Chapter 741 Raid

In the reference room, several tables were already filled with a large number of scattered documents and scrolls.

But these collected materials are not all. The literature handed down from ancient times, although not as numerous as the existing literature, but accumulated, there are also quite a few.

The ground next to some tables is almost full of space, and there is not much room for standing.

"Hey, Shikamaru, is it okay for us to stay in this kind of place from now on? For example, take the initiative to attack or something..."

Naruto, who was assigned to work in the reference room, looked at the mountain of data files with a sad face, and suddenly an emotion called pain surged into his brain, making his brain start to become dull.

"Yes, this is also part of the next mission. And take the initiative to attack or something, don't think about it for now. The enemy is a powerful ninja who can defeat Jiraiysama. If you don't do the intelligence work in advance, you may sacrifice more companions if you attack rashly."

Shikamaru said patiently.

His gaze has been staying here on these documents handed down from ancient times. Although there are many documents about the eyes of reincarnation, they are basically some myths and legends with bizarre copywriting, which are related to the legendary founder of the ninja sect.

The age when the Sage of the Six Paths was active was the ancient era thousands of years ago. In that ancient era, not to mention Konoha, even the Kingdom of Fire had not yet been born. The Kingdom of Fire was an aristocratic country that began to form hundreds of years after that, and was passed down from generation to generation. After the Warring States Period, it gradually evolved into the Kingdom of Fire today.

Regarding the events of ancient times, Shikamaru found that although there are many records in Konoha, they basically lack formal historical facts, and most of them are linked to things like religious myths. Moreover, the most troublesome thing for Shikamaru is that even if it is a religious myth, several or even more versions can be derived from one story, making him wonder which literature to refer to is better.

Although some fairy tales can find the shadow of the logic behind it from reality, but after reading all kinds of legends about the Sages of the Six Paths, I realized that the part of finding the eyes of reincarnation is much more difficult than I imagined.

The description of the reincarnation eye is basically a description of the "immortal eye".

Occasionally, some records about a natural disaster monster are mentioned in the story. It is rumored that this monster has ten tails, and was finally beheaded by the sages of the Six Paths, and his body was launched into space, forming the moon that they are familiar with in later generations.

Shikamaru gave a wry smile, the story was really outrageous.

Launching monster corpses into space, and then forming the moon or something, the imagination of the ancients is too rich.

If you continue to search like this, even if you go back a hundred years, it may not be realistic to find what you need.

"Not only the eyes of reincarnation, but also the technique called 'Infinite Moon Reading', there seems to be no clue... If this is not the message left by Mr. Jiraiya, I doubt if the information was given wrongly."

Shikamaru put down the documents in his hand, because his brain was overloaded because of reading too much information, it started to swell and heat up, he needed to take a rest, and then looked it up later.

"Probably not. Although the lecherous fairy is sometimes unreliable, his ability to collect information is very powerful. There will be no mistakes in this kind of place."

Naruto speaks his mind.

"Yes, Master Jiraiya is an excellent intelligence agent, but the things to be investigated are too old. Some information, in the process of continuous development of history, is either lost or formed into various folk stories. It is difficult to guess the authenticity behind it."

Shikamaru rubbed the space between his brows, leaned back against the seat, and picked up another file.

"Leaving aside those difficult-to-investigate existences of the Eye of Reincarnation, Akatsuki's investigation went much smoother than expected. This organization began to gain fame during the Third Ninja World War, and it was considered a little famous in the Rain Country at that time... And their current leader, Nagato, is called by this name. He is an orphan that Jiraiysama took in during the Second Ninja World War.

Shikamaru was a little helpless about this.

For this Sannin, he really didn't know what to say.

There is indeed a record on Konoha's side that Jiraiya also took in some orphans in the Land of Rain during the Second Ninja World War. At that time, it was said that there were a lot of troubles, but they were finally suppressed by the Third Hokage... But, no one knew that one of the orphans would have such a big background.

But Jiraiya chose to conceal this important information from Konoha at the time, so that now Konoha can only respond hastily to such emergencies.

"In short, the next step is to investigate the matter as soon as possible. The enemy may attack the village at any time. I hope there will be no mistakes this time."

Shikamaru sighed like this.

The information left by Jiraiya is useful or useful, and there is no specific reference for saying it is useless. Many things are the other side's one-sided words. It is difficult to judge the strength of this leader Akatsuki just by imagining it. Konoha can only start with the information of Samsara Eye to see if he can find relevant information. As for the rest of the abilities, such as the gravitational abilities mentioned in the information, I can only warn the ninjas in the village that after encountering the opponent, the key point is to gather chakra under the feet and lock the body firmly, hoping to use this method to enhance some resistance.

However, more specific things need to be concluded after actual combat. But in that case, many Konoha ninjas would probably be sacrificed.

On the other side, Naruto also began to communicate with Minato in his body.

Dad, what do you know about these things?

Even if you say that, I don't necessarily know more than you. Teacher Jiraiya's sacrifice was too sudden, and everyone was caught off guard. In addition, among the three major pupil techniques, I am more familiar with Sharingan and Baiyan, but I don't know much about Samsarayan.

Minato replied like this.

Is there really no way?

Naruto asked a little unwillingly.

Well...Since reincarnation eyes, white eyes, and sharing eyes are listed as the three major pupil arts, I think there should be some important information from the Hyuga clan. This family has a long history and generally has corresponding historical records. If you investigate from there, you may be able to find some clues.

Minato thought for a while and answered.

-is that so?

Yes, generally, blood-succession-limited families that form ethnic groups will have detailed records of their own family history. This is probably the unique family honor plot of wealthy families. How about this, you go to the Hyuga Clan to see if I can find some information from Nine Tails here, since it is related to Tailed Beasts, I think Nine Tails should know something.

After Minato finished speaking, he lost his voice from Naruto's brain and cut off the connection.

"Shikamaru, let's go to Hinata's house and start investigating."

At this time, Naruto suddenly slapped the table with both hands, and looked at him with burning eyes, which startled Shikamaru.

"Hinata?"

Shikamaru blinked, wondering why Naruto mentioned this all of a sudden.

"Yes, that reincarnation eye is one of the three major pupil techniques. In this case, the Hyuga clan where Hinata belongs may know something."

"Well, there is indeed such a possibility, so let's go and give it a try."

Shikamaru pondered for a moment, and felt that Naruto's words made sense.

Since Reincarnation Eye, Sharingan Eye, and White Eye are listed as the three major pupil techniques, there may be some unknown connection between these three eyes.

Anyway, the progress of the investigation here is very slow now, if a breakthrough can be found from the Hyuga clan, that would be great.

After tidying up the reference room, Shikamaru took Naruto to the Hyuga Clan, accompanied by several scholars from the Ministry of Intelligence to assist in the investigation.

Hinata was very happy about Naruto and Shikamaru's visit. Although she wanted to agree to the request of the two immediately, but the family matter still needs the approval of her father, so Hinata took Naruto and Shikamaru to see her father.

As long as the father's consent can be obtained, it is not a problem to investigate the documents of the Hyuga clan.

"Oh, are you investigating information about the Eye of Reincarnation? I've heard about Jiraiysama, but I didn't expect it to be true."

In the reception room, Nizuzu met Naruto and Shikamaru. No matter what, they are friends of his eldest daughter, and their identities are also older than the other. Although they are elders, they have no pretensions when meeting them.

It's not at all as cold and serious as Hinata usually said, but it's much kinder than expected.

"Chief Nizuzu, what do you think?"

Shikamaru is asking for opinions.

"Well, there is nothing wrong with me here, and the Hyuga Clan is also a member of Konoha. Naturally, at this moment, I will not be stingy with helping. Let the little girl Hinata lead you to investigate the documents of the Hyuga Clan. There is a lot of information there, and I don't know if there is anything you need. It would be great if I can help you and Hokage-sama."

Nichizu readily agreed, and asked the eldest daughter Hinata to lead the way for them.

"Yes, Father."

Hinata, who knelt down, bowed politely to Hizuru, maintaining the etiquette that the eldest daughter of the Hinata sect should have, then got up and led Shikamaru and Naruto to leave through the side door.

"Uncle Nizuzu is much easier to talk than he imagined. It turns out that the seriousness on his face is fake."

Walking in the corridor leading to the backyard, Naruto felt it.

"That's not the case, Naruto-kun. My father is just a little tolerant of outsiders, but he manages the people inside the family very strictly. He will rigidly require the family members to maintain the etiquette and demeanor that the Hyuga clan should have."

Hinata, who was walking in front, spoke at this moment.

Naruto can't understand why he should be tolerant to outsiders, but strict with his own people. He can't figure out the reason.

But Shikamaru nodded, agreeing with Hinata's words.

Leaving aside the Uchiha clan in the past, the Hyuga clan does give people such an impression. No matter how rigid the family's internal rules were, there was really nothing to be picky about when it came to dealing with people.

"Anyway, thank you this time, Hinata. Without you, we wouldn't have gotten here so quickly."

Shikamaru knew that a high-ranking person like Nizuzu would not have so much time to meet outsiders. Even if you can see it, you probably need to make an appointment in advance, but with Hinata's help, you don't need so many cumbersome steps.

"No, there is no such thing, I am very happy to help you. The front is..."

Hinata pointed ahead, and was about to speed up and walk over, when a voice suddenly sounded:

"Sister. Is there a visitor at home?"

"Well"

Hearing this familiar voice, Hinata's walking body suddenly froze, forced a smile on her face, and greeted the person coming:

"It's Hanabi, why are you here?"

The person who came was Hanabi.

Beside her is Hinata Tokuma, the Jonin of the branch family.

"I've finished today's homework ahead of schedule, so I'll stop by to see you, sister. Why, aren't you welcome?"

Hanabi giggled, as if seeing Hinata's embarrassment made her feel very amused.

"No, no, it's too late for me to be happy that you can come to see me."

Hinata's smile on Bai Nen's face looked even more forced.

"Sure enough, sister, you miss me too... Well, it's Shikamaru-senpai, and Naruto-senpai. Good afternoon, both of you."

Hanabi saw Shikamaru and Naruto who were following behind Hinata, and they came over to say hello very familiarly.

Compared to Hinata's shyness, her personality is much more active.

Because she is a younger sister, it is also very reasonable to pay special attention to her sister's usual interpersonal relationships.

"good afternoon."

Shikamaru doesn't know much about the second lady of the Hyuga family. The other party lives reclusively in the Hyuga clan, and is taught by the family elite, and has not entered the ninja school.

All I know is that the other party is a genius with outstanding talent, and his talent as a ninja is even better than that of his sister Hinata.

If there is anything, Shikamaru can feel a dangerous and fierce aura from Hanabi, and his intuition tells him that if he fights with this second lady, he will probably end in defeat.

"Yo, good afternoon, Hanabi. I was in a hurry when I came here, and I forgot to bring a gift this time."

Compared to Shikamaru, Naruto is much more familiar with Hanabi.

"Don't worry about this kind of thing. After all, as long as Naruto-senpai can come, my sister is already very happy. Isn't it, sister?"

Hanabi touched Hinata's body with her elbow, her expression seemed a little teasing.

"Yes, yes."

Hinata knew that she couldn't offend this little kid's younger sister at this time, otherwise she didn't know how she was going to tease her again, so she could only reluctantly smile to cater to her.

"Okay, Hanabi, Naruto-kun and I still have important things to do next, the cultivation has worked hard for you, you should go back and rest quickly."

Hinata started to chase people away, telling Hanabi to leave here, not to disturb their work.

"Sister, why are you driving me away in such a hurry? You don't want to have a secret rendezvous with Naruto-senpai here, you can't, as the eldest daughter of the clan, you have to be reserved"

"That's not the case!"

Hinata glared at Hanabi angrily.

"Really? Isn't it a tryst?"

Hanabi blinked, looked at Naruto and Hinata suspiciously, and sniffed the air, as if planning to smell something.

"Of course. I followed the orders of my father and took Shikamaru and Naruto-kun to investigate some things. I didn't come here for fun."

Hinata Yoshimasa said sternly.

"That's right, then, count me in as well, I just happen to be a little bored right now."

Huahuo raised her hand, smiling and intending to join in.

"As long as you don't make trouble."

Hinata didn't really want Hanabi to join in, but considering that after she refused, if the other party made any noise, it might embarrass her sister again, so she nodded and agreed.

"Thank you, sister, don't worry, I will be very well-behaved."

Looking at the smiling Hanabi, Hinata didn't think that the other party would be so well-behaved, but she had nothing to do with her sister.

Enter the reference room of the Hyuga clan. Although the space here is not as large as Konoha's library, it is still quite large. Moreover, compared with the Konoha Library, the literature and books here have a certain sense of age just from the appearance.

Some documents can even be called antiques. If it is seen by an expert, most likely it can be sold for a sky-high price.

I dare not say that such ancient books are available everywhere, but it is not a problem to find a hundred or eighty copies.

"By the way, sister, you are here to investigate something."

Hanabi walked in and asked Ewe Tokuma to watch from outside the reference room.

"It's about investigating the reincarnation eye."

Hinata did not hide anything, and chose to tell Hanabi about it.

"Reincarnation Eye?" Huahuo turned his head to the side, then looked at a corner of the reference room, and said, "That is an ancient relic from thousands of years ago, so it should be placed over there."

Following Huahuo's finger, I did see a corner, where the books and documents are much more age-like than other places.

"Hanabi, do you know?"

"It's okay, occasionally when I'm tired, I'll spend time reading here. After all, I only want to fill my brain with knowledge, instead of just gaining excess fat like sister and you."

"The latter sentence is obviously redundant."

Hinata blushed and clutched her chest, feeling that her mind couldn't be connected with this younger sister.

"That's it. The records about the eyes of reincarnation are mostly related to the fairy in the legend. I remember that in these documents, there is also a mention of a monster with ten tails, which finally turned into the moon."

Huahuo took out an ancient book with some torn paper, patted it with his hands, and a lot of dust fell off.

"A monster with ten tails?"

Shikamaru is somewhat sensitive to this information.

He also found some similar information in the ancient documents in the previous Konoha reference room. He did not expect that there were similar legends on the Hyuga clan.

"Yes, it seems to be called 'Ten Tails'. I heard that it was transformed by the goddess Uzuki Kaguya, the mother of the Sage of the Six Paths. This goddess once wanted to use a technique called 'Infinite Tsukiyomi' to control humans all over the world, but was finally stopped by the Sage of the Six Paths and her younger brother."

Ten tails? Sage of the Six Paths mother? Uzuki goddess?

Shikamaru felt that things seemed to be getting more and more outrageous.

"Is this... telling some fairy tale?"

Naruto also felt that the things recorded in these ancient books seemed a bit outrageous.

"I'm not sure. After all, more than a thousand years have passed. Even if it is a real thing, some places must have been modified by later generations. According to legend, the ancestor of our Hyuga clan is the second son of the Uzuki goddess, Otsuki Yumura. After the six-path sage Otsuki Yuyi launched his mother into the moon into space, our Hyuga ancestors guarded the moon and prevented the goddess from recovering again. I just don't know why the Hyuga clan left the moon and developed on the ground..."

Fireworks talked about it.

"Why didn't I know about this?"

Hinata looked bewildered, why didn't she have any impression of such an important family history?

"Because of my sister, you only have breasts."

"Don't always talk about things like this!"

Hinata stared angrily at Hanabi.

"In addition to this, there are other materials. If you want to read them all, it may not be until tomorrow morning..."

While Huahuo was talking, she suddenly fell silent, as if she had sensed something.

The same is true for the three Naruto, holding their breath, staring at each other without saying a word, and no one spoke first.

Boom

Suddenly a roar made the earth tremble.

The walls of the reference room began to hum and tremble, and a large amount of dust fell from the ceiling. The vibration was so violent that the entire reference room was shaking.

Many books fell from the bookshelves and scattered all over the place.

"What's going on? Is there an earthquake?"

Naruto and the others covered their feet with chakra and fixed them firmly on the ground, so they were not knocked down by the sudden earthquake.

But after the violent shaking lasting more than ten seconds, everyone in the reference room looked at each other in blank dismay, and no one knew what happened.

"Blind eyes!"

Huahuo was the first to open his eyes, penetrated a large number of buildings, and saw the root cause of the earthquake.

"Someone released a large number of large psychic beasts in the center of the village. The one who summoned them was a young girl. Judging by her clothes, she was a member of the organization called 'Xiao'."

As soon as Hanabi's words came out, the expressions of Shikamaru and Naruto suddenly changed.

Before they had time to think, the two of them left the reference room one after another and rushed towards the center of the village.

At the same time, Tsunade, who was standing at the office window of the Hokage Building, had already seen the buildings in the center of the village emitting heavy dust from a distance, from which he could see several huge ferocious monsters, raging madly there, destroying everything there.

The roar and vibration continued to come, and even the cup on the desk was trembling slightly, being affected.

"Master Naruto!"

Lu Jiu ran in, breathing a little short of breath.

Tsunade appeared much calmer, and began to issue orders to Shikajiu in an orderly manner.

"I've seen it, Lu Jiu, go to evacuate the people as originally planned, and clear out a place where you can fight. Since the opponent dares to attack Konoha, don't let an enemy go."

(end of this chapter)