Chapter 15: The Corpse of the Lower Reaches of the Nanga River
Konoha's mission assembly house.
The three generations of Hokage looked at a few people in the seventh class with a complicated look, and finally his gaze stayed on Kakashi Hachiki, and his eyes were even more obscure.
Kakashi, the instructor of Class 7, was wearing a thick bandage around his arm, and this wound was added after participating in the survival drill.
Sarutobi Hizashi stared at his arm and took a leisurely puff of his cigarette, "Kakashi, there's nothing wrong with your injuries, right?" ”
This Kakashi is simply a wonderful flower that guides the upper ninja world!
In previous years, his graduate pass rate was zero; This year, a team was finally allowed to pass the assessment, and the result was won by the graduates!
Kakashi Hachiki reached out and straightened his loose hair, sighed and said, "It shouldn't matter, some ordinary ninja missions are still fine..."
The third Hokage nodded, and took a puff of his pipe: "Hmm, help Kawasen-sama take care of his little grandson, dredge the downstream river or clear the weeds in the farmland?" ”
"Then pick one that pays a little more!"
Naruto Uzumaki stood beside Kakashi Hachiki and raised an eyebrow of his own.
Sarutobi glanced at him and couldn't help but say loudly, "Naruto, there are a lot of people in the village who need help, and every mission will always need a ninja to complete, and if everyone picks and chooses, those who need help will be in a hurry." ”
"But the difficulty of the mission is related to the reward, right?"
Naruto Uzumaki pushed his ninja forehead, looked at the three generations of Hokage and said in a low voice: "What's more, I have become a ninja, and the living allowance issued by the village to orphans will stop this month, and it is inevitable that I will need to be paid to support my life." ”
Hearing this, Ape Fei Ri paused, looked at the task book in his hand, picked out one of the pieces of paper and said, "Is this so?" It just so happens that there is a long backlog of tasks here, because the environment there is too troublesome, and I haven't been able to complete it. ”
"It just so happens that it is also a D-level task that your team can accept at the moment, dredging the river downstream of the Nanhe River, with a maximum salary of 10,000 taels."
"Although the client is no longer there, the remuneration will still be paid in full."
The Minamiga River is the Minamiga River of Konoha.
After Sasuke Uchiha heard this name, his face suddenly changed, but looking at Naruto Uzumaki's calm expression, he finally didn't say anything to stop him.
After the seventh class arrived at the lower reaches of the Minamiga River, Haruno Sakura couldn't help but cover her nose, the smell here was terrible, and a thick tree trunk blocked the surface of the river, blocking the garbage that continued to float downward, and also gave birth to a lot of flying insects.
Obviously, not only that, but the water should also be overgrown with weeds, because they can all see some lush aquatic plants showing their heads on the surface of the river, densely growing on the garbage.
The smell is strong and the smell is sour.
Kakashi Hachiki sighed and sighed, "It looks even more difficult than the usual task of picking up garbage!" No wonder there has been no willingness to handle this commission. ”
"I shouldn't have listened to Naruto if I knew it!"
Sakura stretched out her palm and fanned the air in front of her nose, her little face turned pale: "Even if it's good to do some errands, send letters, find pets and other tasks, this place is not suitable for me and Sasuke-kun to date here!" ”
“……”
Uchiha Sasuke's face darkened, he glanced at the unmoved Naruto Uzumaki, and said loudly: "This location has always smelled bad, I rarely come near here, I remember my father once mentioned that he would issue a mission for this..."
Their Uchiha clan has always been arrogant, cleaning up rivers and picking up garbage or something, and it is impossible to send the upper shinobi of the clan to solve this matter anyway.
It's just that I didn't expect that this commission issued by the former patriarch of the Uchiha clan has been backlogged in the village until the Uchiha has only one orphan left, and it has never been completed.
How many years have passed, and Konoha has not dealt with it.
Kakashi Hachiki seemed to know something, he pointed to his arm, and muttered, "My wound is not healed yet, the doctor told me not to get wet, it seems that this task can only be completed by the three of you..."
Sakura Haruno: "......"
Sasuke Uchiha: "......"
Naruto Uzumaki nodded nonchalantly, and raised his fingers and began to seal: "Multiple Shadow Clone Technique!" ”
Thousands of shadow clones stood densely packed in the space they were, and no matter how many times they saw it, they still didn't delay their surprised expressions when they saw this scene again.
Kakashi Hagi was dumbfounded: "......"
Sakura Haruno's eyes widened, looking at a group of Naruto Uzumaki's shadow clones were packing up their clothes, and said with some joy, "It seems that Naruto can complete this task alone!" ”
"I'm here to help, too..."
Sasuke rolled up his pants and sleeves and whispered, "It's not that far from our clan's land... And... It was also commissioned by his father during his lifetime. ”
"That's... I'm coming too! ”
Sakura Haruno rolled up her sleeves and gritted her teeth and chose to follow Sasuke's footsteps, but looking at her expression, it was really not particularly beautiful.
The sun was slowly rising, and the sun was getting stronger.
The smell of the lower reaches of the Minamiga River is also becoming more and more unpleasant.
After cleaning up all the garbage, Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke worked together to push the thick trunk against the bank of the river, and just as they were relieved, the screams of Sakura Haruno could be heard not far away.
Several people from the seventh class flew to her place and bumped into the pink-haired girl with a nervous look, she looked at her teammates, with tears in the corners of her eyes, and pointed to the cliff not far away and cried: "There... There are people there... corpses..."
"Alert!"
Kakashi Hagi left a word and rushed over with an arrow step!
Because there is a certain ninja in the team, he has to be cautious, since the establishment of Konoha has been established, there is no shortage of spies who have quietly infiltrated Konoha.
If a homicide happens here, it is by no means a trivial matter.
However, when Kakashi Hachiki saw the corpse, his expression gradually stiffened, and he turned his head and slowly focused on Sasuke's body.
Sasuke Uchiha's heart was shocked: "Kakashi-sensei, who is that dead person, what happened to him?" ”
"Come and have a look!"
Kakashi Hachiki rubbed his white hair.
Beneath the cliff in the shade, dense weeds and shrubs grew, and the corpse of a ninja dressed in dark costume lay there, emitting an unbearable stench.
His body had already decomposed, perhaps because of the place where it was kept, no birds and beasts had come to gnaw at his bones, and even some outlines could be faintly seen on his face.
Kakashi Hachiki looked at Sasuke Uchiha, who was walking slowly and his eyes were gradually glazed, and explained in a low voice: "The preliminary judgment is that the river should have washed him here, because this place is close to the water, and there are only mountain cliffs above, so it has been preserved..."
After saying that, he removed a nameplate from the corpse and handed it to Sasuke Uchiha: "You should... Know him. ”
Uchiha Sasuke looked at the words on the nameplate, slowly knelt down in front of the bones, two lines of tears flowed down his cheeks, and sobbed in a low voice: "It's Brother Shisuzu..."
Sakura Haruno's gaze was puzzled, "Kakashi-sensei? ”
Kakashi Hachiki sighed and pulled up Sasuke's body: "Sasuke, this matter needs to be reported to the village, Shisui is the upper shinobi of the village, he has been missing for six years, and he was assassinated by someone who sneaked into the village, this is not a trivial matter..."
"I know who the killer is."
Uchiha Sasuke clenched his fists, clenched his teeth, and his face gradually became hideous: "At the beginning, many people in our clan knew that he was the one who killed Brother Shisui!" ”
"For the sake of power, he killed everyone!"
"It must be him!"