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

"call-"

Sasuke, who was lying on the bed, suddenly sat up and looked at the surrounding environment in confusion. It seemed that he was in a hotel in Kirigakure.

"Awake?" Ye Lan had already taken a walk outside and estimated that Sasuke would soon wake up, as he had just returned not long ago.

"Failed?" Sasuke still had the last bit of consciousness before he fell into coma. He fell directly from Qi Sha's back. He didn't expect that the summoning beast that Ye Lan taught him could not be used in the end.

"No." Ye Lan didn't have the habit of keeping people in suspense, so he said directly to Sasuke, "You will succeed if you can make Qi Sha use natural energy."

"You mean?"

"That's right, it will be your partner from now on." Ye Lan looked at Sasuke who was in a daze, put his hand on his head and said, but the feeling was really not that good.

Sasuke reacted and opened Ye Lan's palm, "Don't touch my head! I'm not a child..."

After saying that, he crawled back into bed and stopped talking.

...

"Shikamaru, how is the matter going?" After a few days, the injuries of Ino and others had improved. Ye Lan was really fed up with eating seafood every day, so he asked directly when he saw Shikamaru.

"It should be soon. Asuma is busy with many things. I'm just helping out..." Shikamaru glanced at Ye Lan. Since the last time he met the Mizukage, Ye Lan has never appeared in front of the Kirigakure top brass. He and Asuma have been exhausted in the past two days.

A group of people are staying in the Kirigakure Ninja School which is about to open. Most of them are children who have not yet become ninjas.

Ino, who had recovered from her injuries, was teaching some children how to use ninja tools. Compared to the cruel teacher, the beautiful sister was more popular, and soon a circle of children surrounded her.

"I didn't expect Ino to have such a side..." Choji seemed to have endless potato chips in his hand, and he said while eating.

"I guess it's out of some kind of sympathy..." Shikamaru told them about the Bloody Mist Village. Although he didn't know much, he had heard a lot about the chaotic situation in Kirigakure at that time in the past few days.

"Ye Lan, Jonin." Antelope's figure appeared in the shadow beside a tree in the sunlight, and she called Ye Lan's name softly.

"I'll be over there for a moment." After saying hello to Shikamaru, Ye Lan walked straight towards the antelope.

Shikamaru glanced at the antelope. He hadn't seen the antelope since he delivered the meal that day. Sasuke had also disappeared. When asked about Ye Lan, he just said that he had gone to practice. It seemed that since the death of the two Konoha ninjas, Shikamaru felt that everyone was different from before.

Maybe it has always been the same as before, but Shikamaru didn’t care about these details before. Facing life and death for the first time, Shikamaru’s thoughts gradually changed.

"What's the matter?" Ye Lan was actually a little curious about why Lingyang suddenly found him. Ever since they met in the hospital that day, he actually didn't care much about the woman in front of him. Like Shikamaru, he saw Lingyang for the first time after he recovered from his injury.

"Jonin Ye Lan, a few days ago I passed information to Lady Tsunade about our situation, and I just received a reply from Lady Tsunade today." Antelope's voice did not show any emotion, and he directly handed a letter to Ye Lan.

Ye Lan did not ask how Antelope transmitted the information, nor did she ask why Antelope did not greet him. She said that she was still an Anbu after all, and no one except the Hokage had the right to order her around.

"Where is Asuma?" Logically speaking, Antelope should inform Asuma first and then inform him. No matter how much Tsunade trusts him, Ye Lan would not think that his position is more important than Asuma.

"Asuma was still discussing with the top leaders of Kirigakure, so I didn't disturb him first." Antelope said directly without any concern.

After understanding the situation, Ye Lan stopped asking questions and started reading Tsunade's letter.

There was not much in the letter, just a few simple compliments to Ye Lan, and then she said that she would send people to support Ye Lan and his group, and let Ye Lan and his group meet up with the support ninjas she sent before leaving Kirigakure together. She did not express her dissatisfaction and anger towards the Akatsuki organization in the letter at all.

As expected, Tsunade has always been resolute and decisive. Ye Lan had no doubt that the letter might be fake. It was also because of the simple content that Antelope didn't care and handed it to him directly when Asuma was not around.

"Who is coming? When is he expected to arrive?" The letter did not say who the person was, but Ye Lan could roughly guess. He just wanted to know when the other party would arrive. He did not want to keep waiting here.

"It should be within the next few days, but they probably won't come directly to Kirigakure. After all, if too many jonin come from Konoha, it will have a bad influence. I'm afraid they will wait for us in a village not too far from Kirigakure."

Antelope expressed his guess that the letter was delivered by the messenger birds specially trained by the Anbu, which were much faster than human legs. Even though the ninjas who came were the elites of Konoha, they would still be a few days slower.

"As for who it belongs to, I'm not quite sure." Antelope finally shook her head. She would not make guesses about things she was not sure about. If she didn't know, she just didn't know.

A few days later, with the hard work of Shikamaru and Asuma, all the details were finally finalized. After many efforts, Mei Terumi also increased the investment in the ninja school by another 300 million taels.

This was the most frustrating thing she had done since she became the Mizukage. Every time she thought about having to be humble to those elders after becoming the Mizukage, she couldn't help but feel depressed. She felt that she had a lot of wrinkles on her face in the past few days.

"Are you all leaving?" Mei Terumi sat in her office chair. After all, the other party was just a messenger from Konoha, so she would not see them off in person. She just asked Ao who was beside her.

"The Mizukage has left." Qing's expression changed repeatedly for a while, and finally he said with some entanglement, "Mizukage, did we trust the people of Konoha too much? You know, it was just a..."

Mei Terumi raised her hand to interrupt Qing, "As a woman, I still trust Tsunade's character. Besides, haven't you noticed? Uchiha Yelan has been avoiding us since our last conversation..."

"You mean he has some bad intentions?" Qing's eyes were stern. Thinking of Ye Lan and the masked man having the same Sharingan, he couldn't help but feel cold. It would be better if Mei Terumi didn't say anything. What if Ye Lan had some intentions towards Kirigakure...

"Idiot!" Mei Terumi cursed angrily, "Can't you see that he is showing goodwill? Have you ever seen a ninja with bad intentions who doesn't stay in the village every day to gather intelligence?"

Ye Lan and Sasuke swagger in and out of the village every day. Anyone who is not blind can see them. It is obvious that I have no ideas about you, Kirigakure. No matter how much you want to cause trouble, you have to get close to the top leaders of Kirigakure. But except for that time, Ye Lan understood that this village was afraid of Uchiha and never showed up again.

"And according to investigation, Uchiha Yolan is the younger brother of Shunshin Shisui." This information from Mei Terumi was not too secret. Anyone who had been to Konoha and learned a little about it would know it, but it made Qing's face change.

"So that's how it is. No wonder I feel somewhat familiar with it." Qing touched his sealed Byakuyan and felt a dull pain. He had seen how terrifying Shisui was with his own eyes.

Let’s talk about Ye Lan and his group. Not long after they left Wuyin, they arrived at a small fishing village.

"What are we doing here? It's not time to rest yet, right?" Ino asked curiously, having just come out of Kirigakure for a long time.

"Yo!"

A nasty voice appeared in everyone's ears, and just as Ye Lan expected, it was this guy.

A Konoha ninja with white hair on his head walked out from a corner of the fishing village, holding a novel with a 18+ rating in his hand.

"Teacher Kakashi?" Ino asked in surprise when she saw Kakashi. Sasuke and the others didn't look any better either. They didn't know why Kakashi was here.

"As expected, you are still the same, Kakashi." After seeing an acquaintance, Asuma walked up and said with a smile.

"I'm not the only one coming this time..." Kakashi didn't finish his words and shouted loudly.

"Everyone, it's been a long time since the Chunin Exam!" Hongdou, wearing a brown coat, jumped down from the roof of a house, and next to her was Yamashiro Aoba, wearing sunglasses.

Why is this guy here too? Ye Lan was not curious about Kakashi's coming, as he was Tsunade's real right-hand man. He just didn't expect Red Bean's arrival.