Rain Ninja Village.

A teenager wrapped in a tattered blue-black tarpaulin raincoat walked slowly through a jungle of pouring rain and steel pipes.

He clung to the edge of the hood of his raincoat and buried his head low, as if he were staring at the tips of his shoes to determine what to do next, not at all.

Between heavy gasps, a white mist erupts from under the hood, blending in with the cold, dim surroundings, just like most people in this leaden-black sky all year round.

They didn't dare to look up. Because looking up, it may be the difference between life and death.

As for the reason, let's talk about the guys who stand on high places.

Wearing ninja forehead guards with four vertical lines on their heads, and wearing tight white coveralls, they stood motionless on top of the huge drain pipes of the factory chimneys in the rain, like ash statues.

Each of these people, their eyes gloomy and sharp, like hungry ospreys, stared at every figure in the road, and the lower half of their faces were covered by a huge and heavy breathing mask, which looked mysterious and indifferent.

This is the most mysterious rain hidden ninja in the ninja world.

They are known for their cruelty, recklessness, and retribution.

Unlike other ninja villages where they defend the land, serve the daimyo, and accept hires to live, Rain Shinobi has only one master, that is, the demigod of the ninja world who once defeated the three ninjas of Konoha with one enemy and three enemies, Sanshoyu Hanzo.

But it's more appropriate to say that these men in white are ninjas than the personal bodyguards of Sanshoyu Hanzo. And the ordinary people below, as long as they dare to show the slightest interest in the hiding place where the Sansho Fish is half-hidden in a high place, they will be killed by these rain ninjas on the spot.

The boy had just walked around a corner, startled by the pink water flowing beneath his feet, and his legs went limp and fell to the ground.

Immediately, he saw a white-clothed rain ninja a few meters away pulling the ninja scythe out of the throat of a pedestrian, drenching it in the rain to wash away the blood stains on it.

The latter was staring at the visitor with a pair of alert eyes, and let his guard down without the other being a child. Among the assassins who once assassinated Sanshoyu Hanzo, there was no shortage of unarmed children.

Under the fierce gaze of the fierce eyes, it was obviously such a humid weather, but the young man's throat let out a dry and hoarse moan that was more common in the desert, and his butt landed on the ground and his limbs were parallel, and he quickly retreated like a short-legged spider.

“…… Timid as a daphnia. ”

Seeing his performance, the vigilance in Yunin's eyes gradually dispelled. He disdainfully kicked the corpse into the roadside gutter, a gloomy voice coming from under the mask.

"Don't look up at the sky, little ghost, or you'll end up like him."

After saying the cruel words, the rain ignored the young man, quickly jumped onto the nearest building, and disappeared into the hazy rain scene with another man in white, leaving the young man clutching his chest like the rest of his life.

However, if you look closely, the eyes of the cowardly young man before there is an undetectable red light, and he keeps scanning the surroundings until he is sure that no one is looking at him nearby, and his feet speed up violently, like a swift panther discovering a rare prey, and suddenly jumps into a deep and dilapidated narrow alley nearby, and rushes directly to the end of this one-way street.

There was a small gray door, painted with foul language insulting the Rain Ninja, but covered in a bright red dye that had a distinctive smell.

The boy walked to the small door, tapped twice in the upper left corner and the lower left corner of the door, and then knocked on the movable handle five more times.

After a while, there was a pleasant click from the door, which automatically opened backwards, revealing a dark and dark space inside.

The boy stayed at the door for a few seconds, did not see a figure appear, did not hear any movement, and could only step into it.

The door slammed shut, and at the same time, hundreds of sharp and sharp sounds of cracking the sky tore through the darkness, followed by the sound of flesh and screams that stopped abruptly.

"Turn on the lights!"

A rough voice sounded, and then the pale yellow electric light turned on, and the boy who had just entered the door had been turned into a porcupine by a thousand books as thick as hundreds of toothpicks, and there was no more sound.

The tall young man's eyes widened as he spoke, and he immediately walked over to check the situation. But as soon as he walked to the young man's side, the other party's body began to melt and deform, gradually turning into a pool of transparent water, and hundreds of thousands of books were also scattered all over the place, rolling down to the surroundings.

"Moisture body?!"

He reacted immediately, but turned his head to see his female companion hiding in the corner of the room, already twisted by someone's arm, standing up in pain.

The young man in the raincoat was holding a sharp kunai against her waistcoat, and his dark eyes were full of cold vigilance, which was terrifying.

"......" The strong man and the woman wearing the rain ninja forehead looked at each other.

After an awkward silence, the young man first asked, "Two, are you Shen and Chou seniors?" ”

His voice was calm, but there was no sign of relaxation under his hands. If he doesn't get the answer he wants, both of them will die at his hands in a matter of seconds.

This is a small enclosed space that is convenient for shuriken and kunai ejections, and he has more than a dozen ways to deal with the two of them without attracting Yunin's attention.

"I'm Shen."

The strong man faced the boy and stuck out his tongue, revealing the "mark of the root of the tongue" on it.

This is a unique spell mark only available to members of Konoha Dark Squad Root, and as soon as they say something related to someone, they will immediately paralyze their whole body and be unable to move, and unless they are proficient in sealing, they cannot be forged or dismantled at all.

When the boy saw the spell mark, he let go of his hand.

Who knew that the woman had just been freed, and immediately kicked back, and the young man crossed his arms to block, and halfway back his body, six shurikens had already drilled through his fingers.

"Wait, I'm just testing you!"

Seeing that the boy was about to fight back, the woman immediately stood up and stuck out her tongue to confirm her identity.

"I didn't expect the village to send such a young imp over, we are very uneasy."

"You almost killed me just now."

The boy slowly removed the hood of his raincoat, revealing a lock of medium-length hair knotted by the dampness, and a slightly mature face with a tear trough. It was Itachi Uchiha who came on his last mission before joining the Shadows.

"The most commonly used technique of rain ninja is the Senbon Strike that covers all directions like a strong shower, if you can't even deal with the simple trap just now, then you can't accomplish any tasks here at all, and there is no point in living."

There was no apology on the woman's face, and she spread her hands with a big grin.

Itachi was speechless. Before he came, he knew that he was going to work with a real Root Ninja this time. He had already guessed what might happen, but he didn't expect to usher in such a dangerous test without even seeing each other.

At the same time, he also had a new estimate of the difficulty of this mission.

"Please forgive me. Recently, Yu Ren has been very strict, and sometimes he will break down the door and kill people without asking, and this trap was not originally prepared for you. ”

The burly Shin crossed over to the female ninja and faced Itachi and asked, "I want to ask, this time you set off from Konoha and spent a few days in Duyuyin Village?" ”

"From Konoha to the border of the Land of Rain, it only took a day and a half."

Itachi paused, "But it took four days to get from the border of the Land of Rain to the village of Yuyin. ”

Itachi's journey to Yuyin Village is full of checkpoints and wars, full of rain ninja who suppress rebellions, and rebel organizations that have sprung up everywhere.

If he hadn't memorized the map with the shortcuts before leaving Konoha, it would have taken him much longer to enter Rain Hidden Village.

"The map given to me by the village, many of the trails are also occupied by the rebel groups of the Land of Rain, and I am not allowed to reopen the second half of the route."

"Thank you...... You've spent two days longer than you did two years ago when we came here. ”

The man, codenamed Shen, pondered for a moment and came to a conclusion, "It seems that the rebellion situation within the Land of Rain is about to completely break away from the control of Sanshoyu Hanzo. ”

"As the leader of a country's ninjas, with the name of a demigod, he only dares to retreat in the tower and live in seclusion, leaving all the most elite forces by his side as bodyguards, and losing control of the country, what's so strange."

Sadly said bad things about the demigods of the ninja world, and then walked to Itachi's side and stretched out a hand: "Raincoat." ”

"Thank you......"

Itachi took off his raincoat and handed it to her, and inside it was dressed as an ordinary civilian in the Land of Rain.

"Hmph, you're not tall, and you're pretty mature, but ...... We are not where to meet. ”

The female ninja pinched her chin and rolled her eyes, "You're not a shadow yet, are you, don't you have your own name?" Or did they say that they received instructions and could not say them. ”

"I'm sorry, I forgot."

Itachi Uchiha touched the back of his head in a rare way.

"I'm Uchiha Itachi, and I'm here to cooperate with the two seniors to bring back confidential information related to Sanshoyu Hanzo."

"Aha, I just said I always felt like I had seen you somewhere."

Chou suddenly clapped his hands and said loudly: "Uchiha, Sharingan, you are the same as last time and that ...... Stop the water in an instant, and sabotage our mission! I still remember what the short-haired guy said—"

Chou pinched his face, squeezed out two lines that seemed to be tear troughs on both sides of his nose, and then imitated the demeanor and voice of Uchiha Shisui three years ago, and said in a loud voice: "Ninja is a nameless person who keeps the peace in the dark, but the order maintained by violence and weapon coercion is not a real peace at all, and I will never recognize this peace!" ”

Then she looked at the embarrassed Itachi, then at Shen who pursed her lips and smiled, and asked with a grin, "That's what he said at the time, right?" ”

Itachi nodded in embarrassment.

He didn't expect that there would be such a living treasure in the root ninja.

In fact, as early as hearing the voices of the two, Itachi guessed their identities.

When he was eight years old, he had just opened the Sharingan, and Shisui took him to participate in a shinobi drill together, but he accidentally encountered a scene where the root ninja chased and killed the dark ninja and asked for a list of suspected mutiners.

At that time, in order to protect the dark part, Shisui fought alongside him and fought against the root ninja. And this female ninja, codenamed Sorrow, was Itachi's opponent at the time, she was proficient in the use of ninja equipment, and was better at shuriken than many Uchiha, but she was still defeated by his second hook jade writing wheel.

And this Shen is a ninja who fought with Zhishui and carried a big sword, but he was also quickly defeated by Zhishui.

Overall, these two men have limited frontal combat capabilities, and it is not surprising that they were sent to the closed Yuyin Village to serve as spies. After all, their combat path mainly relies on weapons, which is very similar to the rain ninja, and rarely uses things like retreat.

"It's okay, sorrow. Now that Itachi is here, it's our next teammate on the mission together. Don't embarrass him with the past, after all, everyone has a time when they are young and naïve, cough ......"

Shen frowned and coughed for a moment, interrupting Chou's teasing of Itachi.

"But that's fine, he has fought with us and is familiar with our fighting style, and if he clashes with Yunin in the future, it will be much easier for each other to take care of each other."

Then he held out his hand to Itachi, "Before you go, the people of the root should have handed you the scroll with the specific task written on it." ”

"Well, it was said that it would take three people to seal it at the same time before it could be opened."

Itachi took out a palm-wide scroll from behind his waist and placed it on the table in the room.

The three of them looked grim, and at the same time they formed different handprints, and the black seal on the scroll disappeared on its own, and then slowly unfolded, revealing the handwriting that looked like a code code inside.

"Oh, investigate the specific location of Yuyin's black pepper fish poison sac transplantation experiment, and then steal all the experimental data?"

Chou raised his head, carefully examined Itachi's face, and raised a slight sneer, "Does the person who sent you this task really want you to go back alive?" ”

"Don't talk nonsense."

Shen Yan's hand pressed heavily on his shoulder, and then pointed to the room inside at Itachi, "There's a bathroom in that direction, you go rinse it first, and then dry yourself." I'm going to find a suitably sized rain uniform. Without further ado, we immediately started moving when we changed shifts with Yunin at night. ”

"Yes. Trouble for two. ”

Itachi nodded, and turned to go into the room. It wasn't until the sound of the bathroom door being pulled shut and water dripping on the ground came from inside that the two outside exchanged glances.

"The real mission is not for us to kill him, right?" Chou curled his hair with a thousand books, and there was a cold light in his eyes, and his voice was very low.

"Don't guess, just look at it, it shouldn't be that simple, cough ...... up"

Shen bit his finger and stained the edge of the scroll with blood, then re-sealed, the handwriting on the scroll crawling like an earthworm, and the ink eventually fused into another message.

The two of them watched and fell silent at the same time.

After a few seconds, Shen covered his mouth and said, "It seems that the other side already knows my physical condition." This is my last mission. ”

"'Regardless of whether the mission is successful or not, Shin will take the initiative to sacrifice himself in front of Uchiha Itachi. If the situation allows, let the Uchiha Itachi personally kill Shen. ’”

Sadly pronounced the above words, his face was not ugly, but he sighed a little unconvinced: "It seems that in his eyes, this little ghost is a much more important chess piece than us in the future." It is even necessary to use this method to deepen his sense of identity with his roots......

"You don't have to worry," Sorrow and Prudence's eyes gradually overlapped, "I should be with you soon." In the last play, we have to act it well. ”

"It's all for Konoha."

Shen nodded gratefully, not refusing the other party's kindness.

Sorrowful smiled and repeated, "It's all for Konoha and for Konoha's roots." ”