Judging by the stories of the students, there's no such thing now. You know how to set simple traps? That's enough. After such stories, sometimes I even have thoughts to register Anko as a personal student without sending her to the Shinobi Academy for the whole program from the first year - then just bring her to the last course only to establish communication with her peers, as it happened to me in my time, and that's enough.
Having cleaned everything up, we left behind us an almost untouched clearing, where in a few hours the mown grass would regain its former appearance and nothing else would remind of the people who had been here. Hoshi took the lead again, moving first, followed by her partners, and I followed, just in case. No, if we were in a conditionally hostile territory, the formation would be quite different, but let the girls learn for now.
At the intersections the students were quite competently oriented and almost adhered to the given route, only cutting off in a few places with my approval, as better oriented here. However, I had my own interest in participating - the shadow clones sent for reconnaissance had already traveled a distance of more than an hour, twice as much as we had traveled in the morning, and had found several suitable objects in the right direction.
Bandits a day's journey from Konoha? Easy, especially when the average chunin can cover a distance in a day that a normal man on a wagon can cover in a week. And for a sensor to detect a large gathering of people in the middle of a forest with no distinctive chakra sources would be a cinch.
And from a little less than a dozen gangs, as well as their possible victims this day, only one suited me, in the direction of which I girls at ease and turned, a little pushing to be in time for the climax of the spectacle. Naturally, not for nothing, but only for educational purposes. Some people like to dip the delivered teams with the head in the truth of life in the first exit, and there as the chip will lie, I chose a little softer approach.
After a couple of hours of fast travel, we had to give up riding as the woods that Senju Hashirama had laid out began to thin and gradually turned into fairly ordinary woods that were less suited to running shinobi.
Especially if they were genin, who couldn't react fast enough to dodge twigs and branches in a leap. It's easy to get hit by such things, and it can be fatal, as practice shows - I've treated young idiots in the hospital with such wounds myself. So the team moved quietly along the road along the strip cleared of trees.
Sometimes I let the students stop and catch their breath, and sometimes I pushed them to quicken their pace, depending on the half-hourly reports of the clones monitoring the situation. And it was necessary not to lie in front of the girls that we had to get somewhere in a certain period of time.
Quite a certain caravan had to meet the gang I was tracking closer to the beginning of the evening, at a distance of a day's crossing from the nearest settlement and even mounted patrolmen of the local region from the cities, just on such occasions occasionally patrolling the main tracts, were not observed nearby and, accordingly, to come to the rescue. An ideal situation. And we were quite in time.
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