The sun was setting in the west, and the sky in the distance was covered with brilliant sunset. It was dusk, and the group came to a side entrance of Konoha that was personally guarded by ANBU, and quickly gathered here.

Since they came to Konoha under the guise of attending the Chunin Examination Negotiation Meeting, the support teams of Kumogakure and Sunagakure easily sneaked in under Konoha's arrangement.

The person in charge of Yunyin Village is a strong man with dark skin and white hair. His bangs on the left cover his eyes, and he scratches his head from time to time, making people feel the decadence from the inside out.

spirit.

This man is none other than Kumogakure's Jonin Daruin, the Fourth Raikage's right-hand man, and his weight is no less than that of the Fourth Raikage's secretary Azabui.

There is only one main text and one main martial arts. The two focus on completely different aspects, but they are undoubtedly the backbone of Yunyin.

Behind him were two ANBU teams from Kumogakure, plus the leader Daruyin. Kumogakure sent a total of nine ninjas, including seven jounin and two outstanding chuunin.

, has special abilities. It can be said that no one is mediocre, which shows how much Kumogakure attaches to this cooperation with Konoha.

The person sent by Sunagakure was the Burning Release ninja Ye Cang, followed by more than a dozen of Sunagakure's elite ninjas, including several powerful jounin.

Like Kumogakure, Sunagakure also attaches great importance to this cooperation. They hope to find the stolen One-Tail through Orochimaru's line and regain the One-Tail from the enemy's hands.

As the leading party, Konoha naturally had the most people participating in this special operation.

The four members of the seventh team, including Naruto, and the eighth team, who were responsible for tracking and locating the enemy. Except for the instructor Yuhi Kurenai, who did not come, the other three were all gathered in the team.

In addition, there are four members of Team Kai and two ANBU teams.

The total number of people dispatched in Konoha is 19, which is the Ninja Village with the largest number of dispatches among the three villages. If you include Jiraiya who is still in charge of surveillance work at the front, there are exactly 20 people.

"In other words, the Sannin of Konoha will also join the operation, right?"

Daru Yin of Yunyin asked before taking action.

Tsunade, who summoned the operations personnel at the side door, nodded to Daru Yin's question and responded: "Yes, Jiraiya has already arranged in advance and is monitoring the movements of that stronghold. If there is any news,

He will immediately send an envoy to inform you. If possible, I hope you can put aside all prejudices and work closely together this time."

Saying that, Tsunade looked at Daru Yin with inquiring eyes.

As an ally of Konoha, there is no need to worry about Sunagakure's actions. The only uncertain factor is Kumogakure.

If it weren't for Konoha's own lack of strength this time, Tsunade would not have planned to invite Kumogakure in.

The reason is that Konoha, which has a very bad relationship with Kumogakure, really lacks the basis for cooperation between them.

Daru Yin raised his hands as if to surrender, and sighed helplessly: "Don't worry, Hokage-sama, this matter is very important. Before we came, Raikage asked us to obey all your commands in Konoha.

For us, the current trend of obtaining the second tail is the most important, and we will leave the rest of the grievances for later."

As long as the movements of the two tails can be obtained during this operation, there is no harm in following Konoha's arrangements.

This is what Daruyin meant.

Seeing Daru Yin and the Kumogakure ninjas surrendering, this was also Tsunade's purpose, so she nodded with slight satisfaction.

"In this case, we in Konoha will be disrespectful to the command authority this time."

Daru Yin nodded in agreement.

Sunagakure's Ye Cang also had no objections. Originally, Konoha was the party that contributed the most to this operation and should have been given the command of this operation. What's more, if the three parties lost the basis for cooperation from the beginning, then this time

Actions may involve huge risks.

This is also something that all parties need to consider.

"Grandma Tsunade, are you okay yet? I'm fully prepared."

On the other side, Naruto began to call weakly, obviously he couldn't wait to start.

For him, this time it was a race against time.

"Idiot, who do you think allowed him to join the operation this time?" Shikamaru, who was next to Tsunade, laughed and scolded Naruto, and then gave him a piece of advice: "Although I have said it countless times before, this mission is called

You have no right to act privately. No matter what happens, you must absolutely obey the orders of your superiors. Otherwise, you will stay in the village for the rest of your life and never want to go out again."

Seeing Shikamaru's serious and serious face, Naruto also knew that being able to participate in the mission this time was the result of Tsunade's multi-faceted lobbying.

The other senior officials seemed reluctant to let him participate in this mission.

Therefore, Naruto hurriedly began to nod, indicating that he would be serious and obedient and would not do anything unruly like the last mission.

"So, that's it for now. I wish you all a safe journey and let's start taking action."

As Tsunade took a deep breath and said this, the open space in front of the side door became empty for an instant. Dozens of figures flashed out and flew out. A few leaves were blown down by the strong wind and scattered all over the floor.

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"They shouldn't have any accidents during this operation, right?"

Shikamaru looked at the direction where Naruto and others were leaving and asked.

"If the information is correct, there will be no problem, but if that stronghold is a trap, we must consider the consequences of failure. That is why I sent Jiraiya and Kaidu there to prevent such a thing from happening."

Tsunade said calmly.

Naruto aside, Jiraiya and Kai are the core combatants of the Konoha team in this mission. With these two people, even if this is a trap, they can ensure that our troops can escape from the battlefield.

This will not allow the enemy to take advantage of the loophole.

"However, I have seen the forbidden technique of Eight Gate Dunjia. It requires overdrafting the body in order to obtain a temporary burst of power."

Shikamaru frowned.

Tsunade nodded and said: "Yes, forbidden art is a double-edged sword, and you should be careful when using it. As long as Kai does not use the eighth gate, given his current physique, plus the special one I gave him

Healing medicine is absolutely fine."

Every line reveals authority and confidence in the medical field.

Shikamaru remained silent and just nodded slightly.

"Okay, let's go back. The first test of this year's Chuunin Exams will be hosted by you and Sunagakure's Temari. Don't mess things up."

Tsunade turned around, patted Shikamaru's thin but extremely strong shoulder, and joked with a smile.

"Don't ask me to do such troublesome things...really."

Especially when working with women, just thinking about it, Shikamaru could foresee the lackluster days of the next month.

However, Shikamaru was only talking about it, but he had already paid full attention in his heart and decided to successfully conduct the first test of the Chuunin Examination.

Complain when he should complain, and be serious when he should be serious. This is his minimum requirement for himself.

'Be careful, Naruto, don't be reluctant to take action when you meet Zuosuke.' He silently blessed this sentence in his heart, and his eyes no longer lingered on the whereabouts of Naruto and others, and he raised his steps and followed Tsunade away.

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The group of people quickly shuttled through the forest. Since they set off at dusk, even though the sky was about to darken, everyone was still in high spirits, took steps hard, and rushed towards the direction of Tianzhi Country.

According to their planned itinerary, there was no rest time when they arrived at Orochimaru's stronghold on the western border of Tian Country.

Try to arrive at the destination before sunset the next day, surround the destination stronghold, capture Orochimaru, an important source of information, alive, torture him, and obtain the whereabouts of the stolen tailed beast.

Therefore, whether it was Konoha who took the lead, or Kumogakure and Sunagakure who assisted Konoha, they all gathered enough strength to start flying forward, and were prepared to have no rest time for the next twenty-four hours.

"Mr. Daruyin, Miss Yekura, this is information about Orochimaru, Uchiha Sasuke and Hatake Kakashi. Because these three people are likely to be dealt with in this mission, please confirm again as soon as possible.

Check it again to see if there is any discrepancy with what you learned before."

As the captain of this action force, Tianzang also felt under great pressure. He took out two intelligence documents that he had prepared and handed them to Daruyin and Ye Cang while running, so that they could confirm the authenticity of the intelligence again.

Daru Yin and Ye Cang did not refuse and kept running. At the same time, they began to confirm the intelligence documents in their hands to see if the intelligence information recorded on them was correct.

"No, it's exactly the same as what we learned before. However, I remember that Kakashi Hatake didn't seem to be mentioned in the previous plan."

Daruyin asked the doubts in his heart.

Tenzo nodded and replied: "That's because Jiraiya, who is responsible for monitoring the movement ahead, has only confirmed the location of Orochimaru and Uchiha Sasuke, but has not confirmed the whereabouts of Hatake Kakashi."

"That is to say, the opponent may be in that stronghold, or it may not be in that stronghold, right?"

Ye Cang asked.

"Yes, and for this reason, we have to prepare for the worst. After all, the source of the intelligence is a member of that organization. Whether this is a trap designed for us is unknown. Since we cannot alert the snake, Jiraiya also does not

If you dare to go deep alone, you are afraid of being alerted by Orochimaru."

Tianzang explained.

"It's right to be cautious. Rather than act recklessly, this action should be more cautious. Even if we want to alert the snake, we have to wait until we get there." Daruyin agreed with this statement, and then a confident smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: "

However, there are so many of us, and most of them are jounin, so even if there are traps there, it is not a cause for concern."

He was determined to obtain the information Orochimaru had.

Moreover, the three ninja villages united and dispatched so many elite ninjas at once, and Orochimaru could not make any trouble at all.

Naruto silently listened to the exchanges between these people, but his mind was no longer here.

Instead, he looked at the darkening sky in the distance, his eyes flashing, as if he had remembered something.

Zuosuke...

Subconsciously, Naruto clenched his fists and galloped out like a charge, following the large army.

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The next day, it was close to noon.
To be continued...