Naruto Death Hero

About ten days later, with the joint help of Kurosaki Ichigo and Tsunade, Uzumaki Mito's physical condition finally stabilized temporarily, and his health would not deteriorate due to Kyuubi in a short time.

But even so, finding the next Nine-Tails Jinchuuriki as soon as possible is still a problem that needs to be solved by Konoha's top brass.

So Kurosaki Ichigo accepted this mission without hesitation. Before he could meet Uchiha Jinna once he returned to the village, he set out from Konoha and headed east.

"This task is the highest-level secret of the village until the transformation of the Jinchuuriki is completed. Even Tsunade, who takes care of Lord Mito, doesn't know about it. You must strictly abide by the confidentiality regulations. I think you, the former Minister of Roots, should be very concerned about this." I’m familiar with it, so I won’t remind you more.”

The words of the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen seemed to still be echoing in his ears, and Kurosaki Ichigo's steps were a little faster.

A few days later, he arrived at the Kingdom of Whirlpool located southeast of the Kingdom of Fire.

Just as soon as he set foot on the land of Whirlpool Country, Kurosaki Ichigo frowned.

Because at this time, the Kingdom of Whirlpool, which had been relatively peaceful before, was already littered with corpses, and displaced people were everywhere.

Kurosaki Ichigo learned from a group of refugees that several small hidden villages launched an attack on the Uzumaki Country and the Uzushio Hidden Village nearly a year ago.

At first, Uzumaki Hidden Village resisted the siege of those small hidden villages fairly well and did not fall behind at all.

Unfortunately, just a few months ago, Kirigakure Village joined the offensive.

Although compared to the other four hidden villages, the strength of Kirigakure Village is not outstanding, but for a village like Uzushiogakure Village that has not yet recovered from the trauma of the previous ninja war, it is definitely considered a dimensionality reduction strike level.

Therefore, in less than a month, Uzushiogakure Village, which had lost Konoha's assistance, was defeated by Kirigakure Village, losing a large amount of combat power.

At a critical moment, the remaining ninjas of the Uzumaki Kingdom decided to abandon the Uzushio Hidden Village and dispersed their tribesmen to various parts of the country.

Naturally, the ruthless Mist Ninja would not let go of the remnants of the Uzumaki Clan so easily, so he started a large-scale search in the entire Uzumaki Country, and would kill any Uzumaki Clan members on the spot if they were found.

Many Whirlpool tribesmen were forced to leave the Country of Whirlpool where they had lived for hundreds of years and went to other countries.

But there are more Whirlpool people who are unable to leave their homeland and choose to stay.

Most of these people hid to avoid searches in Kirigakure Village and waited for opportunities to resist.

After learning about this situation, Kurosaki Ichigo felt a little headache. He knew very well that in such a chaotic situation, it would be difficult to find an ordinary Uzumaki tribesman, not to mention finding a Uzumaki tribesman with enough qualifications to become the Nine-Tailed Jinchuuriki. More difficult than ever.

What's more, his operation this time was highly confidential, and his identity could not be revealed at all. Otherwise, Kurosaki Ichigo would have already taught a lesson to those mist ninjas who took human lives seriously.

Along the way, Kurosaki Ichigo lived in seclusion, trying not to go to towns and villages, and only spent the night in the mountains. He kept reminding himself of the importance of the mission and forced himself to suppress the urge to take action.

After searching for several days in the Kingdom of Uzumaki, Kurosaki Ichigo found no clues about the Uzumaki clan.

Also, if it was really so easy to find, those members of the Uzumaki clan would have been killed by the Mist Ninjas countless times.

Faced with such a situation, Kurosaki Ichigo knew that he could not continue searching aimlessly like a headless fly, so he immediately set off, preparing to go to the abandoned Uzushio Hidden Village to find out.

With Kurosaki Ichigo's leg strength, he arrived outside Uzushiogakure Village in less than a day, even though he was traveling on a deserted path.

At this moment, there are no ninjas from the Uzumaki clan in Uzushiogakure Village. It is occupied by a group of Mist ninjas, numbering about a hundred people.

Although he did not see the Uzumaki clan members, Kurosaki Ichigo was not disappointed, but decided to listen to these fog ninjas to see if they had any clues.

The result did not disappoint Kurosaki Ichigo, he really got some clues.

It turns out that this group of mist ninjas are actually the top management of Kirigakure Village in the Country of Uzumaki, and they temporarily live in Uzushiogakure Village to handle the affairs of the Country of Uzumaki.

Since they easily defeated the Whirlpool Country, the Mist Ninjas relaxed.

Basically all the Mist Ninjas have dispersed to various areas of the Country of Whirlpool to track down the Uzumaki Clan, leaving only dozens of Mist Ninjas guarding these high-ranking officials.

It's not that the Mist Ninja despised Uzumaki Hidden Village, but according to their statistics, even if all the remaining Uzumaki Country ninjas were added together, it would be difficult to defeat the dozens of guards here.

After learning that this was Kirigakure's headquarters in the Country of Whirlpool, Kurosaki Ichigo decided to wait and see here. After all, all the information about the Country of Whirlpool had to be gathered here.

And considering Kurosaki Ichigo's strength, as long as he intentionally hides, these mist ninjas can't find him.

So Kurosaki Ichigo lurked near Uzushio Hidden Village.

Finally, Huangtian paid off. After waiting for a few days, Kurosaki Ichigo once again sneaked into the information library of the Mist Ninja and discovered a piece of information from the northwest of the Kingdom of Whirlpool this morning.

According to the intelligence, a large remnant force of the Uzumaki clan was found in the northwest of the Kingdom of Whirlpool. The Mist Ninjas did not search carefully because they were worried that this place was too close to the Country of Fire.

Now after discovering them, the Mist Ninja has sent a team to go there to clear them out.

Kurosaki Ichigo knew it was too late, so after setting fire to the information warehouse, he immediately rushed to the northwest of the Kingdom of Whirlpool.

He originally wanted to kill the group of mist ninjas who occupied Uzushio Hidden Village before taking action, but considering that the Uzumaki clan members were at a critical moment of life and death at the moment, he did not delay further.

It's just that although he is fast, the speed of the Mist Ninjas is not slow either.

When Kurosaki Ichigo tried his best to rush to the location mentioned in the intelligence, what he found was a small mountain village with flames blazing into the sky.

From a distance in the village, you can see many mist ninjas running back and forth, dragging out corpses from various places in the village and throwing them outside the village.

Among these corpses there are many red-haired people with distinctive characteristics of the Uzumaki clan, but most of them are ordinary people who are obviously incompatible with the Uzumaki clan.

But for these mist ninjas, it doesn't matter whether they are members of the Uzumaki tribe. After all, since so many Uzumaki tribe members are hiding here, it means that these ordinary people are also their accomplices.

Looking at all this from a distance, Kurosaki Ichigo's eyes were splitting, and he didn't care about the mission anymore. He just wanted to kill these inhumane guys directly.

"Just kill all these people and don't expose my identity," Kurosaki Ichigo thought in his heart.

But just before he was about to put on the mask and take action, Kurosaki Ichigo habitually released his spiritual pressure to sense the surroundings, only to find that there were still several living people in the dense forest on a hill behind the village. .

"I'll deal with you later"

Kurosaki Ichigo knew that whether it was from a mission perspective or from a human perspective, the top priority was to first investigate the identities of those strangers.

So after suppressing the murderous look in his eyes, Kurosaki Ichigo turned and left.