Hokage: I will never go offline

Neji and Ino came to a small place in Konoha Houshan according to the map given by the second Hokage.

It is very barren here, and it looks desolate.

"Here... I remember here."

Ning Ci blinked his eyes, the memory was still fresh.

Because this is where Neji asked Kosuke about swordsmanship 40 years later.

"fencing……"

Ning Ci and Ino looked at the desolate place, a simple log cabin.

There is no yard outside the cabin, but some simple wooden signs were used to make a shape. Some new seedlings were planted around the cabin, but after a heavy rain, more than half of them were washed away and the roots were unearthed. The planting method is also Very immature.

Inside, a boy who was about the same age as Ning Ci ran out.

"You..." He widened his eyes in surprise, very surprised.

……

In the house, several people sat on the ground.

There was still a familiar smell on the table, Gu Jie made tea and served it to Neji and Ino.

This was clearly a place more than 40 years ago, and for some reason, Neji suddenly had the impression that he had been here in ancient times.

He chuckled and said, "This tea is very good."

He took a sip, after the bitterness, there was some sweetness.

"Yes, this tea is a specialty tea from a small tea garden in Konohahou Mountain. I haven't named it yet. This tea is very fragrant and sweet. It is very suitable for daily life after a long journey, and can relieve fatigue."

After he finished speaking, he took a sip himself, he didn't look like a teenager at all, he looked like a veteran who has faced life for many years.

He continued: "However, I didn't expect that the two guests that the Second Hokage personally asked me to receive were actually your two benefactors! It's really fate, how about, benefactor, you can name this tea? "

Ning Ci chuckled, searched casually, and said, "I rescued you from a ninja in Wuyin Village that day. Before coming here, there was also a cloudy rain. Why don't we call it the rainy season?"

"Okay, good name. The name chosen by the benefactor does not have a poetic flavor!"

"Okay, don't call me benefactor anymore, I'm Hyuga Tennin, you can call me Tennin."

"God... Tianren?"

Gu Jie stared blankly, and a ray of light flickered.

"So you are the Hinata Tennin who defeated the second generation of Raikage of Cloud Hidden Village with swordsmanship!? Really? Is it really you? And you defeated with one move, you..."

The speed of Gu Jie's speech suddenly changed, and Neji and Ino were a little surprised.

"Uh...well, it's just luck."

Ning Ci chuckled, although it seemed like something Tennin would admit generously, but Ning Ci still couldn't do such a cheeky thing.

"Don't be humble, don't be humble! Master!"

Gu Jie shouted quickly, and then said: "Accept me as an apprentice, I worship you as a teacher! I want to learn swordsmanship from you!"

Ning Ci was in a bit of a dilemma. Although Fei Jian didn't give any missions, but he hadn't thought about accepting Ning Ci at random while he was here to avoid the limelight.

Ino, on the other hand, smiled lightly, and looked at Neji meaningfully.

Ning Ci was taken aback, and vaguely remembered that after Ning Ci asked the 60-year-old Gu Jie about swordsmanship, Gu Jie talked about the sporadic fragments of learning swordsmanship with Hinata Tennin.

It is said that the time was very short, but for him, he had a great inspiration of swordsmanship...

"Brother Tennin, I am an orphan. I have lost my parents since I was a child. I decided to become a ninja halfway, just to protect myself. I have no relatives and friends of my own. I have been living here alone, and I was taken in by the second generation of Hokage. Me, swordsmanship is a self-protection skill left to me by my parents, I don't want to lose this skill, please... teach me swordsmanship!"

Seeing that Gu Jie had fallen to his knees, Neji was not in any trouble, he just chuckled and said, "Get up, I will teach you swordsmanship, but you don't need to call me master. You just need to remember that my name is Hinata Tenshin." .”

Gu Jie lifted his head moved, and stared blankly at Ning Ci's eyes, and the two looked at each other.

At this moment, Gu Jie completely remembered Ning Ci's gentle and indifferent eyes.

So, from this day on, Kosuke learns swordsmanship from Neji.

And Ning Ci also added some fun to this boring life, but what he taught Gu Jie was naturally some basic swordsmanship.

Life here is peaceful, and the three of them occasionally go hunting in the back mountains. The rabbits and fish they catch are cooked by Ino, and they enjoy a big meal together at night.

And it is very stable here, with Konoha's jungle in the back and Konoha's resistance in front, it is basically at the right time and place, and Ningci was able to sleep quite peacefully.

One day, gradually night.

"Shhhhhhhh"!
The phantom of the sword drew back bit by bit, Gu Jie tried hard to control his breathing, and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Great, Konoha Liuliu's swordsmanship is becoming more and more perfect, and this has an inseparable relationship with the skills that Senior Tennin gave me!"

Gu Jie praised happily, and Neji also put away the samurai sword in his hand and put it into its sheath, and said: "Then you just need to find this direction and practice every day. One day, you will reach the level of swordsmanship." It's in a state of perfection."

"I...really? Can I do it?"

Gu Jie is looking forward to it.

Ning Ci chuckled: "Of course, as long as you persist. It's getting late, let's take a rest."

At night, the three of them sat around the table and chatted about the past.

"So, did your parents disappear in that disaster? Why don't you try to find them?" Ino asked.

Gu Jie showed helplessness, his eyes were full of insincere words.

"No, no. After that disaster, the neighboring country of Vortex was wiped out."

"The country of the vortex?"

"That's right, the village we are in is right on the dividing line between the Land of Vortex and the Land of Rain."

"War...is really a terrible thing." Ino murmured.

"The country of Uzumaki has no hope. In recent years, it has been continuously looted by nearby bandits. It is said that some big countries hired ninjas to kill them all... Not long ago, Uzushio Village, which was already sparsely populated, was ransacked by ferocious beasts. A man in strange clothes appeared nearby, looking for something very ferociously, there are already corpses strewn all over the area near the Uzumaki Kingdom."

This news woke Ning Ci up.

"Where did the news come from?"

"The villagers outside the back mountain! They have come to Muye Village. It has been going on for several days, and many people in Uzumaki Village are now displaced..."

Neji and Ino seemed to see hope and determination in their eyes.

At night, Ning Ci secretly decided to put aside the matter of Konoha Village and the Second Hokage, and had to rush to Ushio Village without stopping, where he might find any clues he needed.

However, this time, he slept very restlessly.

When he woke up the next day, he got up early to go to the Hokage Building, and Kosuke Maruhoshi rushed back, shouting while running: "It's not good! Brother Tennin!"

"what happened?"

Ning Ci went out, and Ino had just put on his clothes, and asked sleepily, "What, what's wrong?"

Gu Jie panted, and said hesitantly: "Thunder, the country of thunder has declared war on the country of fire! The people of Yun, Yin Village, he, they have already... sent a vanguard to attack Muye Village!"

"The war... has begun!"