Chapter 5 So-called Companions

The three members of the Yeshan team returned to the Konoha camp in suffocating silence. Without waiting for the handover of the mission, Yamanaka Yuura left the team first and went straight to the Yamanaka clan's residence.

Seeing this, Shancheng Chen snorted coldly and said, "How rude."

Ye Shan chuckled, a smile on his face, and said softly: "All ninjas from big families are like this. I am very proud, please bear with it."

Shancheng Chen shuddered, after being teammates for nearly half a year, he had a certain understanding of his captain's temper. The more "gentle" he spoke, the more murderous intent he had in his heart!

Looking at Baiyun Yeshan, who was a head shorter than him, Shancheng Chen became more respectful and couldn't help but think of the result of divination when he was a child: there must be a noble person to help him in his life. It's not that Shancheng Chen is superstitious, but the reality is here, and he can't help but believe it!

“Captain Ye Shan, it is more important to hand over the mission. You don’t want to dirty your hands with a character abandoned by the family.”

Ye Shan's eyes narrowed, and he stared at Shan Chengchen, who lowered his head, for a few breaths, then laughed and said, "Chen, what are you thinking about? Okay, okay, let's not talk about this anymore."

After saying that, he walked straight past the young man who was lowering his head and headed straight for the task management office.

As Ye Shan expected, the camp was in chaos, with powerful teams gathering and setting off from time to time. However, this tactic of adding fuel to the fire had little impact on the overall situation. Unless Konoha assembled ten jonin teams at once and used Flying Thunder God for precise support, otherwise, those fishing Konoha "elites" would be dead.

"Report, the captain of the 7th squadron of the 7th squadron of the 1st combat brigade, Baiyun Yeshan, is here to hand over the mission."

The usually gentle and warm voice was now filled with anger: "Come in!"

Walking into the tent, the light suddenly dimmed, and Ye Shan closed his eyes slightly while carefully looking at the ninja sitting in the first seat. This man was thin, wearing the standard combat vest of the Konoha Ninja Village, with a forehead protector on his head. His square face, which was intimidating without anger, was now covered with frost. Obviously, he was in a bad mood.

"Captain Sarutobi, this is my team's combat report."

A black scroll was handed to Sarutobi Karakata by the waiter. Sarutobi Karakata is 27 years old, at the peak age of a ninja, but he is just an ordinary jonin, and the Sarutobi clan is just a simple ninja family without any bloodline boundaries. He was able to become the fourth in command of the Konoha camp in the Land of Rain, all thanks to his cousin, the Hokage. He has a square face but a narrow mind, his emotions are clearly shown on his face, and he has no scheming. He has long been disliked by the Konoha ninjas, but everyone dares to be angry but dares not speak out. Thanks to a series of reforms by the second generation Hokage, Senju Tobirama, the power of the Hokage has reached its peak in the village. Even the Uchiha clan, the founder of the village, has to rely on him, not to mention the civilian ninjas. Every task handover is jokingly called a criticism meeting, and Yeshan, today, can be said to have hit a volcano.

Sure enough, Sarutobi Hinata threw the combat report directly into the trash can without even looking at it. This action made a flash of anger on Ye Shan's face, and then he smiled again and was careful.

"Area 33 is one of the breakthrough points for the Rock Ninja. Why didn't you stop the enemy's invasion?"

Look, this is the stupid words of the fourth in command. Although he has heard others say it many times, Ye Shan is still extremely surprised at this moment. Can such a person really be a leader? Lead nearly 4,000 Konoha elites on the front line to victory?

Before Ye Shan could speak carefully, the waiter who was obviously a servant said, "Sanlang, they must have deserted from the battlefield, afraid of fighting! The village spent a lot of resources to train a bunch of rubbish!"

Ye Shan's blood boiled, and the smile on his face could no longer be seen. He stood there expressionlessly, staring at the ground, as if there was some beautiful scenery there. Bitterness rose in his heart. Training? Resources? From the moment he, Baiyun Ye Shan, became a ninja, he had never used the village's resources! Taijutsu and Sanshinjutsu were left by his cheap father, and several C-level ninjutsu were the spoils of his killing of enemies! The so-called resources had long been divided up by several major families, and their huge base of civilian ninjas could not even drink soup!

Sarutobi Hinakata frowned tightly. The servant's words hit the mark exactly. He wanted to drag the young ninja in front of him out and give him fifty lashes, but he had no evidence. The thought of this made him even angrier. He picked up the cup beside him, shook his wrist, and the cup drew a semicircle and flew towards Yeshan's left cheek.

"Snapped!"

The well-made cup hit Ye Shan's cheek hard, and the hot water in the cup burned a large area of ​​his skin red, but he remained motionless.

"You are just a bunch of rubbish. You can't even stop the country of earth thugs. What's the point of keeping you here in the village? Get out of here. Get out of here. I will report your performance on the battlefield to the Hokage. Just wait for your imprisonment!"

Baiyun Yeshan still lowered his head and slowly walked out of the tent. The two guards at the door looked at him with mocking eyes. As ninjas trained by the Sarutobi clan, they were full of confidence in their own strength and thought they were qualified to mock the Chunin in front of them with a piece of tea leaves on his face.

As if Ye Shan had not experienced any humiliation, a warm smile appeared on his face again. His smile was so big that his already narrow eyes narrowed into slits!

Shancheng Chen, who was waiting outside, naturally heard the undisguised words of humiliation in the tent. He was originally full of anger, but when he saw Ye Shan's smile, he shuddered unconsciously, and the hairs on his back stood up, as if he was being stared at by a poisonous snake!

..........

In the rest tent, Ye Shan was lying in bed with his clothes on, his tool bag placed on both sides of his hands, and he looked calm.

"team leader?"

"Ok?"

"Can this village really win this war?"

Ye Shan tilted his head slightly and looked at Shan Chengchen who was also lying there. This was his longest-time teammate and he had personally saved him twice. It could be said that without his rescue, the other party's name would have been engraved on the memorial tablet.

After pondering for a long time, the steady Ye Shan still couldn't speak his mind, and said softly: "Go to sleep."

"Oh"

There was no sound in the tent except for the 'patter' sound of raindrops hitting the ground.

Ye Shan's thoughts were swirling in the sound of rain. This ninja world was not passionate at all. It was full of hunger, disease, killing, and war. Every day, there were fights of all sizes. Every day, many people died in battle without knowing why they were fighting. At the same time, there were people who shouted the brightest slogans but did the dirtiest things.

Will of Fire? Just a slogan.

So-called companions? Just valuable tools.

Years of fighting have exhausted Ye Shan physically, and the cold eyes of the village have exhausted Ye Shan mentally. This is a Konoha ninja village during World War II that does not look at qualifications or contributions, but only looks at the surname. Why can those family ninjas enjoy the richest supply of resources and practice in peace? Why can civilian ninjas perform the most dangerous tasks and shed the most blood, but cannot make any progress because of their origins?

Ye Shan didn’t understand what companions were before, nor did he understand what resources were. Now he understands.

The so-called companions are ninjas who can be trusted with their lives on the battlefield; the so-called resources are not money, but ninjutsu.

That’s right, in the ninja world, resources equal ninjutsu, and ninjutsu equals resources.

The simplest example is the Rock Ninja who possesses the Bakuton Kekkei Limit, who enjoys far more resources than Ye Shan. Apart from the special ninjutsu brought by the Kekkei Limit, the secret ninjutsu hardening technique and earth escape·earth-bearing continuous spear that he performed are all ninjutsu that Ye Shan covets, but he just can't learn them.

The release of ninjutsu is not successful just by making a seal. The complex meridians in the human body determine this. The performance of each ninjutsu requires not only the caster to make a seal, but also to condense chakra along a specific line. The seal is the indicator to guide the flow of chakra. Without the guidance of a special person, the ninja who practices recklessly will have no other end except disordered meridians.

There are only two ways to pass down ninjutsu: family inheritance and master-disciple inheritance. In terms of family, Baiyun Yeshan's family is just a lowly family named after the street; in terms of master-disciple, Yeshan's teacher has been dead for two years, which determines Yeshan's embarrassing situation of having chakra but no skills to use. In peacetime, he can be an ordinary ninja, but Yeshan knows that there will be a third and fourth ninja war. If he doesn't master powerful ninjutsu and become a jonin, he will be cannon fodder for a day!

The despair of reality made Ye Shan begin to hate those high-ranking family ninjas; the danger of licking blood on the edge of a knife every day even made him hate the system of the village! It's funny to say that although Ye Shan is not familiar with the original work, with the nine years of compulsory education in his previous life, he still saw through the shortcomings of the organization of the ninja village established by the first generation of Hokage at a glance.

The original intention of establishing the ninja village was to avoid the continuous fighting between large and small ninja clans, to conquer various ninja clans with powerful force, and to force them to join the village and become a family in order to achieve the goal of peaceful coexistence. In the Konoha Ninja Village, this approach was successful. However, this world is not only the Land of Fire, but also the Land of Earth, the Land of Water, the Land of Wind, and the Land of Lightning, with countless small countries. Due to the superiority of the ninja village system in the early days, various countries followed suit and established their own ninja villages, gathering the ninjas of the country together to form an organization, which led to a situation where the big countries competed for supremacy and the small countries suffered.

The establishment of the ninja village runs counter to the original intention of the first Hokage. The organized and disciplined ninjas, under the indoctrination of patriotism, fight more bloodily, just like the original intention of the Maxim machine gun, which makes people laugh when they think about it.

In this situation, in order to avoid the loss of family ninja power or dilute the ninja clan's voice in the village, the second generation of Hokage opened a ninja school to train civilians to become ninjas. A large number of civilians poured into the battlefield after receiving simple teachings, and the survival rate was less than one-third!

The companions of a family ninja are of course ninjas of the same clan, but the companions of a civilian ninja, apart from acquaintances they have known since childhood, are only and can only be chakra and ninjutsu!

This is how Baiyun Yeshan survives in this cold world, and it is also the inevitable result of the survival of the fittest.

It's cold, but that's the reality.