Konoha: A golden flash from the tomb

The sea breeze with a slightly salty smell shook people's spirits. Stepping on the waves, Minato headed towards the depths of the sea.

There are indeed ships traveling from the Kingdom of Thunder to the Kingdom of Water, but the speed of the ships is too slow. It takes nearly a week to cross the ocean between the two countries, and it only takes a day for ninjas to walk on the water and complete the journey. or so time.

This is because walking on water requires more chakra, and the waves on the sea are undulating, and the road conditions are more rugged than running on the ground, or even crossing mountains.

Once strong winds blow up big waves, the road ahead will be very difficult. Because of this, even though the land of the Kingdom of Water is the most fragmented and smallest among the five major kingdoms, they are also the most difficult to invade.

The vast ocean surrounding the country is the natural defense barrier of the Water Kingdom. If you want to attack the Water Kingdom, there are only seven or eight months each year that are relatively suitable for ninjas to march across the ocean and land. At other times, huge waves will blow from time to time on the sea. Due to the strong winds and storms of the waves, only a few giant ships can move forward in the storm and reach their destination safely.

Minato was lucky. The sea was calm in January. It took him half a day to cross the sea. He did not encounter any twists and turns along the way. He also did not encounter ninjas from the Kingdom of Water along the way. Their garrison area was more It is in coastal areas and around major natural ports.

There are more things to do in this trip to the Kingdom of Water than to the Kingdom of Thunder. Yunyin Village is a village that advocates martial arts, so as long as they are completely defeated, everything is easy to say, but the situation in the Kingdom of Water It is more complicated, and there are more entanglements between Konoha and Kirigakure.

In the Third Ninja World War, the Hyuga clan was responsible for part of the defense of the border front of the Kingdom of Water. However, the Kirigakure technique can effectively interfere with the Byakugan. The artificial thick fog full of chakra greatly improves the Byakugan's perception. Weakened, only the strong members of the Hyuga clan can alleviate this interference, but just when the Uchiha clan who replaced Hinata rushed to the battlefield.

The assassination force of the Kingdom of Water successfully took over the cover of the thick fog, instantly killed the branch ninjas protecting the Hyuga clan, and forcibly took away one of Hyuga's Byakugan. This was the only time among the three consecutive ninja wars that the Hyuga clan was defeated. Rolling eyes.

But even if Konoha put up a wanted notice for this, there was still no way to bring this Byakugan back to Konoha.

Soon after that battle, the Kingdom of Water entered a state of seclusion. After experiencing the defeat of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen by Matt Dai and the failure of the three-tails detonation plan, they were no longer able to fight anymore and reached an agreement with Konoha. The Kirigakure Village in the peace agreement relied on the natural danger of the sea and huddled behind the shelter of the ocean.

Although they suffered heavy losses in the three battles, Kirigakure Village ushered in their new life.

In the 49th year of Konoha, something shocking happened in the Kirigakure Village. A man named Zabuza killed more than 100 graduates of the same class. The appearance of the demon Zabuza made the decaying village firmly determined to change at this moment. determination.

In the 50th year of Konoha, bottom-up changes have made the perfect jinchuriki, Tachibana Yagura, the new fourth-generation Hokage of Kirigakure Village, and the atmosphere of the entire village has been completely changed.Junqu Pavilion

The cruel policy used by the Third Mizukage gave Kirikage the title of the Blood Mist, but he was assisted by veterans such as Genshi, Ao, Watermelon Mountain Fugu Oni, and Gonbei, and at the bottom there were Zabuza, Mangetsu, and Ringo Yuri. Inheriting the legendary ninja sword of Kirigakure Village, and with the help of such outstanding people, Goju Yagura quickly reversed the decline of Kirigakure Village. The whole village was prosperous, and prosperity and prosperity seemed to be close at hand.

But it is so close but it seems as far away as the end of the world. The revival of Kirigakure Village is blocked at this most critical moment. I don’t know why Goju Yagura, whose personality has changed drastically, abandoned the promise he once made with his companions: to make the village a better place. With good wishes, he picked up the policies left by the Sandaime Mizukage again and implemented them even more intensively.

In the 51st year of Konoha, the bustling Kirigakure Village was once again transformed into the blood mist that once existed. The swords aimed at the blood-successor ninja clan were waved, and the Minazuki clan was dismembered in Gotachibana Yagura. The land fell apart, and the remaining tribesmen fled in all directions, hiding anonymously in remote corners of the Kingdom of Water. Because of the barrier of the sea, it was difficult for them to escape from the country.

The entire Kingdom of Water is shrouded in a huge shadow. Not only Kirigakure Village, but also the other villages and towns of ordinary people in the Kingdom of Water are much more deserted than the Kingdom of Fire and the Kingdom of Thunder.

The traders who travel to various towns to sell goods all hire samurai or even wandering ninjas. Otherwise, the endless stream of bandits and robbers they encounter on the way will make them lose everything, or even lose their lives.

Those robbers are not "heroes" who uphold morality and rules. They want to buy money for the road, and they also want your coffin book. If there are women in the team, even if they are of average appearance, they will laugh and gain both wealth and beauty, leaving them with nothing. The next bloody mess swept away.

Even during the war, Konoha would not see such large-scale plundering without any bottom line.

The Kirigakure Village is in such a state of ruin that it has plunged the entire Water Kingdom into a quagmire. However, under Yagura's ruthless high-pressure policy, all efforts are in vain. Even the companions who jointly planned the change have failed There was no way to change the Yondaime Mizukage's decision at this moment.

Minato thought a lot while walking in this decadent country. He spent much more time walking in the Kingdom of Water than in the Kingdom of Thunder. However, with the Flying Thunder God by his side, he would still return to Konoha regularly to deal with Shikaku. There are many things that cannot be decided.

Perhaps the freest Kage in the world is him. He doesn't have to worry about his own safety, and he doesn't have to worry about a fire in the backyard. The Flying Thunder God's Technique brings him extremely close to the rest of the world. Minato, who knows that he still needs to continue to grow, also Keep learning about the world in your own way.

The end of the paper is so shallow that I know that this matter must be carried out.

This sentence is the most simple and practical truth he learned in the years after leaving the ninja world.

When he came to Kirigakure Village, Minato was not in a hurry to show up. Minato, who was hiding in the village, did not even contact the spies left here in Konoha. He spent several days quietly conducting reconnaissance in Kirigakure Village. It took time to figure out the blood family that still exists in Kirigakure Village.

At this time, the number of Kirigakure's blood-stained families was larger than Minato expected. Although the fourth generation Mizukage intensified the implementation of the bloody policy that started with the third generation, and further targeted the blood-stained ninjas by alternating light and dark erasures, but he wanted Kirigakure Murakami. There are great obstacles in carrying out this unreasonable and cruel order without compromise.

The main population of Kirigakure Village, which is famous for its number of blood successors in the ninja world, is still ordinary ninjas. They account for more than three-quarters of the ninja quota. However, the unique big family-like existence of blood successor ninjas allows them to inherit their merits and promote their positions. It is more convenient because a large part of the village's top leaders are from blood families.

Such an absolutely unacceptable order was unanimously opposed by all the blood successor families. Even though Yagura was powerful at the moment, this cruel order was still not completely implemented. The tragic situation of the Minazuki family sounded the alarm for them, but Such a warning would not make the Blood Successor Ninja clan back down, but instead strengthened their intention to counterattack.

The year Minato came to Kirigakure Village was the year when the storm was about to come. Someone put a butcher's knife on the neck of the blood successor ninja clan, but not everyone was willing to be a lamb to be slaughtered. .

Minato smelled the smell of blood in Kirigakure Village, which was stronger than ever before.