After turning a few pages, a task caught Hyuga Kyou's attention.
"Suppress the wandering ninjas in the land of fire..."
A-level missions all involve battles between ninjas, so there are three principles for Hyuga mirror to choose missions.
First, the distance should be close, because if the mission location is too far away, accidents will easily occur on the road. After all, the war has just ended and the world is still in chaos.
Second, the enemy's strength should not be too strong.
Thirdly, the background of the enemy should be simple, and no messy enmity should be formed because of the mission.
Therefore, this task of exterminating wandering ninjas in the country of fire perfectly conforms to the three principles of Hyuga mirror's selection of tasks, so it makes his eyes shine.
Handing the task list to Kai, Hyuga Kyou pointed at the task of exterminating the wandering ninjas and asked, "How about this task?"
Kay replied, "I have no objection!"
After receiving the task, the two set off immediately without delay.
On the way, Hyuga Mirror and Kai analyzed the detailed information about the mission they got from the mission center.
The entrusting party of the task is the daimyo of the Land of Fire. Recently, a group of wandering ninjas attacked several villages of the Land of Fire near the border of the Land of Waves, causing a lot of loss of people and property.
According to intelligence, there are five to seven wandering ninjas in this group, and their identity is suspected to be Kirigakure's traitorous ninjas.
Because of the war, the number of defected ninjas has increased year by year. There are all major ninja villages, and Konoha is no exception. However, most of these rebellious ninjas who escaped the war are entrenched in small countries without ninja villages. It is rare for rebellious ninjas to attack the country of fire so blatantly.
Hyuga Kyou said: "The other party dares to plunder in the Land of Fire, the strength must not be weak, don't be careless!"
Kai nodded quickly.
Seeing that Kai seemed a little nervous, Hyuga Kyou thought for a while and said, "Don't be too nervous. These rebels who only dare to attack civilians may not be very strong. As long as we perform normally, there should be no problem in completing the task."
Kai clenched his fists: "I'm not afraid of them!"
in a few days.
Hyuga mirror and Kai pursued all the way, and came to a village that was attacked not long ago.
The village was in a mess, corpses were scattered all over the place, the air was filled with a strong smell of blood, and there were endless wailing and crying.
Hyuga Kyou came to a survivor and asked: "We are ninjas sent by Konoha, please tell us, who attacked you?"
The survivor's expression was a little numb. He stared blankly at Hyuga Kyou, and answered after a while, "I don't know who those people are. They kill people when they see them, and leave after killing them."
Hyuga Kyou was not affected by the tragedy of the village, and calmly asked: "How many people are there in total? When did they leave? In what direction did they go?"
The survivor pointed in a direction: "They went that way! I... I don't know how many of them there are, nor when they went."
Hyuga Kyou stared intently at the direction the survivor was pointing at, and then said coldly, "Let's chase!"
Kai, who was already filled with righteous indignation, nodded fiercely: "Yeah!"
In the Hyuga clan, tracking is a basic course. Every Hyuga clansman who has been on the battlefield is a master of tracking, and Hyuga Kyou is no exception, so he quickly found the traces left by the opponent.
After a while, the two fell into a quagmire.
After checking the footprints in the quagmire, Hyuga Kyou said, "There are five to seven people on the other side, and their steps are a bit messy, and they seem to be in a hurry."
Kai said anxiously: "Then what are you waiting for, let's chase after him!"
Hyuga Kyou shook his head, then pointed to a big tree not far away: "Don't panic, look at the moss on that tree!"
Kai followed the trend and saw half a vague footprint on the moss, wondering: "How could there be footprints there? Is there someone else tracking these wandering ninjas?"
The footprints on the tree not far away obviously belonged to different group of people than the footprints in the quagmire. If the footprints in the quagmire belonged to that group of wandering ninjas, then the footprints on the tree should belong to another group of ninjas.
"Since we have accepted the task, the village should not send other people here, so I suspect that the other group of people who tracked down these wandering ninjas should be Kirigakure."
Hyuga Kyou's speculation is not aimless, because according to intelligence, this group of wandering ninjas are the rebellious ninjas of Kirigakure, so it is reasonable for Kirigakure to send troops to chase and kill them.
When it comes to other ninja villages, Kai lost his mind for a while: "Then what should we do?"
Hyuga Kyou thought about it for a while, and then said firmly: "Anyone who hinders us from completing our mission is an enemy!"
"But.."
"No, but, let's keep chasing."
After chasing for a while, Hyuga Kyou and Kai had to stop, because the ninjas who were confronting each other appeared in front of them.
There were four people on one side, all dressed as Kirigakure assassination troops, only the leader did not wear a mask, but wrapped the lower half of his face with a bandage. According to his figure and appearance, Hyuga Kyou recognized him as Momoji Zabuza known as the 'ghost man'.
There were only two people on the other side of the confrontation, Konoha Anbe. One of them was small in stature and had white hair. Although he was wearing a fox mask, Hyuga Kyou recognized him as the genius ninja of the same age, Hatake Kakashi.
The two sides are full of gunpowder, and it seems that they will fight at any time.
Seeing another Konoha ninja arriving, Zabuzhan pulled out the long knife behind him, looking like he was about to strike.
Standing on a branch of a tree, Hyuga Kyou with one hand on his hips, condescendingly glanced at the ninjas of the Mistakashi Assassination Troop, with a haughty look on their faces, and said in a contemptuous tone: "Go away!"
Hearing this, Zai Bu Zhan was furious: "Are you courting death, kid!"
Hyuga Kyou ignored him and refused to kill him, but lightly ordered: "Kai, go and teach him a lesson."
Along the way, Kai has long been used to obeying Hyuga Kyou's orders, not to mention that the other party is a ninja from Kirigakure, so after agreeing, he drank and rushed towards Zabuzha.
It seems that Hyuga Kyou was not expecting such arbitrariness. Both Kirigakure's assassination team and Konoha Anbe's side were taken aback, but both sides were worried and didn't take action immediately.
As a taijutsu ninja, Kai is close to attacking when he comes up, and does not give the enemy a chance to perform ninjutsu.
No more chopping seems to be very confident in his sword skills, and he is not afraid of physical combat at all, and he fights with Kai when he swings the sword.
All of a sudden, there were gusts of fists and flashes of sword light!
At this time, Zabuzhan is already well-known in Kirigakure. Although he has not been promoted to the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, he is still the best among Kirigakure's peers, with fierce moves and murderous aura!
Kai is also in a period of rapid growth in strength, his speed and strength are increasing day by day, and he is no longer the tail of the crane in school.
The battle between the two entered into a white heat from the very beginning, and the spread became wider and wider, causing the watching Kirigakure Ninja and Konoha Anbe to retreat a certain distance.
Not long after, Kai kicked on the face of the sword, and the two jumped back, breaking contact...
(end of this chapter)