Naruto's strongest wooden escape

"Captain Takayama, do you ANBU often go to the Grass Country area for activities?" Uzumaki Kushina said boredly.

After three consecutive days of boring travel, the normally talkative Uzumaki Kushina could no longer bear it.

"Yes, that's what it is." An unnatural smile appeared on Gao Shan's face.

"Then, I'll leave it to you for this trip to the Land of Grass." Uchiha bowed like Takayama.

"This is the mission given to me by the Hokage." Takayama bowed to Uchiha Matsuri and said without hesitation, "I will definitely complete the mission perfectly."

"Ren, mission?" Uchiha Matsuri twitched when he heard this.

"Yes, this is my 127th mission since joining ANBU, and also my No. 13 mission after becoming ANBU captain." Takayama explained.

"Since I became the squad leader, my mission success rate has been [-]%. Therefore, for this mission, I have to complete it perfectly no matter what."

"Turns out he is a workaholic." Uchiha Matsuri complained in his heart.

By the way, it seems that in the eyes of these ANBU ninjas, mission is everything.

As an orphan adopted by Konoha during World War II, Takayama was instilled in him the idea of ​​"giving up himself" and "doing everything for Konoha" since he was a child.This kind of brainwashing education made all ANBU and root ninjas, including Takayama, lose their self-awareness and completely turned into a work machine for Konoha Hokage.

Even the name "Gaoshan" is just the code name for this mission.

Years of non-stop work have left Gao Shan with only tasks in his eyes.Complete one task, and there's another.Life has a beginning and an end, but the tasks are endless.This kind of depressing work has long made it impossible for Gao Shan to integrate into society and live a normal life like a normal person.

"In your eyes, is there only mission?" Uchiha Matsuri looked at Gao Shan's firm eyes and asked suddenly.

"You're right. Missions are everything to us ANBU ninjas. If we can't even carry out the missions, what's the difference between us and being dead." Takayama said calmly, as if he was talking about an extremely ordinary thing.

"Don't you ever want to live a life like a normal person?" Uchiha Matsuri asked unwillingly.

"Think, why don't you want to." Hearing this, Gao Shan was stunned. After a long time, a complex look that was difficult to capture flashed through Gao Shan's eyes, "But if we don't work, Konoha will be like a person who broke his arms and lost his protection. .”

Hearing this, Uchiha Matsuri couldn't help but be in awe of the ninjas of Konoha ANBU.

Indeed, as the trunk and roots of the great tree of Konoha, ANBU ninjas and root ninjas sacrificed themselves for the development of Konoha.

However, these sacrifices are not known to outsiders.In people's minds, it seems that only Orochimaru and Jiraiya are heroes on the surface, while the achievements of Anbu and Root ninjas have been ignored for a long time.

According to Konoha's mission distribution records, most of the missions were taken away by ANBU and root ninjas.Most of the tasks performed by root and ANBU ninjas are S-level and A-level tasks with the highest risk factor.However, in terms of mission success rate, ANBU and root ninjas are far higher than ordinary ninjas.

There were no flowers and no applause.After doing so much for Konoha, in the end, all I got was a bunch of data and a "Thank you for your hard work."The ANBU ninja did not choose to complain, nor did he feel any dissatisfaction

Gan, in their eyes, everything they do is worthwhile.

This is what Uchiha Matsuri admires the most.

Two more days later, Uchiha Matsuri and his team finally set foot on the territory of Grass Country.

"We finally arrived at the Country of Grass." Uchiha Matsuri breathed a sigh of relief.

Although it took six days, there were still four days left before the ten-day deadline mentioned by Tsunade.

Within four days, it doesn’t seem like it would be difficult to find someone in the small Country of Grass, right?

No matter what other people think, this is what Uchiha Matsuri thinks.

However, fate plays tricks on people.Two days have passed, and the four Uchiha Matsuri have traveled through most of the Country of Grass, but they have not found the dense forest that Tsunade Hime mentioned.

"There's no way we can continue searching like this." Uzumaki Kushina sat down on the root of the tree regardless of her image.

"Yes, there are still two days left. If I can't find the old man again, I'm afraid I will have to see the King of Hell." Uchiha Matsuri thought to himself.

Before leaving, Tsunade used Palm Senjutsu to heal the internal injuries in Uchiha Matsuri's body and temporarily controlled the toxins in Uchiha Matsuri's body.

However, as the ten-day deadline gradually approaches.The toxins in Uchiha Matsuri's body gradually broke free from the shackles of Palm Senjutsu.This also made Uchiha Matsuri's physical condition worse day by day.During these two days in the Land of Grass, Uchiha Matsuri needed the help of Minato Namikaze to even walk.

"The clues provided by Tsunade-sama are too vague. Even I, who have been to the Country of Grass many times, cannot find it easily." Takayama looked at the gloomy sky, "However, my intuition tells me that we have already Very close to that place.”

"Is that a bamboo forest over there?" Namikaze Minato pointed to a dense bamboo forest in the distance and suddenly said.

"Let's go over and take a look." Gao Shan took on the responsibility of the temporary captain and ordered the three people in the fifth class.

"it is good."

Walking to this bamboo forest, Uchiha Matsuri looked up and saw that most of the bamboos in the bamboo forest were more than ten meters high, and the color was like a Chinese landscape painting, with a dark green glow.

Deep in the bamboo forest, the breeze blows, and bamboo leaves rise on the moist ground.The dense bamboo forest swayed in the wind, making a rustling sound.

"It should be this bamboo forest." Uchiha Matsuri nodded.

In Tsunade's narration, she mentioned many times that there were large tracts of bamboo planted in the dense forest.Although it had been ten years, Uchiha Matsuri's intuition told him that this was the dense forest he was looking for.

"Minato, Kushina, prepare your ninja tools. Minato, take care of Matsuri." Takayama whispered after glancing at Uchiha Matsuri, who looked extremely pale and had lost his fighting ability.

"clear."

After hearing the order from temporary captain Takayama, Namikaze Minato and Uzumaki Kushina took out a few kunai from the scroll and held them in their hands.

Just when the four of them wanted to walk into the bamboo forest to find out, the door of a small wooden house next to the bamboo forest was suddenly opened.

In the eyes of the four people, an old man wearing a raincoat and holding a hoe walked out of the wooden house.

After seeing the four Uchiha Matsuri, the old man was slightly startled.However, just when Gao Shan was about to speak, the old man suddenly said: "What are the ninjas of Konoha doing?"