Chapter 53: The Only Casualty
A week after Payne invaded Iwakuin Village, the Land of Fire, Konoha.
Hinata Tsuki, who was the sixth Hokage at the time, looked at the letter from Iwakuin Village on the table, and the content of the letter made Hinata Tsuki, who was no longer young, look in a trance.
"Go call Kakashi." Hinata said to the herald ninja.
Moments later, Kakashi arrived.
"Kakashi, I need you to lead the seventh squad as the village's special envoy to rush to Iwain Village and determine the specific situation of Iwain Village."
Kakashi took the order, and Hinata looked up and stared blankly at the chandelier on the ceiling.
That guy in Uehara is actually dead.
Hinata had heard about Uehara's death more than once, but Uehara, who had the name of a miracle, ended up standing in front of everyone again and again.
But this time, there may be no miracles.
The fate of a ninja is about that.
"Uehara and Satoru, have they disappeared together?" Hinata was stunned.
Hinata suddenly remembered that he seemed to have no friends all of a sudden. Hinata became a kage, and he himself was a daimyo, and no one in Konoha Village would want to be friends with Kage or a daimyo. Since a long time ago, Hinata seems to have only one friend left.
When Naruto-Sakura and Sasuke all became ninjas who could stand alone, the seventh class rarely went out on missions together.
At the entrance of Konoha Village, Kakashi still didn't arrive on time, five minutes later than the agreed time.
"It's really Kakashi-sensei, I'm late every time." Naruto, who was bored kicking the stone, grumbled.
"Kakashi-sensei, what kind of mission is this time?" Naruto looked very expectant.
"Naruto, your shinobi exam is coming soon, isn't it?" Kakashi didn't answer Naruto, but instead asked another question, "Sasuke and Sakura have both become shinobi, so it's up to you." ”
"As a shinobi, I'm nominally Naruto, your superior O." Sasuke made Naruto's jokes, which made Naruto even more depressed.
When the seventh squad crossed the land of fire and arrived at the border of the land of earth, they found that there were a large number of ninja troops on the border of the land country. Only during the Danzo period Kakashi had seen the same number of Iwa Shinobi border troops, and before that, with the new Hokage coming to power, the relationship between Konoha and Iwakure had eased again, and both sides had drastically reduced the size of the border forces.
The fierce Iwa Ninja looked at Kakashi's credentials with a hostile look in his eyes, which made Kakashi feel that something was wrong.
The official version of the Iwakure high-level is that the four generations of Tsuchikage single-handedly defeated all the enemies when the powerful enemy invaded the village. By the time the support arrived, the fourth generation had already died of his injuries.
For the purpose of concealing some important information, most of Iwakure's upper ninjas got the news like this.
One of the enemies who invaded Iwakuin Village was Orochimaru, one of the three Konoha ninjas, so don't expect the Iwa ninjas to have much affection for Kakashi and the Konoha ninjas.
Except for the seventh flight being blocked at the border, the journey within the land country is unimpeded.
Arriving at Iwakure Village, the four Kakashi were faced with a huge crater deep enough to be called a canyon.
The signs of the fierce battle were still there, and Kakashi possessed and grabbed a handful of soft floating dirt under his feet, and in the yellow debris there was a small white cement block that caught Kakashi's attention, it was a fragment of a building.
(What kind of battle could have caused such terrible damage...... Kakashi's pupils constricted.
If the enemy attacks Konoha, then what will happen to Konoha will be the consequences, Kakashi does not dare to think.
"This is the location of Iwakuin Village, and the village plans to use the barrier to permanently preserve the traces of the battle here, so as to remember the great sacrifice made by the four generations to protect the village." The young Iwa Shinobi who was in charge of leading the way had sadness and grief in his eyes.
"I wasn't from Iwain Village before. In order to protect everyone, the teacher forbade any ninja in the village to intervene in his battles, and I am so lucky to have such a village and shadow. ”
Kakashi was keenly aware of the message in the words of the young ninja in front of him.
Naruto, who had a cheerful personality, also had times when he was in a low mood, and Naruto grabbed a black piece of iron from the dirt, which was no bigger than his knuckles, and it was vaguely clear that it was a part of the blade that had been shattered by Kunai.
How fierce was the fighting that caused an entire village to disappear into thin air?
Naruto stood at the edge of the pit created by the Celestial Expedition in the middle of the ruins of Iwakuin Village, and he stared into the depths of the pit, which was pitch black because it was too deep.
(How did the Tsuchikage dodge this level of attack...... Next to Naruto, Sasuke carefully observed the traces of the battlefield with blazing eyes, and he felt a different kind of than Naruto, and he marveled at the effect of ninjutsu more than sadness.
"Trying to protect everything in the village, even if I sacrifice myself, Uncle Tsuchikage did what I always wanted to do." Naruto's heart was touched.
"I'll be like Uncle Tsuchikage, no matter what kind of enemy I am, I won't retreat!" Naruto clenched his fists.
Kakashi felt that he was halfway done. The Hokage asked him to find out the damage to Iwakure, and now Kakashi knew about the loss - the entire Iwakuin Village was completely destroyed without even a single intact wall.
"Although it may be rude to ask such a question, it is a matter of confidentiality in Yanyin Village. But I want to know, how much did the people lose in Yanyin Village? Kakashi stared into the eyes of the young Iwa Shinobi, the experience of working in the shadows had given him a high level of interrogation skills, and with the help of the Sharingan, Kakashi could observe the mental activity of his target from subtle facial expressions. For example, when lying and not lying, the eyes are definitely different.
"In this attack, there were casualties in Yanyin Village, one." Iwa Shinobu met Kakashi's eyes with a determined gaze.
“…… One? Kakashi was skeptical.
"One." The young Shinobi of Iwa said again, "The fourth generation of Tsuchikage, he was the only person killed in this attack. ”
Kakashi's interrogation skills told him that there was no falsehood in the words of this Iwa Shinobi in front of him, and Kakashi was shocked physically and mentally.
In the midst of the catastrophe when the entire village was destroyed into ruins, it was a miracle that the Tsuchikage was able to protect everyone intact.
Inexplicably, Kakashi once again remembered the name of the fourth generation of Tsuchikage, the name that has been passed down in the ninja world, Miracle Ninja.
In Kakashi's Ninja Creed, he never expects any miracles, and for ninjas, it is not luck or miracle that can survive a brutal battle, but the skillful ninja skills brought about by countless hard training and training.
Kakashi's creed was shaken at this moment, and perhaps, there really would be a miracle. Kakashi thought as he looked at the red ninja suit of the young Iwa Shinobi in front of him.
Kakashi suddenly remembered that the young man in front of him, who was the same age as Naruto, had collected information about him in the dark, and it seemed that his name was Junmaro, and in the middle ninja exam jointly held by a certain Sand Shinobi and Iwa Ninja, Kimimaro was the final winner, and he was tied for the first place with the people of Sand Hidden Village.
Soon, Kakashi meets the Sand Hidden Pillar Force on a flyship, and I love Luo.
Perhaps because of the same human pillar force and the same aura, both Airo and Naruto noticed each other's existence first.
"I feel the chakra of the bastard Nine-Tails."
"That little imp of the sand has the breath of a crane."
Both Moritsuru and Nine-Tails felt each other's presence.