The Six Paths of Konoha

Just after returning, Hong made an appointment with Shisui and Chiba to have dinner together.

After all, they formed the temporary members of Team and had not yet gotten together.

After experiencing the baptism of war, Hong and Shisui are much more mature than before. Qianye looked like a novice in front of them.

The three of them met at a barbecue restaurant. Chiba was the first to speak and asked, "What mission are you two performing on the front line?"

Shisui was grilling meat on the side, and Kurenai was eating on the side. Neither of them seemed to have any idea of ​​answering Chiba's question.

The atmosphere was inexplicably awkward.

"You will know the battlefield once you have been there." Zhishui said calmly.

Between the words, there was a suppressed murderous aura.

In the eyes of the two of them, Chiba, who had never experienced a battlefield, was like a carefree little baby at the moment.

On the battlefield, blood and death are the themes every moment.

Orochimaru only wanted to study forbidden arts, gain immortality, and surpass the limits of the human body after watching his disciples and close friends die.

"Qianye, how are you practicing the sealing technique?" Zhishui suddenly asked.

"This, it's just so-so." Qianye spread his hands.

"I heard that the eight-tailed jinchuriki of Kumogakure Village has also entered the battlefield, and the eight-tailed jinchuriki seems to be able to control the power of the tailed beasts. If we encounter them, we will have to rely on the sealing technique of your Uzumaki clan." Shisui said.

The power of the Uzumaki clan's sealing technique is deeply rooted in people's hearts.

At present, the only things that can restrain powerful tailed beasts like the Eight Tails are human sea tactics and sealing techniques.

"Don't worry, the current Bi should not be able to fully use the power of the tailed beasts, otherwise Kumogakure Village would have attacked Konoha long ago." Chiba said.

Hong ignored the conversation between the two and was still eating barbecue.

"Eating so much and not gaining weight, does this woman have a secret skill?" Qianye looked at Hong sideways and thought to himself.

After the barbecue was finished, Hong finally spoke.

"On the escort mission to the Kingdom of the Sea, you will encounter mysterious sea beasts." Hong began to analyze the mission for the two of them. "If the sea beasts can actively attack the ships escorting supplies, then there is a possibility that the sea beasts are controlled by ninjas."

"So, we're going to practice underwater combat skills."

Kurenai has indeed matured a lot. She told Qianye and Shisui about their tasks as soon as they came up, without saying anything more.

"This woman is getting colder and colder." Qianye yawned. He had been busy practicing in the past few days and didn't sleep well.

Kurenai and Shisui were formulating strategies alone. Chiba looked drowsy and finally just lay on the table and snored.

Hong frowned, picked up the iron plate for barbecue, and wanted to slap Qianye in the face. But was stopped by Shisui.

"Let him rest, he has his own ideas." Shisui said with a smile.

After the two of them formulated the tactics for the escort mission, Hong wrote down the plan on paper and then woke Chiba up.

"gone."

Seeing Chiba's sleepy look, Hong put the note recording the tactics into Chiba's hand.

"Take a rest and set off in three days!"

Shisui finished paying and went home with Hong Shunlu.

Only then did Chiba get up in a daze.

He held the note in his hand, which still exuded a faint red fragrance.

"Hong...did you just write me a love letter?" Chiba was stunned, his heart pounding.

He quickly checked to see if his clothes were on.

"Fortunately, they didn't tamper with me while I was sleeping... Hey... there is also a slight distress in being handsome." Chiba opened the paper with a smile on his lips.

I found that it was full of tactical arrangements.

What about love letters?

Did you forget to plug it in? Or...was it taken away by Shisui?

Chiba jumped to the roof, blew in the wind, wrote down all the tactical arrangements, saved the paper, then went to the ninja tool shop and bought more than a hundred detonating charms, and started a new day of training.

I went to Fang Zhu's place on the way. The Loulan puppet could already move, but it could only walk normally and was not up to fighting standards.

On the training ground, Chiba did not practice more higher-level ninjutsu, but became familiar with the release of the previous ninjutsu.

Today's Chiba, after releasing the Water Release Ninjutsu, can almost instantly use the Thunder Release Ninjutsu, making the opponent unable to react.

Taking advantage of the break in training, Chiba also practiced the water body technique to cope with the complex environment of the Kingdom of the Sea.

In this way, three days passed quickly.

Hong and Shisui were waiting for Chiba at the door early in the morning. Both of them were very well prepared for this mission.

Chiba still looked carefree, which made people feel very unreliable.

"I am the captain of the mission this time. If I encounter special circumstances, I must obey the command." Hong said seriously.

Minato was away, and Kurenai, who had more mission experience, served as the team leader.

Shisui and Chiba nodded, and the two of them followed Kurenai and quickly moved towards the Kingdom of the Sea.

The country of the sea is an island, and the location of its capital is called the "mother island". Most of the people make a living by fishing, bringing fresh sea freight to Konoha and selling it to earn money.

Because he often fishes outside, he will encounter attacks from some pirates. There are no ninjas in the Kingdom of the Sea, so he can only seek refuge in the Kingdom of Water, which controls a large area of ​​​​the sea.

In the ninja world, the ocean area is extremely large, and there are countless islands scattered in it. Some islands are very magical, and there are even places like Mt. Miaomu where psychic beasts roam everywhere.

It was already midnight when the three people arrived at the port of the Kingdom of the Sea. It took about half a day to take a boat from the port of the Kingdom of the Sea to the mother island.

At such a distance, if three people walked on water, they would consume a lot of chakra. If they encountered an enemy along the way, the situation would be very bad.

So Hong decided to rest at the port for a night.

The three of them were all ninjas, bearing the symbol of Konoha. Many villagers were very enthusiastic when they saw that they were coming from Konoha, begging Konoha ninjas to destroy the sea beasts.

Among them, a woman heard the news and came over in the middle of the night and knelt down in front of three people.

"Sir, please find my child. My child has been missing for three days." The woman cried.

The man accompanying her also had red eyes.

Many villagers shook their heads and sighed after seeing this. It was rumored that all the missing children were caught by sea monsters and never survived.

"Did you disappear three days ago?" Chiba suddenly frowned.

Others didn't know what the Sea Beast Incident was in the Kingdom of the Sea, but he knew it very well.

In a place called Onigai Island in the Kingdom of the Sea, Orochimaru's base is hidden, where people are captured for experiments.

"Yes, sir, one night three days ago, my son was picking up shells at the beach. In the blink of an eye, he disappeared." The woman cried, blaming herself.

Qianye's face darkened slightly.

There was a child missing three days ago, which means that there must be someone on Guijie Island using children for experiments.

Could this person be Orochimaru?

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