I just returned to Konoha and found that all my clan members were gone.

"So this mission is considered a failure?" Ye Lan has returned to the village and is now reporting to Tsunade.

"Tsk, the mission is still completed. The Kanagawa family has already given the mission reward to Konoha, but there is no trace at all?" Tsunade bit her finger. She didn't expect that the mission would end up like this.

"I went to investigate the scene later, and saw only a group of charred bodies. The other party was obviously a veteran and didn't leave any traces." Ye Lan recalled. He had not expected that someone would take action in such a big city.

"But..." Ye Lan said uncertainly, "As for the suspects, I have two people."

"Who is it?" Tsunade needs an answer now. The death of a noble like Kanagawa would have a very bad impact. A group of nobles from the Land of Fire urged her to find the murderer as soon as possible.

Ye Lan then told Tsunade about Kakuzu and Hidan whom they met on the road. However, he was not very clear about their names. He only knew that they seemed to be bounty hunters.

"Bounty hunter? Are you sure?" Tsunade really didn't expect these people to attack nobles. These people were potential clients of bounty hunters. If they were discovered, they would probably lose a lot of clients.

"Other than this, I really can't think of anyone else." Ye Lan was helpless. Why did unexpected things always happen in most of the tasks he did?

"You don't need to ask about this matter. I will ask someone to investigate." Tsunade stopped talking about this mission and continued casually, "Naruto may follow Jiraiya out of the village. It will probably be for a while. Sasuke is already a Chunin. I have never thought about where to arrange for Sasuke to practice. Do you have any suggestions?"

Ye Lan knew that he couldn't say much about his cousin's affairs. After pondering for a while, he said, "This matter should be left to Lady Tsunade to arrange."

"How boring! I shouldn't have asked you. You've learned to pass the buck at such a young age." Tsunade was a little dissatisfied, but she told the truth. "Kakashi suggested that I let Sasuke go to the Anbu. What do you think?"

What do you think? Is this something I can decide? I didn't expect Kakashi to recommend Sasuke to the Anbu. It seems that he still hopes that his students can grow better. Ye Lan was not vague this time, "I think Kakashi's suggestion is good, I have no objection."

After receiving Ye Lan's reply, Tsunade waved her hand, indicating that he could leave.

After leaving the Hokage Building, Ye Lan once again came to Tiantian's ninja tool shop.

"Senior Ye Lan! Are you ready this time?" Tiantian was a little surprised to see Ye Lan, and then smiled.

Ye Lan knew what Tiantian was referring to. He was so embarrassed the last time he left, but he didn't show it on his face. He nodded and said, "I've prepared the money."

"Please come in! Please come in! Let me tell you, Senior Ye Lan, my uncle's cooking skills are well-known far and wide." Tiantian looked a little different from her usual appearance. She pulled Ye Lan like a money-grubber.

After paying half of the deposit, he didn't have much money left. He had to pay the other half of the deposit in the next month. After Ye Lan went out, he couldn't help but sigh that this efficiency of making money was too slow. However, now the whereabouts of the ninja sword was finally found. When Sasuke goes to the Anbu, he will give him the ninja sword that is adapted to lightning escape as a gift.

"Ye Lan!" Ye Lan was just about to go home when he unexpectedly was stopped by someone. He turned around and saw that it was Asma.

"I haven't thanked you properly for what happened to Hong before. Now you have to bring my students with you on this mission. I'm really sorry to trouble you!" Asuma had just returned, and he happened to see Ye Lan coming to thank him.

"Nothing, you're welcome." Ye Lan, the son of the Hokage, didn't feel bad about it, nor did he like it. He just replied indifferently.

"Um... let me treat you to a drink!" Asuma said subconsciously, not knowing how to thank Ye Lan.

Why do they always like to invite people to drink? Is this the way Konoha communicates? Ye Lan complained in his heart and said directly: "Asuma, I am not an adult yet."

"Ah! Sorry, I forgot." Ye Lan's strength often made Asuma forget that he was still a young boy, and he quickly apologized.

"Next time." Asuma Yelan rejected him and said goodbye directly.

After Ye Lan left, Asuma scratched his head and didn't understand why Ye Lan refused. It would be fine even if they didn't drink but just had a meal. Last time Hongdou invited him to dinner, Ye Lan seemed to have agreed. Why couldn't he do that?

...

"Kakashi." Looking at Sasuke who was training, Ye Lan came to Kakashi.

"What's the matter?" Kakashi was still holding a book in his hand. He had a rare moment of leisure.

"Do you have money on you? Lend me some." Ye Lan's tone was flat, as if it was a matter of course.

"I have some money and can lend it to you, but what do you want to do with it?" As a bachelor, Kakashi had little expenses and had saved a lot of money from carrying out missions over the years.

"My knife is broken. It will cost a lot to find someone to make a new one." Ye Lan has not been out on missions recently, and he is having a headache. It won't be long before his knife is made.

"How much?" Kakashi continued to flip through the book in his hand after hearing this.

"1000 million taels..." As expected, Ye Lan knew that Kakashi would definitely agree.

"You guy..." Kakashi stopped reading the book. He didn't expect Ye Lan would want so much.

“Will you lend it to me?” Ye Lan didn’t waste any words.

"Okay, okay, I'll lend it to you." Kakashi knew that a good weapon was indeed not cheap, and Ye Lan was not doing anything bad, so he agreed.

Ye Lan was relieved after hearing this, and couldn't help but ask: "Why do you need so much money if you are not going to marry a wife?"

"It's really too much for you to say that." Kakashi regretted lending it to Ye Lan a little.

"Okay, I'll return it to you when I have money." Ye Lan said nothing more. He was relieved that the issue of the ninja sword was finally resolved.

"I heard that Naruto is going to go out and practice with Lord Jiraiya?" Having put the stone in his heart at ease, Ye Lan began to ask other questions.

"Well, Akatsuki has Master Jiraiya worried about Naruto's safety and is planning to take Naruto with him."

"I met two bounty hunters on my last mission. One of them seemed to be immortal, and the other was very powerful."

"You seem very strong, and you are also immortal? What are the names of those two people?"

"I don't know. They only fought with me briefly. One of them was still able to scream after I chopped off two arms, and the other one's fire escape technique was no less powerful than mine." Ye Lan thought to himself, "Although those two people didn't wear any representative costumes, they both wore rebel ninja forehead protectors."

"What do you mean?" Kakashi seemed to have guessed what Ye Lan wanted to say.

"Remember Itachi and Deidara whom I met?" Ye Lan mentioned the two members of Akatsuki, and Kakashi nodded.

"They are all in pairs. The two I met before gave me the feeling that they were members of the Akatsuki organization."

"Have you told Lord Hokage?" Kakashi asked, as the information about Akatsuki was the most important to Konoha now.

"No, this is just my guess. Their target is not the tailed beasts. They are just doing some bounty missions." Ye Lan shook his head.

"The ninja world is becoming more and more chaotic. I feel like I'm a little overwhelmed." After listening to this, Kakashi thought that Ye Lan might be overthinking it, but he couldn't help but sigh when he thought about the appearance of another powerful ninja.

"Then practice well, Kakashi. It seems to me that you have wasted too much of your talent. That Sharingan will be a burden to you." Ye Lan actually wanted to say this a long time ago that the side effects of the Sharingan for Kakashi are much greater than its advantages.

Kakashi touched his left eye and was silent for a while before sighing, "This is a gift from my best friend. I promised him that I would use this eye well."