As all team-two members fell asleep leaving the fuinjutsu seals around the camp as their defense and alarm system, a man’s figure appeared in some distance away on a tree branch.

“I didn’t expect them to take a high-risk B-rank mission on their first time without me” Koichi mumbled to himself annoyedly, “I better tag along this time, if I would be forced to make a move to protect them, I will definitely ban them from B-rank missions for a long time…”

At the morning team continues their movement in the direction of the land of grass unable to notice that they are being followed.

After a full day of traveling the team got to the land of grass borders and stayed for the night on the land of fire side. At morning they went openly to the land of grass and crossed the border, they went through the commonly used route between the two lands and went through the two checkpoints, first one being managed by the Konoha shinobi, and the other one belonged to the Kusagakure village shinobi and the land of grass officials, where the team stated their business and being allowed to enter the land of grass without much trouble.

After that they went further into the land of grass in the direction of the town of their destination.

“Why we even bothered to waste two hours by registering on the border?” Hikari asked with slight annoyance, “Our business have nothing to do with Kusagakure, why we should report our presence to them?”

“Our mission should be in the open.” Itachi calmly replied, “Don’t you remember the protocols that sensei taught us? We have to go through the borders openly in this case.”

“Of course, I remember the protocols, it’s just that this is boring…” Hikari replied with annoyance.

“This is good that you Hikari is not our team captain, or we would get into a lot of trouble all the time…” Yuta said half-jokingly to show his position in the argument.

“And what is that supposed to mean?” Hikari exclaimed even more annoyed.

“Nothing” Yuta simply replied, and the team went further to their destination.

Afternoon the team arrived at the town, it was a medium-size town by this world measures, it has around ten thousand residents, buildings had simple designs and mostly two-three stories tall. There was a market in the center and some shops and taverns and other stuff.

Team went straight to the center of the town and come to the one of the mansions there, it had a solid stone fence and small garden inside with a large two-story house that looked quite old.

There was two tall and muscular looking man guarding the entrance outside of the fence and when the team come closer the guards halter the team and one of the guards exclaimed angerly and menacing, “Hey brats, where do you think you are going?! It’s not the place where you can play ninja!” Both guards seem quite stupid as they didn’t recognize the Konoha shinobi attire as genuine.

Even before the guard was able to complete his speech, Hikari disappeared from her position and appeared in between the two guards, holding an unsheathed sword pushed against the first guard’s throat and the kunai against the throat of the other guard.

Even for Yuta it was hard to follow Hikari’s movements, so for guards that was nothing short of instant teleportation.

“How dare you disrespect Konohagakure shinobi like that?!” Hikari yelled at them angerly, emanating some good amount of killing intent, scaring both guards greatly.

The guards finally understood their mistake and started to sweat greatly. Yuta just sighed tiredly while looking at this scene, while Itachi said with a friendly smile that scared the guards even more, “We are the shinobi team from Konohagakure that arrived here on a mission to protect mister Yuichi Nakamura for the next few days. Hikari, please don’t kill the guards of our client.”

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With that Hikari clicked her tongue and put away her weapons, while the second guard seemed to regain his composure enough and said apologetically, “I deeply apologize for this misunderstanding! Please follow me, I will guide you to the lord Nakamura right away!”

After that the team was guided inside the mansion, they went through a few more guards, all looking like the first two – very tall and muscular, in contrast with them the team looked like small kids. Other guards were quite surprised by their looks, but the guard that lead them quickly explained on the way that they are Konoha shinobi, and while most of the guards didn’t believe that they didn’t say anything against that either.

The guard led the team to the guest room with couches and a table and asked them to wait a minute while he goes and reports to his lord.

“This mansion looks much better from the inside.” Hikari said and sat on the couch.

Both Itachi and Yuta remained standing, Yuta scanned the surroundings and sensed the few dozens of normal people in the territory of the mansion, nothing seemed out of ordinary to him.

Yuta glanced at Hikari hesitantly, as he doesn’t want to reveal his abilities to her yet but decided that it doesn’t really matter as she will get to know about it soon anyway, as they both on the same team. With that Yuta created two shadow clones and both of them activated the stealth seal that Yuta had on his body since he returned from the time-loop last time.

Both shadow clones went out of the room to scout the mansion while being invisible, Itachi looked at that scene slightly surprised, Hikari on the other side was angry and excited at the same time, Yuta already can tell what is on her mind and what will happen next…

“You hid that technique all this time? I want to learn it too!” Hikari yelled with complete disregard for their surroundings, Yuta barely managed intime to place a concealment seal tag on the wall to negate all the sounds from inside the room and sighed tiredly.

“Yea, sure, right after you learn fuinjutsu up to my current level…” Yuta said tiredly.

“Fuinjutsu? This means that this hiding technique is a fuinjutsu? That is unfair! Hey, maybe you can draw some seals with that technique for me to use?” Hikari was hellbent on getting her hands on such good hiding jutsu no matter what.

“Nope, that is my greatest fuinjutsu that I spend a lot of efforts to develop” Yuta said with a blank expression, “If there is no life-or-death situation, I won’t be handing this seal to anyone. And it won’t even work without a deep understanding of fuinjutsu anyway.”

‘Well, that is only partially true, the stealth seal requires to manage many parameters of it all the time depending on the situation and the environment while its active for it to work, but that can be done by anyone who has some amount of fuinjutsu understanding and some experience with seals in general…’

A few minutes later Yuta gets the set of memories of one of his shadow clones, this clone eavesdropped on the conversation between Yuichi Nakamura and the guard. Yuichi was old man past his fifties, with a gray hair, short height and thin body, dressed in the expensive set of clothing and sat by the desk inside his office.

The guard reported to Yuichi that some group of three kids clothed as shinobi threatened the guards with blades and said that they were from Konoha and demanded to meet with Yuichi right away, after that the guard left. That guard seems not only stupid but also too petty for his own good…

Yuichi hearing about that went to the guest room straight away. Yuta in the guest room sighed tiredly at this situation development, already decided to concoct some nasty genjutsu for that guard after the mission is completed.

The door was opened, and Yuichi Nakamura went in with the company of two of his guards. He was initially angry by the situation that the other guard told him about, but when he observed the three shinobi in the room for a second he calmed down, understanding that they are the real deal, but he was still dissatisfied with Konoha sending kids to protect him instead of the normal shinobi team that he expected.

Itachi and Yuta were standing in front of Yuichi, while Hikari was sitting on the couch enjoying the luxurious interior of the room, seemingly didn’t care about the situation at all. One of the Yuichi guards definitely misunderstood the situation and probably wanted to curry favor with his lord, as he steps in front and tries to grab Yuta’s collar while saying, “How dare you brats to…” but no one will ever know what that guard wanted to say as he froze in place without any movement, as Yuta placed him in the genjutsu.

“Sigh, we should report back to Konoha how everyone here tries to attack us on sight, seems that Konoha shinobi are not respected here at all…” Yuta calmly spoke to put this small-fry noble and his guards to their place, being already tired from this mission before it even started…

“I apologize for the rude behavior of my guards.” Yuichi Nakamura said changing his attitude to the friendly one, “Could you bring my guard back to normal please?”

“Sure” Yuta said calmly, canceling his genjutsu, guard starts moving once again, seems to be confused where he was right now.

“Thank you. Guards, leave us.” Yuichi said regaining his composure and returning back to the matter at hand, as guards left and Yuichi sat on the opposite from Hikari couch and said, “Let’s start the introduction once again, my name is Yuichi Nakamura.” He said with confidence befitting to the noble.