Naruto: Modern Science in Naruto

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Kusagakure is located between the Land of Earth and the Land of Fire, and it's also the shortest route connecting the two countries.

This location means that it's both a bridgehead for Iwagakure to invade the Land of Fire and a key point in Konoha's defense system.

Iwagakure has deployed thousands of troops here. But due to the distance, to maintain the integrity of the troops here and prevent Konoha from launching a possible counterattack, Iwagakure must regularly send supplies to the front lines in Kusagakure.

For this purpose, Iwagakure has established special supply units of varying sizes.

In terms of organization, Chunin Yoshida belongs to one of these supply units. He's part of a twelve-person supply squad.

Don't think that this squad is small and has limited transport capacity. The items they transport are extremely important.

Medicines. They are responsible for regularly transporting various urgently needed medicines to the front lines.

Although most of the transport routes are within Iwagakure territory, making supplies relatively safe, out of a ninja's caution, they are still quite careful when acting.

Every time they arrive at the front-line base, they stay for a day to rest, and then immediately return the next day.

But this mission has been repeated over and over again, and there have never been any problems. Gradually, that caution has dissipated.

Therefore, they didn't know that they were being watched.

This mission went smoothly as always. After completing the supply and leaving the base half a day later, as planned, the squad began to rest.

Yoshida was on guard duty.

Suddenly, a strange shaking and sound came from a dry reed field not far from where the squad was resting.

An enemy?

The Iwagakure ninjas immediately became alert.

"Yoshida! Go check what's going on." The captain immediately gave the guard an order.

"Ah? Me? I… I…"

Chunin Yoshida didn't expect the mission to fall on him.

"Is there a problem?"

Although the captain's tone and expression didn't change at all, when he heard him speak like this, Yoshida trembled with fear.

"No, no problem."

After answering, he quickly scurried towards the reed field.

He pretended not to hear the whispers behind him.

"Why is someone like this still a Chunin?"

"And he's been assigned to our squad?"

"He's so cowardly and afraid of death. How did he survive on the battlefield? I heard he was active on the front line before?"

These words weren't wrong. Yoshida was 27 years old this year. At the beginning of the war, he was indeed very spirited. He was very active in combat… until he encountered a very brutal head-on battle with Kumogakure. That hell on earth caused his breakdown.

Yoshida didn't want to recall what happened at the time, but those scenes lingered in his mind.

So, he, who had luckily survived, went from an ambitious young man to a cowardly scaredy-cat. He couldn't stay on the front lines anymore. After retreating, he could only carry out meaningless logistical tasks.

Therefore, all his teammates disliked him. He wasn't worthy of being a ninja.

Yoshida was initially quite swift due to the captain's attitude. But as he got closer and closer to the reed field, he became hesitant.

He would take a few steps forward, then suddenly retreat as if he had been startled by something…

But nothing happened. Then, he scratched his head. As if he had remembered something, he took out a kunai from his ninja tool pouch, and then cautiously entered the reed field.

His teammates were first tense, then dumbfounded. Damn, what are you excited about, taking out a weapon?

The distance wasn't that far. Everyone saw Yoshida's comical performance. They really didn't know whether they should laugh or not.

Of course, Yoshida himself definitely couldn't laugh. At this time, he was extremely tense. The only thing he could hear was his heart pounding, and his breathing became heavy.

The reeds were dense. His teammates couldn't see him, and he couldn't see his teammates.

Suddenly, the front shook violently again.

Yoshida almost screamed in fright.

Fortunately, he held it in. Looking carefully, he saw that it was a wild boar's nest. The shaking was just caused by the beast.

Yoshida immediately breathed a sigh of relief. "Captain, there's nothing!"

He shouted loudly.

However, as soon as his voice fell, something unexpected happened!

Behind him, as if out of thin air, a hand appeared. The middle finger and index finger were joined together into a point, and it poked Yoshida in the back of the head.

Then, Yoshida didn't know anything anymore.

High-voltage electricity silently burned his brain.

The hand gently supported him, and Yoshida slid to the ground without making a sound.

Then, the hand unfolded something. This scroll with the character "corpse" written in the middle instantly sealed Yoshida away.

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"Didn't you find anything?" The captain asked Yoshida, who had returned from reconnaissance, in that same tone.

Yoshida, who was still clearly timid and hesitant, replied, "Nothing… there was… a wild boar that caused that commotion."

"Where's the wild boar?" Someone in the squad said. This person probably had the idea of improving their food, because during missions, their food was mostly things like ration pills.

"It's still there… I, I'm afraid that killing it would attract enemies with the smell of blood."

Everyone was speechless. How many times had this happened? This Yoshida was really something. The Land of Earth was right in front of them, all Iwagakure territory. Where would the enemies come from?

But the captain didn't say anything. He actually agreed with Yoshida's point of view, but some kind of emotion stopped him from agreeing with Yoshida and praising him… This coward wasn't worth it.

"Clean up the traces of our activity. We're leaving immediately."

"Yes!" Everyone responded in unison.

Following the captain's instructions, the Iwagakure ninjas tidied up a bit and then left the place.

As for Yoshida, he didn't look back once from beginning to end…

As you walked through this reed slope, did you hear that a ninja once came here?

They weren't carrying anything back, so they had to move faster.

Yoshida was still his usual gloomy self, cautious and nervous. His behavior was as usual, and he didn't arouse any suspicion.

After all, Yoshida was just Yoshida. Who would have the spare time to pay attention to him?

But unexpectedly, when evening came, he foolishly went to the captain himself.

"Captain… I heard that this squad is going to be disbanded and then assigned to other missions, right?"

The captain glanced at this annoying guy, but he couldn't really do anything to Yoshida because of this.

"Who did you hear that from?"

"I…" Yoshida stammered again and couldn't speak.

The captain didn't doubt this question. In fact, this was indeed being circulated among the squad.

He knew, of course, what this guy was worried about. He was just afraid that the new mission would send him back to the front lines. So, his contempt for Yoshida grew even stronger.

"I haven't received any such news. But you don't have to think too much. This is all decided by our superiors. You and I have no right to ask."

He had already decided that if there was any chance to send someone to their death, Yoshida would be the first.

After all, Yoshida was useless to his squad and to the entire Iwagakure, wasn't he?

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