Naruto: I became a super shadow in the Anbu.

Chapter 16: He used everything on himself.

Two battalions of Konoha's Anbu entered the Land of Waves, and within two months, their supplies were completely depleted.

Without ration pills, obtaining food becomes difficult and it's easy to be exposed.

Without ninja tools, many ANBU members need to carefully clean up the battlefield, making them vulnerable to traps set by the enemy in their ninja tool pouches.

The Uzumaki ninja did not have this worry, as Uzumaki Village had always protected the nobles of the Land of Whirlpools and could obtain supplies from them.

To better suppress the Uzumaki ninja, it is necessary to cut off their supplies and make the nobles realize that helping the Uzumaki ninja at this time is dangerous and fatal.

The noble mayor that the Nightlight quest requires you to kill is the ruler of the nearby village who is the most steadfast supporter of the Whirlpool Village.

Nightlight didn't tell the pine birds where they were going, nor what they were going to do.

Members of the Dark Force only need to execute orders; they don't need to think.

With his identity reversed, Ye Guang also became an exploiter who didn't care about the lives of his subordinates.

The two headed towards their target town. Their priority wasn't speed, but avoiding recklessness and a gruesome death.

"Pinebird, how old are you?"

"Captain Fox, I am 12 years old this year."

He had just graduated and became a Chunin by sheer luck after the village lowered the requirements for Chunin.

Not knowing what to say to his teammates, Ye Guang asked, "What is your dream?"

"My dream?" the pine bird asked.

"My dream is to accumulate mission experience in the Anbu like Lord White Fang and become the strongest ninja!"

Konoha's White Fang was a legendary figure in the Anbu, constantly growing stronger and honing his swordsmanship in battles within the Anbu, eventually becoming a Kage-level ninja.

There are three ways for Konoha ninjas to learn ninjutsu.

The first way is through family inheritance.

Top-tier ninjutsu and secret techniques, like infectious diseases, are transmitted only through mother-to-child transmission, blood, and bodily fluids.

The sword technique that Bai Ya uses is a family heirloom.

The second way is to gain the trust of the team leader or captain and be taught ninjutsu.

It's very difficult and rare to find a teacher or team leader who shares your temperament.

The third option is to join the secret service and make contributions to the village.

This path requires luck, the luck to keep surviving.

This is also the fairest principle, and it is one of the underlying logics of loyalty among Anbu ninjas.

"Good luck, Matsutori. You'll become a ninja like Lord White Fang someday."

Upon arriving outside the town, Ye Guang carefully observed it from a distance using binoculars.

The town has about 1000 households and is surrounded by wooden walls. Every few dozen meters along the walls are watchtowers, and on top of these watchtowers are warriors trained by the town mayor.

An ordinary samurai trains his physique daily and carries a long sword; even a genin would need several moves to defeat him.

Higher-ranking samurai can refine chakra and use it to enhance their taijutsu, making them equivalent to genin in ninja villages.

Higher-ranking samurai can only be trained by the Land of Iron.

These warriors were poorly paid and very cheap.

Nightlight and Pine Bird found the samurai's blind spot, evaded the patrolling samurai, and jumped into the town.

The town is divided into an inner city and an outer city.

The inner city was where the noble town mayor lived and worked.

Lively nights are a luxury only big cities like Kyoto can afford; small towns enforce strict curfews for self-defense.

The streets of the town were deserted; everyone was hiding in their homes.

Ordinary people may die at the hands of ninjas from ninja villages, or they may die at the hands of wandering ninjas.

All the commoners gathered around the nobleman, hoping that he and the hired ninja would bring them peace.

Nightlight and Pine Bird successfully infiltrated the vicinity of the inner city.

"careful!"

A group of samurai appeared from the side, and Ye Guang was the first to hide in the alley.

The pine bird quickly followed.

There were several trash cans in the alley, and Ye Guang and Song Niao hid behind two of them respectively. After the samurai team left, Ye Guang said, "Song Niao, be very careful from now on. Find a weak point in the defenses and climb over the inner city wall."

Like the outer city, the inner city also had arrow towers and warriors.

After the two climbed into the inner city, they lay down on the ground and quickly pressed themselves against the base of a building, slowly moving around the base of the wall.

More than ten minutes later, they finally arrived at the brightest spot.

In the distance is the mayor's study.

There were two silhouettes in the study window, but it was impossible to tell which one was the mayor from the silhouettes.

Suddenly the window opened, and someone rushed out.

It's a Uzumaki ninja!
The mayor stood by the window and noticed that the ninja suddenly stopped talking, then broke through the window and rushed towards the corner of a building.

Two more Uzumaki ninjas appeared elsewhere, along with samurai who had received the news and rushed over.

The rustling of kunai cutting through the air and the clanking of samurai armor made Pine Bird extremely nervous.

Upon seeing the captain's retreat signal, he immediately ran outside.

I never expected there would be a Uzumaki ninja squad here.

The kunai thudded and stuck to the surrounding wooden walls.

One of the kunai pierced the pine bird's shoulder.

Another kunai pierced his foot.

Just as they were about to ask the captain for help, they discovered that the fox captain had been hit by a kunai and turned into white smoke.

what?
Shadow clone?
when?
Pine Bird suddenly remembered that when they infiltrated the inner city, the captain had disappeared for a moment and then hid behind different trash cans.

He gave a bitter laugh, recalling the key points his teacher had mentioned when teaching the Substitution Technique at the Ninja Academy.

The Substitution Technique involves transforming a wooden stake into one's own likeness, hiding in the shadows, and launching a sneak attack when the enemy attacks the stake.

The key to the Substitute Technique is finding or creating an opportunity when the enemy loses sight of you.

Shadow Clone Technique can be considered an advanced form of substitution.

Captain Fox used all his evil schemes against the enemy on himself.

One's own life, like a shadow clone, is used to deceive the enemy.

The pine bird looked at the nobleman.

He had long suspected that the mission might be to kill the nobles in the town.

Sure enough, behind the window, Captain Fox somehow sneaked up behind the nobleman and raised a kunai.

Captain Fox has mastered such exquisite infiltration techniques.

The ninjas and samurai were all focused on themselves; the captain's timing was perfect.

I and the noble mayor will die at the same second.

When he was first recruited into the Dark Division, Matsutori thought he had some special talents that caught the eye of the higher-ups and would lead him to great success.

After working in the shadows for several months, I realized that I was just a tool.

In the morning, the captain was still wishing himself well, hoping to realize his dream and become a ninja like White Fang.

Now, in order to complete the mission, he has tragically died as a result of the captain's scheme.

Is this the Dark Division?

The ninja from the vortex arrived at the body of the pine bird and bent down to slash open the pine bird's mask with a kunai.

Beneath the mask was a young face.

His face was filled with resentment, though it was unclear what he was resentful about.

Nightlight's orders to Pine Bird were to infiltrate the inner city, without specifying what to do or what secrets they held.

Even if they take the body away, Uzushiogakure won't be able to obtain any evidence.

"Oh no! The mayor is dead!"

Hearing the samurai's shout, the ninja turned around in horror and found the mayor dead in front of the window, slumped on the windowsill, with a kunai on the back of his neck.

"Damn it!"

The ninja cursed under his breath; the support they had just agreed upon had vanished without a trace.

(End of this chapter)