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Kakashi didn't explain much about this, and continued to march towards the Sand Ninja Village with a group of people.

When everyone finally arrived at Sand Ninja Village, they found that the situation here was even more miserable than they imagined.

The seemingly large Sand Ninja Village looks like a ghost town at this time, and there is not a single pedestrian walking around the streets of the huge city.

Kakashi and the others stood at the entrance of the village for a long time, and just as Kakashi was about to raise his feet and walk into the village, he retracted his feet.

Right at Kakashi's feet, there was something sharp buried under the yellow sand.

"Konoha Murakami Shinobu Kakashi, lead the joint team to apply to enter the village." Kakashi shouted loudly into the village.

After a while, a man with his head and face completely covered in a veil poked his head out from behind the high wall of the Sand Ninja Village, and looked at Kakashi and the others in front of him with a wary face, before he said in a voice full of hatred, "When did the people of Konoha Village come to help us with kindness?" Isn't everything you see along the way your doing? ”

"There are no similar plans in the village, and we haven't fought any more wars since the last peace agreement." Kakashi said, repeating his own words, "I'm here to help you." Please let us in. ”

Although he wanted to refuse Kakashi's request, the Sand Ninja Village at this time did not have enough manpower to investigate, so he could only show a reluctant look and say, "Remove the defense." ”

As he spoke, the sand beneath Kakashi's feet suddenly slowly sank like water, revealing the true body hidden within.

"What a puppet!" Seeing these hideous-looking puppets, Naruto couldn't help but gasp.

Looking at the astonishment on Naruto's face, although the sentry Sand Ninja Village ninja still had hatred in his heart, he couldn't help but show a little pride on his face.

It was the pride of the village, a murderous weapon made by the scorpion himself!

After getting permission to enter, Kakashi, Kai and the others quickly walked inside, while Sakura and the others carefully bypassed the seemingly harmless puppet.

But at this moment, a strong wind blew in the village without warning, and before Kakashi and the others could react, the people of the Sand Ninja Village turned around in horror and wanted to flee.

The puppets that had been motionless were at least fifty at the moment when the wind blew, and suddenly, all of these puppets flew up, but at a cursory glance, there were at least fifty of them!

A black shadow tore through the wild sand in front of everyone with a terrifying sonic boom, and a pair of indifferent eyes pierced countless distances, making the enemies who looked at him feel cold in their hands and feet.

Before everyone could react, even Kakashi only had time to make a defensive gesture, and the black shadow slammed the body of the Sand Ninja Village ninja that Kakashi had seen before backwards.

"Kubo!" The sand ninja's companion's eyes were torn apart, but the shadow with an indifferent face left their field of vision after taking the man's life.

At this time, those puppets in the sky released countless ninjutsu from their bodies and hit the position where the shadow was standing before.

The huge explosion constantly tossed the surrounding sand and stones, and the wind and sand outside blew in along the blasted wall, making a whimpering sound.

"Whoever you are, please don't continue your killing!" After witnessing this bloody scene with her own eyes, Sakura, who knew what the other party would do with the corpse, finally broke down emotionally, and the whole person shouted hysterically, "Please don't continue." ”

"It's them! If it weren't for them, we wouldn't have opened the defenses so easily! After the shadow left, a ninja shouted in a voice full of hatred, "Kill them!" ”

"Kill them!" The words of the man who spoke before were accepted by most of the people, and for a moment, these ninjas full of grief and hatred showed a dangerous look towards Kakashi and the others.

"Wait a minute!" Suddenly, Naruto quickly ran to the front of the crowd, spread his hands and said loudly, "Please calm down!" ”

"Hmph, even if you say so."

"We're here to help you, please don't doubt that, I can understand the death of your companion just now." As Naruto spoke, he suddenly hit his nose with an oncoming stone.

"How can you possibly empathize?! Don't lie! A hateful villager from the village of Sand Ninja shouted.

"I can feel your grief, and I've seen those things along the way." Naruto's eyes were full of tears, and there was a hint of choked in his voice, "Please let us help you!" ”

"This" Naruto's words left these people in the Sand Ninja Village speechless for a moment, they looked at each other, and finally they didn't know who whispered, "What a fool." After that, the name of the village of Sand Ninja Village, who poked his head out of the house, returned to his room.

"Naruto, let's go." Kakashi reached out and patted Naruto on the back, and under the guidance of the passer-by, he quickly walked to the place where the Sand Ninja Village was used to entertain foreign guests.

At this time, there was a red-haired, handsome-looking teenager standing in the lobby on the first floor.

After seeing the boy, Kakashi was slightly stunned, and asked in a voice with a little uncertainty, "Scorpion?" ”

"Hmm." The scorpion nodded to Kakashi, and then said directly, "Now that all the outside passages in the village are blocked, it is difficult to supply supplies, so there is no water and electricity here, if you need to go to the toilet at night, please light a candle." ”

"How so." Although she knew the situation in Sand Ninja Village at this time, Sakura couldn't help but muttered to herself at the thought that she would not be able to take a bath for many days.

After saying this to Kakashi and the others, the scorpion quickly left the room.

Naruto saw that Kakashi had been staring at the back of the scorpion, and asked Kakashi with some curiosity, "Kakashi-sensei, do you know that guy?" ”

"The Red Sand Scorpion was a formidable opponent on the battlefield." Kakashi replied to Naruto.

"Ever? He looks like he's about the same age as us! Hearing Kakashi's expression, Naruto said a little strangely.

"Sometimes, a person's appearance does not determine their actual age." After Kakashi finished speaking, he didn't want to say anything more. Reaching out and patting Naruto on the shoulder, he began to beckon the others to settle down.

Night.

After many days of continuous travel, everyone was very tired, but most of them did not feel sleepy.

Naruto, who had been lying on the bed and couldn't fall asleep, sat up from the bed, pushed open the door and walked out, only to see Nara Shikamaru sitting in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the corridor, looking down at something by the moonlight hanging high in the sky.

Hearing the sound of the door behind him, Nara Shikamaru turned his head to look, and after realizing that it was Naruto, he nodded to Naruto, "You can't sleep either?" ”

"Hmm." Naruto approached Nara Shikamaru with some curiosity and asked a little strangely, "What are you doing?" ”

"Sort out the information." Nara Shikamaru said as he turned sideways and let go of the various materials that were placed in front of him.

"What are these?" Naruto crouched beside Nara Shikamaru and looked at the information and said strangely.

"These are the losses of the other four major powers in the past few years, and Konoha Village has not been assassinated or attacked in any way in the past few years. If nothing else, it should indeed be the work of the people of Konoha Village. Nara Shikamaru said, picking up a head that had been held in the ground by a bell and showing it to Naruto.

"Why are you so sure?" Naruto said, suddenly remembering the attitude of the people of the Sand Ninja Village towards himself and the others before, and couldn't help but say, "Maybe it's just that I don't know who wants to frame us?" ”

"No, it won't." Nara Shikamaru shook his head, "People with this level of strength will not be unknown in the ninja world, basically people with this level of strength are now being monitored, and the only place that has not received this kind of monitoring is only one, and that is Mao Ninjutsu Academy." ”

Seeing that Xiaobai's face still showed a puzzled look, Nara Shikamaru sighed and began to explain to Xiaobai, "People like you won't know about the high-level activities, but I can tell you that although Konoha Village has the Mao Ninjutsu Academy, the village does not have the real control of the Ninjutsu Academy, and it is an independent place. Armed Forces Agency. ”

"Then it's not sure that it was really done there!" Naruto was still puzzled.

"Well, but the attackers have always followed a very old convention, and if I hadn't seen this record from the forbidden library in the village, I wouldn't be so sure that someone from our side did it." Nara Shikamaru said, pulling out a pile of yellowed paper from the information in front of him, pointing to the top string of words, Nara Shikamaru asked Naruto, "See this?" Read it out. ”

"First, you are not allowed to slaughter children who have no power to resist, second, you are not allowed to slaughter women and children, and third, I have not thought about it." Naruto read to the end and couldn't help but say, "What is this third one?" ”

"That's what you see." Nara Shikamaru said this, with a little interest in his eyes, "It's the first time I've seen such a law, and it feels like a king is joking with his own people. ”

The Nara Shikamaru Divine Beast stopped Naruto who wanted to post, "This you see is a guideline that has been used and strictly adhered to for the twenty years since the establishment of Konoha. ”

"What?" Hearing that this child's play-like code came from Konoha, Naruto's mouth couldn't help but open the boss.

"Well, you heard it right." Nara Shikamaru said, and took some information with the symbols of other villages from it and put it in front of Naruto, "I don't know for what reason, the village that has happened a lot of things has no record of this, and the names of the people mentioned are only Madara of the Uchiha family and the Hokage of the first generation, two big people who can't hide." But fortunately, because of my family, I still found these things from other countries. ”

Nara Shikamaru said, noticing the strange expression on Naruto's face, he couldn't help but sigh and patted Naruto on the shoulder, "We've been in charge of the village's finances since the village was founded, so it's easy to buy these materials that are just buried and not sealed." ”

"You go ahead and talk about it." At this time, Naruto had been completely aroused by Nara Shikamaru, and looking at Nara Shikamaru, Naruto's eyes showed a little expectation.

"Well, you look at these materials first, I also found some records of the Warring States period before the establishment of Ninja Village, you look at this, there is anything wrong in this."

"No? What's so strange about it? Naruto looked at it for a long time and found that it was full of things that resembled samurai handwritings, and most of them recorded accounts such as killings and collecting and sending money.

"You see, before the other Shikoku established villages, samurai activities were actually very active, and if a young man with qualifications like us didn't have a family lineage, then we would definitely become samurai instead of ninjas. But did you find out? In the Land of Fire, there are only official samurai family letters, and some wild samurai have no trace at all. This shows that the samurai in the Fire Nation had already been purposefully slaughtered before the establishment of the village, and as a result, a large number of civilians and manpower plus the collection of orphans that the village had been doing all the time, these three parts formed the foundation of the current Konoha . ”

"What does that have to do with this attacker?"

"Because no one strictly follows a rule that is only circulated in the realm of the Fire Nation." Nara Shikamaru said excitedly, with a rare look of joy on his face, "From all the information I can find, only the country of Fire has this strange rule, and the place where the assassin passed through did not kill any unarmed children, women and children, even if it is a female ninja and a ninja's child, it is only a limb that has been abolished, and there is no danger to life, and all of this is formulated from the founder of Mao Ninjutsu Academy, the man named Xiaobai!" ”

"What?! Xiaobai? Hearing the familiar name, Naruto exclaimed very exaggeratedly.

"What? Do you know the name? Nara Shikamaru was slightly stunned.

"I know a friend whose name he calls." Naruto muttered to himself.

"You mean the guy who got a lot of flusters before?" Nara Shikamaru asked Naruto.

"yes, I saw from him that he gave your IOU to Uncle Ichiraku, and we ate ramen there for a long time." Naruto said as he reminisced.

"Where are the others now?!" Nara Shikamaru grabbed Naruto with excitement on his face, "Let me meet him!" ”

"I haven't seen him since that attack on the middle ninja exam." Naruto said, reaching out and removing Nara Shikamaru's hand, "Don't shake me, I'm dizzy." ”

"Let's go." Nara Shikamaru said with regret on his face, and suddenly the whole person was slightly stunned, and became serious, "It seems that all the puzzles have been solved." ”