Naruto Blackened Neji

"Well, let me think about it."

Only then did the old man breathe a sigh of relief, because he was getting old and the time was a little long ago, so he had to think back first.

After a while, the old man replied: "I picked it up."

Ningji's eyes trembled slightly, and he immediately asked: "Do you still remember where you picked it up?

The old man nodded. When recalling the origin of the scroll just now, he also recalled the events of his youth.

"On the border of the Kingdom of the Moon, the specific location is probably in a valley on the border with the Kingdom of Thunder."

"The valley on the border between the Kingdom of the Moon and the Kingdom of Thunder"

Neji hadn't finished asking the questions in his mind, but the old man hadn't finished speaking either.

The old man continued: "When I was young, I once helped others deliver goods to the Land of Thunder. When I was passing through a valley, I stumbled and fell into a crevice in the valley. I saw it in the crevice."

"The scroll was seriously damaged at the time, but I thought it might still be worth some money, so I secretly took it back."

"But later I heard from an old man in the village at that time that the scrolls of ninjutsu are indeed valuable, but they are the secrets of each ninjutsu village. Selling scrolls privately is prohibited, and if you fail to do so, you will be burned."

"So, I kept the scroll at home."

Neji frowned slightly, and after listening to the old man's words, he fell into a brief silence.

Then, he asked the old man again, "How long ago did you say it was when you were young?"

"It's been too long, let me think about it."

The old man recalled for a while, and said: "It was about 44 or 45 years ago. I really can't remember the exact time."

"Then you picked up the exact location of the Scroll Valley. Can you still find it?"

With that said, Neji took out a map from his ninja bag, looked at the old man and asked, "Can you understand the map?"

The old man smiled and said: "Young man, don't look at me like this. I used to walk around a lot when I was young, so I still recognize the map. Let me find the specific location for you."

Neji, the old man, and the girl walked to the wooden table in the courtyard and unfolded the map.

The old man skillfully found the border line between the Kingdom of the Moon and the Kingdom of Thunder from the map. After observing for a while, he pointed to a place.

"Just around here."

After looking at the map and writing down the location, Neji bowed deeply to the old man and said, "Thank you."

He looked at the girl again: "And you."

The girl asked: "Are you ready to leave?"

Ning Ci nodded.

The girl lowered her eyes and looked at the scroll in her hand, and said: "Then this scroll"

"I told you before, keep it."

Neji said, although this scroll records the secret techniques of the Senju clan, the ninjutsu on it is obviously preserved in Konoha.

The Thousand Hands Clan has already disappeared in the ninja world, and it doesn't matter so much who owns the secret art scroll.

Before leaving, Neji said to the girl: "I said before that there is something wrong with the way you practice ninjutsu."

"Your knot seal is still too rusty. It is not only inefficient to practice like that, but it will also cause damage to your meridians."

"If you want to continue practicing, it's better to get familiar with the basic knot seal first."

Neji saw that the girl admired ninjas, and she did have a talent in this area.

The girl bit her lip: "Can I become your teacher?"

Neji shook his head and said, "It's too dangerous to follow me."

The girl opened her eyes wide: "I like adventure, just accept me as your disciple."

Neji looked at the old man.

The old man smiled and said: "Xiaoyi really likes to take risks. She will definitely be unwilling to let her do farm work all her life and then get married. If Master Ninja can accept her as his disciple, it will be her luck."

Neji asked: "Will your mother agree?"

The girl said: "Send her more money in the future, and she will agree."

Neji lamented: "I can take you in, but it's really dangerous."

The girl knelt down on the ground: "Master, please bow to me, my disciple."

Neji said: "Okay, you practice first, and when I figure out where the scroll is, I will come back to pick you up."

The girl was very happy, nodded and said: "Master, you have to come early."

Neji smiled and nodded, and then said to the old man: "Thank you very much for today."

Then, he looked at the girl again: "What's your name?"

The girl said: "My name is Uesugi Yui."

Neji nodded: "Okay, you wait here for me to come back."

唰

After saying that, he moved, like a silver ray of light, rushing out at full speed.

Neji had taken note of the old man and pointed out on the map the location where he had picked up the scroll decades ago.

Although so many years had passed, it was almost impossible to find any clues, but he still wanted to investigate.

When Neji arrived at the location pointed by the old man on the map, the sky had turned dim and the sun was setting.

During the Third Ninja World War in the Kingdom of the Moon, it was used as a buffer zone for the confrontation between Konoha and Yunnin, so there are many places in the territory where there are traces of ninja battles.

However, most of Yunin's ninjas are good at speed, and the damage to the terrain is not very serious.

As for the location the old man pointed to, there was only one valley within the area.

Neji soon reached the mountain wall on the side of the valley.

The scale of this valley is not large, so there is no name on the map.

The distance between the cliffs on both sides of the valley is about ten meters, which is relatively wide.

"boom"

Continuing to use the shadow clone technique, Neji quickly conducted a comprehensive exploration of the valley.

Generally, the traces left on the mountain wall after ninja battles will not change much even after decades.

Unless someone deliberately cleaned it up.

Neji looked around and found no signs of a particularly fierce battle.

But he always felt that things were a little weird.

The old man was able to find damaged ninjutsu scrolls from the cracks in the valley more than 40 years ago, indicating that a battle must have occurred here.

Therefore, there are always questions lingering in Neji's mind.

That's why people from the Qianshou clan arrived here back then and fought. During the battle, they might have used the scroll to resist the enemy's attack, causing it to fall into the crevice of the valley.

The sky gradually turned dark, but the vague doubts in Neji's heart became deeper and deeper as he investigated.

"chi"

As a result, both he and the shadow clone's eyes shook and opened their white eyes.

With Neji's powerful eye power as a support, even in the dark, it will not affect the insight of the mutant Byakugan.

After some investigation, Neji finally discovered the problem.

The first person to notice something was wrong was Neji's shadow clone.

Then, with successive observations, many anomalies were detected on the mountain wall of Ningji's small valley.

Neji's body has chakra attached to the soles of his feet, and he stands on the left side of the valley about three meters above the ground.

He stroked the mountain wall with his palms, which gradually became cold due to the loss of sunlight. Under Neji's gaze, his brows gradually wrinkled.

"Someone has moved here, this should be the trace of being impacted by the water escape ninjutsu."

The five attributes of chakra, fire, wind, thunder, earth, and water, no matter which one they are, as long as they are released with chakra, they will be different from the power formed independently by nature.

Staring at the mountain wall with his mutated white eyes, if it weren't for Neji's powerful insight, it would be difficult for ordinary ninjas to detect that there were traces of the impact of the Water Release Ninjutsu on the mountain wall.

Judging from the newness and oldness of the traces, it is about four or fifty years ago.

There is not just one situation like this in this valley, but many.

On the cliffs on both sides of the valley and on the ground, all the traces left by ninjutsu seemed to have been deliberately cleaned.

Neji narrowed his eyes, thinking slightly.

He felt that this time, he might have begun to touch a conspiracy that happened decades ago.

The target of the conspiracy is probably the Senju clan who suddenly disappeared in the ninja world.

The night shrouded the earth, and above the sky at this time, dark clouds drifted past, covering the moonlight.

The air in the entire valley gradually became darker and colder.

嗡

After a long time, Kisame and Beiruhu got news about Neji and came here.

Kisame looked sideways at Neji beside him and asked, "Have you finished checking?"

"The border between the Kingdom of the Moon and the Kingdom of Thunder"

After making these judgments quickly in his heart, Kisame suddenly had layers of doubts.

He stared at Neji, waiting for an answer.

Neji nodded and said: "I guess you have already observed that this is the border between the Kingdom of the Moon and the Kingdom of Thunder."

At this time, there was a rare solemn look on Neji's face: "I found this place based on the clues provided by the elder of the girl's family who owned the Thousand-Handed Secret Technique Scroll from the Iron Kingdom."

He immediately revealed the information he had collected so far.

After the two Kisames heard this, they had almost the same thoughts as Neji before.

Kisame asked: "So, after surveying this valley, what conclusion did you get?"

Because of the weird feeling, it also crawled into his heart.

Ningji replied in a deep voice: "In this valley, I found many traces of the impact of ninjutsu that were deliberately erased, and the traces existed for a very long time when the old man from the Iron Country picked up the scroll. similar."

Seeing is believing, Neji immediately took Kisame to the location where he had previously observed the abnormality.

Kisame does not have mutated Byakugan, so his insight is far inferior to that of Neji, but these traces of deliberate movement are difficult to see during normal observation, but if you pay specific attention, you can still see the problem.

The two of them visited several locations in the valley, and Kisame also saw with his own eyes the places that had been deliberately moved.

The blue eyes gradually narrowed, and he murmured: "Why is it here?"

Neji and Kisame have the same intelligence, and on many things, their thinking styles are very similar.

Therefore, after observing all this, Kisame also smelled the conspiracy: "Neji-kun, do you have anything to say?"

With many doubts in his mind, Kisame glanced at Neji.

The latter frowned and looked solemn.

Apparently he had things he could say but couldn't open his mouth to say.

Kisame smiled slightly and put his hand on Neji's shoulder: "There is nothing else that cannot be said between you and me."

In the past two years in the Akatsuki organization, Kisame has always kept nothing secret from him and put the same trust in him.