Konoha I am Uchiha

Although there were many people in the room, they were all probably asleep.

Hiiragi analyzed calmly.

It was completely dark at this time, and such a village obviously could not support the villagers' night activities.

In a feudal society where men farmed and women weaved, nightlife existed only in big cities like Konoha or the capital of the Fire Nation.

This house is slightly more spacious than the one just now, but it is not too spacious for three people.

Hiiragi landed quietly.

The forefoot landed on the ground and the back heel was gently lowered. The ninja shoes eliminated the unnecessary friction sound. Hiirago squatted on his knees like a cheetah, quiet and deadly.

After swallowing his saliva, the discomfort caused by killing people disappeared a lot. Hiirago tightened the kunai in his hand and touched the simple bed.

……

Arisa has been feeling restless lately.

She hasn't been able to sleep well since the rumors started spreading in the village. She really wanted to persuade her husband to leave, but as a farmer for generations, she knew that in this season, leaving would only result in starvation.

Although it was a sunny day today, the temperature at night was rarely comfortable. My husband and children fell asleep early and slept soundly, but I always suffered from night sweats and poor sleep quality.

Arisa couldn't help but open her eyes. Arisa was afraid that if she kept tossing and turning like this, she would disturb the sleep of her husband and children. She simply planned to get up and sit outside the house to try to get sleepy.

But when Arisa opened her eyes, she saw a shining forehead protector rushing toward her.

……

Hiiragi was shocked.

I couldn't see clearly in the darkness at first, but when I took a closer look, I realized that the people sleeping in the darkness were a family of two adults and one child.

Similar situations were also mentioned in the ninja code education that Hiiragi and others received.

Bandits and other criminal gangs with the nature of human traffickers will mostly force them to give birth to children and settle down in the rear after abducting women. During the execution of the mission, the priority should be to rescue women.

As for those children, if the rescued women refuse to adopt them, they should all be taken into Konoha orphanages, or picked up by "Root" or similar departments.

Although the development of these children is far inferior to that of local children born and raised in Konoha, it is much better than becoming a farmer who depends on the sky for food, or a bandit who is afraid all day long and hides in Tibet.

But to be fair, those who have the power to plunder "wives" should be those with higher status among the bandits, and their residence should also be in the center of the village.

Hiiragi and others originally planned to find a way to solve this problem when they broke into the center of the village, but they just ran into it.

The woman saw her forehead protector and was so frightened that she could not speak.

Hiirago cautiously retracted his tendency to pounce forward and resumed his half-crouched stance. The two entered into a ridiculous "confrontation" state.

Arisa's mind was confused.

Although she imagined that officials from the Fire Nation would come to hunt her down, she never expected that they would be ninjas!

Samurai and ninja are two different things!

If they were pursued by samurai, I and the others could risk their lives and abandon all their belongings to escape, but ninjas...

They have no hope...

Arisa covered her mouth tightly, tears streaming from her eyes.

She couldn't make a sound.

When she made a sound, she woke up Xiongda and the child, and the whole family died.

She bent down, which she had just straightened, and knelt down tremblingly. Tears followed the crow's feet, gathered from the side of the cheek to the chin, and dripped on the ground.

She knelt down deeply and kept kowtowing to the short ninja in front of her, who was probably not even half her age.

She didn't even dare to kowtow, so she could only kowtow muffledly on the back of her hand.

Please...please...

She cried desperately in her heart, as humble as a dog.

Hiiragi was completely stunned.

This woman has suffered so much torture, but now she sees herself and is so grateful.

He was not used to someone paying him such a grand tribute.

He frowned and looked at the bed. The "bandit" was still sleeping soundly, so there was nothing to worry about.

He sprinkled the man with a handful of poison, a standard ninja prescription, to ensure that he could sleep until dawn.

He picked up the kneeling woman and took her to a remote place outside.

"Don't worry, we Konoha ninjas will rescue you." Hiirago said softly, looking at the woman who fell to her knees and kept kneeling.

"Ninja-sama... please..." Arisa did not dare to speak loudly, "We... we also cannot pay taxes because the harvest is not enough..."

"I had no choice but to choose this path..." She begged in a soft voice, holding back her fear and sobbing.

"I just ask you... please let my child go... He is only four years old... He doesn't know anything... He doesn't know anything..." Arisa covered her mouth again and collapsed to the ground with tears streaming down her face. .

"We in Konoha will not involve children." Hiiragi roughly understood what she meant. "Except for that man - he has a life case on his hands, we will not involve anyone else."

"No!" Arisa suddenly became excited. "Xiongdai is an honest man! He has never harmed anyone!"

Hiirago frowned. The woman in front of him actually had a crush on her captor and even hid it for him. Was it Stockholm Syndrome?

"He is a bandit! Even if he showed tenderness in your home, do you know how many people he killed when he went out?"

At the end of the sentence, Hiirago's tone became a bit harsher.

What's strange is that when the woman heard the word "bandit", she raised her eyes and looked at Hiiragi in horror.

She murmured words such as "impossible" and "it's over" and stepped back step by step.

Hiiragi also noticed something was wrong.

He rushed forward, grabbed the woman's arm, and shouted, "What mistakes did you make? Tell me one by one!"

His face didn't look good either.

"We..." Alexa's eyes were hollow, "People from several of our villages... escaped the agricultural tax in the fall... and only moved here a few months ago..."

Listening to what she said, Hiirago suddenly let go of his right hand. His face gradually turned pale and he staggered back.

He was a little dizzy and a little nauseous.

He seemed to see the farmer who died in his sleep, the man who lost his life in a daze, rushing towards him with his blood-red eyes open.

The kunai fell to the ground with a clang.

Arisa rolled her eyes and fainted.

"Old...teacher..." Hiiragi seemed to smell the smell of blood, but he didn't seem to.

He knelt down and retched, but nothing came out.

"We are ninjas." Fugaku, standing behind him, said expressionlessly.

"But..." Hiirago's voice trembled, "They... they are also citizens of the Land of Fire!"

"They... just can't pay taxes... they are just looking for a place to live well..."

Hiirago has never been as tired as he is now.

He misses his past life so much, and that era when, although it was unfair, people still had a sense of shame.

Hiirago suddenly felt cold all over, very cold.

"We are ninjas." Fugaku replied again. "Actually... you have already figured it out, haven't you?"

He patted his shoulder and walked past him, leaving Uchiha Hiirago, whose eyes were spinning with magatama, stunned on the ground.