During this time, Itachi and Beitahara lived very happily.
His teammate Kosuke Maruhoshi is a good cook and takes them out for picnics from time to time in his spare time from work. Umino Iruka is also a well-behaved team member.
Find cats, walk dogs, and meet friends every day...
This is normal ninja life!
Probably the only bad thing is the old father's mood. He wants his son to work hard towards the goal of being Hokage, instead of being an ordinary chuunin captain and doing low-level tasks with two genin every day!
Uchiha Mikoto didn't take it seriously. Seeing Uchiha Itachi and Kitahara leaving happily every day and coming back happily at night... the little boy was of course even more satisfied! If his brother came home early from get off work, he could train with him.
The calm days did not last long.
Until they were planning to go to a nearby village to complete a commissioned mission, they encountered a caravan coming from Damingfu. There was a wounded person in the caravan... His name was Sarutobi Asuma.
"What's going on! Asuma-senpai! Aren't you the guardian ninja of the daimyo?" Uchiha Itachi looked at the smoker slumped in the car in surprise, I haven't earned much money yet, why has the creditor returned to the village!
"Ah, it's Itachi!"
Asuma forced himself to sit up, his eyes a little distracted: "Orochimaru and his men attacked our guardian ninja, Jilu and others were killed, and I was also seriously injured..."
The young ninja's expression suddenly became solemn. He stood up and looked at Asuma's injuries, then glanced at the crow on his shoulder: "Kitahara..."
Kitahara: "Gah..."
I still need help with this little thing.
With Kitahara helping to heal, they finally heard the news from Asuma. The battle happened suddenly and the scene was tragic... As for the result, it was not bad for Konoha.
The Twelve Guardian Ninja Warriors have not been established for a long time. A group of young people are ambitious and want to surround the daimyo and help the monarch of the Fire Country gain the military and political power he deserves.
However, one night when it was dark and windy, Orochimaru appeared with a kid. To be honest, the guardian ninjas were not that scared. With twelve young people, each jounin could not deal with one Orochimaru?
The battle was calm for a while, and every guardian nin felt that they were at ease. Although everyone was more or less injured, the situation of the attackers seemed to be getting more and more difficult. When they were about to repel Orochimaru...
The brat named Hidan next to him took action.
Hidan arranged an inexplicable evil ritual to curse all twelve guardian ninjas to death one by one... Even if someone tried to stop it in the middle, the outcome could not be changed.
Except for Sarutobi Asuma, all the other twelve guardian ninjas were killed.
Before Orochimaru and Hidan left, they took away the bodies of all the guardian ninja. Only the surviving Asuma vaguely heard what they said.
"...The transaction is completed... Ho ho ho... The old man should also be satisfied... That old guy got a lot of benefits from this transaction... Thinking of this makes me feel really unhappy..."
The smoker young man vaguely felt that he understood everything, but the remaining reason told him that he wanted to return to Konoha alive, and he wanted to question the old man! Ask him if he had reached anything in private with Orochimaru, the rebellious ninja.
trade!
Originally, the Daimyo Palace would send an envoy to Konoha in the near future to order Hiruzen Sarutobi to disband the Konoha Defense Department. However, after this turmoil, the twelve most powerful military guards under the Daimyo, the Twelve Shinobi, only survived one Hokage's son...
The daimyo and officials needed Konoha to send ninjas to protect their safety again, so plans to reduce the ninja force could only be put on hold for the time being.
On the bright side, Konoha has indeed benefited from this matter.
However, from the smoker's perspective, his father Hiruzen Sarutobi was the most suspected mastermind of this incident. Otherwise, why did everyone else die cleanly, but he, the son of the Hokage, survived?
The evil brat from Yunin Village said he wanted to spare his life. He was obviously looking for a reason. With Orochimaru's cruelty and status, how could he let the Konoha ninja go?
Uchiha Itachi didn't think much about it. After Beitahara finished treating him with Palm Senjutsu, he comforted the lost young man and said, "Fortunately, Asuma-senpai survived..."
After Asuma Sarutobi thanked the crow and the young ninja, he planned to go into the village to find trouble. Before leaving, he didn't know what he thought of, but suddenly turned around and walked towards Uchiha Itachi.
"Itachi, you have to be careful!" The smoker young man pressed the young man's shoulder and said seriously: "Before Jilu died, I vaguely remembered that Orochimaru said... He is also peeping at you! If you can, never leave the village.
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"Hey? Why?" Itachi raised his head curiously, stroked the crow's wings and said, "Our team is very strong!"
"..."
Sarutobi Asuma looked at the young ninja, and then glanced at the two genin teammates beside him. Your lineup is too tough to face a jounin!
"Anyway, it's too dangerous. You come back to the village with me first! I will carry out the task entrustment and so on with you!"
The senior's decision is not something that this team can question, not to mention that Sarutobi Asuma was promoted to jounin before leaving Konoha and is considered their superior.
Senior Asuma, who had become lively again, was very worried. He decided to go to his father first and ask if, as the Hokage, he made a deal with the traitorous ninja and Orochimaru killed the daimyo's strongest assistant, then what would the Hokage side pay?
At what cost?
Selling out an Uchiha genius?
His father could collude with the traitorous ninja, let alone an Uchiha who had a bad relationship with the top management of Konoha?
Before Asuma left Konoha, Konoha was indeed experiencing internal and external troubles. He didn't know that the atmosphere in the village had changed a lot.
Even if he knew it, it would not delay him from questioning his father's soul. He just made a good friend not long ago, and he died cleanly!
Uchiha Itachi walked behind Asuma, couldn't help scratching his cheek, and asked the crow beside him in a low voice: "Why did Orochimaru attack the daimyo's guardian ninja?"
Beiyuan was also puzzled: "Gah..."
It is also very curious about this matter! There is obviously no benefit at all, it can't be for the bounty of those who protect the ninja, right? Orochimaru is so generous, and it doesn't look like he is short of money!
"Huh? Kitahara doesn't know either?" Uchiha Itachi was even more curious. He had always trusted the crow, and something suddenly happened that Kitahara didn't know about...
The crow's sharp beak pecked the boy's hair: "Gah!"
That Orochimaru is such a jerk! Who knows what weird things he will do when his brain twitches. It is normal for that guy to attack Konoha for no reason one day!
The Third Hokage did not stay at the mission meeting hall today, but was handling official duties at the Hokage Building. During this time, the village was calm and everything was going on in an orderly manner. The old man decided to reward himself with something.
Until Asuma pushed open the door to the Hokage's office, the eyes of father and son met together, and the crystal ball on the desk immediately dimmed without the support of chakra...
Uchiha Itachi's three-person team stood silently outside the door, listening to the fierce argument in the office. They looked at each other, and the youngest chuunin captain scratched his head: "Let's continue to perform the mission!"
"But Asuma-senpai said that the captain might be in danger!" Iruka didn't agree with this kind of thing.
Kosuke was also worried about Asuma, and he also chose to agree with Iruka's opinion: "I also think we should wait for Asuma-sama to come out."
Beiyuan: "..."
In fact, it was not worried about any danger, it just felt that it seemed to have guessed why Orochimaru attacked the guardian ninja, because it just vaguely heard a sentence...
"Although I don't agree with the daimyo disbanding the Konoha Defense Department, colluding with the rebel ninja and killing the guardian ninja. This method...is what a Hokage should do!"
The disbandment of the Konoha Defense Department is indeed a small trouble for the Uchiha clan... When they were in Yunin Village, Orochimaru said that they would solve small troubles like this?
Isn't this typical Orochimaru's style?
I may lose money, but I will definitely disgust the old man!