"Itachi, it's so hard for you to let you go after Kazuma alone, but this is an order from the dark department, and I can't let me put my beak in it."

Asma handed over the order of the Shadow Department to Itachi, guessing in his heart the old man's intention of handing over this task to Itachi. Asma knows more or less about Kazuma's intelligence, and the rabbit is in a hurry and kicks the eagle, as the nominal leader of the twelve ninjas, Kazuma has his own arrogance, and if he is really cornered, I don't know what kind of task he will make.

"There's nothing to be embarrassed about." Itachi respectfully accepted the order, "As a dark department, it is my duty to resolutely obey Hokage-sama's orders. ”

Itachi was also wondering about Ape Fei's intentions, why he passed the order of the Shadows directly to Asma, could it be that after the counterinsurgency war, Asma would participate in the management of the Shadows? This is very possible, the meaning of ape flying to cultivate Asma is obvious, and it cannot be ruled out that there is a hidden action to arrange Asma's succession.

Asma's current strength and prestige have not yet reached the height of being able to inherit the Hokage, and after Sarutobi, the only people who have the strength to compete for the position of Hokage are Tsunade and Jiraiya. There are still a few years to go, and Sarufei plans to do his best to escort Asma for a few more years, even if the village lacks strong people and is a little stretched, Sarufei did not send anyone to find Jiraiya and Tsunade back.

After receiving the order, Itachi seemed to be as usual, but there was something preoccupied in his heart. The old people of Konoha are all old youkai who have survived several ninja world wars, and if you don't pay attention, you will fall into their trap. But Sarutobi's order is nothing to be faulted with, and the horse is injured, and Itachi, as a ninja in the shadows, seems reasonable to go after him.

Itachi greeted the Konoha ninja he knew with a smile and went straight back to his tent.

Outside, the ninjas of Konoha are cleaning up the camp, and after receiving the news of the attack on the village last night, although everyone asked to fight, there was no trace of Kazuma, so they could only withdraw their troops back to Konoha before making plans. The Hokage's orders were clear, the Konoha counterinsurgency forces had been out for months, physically and mentally exhausted, and needed to return to the village to recuperate.

After receiving this order, many Konoha ninjas breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, the New Year was coming, and they really didn't have the psychological preparation to spend the New Year on the front line.

One night of contemplation, this poem is the best way to describe them.

"Kakashi, have you received the order that Hokage-sama gave you?"

Shortly after Itachi left, Asma called Kakashi. Kakashi saved Asma from under the Thunder Men and earned them more respect.

"Hokage-sama ordered us to return to Konoha immediately, there is another Nine-Tails riot in the village, and the other villages will definitely think that Konoha's human pillar force is very unstable, and they are afraid that they will take the opportunity to cause chaos." Kakashi groaned. He knew in his heart that if he had the strongest tailed beast but couldn't control it effectively, those who coveted the power of the nine-tails would have crooked thoughts.

"In the future, the main energy of the village will be used to prevent other ninja villages from causing trouble." It could also be a skirmish, which Asma didn't say in his heart. At this time, almost all the counterinsurgency troops were transferred back to the village, and there was also a need to strengthen the internal forces to prepare just in case.

The village fears that Itachi will pass on the news to the family, and gives Itachi the task of chasing and killing Kazuma, so that Itachi will not be able to return to Konoha for at least several months.

In the dark part, Itachi has always been very regular, but after all, he has Uchiha blood flowing in his body, and he is still Fugaku's biological son, no matter how much Sarufei believes in his brainwashing skills, he doesn't dare to put all the chips on Itachi's body.

Use and prevent it, this is the principle of Sarufei who has held the supreme power of Konoha for so many years.

When the ninjas of Konoha packed up their camp and prepared to leave for the village, no one noticed that Itachi had quietly broken away from the main army and embarked on a journey to chase and kill Kazuma.

"The sky is high for me to fly, and the sea is wide for me to swim." Leaving the counterinsurgency force, with no Konoha ninjas or Uchiha clansmen by his side, Itachi felt that he suddenly breathed in the air of freedom that he had not seen for a long time. He took off his ninja attire, put on civilian clothes, and wandered leisurely, not in a hurry at all.

Konoha wants to deal with the Uchiha clan, and without Itachi as an internal response, Sarufei and Danzou will not act rashly; That being the case, the Uchiha was relatively safe until he returned to the village.

"Your tears are weak and hurt······" Itachi clasped his hands on the back of his head, hummed a song, and strode down the country road. When he came across an ox cart stuck in a pit, he went up and pushed it; When I met a lost grandmother, I sent her home; When I met a crying little girl, I took her to her mother.

"Ninjas, living for the sake of the mission, whether it is a ninja in the shadows or an ordinary ninja, it seems that if you don't accept the task, you can't be called a ninja. Is this kind of life really what every ninja wants? ”

In his spare time, the weasel chooses a grassy slope at will, sits or lies, watching the sun rise and fall in the east and west, and the water waves rise and fall. Just because he is used to death and killing does not mean that he can deprive others of their right to choose their own lives.

"If one day, I can decide on the major policies of a ninja village, I must change the economic model of ninja cultivation, performing tasks, and obtaining bonuses."

Itachi watched the sunset in the sky slowly set below the horizon, and secretly resolved. Nagato may be right, the ninja world, needs to change, but not by shedding more blood, but by fundamentally changing the ninja's mode of survival.

Ninja is not a task machine, but a person whose strength is stronger than ordinary people.

"Quack ······" A crow came, "Weasel, now you have become a peasant boy." ”

The eight-foot crow fluttered and landed quickly on the ferret's palm, and its head rubbed against the ferret's palm, which looked very intimate. After the weasel awakened the kaleidoscope writing wheel, the strength of the eight-foot crow has been further evolved, and they are already able to speak. Don't look at him as a small point, his combat effectiveness is no less than that of a Shangnin.

What made Weasel even happier was that the news came from the Eight Crows that the two Phoenix Immortals, Hei Dan Zhu and Huo Li Zhu, recognized Weasel's strength and let Itachi go to Wutong Valley at the right time, and there was a great opportunity waiting for him.

Itachi pondered, and when the dispute between Konoha and Uchiha was resolved, he went to Sycamore Valley to harvest his chances. What could it be? Itachi muttered from time to time.

"Hachi, are you back?" Itachi stretched out his fingers, touched his head, and asked, "Did you find anything?" ”

"We are ambushed on all sides, who else can escape under our noses!" The eight-foot crow held his head high and said proudly. Blinking and looking at the Itachi, it seemed to hint "Praise me!" ”

"Hachi is really my clairvoyant and ear to the wind!"

"What are clairvoyance, downwind ears?"

"It's the ability to see and hear far, it's amazing!"

"That's right, I'm Hachi's clairvoyance and ears!"

Hachi understood that clairvoyance and downwind ears were very powerful things in Itachi's heart, fluttering his wings and being elated.

"Okay, okay, see how happy you are, tell me, where is my prey hiding?"

"The Land of the Vortex."

"The Land of the Vortex?"