A city on the northeastern border of the Fire Nation.

On this day at the end of the month, Hinata Ichiro, Tsunade, and Konan rushed from Yingzhou Island to a city on the northeastern border of the Fire Country.

(There are two reasons why Konan was able to follow Hinata Ichiro and Tsunade to the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village to seek justice - first, Konan himself, and second, Hinata Ichiro needed Konan to contact Nagato.) ）

(Before going to the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village to seek justice, the reason why Hinata Ichiro, Tsunade, and Konan came to a city on the northeastern border of the Fire Country was because this was the meeting place agreed between Hinata Ichiro and Nagato.) ）

As soon as he arrives in a city on the northeastern border of the Fire Country, Hinata Ichiro asks Konan to contact Nagato, who wants to know where Nagato is now.

Through contact, Konan informed Hinata Ichiro of Nagato's location at the moment.

After Konan knew that Nagato was still some way away from his city, Hinata Ichiro didn't say anything except for asking Konan to urge Nagato.

(Regarding the information about Nagato and Konan, since Tsunade mastered the 'Dancing Technique' within the specified time, Hinata, who knew that Tsunade would follow him to the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village to seek justice, told Tsunade and the information of Nagato and Konan - of course, before informing Tsunade of the information of Nagato and Konan, at Hinata's request, Tsunade promised not to leak secrets to anyone.) ）

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After visiting a city on the northeastern border of the Fire Nation for a while, Konan receives news from Nagato that Nagato has gone to the outskirts of the city.

So, Konan informed Hinata Ichiro of the news.

Seeing that Nagato had come to the outskirts of the city, Hinata Ichiro took Tsunade and Konan and went straight to where Nagato was.

……

On the outskirts of a city on the northeastern border of the Fire Nation.

After arriving at Nagato's location, Hinata Ichiro glanced around Nagato.

When Hinata Ichiro found out that Nagato had come alone, he frowned.

"Nagato, why didn't Payne Rokudo come with you!" Hinata Ichiro asked.

"Hinata Ichiro, don't worry!" Nagato replied, "When it's time to appear, Payne Rokudo will appear!"

Hearing what Nagato said, Hinata Ichiro didn't dwell on the issue of Payne's Six Paths, and instead asked, "Nagato, in the process of going to the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village to seek justice this time, you should be clear about your mission, right?"

"Hinata Ichiro, I know what I'm going to do!" said Nagato.

"Nagato, since you know what you're going to do, then I won't say more!" Hinata Ichiro said, "Now, let's leave for the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village!"

"Okay!" Nagato agreed.

Seeing Nagato agree, Hinata Ichiro looked at Xiao Nan beside him and asked, "Xiao Nan, on the way from here to Cloud Hidden Ninja Village, do you want Nagato to take you away, or continue to let me take you away?"

"Hinata Ichiro, Xiao Nan follow me!" " Before Xiao Nan could speak, Nagato, who heard Hinata Ichiro's inquiry, spoke.

"Okay!" Hinata Ichiro said, "Nagato, since you are willing to take Xiao Nan, then Xiao Nan will follow you!"

After saying that, Hinata Ichiro nodded to Tsunade and flew into the sky.

Seeing Hinata Ichiro flying, Tsunade also flew into the sky.

"Xiao Nan, you flew here from Yingzhou Island?" asked Nagato, looking at Hinata Ichiro and Tsunade in the sky.

"Nagato, we did fly here from Yingzhou Island!"

"Xiao Nan, when did you have the ability to fly long distances?" Nagato wondered.

"No!" Xiao Nan shook his head and said, "Nagato, I don't have the ability to fly long distances - it was Ichiro who flew here with me!"

"I see!" Nagato said, "Xiao Nan, I thought you had the ability to fly long distances!"

"Nagato, I also hope that I have the ability to fly long distances!" Xiao Nan said with a look of regret.

Seeing the look of regret on Xiao Nan's face, Nagato knew that he could no longer continue the topic of long-distance flight.

So, while stretching out his hand, Nagato said, "Xiao Nan, take my hand, I'll take you fly!"

"Good!" said Xiao Nan.

After speaking, Xiao Nan held Nagato's outstretched hand with his own hand.

Subsequently, Nagato and Konan also flew into the sky.

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Night.

On the outskirts of Cloud Hidden Ninja Village.

After a half-day flight, Hinata Ichiro, Tsunade, Konan, and Nagato arrived at the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village at nightfall.

Seeing that it was getting late, Hinata Ichiro and his party did not enter the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village, but found a suitable place to stay overnight on the outskirts of the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village.

Considering that he needed to go to the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village to investigate the matter of the Seven Tails of the Takihide Ninja Village first, Hinata's Ichiro went to the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village alone after eating the dry food he carried.

……

High in the sky in the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village.

Hinata Ichiro, who had turned on the 'Wisdom Eye', observed the situation of the entire Cloud Hidden Ninja Village from above in the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village.

While observing the situation in the entire Cloud Hidden Ninja Village, Hinata Ichiro first shifted his attention to the core of the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village, Thunder Shadow Castle.

After observing Thunder Castle from top to bottom, inside and out, Hinata Ichiro discovers that the amber bottle that should be stored in Thunder Castle is not in Thunder Shadow Castle.

After making such a discovery, Hinata Ichiro thought in his heart: "Judging from the fact that the amber net bottle is not in the Thunder Shadow Castle, it must be that the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village has used the amber net bottle to seal the seven tails in the body of the seven-tailed human pillar force in the Takiyin Ninja Village. ”

Hinata Ichiro felt sorry for the fact that the seven tails in the body of the Seven Tails of the Takihide Ninja Village were transferred out of the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village - if the situation allowed, Hinata Ichiro wanted to take the Seven Tails of the Takihide Ninja Village under his command.

Ighiro Hinata knew that the amber bottle was no longer in the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village, and shifted his gaze from Thunder Shadow Castle to the entire Cloud Hidden Ninja Village - at this time, Hinata Ichiro needed to know the traces of Kotaro Tanaka by observing the entire Cloud Hidden Ninja Village.

(On Yingzhou Island, Tsunade had already made Hinata Ichiro's appearance known through a portrait of Kotaro Tanaka.) ）

Half an hour later.

Hinata Ichiro, who had observed the entire Cloud Hidden Ninja Village, frowned - in the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village, Hinata Ichiro found no trace of Kotaro Tanaka.

"What the hell is going on?" Hinata Ichiro muttered to himself in the sky, "Why isn't Kotaro Tanaka in the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village when even the four generations of Thunder Shadow are in the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village?"

"Could it be that I have made a mistake somewhere?"

After muttering to himself, Hinata Ichiro, who wanted to know if he had made a mistake somewhere, once again observed the entire Cloud Hidden Ninja Village.

Another half hour passed.

After a second observation, Hinata Ichiro still did not find any trace of Kotaro Tanaka from the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village.

"It seems that the fact that I didn't observe the traces of Kotaro Tanaka from the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village before is not that I have made a mistake somewhere, but that Kotaro Tanaka is not in the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village at all!" Hinata Ichiro muttered to himself again in the sky, "But, apart from the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village, where can Kotaro Tanaka, who has just betrayed Konoha not long ago, go?"

After thinking about it, Hinata Ichiro, who didn't know where Kotaro Tanaka could go, could only suppress his doubts in his heart.

Although no trace of Kotaro Tanaka was found in the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village, the matter of observing the entire Cloud Hidden Ninja Village had been completed, so Hinata Ichiro, who had nothing else to do, walked from the sky above the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village towards the place where he had previously settled.

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A foothold on the outskirts of Cloud Hidden Ninja Village.

When Ichiro Hinata flew back from the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village, he found that Tsunade was the only one who had landed.

"Tsunade-sensei, where did Minami and Nagato go?" asked Hinata Ichiro, who came to sit next to Tsunade, with a puzzled expression.

"Ichiro, I don't know where Konan and Nagato went!" Tsunade replied as he stretched out his hand and pointed in a certain direction, "I only know that the two of them left in this direction!"

"Tsunade-sensei, how long has it been since Minami and Nagato left?" asked Hinata Ichiro.

"Ichiro, it should be ten minutes!" Tsunade thought for a moment and said.

Knowing from Tsunade's mouth that Xiao Nan and Nagato had only been walking for more than ten minutes, Hinata Ichiro turned on his 'Wisdom Eye' and looked in the direction that Tsunade had just pointed.

Since Konan and Nagato were only six or seven hundred meters away from Hinata Ichiro's place, Hinata Ichiro, who had opened his 'discerning eye', instantly saw the situation of Konan and Nagato.

"Ichiro, did you see Konan and Nagato?" asked Tsunade when he saw Hinata Ichiro close his 'insight' eyes.

"Yes!" Hinata Ichiro nodded and said, "Tsunade-sensei, Konan and Nagato are six or seven hundred meters away from here!"

"Ichiro, what are you doing with Konan and Nagato?" asked Tsunade.

"Tsunade-sensei, Konan is demonstrating the medical ninjutsu she has learned in front of Nagato!" Hinata Ichiro said.

"Ichiro, it seems that Nagato is not worried about Xiao Nan's learning of medical ninjutsu with us, and wants to see Xiao Nan's medical ninjutsu learning progress with his own eyes!" Tsunade said suddenly.

"Tsunade-sensei, that's what you said!" Hinata Ichiro said.

After figuring out the reason for Konan and Nagato's departure, Tsunade turned his attention to Hinata Ichiro going to observe the situation in the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village.

"Ichiro, you've been to the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village for so long, you must already have a good idea of the situation in the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village!" Tsunade said, "Now, you can tell me about the situation in the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village!"

"Tsunade-sensei, after observation, I haven't seen the Amber Pure Bottle in the Thunder Shadow Fort where the fourth generation of Thunder Shadow works!" Seeing that Xiao Nan and Nagato were not there, Hinata Ichiro, who had no worries, said without hesitation, "Come to think of it, the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village should transfer the Amber Clear Bottle out of the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village!"

"Ichiro, since the Amber Bottle is not in the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village, does that mean that the Seven Tails in the body of the Seven Tails Pillar Force of the Takihide Ninja Village have been transferred out of the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village?" asked Tsunade as his face changed.

"Tsunade-sensei, the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village should have sealed the Seven Tails in the body of the Seven Tails of the Takihide Ninja Village with the Amber Pure Bottle!" Hinata Ichiro said, "Otherwise, the Amber Pure Bottle will generally not leave the Cloud Hidden Ninja Village lightly!"

"Of course, this is just my personal speculation, and there is no evidence to confirm my personal speculation!"

"Alas-" Hearing Hinata Ichiro's words, Tsunade first sighed, and then spoke: "Ichiro, although there is no evidence to confirm your personal guess, I can't think of it wrong!"

Speaking of this, Tsunade paused, with a complicated look on his face, and said, "It's really heart-wrenching that such a young life is gone!"

From the complicated look on Tsunade's face, Hinata Ichiro could tell that Tsunade wasn't just heartbroken for the sake of the seven-tailed pillar power of the Takikushi Ninja Village.

"Tsunade-sensei, do you think of your younger brother, Rope Tree, from the body of the seven-tailed man of Takikushi Village?" Hinata Ichiro asked in a soft tone as he looked at the fire in front of him.

Hearing the word 'rope tree' from Hinata Ichiro's mouth, Tsunade's whole body was shocked.

Immediately afterward, the expression on Tsunade's face changed from complicated to sad.

Feeling Tsunade's sadness, Hinata Ichiro's face changed back and forth.

From the perspective of Hinata Ichiro's constantly changing face, Hinata Ichiro's heart is also extremely uncalm at this time - as a person with a strong desire for exclusivity, Hinata Ichiro really doesn't want anyone to share Tsunade's feelings for him.

A few minutes later.

Hinata Ichiro's face changed and his speed slowed.

Hinata Ichiro, whose face changed and slowed down, shifted his gaze from the fire to Tsunade's body - looking at Tsunade who gave people a helpless and powerless look, Hinata Ichiro's heart felt an inexplicable pain.

Another minute or two passed.

Hinata's face, which was struggling inwardly, finally stopped changing.

"Tsunade-sensei, if you want the rope tree to be resurrected, then I am willing to help you make that wish come true!" Hinata Ichiro gritted his teeth and said in a low voice.

As soon as Ichiro Hinata said his words, Tsunade in grief was stunned.

After remembering what Hinata Ichiro had just said, Tsunade immediately looked at Hinata Ichiro beside him.

After Tsunade looked at him, Hinata Ichiro relieved Tsunade from Tsunade's expectant gaze.

Perhaps it was Tsunade's expectant gaze that was too hot, and Hinata Ichiro turned his head slightly, shifting his gaze back to the fire.

"Tsunade-sensei, what is your opinion?" asked Hinata Ichiro.

"Ichiro, did Tsunaki lose his life in the Second Shinobi War?" Tsunade did not answer Hinata Ichiro's inquiry, but asked, "Can you resurrect someone who has been dead for so long?"

"Tsunade-sensei, if I am alone, then I will not be able to resurrect the Rope Tree who died in the Second Shinobi War!" Hinata Ichiro said, "However, just because I can't resurrect the Rope Tree who died in the Second Shinobi War doesn't mean that the Rope Tree who died in the Second Shinobi War can't be resurrected - if I work with another person, the Rope Tree who died in the Second Shinobi War will definitely be able to come back again." ”

"Ichiro, what is the reason why you can't resurrect Rope Tree who died in the Second Ninja World War alone?" Tsunade asked Tsunade when he heard that Hinata Ichiro couldn't resurrect Rope Tree alone.