Konoha: Naruto Returns from Sekiro

Rain country.

A country with extreme bad luck.

At the same time, it borders three major countries: the Fire Country, the Earth Country, and the Fire Country.

Whether it was the First Ninja War or the Second Ninja War, they both became the battlefield of the Three Kingdoms.

Moreover, the country's climate is cloudy and rainy all year round. The Country of Wind, which borders its southwest and is full of yellow sand, is completely two extremes.

The particularity of the climate has led to a serious shortage of grain production in the Land of Rain. Coupled with the frequent disasters of the ninjas of the Three Kingdoms, the few farming opportunities are even rarer.

The ninjas of the three major kingdoms would naturally ignore this, and the consequences would naturally fall on the residents of the Land of Rain.

Poverty, hunger, skinny to the bone, not fully clothed, no hope for the future...

Any word that symbolizes suffering can be applied to the residents of the Kingdom of Rain without any awkwardness.

Holding an umbrella, Naruto walked slowly through a town. Numbness, helplessness, and hollowness were the unified expressions of everyone here.

Robbery and robbery in the street happen all the time.

The strong wield their knives at the stronger ones, and the weak wield their knives at the weaker ones.

Years of wars have caused the society of the Land of Rain to lose its most basic order.

When being bullied by ninjas from other countries, some people bowed their knees and endured silently; some broke out in silence and sacrificed their precious lives for their own country and their loved ones.

And this kind of behavior is so ridiculous in the eyes of groveling people;

Perhaps it was the heroic feats performed by these heroic people that deeply hurt their humble and ridiculous self-esteem.

These kneeling people, on the contrary, intensified their oppression of their compatriots. What they did was worse and more cruel than the 'invaders' they did.

In a dark alleyway, a thin, yellow-faced woman was dragged into the darkness by two young hooligans.

The people around seemed to be used to it for a long time, they just glanced silently, then withdrew their gaze, and continued to be busy with their livelihood.

The woman who was dragged in seemed not to have encountered this kind of suffering for the first time. Although she struggled, she felt more helpless and painful.

"Do you need help?"

At the entrance of the alleyway, a boy in an open-chested kimono asked the woman softly.

"... Hurry up." Instead of showing the slightest expression of excitement, the woman shook her head frantically, urging him with a hoarse voice.

Those who fall into darkness will especially cherish the light that shines on her body through layers of dark clouds.

The green ruffians looked at each other, and they both saw the hesitation in each other's eyes.

In the chaotic Rain Country, clean and tidy clothes are to some extent a symbol of status and strength.

How could they be street gangsters if they dared to punch a strong man?

"I understand." Naruto nodded slightly, slowly closed his umbrella, took a few steps, and walked to the two young men.

Although he was the one looking up, for some reason it was the two young gangsters who kept retreating.

Or perhaps, they felt the temperament of a strong man in this boy.

"To be honest, I look down on you guys."

The moment the voice fell, Naruto's figure suddenly disappeared from the spot, and the figures of the two young gangsters suddenly flew out, as if they were hit hard by a high-speed moving chariot, and hit the walls on both sides heavily. above.

After a slight pause, he slowly slid down the wall.

The woman looked at this scene and looked at him excitedly, "Are you, Master Ninja of the Light of Dawn?"

"No, I'm just a passerby." Naruto helped her up and shook his head slightly.

The Light of Dawn, also known as the Akatsuki Organization, is a resistance army that emerged as the times require when it is dissatisfied with the inaction of Yuren Village under the oppression of ninjas from the three major nations.

In the eyes of most people in the Land of Rain, the ninja of the Light of Dawn is the light of hope that is about to lift the dark clouds that hang over the Land of Rain.

"Thank you." The woman bowed in thanks.

Naruto opened the umbrella again, looked her up and down, and asked, "Where are you from?"

"The country of birds." The woman rolled up her hair between her foreheads.

"Can I ask what you used to do?" Naruto asked, the woman's words and deeds were not like ordinary women.

"It's okay if you don't want to say it." Handed her the umbrella.

"My mother used to be a shrine maiden." The woman said, putting an umbrella over the heads of the two of them.

"Really." Naruto nodded slightly, without asking too much, leaned over and took out the money from the two young ruffians.

Pass the money to the woman.

"I don't need it." The woman shook her head and refused.

"Although it's not much, it's enough for you to live for a while." Naruto put the thing in her hand.

The long-term lack of nutrition had brought her body to the edge of collapse.

Compared to him, the money is obviously more useful to women than to him.

Money, for him, is enough, too much is a waste.

What he longs for, ordinary money cannot buy.

"Thank you." After much hesitation, the woman accepted it and bowed again in thanks.

"I can take you to the next town."

Looking out of the alleyway, those wolf-like peeping gazes, Naruto suggested to the woman.

"Excuse me."

Obviously, she also understands that she can no longer survive in this town.

"May I ask, where are you going?"

"Look for the 'Light of Dawn'."

……

"……so what have you thought of?"

The young Shimura Danzo, looking at the masked samurai not far away, asked.

"Okay." The warrior stared into his eyes, and after a moment, nodded slowly.

"With the right choice, the future of the Kingdom of Rain will continue in your hands."

"The information about the 'Akatsuki Organization' will be sent to you one after another." Shimura Danzo nodded in satisfaction, got up and left, with a comfortable gesture, as if he was the master here.

But the surrounding Urenin, including Sanshoyu Hanzo, who was sitting in the main seat, turned a blind eye to this.

In this regard, Shimura Danzo seems to have expected it.

In terms of strength, both of them are not as strong as the demigod Sanshouyu Hanzo. After all, the leader of the Rain Ninja Village is the only person after the First Hokage to be honored as a god.

It is precisely because of his existence that the Country of Rain and the Village of Rain Ninja were able to maintain the situation that was on the verge of fragmentation in the face of repeated devastation by the three major powers.

But it's also a pity that he was doomed not to become a real 'god' due to his origin in a small country.

Even if Sanshoyu Hanzo is strong, so what, in today's ninja world, even if personal force is strong, it can only be placed second.

The strength of the whole, the strength of Ninja Village, is the real strength.

As long as Sanshoyu Hanzo dares to attack him now, Konoha's ninjas will dare to attack the city tomorrow.

One ninja can't defeat him, ten ninjas can't defeat him, but what about a hundred? What about a thousand?

Today's rain ninja can exist more because it is just a piece of chicken ribs, a tasteless piece of food that is a pity to throw away, and a piece of chicken ribs that is not worthy of the three great ninja villages spending too much thought on it.

The reason why the three major powers chose to open up their battlefields in the Land of Rain was not because of its "abundant" resources, but simply because the Land of Rain was more suitable than other options.

If the Kingdom of Rain remained neutral as before, Danzo would not appear here.

But it is a pity that the recently active "Akatsuki Organization" in the Land of Rain has greatly hindered Konoha's interests in the Land of Rain.

No matter how just the actions of the 'Akatsuki Organization' are seen by the people of the Kingdom of Rain.

But in Danzo's view, as long as Konoha's interests are blocked, it must be eliminated.

As for the so-called 'justice', that is something that only the victors are qualified to write.