Chapter 260: Stronghold

"Sister Hong, Sister Akkami, Sister Apricot, the first thing we have to do is to find a way to cover the entrance of this natural 'L'-shaped cave, so that the ninjas of the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village passing by the mountain will not see it at a glance, and it will be clear that there is such an 'L' shaped cave that can hide people on this mountain peak!" Hinata Ichiro said.

"That's right!" Mitarai agreed, "Ichiro is right, we really need to find a way to cover up the entrance to this natural 'L' shaped cave. ”

"Sister Hong, I need your help!" Hinata Ichiro said.

"Ichiro, what should I do?" asked Sunset.

"Sister Hong, I'll set up a special barrier at the entrance of this natural 'L'-shaped cave later, so that only the four of us can enter and exit this cave freely!" Hinata Ichiro said, "And what Sister Red has to do is to use her illusion ability to find a way to cover the entrance of this cave!

"Sister Hong, can you cast such an illusion?"

"Ichiro, I have a way to cast such an illusion!" Sunset Red nodded, then asked, "But once my illusion is cast on your enchantment, are you sure it won't affect the operation of your enchantment?"

"Sister Hong, you can rest assured that you can cast your illusion on the enchantment!" Hinata Ichiro said, "I can make sure that your illusion will run smoothly even after covering the enchantment!"

"Okay!" Sunset Red said, "Ichiro, in that case, I'll cover the barrier with a layer of illusion when you've set it up properly!"

"Okay!" Hinata Ichiro said, "Sister Red, Sister Azuki, Sister Kyoko, and the next thing is ......"

After talking bits and pieces for a while, Hinata Ichiro and Sunset Red finally said all the thoughts in their hearts.

"Alright!" Hinata Ichiro said, "Sister Hong, Sister Azuki, Sister Kyoko, since we have all spoken our own ideas, let's start building according to the ideas we said before!"

"Okay!" Sunset Red said, "Ichiro, then the three of us will go out first, and then you can start working!"

"Hmm!" Hinata agreed.

After Sunset Red and a few others walked out of the cave, Hinata Ichiro began to seal with both hands, and then pressed his palms to the ground.

"Rock shaping!"

As soon as Hinata Ichiro's words fell, the entire cave began to change.

First, tables, chairs, beds, and other related items made of rock began to appear, and then the floor of the cave, the walls on both sides, and the ceiling at the top were leveled one by one.

After a while.

Looking at the related daily life items that had been condensed and formed one by one, and then looking at the four sides of the cave that had been leveled, Hinata Ichiro was not satisfied, and began to seal again.

"Earth Escape, Rock Vein Movement Technique!"

The next moment, the rock formations of the entire cave began to reinforce.

……

After a few moves, Hinata Ichiro made the entire cave look new.

After seeing that everything in the cave was in order, Hinata Ichiro came to the entrance and exit of the cave.

Looking at the flat rock walls on all sides at the entrance and exit of the cave, Hinata Ichiro first pinched the sword finger with his hand, and then condensed the one-inch-long natural chakra sword blade on the sword finger, and began to depict the technique of enchantment.

After the enchantment technique was fully carved on the flat rock walls on all sides, Hinata Ichiro sealed his hands.

"Secret Technique, Enchantment!"

As soon as Hinata Ichiro's words were finished, the entrance and exit of the cave, which had originally been nothing, were instantly enveloped by a layer of purple transparent light.

With that done, Hinata Ichiro strode out of the cave.

"Ichiro, are you done?" asked Sunset.

"Yes!" Hinata Ichiro replied, "Sister Hong, all the things that need me to do it have been done!"

"Ichiro, the entrance and exit of the cave have been shrouded in the enchantment you cast!" Mitarai Azuki looked at the purple wall of light coming out of the entrance and exit of the cave and asked, "Then how should the three of us get in and out of the cave?"

"Sister Azuki, Sister Hong, Sister Kyoko, the three of you can enter and exit freely without having to do anything when you enter and exit the cave!" Hinata Ichiro said.

"Why?" asked Sunset, "Ichiro, is this barrier you planted useless?"

"No!" Hinata Ichiro shook his head and said, "Sister Hong, this layer of my enchantment is a very strong enchantment!"

"The reason why the three of you didn't have to do anything when you entered and exited the cave was because the three of you had natural chakras in your bodies!"

"In other words, as long as there is a natural chakra in the body, everyone can enter and exit the cave freely!"

"I see!" Sunset Red said suddenly, "Ichiro, this enchantment you laid is really convenient!"

"Yes!" said Mitarai Azuki, "so you don't have to worry about someone sneaking into the cave to ambush us!"

……

After chatting outside the cave for a while, Sunset Red and the others began to get busy with their assigned things.

As the minutes and seconds passed, the entire cave was laid out according to the ideas of Hinata Ichiro and Yuri Hong.

……

The night was late.

The dark sky was full of stars.

After Ighiro Hinata and Yurihong and a few others had dinner, they came to the cave ** and looked up at the starry sky.

"Ichiro, tomorrow you're going out to collect information about the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village!" asked Sunset, "I want to ask you, who are you going to go out with to collect information about the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village?"

"Sister Red Bean!" Hinata Ichiro thought for a moment and replied, "Sister Hong, you are more tired today than Sister Red Bean, so you should rest in the cave first!"

Speaking of this, Hinata Ichiro turned to Mitarai Azuki and asked, "Sister Azuki, I wonder if you are willing to go out with me tomorrow to collect information about the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village?"

"If you don't want to, then it's okay for me to go out alone tomorrow to collect information about the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village!"

"After all, this is the first time I went out to collect information about the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village, and the main thing is to observe the various strongholds arranged by the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village in the territory of the Land of Thunder!"

"No problem!" Mitarai Azuki said, "Ichiro, I'll go out with you tomorrow to collect information about the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village!"

"Good!" Hinata Ichiro said with a smile.

"Okay!" Sunset Red said, "Ichiro, Red Bean, since the two of you went out to collect information about the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village, then the two of you should be more careful!"

"Sister Hong, I see!" Hinata Ichiro said.

"Red, don't worry!" Mitarai Azuki said, "Ichiro and I will be careful!"

……

Next.

Hinata Ichiro and Hinata Red and several others began to divide and work together - Hinata Red and Hinata Kyoko stayed in the cave, while Hinata Ichiro and Mitarai Red Bean went out to collect information about the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village!

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Konoha.

When Hinata Ichiro and Yuri Red infiltrated into the Land of Thunder to collect information related to Cloud Hidden Ninja Village, Hinata Masao and his party, who set out from the Konoha frontline headquarters and escorted the remains in the ice coffin back to Konoha all the way, returned to Konoha Village uneventfully.

When Hyuga Masao and his party had just escorted the remains in the ice coffin to the Konoha gate, Hinata Hinata Hinata had already been waiting for the return of Hinata Masao and his party at the Konoha gate.

The reason why Hinata Hinata knew about Hinata's return to Konoha was because the Konoha front command headquarters notified the Konoha high-level through a special contact channel after Hinata Kyoko transferred four elite ninjas of the Hyuga clan to return to Konoha with the patriarch token of the Hyuga clan.

After knowing that Hinata Hinata had given the Hyuga clan's patriarch token to Hinata Ichiro, and that Hinata Kyoko was now following Hinata Ichiro's side, the Konoha higher-ups stopped their next move.

"Hinata-sama!" Hinata Masao hurriedly stepped forward to greet Hinata Hinata who was waiting for his group.

"Masao, thank you for your hard work!" Hinata Hinata greeted, "And Shigeichi, Yoshimitsu, and Kotaka, the three of you have also worked hard!"

"Hizoku-sama!" Hinata Shigeichi and the others greeted in unison.

After greeting Hinata Masao and a few others, Hinata Hinata looked at the shadow clone of Hinata Ichiro who was sitting on the ice coffin.

"Ichiro, come here, let me take a good look at you!" Hinata Hinata said.

In response to Hinata Hinata's words, Hinata Ichiro's shadow clone just shook his head, neither answering nor getting up.

Looking at Hinata Ichiro's shadow clone like this, Hinata Hinata frowned, not knowing what Hinata Ichiro's shadow clone meant.

"Hinata-sama, here's the thing!" Hinata Masao watched the communication between Hinata Hinata Hinata and Hyuga's shadow clone blocked, and quickly explained, "This is not the original figure of Young Master Ichiro, it's just the shadow clone of Young Master Ichiro!"

"And because of the sealing technique, Young Master Ichiro's shadow clone is in a special state where he can only see but can't speak!"

"Oh!?" Hearing this, Hinata Hinata looked at Hinata Ichiro's shadow clone in surprise and asked, "Ichiro, is that so?"

In this regard, Hinata Ichiro's shadow clone nodded, indicating that Hinata Masao was not wrong.

"In that case, forget it!" Hinata Hinata said, "Alright, let's go back!"

Then, Hinata Hinata took Hinata Masao and his party along the road to return to the Hyuga family's house.

Along the way, because Hinata Ichiro was sitting on the ice coffin, it aroused the surprise and curiosity of passers-by in Konoha.

After Hinata Hinata and his party returned to the Hyuga family along the road, the news that Hinata Ichiro could hang in the air had spread through most of the Konoha Village - basically all the Konoha high-level and all the ninja families had obtained this information.

Entering the gate of the Hyuga family's house, in the vestibule of the Hyuga family's family, Hinata's shadow clone took the initiative to stop moving.

Seeing Hinata Ichiro's shadow clone stop moving forward, whether it was Hinata Hinata Hizo, or Hinata Masao and several others, they all stopped, and then looked towards Hinata Ichiro's shadow clone.

I saw that with the seal of the hands of Hinata Ichiro's shadow clone, the ice coffin began to emit a dazzling light.

After a while.

The dazzling glow emanating from the ice coffin faded.

"Uncle Masao, give the letter to your father-in-law!" Hinata Ichiro's shadow clone, who had unlocked the seal, regained his ability to speak and preached.

"Okay, Young Master Ichiro!" Hinata replied.

After answering, Hinata Masao took the letter out of his arms and handed it to Hinata Hinata.

"Uncle Masao, Uncle Shigeichi, Uncle Yoshimitsu, and Uncle Kotaka, during the few days that the four of you have been in Konoha, I want to invite the four of you to be guests of the Hyuga family's family, don't go anywhere, don't contact anyone!" Hinata Ichiro's shadow clone said, "The Hyuga family will do their best to entertain the four elders!"

"Of course, as a junior, I really offended the four elders by saying these words, but even with the reputation of disrespecting the elders, I don't want to hear the words of the four elders say words that reject me!"

"Is that okay?"

Hearing this, Hinata Hinata Hinata looked at Hinata Ichiro's shadow clone in surprise, while Hinata Masao and several others changed their faces.

The reason why Hinata Hinata was surprised was because he didn't know why Hinata Ichiro's shadow clone would say such heavy words.

And the reason why the faces of Hinata Masao and the others changed was because Hinata Ichiro's shadow clone said so, which was equivalent to house arrest the four of them in disguise.

"Four elders, is it okay?" Hinata Ichiro's shadow clone once again accentuated his tone and asked aloud.

"Young Master Ichiro, before I answer, I want to ask about the reason for this!" Hinata Masao said, "Is that okay?"

"Of course you can!" Hinata Ichiro's shadow clone nodded, and then said, "Uncle Masao, the reason for this is because when the four elders went back to pack their respective luggage in the camp of the Konoha Front Headquarters, I clearly felt that there was a secret gaze peeping at the ice coffin!"

"By the time I reacted and wanted to counter-reconnoitre, the gaze that was secretly peeping at the ice coffin had already been withdrawn!"

"I don't know which of you is looking at it, but I can be sure that this peering gaze is unique to the white eyes of our Hyuga clan!"

"Four elders, I don't know why any of you are secretly peeping at the ice coffin, but since the secret contained in the body in the ice coffin involves the core secrets of our Hyuga clan, I can't help but be cautious about the four elders until I find out whose gaze it is and why this person is secretly peeping at the ice coffin!"