Chapter 491: Choice of Attack
"Hehe, is it finally time for me to show my skills?" Nagasawa looked at the poster of the Commercial Street Ninja Tournament on the wall, the corners of his mouth rising.
Finally, was it his turn to have that fantasy novel protagonist pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger, showing off and slapping faces plot?
Because he had the identity of a Konoha ninja, he would be discriminated against by the participants, once unable to participate in the competition. Finally, he would display his true strength in the competition and shock everyone, slapping the faces of all those who had made things difficult for him and looked down on him.
"Teacher Nagasawa, with your identity, isn’t it somewhat inappropriate to participate in a competition held by a commercial street?" Kakashi, who stood behind Nagasawa, could barely hold it in and said tactfully.
"What Nagasawa? I am Konoha Chunin Xiao Yan. Kakashi, don’t call me wrong." Nagasawa raised his eyebrows and said.
Kakashi: ...
After speaking, Nagasawa pointed at the poster and continued, "Moreover, the top three can eat and drink for free on the commercial street for one day."
"If you want to eat, I can treat you." Kakashi thought for a moment and said.
High-level ninja generally were not short of money, if you did not gamble, and your gambling luck was not particularly bad.
"No. How is spending your money as interesting as freeloading Sunagakure’s money?" Nagasawa rejected as a matter of course.
Kakashi could see it now. What free food and drink were all excuses. In his opinion, Nagasawa just wanted to pretend to be a Chunin and go up to bully weaklings.
What powerful ninja could participate in a competition held by a commercial street? At most, there might be Chunin and Genin participating out of boredom.
If Nagasawa participated, would that not be pure bullying?
In order to prevent being made to suffer by Nagasawa after returning, Kakashi quieted down. Participate if he wanted to participate. In any case, the one who suffered would not be him.
The one who would be beaten up at that time would also not be him.
If he continued persuading him, perhaps the one who would be unlucky afterward would be him.
Thus, Nagasawa happily headed to the registration location on the poster, which was an open space near the commercial street.
When Nagasawa and the others arrived, there were already quite a few people gathered here. Nagasawa roughly counted and found that there really were not few, over a hundred people. There were also a few ninja wearing Sunagakure uniforms, but they all looked very young.
Nagasawa quickly found the registration place and directly stated his intention to register.
The staff member looked up and saw that it was actually a Konoha ninja. He had not expected that there were still Konoha ninja inside their Sunagakure Village.
’Then this will be interesting. There should be even more to watch.’ The staff member thought inwardly.
The Five Great Ninja Villages all did a decent job of ideological work on their own villages, and their collective sense of honor was especially strong. With a ninja from another village, it could stimulate the fighting spirit of the other contestants.
Then the staff member very straightforwardly helped Nagasawa complete the registration.
"No, you’re letting me register just like that?" Nagasawa could not help but ask.
This did not match what he had imagined. Shouldn’t the other party mock and ridicule him because he was a Konoha ninja, then only reluctantly register him after Nagasawa’s tough attitude?
Why was he so straightforward and clean? Was he looking down on him, Fujiwara Nagasawa?
"Otherwise? Sir, do you have any other questions that need answering?" The staff member asked with a smile.
"Forget it." Nagasawa decided to let this staff member off. He would amaze everyone once he went on stage later.
Those Sunagakure Village spectators would definitely mock him, this Konoha ninja, fiercely. At that time, he would display powerful strength, beat all participating contestants, slap faces forcefully, and tell everyone that if you came out to mix, you had to have strength.
Nagasawa even saw a Ninja Academy student contestant who looked around eleven or twelve and had not graduated. This made him somewhat hesitate.
For him, the dignified Hokage Assistant and number one expert in the ninja world, to fight a Ninja Academy student who had not graduated, would that be too cruel to the Ninja Academy student?
"Lady Chiyo!" Suddenly, someone in the crowd cried out in surprise.
Many people were attracted by this person’s cry of surprise and looked around one after another. In the end, they really saw an old woman wearing a black robe slowly walking over.
"Lady Chiyo, are you also here to participate in the competition?" A somewhat bold Sunagakure ninja could not help but ask.
If Chiyo was going to participate, then what was there to compete for? They could directly judge Chiyo as first place. This person was a true expert of Sunagakure.
"Hehe." Chiyo revealed the kindly smile of an ordinary old person. "If an old person stays at home all day, her arms and legs will rust. I came out to move my muscles a little. When the time comes, don’t mind my identity and just use your full strength."
After Chiyo encountered Kakashi and returned home, she grew angrier the more she thought about it in the following days. Although reason was reason, she was still extremely depressed. It just so happened that she saw the poster for that commercial street competition and thought of coming over to train Sunagakure Village’s juniors and relax a little.
’I might as well pretend to be hit and fall down during the finals. I’ll definitely scare them all.’ Chiyo thought inwardly, her eyes smiling until they narrowed into a slit.
Looking at Chiyo’s kindly smiling face, the Sunagakure contestants present felt a chill in their hands and feet.
She even told them not to mind her identity and use full strength. Was this a question of full strength or not? As if using full strength meant they could win. What they should be thinking about was how not to be instantly defeated and how to lose with a little dignity.
The Ninja Academy students were even more confused. Lady Chiyo as their opponent? Were they going to fight a person from the textbooks?
At this moment, Chiyo suddenly saw two familiar figures, and immediately stopped, looking toward Nagasawa’s side.
Immediately, Chiyo’s expression became extremely doubtful. If she did not have senile dementia and remembered wrong, those two Konoha ninja were one Hokage Assistant Fujiwara Nagasawa pretending to be an ordinary Konoha ninja, and the other was White Fang’s child, Kakashi.
No matter how one put it, these two people should not come to participate in this kind of competition, or it would be too unfair.
Leaving Nagasawa aside for now, that Kakashi’s strength was also not to be underestimated.
"Are you also here to participate in the competition?" Chiyo probed Nagasawa and asked.
Nagasawa fell into deep thought, thinking about how he should reply.
If he answered yes, then would his majestic image not suffer a blow? If he answered no, then would his registration not be wasted, and he also could not happily show off and slap faces. The reward of eating all kinds of desserts for free until full would also be gone.
Nagasawa thought for a moment and said with a calm face, "No, I’m accompanying Kakashi."
Choose one between image and freeloading desserts? Nagasawa said he wanted all of them.
As long as he said Kakashi was participating, and had Kakashi participate in the competition, then if Kakashi obtained top three, could he not mooch Kakashi’s reward?
Kakashi: I really will thank you.
Kakashi was truly convinced by this old sixth Nagasawa. He himself had registered to participate, but after running into someone familiar here, he turned around and threw the matter onto him.
"So that is how it is." Chiyo still maintained the kindly old person’s smile, making it difficult for people to see her thoughts at this moment.
"Oh my, when people get old, they easily forget things. I forgot that I had agreed to go fishing with my younger brother today. You young people should play by yourselves." Chiyo looked as if she had suddenly remembered something, then turned and left.
Just now, she had had an impulse, which was to participate in the competition and then fiercely teach this White Fang’s son a lesson.
But Chiyo changed her mind and thought about it. Doing that had no meaning. Nagasawa was also present.
If she did that, in the end, it would only tire out her old bones, and she would obtain nothing.
The bosses organizing the competition revealed regretful expressions when they saw Chiyo turn and leave. If Chiyo truly participated, how good would that be? It would definitely increase a lot of heat.
"Teacher Nagasawa, give up. I will not participate in the competition, but I can treat you to food." Kakashi blocked off Nagasawa’s next words with one sentence.
Nagasawa had already said that he would not participate in the competition, and it had even been seen by Chiyo. He felt there was no point staying here either. In any case, it was not that there was no success at all. Freeloading from Kakashi was also freeloading.
Just like this, Nagasawa and the others stayed in Sunagakure for two weeks. There were still no follow-up actions from the previous attacker.
Thus, according to plan, Nagasawa and the others prepared to bring Gaara back to Konoha.
"Go say goodbye to your father. After all, once you go, it will be for a very long time." Nagasawa touched Gaara’s red hair and said with a smile.
Although Rasa was a little inhuman, after all, at this time, he had also not done anything too excessive. He was also Gaara’s biological father. A farewell was still needed, lest Rasa imagine things.
Afterward, Nagasawa personally brought Gaara to Rasa’s ward. In order to fish out the attacker, Rasa had still not been discharged.
Walking into the room and meeting Rasa’s sharp gaze, Gaara subconsciously hid half his body behind Nagasawa.
Rasa frowned. With such a personality, how could he become the strongest Jinchuriki he envisioned?
"Don’t be afraid. Go." Nagasawa smiled faintly and encouraged Gaara.
Gaara mustered his courage and, under Rasa’s gaze, walked to the bed, quietly saying, "Father, I... I’m going to Konoha."
"Speaking so quietly, how can you become a qualified ninja!" Rasa looked at Gaara with a stern gaze and scolded.
"Say it again. Louder!"
Gaara was frightened and froze in place by Rasa’s sudden scolding. Only afterward did he panic and raise his voice to repeat it.
"This is barely a little proper. Remember, after going to Konoha, do not cause trouble. Study at ease, graduate early, and become a qualified ninja." Rasa nodded slightly and said.
"Yashamaru will record your life and give it to me. Do not slack off." Immediately afterward, Rasa sternly said again.
Gaara was somewhat dumbfounded, but could only nod blankly.
"Rasa, isn’t your desire to control a bit too strong? Even in Konoha, you still want to manage him." Nagasawa could not help but complain.
Making Yashamaru record his life and report it was really something. You were using Yashamaru as a surveillance camera, right?
"Because he is a Jinchuriki, Assistant Nagasawa. I do not need to explain the importance of a Jinchuriki to a ninja village, right?
In the future, he will have to shoulder the responsibility of protecting the village. If he does not train seriously, how will he shoulder his responsibility in the future?" Rasa said.
"But this identity as a Jinchuriki was not something he wanted." Nagasawa thought to himself, was a Jinchuriki very important? It seemed that in the current Konoha, not very important.
"But he already is one." Rasa said.
It was only because the person complaining was Nagasawa that Rasa did not really dare to retort. If Yashamaru came to say this, Rasa would properly explain what responsibility was.
Gaara silently stood in place. Speaking of it was laughable, although Rasa was his father, and he also knew Rasa was his father, at this time, the one Gaara wanted most was Yashamaru.
Because when he was troubled by the Tailed Beast Chakra and unable to sleep, the person telling him bedtime stories was not Rasa, but Yashamaru.
When he failed to try making friends and stayed alone in place, the one who came to comfort him was also not Rasa, but still Yashamaru.
Gaara sometimes wondered why Rasa was his father yet ignored him, while Uncle Yashamaru treated him so well instead.
However, the still young him clearly could not obtain the complicated reason behind it, but he could be certain that his father Rasa did not like him.
"Since the farewell is done, then let’s go." Nagasawa was too lazy to say too much to Rasa. When negotiating business, everything had been fine, but when it came to Gaara’s matter, Nagasawa felt Rasa had been made mentally deficient.
Gaara obediently nodded and followed behind Nagasawa, walking out of the ward.
Rasa silently watched the backs of the two leave like this without saying a word.
Perhaps in his heart, there might exist so-called fatherly love, but it was very small, so small that it was squeezed by huge responsibility and could not show itself.
As for whether it really existed, perhaps only Rasa himself knew.
...
"The number one ninja village? I also mixed in very easily." In a certain corner of Konoha, Kinoshita Tsukasa smiled.
Ever since Konoha monopolized medical talismans and earned a large amount of funds, Nagasawa had invested this money into other places. Because the flow of people entering and leaving was too large, Konoha currently did not even need to check identities and such during the day, allowing people to enter and leave freely.
Previously, whether entering or leaving Konoha, proof was needed. Merchant caravans also could not come casually. You could only enter if you were approved.
It was still that sentence. Konoha was not an ordinary town, but a military base. If one could enter and leave freely, that would be the problem. It would leak like a sieve.
When Nagasawa still had the identity of Chunin, if he wanted to go out, he either had to accept a mission or apply.
However, now he could freely leave the village.
Immediately, Kinoshita Tsukasa began to familiarize himself with Konoha.
Kinoshita Tsukasa did not use the Transformation Technique to hide himself, because that would instead be even more suspicious. He still knew about Konoha’s Byakugan.
He did not think his Transformation Technique could deceive the Byakugan. In any case, he was not some famous person or wanted criminal, so there was no need to hide.
While familiarizing himself with Konoha, Kinoshita Tsukasa began thinking about whom he should attack first.
Although according to the intelligence, that Hokage Assistant was a little more powerful, after all, the Hokage’s identity was still higher.
Kinoshita Tsukasa felt he should start with that Fujiwara Nagasawa first, then attack the Hokage while Konoha had not reacted in time.
What Kinoshita Tsukasa, who was familiarizing himself with the terrain and planning his attack route and escape route, did not know was that the person he wanted to attack was already watching him.
Looking at Kinoshita Tsukasa, who was strolling around like an ordinary tourist, Nagasawa, hidden in the dark, touched his chin.
"This strength has already far exceeded ordinary Jonin, and there seems to be a special aura on his body. A little strange. Is he a spy or something?"
"Forget it, let the main body decide." Nagasawa thought for a moment, then turned into a cloud of white smoke and disappeared from the spot, letting the memory return to the main body.
He was the shadow clone Nagasawa specially used for vigilance.
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