[Hokage] Summer Festival

There are many mountains in the Land of Thunder, and the mountain roads are rugged and steep. Even though the stars and the moon are shining brightly, when the light falls on the ground, there is only a hazy pale.

After rushing overnight to a town near Yunyin Village, Oshemaru suddenly stopped, raised his hand, and said:

"Spend the night here, and then enter Yunyin Village when the sky is about to dawn."

Hinata Xiujun and I were taken aback for a moment, and we looked at each other with puzzlement in each other's eyes.The enemy village is already close at hand, isn't it just to take advantage of the darkness of the moon and the high wind to perform the mission, why wait until dawn?

The night was dark, and there were still hours before dawn.

He went to a hotel in the street, and without looking back, he said:

"Just to tell you about my plan."

The neon lights at the entrance of the hotel were shining beautifully, and the street was deserted, except for the three of us, only stray cats and dogs were fighting for food under the corner.

He was walking ahead, and suddenly he turned into another person in a flash.His long hair became shorter, and he was a little shorter than before, with a slightly hunched back, as if dragging a tired body.

Hinata Osamu followed, his figure didn't change much, but the pair of white eyes unique to the Hinata clan changed into ordinary black eyes that can be seen along the street.

Transformation.

Now instead of fighting openly on the battlefield, but to sneak attack on other people's ninja village, it is natural to hide their identity and wait for the opportunity to act before the task is completed.

Orochimaru is a ninja who has become famous all over the world a few years ago, and Hinata Xiu's family is also well-known. It is necessary for them to use the transformation technique.However, Natsuko is just an ordinary ninja. I learned from Xiaochun that Natsuko has been performing missions related to the Land of Wind, and has hardly fought against ninjas from other countries.So no one here should know her.

Then, is it superfluous for me to use the transformation technique?

While hesitating, Dashemaru walked to the hotel door, turned around, glanced at me, and said:

"What are you still dawdling about?"

I took off the forehead guard wrapped around my arm and trotted over.

As soon as I stepped into the gate, I only heard a loud "Boom——" thunder in the sky, the white light of lightning flashed in front of my eyes, and the bean-sized raindrops poured down, and fell to the ground without stopping.

The heavy rain without warning came violently, like the moody temper of a tyrant, which caught people off guard.

According to the "Stories of Customs in Various Countries", this is also one of the specialties of the Land of Thunder.Sure enough, what he said was true.

The proprietress who was drowsy at the counter greeted her with a smile on her face, and Xu Xu said that the rain fell a bit late tonight.

Orochimaru and Hinata Osamu had already stepped onto the wooden stairs on the second floor, and their footsteps landed on the wooden boards with a clear "creaking" sound, just like ordinary people who are completely ignorant of ninjutsu.

The thunder outside was deafening, like the roar of a god.

How many people can sleep peacefully on such a night?

But the proprietress seemed to be used to it, and she didn't feel that the thunderstorms would disturb people's dreams at all.

My room is the third from the last on the second floor, Hinata Osamu is down, and Orochimaru is at the very end.

A slender snake crawled over my feet and slid into Orochimaru's room in two or three strokes.I followed, and as expected, I saw Hinata Osamu, with a map spread out on the table.

"Let's split up. I am responsible for killing the ninjas on the list, and you are responsible for burning the war materials."

"Assemble at the entrance of the village after the task is completed."

Orochimaru's fingertips swipe across the map and said.His expression was too calm and calm, as if he was casually telling what the weather is like today and what the weather will be like tomorrow.

There are seven targets on the list, five jounin and two special jounin. The difficulty of obliterating the backbone ninjas of other people's villages is quite different from that of burning supplies.

Orochimaru's arrangement, I don't know whether it is because I have too much confidence in myself, or because I have too little confidence in us as companions.

Hinata Osamu obviously also thought it was wrong, frowning and thinking about it, he said:

"Even if it's you, it's too dangerous to deal with the seven Jonin and the special Jnin alone, Orochimaru-san. Let me or Natsuko go with you."

"no need."

He refused without even thinking about it. He raised his eyes and glanced over. There was no emotion in the golden pupils, as if he was stating a well-known thing:

"You're going to get in my way."

Hinata Xiu was choked by him, and turned around embarrassingly, with no dissatisfaction or unwillingness in his expression.

Orochimaru's former teammates were Jiraiya and Tsunade. It is said that Hokage's students are well-known in the ninja world. In terms of strength and tacit understanding, I am not comparable to Hinata Osamu.

I looked down at the map and breathed a sigh of relief in my heart.

That's a good arrangement.

If I follow Orochimaru to assassinate the enemy, maybe I will really hold him back.

When I was staying in Muye Village, whenever I thought about the future full of unknown dangers, I always comforted myself that the boat would be straight when it reached the bridge.But looking at it now, I realize that I am really ignorant and naive about this world.

The child who died with resentment stared ferociously at the living with protruding eyes.

Some things may be kept in the bottom of my heart forever, and they may not be able to withstand the assimilation of the general environment, and slowly fade away until they are forgotten.

I went back to my room, the window was wide open, and the raindrops splashed in and hurt my face.

More than half of the night has passed, and the sky in the early morning is pitch black, with dark clouds covering the stars and the moon.There is only a water curtain strung with raindrops between the sky and the earth, and the blurred lights of the street lights not far away.

Sleepless nights.

***

Orochimaru left the hotel at some point, and Hinata Osamu and I sneaked into Yunyin Village before dawn.

Compared with Konoha, this village does not feel comfortable. It may also be due to the higher altitude. The village on the high mountain is filled with clouds and mist, and there is a faint sense of heavy and cold depression.

The breath of war can be felt here more than Konoha.

However, this feeling may be caused by the uncontrollable tension and apprehension in my heart, which is hard to say.

The streets and buildings marked on the map are not complete, and the shapes of the hot springs that can be seen everywhere are almost exactly the same. The rising white air makes the scenery in front of the sight blurred, and if you are not careful, you will go back to the road you just walked .

According to intelligence, it is only known that the warehouse for storing war supplies is in the east of the village. The specific location needs to be further determined, and it is unknown how many people are guarding it.

The hot spring terrain of Yunyin Village is like a labyrinth where you don't know where you will be forced into a dead end.After going around several times, we didn't even know where we were in the village.

Hinata Osamu looked around for a while, and finally gave up:

"No, as far as the white eyes can see, there are exactly the same hot springs and the same trees. It is impossible to determine which way leads to the warehouse."

"Now we can only go east and make plans."

As he spoke, he took out a compass, and his face suddenly became very ugly after a while.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"There is an enchantment set up in this village, and even a compass can't tell the direction."

I leaned over to take a look, and saw that the thin magnetic needle was constantly turning, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, but it couldn't stop for a long time.

If you walk around without knowing the exact direction, you may be discovered in a short time.

The morning sun is shining from a distance, sparse and not warm, but at this time it makes people feel very kind.

It turned out that it was time for sunrise.

I raised my finger to the upper right and said:

"This way."

The sun rises in the east.

No matter how powerful the enchantment is, it can't change the direction of the rising sun.

No wonder Orochimaru didn't take advantage of the darkness to sneak in last night. One of the reasons is the unique torrential rain anytime and anywhere in the Land of Thunder. Now it seems that he probably also took into account the terrain and barrier of Yunyin Village. It's hard to tell the direction.

Two or 10 minutes later, I finally saw the roof of the other buildings in front of me, which should be the target warehouse of this mission.

Just as he was about to continue walking, the wind blowing from the woods on both sides suddenly made his body tense up.

I don't know if it's my intuition or the intuition of Xia Zi's body, but there seems to be a murderous aura in the wind.Although it was not as frightening as when Hatake Sakumo wielded the sword back then, it was still enough to make people feel it.

Hinata Osamu lowered his voice and said:

"We're being watched."

He glanced around with white eyes, and continued:

"There are four in the woods on the left, and three in the woods on the right. Their strength is probably only at the Chunin level."

"Let's get rid of it."

After finishing speaking, he entered the forest on the left in an instant.

Get rid of it.

Such a light and fluffy sentence certainly didn't sound as calm and relaxed as he did to me.

As Orochimaru said, it is an undeniable law in this world that the strong survive and the weak perish.But even if I understand it, whether I can do it is another matter.

What's more, for Hinata Osamu, Konoha's authentic Jōnin, a few Chunin might not be a problem.However, it is hard to say whether "Natsuko Kato", an impure "Junin", can be regarded as a strong one in front of the three Chunin.

How strong is this body?The closer I get to the answer, the more uneasy I feel.

But in any case, it is inevitable to confront the enemy head-on today.

I walked into the woods on the right, and there were still dewdrops on the leaves of the branches, which dripped onto my shoulders and wet my clothes, feeling slightly chilly.

The three Chunin on the other side used Thunder Dun at the same time, the bright blue Chakra brushed past me, and split the nearby tree in half, the branches and leaves scorched and sizzled.

Fortunately, it was dodged in time.

I jumped onto the branch, and I didn't even have time to rejoice, when I saw their second wave of attack was about to arrive in front of me.

He retreated and made seals, resisted their attacks with water escape, jumped behind one of them, gathered Chakra in the palm of his hand, and waved his palm. Although the person quickly dodged, he was still injured.

When doing these movements, my mind was actually blank. The consciousness of the brain could not keep up with the consciousness of the body. Every move relied on the instinct of Xia Zi's body left over from previous actual combat.

It was Natsuko who was fighting, not me.

I was like a bystander with God's perspective, clearly watching the other party being injured and myself being injured.The arm was cut by Kunai, blood flowed to the back of the hand, but no pain was felt.

Sure enough, practice and actual combat are completely different.

When I practice on weekdays, I can clearly control my movements, and I can clearly feel every change in my body.Anyway, I know what to do next.Forming mudras, jumping, or swinging legs, palms out, these are all from my own will.

But the current actual combat is not like this at all.I can't predict what moves this body will make in the next second, let alone control it.

Only at this moment did I strongly feel the fact that I have been gradually neglecting-this is not my body.

This feeling is terribly clear when fighting.

"cough……"

Coughing up blood, I raised my hand to wipe the blood from my lips.When not fighting, he can act as he pleases.

The three people in front of them were also bloodstained and embarrassed, and they were still asking, "People from Konoha, what is your plan to sneak into the village?" and so on.

I have not opened my mouth to speak.First of all, there is nothing to say, I can't answer them truthfully, we are here to assassinate your ninjas and burn your food and grass.There is no need to make up some excuses that even I can't believe, saying that I am here for sightseeing, isn't it just a waste of time.Secondly, I was afraid that if I was distracted and talked, I would not be able to keep up with the consciousness of my body.

The blood on my arm was still slowly flowing down, and with my palm on the ground, I tried my best to stabilize the breath that had become chaotic and rapid due to the fight.

Suddenly there was no sound in front of them, and when I looked up, I saw the necks of the three ninjas were twisted, and their expressions were full of shock before they died.

Obviously, they were still talking to me sternly a few seconds ago.

Looking up, I also know the man who killed them, and he is walking towards me step by step.

It's Hinata Osamu.The clothes on his body were neat and clean, and he was unscathed. He looked at me with strange and puzzled eyes.

After a while, I heard his voice above my head saying:

"A few Chunin can push you to this point, are you really a Junin?"