Chapter 617 Attack

The next day, as usual, he came to the Hokage Building, and Tianzang gave a report on the written mountain.

Although the disappearance was blocked by the upper echelon, there is no impenetrable wall in the world. What the Anbu and the security forces can do is to buy as much time as possible to resolve the matter smoothly and give the people in the village a perfect explanation.

After all, so many people are missing, enough to cause panic in the village.

"Still no results?"

Tsunade did not open Tianzang's report, but asked directly.

"It's like this. Things are a bit difficult to handle. Although some important information has been captured, it is too fragmented. I am afraid that it will take a little time to prepare if we want to connect all the information together and find out the flaws."

Tianzang scratched his head and smiled helplessly.

Although the disappearance left a lot of information, in Tianzang's view, the information was not only scattered, but also illogical.

"How to say?"

Tsunade seemed to be interested in what Tenzo said.

Before the head of the Anbu was confirmed, Tianzang was the second in command of the Anbu besides her.

Whether it is qualifications, abilities, or the strength of ninjas, Tianzang has everything.

As far as the quality of ninja above is concerned, it can be regarded as a very good type of ninja.

Tianzang restrained his smile, pondered for a while, quickly organized his words, and said: "Honestly speaking, with the martial law in the village at this level, I feel very strange that so many people suddenly disappeared. Especially when it involves civilians other than ninjas. And the missing civilians happen to be the family members of ninjas, which is even more strange."

Tsunade nodded, she understood all these things, and signaled Tianzang to continue talking.

"From the traces at the scene, some of the missing persons had fights at their homes, while others disappeared suddenly without a fight, and none of them had any witnesses. Not only that, there were no traces of rummage at home, and there was no loss of property. They were neither looking for anything in the missing person's home, nor for money."

"Do you think it's a vendetta? Those who disappeared have been destroyed?"

"No, you can't be so arbitrary. These people don't usually communicate well, and according to my investigation, they have never had a huge quarrel with others. It is impossible for people from other villages to sneak in for revenge, which is even more nonsense."

Tianzang said.

Tsunade also held his breath, tapping the table rhythmically with his fingers, making a thumping sound.

As Tianzang said, the investigation process of the disappearance is very weird, and the information collected is also very scattered, and it is impossible to piece together a complete clue.

"Besides that, the only thing they have in common is their love for Haruno yakiniku restaurants. I asked Haruno, the owner of the yakiniku restaurant, who is Sakura's father, Haruno Ouji... The first missing Dota Nakashi is a vegetarian, but occasionally eats in the yakiniku restaurant, giving people a look of waiting for others."

Tianzang told this information.

"Waiting for someone?"

"Yes, wait for someone. Shopkeeper Haruno also thought Dotanaka Shinobu's behavior was weird, so he wrote it down."

Vegetarians, kebab restaurants, etc.

Tsunade narrowed his eyes.

Tsunade pulled out the drawer, took out the materials of Dotanaka Shinobi, and looked through it again.

Tianzo did not disturb Tsunade's actions, and stood quietly in front of him waiting.

"How? Did you find anything?"

A moment later, after Tsunade put down the materials of Dota Chunin, Tenzo asked.

Tsuna shook his head.

The information of this Dota Chunin is really too ordinary.

Just like most of the Konoha Chunin, he works peacefully and usually does not do anything out of the ordinary.

In addition to being a vegetarian, but acting like waiting for someone in a barbecue restaurant.

"In addition to the above, is there anything else to add?"

"Yes, I think that part of the information collected before is false, and it is false information deliberately used by people behind the scenes to mislead us."

After Tianzang said this, his eyes sharpened.

In past missions, similar situations often occurred.

For example, the client deliberately concealed the real information and used false information to mislead the ninjas who performed the mission, causing the actions of the ninjas to completely deviate from the original mission goal.

If it is the same this time, then what the people behind the scenes want is to use these true and false information to mislead their investigations and bring their thinking into a strange misunderstanding, which is getting farther and farther away from the truth.

"Therefore, there are doubts?"

Tianzang raised this possibility, which Tsunade had been ignoring before.

"For now, I think that's the most likely possibility."

Unfortunately, although he understands this, Tianzang cannot judge which part of the collected information is true and which part is false, deliberately misleading Anbu's investigation direction.

Then, Tianzang raised three fingers and said: "The general direction of the Anbu's investigation at present is, who are the attackers? Why did they attack these people? Where did the missing people go? If there is a misleading direction, then a certain investigation direction, or all investigation directions, are all wrong. From the very beginning, these are the people behind the scenes and made up for us."

Investigating a thing that does not exist in essence will not yield any results after a hundred years of investigation.

"So, where do you plan to start next?"

Tsunade followed the words.

"As long as there are people involved in this incident, collect all their information, and then eliminate them one by one to form a complete clue. That way, the investigation will be much more convenient."

Tianzang replied.

Tsunade also knew that this was the best way, so he nodded.

"Give you five days, this matter must have a result."

"yes!"

Although Tsunade gave five days of investigation time, Tianzang did not dare to be careless at all.

Anbu was dispatched immediately to collect information on all the people involved in the disappearance. No matter if they were neighbors, passers-by, or even a passing dog, none of them could be missed.

And this kind of work can't be completed in a day or two.

That is, the review is only about three days long.

"It's really troublesome enough."

Tianzang looked at the busy Anbu subordinates, and sighed melancholy.

There are too many things to deal with right now.

The most important thing is that the situation on the front line is unknown, and it is not known how the parties plan to negotiate.

However, no matter how you negotiate, except for the kingdom of ghosts, the rest of the big countries are not in a good situation.

Although the scale is grand, the duration of this war is extremely short, and it ended in less than a month. In this way, will it be defined as the fourth Ninja World War?

Tianzang was thinking wildly, and walked towards Anbu's reference room.

Leaving Anbu's workplace, it was already dark outside.

Before I knew it, another day passed.

It was really dark and dark when I got busy, and I even forgot the time to eat.

Eating alone was boring, so Tianzang thought of Naruto and the others. Speaking of which, he hadn't contacted the seventh class for a while.

Right now, I can spare some time to take care of the subordinates of the seventh class.

As for the implementation of the mission, I am afraid that this war will be over before it can be carried out smoothly.

"I remember this direction..."

Tianzang moved towards the northeast of Muye Village, and Naruto was practicing at that location.

Arriving at the practice field, it was ten minutes later.

Besides Naruto, Tianzang also saw Sakura and Sai.

"Yo, good evening everyone. Well, it turns out that you are all here, which just saves me the trouble of searching."

Sai, who was accompanying Naruto in actual combat, tilted his head when he heard the voice, and swept towards Tianzang who appeared in the field, stopped his attacking action, and put down the scroll and brush.

"Captain Yamato?"

Naruto and Sakura looked at the person in surprise, they didn't expect the other party to appear at this time.

"It's me. You are really hardworking, and you are still practicing at this time."

Tianzang looked at the dirty dust on Naruto's body, and knew what kind of practice the other party had carried out here.

"No, we'll be over soon."

Sai narrowed his eyes and smiled.

"Really? It happens to be dinner time soon, how about it, do you want to have a big meal together, I treat you."

Tianzang continued to smile.

"Really? So I'm starving."

Hearing what Tianzang said, Naruto showed joy on his face, and he didn't know he was embarrassed at all.

"Well, since I haven't seen you for a while, I just have time now, so I think it's time to get in touch."

Tianzang nodded.

Sakura's face was a bit embarrassed.

"Sorry, Captain Yamato, I mean, there is something wrong here."

"matter?"

Tianzang turned his head and looked at Sakura, not understanding what was going on with her.

"Yeah, I don't know what happened recently. A waiter in the barbecue restaurant at home asked for leave. Now I have to go home to help at night... Now it's almost time."

Sakura sighed and answered helplessly.

"Well, that's a pity, then this time it's just the three of us."

Since Sakura has something to do, Tianzang can't force it, so it's a pity.

Watching Sakura off in the night, Tianzang looked at Naruto and Sai.

Sai's face was indifferent at this time, and he didn't seem to be very enthusiastic about the next big meal.

But Naruto muttered excitedly, what kind of feast should he have next.

This made Tianzang sigh with emotion. Naruto is really an optimist. It seems that he has completely come out from the blow of the destruction of Mt. Myogi, and there is no need for special comfort.

Time is racing against the passing of every second.

After having a big meal with Naruto and Sai and learning about their recent life, Tianzang once again focused on the investigation of the disappearance.

Seeing that almost half of the five days given by Tsunade had passed, Tianzang couldn't help feeling irritable.

The information collected by the Anbu is not only huge, but also very messy, involving the information of thousands of people. Anyone who has been in contact with these missing persons in the past or recently needs to collect their information, without missing a single one.

Although he knew the answer to the truth and hid it in these, but looking at the pile of documents in front of him, Tianzang felt dizzy for a while.

However, even if he has a headache, Tianzang still has to look through each one, extract important information, and connect the clues together.

This is by no means an easy task.

For the next two days, he may have to spend time in Anbu's reference room.

I didn't look at ten lines at a glance, but I just read word by word carefully, fearing that I might miss some important things.

The rest of the Anbu staff were also flipping through the books. In the reference room, there was only the sound of flipping books.

The sky darkened again, and a new night came again.

The Anbu people in the reference room are still working **** mental work.

Haruno Zhao, Haruno Bud.

Tianzang found the information of the Haruno couple. The missing ninjas were keen to come to the Chunye BBQ restaurant to eat barbecue. As the couple who opened the restaurant, they were naturally under investigation.

The history of Haruno's fortune is quite interesting. As a ninja, Haruno Ouga doesn't have any outstanding talents. After being introduced by someone, he came to work in a barbecue restaurant. Because of his excellent work attitude, he was entrusted with a heavy responsibility by the owner of the barbecue restaurant and became an executive of the barbecue restaurant.

Then the boss went to other places to develop, and the barbecue restaurant was handed over to Haruno Zhao. As the business became more and more prosperous, Haruno Zhao accumulated a large sum of money, bought the barbecue shop and officially changed it to Haruno BBQ shop.

From an ordinary chunin, to open a shop and have a good reputation in the village, Tianzang also feels that this person is not a ninja material, and business is better.

As for Haruno Mebuki, there is also something worth mentioning...Due to her congenital poor health, she also encountered dystocia when she gave birth. As a result, the medical ninja who was in charge of delivering the baby could only save the next one.

Fortunately, a highly skilled medical ninja happened to pass by at that time, not only saved Haruno Mebuki, but also Sakura, and finally the mother and child were safe.

And the medical ninja passing by... Tianzang also saw a familiar nameMasumi Asami!

"So Vice President Asami, and the Haruno family still have such a relationship?"

Tianzang muttered.

"Did you find anything, Deputy Minister?"

Anbu, who was reviewing, heard Tianzang's muttering, raised his head and asked.

"No, nothing, I was just talking to myself."

Tianzang shook his head.

It was just a common medical incident, and there was nothing worth exploring.

Just when Tianzang was about to look up other people's materials, the door of the reference room was suddenly pushed open, and an Anbu appeared at the door. Before Tianzang could ask questions, he yelled anxiously:

"It's not good, the first team of the third division lost contact, and it seems that something happened!"

Tianzang was stunned.

"The first group of the third division, I remember that their task is..."

Spy on Masumi Asami!

"Sorry, you guys will just sleep here for a while, and what happens after that has nothing to do with you."

In a dark corner, four Anbe ninjas fell on the floor or in a corner.

Asami Masumi held an empty syringe in her hand, threw it aside, and rolled on the ground.

The medicine has been injected into the bodies of four Anbu, and the next four people will fall into a deep sleep within twelve hours, unable to wake up.

"Asaka, Vice President Asami...you...are you really..."

After being injected with the medicine, an Anbu did not fall asleep immediately, but raised his upper body with difficulty, and the eyes under the mask stared with unbelievable light.

They followed Hokage's order to monitor each other, but only suspected the possibility that the other party was an insider. As long as they didn't make any abnormal moves, they could basically survive this cleaning operation safely.

However, Asami Masumi suddenly attacked them, which undoubtedly shows the fact that there is a problem with the other party.

is the possibility of an insider increasing rapidly.

"Yeah, I'm almost tired of playing the Will of Fire game like a house. The monitoring these days has really worked hard for you."

Asami Masumi just slightly raised her lips in response to Anbe's question, showing a smile without emotion.

Then with the **** of his right hand, he pushed the thick-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, reflecting a cold arc.

After finishing speaking, the whole person crossed Anbu's body and walked into the depths of the darkness until the white coat on his body merged with the darkness and disappeared.

And this Anbu also persisted to the limit, sleepy hit, his eyes closed, his head fell down heavily, and came into contact with the cold ground.

When he was dying of consciousness, he seemed to hear the shouts of his companions not far away.

Support troops? With such thoughts in mind, Anbu fell into a coma.

"Really, the store is too busy. Besides, why isn't Mom coming over at this time? Did she oversleep at home?"

Sakura, who was busy with the rest of the staff in the store, kept wiping the hot sweat from her forehead, and complained by the way, feeling that working in the store was more tiring than practicing alone.

"Boss, isn't it alright here? Hurry up!"

Over there, there were shouts from the guests, and it seemed that they couldn't wait any longer.

"Come right away." Responding to the other side, Haruno Zhao looked at Sakura with pleading eyes, and smiled: "Please, it's table nine, don't make a mistake."

"knew."

Sakura put away the prepared ingredients and sent them to table number nine.

After returning, Haruno Zhao continued: "Speaking of which, Sakura, there is something I forgot to tell you. It happens to be free now, so come here."

"What's the matter, Dad."

Although Sakura was puzzled about what her father Haruno Zhao was going to say to her next, she followed Haruno Zhao's footsteps very obediently and walked to a secluded corner where no one was around.

Sakura stood still here, looking at Haruno Zhao with puzzled eyes, wanting to know what the other party wanted to tell her.

Haruno Zhao turned around, with the same smile on his face as usual.

It's just that Sakura feels that there is something special in the smile of her father Haruno Zhao at this moment.

But what exactly it is, Sakura is still at a loss.

"It's enough to say here, Dad, there are still things to do outside."

"That's not busy, I just thought, we father and daughter have not talked for a long time."

Haruno Zhao waved his hand and smiled.

"You're not going to talk to me at a time like this, are you, Dad?"

Sakura became speechless.

"How should I put it, there is such a possibility."

Haruno Zhao did not deny it.

"You are so strange, Dad. If you have anything to say, just say it."

"Then I said that when your mother gave birth to you, there was an accident. If it weren't for the help of a passing medical ninja, you probably wouldn't be able to be born into this world."

Haruno Zhao suddenly brought up this topic.

"Uh... is there such a thing?"

Sakura heard this for the first time, and her parents had never told her about it before.

"You also know that medical ninja, whose name is Asami Masumi."

"Vice President Asami?"

Sakura was surprised.

She is no stranger to this name.

After all, she is Konoha's leading medical ninja. Her master Tsunade has also praised the other party's excellent medical ninjutsu many times.

Nowadays, many young medical ninjas are aiming at this vice president.

She didn't expect that her family had such a fate with the other party.

"Yeah, the situation was critical at that time, and there was no time to wait... Fortunately, your mother and child were safe in the end, but because of this, I agreed to a deal from the other party at that time."

Haruno Zhao gave a wry smile.

"Deal? What deal?"

Sakura blinked, and her intuition told her that the content of this transaction was not simple.

Haruno Zhao took a step forward and suddenly hugged Sakura in his arms.

"dad?"

Sakura opened her eyes innocently, not understanding what her father was doing when she was hugging her.

Just listen to the voice in my ear:

"The content of that transaction is"

A burst of coldness poured into the abdomen.

Sakura looked down, and saw a syringe pierced into her abdominal body, and the liquid medicine inside was also injected.

Sakura's eyes widened, she looked at her father Haruno Zhao in disbelief, her eyes were full of bewilderment and puzzlement.

"Dad...Dad...you..."

Before she finished speaking all the sentences, Sakura felt her eyes dimmed, her body was weak and she fell into Haruno Zhao's arms, she closed her eyes, and breathed evenly.

Haruno Zhao helped Sakura out of the corner.

"Boss, Sakura is..."

Passing staff looked at Sakura in surprise.

Haruno Zhao said distressedly: "Maybe she's too tired. She's been busy recently. She fainted just now, which shocked me. I'm going to send her home next time. I'm asking you for the time being. I'll be back soon."

"Oh, ok, just leave it to us."

The staff nodded and agreed.

Haruno Zhao helped Sakura out of the barbecue shop, and set off in the direction of Haruno's house.

"Natural energy...Natural energy...Concentration...Calm...Empty everything...Don't think about anything..."

Sitting alone in the forest at night, Naruto muttered the key to guiding natural energy, while clasping his hands together, sitting cross-legged on the ground, with his eyes closed, sensing the natural energy in the forest.

Soon, Naruto entered the state of 'entering concentration', and the thinking in his brain gradually emptied.

The forest at night is extraordinarily quiet. This environment is conducive to Naruto guiding natural energy.

Recently, Naruto has been particularly fond of practicing natural energy-related exercises at night.

As long as you have mastered the natural energy, the next step is to integrate the celestial chakra, and the last is to control the celestial mode, and completely integrate the celestial arts into your own ninjutsu

Just when he was in meditation to guide the natural energy, he suddenly noticed something, released from the meditation state, opened his eyes, and swept towards a dark place in the forest.

"who?"

Naruto stood up, looking vigilantly into the darkness of the forest, his eyes fixed on him.

After the sound of footsteps, a white figure stepped out of the darkness.

is a woman wearing thick-rimmed glasses and a white coat, which is very conspicuous in the dark.

"Who are you"

Naruto felt that the person in front of him was somewhat familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it before.

But seeing the Konoha ninja forehead protector on the opponent, he became less vigilant.

"Hello, are you Uzumaki Naruto?"

Someone asked.

"Ah? Yes, I'm Uzumaki Naruto, what's the matter?"

Although he is not an acquaintance, Naruto's attitude is considered kind because the other party is a Konoha ninja.

"My name is Asami Masumi. Here's the thing. A girl named Haruno Sakura asked me to send you a letter. The other party seems to be looking for you urgently."

Saying that, Asami Masumi took out a letter signed by 'Haruno Sakura' and walked towards Naruto.

"Sakura? Did something happen to her?"

Generally, if you have something to do, just come to him directly.

But if you ask someone to bring the letter, it is likely that you are in trouble.

Naruto thought so, and stepped forward.

At the moment of receiving the letter.

A voice suddenly rang in my ears

-careful!

This voice didn't come from outside, as if it came from his own body.

Naruto's body froze, and his palms were in the air.

Asami Masumi paused for a while, and then a cold light flickered in her eyes. The hand holding the letter suddenly separated the air, and swung it towards Naruto's chest.

Naruto was startled, and quickly stepped back, seeing the palm pass by his chest with a slight gap, causing his heart to beat to his throat.

A tear was drawn on the clothes on the chest, and a trace of blood seeped out from the gap in the clothes.

The letter split into two halves fell from the air and landed on the ground.

Asami Masumi looked at Naruto in surprise, but he didn't expect that the other party could escape his attack.

I have restrained my murderous aura to the level of 'nothing', so I shouldn't be noticed by the other party.

"Hey, what are you doing? Why are you attacking me?"

Naruto retreated to a safe area, took a breath, and pointed at Asami Masumi with a dissatisfied expression.

Anyone who encounters a person who sneaks up on him will not be in a good mood.

"Me? I just want to borrow the Nine-Tails Chakra in your body for a while. Don't worry, I will return it to you soon after it is used up."

On her right hand, a faint blue radiance like flowing water bloomed, forming the physical state of the bladethe Chakra scalpel.

Asami Masumi had a warm smile on the corner of her mouth, and slowly approached Naruto.

This woman is strong! Naruto stared at the opponent's figure without blinking, deeply afraid that if he blinked his eyes, the opponent's figure would suddenly disappear from his eyes.

Feeling the cold and steady aura of the opponent, he felt that it was much more dangerous than facing ordinary Jnin.

"That's really unfortunate, I won't lend out the Chakra of this stinky fox!"

Naruto's superficial smile is not smiling.

Although she doesn't know what the other party's purpose is for asking for the Nine-Tails Chakra, she understands that her purpose cannot be allowed to succeed.

"This is not your decision!"

disappeared from Naruto's eyes.

Naruto immediately took out Kunai from the ninja bag, and turned around with a wave.

Ding!

An unusually crisp metallic sound resounded in the forest.

Obviously, it is only the palm attached to the chakra, but the chakra scalpel is as hard as steel, and even Kunai, who is attached to the superior attribute chakra, cannot break through and hurt the opponent's fingers.

Naruto looked at the opponent's Chakra scalpel in surprise, it's too hard.

In the opponent's chakra, he also felt a very familiar energy.

Seeing Naruto blocking his instant attack, Asami Masumi's smile grew stronger.

Her chakra scalpel can cut even hard steel, but Naruto surprised her by relying on Kunai with wind attribute chakra to block it.

"So quickly he has the ability to fight head-to-head with Jonin, and he has also mastered natural energy... That guy didn't include you as a key observation target, which is really a major mistake. For a guy with abnormal growth like you, you should get rid of it as soon as possible. However, this has nothing to do with me."

"That rascal?"

Naruto was stunned.

Asami Masumi did not answer, but increased the strength in her hands.

Only hearing the sound of crackling, the kunai attached to the wind attribute chakra has cracks visible to the naked eye.

Naruto's pupils shrank, and he jumped back without even thinking about it, planning to keep a safe distance from the opponent.

Seeing Naruto jumping back, Asami Masumi kicked forward with a light and quick movement, caught up with Naruto's pace in the blink of an eye, swung the Chakra scalpel in his hand, and slashed at Naruto's chest mercilessly.

"Wooden DunWooden Ding Wall!"

A curved wooden wall was formed in front of Naruto, immediately blocking Asami Masumi's vision.

The cold Chakra scalpel draws a beautiful arc in front.

boom!

The wooden wall shattered at the sound, and a large amount of hard broken wood flew around. Naruto's figure disappeared from behind the wooden wall, retreated five or six meters behind, and looked at her with lingering fear.

Masumi Asami stopped in her footsteps and glanced around. Dozens of Anbu scattered around at some point, completely encircling the place.

The leader is Tianzang.

He was staring at Asami Masumi with a serious face at this moment, with a cold look in his eyes.

"Captain Yamato?"

Naruto was surprised.

"Naruto, are you alright?"

Tianzang looked at Naruto, and subconsciously approached him once, so as to protect Naruto at any time.

Judging from Asami Masumi's current actions, the other party intends to be unfavorable to Naruto.

"Don't worry, Captain Yamato, I'm fine here. However, I don't understand why the other party attacked me? I don't know her at all."

Naruto looked puzzled, not understanding what the other party's motive was for attacking him.

"I also really want to know what the so-called motive is, can you tell me, Masumi?"

A sudden voice came from another direction.

A figure slowly came out from the shadows, stood not far from Asami Masumi, and looked at her with complicated eyes.

It was Tsunade.

(end of this chapter)