Konoha's Itachi Reappearance

Chapter 401 Deliberately Erased Traces
396 chapter

"The valley on the border between the Kingdom of the Moon and the Kingdom of Thunder?"

Itachi hasn't finished asking the questions in his heart, but neither has the old man finished his words.

The old man continued: "When I was young, I once helped others deliver goods to the Land of Thunder. When I was passing through a valley, I stumbled and fell into a crevice in the valley. I saw it in the crevice."

"The scroll was seriously damaged at the time, but I thought it might still be worth some money, so I secretly took it back."

"But later I heard from an old man in the village at that time that the scrolls of ninjutsu are indeed valuable, but they are the secrets of each ninjutsu village. Selling scrolls privately is prohibited, and if you fail to do so, you will be burned."

"So, I kept the scroll at home."

Itachi frowned slightly, and after listening to the old man's words, he fell into a brief groan.

Then, he asked the old man again, "You said it was when you were young, how long ago?"

"It's been too long, let me think about it."

The old man recalled for a while, and said: "It was about 44 or 45 years ago. I really can't remember the exact time."

"Then you picked up the exact location of the scroll valley, can you still find it?"

With that said, Itachi took out a map from the ninja bag, looked at the old man and asked, "Can you understand the map?"

The old man smiled and said: "Young man, don't look at me like this. When I was young, I often walked outside. I can still recognize the map."

"The specific location, let me find it for you."

Itachi, the old man and the boy walked to the wooden table in the courtyard and unfolded the map.

The old man skillfully found the border line between the Kingdom of the Moon and the Kingdom of Thunder from the map. After observing for a while, he pointed to a place.

"Just around here."

After glancing at the map and remembering the location, Itachi bowed deeply to the old man and said, "Thank you."

"And you." He looked at the boy again.

"Are you ready to leave?" the boy asked.

Itachi nodded.

The young man looked down at the scroll in his hand and said, "Then this scroll."

"I told you before, keep it."

Itachi said that although the secret techniques of the Thousand Hands Clan are recorded on this scroll, the ninjutsu on it is obviously preserved in Konoha.

The Thousand Hands Clan has already disappeared in the ninja world, and it doesn't matter so much who owns the secret art scroll.

Before leaving, Itachi said to the boy: "I said earlier that there is something wrong with the way you practice ninjutsu."

"Your knot seal is still too rusty. It is not only inefficient to practice like that, but it will also cause damage to your meridians."

"If you want to continue practicing, it's better to get familiar with the basic knot seal first."

Itachi saw that the young man longed for ninjas, and he did have the talent in this area.

"If you are interested in becoming a ninja, you can come to Konoha."

The civilian students in the Konoha Ninja School are not all the descendants of the village's aborigines.

The village also accepts a lot of refugees every year, including some orphans.

After investigating the details of these foreign children, as long as the conditions are qualified, they can enter the ninja school to study.

"really?"

The boy's eyes lit up.

Itachi smiled and nodded, then said to the old man, "Thank you very much today."

Swish!
After finishing speaking, his figure moved, like a black ray of light, he swept out at full speed.

Itachi had noted where the old man had pointed out on the map where he had picked up the scroll decades ago.

Although so many years have passed, it is almost impossible to leave any clues, but he still wants to investigate.

When Itachi arrived at the location pointed by the old man on the map, the sky had already turned yellow and the sun was setting.

During the Third Ninja World War in the Kingdom of the Moon, it was used as a buffer zone for the confrontation between Konoha and Yunnin, so there are many places in the territory where there are traces of ninja battles.

However, most of Yunin's ninjas are good at speed, and the damage to the terrain is not very serious.

As for the location the old man pointed to, there was only one valley within the area.

The ferret soon reached the mountain wall on the side of the valley.

The scale of this valley is not large, so there is no name on the map.

The distance between the cliffs on both sides of the valley is about ten meters, which is relatively wide.

"Bang bang!"

Continuing to use the technique of shadow clone, Itachi quickly conducted a comprehensive detection of this valley.

Generally, the traces left on the mountain wall after ninja battles will not change much even after decades.

Unless someone deliberately cleaned it up.

Itachi looked around and found no signs of a particularly intense battle.

But he always felt that things were a little weird.

The old man was able to find a broken ninjutsu scroll from the cracks in the valley more than 40 years ago, which means that there must have been a battle here.

Therefore, there have been questions lingering in Itachi's mind.

That's why people from the Qianshou clan arrived here back then and fought. During the battle, they might have used the scroll to resist the enemy's attack, causing it to fall into the crevice of the valley.

The sky was getting dark gradually, but the misty doubts in Itachi's heart became deeper and deeper with the investigation.

"Hey!"

As a result, both he and the shadow clone's eyes vibrated, and they opened Sharingan.

Of course, the Sharingan of Shadow Clone cannot be opened to the kaleidoscope state, but the most basic insight ability of Sharingan is still available.

With Itachi's powerful pupil power as the support, even the dark night will not affect the insight of Sharingan in the slightest.

After investigating, Itachi finally found the problem.

The first thing that noticed something was wrong was a shadow clone of Itachi.

Then, following successive observations, itachi found a lot of abnormalities on the mountain wall of this small valley.

Itachi has chakras attached to its soles, and it stands horizontally about three meters above the ground on the left side of the valley.

He stroked the mountain wall that had gradually become cold due to the loss of sunlight, and under Itachi's gaze, his brows gradually frowned.

"Someone has moved here, this should be the trace of being impacted by the water escape ninjutsu."

The five attributes of chakra, fire, wind, thunder, earth, and water, no matter which one they are, as long as they are released with chakra, they will be different from the power formed independently by nature.

Looking at the mountain wall with Sharingan, if it weren't for Itachi's strong insight, it would be difficult for ordinary ninjas to notice that there are traces of the impact of water escape ninjutsu on the mountain wall.

Judging from the newness and oldness of the traces, it is about four or fifty years ago.

There is more than one situation like this in this valley, but there are many.

On the cliffs and ground on both sides of the valley, all traces of ninjutsu seem to have been deliberately cleaned up.
Itachi narrowed his eyes slightly, his mind sinking slightly.

He felt that this time, he might have begun to touch a conspiracy that happened decades ago.

And the target of the conspiracy is likely to be the Thousand Hands Clan who suddenly disappeared in the ninja world!
(End of this chapter)