Konoha: Archers of the Hyuga family

“What a terrible country~”

Furuya Usamaru sat on a branch of a tree, crossing his legs and playing with his bangs, his face full of disdain for the Daimyo of Kawa no Kuni and this country.

But there is indeed nothing wrong with this. This is indeed a pretty bad country.

The land area is second to none among small countries, almost [-] times the land area of ​​the Kingdom of Water. The terrain is mountainous and rivery, with cliffs and bottomless abyss everywhere.

Things like transportation...

It cannot be said that it is connected in all directions, I can only say that it is not connected at all.

Decent bridges are quite rare. You have to walk a rope back and forth between the two villages. Only those with better conditions have simple wooden suspension bridges. A relative may die if he walks on them.

This is why the wars between the two countries of Wind and Fire in the past have never involved the Kingdom of Sichuan. Supplies are almost impossible to transport, and it is definitely easy to defend and difficult to attack. No matter which side comes in, they will fall into the quagmire...

The traffic is so bad that you can imagine the living conditions of the residents.

To say that you are poor and to say nothing is a compliment.

However, this daimyo's mansion is quite nice. It looks like a temple located on a bulge on the mountainside. It must have taken a lot of effort to transport these bricks and tiles...

About half an hour later, Yuhi Zhenhong walked out of the daimyo mansion.

Showing displeasure.

Minato jumped down first to ask about the situation.

"Captain, don't they provide supplies?"

"Well, not only that, the daimyo hopes that the Konoha ninjas will leave the territory of Kawa no Kuni. He should be afraid that the ninjas from two villages will spark a spark in Kawa no Kuni and trigger a war that will involve Kawa no Kuni."

"Tch! Coward!"

Furuya Usamaru curled his lips.

But even if the ninja team has no supplies and backup, the mission must still be carried out. Just like the boundary river between the Kingdom of Fire and the Kingdom of Wind, any one crossing it will make the other party nervous.

Konoha doesn't care about the life and death of Kawakuni. What the senior officials and daimyo really care about is that Sunagakure Village crosses the border.

After all, the relationship between the two countries has been very bad since the Second Ninja War. Most of Hinata Kumikawa's generation of ninjas have personal grudges with Sunagakure Village. The death of many people's parents is related to Sunagakure Village.

Vice versa, neither side has resolved the grievances of World War II.

Therefore, the rulers of the Fire Country have to guard against Sunagakure Village deliberately launching a war...

"Forget it, we can't count on them. Let's find Sunagakure as soon as possible and complete the task as soon as possible. We still have to go home for the New Year... Sunagakure will never start a war in the New Year. That would be too tasteless."

Minato smiled and made a joke to lighten the mood.

It's just that he has never been good at telling jokes. Just as bad as his ability to name ninjutsu, no one here noticed the funny part.

"Uh...hahaha~"

He is indeed a natural idiot.

Now that the obligation to inform has been fulfilled, the next step is the official content of the mission. The four of them got up and left the daimyo's mansion, heading to the location where Sunagakure was found to be causing trouble.

Even with a ninja's pace, it would take most of a day.

By the time the team arrived at the target village, it was already sunset.

The village was not damaged, but one person died. After Zhenhong revealed his identity, the village chief took four people to examine the body.

Only there is not just one, but two.

One of them is a ninja from Sand Ninja Village.

The two people died in a similar manner. They were both covered in dark brown clothes, spitting out black blood, and their eyeballs were bloodshot and red. They were obviously poisoned. However, the Suna Ninja had an extra layer of Senbon on his body. In addition to being poisoned, he also had puncture wounds.

Hinata Kumokawa squatted down, took out a kunai, and scraped off a layer of dirty blood on the Senbon needle.

"The villagers were poisoned because they touched Senbon, which is poisonous, and...it seems to be a poison unique to Chiyo of Sunagakure Village. I have seen it in the teacher's laboratory."

"Cannibalism?"

Hinata Kumikawa stood up and looked at Yuhi Mahong.

"Perhaps there are clues where the body was found, Captain."

Yuhi Mahong nodded and conveyed to the village chief in the language of Kawa no Kuni the intention to go to the place where the body was found. At the same time, he told the village chief to cremate the body immediately to prevent anyone from accidentally touching it and poisoning it again.

Then the old village chief chattered a lot outside and called a young man in his twenties to come over and ask him to be a tour guide for the Konoha team.

Hinata Kumokawa couldn't understand the Kawanogoku dialect, so he looked at Yuhi Mahong and the young man muttered a few words, and then the young man waved to the others to follow.

Yuhi Zhenhong also reminded several people to follow.

Amid the discussions among the villagers, the four of them followed the young man down the steep mountain road.

To be precise, it's not a mountain road at all.

It’s pure rock climbing.

For a ninja, it's nothing. The cliffs are like walking on flat ground.

On the way, Yuhi Zhenhong was afraid that the young man was in danger, so she directly carried him on her back and asked him to show the way. The speed immediately increased a lot, and in a short time they were at the river below the mountain. The young man pointed out the location where the body was found.

Next, it’s time for Hinata Kumikawa’s operation.

Although Namikaze Minato and Yuhi Makou in the team are both perceptive ninjas, no matter how sensitive their perception of chakra is, they cannot be as clear as the eyes.

Roll your eyes...open!

After two years of training, Hinata Kumikawa's Byakugan is no longer what it used to be.

The original maximum coverage radius was 800 meters, but now it has reached 200 meters...

Although the progress is not very great, there is nothing that can be done about it. No matter how much you develop Byakugan's ability, there is an upper limit. It is initially estimated that it should be around 500 meters. It becomes harder and harder to improve towards the end.

However, it is definitely enough for this mission.

The field of vision changes to black and white, everything becomes extremely clear, and the line of sight moves all the way up, scanning along the rock wall all the way upstream.

After a while, Hinata Kumokawa closed his eyes and blinked twice to relieve the dryness.

"There are traces of battle on it. In addition, there are fragments and damaged weapons left by the puppet battle... It is very likely that Chiyo fought with someone else, and the other person is also the puppet master."

At this time, Hinata Kumokawa already had a prediction in his mind.

The Third Kazekage has disappeared, so it should be reasonable to defect at this juncture~

And at this time, there should be no one who can compete with Chiyo in puppetry. After all, he is a ruthless person who can still compete with the Akatsuki Tama Girl in his 70s.

The only one who can make her show mercy in battle is her grandson Xie~

However, the village may not have much information about Scorpion at this time.

"Captain, have you heard of Scorpion?"

"Scorpion... is said to be the grandson of Chiyo. He is a puppet master. He is very good at making puppets, but he has no achievements. We don't have much information about him."

"..."

Don’t we almost all know this?

"I think... Sunagakure Village is chasing the rebel ninja. We shouldn't have to fight them this time."

"I hope so."

Yuhi Mahong turned to look at Namikaze Minato.

"Minato, please send the tour guide back."

Then he looked at Hinata Kumokawa.

"Yunchuan, you come and search for traces along the way. We will follow. We will rest after completing the mission."

Namikaze Minato nodded and grinned.

"Call me~"

Before he finished speaking, he disappeared with the tour guide, leaving only a special kunai spinning in the air. The next second he came back to catch the kunai, and a set of flying thunder gods moved the clouds and flowing water...

Hinata Yunchuan felt sad in his heart silently and opened his eyes.