Konoha: Start by unlocking the caged bird

Chapter 36 Tracking
The beginning of Konoha 52.

The Anbu ninjas, who had just celebrated a peaceful New Year, had no time to enjoy the beautiful afterglow of the New Year before they had to leave their beds in the middle of the night to carry out a mission due to the defection of an unexpected person.

From the moment the Sandaime gave the order, Konoha's Anbu came out in full force, and countless idle jonin were also dispatched, trying their best to capture Orochimaru, one of the 'Three Ninjas' who defected from the village because of the exposure of human experiments.

Hatake Kakashi, as the team leader, sets off with his only team member Hinata Yuzuru.

Orochimaru fought with the Third Hokage before escaping and was seriously injured. His traces were obvious. Obviously, this was the best time to hunt down Orochimaru.

Unlike Kakashi Hatake who was so impatient that he wanted to break one minute into two.

Hinata Yuzuru walked slowly and looked relaxed, as if he was on a picnic.

"Tenhu, speed up. We must get ahead of Orochimaru and reach the base where he may transfer and retreat to ambush."

Kakashi had a clear goal. He first summoned the ninja dog to capture the scent, and then kept reminding Hinata Yuzuru to speed up.

But Hyuga Yuzuru just said lightly: "Do you think the two of us will be Orochimaru's opponents?"

Kakashi was silent for a moment. In fact, when Orochimaru was caught cheating by the Third Hokage, he was guarding at the door of his house, and was almost killed instantly by Orochimaru who was in a hurry to escape. If it weren't for the explosive talisman from the Third Hokage, he might still have the Heaven's Curse Seal on his neck, or his head might have been bitten off.

However, he still said coldly: "Orochimaru is seriously injured. Our mission is only to trap him. I will take the opportunity to let the summoning beast notify other companions."

"Then do you think we can trap him?" Hinata Yuzuru asked again.

Kakashi simply stopped and said, "If you feel that this is impossible and you want to give up the mission, you can turn back now. I will report the truth to the Third Generation. You are a ninja from the Anbu!"

"I just want to know, is the third generation really incapable of killing or keeping Orochimaru at that time?"

Hinata Yuzuru also had cold eyes.

He took off his mask, and under the mask was Kakashi's appearance that he had seen for the first time, without wearing glasses.

The sharp eyes no longer had the previous gentleness and inappropriate teasing. Instead, there was only a hint of anger, mockery, and indifference.

"Hasn't the Third Generation ever thought about how many ordinary ninjas would die when facing a being like Orochimaru?"

"Hasn't he ever thought about how many innocent people will die along the way because of Orochimaru?"

"Just because of the so-called master-disciple relationship, he felt pity and could not take action against Orochimaru, but turned around and handed the matter over to his subordinates."

"Arrest? Don't be ridiculous."

"Kakashi, if you really want to go on this mission promise me one thing."

Hatake Kakashi was left speechless by his series of words. He could not explain what the Third Hokage had done.

Hinata Yuzuru looked at him coldly: "If you must capture Orochimaru, I'm sorry, I may try my best to stop you from making irrational choices at any time, and find a way to take you away with me."

"I will not risk my life to make up for someone else's ridiculous mistake. Rather than fighting with Orochimaru and making you and I die in vain, I would rather fight to stop you. When I feel that it is impossible, the mission must be terminated."

Hinata Yuzuru seemed very determined.

The words he said unexpectedly made Kakashi pierce his heart. He may feel that his life is not important at this moment, but he never wants to watch his companions die in front of his own eyes.

However, when Kakashi remained silent, not knowing how to react, he put the mask back on.

"Of course, if you say that you will tell the Third Generation about this, just pretend that I never said anything. I will cooperate with you."

His words were light and it sounded as if he had returned to his usual inattentive tone.

But Kakashi already knew his determination - he was really going to give it his all in this mission.

After a moment of silence, Kakashi said: "If things are impossible, I will make retreat the first priority, but before that, ninjas must complete the mission as their first goal. If the Third Generation asks about the reason for the failure, I will also express your attitude truthfully." "Don't worry, you don't think that the Third Generation really expects the two of us, or this group of Anbu, to capture Orochimaru?"

Hinata Yuzuru chuckled twice. From Kakashi's attitude, he knew that he would never tell the truth about what he said to the Third Hokage.

What does it mean to just express his attitude truthfully?

I just don’t think I can stop Orochimaru, is there a problem? If you can't stop me, how can you expect our child to be less than half your age together?

Even if Sandai listened, he could only say that his judgment was very calm and decisive, right?

Kakashi silently led the way, while a ninja dog captured the clues along the way, and Hinata Yuzuru confirmed them with his white eyes. The speed of the search was very efficient.

Two full days and two nights.

Kakashi finally succeeded with the help of the ninja dog and Hyuga Yuzuru.

Anomaly found.

On the only way leading to the outside of Konoha.

In a huge tree hole.

Hinata Yuzuru captured the chakra trajectories of dozens of people.

Kakashi and Hyuga Yuzuru looked at each other, and he walked inside without hesitation, but Hyuga Yuzuru reached out and patted him on the back.

There was no conversation, just Hinata Yuzuru staring at him confirmingly, and Kakashi hesitated for a moment and nodded slightly.

Trusting your companions is also a quality that a qualified ninja should have.

Kakashi thought.

Hinata Yuzuru let him walk behind him while he walked in front, slowly stepping into the deep and huge tree hole that looked like a cave.

In my mind, I began to quickly recall the plot of the original novel.

Will Orochimaru appear here?
meeting.

But when?
Can't remember clearly.

What danger is there? Probably a group of poor people who have been brainwashed by Orochimaru, who have the strange ability to turn their bodies into smoke, and are quite difficult to deal with.

I can't remember any details other than that. Oh, the name of that group of people seemed to be the Ibri.

"Do you know the wind release ninjutsu?"

"I know a little, but wind jutsu is my weakest ninjutsu right now." Kakashi said truthfully.

Even though he will be called the copy ninja Kakashi in the future, the ninjutsu he masters now is not as comprehensive as it will be in the future.

Kakashi, who failed to understand the joyful fighting method of using one's technique to retaliate, was still quite specialized in more efficient fighting rather than complete work at this time.

Chakra also doesn't support him doing too much fancy work. Carving a dog head on the earth flow wall is the limit of his work.

Hinata Yuzuru narrowed his eyes.

Coincidentally, I also don’t know how to use wind escape.

(End of this chapter)