The day after the mission everyone on the team got the day off in case they were still tired from the C-rank mission, but Ren wasn't tired so he decided to continue to try to train to be strong enough to open one gate without that much drawback. Then whenever Ren was resting he would continue to learn about the chakra network. Now that Ren was training with weights, his physical stats increased a lot faster. This day passed quickly for Ren and now it was the next day.
Ren went through the same process as yesterday when he was getting a mission, this time around the mission they had to do was a lot harder, the mission this time was to find out where the headquarters of a group of bandits are. While this was still a C-rank mission it was one of the more difficult C-rank missions. Once they knew the mission team 8 left the village and went near the valley of the end because that's where the bandits were last sighted. When they were close to the valley of the end Kurenai used a genjutsu to make everyone blend in more with the surroundings. The way they investigated was the exact same way as their last mission.
After a few minutes of investigation, they could not find any major signs of bandits in this area, so they moved to a different area and began to look for the bandits. They still couldn't find any signs of bandits and wondered if the reports were faked. Since Kurenai was also suspicious about this she began to investigate as well. After investigating for a few hours Kurenai sensed two chunin level people coming near them. Kurenai warned them about this and they all got in a defensive position. After only a few seconds two people jumped off a tree in front of them and told them
"We are from the hidden sound, you must be the ninja from the hidden leaf investigating the bandits near here, but we have already gotten rid of the bandits so you do not need to continue." - Sound ninja #1
"Okay, but next time your hidden sound village should tell us before you do stuff in the land of fire." - Kurenai
'This seems suspicious, Orochimaru must have used the bandits as experiments or they found out some secret about the hidden sound village.' - Ren
After this conversation team 8 goes back to the hidden leaf to go report what happened to the Third Hokage. After they told what happened to the Third Hokage, the mission was declared failed and they went home because the day was already almost done. Ren hated that he failed his second C-rank mission just because people from other villages interfered. When Ren was walking home he decided that right now he needed to focus on his chakra capacity so that he could use the shadow clone jutsu, and then he can have them train/study in the crimson world.
When Ren made it back to the orphanage, he almost instantly went into the crimson world to do training and since he only ever did physical training he decided to do some meditation to increase his spiritual energy, but he felt this was a waste of time because it would only increase his chakra and not any other stat as physical training did. After meditating for only a little while Ren went back to doing physical training. (AN: I am going to just not write all the training he does because it feels repetitive)
It was now day time again and Ren was ready to get another C-rank mission. Today's mission was to guard a merchant to the land of hot water. Since the merchant had a carriage, Ren decided to just stay in the carriage and meditate. During the first hour, they didn't encounter any bandits and the mission was just boring. In the second hour of the mission, a group of three bandits attacked the carriage, but they were only high genin and were easily repelled.
After the bandit attack, nothing happened for a long time and they were almost near the land of hot water. Then a bandit at the level of a chunin attacked the carriage and would have damaged it if Hinata didn't notice him with the Byakugan. Kurenai decided that she would try to see if they could handle the bandit by themselves. Ren knew that his physical stats were chunin level, so he jumped forward at the bandit and kicked him, but it was blocked.
'Damn, this kid's kicks hurt like hell.' - Bandit
Since Ren still had his weights on the kick felt a lot heavier and was just slower than normal. Shino uses the opportunity that Ren made to put some of his bugs on the bandit to eat his chakra. The bandit knew he couldn't get the bugs off of him easily and decided to use a liquid bullet to attack Shino. Hinata and Shino worked together and were not able to stop the liquid bullet, but only lowered the damage it caused to them. Ren used his faster blood flow jutsu to accelerate his thinking and decided to absorb his weights into the crimson world with his eyes so that he can attack faster.
Even though Ren had taken off his weights the bandit was still slightly stronger than Ren and he knew that since the liquid bullet hurt Shino and Hinata he wouldn't get lots of support right now.
'Damn that Kurenai does she really expect me to defeat a chunin basically on my own if I don't use more blood jutsu I will probably lose this fight.' - Ren
Ren decided to use the blood healing jutsu so that any damage he takes heals quickly. He kept making the faster blood flow jutsu go faster and faster, and eventually, he felt his body getting stronger and his blood feeling like it was on fire.
『Ding! The host has made blood boiling jutsu, which is derived from faster blood flow. The rank of the jutsu is peak C-rank, so Host will be awarded 10,000 points (total now 12,360)』
I know that the title doesn't really relate to the second half of the chapter, I just couldn't make a whole chapter just about investigating where some bandits are and then reporting it back. Does the blood boiling jutsu seem fine, I was planning to make it his own type of eight gates but right now weak because his can't make the blood hotter.
If you guys find any problems or anything you would like me to add in the future then comment it.