Chapter 292 List and Future

"Where is your father?"

Back from school, the girl who didn't see her father felt a little nervous.

The person she asked was her younger sister who was a few years younger than herself.

Black hair, with his own white pupils, is the symbol of the Hyuga clan.

The only difference is that in the younger sister's white pupils, the look is firm and steady, not like a little girl.

Looking at such a younger sister, Hinata has the illusion that the other party is the older sister, and she is the younger sister.

"He went to call the clan elders for a meeting. It seems that Hokage-sama sent someone over. It seems that there is something important to discuss."

Glancing at her sister Hinata, the girl named Hinata Hanabi pointed to the location of the main family's meeting room, and said to her sister Hinata.

"So I went to a meeting."

When Hinata heard the news, she seemed relieved with a cowardly expression.

When she thought of her father's stern and harsh expression, she couldn't help but feel nervous.

"In other words, tonight's sparring..."

Rouquan sparring is something Hinata is afraid of.

As the special skill of the Hyuga clan, soft boxing can be said to be the physical skill that every Hyuga clan has practiced since childhood.

Not only her, but also her younger sister, Huahuo, who is a few years younger, has also started to learn Rouquan, and has been praised by her father several times.

This made Hinata a little discouraged. No matter what she did, she would never get her father's praise, while her younger sister, who was a few years younger, could easily get his father's appreciation... This was all because of her poor talent, which couldn't be compared with her younger sister's talent.

"That's not right, my father has ordered you to do it right, my sister."

Firework opening.

"Eh?"

Hinata stood there stunned, a little at a loss.

"Brother Ningji will come soon, and my father asked me to supervise my sister's homework. As the eldest daughter of the main family, if he is compared to the family members, my father will be very angry, and he will also make my father feel ashamed in front of the daily messenger uncle."

Hanabi said so.

After hearing this, Hinata felt even more stressed.

Failure...will make her father angry, and embarrass her father and the Zong family. These burdens weigh on her, making her a little out of breath.

Because she is the eldest daughter of the clan, she must strictly accept the family's test.

But... cousin Neji, who is one year older than her, is already the most outstanding genius in the ninja school. It is said that his strength is already stronger than many ninjas who graduated from the ninja school.

Facing such an opponent, how could he possibly win?

If it's Hanabi... Hinata smiled wryly.

This is simply impossible, Huahuo has only been exposed to soft fist for a short time, even if he wins, it will only make his father feel more humiliated.

Minming has received the best education from the Zong family, whether it is soft boxing or other training skills, they are selflessly developed to her.

Those who separate their families will not learn the true essence of Rouquan.

The true profound meaning of Rouquan will only be open to people from the clan.

It stands to reason that he would win, but facing his genius cousin, he was not at all sure of winning.

"I always feel that sister, you are thinking about something impolite."

Huahuo squinted his eyes, feeling like a ghost.

"No, no."

Hinata hurriedly waved her hand.

"Actually, it's useless to go to Buddha at this time. Sister, you should think about how to beat brother Neji in the future. Or... find your true destiny to help you muster the courage to fight, and then come back..."

Before Hanabi finished speaking, she saw her elder sister Hinata's face suddenly flushed red, steam bubbling from the top of her head, and her body collapsed on the ground.

Huahuo was speechless for a while.

She is really a big sister who can't help being funny, and she is too shy.

"Hokage-sama hopes to select a Jonin from our Hyuga Clan to cooperate with Anbu in carrying out a confidential S-level mission. What do you think?"

In the meeting room of the clan's territory, Hizuru sat kneeling on the front cushion, with the elders of the clan and branch clan on both sides.

"What is the content of the task, does Hokage-sama have an explanation?"

A branch elder asked.

"No."

Hizuru shook his head.

The order was conveyed by the Anbu members directly under Hokage, but it was not revealed what the top-secret S-rank mission was about.

"I remember yesterday, the mission of Sha Yin came to visit secretly... Could it have something to do with this?"

A clan elder made an analysis.

In fact, everyone knows this matter well.

The fact that the kingdom of ghosts has declared war on the kingdom of wind has already spread throughout the ninja world.

The attention of all countries in the ninja world can be said to be concentrated on the battlefields of the kingdom of ghosts and the kingdom of wind.

Every move over there involves the minds of countless people.

Especially after learning that the behind-the-scenes of the ghost country has long been controlled by Konoha's rebellious ninja, some public opinion can't be stopped at all, and it has spread wildly in the village.

Although it has no effect on ordinary people, they can't think of things too far away.

But for ninjas, especially Konoha's ninjas, it is not a good thing.

Thinking of the rebellion that came out of my own village, and making such a mess in the world, didn't I slap Konoha hard in the face?

All countries will more or less come to condemn it.

For example, the Kingdom of the Wind, which is currently encountering the Kingdom of Ghosts, has the most condemnation of Konoha.

Due to the delay in chasing and killing the traitors, Konoha cannot escape the blame for causing such great pain to the Land of Winds.

Yesterday, the secret visit to Konoha by the Shayin Mission means that it is self-evident, and anyone with a discerning eye can come up with something.

Combined with Hokage-sama today, he wants to select a Jonin from the Hyuga clan to cooperate with Anbu members to carry out the so-called S-level tasks. Everyone believed in a certain guess in their hearts.

Konoha is more anxious than Sagakure about the matter in the kingdom of ghosts.

Whether it is the indirect or direct impact on Konoha, it is very bad.

But who would have thought that the three rebels who had left the village would become a blockbuster at this time.

Regarding the worries and panic of the high-level people, the elders of the Hinata main family and the branch family think that this is not something difficult to understand.

"No matter what, we are all part of the village. At this time, of course we must contribute our own strength."

The elders of the clan spoke out.

In fact, even if a meeting is held for this kind of thing, there will be no change.

Because of the high-level orders, they cannot refuse, and there is no reason to refuse.

After all, the three people behind the scenes in the Kingdom of Ghosts also have a share of their 'credit' from the Hyuga Clan.

At this time, it is even more necessary to put aside the relationship with the other party and prove your position to the village.

"Then, let's select the personnel from the branch families, and leave this matter to you, the day messenger."

An elder of the clan family said to Nissai sitting on the seat of the branch family.

"yes."

Hi almost nodded, agreeing.

There is no need to discuss this kind of thing at all. As members of the branch family, they are already ready to fight for the clan at any time.

What's more, the next step is to follow Anbu to carry out dangerous S-level missions. People from the Zong family will not send personnel. Even if the Zong family is willing, the village high-level will not agree.

The meeting lasted for an hour and ended. It was decided to send a branch Jnin to assist the Anbu operation, and it was an explanation to the high-level officials.

"The village has always felt that the atmosphere is very strange recently. The Uchiha side..."

Walking to the corridor outside, Nisashi who followed Hizuru said softly.

Obviously, the Uchiha clan extermination had really shocked the Hyuga clan for a long time.

As Konoha's only wealthy ninja clan, the Uchiha clan has always dominated the Hyuga clan.

Just as the Uchiha clan was wiped out, the once glorious Uchiha Guard also collapsed overnight.

The senior management of the village did not intend to rebuild the garrison, but transferred the business that belonged to the Uchiha garrison in the past to Anbu.

This is undoubtedly aggravating Anbu's authority and directly expanding Hokage's influence.

The field that was once out of reach of the top management is now the home of the top management.

Hizuki glanced sideways at Hizai.

"This kind of thing has nothing to do with us, just do our mission well."

Rizai didn't speak, but he still felt sad on his face.

If the Uchiha said it was gone, it would be gone, or it would perish at the hands of his own people. How should the Hyuga clan deal with themselves in the village now?

He remembered that he was almost a victim because of Yun Yin's framing incident a few years ago.

Although Yun Yin's plot failed because of Root's actions in the end, he still left a deep impression on Ri Zai.

Within the Hyuga Clan, someone is in contact with Danzo, the leader of Root.

According to the speculation of the elders of the clan, the Hyuga clan who is in contact with Danzo is likely to come from a branch family.

However, he has been investigating all these years, but he has not been able to find any useful information from the separation.

Perhaps, when Danzo assisted the Hyuga clan to survive the crisis, it was only based on the maintenance of the ninjas in the same village.

After all, the other party is a rare hardliner among Konoha, so naturally he will not let the ninjas in the same village be bullied by ninjas from other villages.

Through the corridor, at the corner, suddenly a thin figure appeared.

The other party was taken aback for a moment, and immediately bowed respectfully.

"My lord, my lord father."

The visitor was a boy about nine years old, with straight long black hair, a handsome appearance, and the iconic white pupils of the Hyuga clan.

Neiji Hinata is the boy's name.

Is the son of Nisai, and also a very outstanding genius of the Hyuga clan, and is highly anticipated by the clan.

Seeing that Neji was going in the direction that seemed to be heading back instead of the training ground, Hizuru frowned slightly.

"Are you going back so soon?"

He remembered that he had told Neji to come over and practice with his eldest daughter, Hinata. Normally, it is impossible for the practice to end so soon.

Ningji answered calmly: "Yes. Because Hinatsama seems to be feeling a little unwell, when I went, Miss Hanabi was taking care of her."

"Physical discomfort?"

Hizuru frowned when he heard Neji's words.

He didn't remember that Hinata's body was so fragile, yesterday and morning, it was still fine, and Hinata received good teaching from the Hyuga clan, and would never eat some strange food that would cause physical problems.

Is it deliberately pretending to be sick? Or is it slack in cultivation?

Or is it really a sudden physical discomfort?

"Yes."

Ning Ci once again answered in the affirmative.

"That's it, since that's the case, let's cancel today's duel."

Hizuru nodded, then turned to look at Hizuki.

"That's it for today, it's a bad day, you take Neji back first, I'll go to Hinata to have a look."

Ri almost nodded, and took Neji away from the Zong family's territory.

Hizuru stopped in the corridor for a while before leaving, heading towards the room where her daughter Hinata was.

Thinking of his eldest daughter Hinata, who always looked weak and cowardly, Hiyashi sighed lightly.

"Boss, check out."

In the barbecue restaurant, the man goes to the counter to check out.

It can be seen that he is not a ninja, there is no trace of a ninja on his body, he is just a normal Konoha villager, but from the clothes, it can be seen that he is a wealthy family type.

"Thanks to taking care of our business, a total of 30,000 taels."

Haruno Zhao reported the bill.

As an ordinary Chunin in Konoha Hidden Village, like most Chunin, he works part-time when there is no mission to support his family.

After all, as a family-caring man with a wife and daughter, he has to bear some responsibilities that a man should have.

But here lies the problem.

The barbecue restaurant where he works part-time is not his own application, but someone recommended him here.

He was a waiter in this store three years ago, was promoted to manager two years ago, and is now the acting store manager.

The salary has also risen accordingly, and he has become a "successful person" in the eyes of many colleagues.

In the past, he aimed for Hokage and became a ninja, but now he has become the manager of a high-end barbecue restaurant in Konoha... This experience, to be honest, is always a bit too magical.

But Haruno Zhao also knew that all this was because of a certain woman who was behind the scenes.

Asami Masumi.

A woman whose real identity was extremely mysterious in his eyes.

The other party is one of the senior administrators of Konoha Hospital, and it is said that he is preparing for promotion to the director of Konoha Hospital.

The operator behind this barbecue restaurant is Asami Masumi.

In this store, from the lowest-level waiters to all levels of management, or even him, the acting store manager, are all 'spies' under Masumi Asami's command.

The reason why he became a "successful person" in the eyes of others and his wife and daughter so quickly was that he was specially promoted as the acting manager of this barbecue restaurant because of his excellent intelligence work.

Although in terms of salary, he is very satisfied.

He once had the idea of giving up his ninja career, and turned to the catering industry, with the goal of becoming the king of barbecue.

Take away the 30,000 taels from the customer in front of him, Haruno Zhao was thinking like this.

When there is no task, he usually stands at the front desk of the barbecue shop and is responsible for the cash register.

Because of this, he can observe more people and satisfy his boss.

But after collecting the money, Haruno Zhao realized something was wrong.

In the three 10,000 tael banknotes, there is something wrong with the thickness.

From the outside, you can't see anything, and you can only feel the abnormality if you touch it yourself.

Haruno Zhao looked at the paying customer in front of him with strange eyes, and the other party showed a very ordinary smile, and left with steady steps.

Is this guy... one of our own?

Haruno Zhao was a little speechless.

But it is impossible for the intelligence agents working under Asami Masumi to not know each other, and there is no possibility of admitting mistakes.

That is to say... the intelligence agents of the rest of the team who are not under the jurisdiction of the boss Asami Masumi?

Haruno Zhao looked at the street view of Konoha outside the store, feeling the urge to see a ghost.

What is going on in this village?

Why can I see "myself" everywhere?

I don't know about the high-level, but the bottom-level here is almost being infiltrated into a sieve, right?

So far, the intelligence agents I have seen have various jobs.

Construction workers, movie flyers on the street, public toilet cleaners, fruit growers guarding orchards, farmers farming under the scorching sun...any occupation that can be imagined is basically covered.

And now, the customers of the barbecue restaurant are also their own people...

I feel that the cats and dogs I meet on the side of the road in the future may be "one of my own people".

Such Konoha will end sooner or later.

Asking a waiter to replace him at the cash register at the front desk, Haruno Zhao immediately hid in the toilet and pulled out a note.

Above is a string of numbers and symbols that are completely unreadable.

It looks like a child's scribbling, without any rules.

After a correct interpretation, Haruno Zhao discovered that it was a list.

Some of the names on the list made him feel strange, and some made him feel familiar.

"Jiraiya, Takashi Sarutobi, Purinko Sarutobi, Matt Dai, Takeshi Hyuga..."

There are more than 30 names in total.

Half of them are among Konoha, the extremely famous Jonin.

Jiraiya, one of the Sannin.

The eldest son and daughter-in-law of the third Hokage.

Although he is not a jounin, but it is said that Mait Dai Chunin has terrible physical skills.

In addition, there are also ninjas from the Hyuga clan, ninjas from the Yume clan, the Inuzuka clan, and the Inokacho clan.

What do these names mean?

Is it the list of people who will be assassinated next?

Soon, Haruno Zhao denied this answer.

He has an intuition that this is not some assassination list.

This list is more like conveying some information.

"Forget it, let the superiors solve it, even if I know, it doesn't make any sense."

He is just an ordinary chunin, an ordinary yakiniku shop acting manager, such a troublesome matter cannot be solved by a small role like myself.

No matter what this list means, it will always be a fighting game between the people above, and has nothing to do with him.

In the country of tea, in a certain hotel.

"Oh, what a hassle... at this time..."

Jiraiya put down his writing pen, and held the scroll that Konoha Anbe handed over to him not long ago, which recorded the important information left to him by his teacher, the Three Hokages.

Hope him to participate in a top-secret S-level mission.

From Jiraiya's point of view, this so-called top-secret S-level mission is nothing more than closely related to the kingdom of ghosts that is raging.

After all, this matter is so important and widely publicized. As he is very good at intelligence, he naturally has no reason to miss such news.

Jiraiya, who received this scroll, only felt that this scroll was extremely hot and wanted to throw it away.

But when he thought of the old figure of his teacher Hiruzaru Sarutobi when he passed by Konoha a year ago, Jiraiya's eyes flashed a trace of unbearable color again.

His teacher Sarutobi Hiruzen is already old. From his body, he can no longer find the heroic appearance of the "Ninjutsu Doctor" back then.

Moreover, the Uchiha clan was exterminated, Uchiha Itachi defected, and the cause of death of another Uchiha genius Uchiha Shisui is a mystery... This makes Jiraiya even more unable to help sighing.

How is it possible that a thirteen-year-old child can destroy the Uchiha clan?

If the Uchiha clan can be easily exterminated in Konoha, then they will not be feared by ninjas from all over the world in the previous ninja world wars.

Even Sannin in his heyday, facing the entire Uchiha clan, could only avoid the edge and dare not fight head-on.

Even if it is a sneak attack, it is not something a thirteen-year-old kid can do. Moreover, after the genocide was exterminated, it was only discovered by Anbu the next day, and Hokage's actions in Konoha Village, directly under Anbu, could not be so weak.

If there is no root intervention, he would not believe it at all.

And what kind of role his teacher Hiruzaru Sarutobi played in it, I dare not imagine it anymore.

Also immediately terminated the investigation of the Uchiha clan's genocide.

He was afraid that at the end of the investigation, what he saw was the darkest part of the village, and he would never be able to look directly at his teacher Hiruzen Sarutobi, and kept him in his memory with the compassionate and benevolent teacher in the past.

This is the ruthlessness of the years.

When I reach that age, what will I look like?

Will you change your original ambition?

Or

Zilai also shook his head, it's too early to think about this.

He is not yet fifty years old, there is no need to be sad at this time.

He looked at the scroll in his hand, thinking about whether he would agree to his teacher Hiruzen Sarutobi, join this top-secret S-rank mission, and become one of them.

The high-level village officials who secretly planned this S-level mission are obviously in a mess, otherwise they would not have acted so hastily.

"Alas, if the Watergate is still there..."

Watergate

Thinking of this name, Jiraiya's brain suddenly woke up, as if thinking of something.

That happened a long time ago. At that time, Sakumo hadn't committed suicide, and the third Ninja World War hadn't started yet, and the three Chiba Shiraishi were still ninjas who believed in the will of fire...

There is a prophecy about the 'destruction' made by the Great Toad Immortal of Mount Miaomu.

The black hand who subverts the ninja world is hidden in the Konoha.

All along, he has never found such a dangerous element among the leaves.

Later, Qianye Baishi and the other three defected, and he had a vague feeling that one of these three people was the 'Son of Destruction' predicted by the Great Toad Immortal.

represents absolute destruction and will become a nightmare for the ninja world, bringing countless pain and blood, and making the ninja world linger in endless flames of war.

And this person, in his opinion, Chiba Shiraishi is the most likely.

Mysterious, unknown, good at hiding his true nature, only when he defected, did he reveal his original ferocious face, which made Konoha suffer a lot.

Compared to Uchiha Ruri and Hyuga Ayane who had already made their mark during the Konoha period, Chiba Shiraishi is really inconspicuous. The only impression people have of him is that Uchiha's son-in-law is a medical ninja with excellent medical ninjutsu.

Ninjas who are good at hiding their true nature are synonymous with danger.

Chiba Shiraishi fits this concept very well.

The subsequent actions also proved that he was extremely dangerous.

Jilai also rolled up the scroll and put it aside casually.

"It seems that I can't agree..."

Compared with the task itself, he wanted to find out the answer to a question that had puzzled him for a long time.

Whether the future of the ninja world can go on the right path.

If the scene predicted by the Great Toad Immortal really appears, I, who shoulder the important task of guiding the "Son of Prophecy", have the responsibility to prevent such a disaster from happening.

(end of this chapter)