Although Kazuki could go knock on Kakashi's door in the middle of the night just to take a look at his appearance, Kazuki felt that he wasn't that bored.
Sakura was a little unwilling to give up, constantly looking for opportunities to take off Kakashi's mask.
She even dragged Kazuki and Sasuke to follow Kakashi for a whole day.
But they found nothing.
Kakashi didn't even take off his mask while sleeping, and Kazuki had to admire Kakashi's awareness and caution regarding his handsome face.
On this particular day,
Because the methods displayed by Kazuki and the others were far beyond those of ordinary genin, Kakashi decided that they were ready for something more challenging.
So after giving them two D-level missions to help them transition, he started to take on C-level missions for them.
D-level tasks were mostly trivial things in the village, like cleaning up garbage, weeding, doing odd jobs, or looking for lost pets. There would be no combat situations. The reward for such tasks ranged between 500 and 10,000 ryo.
C-level tasks were more demanding and usually required leaving the village. These tasks often involved protecting and escorting items or documents, cleaning up wild beasts, and tracking down thieves. This type of mission had a higher probability of encountering combat, with rewards ranging between 10,000 and 50,000 ryo.
The task Kakashi gave them was to escort documents.
Their mission was to deliver the Hokage's confidential documents to the Daimyo's Mansion, with a mission reward of 10,000 ryo!
At the village gate,
Everyone in Team 7 gathered as Kakashi gave them final instructions before departure.
"There will be no danger in this mission. The main purpose is to help you understand this type of mission and how to complete the delivery of items safely and quickly!"
"By the way, although this is your first time leaving the village, you don't need me to remind you what you need to prepare, right?"
Neither Sasuke nor Kazuki wanted to talk, but Sakura responded wisely, "A set of clothes, some food pills, ninja weapons, and a map!"
"Yeah, that's about right. But since we're just delivering documents, we don't necessarily need to bring extra things like clothes. In fact, unless it's a long-term mission, you don't need to bring most of your clothes and daily necessities."
"If you have that space, why not prepare some antidote pills to avoid being accidentally bitten by venomous snakes or spiders and dying in the wild."
Sakura shuddered at the thought of poisonous snakes, spiders, and the like.
"Kakashi-sensei, if we encounter special circumstances and are delayed, or if our clothes are damaged, wouldn't it be useful to have spare clothes?" Sakura asked.
Kakashi replied calmly, "In theory, yes. But usually, when you need to change clothes, it's because you've encountered a battle that has seriously damaged them. In such a case, if you're still able to protect your clothes, I can only say that you really love baths."
Sakura blushed, a little embarrassed, not knowing how to respond.
"As for the special circumstances you mentioned that might delay the trip, remember, we're on a mission, not on vacation!
We can't just stop for a few days because we see some beautiful scenery or meet interesting people.
Not only must we deliver the documents as quickly as possible, but we also need to return promptly and inform the Hokage of the mission's completion.
If we fail to return on time, the Hokage has reason to suspect something has happened to us, and then other teams would be sent to search for us.
This is a waste of resources, do you understand?"
"Understood,"
Sakura nodded vigorously.
She hadn't expected that a simple task of delivering something would have so many precautions.
It seemed that being a ninja wasn't as easy as she thought.
At the same time, Kazuki was also deep in thought.
Although it was just an ordinary C-level mission, he couldn't deny that he learned a lot.
In his previous life, he saw that Naruto and the others could change their mission temporarily, even staying for at least a month to ensure that the bridge construction in the Land of Waves could be completed. Back then, he thought that ninjas had a high degree of freedom in their missions.
But it didn't seem to be the case now.
At that time, Kakashi must have used some method to pass back the information about their changing mission. Otherwise, it would have been unbelievable that a C-level mission to escort an old man would delay him, a jounin, for more than a month!
There was no reason for Sarutobi Hiruzen to let Kakashi and the others waste their time.
After half a day of silence,
They continued on their way.
Occasionally, Kakashi stopped to teach them how to read maps and become familiar with the terrain of the Land of Fire.
He pointed out where there were wild beasts, where there were venomous creatures, where the terrain was rugged, where it was flat, and which paths would get them to their destination faster.
It was clear that Kakashi wanted to train them to become masters as soon as possible.
By noon,
With Team 7's non-stop pace, they finally arrived at the Daimyo's Mansion on time.
They didn't enter the Daimyo's Mansion but handed the document to a guard and left.
"Kakashi-sensei, is it really safe for us to just hand over documents to a guard?" Sakura asked doubtfully.
"That guard was once a ninja of Konoha and is now one of the Twelve Guardian Ninja responsible for protecting the Daimyo's safety."
"Even though he's just a guard, his strength is not weaker than mine. He's a veritable jounin!"
Kakashi explained calmly.
"A jounin!"
Sakura thought to herself,
She hadn't expected that a plain-looking doorman would turn out to be a jounin!
"Yes, and that document was originally intended for him. The destination of our mission was the Daimyo's Mansion, but the recipient was not the Daimyo."
"Oh, I see."
Sakura and the others hadn't read the specific content of the mission, and Kakashi hadn't told them either. He had only mentioned that the destination was the Daimyo's Mansion and that the mission was to deliver a document.
That was all.
After delivering the documents, the three of them didn't linger in the Daimyo's city. They took a food pill and immediately started their return journey.
By dusk, with the sun setting, they finally made it back to Konoha.
Then, the four of them went to the Hokage Building to report the results of the mission to Sarutobi Hiruzen and received their reward.
The total reward was 10,000 ryo. Kazuki, Sakura, and Sasuke each received 2,000 ryo, while Kakashi received 4,000 ryo.
As the leader of the team, even if he did nothing or did the same as everyone else, he received the most rewards.
This was because, generally speaking, the squad leader needed to take on more leadership and decision-making responsibilities.
And they were usually the strongest in the team, so almost every team distributed rewards in this manner.
Although Kakashi wasn't the strongest member of Team 7… the rewards were still distributed as in a normal team.
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