Five kilometers away from the battlefield of Fugaku and others, in a jungle, Uzumaki Nagato couldn't help but close his eyes after listening to Bai Zetsu's report, and took a deep breath to relieve his uncomfortable mood.
After a few minutes, Fang turned around, looked at the dozen Kumogakure ninjas standing aside, and said to the leader:
"The mission failed, let's go back."
The Kumogakure jounin, the leader of the Flying Thunder God team, the Kumo ninja named Troy, didn't say much after hearing this.
He nodded and called the Kumogakure ninjas to retreat.
He himself came to Uzumaki Nagato's side, put his palms on his shoulders, and prepared to use the Flying Thunder God Technique.
Although this mission is a joint operation between Kumogakure and Kirigakure, the main purpose is to complete the Mizukage's commission.
In other words, strictly speaking, this is Kirigakure's matter and has little to do with Kumogakure.
Whether the mission succeeds or fails, the Kumogakure ninja actually doesn't care.
After all, their responsibilities were determined before the mission began. They were just to use the Flying Thunder God's technique to maneuver. As for fighting, it had nothing to do with them.
Uzumaki Nagato felt that he was being trusted by Hyou and felt guilty, but Troy did not feel this pressure. The mentality of the two sides was completely different.
On the way back, the Kumo ninjas were extremely bored and started discussing the battle between Fugaku Rasa and the Hyuga clan that Bai Zetsu had narrated.
Troy could not hide his curiosity, so he also chatted with Uzumaki Nagato.
"The timing and location of the interception chosen by Genbu were so precise. They happened to be stuck in the middle of the road between us and the Hyuga clan. It is absolutely impossible to say that there is no insider on the Hyuga clan's side."
Relying on his past mission experience, Troy continuously activated the Flying Thunder God teleportation while chatting. Uzumaki Nagato looked at him coldly, not wanting to talk to him.
But thinking of Hing's previous instructions about not being rude to allies, Nagato finally replied patiently:
"Uchiha Fugaku is different from Namikaze Minato. The roots and influence this guy has under his control radiate to the entire Fire Country, and the resources and intelligence information he can mobilize are extremely huge."
"Besides, he will not focus only on the Konoha Village like other Konoha ninjas, but can have an overall view of the whole situation."
"This also means that the Nine-Tails riot did not attract the attention of Uchiha Fugaku and Nebe. If my prediction is correct, the other party should have been staring at the Hyuga clan for a long time."
"The failure of today's mission is by no means an accident."
After listening to Nagato's analysis, Troy couldn't help but have a new understanding of the forces rooted in the Land of Fire. After all, even Minato Namikaze didn't react to the defection of the Hyuga clan, but Uchiha Fugaku was caught.
with...
I have to say that this can expose many problems.
On the other side, Uzumaki Nagato seemed unwilling to talk to Troy anymore and calmed down. While rushing with the Flying Thunder God, he crossed mountains, rivers, lakes, forests and hills, and silently thought in his mind:
‘Has the fourth generation Kazekage Rasa officially surrendered to the Land of Fire? I wonder what Xia and Ye Cang will think when they hear this?’
'These two remnants of Sunagakure, Mizukage-sama kindly took them in a few years ago, but as soon as the war ended, they went to Tian Country to set up their own business and establish a new Sunagakure Village. It is really unreasonable!'
Troy inexplicably felt a cold air coming from his side, and shuddered subconsciously. He glanced at Uzumaki Nagato, and happened to look into the slightly gloomy Samsara eyes for a moment, then smiled awkwardly and secretly raised his voice.
The operating frequency of Flying Thunder God.
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"Fugaku, don't you think you did a little too much?"
When Minato led the ninjas of Konoha to the battlefield covered with sandy gold and saw with his own eyes the sorted out bodies of Hinata, he barely suppressed the anger in his heart and asked Fugaku such a question in a calm tone as much as possible.
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"The evidence of the Hyuga clan's defection is extremely conclusive, Godaime, I don't think there is anything wrong with my actions."
While asking the Gen-nin to clean up the corpse, Fugaku glanced back at the expressionless Minato. Fugaku noticed that Minato was in a bad mood and seemed to have opinions on his actions, so he replied in a business-like manner.
"One hundred and five Hyuga clan members, only less than thirty survived in the end..."
Minato took a deep breath and pointed at the corpse of a child who was only five or six years old but whose body was mutilated. His expression had unknowingly turned very ugly:
"Tell me, what crime can such a young child commit?"
"The only ones who are guilty should be the Zong family, Hyuga Hizatsu and others who forcibly coerced the branch family to defect. What are the crimes of the other sixty or so branch family members? Are they willing to defect? Do they...really deserve to die?"
"Who gave you the power to kill innocent people without restraint?"
With Minato's barrage of questions covering his face, Fugaku noticed that Jiraiya, Tsunade and a dozen other Konoha ninjas around him looked at him with vague disgust...
He suddenly felt a little unable to get off the stage, so he simply snorted coldly and replied:
"Under an avalanche, no snowflake is innocent."
"The Hyuga clan, whether they are members of the clan or branch families, since they have chosen to defect, no matter what the reason is for them to take this path, they should be prepared to pay the price for it."
Perhaps Fugaku's words were too domineering and ruthless. Minato finally couldn't restrain his anger and was about to go up and kick Fugaku. However, before he could do something drastic, Jiraiya spoke first:
"Uchiha Fugaku, it is certainly wrong for the Hyuga clan to defect, but the existence of the caged bird has been ignored by you?"
"Have you ever thought that among the Hyuga clan members crushed by you Susanoo, there are poor people who are actually in the position of the village and want to stop the clan but are unable to do anything?"
"These people were waiting for the village to be rescued, but you, Uchiha Fugaku, executed them all with a stroke of your pen. You are really capable. No wonder you were able to kill so many of your own clan without any scruples back then."
"Your heart is originally black!"
As he said that, Jiraiya glanced at Luo Sha not far away, slightly curled up the corners of his mouth, and revealed a sarcastic smile:
"With one golden sand burial, all the souls of old, weak, women and children will return to the Pure Land. Luo Sa, your Sunagakure's behavior has really given us Konoha a lot of experience."
In response to Jiraiya's cynicism and even the words that deliberately created conflicts between the camps, Luo Sha's expression remained unchanged and he didn't even offer a single word of defense.
He just looked at Fugaku silently, and after receiving a calm look, he smiled indifferently.
Then, he looked away, as if he was too lazy to look at Jiraiya.
"Okay, I don't want to argue with you."
Fugaku waved his hand impatiently, pointed at the rows of dead or unconscious Hyuga tribesmen on the ground, and said to Minato seriously:
"It is up to you to accept these corpses. As for the living ones, we will take them away."