Konoha's Wooden Reappearance

In the evening, in a cave in the Kingdom of Water, Shisui and his group of Konoha ninjas rested here.

Several days have passed since the last siege of the Kirigakure ninjas. After breaking away from the Kirigakure Anbu led by Terumi Mei, Shisui finally changed his original escape direction and led his men from another direction. Breaking out of the encirclement of Kirigakure ninjas.

In the next few days, a game of mouse and cat continued between the Kirigakure ninja and Konoha ninja.

In the pursuit and counter-tracking one after another, Shisui relied on his outstanding ninja talents and strength to escape or get rid of Kirigakure's pursuit every time.

"Captain, it should be safe here for the time being, but we can't stay here for too long."

The sensing ninja in the team carefully sensed the surroundings and reported to Shisui on the side.

"Well, thank you for your hard work, Falcon. You should go and rest first. It's also thanks to your perception these days. Otherwise, it would be difficult for us to avoid each other's searches so many times."

Looking at his subordinates whose eyes were slightly bloodshot, Zhisui felt very guilty.

"No, thanks to the wise decisions made by the captain every time, we are temporarily safe."

Although Shisui, as the captain, is the youngest in this team, the other three are very convinced and convinced by him.

"I don't know if the news asking for rescue has spread back to the village."

Another Konoha ninja was in a bit of a mess. He leaned to one side and said worriedly.

"Don't worry, Totoro, Hokage-sama will definitely send out rescue after receiving the news."

Another Konoha ninja who was taking care of him quickly comforted him.

Zhisui saw everything, and he was a little anxious.

In the past few days, he led his men to try to break out from various directions, but always failed. The Kirigakure ninjas always appeared in time to block their way out.

This made Zhisui feel that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.

"Maybe I shouldn't ask for reinforcements from the village."

During this period, the battle with the Kirigakure ninja kept flashing in Shisui's mind, and he felt that Kirigakure was planning some conspiracy.

. . . . . .

Carrying a wooden boat made of wood, Mizama successfully passed through the strait between the Kingdom of Fire and the Kingdom of Whirlpool, and landed in a strange homeland.

The Country of Whirlpool is a small island, not even as big as the island of Yuno Country.

The air near the island is a bit humid, and the sea breeze is also mixed with a bit of fishy smell, which is a typical island style.

"No wonder Uzushio Village was just a small village back then."

Looking at the map in his hand, Minajian confirmed where he needed to go, and then started on his way.

It took less than two hours and finally arrived at the village where the mission was commissioned before dark.

"Oh, please, this is Dianqian Village."

While comparing the location of the village on the map, Mizama asked uncertainly to a villager who was packing up farm tools and preparing to go home.

"You are a ninja of Konoha"

The villager is about 50 years old, already an old man.When he saw Shuijian, he asked tremblingly, with fear in his words.

"Ah, I am the Konoha ninja who came here to accept your mission. My name is Mizama."

Mizama hid his emotions well and said with a smile.

"Ah, this is Dianqian Village, and I am a villager in the village."

While the old man was talking, he looked at Mizama carefully, as if he wanted to confirm Mizama's identity.

"Old man, I am indeed a ninja of Konoha. Your village leader, Mr. Kabu, should be able to confirm it when I get to the village."

Shuijian still said very kindly.

Although the old man was very suspicious, seeing that Mizama was just a teenager, he let down some of his wariness.

"Ninja-sama of Konoha, please come with me."

As he spoke, he picked up the farm tools and prepared to go home. Seeing that he was struggling, Minama offered a helping hand.

"I've been waiting for you to come. How many ninjas did Konoha send this time?"

On the way to the village, the two people, one old and one young, were very silent, but they occasionally communicated.

"This mission is just a C-level mission to eliminate bandits. It's relatively simple, so the village only sent me here. What's the problem?"

In fact, this mission has been posted on the Konoha mission release site for a long time, but because the reward is too low, no ninja has been willing to take it.

If Mizuma hadn't had something to do in the country of Kaiwhirlpool and needed an excuse, I'm afraid he wouldn't have accepted it.

"No, there's no problem, I'm just a little worried."

The old man said hesitantly.

The two quickly entered the village, and Mizama began to look around the village.

This is a village that is not too small, but not too big either. Based on the area of ​​the village, it should be able to accommodate more than a thousand families.

There are some defensive facilities on the outside of this village, but they are so crude and full of flaws that they are as good as nothing.

The houses in the village are very simple single-story wooden structures. Some of the houses are in dilapidated condition and cannot be used for living at all.Some houses are clearly over the top.

Along the way, Shuijian found that the people he met seemed to be in a hurry. Except for some innocent children, most of the adults had sad faces.

The old man took Mizama to the southeast corner of the village, pointed to a simple house, and began to introduce himself.

"Master Mizama, I am the Kabu you are looking for. This is my home. Please don't dislike the simplicity here. Please rest here tonight."

Kabu said apologetically as he led Mizama towards home.

"Are you Mr. Kabu? Sorry, I didn't recognize you before. However, you are so polite. We ninjas are on missions outside. It's good to have a place like this."

Along the way, while observing the current situation of the village, Mizama also made a comprehensive sense of the village and its surroundings, and it was confirmed that there were no ninjas.

"Grandpa, you are back"

A little boy's voice came from the house, and then Minama saw a little boy wearing many patched clothes running out of the house and throwing himself on Kabu.

"Ah, Carlo, I'm back."

The little boy probably noticed Mizama and secretly looked at Mizama with some confusion.

"Your name is Carlo, right? Hello, I'm Mizama from Konoha Village. Nice to meet you."

Minama smiled and said warmly to the little boy hiding behind Kabu.

"Brother, you are a ninja"

Noticing that Mizama's clothes were different from those of ordinary people, Carlo, who was not afraid of strangers, bravely asked.

"Yeah, I'm a ninja, and I'm here to help you."

"Xiao Luo, please invite the guests in first."

Kabu spoke at this time, so Mizama put the farm tools in his hands in a suitable position and followed the grandfather and grandson into the house.

After confirming his identity with Kabu, Minama temporarily settled in his house.

"This is what you usually eat."

While eating dinner, Mizama pointed to the black goo in his bowl and asked in disbelief.

There were only a few rice grains in the bowl, mostly unknown wild vegetables. In the end, everyone could only get less than half a bowl of black rice.

"Hey, it's not easy for us to live in this world, what else can we ask for?"

The old man's words were full of sadness.

"Old man, where are your children and Xiao Luo's father and mother? Why do you, an old man, have to work in the fields?"

Ever since he saw this old man in the field, Mizama had wanted to ask this question.

"Lord Mizama, maybe you don't understand the true situation in this country. These things can be traced back decades ago, when I was still a young boy..."

After listening to the old man's story, Mizama immediately realized that this was another issue left over from history.

Decades ago, after the Uzushio Village in the Country of Uzumaki was destroyed, the country lost the protection of the Uzumaki clan and gradually began to become a place where thieves were rampant.

The turmoil has been particularly severe in the past ten years, and the trend is getting worse.

These thieves will begin to attack and rob villages as soon as farmers harvest, leaving at most only a mouthful of food to sustain them.

It was common for them to kill a few villagers and rob a few women.

Naturally, there were many people who resisted at first, but after the thieves brutally killed a group of people, they gradually became more honest.

But every year, many people who cannot survive are still forced to resist, but the resistance almost always ends in failure, and the price is that those who resist will be killed every time.

"Since they come to rob every year, you have never looked for Konoha's ninja before."

"Looking for it, I have looked for it before, but after Konoha's ninjas dealt with a group of bandits, new bandits would appear soon, and they retaliated even more harshly.

Later, as we became poorer and poorer, we could no longer afford the ninja commission.

Even this commission was secretly collected by several surrounding villages. If the bandits find out, I'm afraid they will take revenge on us again. "

"Don't worry, Mr. Kabu, I will find a way to solve this matter completely. By the way, this place is far away from the Uzushio Village ruins."

"Uzushio Village has not heard this name for a long time. If Uzushio Village had not perished, our country would not be what it is now.

It's about a few hours away, but no one has been there in a long time. "

Kabu said as he pointed out the location on the map that Minama took out.

"what's going on there"

“It’s a dark place with no sunlight all year round, so most people don’t go if they can.

However, there were also people who broke into there before and went crazy when they came back. They kept saying that there was a ghost there. From then on, no one dared to go there. "

"It seems like there are ghosts so you can't just go there."

"People's grievances from those who died tragically gathered there and turned into evil ghosts, just waiting for someone to fall into the trap."

After dinner, Kabu specially cleaned up a room for the water room to stay temporarily.

When he was alone, Mizama fell into deep thought, thinking about how to help the country solve its current problems.

I didn't have a clue for a while, so I decided to get to know the real situation of this country first. I formed a seal and created nearly a hundred shadow clones, and asked them to spread out to investigate the situation throughout the Kingdom of Whirlpool and make some preparations.

At noon the next day, Shuijian received the message from the shadow clone. The situation could be said to be quite bad.

All the villages in the entire Whirlpool Kingdom are basically in the same situation as the village where Mizama is temporarily staying. Just as Kabu stated, they are suffering from exploitation by bandits.

"It can be said that the whole place is full of bandits. There are more than a thousand of these people. How could Konoha allow so many bandits to live under their noses?

There are not many people in the entire Whirlpool Kingdom now. How should we deal with these people? Kill them all. Isn’t that the same as what those Konoha ninjas did in the past?"

Shuijian was in trouble for a while.

After finding a secluded place, Mizama sat down cross-legged. The main body and all the shadow clones began to sense together, and the sense instantly enveloped every corner of the island.

"Are these ninjas wandering ninjas? Why are there so many?"

Some chakra reactions appeared in Mizama's perception. There were a lot of people, estimated to be about 300, but they were all evenly distributed on the small island.

Most of these chakras are not very strong, only at the level of middle genin, but the remaining few are not weak, and are at the level of jounin. It is estimated that there are twenty or thirty of them.

This is not the strangest thing. What makes Mizama most curious is that there is a place that is like a blank within the range of his perception.

"It seems that there should be something like a barrier there, but how can there be such a thing on such a small island? Maybe I should go and have a look."