Chapter 618 Tracking

"Grandma Hokage, why do you..."

Naruto patrolled back and forth between the figures of Tenzo and Tsunade, and felt that what happened tonight was so weird that even Hokage dispatched it himself.

Tsunade didn't answer Naruto's question, and continued to look at Asami Masumi with complicated eyes, and sighed with endless regret.

"It came faster than I thought. Sure enough, I still can't underestimate you."

Out of the corner of Asami Masumi's eyes, she glanced at Tsunade's figure and smiled lowly.

"No, so far, there are still many things that I don't understand. However, since you jumped out on your own initiative, it means that you are a spy from the kingdom of ghosts, right?"

Tianzang's chakra is full of limbs and bones, and his eyes are extremely alert, ready to attack at any time.

Ghost country! spy! Naruto looked at Asami Masumi in shock, he didn't expect the other party to have such an identity.

But no matter how naive, Naruto also understands what kind of danger a spy is.

"You... you are that Chiba Shiraishi's subordinate?"

Naruto clenched his fists, and there was a hint of coldness in his eyes.

"To be more precise, he is my immediate superior. Although I feel unusually unhappy with him, he always arranges some complicated and troublesome tasks for me in Konoha, and he almost fell into crisis several times."

Asami Masumi doesn't seem to mind telling such information, or provoking Naruto and making him lose his cool.

"I'll make you tell all about him!"

Naruto clenched his fists and clenched his teeth.

Asami Masumi smiled and said nothing, not taking Naruto's threat to heart.

With the strength of the other party at this time, it was a little too late to threaten her.

Putting her hands into the pockets of her white coat, she pretended to be taking a leisurely walk. She turned to face Tsunade, and met the face with a slightly complicated expression.

"Don't show such a regretful expression, Hokage-sama. It must have been a while since you've been eyeing me."

Tsunade nodded and sighed.

"Yeah, when Tianzang sent me the letter, I still didn't want to believe all of this. But I didn't expect that you would really be...why? Why did you do such a thing?"

"Why? As Hokage, shouldn't you be the most aware of this kind of thing?"

Regarding Tsunade's question, Asami Masumi asked with a strange face.

"You really know everything."

Tsunade's heart froze.

Regarding the truth about the death of the other party's fianc Takeshi Fujisaki, she also recently restored it from the side, and she is not 100% sure.

Asami Masumi, however, seems to have known it a long time ago.

"Isn't this a matter of course? After someone killed her husband, who would pretend to be nothing and work hard under the enemy's hands? It's just a pity that the guy in the third generation died so easily. I wanted to do a biopsy study on him, cut off his meat piece by piece and feed it to the dogs."

Asami Masumi raised the corners of her mouth, her smile had a tinge of ferocity, her eyes were dark, revealing a distorted dark emotion.

Tsunade was silent, and the complex look in his eyes became more intense.

Takeshi Fujisaki died in the political struggle between Hokage and Nebu, and it was her teacher Hiruzaru Sarutobi who abandoned the other party, regarded the other party as an abandoned son, and sent him to Danzo for disposal.

In order to cover up Danzo's crimes!

Thus sacrificing Asami Masumi's fianc!

Any questions are meaningless at this time.

Revenge, there is no more natural reason than this.

Therefore, Tsunade felt complicated. When she first learned the truth, she also hesitated whether to tell Asami Masumi these things.

However, there is no need to worry so much now.

The other party obviously understands more and more comprehensively than her Fifth Hokage.

"Maybe, I can't stop, and there's no reason to stop your hatred and hatred for Sarutobi-sensei. But, as the Fifth Hokage, I have the responsibility to arrest you. Take it easy, Masumi, you can't escape."

Tsunade sighed and pulled himself together, the complex look in his eyes disappeared, replaced by a firm look.

"That's fine, Hokage-sama. Personally, I admire you very much. If you could have taken over this position earlier, maybe I wouldn't be where I am today... It's a pity."

Asami Masumi continued to laugh.

Her expression of regret seemed real.

Tsunade frowned, always feeling that something was wrong.

And this kind of ailment has always existed since Masumi Asami attacked Naruto and exposed them, luring them to gather here.

Currently Asami Masumi's suspicion is only the biggest, but it has not been determined after all.

But at this time Asami Masumi was the first to lose her temper, and took the initiative to expose her identity as the ghost.

Speaking of which, the current scene gave Tsunade a familiar feeling.

It seems that a similar thing happened in Konoha at some time in the past. Someone attacked Nine-Tails Jinchuriki in the village...

Sneak attack on Nine Tails Jinchuriki!

Tsunade's body shook, and he suddenly thought of something.

Nineteen years ago, when Chiba Shiraishi defected, he also used the same trick to focus all of Konoha's attention, causing the defectors of the Uchiha and Hyuga clan to safely evacuate from Konoha.

Attract fire and allow non-combatants to leave safely.

Transfer...Disappearance...The whole family disappears...

In an instant, Tsunade seemed to understand something, and his face became extremely ugly.

"The recently missing ninjas in the village are your subordinates! They are also spies placed in Konoha by the kingdom of ghosts!"

Tsunade was not questioning, but was confirming something with an extremely positive tone.

"You have a smart and flexible brain, Hokage-sama."

Asami Masumi narrowed her eyes and praised.

"The missing person...is a spy?"

Tianzo glanced at Tsunade, then at Masumi Asami, as if he had figured out something, and some clues finally became coherent in his mind.

At the beginning, Anbu's investigation direction was not associated with this aspect. After all, the disappearance of personnel has nothing to do with the investigation of the inner ghost in the medical department.

Combined with the discovery of traces of fighting in the homes of the missing persons, it is natural to classify these missing persons as 'victims' and believe that this was done by some attacker, without thinking that these disappearances were originally a play written and directed by the group of missing persons.

The purpose is to confuse Anbu's investigation direction, give wrong information, and let Anbu fall into the wrong investigation direction.

Because, the so-called battle traces were made by the missing persons themselves.

"Take her down!"

Tsunade waved his hand, pointing at Asami Masumi, not going to talk nonsense.

When her, Hokage, and Anbu's attention shifted here, those spies had already started to move, evacuating Konoha.

Take Asami Masumi as soon as possible, and then search the entire Konoha Village.

Tsunade was annoyed at his own carelessness. The opponent's purpose was not to get Kyuubi at all, but to use the illusion of "attacking Kyuubi" to attract Hokage and Anbu, so that his subordinates could start operations faster and evacuate from Konoha.

Hearing Tsunade's order, dozens of Anbe swarmed up, and they were not polite to Masumi Asami.

Facing this kind of traitor who endangers Konoha's safety, there is naturally no reason to speak.

Anbu's operation is very powerful, and the weakest Anbu is also the best of the Chunin, not to mention, there are a considerable number of high-level ninjas.

"It's a pity... My arrangement has been completed. Now that you are here, let's stay here for a while, Hokage-sama. Seriously, Nine-Tails Jinchuriki is really a very good bait."

Asami Masumi smiled slightly and formed a mudra with her hands.

Four purple beams of light quickly shot up to the sky from the four corners of the earth.

Whether it was Tsunade or Anbu's actions, they all paused, and couldn't help but look in the direction of the purple beam of light.

I saw the erected purple beams of light, connected in pairs, forming a purple barrier wall, which blocked the surrounding area in all directions.

"Si Zi Yan Formation, when?"

Tsunade opened his mouth wide, completely unaware that the enchantment technique was pre-set around him.

Asami Masumi didn't explain, while smiling, her body disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Shadow clone!

Seeing this scene, Tsunade was so angry that the chakra in his body began to boil rapidly. With the high-density chakra squeezed, the ground under his feet sank a large piece directly, making a miserable cracking sound, extending in all directions, even touching the edge of the barrier.

Tenzo and the others couldn't help but wiped the cold sweat off their faces, Hokage-sama looked terribly angry!

This kind of strange force, even if it is hit, the bones of the whole body will shatter lightly.

"What are you doing in a daze, quickly crack this enchantment!"

Seeing Anbe looking at each other, Tsunade became even more angry and shouted loudly.

"yes!"

The Anbu spread out in the blink of an eye, reaching the four corners inside the barrier.

It was discovered that it was not a ninja that maintained the Four Purple Flame Formation, but a scroll that stood upright.

The scroll spreads out a part of the paper, which depicts the set enchantment formula, and continuously releases chakra from it.

It only needs the operator to guide with a specific spell, and the scrolls ambushed around, and the enchantment spell in it, will be activated automatically.

Even one person can complete the Four Purple Flame Formation that requires four people to operate.

Moreover, the power of the Four Purple Flame Formation maintained remains undiminished. Even if a ninja of the Five Kage level is locked inside, it will be difficult to escape.

The disadvantage is that the chakra stored in the scroll is limited, and the maintenance time is not long.

Judging from the results of the Anbu's detection, this barrier will disappear automatically after it lasts for two hours at most.

However, the Anbu people will naturally not wait until the chakra in the scroll is exhausted. The task Tsunade gave them is to break the barrier as soon as possible.

Among the Anbu gathered here, there is no shortage of elite ninjas who are proficient in enchantment. The Four Purple Flame Formation is also a high-level enchantment they must learn. They are very proficient in the use and removal of this enchantment.

Sit down cross-legged, they form seals with both hands, run the chakra in the body, turn into entities and flow to the scroll that releases chakra, communicate with the ownerless chakra in it, find flaws in it, and rewrite the spell on the scroll.

"How long will it take to remove this enchantment?"

Tsunade came to one corner and asked Anbu who sat cross-legged and communicated with the scroll technique.

"Judging from the amount of chakra released from the scroll, it will take about half an hour."

Anbe answered.

Tsunade rubbed the center of his brows, it seems that Anbe's ability level needs to be further improved.

But thanks to Asami Masumi's 'confession', some things that I don't understand are all connected in series.

Asami Masumi's accomplice used the disappearance incident to successfully mislead the Anbu's investigation direction.

But also because of this incident, the Anbu have stepped up their patrols in the village.

In this case, it would be extremely difficult to repeat the same trick and set up a 'disappearance event'.

Especially after Ushima Shinoya 'disappeared', Anbu's actions became more covert, and they became more sensitive to the surrounding movements.

Therefore, after Shinobi 'disappeared' on Ushima, Asami Masumi's accomplices stopped for the time being, waiting for an opportunity.

And this opportunity must wait until Anbu's sight leaves the village and shifts to other places.

The existence of spies, even if they see a little light, will lead to death.

Asami Masumi and her accomplices, if they want to transfer, they must go through careful arrangements and be cautious.

In the final stage, Asami Masumi chose to expose herself in advance, just like Chiba Shiraishi 19 years ago, using the attack on Nine Tails Jinchuriki as a bait to divert the attention of Hokage and Anbe, allowing the final accomplice to safely transfer.

During the period when they were trapped in the Four Purple Flame Formation, the enemy was already preparing to transfer work. If they acted faster, they might have left Konoha already.

Even though he was anxious, Tsunade did not show panic on his face, and remained calm.

Time passed by every minute and every second. While everyone was waiting anxiously, the enchantment wall covering the surroundings finally began to shake violently, twist, and finally melted into the air and dissipated into nothing.

"Tianzang, you take some people to search for Asami Masumi's accomplices, and I will lead people to chase Asami Masumi."

Although half an hour was wasted here, no matter how fast the other party moved, it was impossible to leave the Kingdom of Fire in such a short period of time.

"yes!"

Tamzo has some guesses about Asami Masumi's associates.

After finishing speaking, Tianzang disappeared from the spot and left with him, along with sixteen members of Anbu from a team.

"Eh? Wait, what about me? Hokage, what am I doing?"

Seeing Tianzang leave so simply, Naruto was taken aback for a moment, and looked at Tsunade eagerly.

"...you go and act with Tianzang...that is, your Yamato captain, and that root boy."

Tsunade looked up at the sky, a giant bird made of ink was flying in the air, and a figure sitting on the back of the giant bird was Saii.

"Yes, guaranteed to complete the task!"

Naruto chased after Tianzang in the direction where he left, and Sai, who was sitting on the giant bird in the sky, also moved accordingly, following Tianzang.

"You go to inform Jiraiya, and say that the inner ghost has been found, and he doesn't need to keep an eye on him. Let him follow and take care of Naruto. After that, go to the border garrison and block the entire Fire Nation, prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving!"

Tsunade turned to Anbu and said to him.

"yes!"

Anbe who was tapped responded and disappeared from Tsunade.

"Captain Yamato, isn't this the yakiniku restaurant of Sakura's house? What are we doing here?"

Standing at the door of the Haruno Barbecue Restaurant, Naruto, who was following Tenzo, blinked suspiciously, wondering why Tenzo came here?

Didn't you say that you want to track down Asami Masumi's spy associates?

"All the missing persons recently, the only thing they have in common is that they have a special liking for this barbecue restaurant. If it is not accidental, this barbecue restaurant may hide some secrets."

After finishing speaking, Tianzang took Naruto and Sai, who was silent at the side, into the Haruno barbecue restaurant.

"Welcome, are there three?"

The hospitality staff showed sweet smiles, but they couldn't hide a trace of fatigue on their faces.

Tianzang shook his head and said, "No, we are not here for dinner. I have something to ask the owner of Haruno here. Where is he?"

I went around the barbecue restaurant, but I didn't find Haruno Zhao and his wife.

The staff took a careful look at Tianzang and the other three, and said in surprise, "You are Sakura's companions, and you have a mentor, Jonin, right? No wonder you look so familiar."

"Yes, where is the shopkeeper Haruno?"

Tianzang asked again.

The staff member smiled helplessly and said, "Because Sakura fainted from exhaustion, the owner sent her home to rest... Well, about an hour and a half has passed."

Because of this reason, the staff in the store were very busy.

"Sakura fainted?"

Naruto's face became anxious.

"Yes, according to the owner, it seems to be caused by fatigue."

The staff answered patiently.

"In other words, the three members of the Haruno family are not here, right?"

Tianzang caught the point.

"Yes, the proprietress didn't come tonight, she's still here this afternoon."

The staff thought about it and said.

"I see, if you don't mind, can I search it here?"

Tianzang looked directly into the staff's eyes, putting a little pressure on the staff.

"Well...as long as you don't make trouble for the guests."

The staff hesitated for a moment, and nodded in agreement with Tianzang's majestic gaze.

"Thank you."

Tianzang said something, then quickly entered the store and searched the entire barbecue restaurant.

Located in the dark dark part, the search work is also carried out, not letting go of any corner here.

Ten minutes passed and nothing was found here.

Tianzang came outside the door of Chunye Barbecue Restaurant, faintly feeling that something was wrong.

"Let's go to Sakura's house."

Tianzang exhaled, his expression solemn.

The search team set off again, and in less than a minute, they arrived outside the two-story residential house of Haruno's house.

The house is brightly lit, but the curtains are all closed, so you can't see what's inside.

Tianzang rang the doorbell, so that the bell could be heard clearly inside the house.

However, after more than ten seconds passed, there was no movement in the room, and no one came to open the door.

Tianzang rang the doorbell again, but there was still no sound in the room, and no one came to open the door.

Tianzang realized that something was wrong.

A thin piece of wood protruded from between the fingers, drilled into the keyhole, and with a click, the lock was unlocked from the inside, and the door was gently pushed open.

Bring Naruto and Sai to the living room of Haruno's house. The TV is playing a program, the remote control is quietly placed on the coffee table, and the living room and kitchen are empty.

Tianzang's face darkened, and he made a gesture, and a dozen black shadows moved in the living room of Haruno's house, opened all the rooms on the first floor, and searched.

Tianzang led Naruto and Sai to the second floor.

Bedrooms, study rooms, and laboratories are checked one by one.

"Didn't the people at the barbecue shop say that Sakura was taken home by Uncle Haruno to rest? Why is there no one in the house?"

Naruto saw the empty bedroom, full of pink girly style, but there was only a little smell left in it, but Sakura was not resting on the bed in the bedroom, Naruto scratched his ears and looked at Tianzang puzzled.

"Captain Yamato, Naruto, here is a discovery."

Sai's voice was heard not far away, Tianzang and Naruto ran over quickly and came to the laboratory.

I saw Sai searching for something in the laboratory by himself, and when he saw the two coming in, he turned his head and said, "All the research materials here have disappeared, and what remains are only some useless reference books."

Naruto was stunned, but Tianzang was silent.

Suddenly, some originally irrelevant information was generated in Tianzang's mind.

I remember that Haruno Zhao said something like this when talking about Dotian Zhongren:

"I also asked him if he was waiting for someone, but every time he shook his head and didn't speak. Then he finished the baked vegetarian food and left."

As a vegetarian, Don Tanaka Shinobu always pretended to be waiting for someone, but in fact he didn't wait for someone.

But in essence, as the spy of the ghost country, Dota Zhongren has already waited for someone and successfully completed the information delivery work?

Because the person who has to wait is none other than Haruno Ouga who will go over to talk to Dotanaka Shinobi!

Sakura also said a few days ago that Tianzang was very concerned about it:

"...I don't know what happened recently. A waiter in the barbecue restaurant at home asked for leave. I have to go home to help at night..."

Recently, the yakiniku restaurant has been very busy.

The waiter asked for leave to rest.

Sakura has to go home every night to help.

Combining with the current situation, Sakura, as a medical ninja, is responsible for the important task of developing medical symbols. The research materials she usually sorts out will be handed over to the medical department for review by the people there, but Sakura will definitely leave backup data.

At this time, all the data in the laboratory disappeared.

The Haruno couple, Sakura also disappeared... Just like the previous missing persons, the whole family disappeared.

Tianzang's complexion changed from cloudy to cloudy.

Thinking of the information collected by Anbe, Haruno Mebuki was weak and suffered a severe dystocia. It was Masumi Asami who came forward to solve the troubles of the Haruno family.

Eliminate those lengthy and misleading information, connect some side information, and form a reasonable clue.

Sakura... No, the Haruno couple have a problem!

They are Masumi Asami's subordinate intelligence agents!

On the other side, Sai spread out the scroll he had taken out, took out a paintbrush, dipped it in ink and quickly drew on the scroll.

One vivid black mouse was depicted on the scroll, and there were about a hundred of them. Following the seal of Sai, the originally flat black mouse miraculously stood up from the scroll, formed a solid body, and quickly began to move around the upper and lower floors of Haruno's house.

Not long after, the mice returned one by one, forming a line of text on the scroll

First floor, bedroom, under the bed.

Seeing this line of text, the three of Naruto walked towards the bedroom on the first floor.

is the room of the Haruno couple. On the bedside cabinet, there is a wedding photo of the two.

The bed is removed to reveal a seamless wooden floor.

Sai looked at the exposed wooden floors, without saying a word, took out the brush, dipped it in ink, and began to quickly draw on these floors.

After writing the last symbol, the wooden floor suddenly emitted a strong white light, making the three of Naruto squint their eyes.

As the white light disappeared, the ink on it also dried, and a piece of light golden talisman emerged from the floor, extending eight black spell chains. The floor, walls, and ceiling were all covered by chain spells, like a cage.

"Sai, can you crack it?"

Tianzang asked.

"I need the assistance of Anbu, who is proficient in sealing."

Sai made his request.

Tianzo nodded, and asked Anbu, who was proficient in sealing techniques in the search team, to come over and assist Saii in deciphering the sealing technique on this talisman paper.

Five minutes later, the black spell on the talisman paper faded, and the spell on it showed signs of instability. As Sai and the two Anbu beside him drew the final spell, the chain formed by the spell broke with a crisp sound.

A blue flame burned on the talisman paper and disappeared into the air.

Then, the originally flat floor, like an open door panel, collapsed downward, revealing a large pitch-black hole.

Walk to the edge of the black hole and peer down, and you can see several steps leading into the darkness.

This is a ramp passage for people to walk down.

Naruto saw this passage and was about to go down when Tianzang grabbed his sleeve.

"Wait, Naruto, this might be a trap, don't move forward."

Tianzang is not as reckless as Naruto, cracking the enemy's spells, and being smug and killed by traps. There are countless examples of this.

At any time, the ninja must keep a cool head and not be careless.

Tianzang knot seal, extruding a piece of human-shaped wood from the body, forming a wooden avatar that is the same as his own body.

He nodded to the wooden avatar, and the wooden avatar clearly walked down the stairs, into the darkness that could not be reached, and carefully explored the way.

(end of this chapter)