In the white expanse of snow, any color will stand out on it.

At first, the two figures were just two dark bumps of ink on the white scroll; But as the figure gradually approached in the direction they were, both the keen and experienced Kakashi Hachiki and the three children who had not been in their homes for a long time realized that there was a threat in those two men that could not be underestimated.

In fact, when the two figures who were obviously walking towards the hostel were still some distance away from them, Kakashi Hachiki already realized who they were.

The lead-gray armor was a little black against the snow, and the one hanging from the waist was a swordTaxis |Although the knife has not yet been unsheathed, it has a strong sense of presence.

Armor and swords, that must be the specialty of the Iron Country—

"Samurai" now.

Although the samurai are also considered to be the characteristics of the Iron Country, but they usually have their own residences, how can they appear here at this time? Kakashi Hachiki frowned slightly and felt a little strange, but subconsciously felt that the other party was probably coming for them.

To be precise, it was towards the boat stream.

"You ......"

He lowered his head and looked at his students, and was about to say something, but he saw that the three children, who had already cooled down from their previous training, had solemn faces, as if they had already guessed the meaning of the two samurai......

Some of them have even reached out and are ready to take out their own eating guys into the ninja bag.

"You two calm down," Sakura Haruno's face was not very good-looking, but compared to Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha, her advantage was that this was not the first time she had come to the Land of Iron.

When I was young, I came to this country with my adoptive mother, and I have seen the snow and the brave warriors here.

"Sakura-chan?"

"Sakura?"

Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha looked at Sakura Haruno, who usually fought fiercer than anyone else when they needed to fight, but found that the other party did not react in the slightest when it was obvious that the crisis was coming.

"The Land of Iron is a neutral country, and as long as we don't cause trouble here, the samurai won't come to trouble us."

Sakura Haruno and Kakashi Hachiki, who had also been here before, glanced at each other, and the two boys from Class 7 realized that their guide, Kaminobi, had no intention of preparing for battle.

"There are too many powerful people in this world, and it's a good thing to be vigilant, but you can't just see everyone unprepared to fight each other," the little girl muttered softly, but she couldn't hide the ears of the two teenagers.

"And we don't necessarily beat them together."

This is what reminded the two teenagers of what happened in the country of waves that day, and if they don't kill in the face of Momochi, let alone the three of them together-even if there is another Kakashi-sensei, they will be targeted and calculated by the other party in the place where the war started.

The little girl's words are also what Kakashi Hachiki wants to say, after the incident in the country of waves, the two teenagers didn't even do much to recuperate and regulate their mood, so they went out to perform such an A-class mission, and there was excitement - although this A-class mission was essentially a C-class mission.

But in addition to excitement, there is more uneasiness and excessive nervousness.

As the little girl said, it's good to be vigilant - ninjas, you have to be alert in any environment; But if the vigilance is too much, even to the point that the grass and trees are all soldiers, then it will consume your own spirit.

In the face of this kind of person who is not sure of the enemy and has nothing to do with it for the time being, the best way to deal with it is to salute first and then soldier.

Of course, if you encounter an existence like the Masked Man you met in the Bird Country, it would be useless to use courtesy—because both sides knew that there would be no doubt that war would follow.

Kakashi didn't say anything, just rubbed the hair of Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha one by one, "Don't be too nervous, even if something really happens, isn't there still me?" ”

This sentence not only agrees with Sakura Haruno's previous statement, but also appeases the two teenagers who are obviously not in the right mood after the first war of the country of waves.

Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha glanced at each other, and the kunai that had already been taken out of the ninja bag was put back like this.

Although he was not too nervous, in the face of the two samurai who were obviously coming to the hotel, the eldest and third of Class 7 had no intention of returning to the warm room, and just waited quietly at the door.

If the other party is just passing by, it's okay to say, if the other party is really coming to the boat......

Then as her guards, they naturally have a duty to protect her.

After waiting for about half a minute, the two samurai who were wearing heavy armor but still walking like flying finally came to the door of the shop, the two of them were about thirty years old, and not only did they not have any surprise and vigilance after facing Kakashi Kakashi and his party, but even asked-

"Looking at the forehead guards of a few people, it seems to be the ninja of Konoha Village, the Land of Fire."

As a country of samurai, Iron Country does not interfere in battles between ninjas, and is one of the rare neutral countries with the right to speak in this troubled world.

However, in the final analysis, this is because the Iron Country has the specialty of "samurai", so even though the Iron Country is located on the border of the Land Country and borders the Fire Country, it has not been affected too much in the previous wars.

Of course, its icy nature also serves as a natural barrier.

After all, there are not many village leaders who are willing to let their ninjas fight the enemy in the snow, and the weather is very cold and heavy snow and the road is closed, resulting in supplies that cannot be replenished and backup cannot arrive in time.

In a place like the Land of Iron, once it snows, it is endless, and as soon as the snow covers the ground, it is a white expanse, and all the iconic places are buried.

It was already an unfamiliar land of iron, and it snowed again...... It's very easy to get lost.

Considering the fact that the Iron Country is not suitable as a battlefield in any case, and that ninjas have a special way of fighting, this is the biggest reason why the Five Great Powers default to being a neutral country.

Hearing the two samurai's inquiries at this moment, Kakashi Hachiki replied with ease and alertness as he pressed the student who wanted to say something, "We are, are you looking for us?" ”

"Then Lord Mashu from Konoha Village should be staying in this hostel at the moment, right?"

Because the Land of Iron is a neutral country, there are basically no ninjas picking quarrels and provoking trouble here; It is also because of the special environment of the Iron Country, if ordinary ninjas go out on a mission, they rarely choose to borrow the Iron Country.

- unless there is a genuine reluctance to pass through the land of a hostile country.

However, the two samurai probably knew that Funakami had come to Iron Country on purpose and had already arrived here, and after seeing Kakashi Hachiki hear their inquiry, he asked rhetorically, "Is there something wrong with the two of you looking for Tsuru Kawari", and then took out a letter.

"My family wants to ask Mashu to talk about it."

The two samurai didn't seem to want to cause trouble, and even respected Zhou Jianwen a lot, and their words were polite; They probably knew that there must be someone by Funakashi's side, and it was like there was a ninja as a guard, so they directly handed the letter in their hands in the direction of Kakashi and his party......

But it was not given to them directly.

"If a few people are close to Lord Zhenzhou, please report on your behalf."

Kakashi Hachiki's gaze hadn't taken off them since the two samurai appeared, and seeing that although they were all full of murderous aura, their words were quite polite, he invited the two to the inn, and at the same time ordered Sakura Haruno to call someone.

The little girl is the smartest and most clever of the three children, and she is the adopted daughter of Zhou Jianwen, so she naturally knows what to say and how to say it so that Zhou Jianwen can understand the situation at once.

After waiting for about three or five minutes, Zhou Jianwen, who originally said that he was going to take a nap, appeared neatly dressed in everyone's sight.

In the process of waiting, the proprietress of the inn brought tea to several people, but none of the people who were thinking about it did not move, and at this moment, when they saw the appearance of the samurai who invited the party, or Kakashi and the others who were the guards of the boat, they immediately stood up from their positions.

The samurai didn't say a word while waiting, like a gourd with a sawed mouth, even if Kakashi wanted to find out something, but he couldn't ask a word, and at this moment, he saw that Funaken appeared in sight, and one of the samurai, who had always been in charge of negotiating with Kakashi and the others, actually took the initiative to speak.

"Mifune-sama," he said, re-enclosing the letter in his hand, "Mifune-sama, please tell us tomorrow." ”

The samurai hadn't said what the name of his lord was when he handed over the letter, but when Kakashi Hachiki heard the name Mifune, he immediately felt a pang in his heart.

Because the samurai system in Iron Country is completely different from that of ninjas, it is sometimes impossible to determine what level a samurai's strength should be if converted to the level of ninja; In addition, the samurai themselves did not have much contact with the outside world......

So most of the ninjas, whether they are from Konoha Village or not, are indifferent to the situation on the samurai side.

In other words, most ninjas don't know what kind of master they have among the samurai as much as they can do with other countries.

But there is one name among the samurai that all experienced ninjas will not forget, and must even remember - that is, the leader of the samurai of the Iron Country, the samurai who fought against Sanshoyu Hanzo back then:

Mifune.

Although Funakami was also an old man who had participated in the Second Ninja World War, Kakashi Hachiki didn't expect that the other party would actually be familiar with Mifune, even to the point where he could ask the other party to personally send someone to invite her.

Zhou Jianwen motioned to Veneto, who was on the side, to take the letter, and after Veneto quickly confirmed that there were no problems on the envelope and stationery, he took the letter and looked at it.

In fact, this letter from the samurai leader of the Iron Country is not long, and the content is even as rigorous as the character of the person who wrote it.

Funaka quickly glanced at it and read it again, then folded the letter again, and then smiled at the two samurai, "Please tell Mr. Mifune on my behalf, and I will definitely come as promised." ”

After receiving such a sentence from Zhou Jian Min, the work of the two samurai today is over.

They bowed slightly to Zhou Jianwen and bowed, and then left in silence as they had come.

Seeing the two lead-gray figures disappear into the snow again, Kakashi Hagi left the window and walked towards the table in the middle of the hall, he looked at the main seat and calmly drank tea, and the gesture of wanting to speak several times but finally stopped talking, finally attracted the attention of everyone, including Shujian Min and the three children.

Naruto Uzumaki pushed his elbow against Sasuke Uchiha beside him, and when the other party turned his head to look at him with some impatience, he immediately covered his mouth and leaned his head over, "Kakashi-sensei, what's wrong." ”

Although Naruto Uzumaki still remembers to deliberately keep his voice down, who in the room is not deaf and clear-sighted?

So I immediately noticed the small movement of the two teenagers.

Sasuke Uchiha twitched the corners of his mouth, secretly sighing at Naruto Uzumaki's gossip, but also curious about Kakashi's unusual posture.

It seems that since the two samurai handed the letter to Funakami Min, this guy is as restless as if he has hemorrhoids.

Wait, speaking of which, Kakashi is almost three.

Even if he did have hemorrhoids, it wouldn't be a strange thing, right?

The more Uchiha Sasuke thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, but when he came back to his guess and wanted to confirm the middle-aged man's secret, he found that this time everyone's eyes were on him.

The gaze of the people in the room, especially Kakashi Hachiki's gloomy gaze, was a little hairy, but Sasuke Uchiha had to pretend to be calm, and he was about to ask them what was wrong, when he heard Naruto on the side ask with a confused look on his face-

"Sasuke, hemorrhoids...... What is it? ”

- Eh, eh??????

Finally realizing that he had accidentally muttered something in his heart, Uchiha Sasuke resisted the urge to stroke his forehead, and said with some detachment, "This...... You'll understand it from now on. ”

But Naruto Uzumaki was obviously not satisfied with his companion's answer, he frowned and complained, "Why do you even say that to Sasuke!" ”

"Also?"

I don't know who answered that, but it didn't really matter, because Naruto Uzumaki's next answer shook everyone in the room and didn't know how to react.

"Yes, I also asked when my mother said that my father seemed to have hemorrhoids, but my mother smiled and said that I would understand later."

"Ahem, ahem, ahem—"

An earth-shattering cough resounded in the room as Naruto Uzumaki's words fell, and the boy looked blankly at the scene in front of him: Minu Funaya was coughing with her mouth covered, and she didn't know if it was sick, so that Veneto and Sakura Haruno stood beside her with worried expressions and asked for warmth.

Sasuke beside him seemed to be infected, and his face was crimson with a cough, and the fair-skinned face that many girls in Konoha Village loved was filled with embarrassment.

The most powerful thing is Kakashi, I don't know how he did it, he can still drink tea through a mask, and he can actually squirt water through the mask at this time.

Not to mention that he is unhygienic in the end, but for his craft, no, ventriloquism, he must be praised.

"I—I didn't hear anything just now!"

Accidentally hearing his teacher's secret from his own students, Kakashi Hachiki didn't know if he was more embarrassed or more sympathetic - he had been pitted by these three bear children for so long, and he only understood their true nature today......

Actually, it's a cheat!!

"Don't say that in front of anyone else, Naruto," Kakashi Hachiki didn't care that his mask was already wet from his ventriloquism|One||piece, after all, the most important thing now is to stop the loss in time......

No, it's about retaining some of the dignity of your own teacher.

"Actually...... It's not something that can't be imagined, after all, Watergate has been sitting in the office for so many years......" Finally calming down from the cough, Funakashi said leisurely, holding the teacup that was not contaminated by Kakashi.

“…… Lord Kenwen! ”

- Save some face for my Watergate teacher!

Hearing the meaning of Kakashi's words, he no longer pursued the secret of the real middle-aged man, and coughed a few more dryly, and then changed the subject, "What did you just say to me...... No, I guess you're going to ask me, Kakashi? ”

At this moment, Kakashi Hachiki also recovered from his teacher's painful secret, and he coughed a few times along with Shujian Min, "That...... Something about Mifune-sama......"

It stands to reason that he is not qualified to ask Zhou Jian Wen about this, after all, his current identity is Zhou Jian Wen's guard, and he should not care about issues outside the mission - especially about Zhou Jian Wen's private invitation.

Even if the relationship between the tasks is excluded, Zhou Jianwen's qualifications are much higher than his.

However, the samurai leader of the Iron Country would send someone to invite Zhou Jian Min, which really puzzled him.

He didn't doubt that Zhou Jian Wen would have dealings with other countries, not to mention that Zhou Jian Wen's dedication and attention to Konoha were seen by everyone, even if she wanted to collude with the heads of other countries, it was impossible for her to choose the Iron Country as a neutral country.

"Mr. Mifune and I are old friends, and we have fought on the battlefield of the Second Ninja War."

This is really a fact, after all, the situation was chaotic during the Second Ninja World War, who knows if the person he met on the battlefield today will be exposed to the wilderness tomorrow, or will become famous in the world.

It was under such circumstances that he fought with Mifune, and even fought a battle.

But I didn't want to be the two sides of the hairy boy at the time, one of them later became the famous samurai leader of the Iron Country, and the other ended his ninja career soon after.

"A few years ago, I came to Iron Country, and I accidentally met Mr. Mifune again while I was doing business, and the former enemies had a good conversation without the influence of the general environment," this is also true, but she hides something from Kakashi Hachiki.

For example, the real reason why Mifune will have a good conversation with him...... It's still the knife that I'm good at in the other party||The sword has an advantage.

The cause is a gamble.

A gamble that is more or less related to Zhou Jianwen's visit to the Iron Country.

Mifune also knew that she couldn't use chakra now, so she didn't use chakra at that time, and the two sides purely used knives to compete and pointed, but it was she who didn't want to gain an advantage in the end.

This incident is actually not very strange, after all, she had experienced a total of nearly 10,000 fierce battles in the imaginary circle in the second chapter of the map, although there were times when she was assisted by the ship's mother, but there were also many times when she personally ended up.

If she didn't use chakra or any spiritual power, and only relied on her sword skills and her own strength to compete against her, Mifune would probably not be able to defeat her.

But this matter is like a fantasy for Mifune, he never thought that a ninja - and a ninja who has retired from the war and lived in seclusion for many years would actually be able to sword ||The sword is stronger than oneself in the victory or defeat.

If Zhou Jian Wen is stronger than him with Chakra, it will be fine, but it is a simple knifeSword competition.

A samurai is actually in a simple sword ||Losing to a ninja in a sword contest, and being a ninja who everyone knows is a ninja who has been seriously injured and retired for many years, and is better at his own brainpower, this thing is really a bit ridiculous.

However, Mifune is also a person who is willing to gamble and lose, and after Zhou Jian Min really used a knife to compare with him, he contacted a knife maker who had been forging knives for their samurai all his life, and asked the other party to tailor a martial arts for Zhou Jian WenTaxis |Knife.

The swordsmith and Mifune were also acquaintances, and although he was reluctant to forge a knife for an outsider, especially a woman who had been a ninja before, he immediately changed his attitude when he heard that Minu Funaken had beaten Mifune in the competition.

In fact, Zhou Jianwen also understands that a knifesmith like this who wants craftsmanship, craftsmanship, fame, fame, status, and status is reluctant to cast knives for a person who only uses knives as accessories.

But if the other party has the ability to match his craft, then it will be easy to say after that.

"This time, our group came to the Iron Country unimpeded, and it was also thanks to Mr. Mifune," otherwise, how could such a conspicuous group of ninjas not attract any strange eyes and trouble after coming to the Iron Country.

Kakashi nodded, kind of accepting this statement.

He also knew the ability of this Lord Jianwen, but he didn't expect that her ability was really big enough to subdue Lord Mifune of the Iron Country when he didn't even find out.

can only be said to be worthy of the real boat, no matter what strange and absurd things happen to her, it is not strange.

"We'll visit Mr. Mifune tomorrow morning, and then we'll be able to get down to business," Minu Funakami glanced at Kakashi, who was in charge of the guards, "This time we're here in Iron Country for my personal business, and the samurai don't have to worry about it, just be careful." ”

Kakashi understood what he said, after all, it was also his thoughts.

It's best not to get into trouble, otherwise the country of iron and the country of fire won't tear their faces, but they won't be able to eat and walk around in trouble.

…… But the question is, if they don't get into trouble, will they really not get into trouble on their own?