She was busy going back to draw a summoning contract on this sealed scroll filled with Exploding Tags so that she could summon it at any time and blow her enemies to smithereens.
However, as Ling passed the main gate of Konoha Village, she saw familiar figures: Minato with his yellow hair, Kakashi with his dead fish eyes, Obito who was red with anger, and Rin who was trying to mediate.
"A certain dead last didn't even take care of one bandit, so why can he still loudly accuse the main force? If you're weak, you should train more!"
Kakashi's dead fish eyes glanced at Obito, who was red with anger and pointing at him; the 'certain person' he was referring to was naturally self-evident.
"Damn it! Annoying Kakashi, you clearly stole my kill! I had already severely wounded him, but you shamelessly finished him off with one slash!"
Obito's face was flushed, his back hunched, and he pointed at Kakashi, loudly accusing him of his bad behavior.
"Yes, you fought a bandit from beginning to end. If I hadn't helped finish him off, you probably could have fought him for three days and three nights!"
Kakashi ignored Obito's anger, turned his head to show Obito the back of his head, his contempt self-evident.
"Ah~~! Kakashi! I challenge you to a duel! Don't you know that my opponent was the only Ninja among the bandits?"
Gritting his teeth, his fists clenched tighter and tighter, as if he was about to punch the back of that annoying person's head at any moment.
"Obito, don't be angry. Kakashi didn't mean any harm. He was just afraid that bandit would retaliate in his dying moments and hurt you."
Rin pulled Obito's arm, telling him not to be impulsive. This was the main gate of Konoha Village, and they shouldn't let others make fun of their team.
As Obito felt the soft touch of Rin holding his arm and her faint, ethereal fragrance, his body instantly stiffened, afraid of offending the beautiful girl.
At this moment, he was still hot-headed, but before it was anger, and now it was shyness. His accusations against Kakashi had also turned into fantasies of Rin becoming his girlfriend.
Kakashi didn't hear Obito's shouting and suddenly felt unaccustomed to it, so he turned his head and glanced at Obito with the corner of his dead fish eyes. In an instant, he perceived Obito's current state of being restless and distracted.
"Someone who only knows Taijutsu and has a little Chakra is called a Ninja? They're not even as good as a Genin. A certain dead last among Genin actually fought a bandit who isn't even a Genin to a draw. Tsk!"
Kakashi's voice woke Obito from his gentle dreamland, and Obito, who had just lost his wife and children in his daydream, once again wanted to kill Kakashi.
"Ah!! Kakashi! What do you mean! Do you want to fight?! What are you looking at! I'm talking about you, Kakashi! Come out and fight me one-on-one!"
Kakashi disdainfully ignored Obito's shouting. From his Ninja Academy days until now, he had fought Obito three hundred seventy-two times, and he had won every single time. He was already tired of always winning.
"Alright! Obito is also very impressive. It was your Great Fireball Technique that divided the battlefield, even though the Great Fireball Technique didn't kill anyone!"
Minato Namikaze smiled and ruffled both their hair. Seeing them turn their backs to each other, both clearly annoyed with the other, he burst into laughter.
He didn't know why, but Obito's Great Fireball Technique was always used towards densely populated areas, yet surprisingly, no one had died from Obito's Great Fireball Technique until now.
It was truly strange, but upon closer reflection, it seemed that Fire Release was indeed not easy to kill people with; he hadn't seen it much himself.
"Minato-senpai, and Kakashi, Obito, Rin-nee-san, hello everyone. Was your mission successful this time?"
Uchiha Ling held a Chakra compression orb in her hand and greeted the four people who walked in front of her first.
"Ah, it's Ling! It was quite successful, it just changed from a C-rank mission to a B-rank."
Minato saw Uchiha Ling, who had grown a bit taller, and smiled kindly. His mission this time was one released by Konoha Village, to eradicate a group of bandits.
"Ling! We completed a B-rank mission this time, hahahaha! Isn't that impressive!"
Obito turned around and, upon seeing Ling, immediately began to boast about his great achievements.
For a Genin who had just graduated a year ago, completing a B-rank mission was indeed very impressive, but their mission this time was considered the lowest-tier B-rank mission.
It was only elevated because a bandit who knew some rudimentary Chakra usage techniques appeared among them.
"Tsk! Someone didn't even take out a single bandit, and you have the nerve to say you completed a B-rank mission!"
Kakashi first rolled his eyes at Obito, then saw the Chakra orb in Ling's hand and immediately felt the terrifying fluctuation of this Chakra orb.
The observant Rin also noticed this Chakra orb and was immediately scared back a step by the intense Chakra fluctuation.
"Ling, this Chakra orb in your hand is very dangerous. You shouldn't play with it."
Rin finally overcame the sense of deadly pressure brought by the Chakra orb, stood firmly beside Obito, and warned Ling.
At this moment, Minato also recovered from analyzing the state of this Chakra orb. The reason he had been distracted was because he found that this Ninjutsu seemed to complement his Rasengan.
"Ling! Is this a Ninjutsu you created yourself? This probably reaches B-rank Ninjutsu."
Although Minato did not have a Dojutsu Bloodline Limit and could not examine the detailed structure of this orb, with his sensory abilities, he could roughly determine the principle and power of this orb.
"Self-created Ninjutsu? What a genius!" Kakashi was shocked by Ling's talent. Thinking of his own Ninjutsu, which was still just an idea, he immediately felt a sense of urgency.
"This compression orb? I guess it's self-created. I'm training my Chakra control with this."
Ling tossed the Chakra compression orb up and down twice, causing Minato and the other three to twitch their eyes. If they didn't trust Ling, they probably would have retreated several steps.
"Ling! So impressive! Self-creating a B-rank Ninjutsu, you're much more impressive than that annoying Kakashi."
Because Ling was also an Uchiha like him, Obito felt a sense of shared honor and couldn't help but start putting down Kakashi.
"Yare yare daze! Ling's method of training Chakra control is very good, it's just a bit dangerous."
Minato sensed the enormous Chakra within Ling, which had already reached the level of an Elite Jonin. Moreover, he could also feel a sense of danger from Ling, and Minato was truly impressed.
Actually, the sense of danger Minato perceived came from the Mahoraga that Ling was ready to summon at any time, not to guard against Minato, but to guard against Black Zetsu.
Furthermore, Ling found that this state of being able to summon Mahoraga at any time allowed many Jonin who held malice towards the Uchiha Clan to speak to her calmly.
"Sugoi ne, Ling is so young and can already create Ninjutsu. She's truly Konoha's number one genius." Rin clasped her hands in front of her chest, looking admiringly at Ling, who only reached her shoulder in height.
Ling could tell that Rin Nohara was genuinely praising her. If someone else had said that, it would definitely have been full of sarcasm.
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