Time was like a sword, and the years flew by like a shuttle. In the blink of an eye, another three years had passed.
Wood Leaf Year 53, May, Late Spring.
At dawn, Cold Wind's Shadow Clone yawned lazily and came to the bathhouse's third locker room to check in. Rain or shine!
The rest of the members of the Sixth Squad, including Waterstop and Kakashi, have already arrived.
"You are late again, Husky!"
Kakashi lifted the red fox mask, revealing a thin face covered by a black mask. His right eye was showing a bit of dissatisfaction and helplessness.
In the past three years, Cold Wind Shadow's Clone has been doing nothing but checking in and doing nothing. Even if he went out on a mission, he would slack off. On the other hand, Kakashi took the lead in every mission. In the past three years, no one knows how many enemy ninjas he has killed. He has already made a name for himself in the ninja world as the Copy Ninja. The Anbu Long Eagle promoted Kakashi to the Captain of the Sixth Squad.
As for the former Captain Ksitigarbha, he was transferred to another squad by Eagle.
It is said that on the day of his departure, Captain Ksitigarbha's eyes were filled with tears and he held Eagle's hand for a long time.
"Another mission?"
Cold Wind's Shadow Clone stretched and said, "Captain Kakashi, you are too diligent in taking missions. If you continue like this, even Captain Eagle will be replaced by you."
Under the black mask, Kakashi's mouth twitched slightly as he snorted: "It's you who is too lazy!"
If he didn't know that this guy was just a Shadow Clone, Kakashi would have already used violence.
After all, his Sharingan is thirsty for Cold Wind's Five Attribute Ninjutsu!
Waterstop jumped out and pulled Cold Wind's Shadow Clone to the side and whispered: "What's the situation over there? Why haven't you come back yet?"
Cold Wind's Shadow Clone shrugged: "I don't know, there hasn't been any news from him for more than a year."
When Cold Wind summoned his doppelgängers in the Longchi Cave, his memories would be transmitted to the other doppelgängers.
In the first two years, Cold Wind had often summoned his Shadow Doppelganger to fight against his enemies, but in the past half a year, he had not summoned it even once. If not for the fact that he still existed, this Shadow Doppelganger would have been killed by Uchiha Obsidian and Orochi Maru.
"What about you?"
Cold Wind's Shadow Clone asked quietly, "That pervert Jiraiya hasn't returned to the village yet?"
Waterstop said bitterly, "It's Jiraiya-sama. Although you are a Shadow Clone, you can't slander Jiraiya-sama like this."
Cold Wind's Shadow Clone shrugged. He had a fearless look on his face. At most, he would be punished. In any case, the blame wouldn't be placed on him.
Waterstop sighed helplessly.
At this time, Kakashi also announced the content of the mission.
Three days ago, near the border between the Land of Fire and the Land of Grass, a small village was destroyed by ninjas. When the news came out, Po Shui Mun was furious and immediately ordered Kakashi's Sixth Squad to thoroughly investigate this matter.
"Another village destruction."
"I'm afraid this time will be the same as before."
Several masked members whispered to each other.
Three years ago, after the leader of the Cloud was sent back to the Cloud Village by the Wood Leaf Anbu, Yondaime Lei Ying completed the centralization of power, but he didn't recklessly declare war on the Land of Fire. Instead, he signed a slightly simple peace treaty with Po Shui Mun. Since then, the Shinobi World has entered an era of peace.
But in the past year, four small villages on the border of the Land of Fire have been destroyed by ninjas, and similar information came out from the other four major countries from time to time, so Po Shui Mun wanted to investigate this matter together with the other major countries, but because of the impact of the third shinobi world war, the other countries were indifferent to Po Shui Mun's proposal. Helplessly, Po Shui Mun could only investigate alone.
"Let's go!"
Kakashi ignored the whispers of his subordinates and directly ordered.
The group of people immediately flickered and left from the back alley of the bathhouse. They were like flickering shadows in the continuous house, disappearing in a flash.
At the same time.
Naruto's office building.
In Po Shui Mun's office, a tall man with long white hair was crossing his arms and staring at the disciple sitting on Naruto's seat with great dissatisfaction.
"Hey, you're not joking with me, are you?"
Jiraiya shouted, "You're actually recommending a ninja of the Uchiha Clan to me? I remember when I left, the relationship between the village and the Uchiha Clan was very tense, you … don't tell me you want to use this opportunity to ease the relationship with the Uchiha Clan?"
Po Shui Mun explained, "Jiraiya-sensei, this has nothing to do with the Uchiha Clan …"
Jiraiya didn't wait for him to finish and directly continued, "Although I don't have any bad feelings towards the Uchiha Clan, I don't have a good impression of them either."
Po Shui Mun smiled bitterly, "It's Waterstop, I'm recommending you Waterstop, not the Uchiha Clan."
"I've heard of the name Waterstop Instant, but I won't agree to sign a summoning contract with someone I don't know with Mount Myoboku." Jiraiya proudly raised his head.
As the representative of Mount Myoboku in the Shinobi World, Jiraiya's requirements for selecting his successor are very strict. They must be kind-hearted, righteous, talented, and have lofty ideals!
Over the years, he has received many apprentices, in addition to Po Shui Mun, Nagato, Little South, and Yahiko.
When Jiraiya first accepted Nagato and the other two as his apprentices, the three of them had amazing talents, plus they were still young and hadn't experienced the 'poison' of society, so they were kind-hearted and had lofty ideals, which was to change the situation of the war-torn Rain Country.
But because they weren't Wood Leaf Shinobi, they weren't righteous, so they didn't have a chance to enter Mount Myoboku.
After selecting Po Shui Mun as the successor of Mount Myoboku, Jiraiya still firmly controlled the inheritance. For example, as Po Shui Mun's apprentices, Kakashi, Uchiha Obsidian, and Rin, even if the three of them couldn't all sign a summoning contract with Mount Myoboku, at least one of them should be able to do so, right?
But the result was none of them, obviously because the three of them didn't meet Jiraiya's requirements!
If Kakashi and the other two couldn't do it, then it was even more impossible for Jiraiya to agree with Waterstop.
Po Shui Mun's face was full of helplessness. He knew Jiraiya's character, once he decided on something, even ten oxen couldn't change his mind.
It seems that he can only apologize to Waterstop.
"Is there any information about Orochi Maru?" Jiraiya didn't want to embarrass his apprentice too much, so he took the initiative to change the topic.
Po Shui Mun said, "Orochi Maru's whereabouts are still uncertain, but it's certain that Orochi Maru is not only cooperating with Sasori of the Red Sand, but even Obsidian is working with them."
Although Cold Wind's Shadow Clone has been staying in Wood Leaf for a long time, important information from the Ryuchi Cave has been reported to Po Shui Mun!
Jiraiya frowned subconsciously, "How did your apprentice get mixed up with Orochi Maru?"
Po Shui Mun shook his head with a wry smile, and then solemnly said, "Maybe Cold Wind is right, a powerful organization has appeared in the Shinobi World, and organized the S-class ninjas of various countries together."
"Who is Cold Wind?" Jiraiya suddenly asked.
"He's an excellent ninja of the Moonlight Clan, Jiraiya-sensei, you've already met before."
Po Shui Mun laughed, "When Orochi Maru defected, the ninja who led you was Cold Wind."
"It turned out to be him." Jiraiya remembered, the ninja wearing the wolf mask.
Po Shui Mun said, "In fact, I wanted to recommend Cold Wind to you, but Cold Wind got the Ryuchi Cave Inheritance, so I recommended Waterstop."
"Ryuchi Cave Inheritance?"
Jiraiya asked cautiously, "Orochi Maru is also the successor of the Ryuchi Cave, is there any relationship between them?"
Po Shui Mun didn't hide anything, and told him that Cold Wind and Waterstop got the location of the Ryuchi Cave from Orochi Maru's Shadow Clone, Cold Wind used the Nine-tailed Chakra and the Four Symbols Seal to seal the Senjutsu Chakra, and successfully signed the Summon Contract with the Ryuchi Cave, and Orochi Maru colluded with Uchiha Obsidian and Sasori to attack Cold Wind.
When Jiraiya heard this, he suddenly touched his chin and thought to himself, 'He can block the attacks of Orochi Maru, Uchiha Obsidian, and Sasori. This Cold Wind is a ruthless person.'
However, the battle between ninjas wasn't decided by who was stronger. Individual strength, combat experience, the help of summon beasts, the terrain of the outside world, and even the weather will all affect the final direction of the battle.
If the ninjutsu you mastered happens to restrain the opponent, you can even defeat the opponent. Therefore, Jiraiya didn't think that Cold Wind's real strength was enough to fight three ninjas.
The two exchanged information for a while, and finally, Jiraiya left on the grounds that it was getting late and he should go collect materials.
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
