Naruto: As a genin, I just want to live a normal life.

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"Then let's begin the battlefield assignments."

"The Jonin whose names are called should stand up."

The expressions of the many Jonin turned serious. Some worried about their names being called; some worried about not being assigned a better position; others wondered if there were any beautiful women bathing at this hour...

"Nara Shikayoshi."

"To!"

"The head of the command and staff of the Insect Forest Gorge camp has been changed from Jonin Aburame Shiken to Jonin Nara Shikakichi... First-class commander!"

"Yes!"

"Yamanaka Kazuji!"

"To!"

"The head of the intelligence department at the Insect Forest Gorge camp has been changed from Special Jonin Yamanaka Daiyu to Jonin Yamanaka Kazutsukasa... Second-level Commander!"

"Yes!"

"Jiraiya, Tsunade, Orochimaru."

"Here!" x3

Tsunade looked somewhat surprised; how did she, a medical ninja, get called by name?

—Also, Tsunade was supposed to suggest assigning a medical ninja to each squad before the list was read out, but Nawaki didn't die, and Orochimaru didn't become a monster and instead made a sarcastic remark in a deliberately cold tone, "If each squad had a medical ninja, perhaps fewer people would die on the battlefield."

Therefore, Tsunade is not mentioned here. Kato Dan, who is next to Tsunade, is extremely upset. He had just thought that if he could find a way to please Tsunade, he might have a chance to become a front-line commander and make contributions on the battlefield.

Kato Dan felt he couldn't find any opportunity to interject.

Hiruzen Sarutobi glanced at the surviving combat personnel at the Insect Forest Gorge camp. He noticed that while there were many reconnaissance squad leaders, very few combat squad leaders remained who were truly capable...

"Jiraiya and Orochimaru are both serving as the combat department leaders and combat squad captains of the Insect Forest Gorge camp, holding the rank of Level Two Commander!"

"Yes!" x2

"In addition, Tsunade has been appointed as the head of the medical department and will also serve as the team leader of the medical squad, a second-level commander!"

"Yes!"

—The former head of the combat department and a senior officer of the first-level command, was Hiruzen Sarutobi's uncle who had recently died in battle.

Kato Dan, his fist clenched so tightly under the side table he was about to burst, thought, "..." He's numb, numb. A Hokage disciple is immediately thrust into a second-level commander and person in charge.

Hearing that Orochimaru was also a level-two commander, Kato Dan was still somewhat surprised. He glanced at Orochimaru, who was calmly accepting this fact, and thought to himself that Orochimaru was the head of the logistics camp and a level-one commander at the Jonin meeting, but now he had become a level-two commander at the border camp of the Land of Fire...

However, upon closer reflection, there isn't much difference between managing a small camp with about 100 ninjas and only 3-5 commanders, and managing a large camp with over 1,000 ninjas and generally only about 20 commanders as a second-level commander.

“Speaking of the medical department, Tsunade, your task here might be quite demanding.” Hiruzen Sarutobi looked at the number of medical ninjas responsible for medical work on the front lines, which was far too few, and Orochimaru alone was simply not enough to handle the research on the salamander venom. “Are there any outstanding medical ninjas recently?”

"We can now proceed with the recommendation of mid-level medical officers."

"Have!"

"I recommend my disciple, Yakushi Nonou!"

Upon hearing about this great opportunity with open spots, Tsunade would definitely recommend her own disciple immediately.

Upon hearing the name Nonou, Hiruzen Sarutobi immediately remembered that this child had been Shirahoshi's disciple, and was now both Tsunade's disciple and her grand-disciple. A smile involuntarily appeared on Hiruzen Sarutobi's face.

"Alright! Submit the application forms to me tomorrow. Also, any other ninjas willing to go to the battlefield for medical work will be promoted to Chunin-rank Prospective!"

"Furthermore, they can be given priority consideration in future assessments for mid-level physician positions."

"Nurses who are willing to go to the battlefield will all receive a promotion after the war ends!"

"understand!"

Kato Dan: "..." Can't you at least offer a rebuttal? Or give me a chance to speak...?

Tsunade was unaware of Kato Dan's intentions, only that she was happy to be able to promote her disciple to Chunin ahead of schedule. She sat down silently: Nono U here was directly promoted to Chunin-level physician. With battlefield subsidies and performance bonuses from her daily work in the logistics camp, she earns at least a million a month.

Inside the conference room, the assignment of battlefield positions was still ongoing.

"Ryosuke Sarutobi!"

"To!"

"Serve as a Level 3 Commander and Squad Leader in the Insect Forest Gorge Battle Department!"

"Yes!"

"..."

Then, Hiruzen Sarutobi went on to name the newly added Level 3 commanders and even ordinary squad leaders at the Insect Forest Gorge camp.

After Hiruzen Sarutobi had almost finished assigning positions to all the posts at the Insect Forest Gorge camp, his gaze lingered on one name for a moment, but he still pulled out a list of other positions: the Fire River Border, also known as the Fire Wind Border, after all, it was the middle area where the ninjas of the two great nations fought.

—List of personnel at the Liushuixia Camp.

"Sarutobi Shinnosuke, Sarutobi Keio!"

"Here!" x2

Uchiha Koshino glanced in the direction of Sarutobi Keio, who had just spoken to him and forced him to submit, and in his heart wished that Sarutobi Keio would encounter more dangers on the battlefield, and preferably lose an arm or something.

"Liushuixia Camp, Level 3 Commander of the Combat Department and Squad Leader."

—The combat command of the Liushuixia camp and the first-level commander of the entire camp: Hatake Sakumo.

"Yes!" x2

"Kato Dan!"

"Here!" Kato Danshin said, finally it was his turn, a hint of anticipation flashing in his eyes.

Hiruzen Sarutobi looked at Dan Kato's personal information, which stated that he had mastered the Spirit Transformation Technique, a forbidden technique of the Super S rank. He immediately remembered that this was the son of the Kato clan patriarch, who had once been the head of the Forbidden Technique Development Department.

This technique was a research project applied for by the head of the Kato clan at the time, and Kato Dan was one of the participants.

He has mastered the basics of spiritification... What a rare genius!

Since the Second Hokage, only Dan Kato has mastered the Spirit Transformation Technique, which is enough to show that the difficulty of this technique is no less than the S-rank forbidden technique Flying Thunder God Technique.

It's impossible for Minato to fully develop and master the Flying Thunder God Technique in just one or two years.

Therefore, Kato Dan, whose death was imminent, must have already trained and was able to use this technique to a basic level beforehand. This would have allowed him to fully develop and master the Spirit Transformation Technique within the next year or two, and dominate the battlefield.

"Kato Dan has been assigned as the captain of the reconnaissance squad!"

"Yes..." Kato Dan sat down somewhat dejectedly, thinking to himself that he was just a class captain after all, not even a third-level commander.

"Shiranui..."

"Hirata..."

"..."

Hiruzen Sarutobi noticed Kato Dan's dejected mood, but Kato Dan's individual combat strength was too weak, and he needed someone to protect him when using the Spirit Transformation Technique. As the leader of the reconnaissance squad, he was the best choice.

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Time passes minute by minute.

Hiruzen Sarutobi finished reading the work assignments for the last person, put down the list in his hand, and scanned everyone present with his gaze:

"above."

"If there's anything you don't understand or don't get clear on, feel free to express your opinion on the spot."

After waiting for a while and seeing that no one had any objections, Hiruzen Sarutobi nodded slightly:

"If there are no objections, the list will take effect tomorrow."

"There's still some time before I start my job, I don't need to elaborate on that, do I?"

"Understood!"xN

Seeing this, the two elders beside him prepared to end the meeting: then, Hiruzen Sarutobi, sitting in the middle, once again took out the list of the previous Insect Forest Gorge camp and made a decision that seemed absurd:

"Cough cough."

"Here, I, an old man, recommend a highly capable ninja to serve as the reconnaissance squad leader and third-level commander of the Insect Forest Gorge camp..."

Kato Dan, who was preparing to leave and find an opportunity to get closer to Tsunade, thought: "???" What kind of bastard actually got the Hokage's personal recommendation?!

Orochimaru vaguely sensed the Third Hokage's meaning and chuckled inwardly: After all, he was considered his disciple.

"The old man recommending someone at a time like this means this ninja isn't a Jonin and didn't participate in this meeting," Jiraiya whispered to Tsunade. Tsunade nodded slightly, thinking to herself, "Which brat is so lucky? Could it be Shikaku, Shikayoshi's son? That's it! It must be him. After all, Shikaku has been a Chunin for a month now, and he's perfectly completed multiple A-rank and B-rank missions, even an S-rank mission."

—Encountering an attack by a Kirigakure team led by a Jonin, and with a standard battlefield combat squad size, and the urgency of the Land of Whirlpools, along with the subsequent mission of escorting the team from the border, and the B-plan mission of escorting the secret letter before Shirahoshi, as well as the subsequent missions of 'guarding the dangerous border of the Land of Whirlpools,' 'covering the evacuation of the people of the Land of Whirlpools,' and 'the final escort mission,' all of which were accomplished at both B-rank and S-rank levels.

Sarutobi Shinnosuke was thinking that he probably wouldn't be able to lead his team on this mission again. He thought to himself that not having a Chunin rating was such a hassle, since he had never encountered any difficulty when carrying out high-level missions: AS.

In addition, the high-level missions that Sarutobi Shinnosuke previously carried out involved an all-Jonin team, with Anbu ninjas also involved, mainly to give someone a chance to gain prestige and broaden their horizons.

Now, for Sarutobi Shinnosuke, this is the first time he has truly begun to fully experience the cruelty of the battlefield and missions.

"Hiruzen, it seems like our elders haven't discussed this matter, has they?" Koharu Utatane interjected from the front.

“Yes! The command work needs to be arranged carefully, in case we give it to…” Mitomon Homura said halfway through, but everyone already knew the second half of his sentence: there might be spies and traitors within the village.

"Don't worry. He's definitely not an undercover agent."

"I guarantee this in the name of the Hokage."

Sarutobi Hiruzen said with a smile.

Upon hearing that the Hokage had personally vouched for him, everyone present was slightly startled, and Sarutobi Shinnosuke had a very familiar sense of foreboding.

Wait a minute?! This person couldn't possibly be...

Thinking this, Sarutobi Shinnosuke clutched his head and shook it violently, thinking that this was an impossible thing to do; no matter how stupid his father was, he would never let a genin...

"His name is Shirahoshi."

"He is a ninja who has perfectly executed missions of all levels, with a mission completion rate of over 99%..."

During an S-rank mission, she served as the vice-captain, covering the retreat of all team members, and later saved the class's Jonin captain, Kurenai Yuhi...

In the subsequent mission in the Land of Whirlpools, they perfectly cooperated with the Whirlpool Ninja to guard the work site of the 'Noah's Ark Whirlpool' and captured a cunning Chunin from Kirigakure...

After finishing this series of explanations, Hiruzen Sarutobi waited for everyone to digest the information.

Inside, many Jonin who were not familiar with the specifics and were not acquainted with Shirahoshi began to twitch their faces involuntarily.