Dusk is approaching.

Killing all the bandits encountered during the escort mission did not consume too much of Itachi's energy.

Although he is still only a genin, his strength is not at all what a genin should be.

Fierce fighting methods, miraculous fire escape and shuriken throwing skills, including illusions and common sense, can confuse ninjas. Except for not opening the Sharingan, he already has everything that a traditional Uchiha ninja should have.

ability.

As long as he keeps improving in this direction, Itachi believes that sooner or later he will become stronger, stronger than anyone in Uchiha.

Seeing the hateful look his teammate Izumo Denma was looking at, Itachi also knew what the other person was thinking.

I'm just thinking, why can he be so strong but I have to be so weak?

Most of the bandits that attacked were dealt with by Itachi alone. The Jonin Minazuki Yuzuki did not take action. The only ones who took action were him, Izumo Denma, and Inari Mako.

Regardless of Inari Mako's strength, she is just a logistics worker, so fighting is not her main job. As long as she is responsible for logistics, she can make the greatest contribution to the team.

From this point of view, Itachi couldn't find fault with her logistical contribution, but felt that it could relieve a lot of pressure on him.

Therefore, the only person responsible for fighting with him was Izumo Denma, a genin with an extremely strong competitive spirit.

The other party was five years older than him. In theory, he had trained five years longer than Itachi.

But there are so-called geniuses in this world. Even after five more years of training, Itachi left him far behind. That was a fact.

Itachi was the one who killed most of the bandits without injury. A small number of bandits were eliminated by Chuanma, which took longer than Itachi.

Judgment based on strength.

Regarding this, Itachi didn't want to express anything, and thought there was nothing wrong with such a competitive spirit.

If this competitive spirit can make Izumo Denma stronger, that would be a good thing.

Between a companion who is incompetent and unmotivated, and a companion who is ambitious and motivated, Itachi chooses the latter.

If his companions are equal in strength to him, they should fight together. If their companions are weak and cannot keep up with his fighting rhythm, then they should protect their companions. This is the rule Itachi set for himself at the beginning.

Therefore, even though there is some disagreement between him and Izumo Denma in the team, they can still maintain teamwork most of the time.

"As expected of Itachi, he is indeed a genius of the Uchiha clan. Having a teammate like you in the team makes it much easier for me as the captain."

Minazuki Yuzuki came over and smiled.

"It's nothing, Yuzuki-sensei."

"Well, let's do that. The next step is the patrol mission. Mako and I will be on one team, and you and Denma will be responsible for the other side."

Mako's strength is very weak, so it makes sense to team up with Yuzuki, a Jonin.

But... Itachi glanced at Denma, who was snoring coldly, and couldn't help but feel a headache.

Especially when he heard Yuzuki Jounin praise him, Denma must have become even more dissatisfied with him.

Sometimes, Itachi didn't know whether Yuzuki Jonin was really careless and didn't notice such things, or if he had ulterior motives.

There was no reason to suspect that his leading jounin had acted to widen the gap in the team, and Itachi felt that it was very rude.

Inari Mako sighed regretfully because she couldn't stay in the same group as Itachi.

If possible, she would like to stay in the same team with the handsome and capable Itachi, not a regretful-looking captain.

Appreciating a man with strong charm is what most women yearn for.

In Itachi's opinion, women who have self-esteem and independence are more worthy of admiration.

"Don't take Mr. Yuzuki's words to heart, he is just a little careless."

When patrolling with Denma, Itachi walked in front and said to Denma with his back turned.

He finished this sentence.

Murderous intent struck from behind.

Itachi used the smallest possible movement to avoid Denma's fist.

Then he stretched out his foot easily, and Chuanma was simply tripped to the ground.

The timing is just right.

Even the chuunin may not have such skill as him, this is Itachi's confidence.

This is not the first time that a horse has attacked him.

Itachi regarded this kind of sneak attack as a part of training to hone his reaction ability.

Even if he is not good at ninjutsu and genjutsu, Denma's taijutsu is very powerful among genin.

"Sorry, I seem to have made you angry."

Itachi stretched out his hand to pull the horse up.

Denma ignored Itachi, but stood up, dusted himself off, and glared at Itachi fiercely.

"Your attitude of always seeing through everything is very annoying. It was the same when you were in the ninja school. What do those girls like about you?"

Itachi didn't answer.

He didn't know what the girls in the ninja school liked about him.

Is it looks? Or talent? Simply worshiping the strong?

This is a complicated issue, and Itachi doesn't really want to understand these meaningless things.

My acquaintance with Denma dates back to my ninja school days.

Denma had troubled him more than once in the ninja school.

Because the uncle who treated Denma died in the battle with Kyuubi, and there were rumors in the village, pointing the finger at the Uchiha clan.

As a result, Denma had a very bad impression of the Uchiha clan.

There is nothing that can be done about it. Itachi cannot apologize to Denma. If the Kyuubi incident was really done by the Uchiha clan of Konoha, he would apologize. But the truth of the matter is not clear now. The only thing that can be known is Konoha Shokyu

The first disaster in Konoha was announced to the outside world as the work of Uchiha Ruri, who had defected from the village.

What is the specific truth? Itachi doesn't know.

"Forget it, it was my fault in the school for using the Uchiha clan to take care of you... However, it is true that I don't like you. You always choose to bear everything alone. This is the reason why I hate you.

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Although he cannot compare with Itachi in terms of strength, Chuanma is five years older than Itachi, so his experience is naturally much more mature than Itachi's.

Loneliness, self-importance, self-righteous genius and arrogance are Chuanma's shortcomings in Weasel.

He always solves battles alone. Even if he cares about his teammates, he doesn't want to enjoy completing the task with his teammates, but shoulders everything alone.

Like a lone ranger in the dark.

If you are a lazy person, you will definitely be very happy if you meet a close teammate like Itachi.

Denma knew that he was weak, but he also had the dignity of being a ninja. Itachi's actions made him very disgusted.

After hearing Chuanma's words, Itachi was slightly startled.

He didn't expect Chuanma to say such words.

But then there was silence.

Arrogant?

"If you want a better future, you'd better leave this team as soon as possible. In this team, you can't be promoted to Chunin."

Denma sighed and walked past Itachi.

Itachi pondered on the spot, what does it mean that in this team, there is no way to be promoted to chuunin?

Are you saying that he can't be a leader among the three genin in this team?

Soon, Itachi stopped thinking about this matter and turned his mind to the current escort mission.

The patrol is almost over here and you can go back.

At this moment, Itachi and Denma tensed up at the same time, stepped back, stood side by side, and took out kunai.

In front of them, a ninja wearing black clothes and a strange patterned mask appeared.

He didn't look like an ordinary passerby.

They were attackers who came to interfere with their mission.

"When you meet me, I can only say that you are unfortunate. Let's start with you two brats."

He said it so lightly.

"What the hell, one and two of them are so arrogant."

It was very unpleasant to be overtaken by Weasel in the team. This inexplicable person came here to teach him a lesson, and Chuanma immediately became dissatisfied.

"See how I teach you a lesson, take off your mask from your face!"

What a pretentious bastard! Chuanma commented in his heart.
To be continued...