Chapter 215
"Did you hear that, Itachi? A new partner is joining us."
Inside the dense forest, Asuma, who had arrived earlier, came close to Itachi and lowered his voice, speaking stealthily as if he wanted to share a secret with him.
"Isn't that great? Our team is finally complete."
Itachi responded as he ran over and pulled his thrown kunai out from the trunk of the tree.
"Aren't you curious about who it is?"
Seeing Itachi's calm face, who always seemed to have the same expression, Asuma felt a little discouraged. This partner was good in everything, with excellent fighting skills, excellent learning talent, and trustworthy personality. The only bad thing about him was that he was relatively quiet, which always gave people a sense of alienation.
At first Asuma thought this was Uchiha's arrogance, but after getting to know him for a while he understood that this was his nature.
Asuma was a rebellious child in the Sarutobi clan. If the war had not made him grow up a little, he would probably not be happy to accept the arrangements made by the Third Hokage for him.
Fortunately, after getting along with Lu Nie, he actually recognized and adapted to the other's style. Who can refuse a teacher who is strong, good at talking, knowledgeable and understands psychology?
However, as a rebellious child of the Sarutobi clan, Asuma naturally has his own ideas.
He recognized Lu Nei and also recognized Itachi, who became Lu Nei's disciple one step earlier than him. After all, the other's talent was indeed superior to his, making it a little difficult for him to catch up.
But precisely because he recognizes these two people, Asuma has a look of scrutiny and resistance towards the new partner who is about to join the team.
He didn't want anyone to disrupt the tacit understanding and peace of the team, so after getting the news, he rarely went to find Sandai and asked him about the identity of the new member.
"No matter who it is, I welcome them." Itachi spread out the kunai in front of him, squatted down and closed his eyes. After answering, he instantly threw the kunai on the ground one after another.
The kunai made crisp collision sounds in mid-air, and the two kunai changed direction in an instant in the air, and hit the targets hanging on the trunks of the two trees respectively without losing momentum.
"You're so boring!"
Asuma muttered angrily and took out two custom-made ninja tools from his backpack. They were two custom-made ninja tools mixed with chakra metal. They were gifts given to him by Sarutobi Hiruzen based on his chakra properties after he was promoted to Chunin.
Worth a fortune!
At least the newly promoted Chunin do not have the money to buy this kind of ninja tool.
Despite this, Asuma did not take these two ninja tools too seriously because he knew that his teacher had mastered the technology to forge powerful ninja tools.
He spent a lot of time and effort to get a promise from Lu Nie that as long as he could be promoted to Jonin, he would rework his Feiyan and make a powerful ninja tool tailor-made for him.
That is a powerful ninja tool that only a jonin can wield.
Of course, in order not to be partial to one over the other, Lu Nie also made a promise to Itachi. Compared to Asuma, Itachi, who often sparred with Shisui, knew better how powerful the weapons made by that forging technology were!
After the two of them finished their daily training, Lu Nie and his people finally arrived.
"teacher!"
Itachi was the first person to sense the presence of Luna. With beads of sweat on his face, he immediately ran to Luna and greeted him respectfully. Since the day he visited the Nara clan, Itachi had a little more respect for Luna and Orochimaru. Because of these two people, the fate of Uchiha and his future might have been deviated.
Both the Uchiha and himself are obviously much luckier than the Uchiha and Itachi in another world.
Itachi wanted to protect this luck.
"Teacher!" Asuma followed closely behind, braked in front of Lunie, stood firm, and after hurriedly greeting him, his eyes fell on a short man standing behind Lunie.
The other person was wearing very simple but neat clothes, his hair was neatly combed, he looked a little thin, and he wore a pair of round-frame glasses that looked brand new. The smile on his face was very friendly, but it made Asuma feel uncomfortable for some reason.
This is a somewhat fake person!
Asuma instinctively created an impression of the other person. Even though the other person was smiling, he could still keenly sense the distant and indifferent, vigilant and scrutinizing emotions.
"This is Kabuto, Yakushi Kabuto! He is the adopted child of the deputy director of Konoha Hospital and the director of the orphanage, Yakushi Nono. Because he is very talented in medical ninjutsu, he was recommended by Tsunade-sensei to join our team.
In the future, he will be an indispensable member of our team.”
Lu Nie pushed Kabuto Yakushi forward, in front of Itachi and Asuma, and introduced him to the two of them.
"Itachi Uchiha, and Asuma Sarutobi."
After introducing Kabuto, Lune pointed at Itachi and Asuma and introduced them to Kabuto as well.
Itachi was the first to extend his hand, expressing acceptance and friendliness to Kabuto. Under the gaze of Shikagawa, although Asuma still somewhat disapproved of Kabuto joining in halfway, he also extended his hand and shook hands with Kabuto perfunctorily.
"To celebrate the full team, I'll treat you to a barbecue."
Lu Nie naturally saw Asuma's resistance and perfunctory attitude, but knowing the other person's character, he did not make any other unnecessary actions or say anything else.
People always have to come into contact, understand each other, and go through some things before they can successfully establish a bond with each other.
There are no stupid people in his team. Even Asuma, who seems to be the most impulsive, petty and has the worst temper, is only like this when facing Sarutobi Hiruzen. In the team, after the running-in and missions, his character can even be easily seen through.
As long as Itachi doesn't fall into paranoia, his talent and intelligence are top-notch. The newly joined Kabuto, after experiencing a war where his life was in jeopardy, the death of his parents and displacement, his character must also become more mature.
It can be seen that Dou is trying his best to integrate himself into an unfamiliar environment and get along well with his new friends, although his methods and behaviors are a bit immature and even a bit flattering.
After paying the bill at the barbecue restaurant, Lu Nie packed several portions of barbecue for Dou to take back to the orphanage, and ordered the three of them to leave the village to carry out a mission in the near future.
Itachi and Asuma, who had known in advance that they were going to the Kingdom of Wind, nodded in unison, and Kabuto also nodded hurriedly.
After the three of them parted, Pharmacist Nono is now busy in the hospital. Shikagawa, who brought Kabuto out, took the initiative to hold Kabuto's hand with one hand, and carried a heavy portion of barbecue in the other hand, and sent him back to the orphanage.
(End of this chapter)