However, a few hours before Hinata touched the seal on her body, at the border of "Tanokuni", two figures, one large and one small, were waiting for the arrival of the client in the dark.

Now the sky has just fallen into the night, but the surroundings are not to say that they can't see their fingers, at least the light is quite dim, but this dimness is small compared to the darkness in the hearts of these two men.

"Itachi, is it because of your brother that you took the initiative to take on this task?"

Perhaps it was because the time waiting for the client to arrive was too boring, or perhaps it was a relationship that the ghost shark had wanted to ask for a long time, and the man with a shark face who was sitting on a rock with a big sword on his back seemed to ask this question inadvertently.

No, judging by the Oni Shark's understanding of this partner, Itachi is not such a keen person to take on tasks, on the contrary, he is the kind of person who basically does not take the initiative to express his opinion.

Usually taciturn, never talking about himself, as if he had no interest in anything, the darkness emanating from his dark pupils was darker than any night, this was Uchiha Itachi, a perfect ninja.

“...... Why do you think so? Orochimaru and I didn't have a grudge before, so it's not strange to ask for a dispatch. ”

After hearing the ghost shark's question, the weasel sitting under a tree next to him said without looking back, as if he had prepared this answer a long time ago.

But for his answer, the ghost shark obviously didn't believe a word, but the ghost shark didn't say anything, because he knew that it was useless to say it, and this guy Itachi would definitely not admit it.

Have a grudge against Orochimaru? What hatred? Did the people use the "writing wheel" to repair the hatred on one side? Maybe Orochimaru will have a grudge against Itachi, but in Itachi's heart, he may even forget what happened that day, what is this grudge?

Well? Here it comes. But at that moment, there was a slight whistling sound from the dark sky not far away, and the weasel slowly looked over there, only to see a huge clay bird flying towards it with its wings outstretched.

"Oh, Deidara, you didn't say you would come too."

When he saw the two figures on the flying bird, the corner of the ghost shark's mouth raised a smile, but he didn't mind multiple people performing the task, wouldn't it be easier to complete the task.

"I'm here in a private capacity this time, and this is the commissioner of the mission......"

"Hinuga Goyuki, the eldest young master of the Hyuga clan, is it?"

Before Deidara could introduce the employer standing next to him, he had already come to the figure next to the landed bird, and the Uchiha Itachi showed a rare look of surprise, but he immediately covered it up.

How could it be him? When he saw the man's face and said the name that seemed to be a lifetime away, Itachi couldn't help but think of the child he had met almost eight years ago when he had accompanied his father and younger brother to the opening ceremony of the ninja school.

Although seven or eight years have passed, this young man is not much different from the child in his memory, still with a delicate face and a deep gaze that does not match his age...... Perhaps it was because of the relationship between that gaze and Itachi's own imagination that he was extremely impressed.

"Hinata? The people of Konoha? Hahaha! It's really funny, when you Konoha ninjas also started to entrust us with work, it's really rare. ”

After learning the identity of the teenager from his partner's mouth, the oni shark couldn't help but laugh heroically, because this is indeed a very rare thing.

Although "Xiao" often undertakes national-level war work, so far, most of the commissions they have received are from small countries and small villages, and the work from the five major ninja villages is basically only from Iwa Ninja Village and Mist Ninja Village, and from Konoha ...... Anyway, there is no ghost shark in my impression.

"It has nothing to do with Konoha, it's just my personal behavior this time, but it seems that you are here to carry out a mission, not to find out the identity of my employer."

There are so many chakras, it deserves to be a "humanoid tailed beast". After casually glancing at the oni shark, Goyuki set his gaze on the Uchiha Itachi, who was also observing him.

It's been a long time since I saw him, and the last time I saw him was seven years...... No, it was almost eight years ago, right?

I was also deeply impressed by the encounter with Yuxing back then, but now things are wrong, and when the two meet again, their strength is not what it used to be, but their identities have also changed dramatically, and it is like a world away.

"Come on, two of you, let's go to the Sound Ninja Village first, and the tactical arrangement will be completed on the road."

Since this is the border of "Tanokuni", and there is still some distance from Otoshinobi Village, Deidara did not plan to stay here, but directly beckoned Itachi and Oni to sit on his clay bird.

It was only then that Goyuki and Itachi's strange glances at each other finally stopped, but although they looked at each other for a long time, there seemed to be nothing to say between them, but after getting into Deidara's bird, they discussed the next task together.

"Because this mission is divided into two parts, and it involves the relationship of hostage rescue, I think it is better for us to distribute and complete it."

After casually laying the map of Otoshibi Village and the underground map on Asuka's back, Deidara looked at the Itachi and the oni shark next to him and said without hesitation.

"Agreed." After looking at the map a few times, the ghost shark said with a smile: "If you are here, it will be easy to do, the task of rescuing the hostages can be handed over to Itachi, the two of us will create chaos in the sound ninja village, and wait until after the hostages are rescued, a blast bomb will cooperate with my water escape to flood the sound ninja village." ”

For a traitor of the level of Oni Shark and Deidara, the number of attacks on the village is not as simple as once or twice, so naturally he has long been aware of this.

"Wait, I'm an employer, but I'm also one of the mission members, and the mission to infiltrate the rescue will be completed by me and Itachi, how about it?"

At this time, Goyuki looked at the young ninja sitting next to him, who had covered half of his face with his collar, and then stretched out his hand and pointed to his eyes.

“...... With the addition of White Eyes, the task of infiltrating the rescue will naturally be completed more easily, and there is no reason to refuse. ”

Looking at the pair of eyes as white as jade, Itachi said word by word, but his tone was still calm as if a clear spring was flowing and the moon flowed, as if he had no emotions of his own at all.

Isn't it the perfect ninja...... This kind of calmness and composure really can't be learned if you want to, although the price is a little too great.

Just after Yuxing and the others had finished discussing tactics, the pale yellow clay bird had also taken advantage of the night to slowly come to the outside of Otoshinobi Village, and Deidara and the oni shark had also come to the edge of the bird.

"The outer perimeter of the village is covered with a circular enchantment for perception...... Anyway, let's not let them know the number of intruders. ”

At this time, Deidara glanced at Goyuki and Itachi, and the latter two nodded to them, and then slowly sank into the interior of the seated "C2. Asuka".

As the giant clay bird stopped flying, the massive clay creation immediately fell from the sky like a meteor! Fall straight into the interior of Otoshinobi Village!

And Deidara and Oni Shark in mid-air also jumped up at the same time as the bird fell under their feet, and jumped from hundreds of meters in mid-air towards the village below that was shrouded in night!

"There are invaders! Three chakras appeared inside the village from above! Sound the alarm! ”

At the same time that Clay Asuka, Deidara, and Oni Shark rushed into the village, the main control room located inside the underground base of Otoshinobi Village immediately sensed the intruder's movement through the reconnaissance enchantment!

Drip! Drip! Drip! Drip! In an instant, a shrill siren sounded throughout the village! In addition to the ninjas who were patrolling, most of the ninjas who were resting were also ready to go, and pounced out like hounds in the night!

"Wait, what the hell is that thing?"

"Don't do anything, just attack first!"

But when the first batch of Otoshinobi who reacted quickly saw the clay creature that was falling from the sky, they immediately launched a variety of attacks at it at a very fast speed!

Shuriken, kunai, and all kinds of retreats...... For a moment, there seemed to be a fireworks of death blooming in the sky, gorgeous and dangerous.

However, just before the clay bird was about to be attacked, two figures rushed out of it at a rapid speed like ghosts, and then the cover of night landed on the building inside Otoshinobi Village.