Naruto: As a genin, I just want to live a normal life.

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"Here. There's still half a bottle left." Dao Dao tossed the bottle to Daichi, who caught it, sniffed it, and his eyes flashed: "Good wine, good wine. This must be the famous Cactus Brew from the Land of Wind!"

—Cactus Wine, a fine wine brewed in the desert using juicy green cacti.

The price is exorbitant; this small bottle of about 300 milliliters costs 60,000 Wind Coins.

"Big brother, please leave me a bite."

"Here, there's one more bite."

The short man took a small sip. At this moment, all three of them took off their black cloths. Bai Xing glanced at them and thought that each of them had a very distinctive appearance.

A young samurai with a scar over his left eye; a long-haired man with a pointed face and monkey-like features who didn't look like a good person; and a short man who looked like a young Onoki from an anime.

"The wine is finished."

"Ready to hit the road?"

"Fighting here won't affect others, and you can fight freely."

Bai Xing stood with one foot on the roof, the gentle breeze causing the young man's blue and white robe to flutter in the wind.

Moreover, Shirahoshi's words were very calm, as if she were talking about something very ordinary.

Is this your confidence?

Even the earth couldn't help but adopt a slightly serious expression:

"You, worth hundreds of millions, do indeed have some class. No wonder so many people want you dead."

The bounties from the gold exchange can be accumulated. In other words, the bounty on Bai Xing's surgeon was not issued by one person, but by many people combined. After deducting the handling fee directly charged by the gold exchange, the bounty was calculated to be as high as 180 million taels.

"Little Woodworm, have you finished drinking? If you have, then we'll start fighting."

Xiao Muchong was the short man who was currently emptying the wine bottle, as if he wanted to drink all the wine in it. After confirming that there was no wine left, he put the bottle in his pocket and said, "Brother, can we take this wine bottle with us? It looks like it's worth some money."

Shirahoshi: "..." I know that ronin are poor. Even those with some strength, such as wandering samurai or wandering ninja, often go hungry.

But that's way too much!

"If you want to sell the bottles, there are specialized recycling centers in urban areas both domestically and internationally."

"This bottle originally cost three thousand taels of Wind Coins. If it's resold, it'll be worth about... five hundred taels."

"Huh?! Why is it so low?" Little Woodworm asked White Star blankly. Dao Dao and Daichi's faces were filled with question marks, thinking to themselves, "We're here to hunt surgeons, not to chat about selling bottles!!"

Bai Xing pondered for a moment. After all, he didn't understand prices, and the city's commercial activities were basically managed by the Queen and some of her newly appointed ministers. So he casually said:

"I guess it's because it's been used before."

"Nobody knows if the person who drank it will get sick."

"The five hundred taels was actually because the wine bottle was made of porcelain, in excellent condition, and even... wait a minute!"

Bai Xing finally remembered and couldn't help but complain:

"Hey, didn't you come here to hunt me? Why are you asking so many questions!"

"You still want to ask me business questions?"

"?????"

Daichi and Daito thought to themselves: "It was clearly you who was talking about it so enthusiastically!!"

After Bai Xing finished speaking, she landed from the eaves of the tower onto the round terrace and patted the dust off the back of her robe.

Seeing this, he grabbed his katana and charged forward, saying, "No matter what, in order for my ideal to be realized, I'd like to borrow your head."

The swordsman moved with lightning speed, the katana brimming with chakra, and the speed of drawing the sword added to the momentum, the blade flashing upwards.

Bai Xing slightly dodged to the side, and then, before Bai Xing could retaliate, the knife swept across again at an angle.

laugh!

When Dao saw the slime kunai, his eyes narrowed, and he changed the angle of his blade, instantly knocking Shirahoshi's slime kunai away. Shirahoshi was somewhat surprised, thinking to himself that he had actually lost to this man in terms of skill—Shirahoshi's actual combat experience in swordsmanship was very low.

Then, he concentrated wind-style chakra into the sharp blade of his sword and slashed towards Shirahoshi:

"Samurai Style: Wind Slash!"

He uses extremely fast speed to unleash a three-sword style slash in one go, but with the help of wind release chakra, he can release a long-range attack that resembles sword energy and is of medium to short range.

"Great!"

Shirahoshi had to admit that the swordsmanship of the man with the knife was extremely powerful. He drew his short sword, which he hadn't used in a long time, and in the instant he gripped the hilt and gathered his strength, he swung it forward.

The sweeping sword energy collided with the wind-style sword energy, producing a loud boom. The swordsman, sensing the power of the attack, quickly lowered his head, his eyes filled with horror.

"How can it be."

"You didn't use chakra in that strike?"

"Of course. This is sword energy."

"Shouldn't it be sword energy?" Daodao's face twitched, thinking to himself that what Baixing was holding was clearly a short sword.

"No, no, no, sword energy."

Bai Xing shook his head and formed four hand seals with one hand:

巳→亥→寅→戌!

"Tu Dun·Tu Liubi!"

A thick earthen wall rose abruptly from the ground to Shirahoshi's right. At this moment, Daichi and Komaki both used Iwagakure's signature Earth Release ninjutsu:

"Earth Release: Rock Gun Technique!" x2

shhhhh--

boom! boom! boom! boom!

"One-handed hand seal." He swung his katana, his expression grave. "You're no ordinary ninja."

"Outsiders say you're a fraud, but now it seems the rumors were false!"

With his exceptional insight, Daidou could tell that Shirahoshi's strength was not as weak as rumored, but rather an indescribable power.

"Sword and blade aura. A single-handed earth-style defense blocked the earth-style attack of the Earth Wood Brothers... So, why did someone as powerful as you defect from Konoha?"

"Well," Bai Xing scratched the side of his mask, thought for a moment, and said, "Perhaps it's because of my whim that the villagers resent me."

"But my identity was never that of a Konoha ninja from the beginning."

"He wants to save face, and I can't stop him, can I?"

"I see." The man with the knife understood, but at this moment they had no way out. "He who kills will be killed in return."

"Perhaps this is the final fate of us samurai. And the ultimate destiny of a ronin!"

He gripped his katana and charged forward again.

This time, Shirahoshi was serious.

Tsk! Tsk! Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!

It's rare to have a sparring partner with such specialized skills, so Shirahoshi is reluctant to get rid of them so quickly.

The sparks flying frequently during Shirahoshi and the sword-wielding fighter made it difficult to discern their specific movements, creating a somewhat dizzying effect.

"Big brother, should we make a move next?"

"do not know."

"But we felt we should retreat."

Da Di's expression also turned somewhat grave. The reason they came to assassinate Bai Xing was because Bai Xing was a weakling and the bounty was high.

The fact that Shirahoshi was able to fight that powerful samurai she temporarily teamed up with, using only swords, for a dozen or twenty rounds without being defeated, is enough to prove that Shirahoshi's strength is not so simple.

"Then, what about that samurai guy?"

"Forget it. Wish him luck."

The trust level of randomly inviting people to team up for hunting is just that unreliable.

Seeing the two brothers preparing to leave, the man with the knife felt a pang of sadness. His fight with Bai Xing was becoming increasingly difficult; with each exchange, Bai Xing's fighting skill improved, and now he was almost in control.

At that moment, a green-eyed man with a gray head covering his forehead and a gray-black cloth covering half his face fell from the window of the tower and stood in front of the two fleeing brothers.

"Go away!"

Upon seeing the troublesome figure in front of him, Daichi decisively took out a kunai and rushed forward, intending to stab the man to death.

The man calmly formed an earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of magic/escape technique) hand seal:

"Earth Release·Earth Spear."

stab-

The kunai that pierced the earth split open instantly, becoming half that he held in his hand.

The long-haired man's face was filled with terror. He dodged Kakuzu's outstretched hand by sidestepping it, and his hand slammed into the ground, creating a small crater.

Then, in a flash, the earth retreated and appeared next to the little woodworm.

"A Jonin?"

"He's not just any ordinary Jonin."

"Let me see your bounty."

Kakuzu's gray tentacles retracted, his right hand flew back, and after speaking, he skillfully took out the exchange form from his pocket and began licking his fingers while searching for information about the earth.

Sweat beaded on Da Di's forehead. Through the moonlight in the sky, he finally saw clearly who the man in front of him was!

"Kakuzu, the Immortal Ninja!"

"What are you doing here! Are you here to hunt down surgeons too?!"

As he finished speaking, Kakuzu's rummaging motion froze slightly. He couldn't help but touch the four hearts he had recently lost with a pang of heartache. Now, he had only managed to get two back: three in total.

"I can't afford to hunt that guy."

“That person never fought you seriously from beginning to end, otherwise you wouldn’t have seen his movements at all before he went to the Pure Land to meet the Sage of Six Paths.”

Kakuzu would never forget that day of the hunt. His opponent simply opened a space called ROOM, where all of his ninjutsu were instantly learned and used by his opponent, canceling each other out. In fact, the surrounding building walls were not damaged much.

However, his heart was instantly shattered by the opponent, with three of them exploding and one crushed, leaving only one earth-elemental heart surviving.