[Hokage] Terukawa

This inexplicably peaceful atmosphere was broken by me.

"Sure enough," I squinted my eyes, still maintaining the smile on my face, "Taking me to see the leader or something is really a lie. It's been half a year since you took me from the warehouse to the present." For an hour, no leader can bear the procrastination of his personal guards."

"It is indeed a lie, because the leader... the masked woman, she doesn't care about anyone other than the two Xiao organization leaders."

Yang Yi readily admitted.

"In our speculation, she will only have two ways to go after dealing with Xiao's organization. One is to leave and go back to where she came from, and the other is to stay here and become a real bandit. If she chooses The second way, we cannot tolerate her surviving."

I understood: "It seems that you are ready to seize the city."

"To be exact, the arrow is on the line, just waiting for her to clean up the mess of the Xiao organization."

Yang Yi grinned, as if he was laughing, but if he called it a smile, it would be a bit hideous.

"To seize the city, there will be many uncertain factors and many people will die. In order to hold the desired ending in our hands as much as possible, we will clean up the variables on the mountain every day in her name. Presumably you Is it understandable, Captain Black Fox?"

"Don't bother me with questions like this."

I said coldly.

Bringing down Shimura Danzo is not a short-term goal, but now that we have decided to cooperate for a long time... anyway, I don't like their way of doing things, but I can't comment, because if I were put in the same position , I may not be able to do better than Yang Yi.

There's probably only one way to deal with their style of behavior—if they assume you're a wild card, you'd better be.

I am, so I am not "cleaned".

But I really don't want to think about the number of people who have been "cleaned up".

Scratching my hair, I turned my gaze to the real destination of this trip.

Black rocks and white snow cover each other, hiding the entrance of the cave in another darkness within darkness.

The periphery is covered with a soft layer of pure white, and only occasionally a few groups of low and round stalagmites protrude from the ground.The water of the underground river merges into a very small pool here, and then overflows from the other end, but the deep river bed pushes out a few clear and shallow water ripples on the water surface.

It's like ink painting.

But, no.

I stared at it for a while, then slowly asked, "Where are the footprints?"

Considering another possibility, I continued to add: "Or, illusion?"

"Illusion is not bad. That woman can use a very special illusion. Ordinary dispelling techniques are meaningless. You can try it."

Yang Yi hooked my shoulder from behind, and leaned closer to my ear.

...it would do them no good to lie at this time, and besides...

I glanced at Yang Yi who was speaking close to my ear.

His throat was within reach.If I want his life at this moment, I can do it just by raising my hand a little bit. The difference in physical strength between me and him is not too big, and he can't avoid this distance.

He's winning me over by exposing his weaknesses.

It's the truth.

"untie."

Sure enough, the black stone and white snow in front of him didn't change at all, and the ordinary lifting technique didn't work.

"So there isn't a single footprint in the snow outside," I understood, "Is it all covered by this special illusion?"

"The day we met her for the first time was also a snowy day, and I asked her to unravel the illusion for us," Yang Yi said, "We saw the snow that was trampled into a ball of black mud."

"..." Covering footprints is the most basic way to hide one's whereabouts, but this thing...is it really such a simple thing?

I reached up and pressed my temple.

The masked girl... Judging from Yang Yi's description, her abilities in strategy and intelligence are top-notch. If such a person is not extremely confident in her own strength, how can she only put one on the periphery of the hiding place? What happened to the magic circle?

But it does seem like such a simple thing.A few minutes of observation did not bring me any more information. The rocks are still rocks, and the snow is still snow. The only surprise is the mountain sparrow passing by. A few sporadic fine snows were shaken off.

I stared at the few bits of fine snow and watched it fall on the stones that landed in the "illusion".

When I was thinking about it, I suddenly felt a weight on my shoulders, frowning and staring sideways, then I saw Yang Yi lowered his eyelids and looked sideways: "Captain Black Fox, I know what you are thinking, but I don't recommend you to act rashly. It is said that the Chakra reaction within the scope of the illusion formula will be transmitted to her in reverse... It is better to believe it than to believe it, our temptations have not been carried out to the end once, and naturally we have not succeeded."

I snapped my fingers, and my plan to use the water flow to set up a trigger-type Chakra seal array around to attack other pro-guard ninjas ran aground.

"How many people are there in the pro-guard?"

"About ten people. We were the first to be stationed here because we wanted to capture Xingshou City—earlier than the Masked Woman," Yang Yi whispered, "It takes a suitable opportunity to go from the dark to the bright, Our presence needs to be reasonable and approachable by her.

"In the end, the four of us became the prototype of her bodyguard. At that time, there were no decent 'ninjas' around her, except us."

"But if there is one, there are two. If you have you, you will naturally have others."

I stood up straight, and Yang Yi's half-weight weighed on my neck.

"Why 'about' ten people? Always feel..."

"It doesn't feel rigorous enough, does it?"

Yang Yi curled up his lips and smiled, stretched out his hand and made a "three".

"I also don't think it is rigorous enough, but she has never summoned all the guards, not once, so we can only find another way. 'Ten' is perceived by Qingyi, and in order to verify, we have spent three months Time is crouching around here for verification.

"In the end we came to a conclusion: at least in the three months we've been watching, there are indeed only ten people who often come in and out of this place and who can really be called 'ninjas'."

"Ten people, now minus the four of us, there are still six people who are worth the effort to deal with. Among these six people are traitors, waves, and of course there are spies sent by other Ninja villages. No one can stay."

The hand gesture changed from "three" to "six", and the fake smile in his eyes became even more hollow, and his dark eyes looked cold and sinister.

"Among the people present, none of the subordinates are afraid to add this 'six'. I don't want ten thousand or one in case. I just want to succeed. For this reason, I hope everyone can go all out to create conditions for our next cooperation.

"Captain Black Fox, when it comes to putting all your eggs in one basket, we poor dogs are only worse than you. I hope you can understand what I mean."

"..." I didn't feel it when I was hostile, but it seemed crazy after cooperation...

I swallowed some other words, and flicked a twig above my head casually.The scattered snow on the branches flew into the air and fell to the sun.

Yang Yi didn't care.

"Of course. I hope you're not just talking," I said.

Looking ahead, the dark hole is still blowing cold wind faintly, and many answers and clues are hidden there, but that is the territory of the masked woman, and it is not advisable to act recklessly before sorting out the thoughts clearly.

Looking back, Yang Yi’s three teammates were staring at me with six eyes, none of them looked very friendly—oh, it looks like I just played with the snow on the branch to Yang Yi’s head and they were caught by them I saw it.

I'm sorry, everyone, but when people use their brains, it's easy to be subconsciously cheap, and there's nothing I can do about it.

……

Sun to mid-heaven.

"I need another way," I said, raising my eyes. "It doesn't have to be invisible, but it needs to be able to cut off the retreat of the people in the cave."

"That's three ways," Yang Yi, who had already tucked his hair into a ball, used a branch to draw on the snow, Qing Yi, Jing Yi, and Yang Er surrounded him, "Qing Yi and I entered from the front. , as a mission report. Yang Er and Qing Yi bypassed the auxiliary cave, and if necessary, penetrated the rock wall to cause the cave to collapse. And you, Captain Black Fox, have a well in the house and courtyard on the south side, you Destroy one bite, use one bite."

"Wait a minute, there's a problem." I looked at the three players who were silently watching behind him, and couldn't help tapping the tree trunk beside him with my fingers. "From a tactical point of view, it is indeed divided into three groups. The safest, but... do the four of you often act separately?"

"..." Yang Yi was silent for a second, "Hardly."

"There was no movement on the mountain that was big enough for you to deal with separately, right? The four people who would never be separated, only separated during the mission report... You almost told her that 'we are going to take your back route right. You do it."

He stared at the road map on the snow and froze. After a long time, he finally took a deep breath and let it out slowly. His face looked a little tired: "Sorry, I was too anxious."

Seeing Yang Yi apologize, I let out a "tsk".

Jing Yi, Qing Yi, and Yang Er must have something wrong with their language skills—I have been fighting wits and courage with them for a whole morning, so I can still deduce this.But what they lose is language ability, not IQ. Even if they can't speak, even if they don't have specific communication ninjutsu, it's okay to express "disapproval" with body movements, right?Why is it my turn, an outsider, to point out the flaws in Yang Yi's plan?

It's as if Yang Yi is their external brain.

It's not for me to point out this kind of thing, but this cooperation has a lot to do with the future of both of us.

After this operation is over, I have to find an opportunity to ask for clarification.

"Ninety-nine steps have been taken carefully, you must be careful of this last trembling, haste makes waste."

I sighed in my heart, and started to make some detailed changes to the route map on the snow with the twigs in my hand.

After the modification, I raised my hand and snapped my fingers, and then half a handful of new snow fell between my fingers, white and soft, covering all the lines that symbolized mistakes.

"How is it now?"

"It's beautiful," Yang nodded, "Your water attribute chakra skills are truly unparalleled."

"..." Who asked you this.

"Just kidding," he said sternly again at this time, "the remaining variable is probably that you may not be able to reach the target point in time because you are not familiar with the passages inside the cave, but this is not a big problem. Controlling power, walking along the main vein of the dark river is enough."

I let out a "huh" and looked at the road map thoughtfully.

At this moment, Yang Yi's voice that seemed to contain gravel came from beside me.

"Captain Black Fox, do you know what I was thinking just now?"

"To be honest, I'm not very interested," I thought about the structure of the entire mountain and the corresponding directions of different locations in my mind, as well as some possible accidents and their corresponding solutions, without even raising my head. "But if it helps relieve your psychological pressure, just say it, and I will try my best to pretend to be listening."

"I was thinking, why don't you respect my companions the same way you respect me."

There was a sudden pause for a moment with the fingers that were nodding their chins.

I blinked and looked back at him—smiling, and it didn't look like I was going to tear up our verbal cooperation agreement.

So what does he mean?

I looked at Yang Yi, and Yang Yi looked at me.

Probably seeing that I didn't mean to answer, Yang Yi smiled again, and continued to talk to himself: "But I soon understood. If I put it into your perspective, then I am the only one who can communicate and discuss with you. As for my companions... In the absence of language, they are existences that you cannot communicate with at all. Compared with the two, it is completely reasonable for you to pay more attention to me.

"On the other hand, the confrontation between you and me along the way—whether it is equal in force or ingenuity, is naturally enough to make you treat me cautiously. And my companions, all you have experienced is their force , and when it comes to force, you have already seen too much, so you don't take their force seriously. Captain Black Fox, am I right?"

I looked behind him - Qingyi, Jingyi and Yanger, a little curious about their reaction.

As for me?What's wrong with me?Yang Yi said a lot, but he didn't get to the point.Laughing to death, it's not embarrassing at all.

These three people had obviously been watching me for a long time, and now I also looked over, and there was a sloppy stare between us.

There was no expression on Qingyi's face, as calm as an old ice cube that had been frozen for an unknown number of years.In my impression, the second-generation Naruto Senju Tobema, who is also a sentient ninja, seems to have this style of painting... Maybe they know more people like this.

Mirror One is still smiling.The smile seems to be welded to his face, but he always looks very sincere—the smile is kind when he is a friend, and the smile is kind when he is an enemy, combined with the way he treated Yang Yi when he chased me before the cooperation After a gesture... he should be the one responsible for checking for gaps in Yang Yi's plan.

As for Yang Er... It can be seen that he is working hard to learn, but that expression is a bit too distorted whether it is calm or smiling, okay, I know you are the one who can't hold back the most.

I selectively ignored the details that Yang Er's hand in his pocket suddenly changed into the shape of only the middle finger, and was still bulging and shaking in an attempt to attract my attention, and began to answer Yang Yi with a half-smile The problem.

"Wrong, but not completely wrong. The two points you mentioned can only be regarded as a little influencing factor at best," I compared to Yang Yi that the index finger and thumb were not pinched, and there was a "little" gap in the middle. Gesture, "You're missing the most critical thing."

"Huh?" Yang Yi seemed a little confused, and raised his hand to give me a gesture of "willing to hear more about it".

"Still pretending, but forget it."

I raised my eyebrows, feeling a little bored, so I turned my back directly, hid on the ground and poked this and that in the snow with the branch in my hand.

"Why don't you point out the holes in your plan?" I asked bluntly. "That's my problem."

Yang Yi paused.

"Knowing that there is a problem with that plan, but still remain indifferent, even if the problematic plan is there... I am a little bit puzzled what you are thinking, is it true that if I don't stop it, we will really divide the army into three Lu acted? It is human nature for one person to be anxious and make a mistake, but...the other three are actually in step with you on this point? Maybe I should praise your tacit understanding...but I figured it out soon Yes, I understand."

Having said that, I couldn't help laughing "haha" twice.

"Should I ask, 'Yang Yi, you have been with me for many years, companion? It's only this level?' Hey, do you think I will ask this kind of question?"

What is Yang Yi's expression now?I'm really curious... It shouldn't be ugly, but it's certain that you won't be able to laugh.

I turned my back and didn't even have the thought of turning my head to look at his demeanor.Zuo Zuo is just a raving ninja who has been made nervous by the garbage life, what's so good about it?

Ronin, ronin, vagabond.

It seems that homeless people will also want to find a new home.

Yang Yi didn't say a word.

I don't care - it's right to keep quiet, talkative, there is only one Kakashi who can stand firm under my indiscriminate bombardment.

"of course not."

I ask and answer.

"Because I know that your companions who have been with you for many years will not have this level. Because I know that I don't have a position to say this. Because I know that I can improve this plan. Because I don't care how you get along."

Breaking the branch in my hand into several pieces and throwing it in the snow, I stood up straight and patted the snow that rubbed against the hem of my clothes and on my hair.

"So, knowing that there is a problem, but turning a blind eye to it-this is not a mistake, but a trial.

"You want to test out my reaction, you want to know what I will say, what I will do, or I will make my words clearer-you want to know whether I am qualified to cooperate with you on an equal footing, and you want to consider whether I will cooperate with you on an equal footing in the future. In the cooperation, should you do your best to respond to me, or should you keep a few more backup players, and when I fail, you can get out in time and find another way.

"I'm not wrong, am I?"

Some people's breathing was disordered, probably because they became angry after being punctured, but at this juncture, Yang Yi will not tolerate any extraneous behavior.

do not mind.

"I should apologize to you." The deep voice seemed to be mixed with gravel.

"No, one size fits one size."

I replied.

"I don't blame you. Shimura Danzo will not teach Gennin common sense, and you have been wandering for a long time, coupled with frequent wars and chaotic world in recent years... I don't know what kind of people you become and what you do. It's not surprising, but being cautious and probing like this is probably part of your philosophy of survival, I have no way of saying it.

"I will implement the plan carefully. Now I just want to remind everyone as an ally."

"The prerequisite for allies to cooperate with allies is equality, and the basis for people to get along with each other is respect.

"Although superficial skills are false, they are more useful."

Facing the emptiness in front of me, I suddenly made a "grab" movement, and when I let go of my fist again, a large piece of snow dust flew between my fingers, covering up all the traces on the snow perfectly.

I used the blink technique to come to the lee of a certain rock, and turned around to appreciate the scenery in front of me.The four members of the digital team are no longer in the same place, and the small piece of snow where I poked countless holes is also white and flat, as if nothing happened.

Well, the practicality is also good, and you can go back and show Kakashi to play in the snow... He should like it... right?