teach me, he didn't teach me at all now I can learn. Please show me also, I will learn also"
Seeing his nagging, I decided to share with him. After two hours he finally learned the summoning seal.
"This is easy, now Hirata let me teach you how to summon a beast"
Boar → Dog → Bird → Monkey → Ram "Summoning Jutsu"
Just when I was about to stop him and hold his hand, a large smoke covered us. After the smoke is cleared our surroundings were changed.