Escape From Konoha

"Lord Shiraishi, there is information coming from Kirigakure Village."

As usual, the staff of the Intelligence Department reported to Shiraishi the intelligence they had obtained recently, including information about the Kirigakure ninja village, which the staff of the Intelligence Department attached great importance to.

"What happened over there?"

Bai Shi thought about it for a moment and asked.

The Kingdom of Water is isolated overseas. The Kirigakure Ninja Village within the territory adopts a closed policy all year round, and management is very strict regardless of entry or exit.

The reason why Aster Flower Pharmaceutical Company was able to open a branch in the Kirigakure Ninja Village was because the shrine maiden Maitreya wrote a letter to the Daimyo of the Land of Water. For reasons of country-to-country diplomacy, it was nominally allowed to open a branch inside the Kirigakure Ninja Village.

Naturally, this included a thank-you gift to win over the Water Kingdom's daimyo and many Water Kingdom's great nobles.

Otherwise, it is not that easy to place people inside the Kirigakure Ninja Village.

The level of xenophobia in this village is simply beyond the imagination of outsiders.

When he was in Konoha in the past, Shiraishi also learned about some of the village's situation. But at that time, although Kirigakure Village was exclusive and closed to outsiders, it was not to this extent.

People who enter Kirigakure Village are under surveillance by Kirigakure ANBU ninjas 24 hours a day, and all they can get are relatively fragmentary information.

Moreover, neutral personnel from the Kingdom of Ghosts will only be allowed to enter and exit once every month. If this number is exceeded, they can be forced to be imprisoned. This is also what was signed in the agreement, and the review is very strict.

"There seems to be a serious power change within Kirigakure Village. Although it is impossible to determine who is guiding it, the personnel stationed in Kirigakure Village in the past month can often hear the sounds of fighting at night. Even outside, people can often hear the sounds of fighting. There's a fight going on."

If you hear it by chance, you can think of it as an invasion by a foreign enemy.

If the sound of fighting could be heard every night and foreign enemies could invade, Kirigakure Village would not have the power to become one of the five great ninja villages.

Obviously, this was an internal dispute among the Kirigakure ninjas. Because some kind of conflict was too intense, it led to conflict between factions, and the tragedy of killing each other was staged in the village.

"What's the specific reason?"

"Based on the available intelligence, it is speculated that it may be related to the Ninja School Graduation Examination in March and April this year. This will lead to an intensification of the conflict."

"A ghost event?"

Shiraishi nodded.

A recent graduate of the ninja school named "Momochi Zabuza" in Kirigakure Village, in this graduation exam, he killed all the candidates in the same class, and only he graduated.

Not only Shiraishi was involved in this incident, but other villages must also have received this information one after another, and they were probably also gloating about it.

In recent years, Kirigakure Village has adopted an exam in which two people fight each other, and the winner graduates from the ninja school.

Therefore, the legend of 'Blood Mist' was created.

And according to most ninjas' impressions of Kirigakure ninjas, they also use words such as 'ferocious', 'cruel', and 'bloody' to evaluate them.

Although the number of ninjas has been reduced to a certain extent, the Kirigakure ninjas who managed to survive are elites who can see blood at any time, and can be called ninjas among ninjas.

However, this year there was an accident where only one candidate graduated. Even if Kirigakure followed the 'elite' route, the senior management could not remain indifferent.

It is likely that there were various discussions and opinions on this matter.

According to what Shiraishi knows, not all senior officials in Kirigakure Village like their village to be called the "Blood Mist Village". If this happened again this year, it will inevitably lead to further conflicts.

The internal fighting in Kirigakure Village probably took this opportunity to completely break up the factions.

One side wants to continue to implement the policy of 'Blood Mist', and the other side wants to immediately cancel this unreasonable examination method.

However, since Kirigakure is one of the five great ninja villages that has always practiced secrecy, Shiraishi can only make this level of inference.

More clues can only be seen from the follow-up actions of Kirigakure Ninja Village.

"Let the personnel stationed in Kirigakure Village not act rashly and do their job well."

"yes."

After the staff of the Intelligence Department went down, Shiraishi began to think deeply.

The xenophobia in Kirigakure Village is becoming more and more serious. As a result, sooner or later, the personnel stationed in Kirigakure Village will definitely be kicked out. Even if the lord of the country of water and the great nobles provide guarantees, we cannot take this lightly.

Moreover, a lot of guarantee fees are paid to the daimyo and the great nobles of the Land of Water every year.

If it weren't for the purpose of laying some chess pieces inside Kirigakure Village and obtaining more information, he would not want to interact with the nobles of the Kingdom of Water.

As far as Shiraishi knows, the reason why Kirigakure Village has become like this is inseparable from the continuous reduction of Kirigakure Village's funds by the nobles of the Kingdom of Water.

The Kingdom of Water is isolated overseas. Except for participating in the first Ninja World War, it has been dormant since then and has not had any intensive contact with the countries on the mainland.

As a result, the ninjas of Kirigakure Village were almost useless.

Unlike Konoha, the Fire Country is surrounded by enemies on all sides. Therefore, among the five major countries, the annual development funds given by the Fire Country daimyo to Konoha are figures that make other ninja villages jealous.

However, Kirigakure wanted to develop, but the daimyo and nobles of the Land of Water were unwilling to bear the heavy military expenses. After all, the ninjas only needed to maintain the status quo and did not need to expand externally. It was enough for the daimyo and nobles to protect the country. .

Although this is a very stupid policy in Shiraishi's view.

But from the perspective of vested interests, the daimyo and nobles also cut down the expenditure of ninjas based on their own interests, and spent their own extravagance and enjoyment.

As for the common people, they are the poor and weak class that are collectively ignored by the ninjas and nobles.

If Kirigakure Village wants to change and break this deadlock, most of its senior officials will inevitably be implicated, and it may even involve the daimyo and nobles.

"Let's wait and see for a while."

In the end, Shiraishi took no countermeasures.

The current situation in Kirigakure Village is not clear, and it is not certain to what extent the fighting between the factions has reached, and what the status of the leaders of each faction is.

As a neutral person, he only needs to do his job well.

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"Cough cough... cough cough..."

In the pure white room, there is a dark yellow light shining.

Rendered by the late night environment, the room was filled with a shadow of death.

A woman was lying on the hospital bed in great pain. She could barely open her eyes, staring at the ceiling light with a dull expression. Her face had an abnormally pale color, and she was extremely ill.

At this moment, a figure wearing a mask and ninja uniform walked in from the door, holding a bowl of soup in his hand, and slowly approached the woman on the hospital bed.

Wearing such a costume means that he is an ANBU ninja directly subordinate to Kirigakure Mizukage.

They are also the notorious Kirigakure pursuit force.

Through the eye holes of the mask, this ninja's eyes were revealed to be cold and merciless. He was just following Mizukage's orders and came here to perform his mission.

"Master Yuyuri, it's time to take medicine now."

The woman on the hospital bed turned her head and looked at the bowl of soup in Kirigakure Anbu's hand. There was fear in her eyes, and she shook her head on the bed.

"I'm not sick... take it away..."

"Only patients can say that they are not sick. This is the medicinal soup prepared by Mizukage-sama himself. It is of great benefit to your body. Drink it while it is hot."

The Kirigakure Anbu tried to slow down his tone and said to the woman on the hospital bed.

"...Take it away..."

"You are one of our Seven Ninja Swordsmen of Kirigakure. Don't be so willful. After recovering from your illness, you still have to go into battle to kill the enemy. I'll feed you."

Saying that, ignoring the struggle of the woman on the hospital bed, Kirigakure Anbu forcefully grabbed the woman's shoulders, made her stand up, and placed the mouth of the bowl filled with medicinal soup forcefully against the woman's pale lips.

Just when Kirigakure Anbu was about to tilt the mouth of the bowl and force the woman to drink the medicinal soup, he suddenly noticed something and dodged to the side. The bowl filled with medicinal soup broke to the ground, and the medicinal soup was scattered all over the floor.

Click!

The sound of a neck snapping.

After dodging in time, he still couldn't escape the attack of the sneak attacker.

His attainments in the teleportation technique were obviously far greater than that of this Kirigakure ANBU ninja.

The visitor walked to the hospital bed, looked at the woman whose face was twitching in pain on the hospital bed, and sighed softly.

The woman on the hospital bed regained her breath, looked at the person who came to the bedside, and opened her lips slightly:

"Long time no see...I heard that you defected to the Third Generation...are you here to kill me?"

The man didn't answer, but stretched out his hand directly and put it on the woman's forehead.

The woman on the hospital bed immediately felt tired and fell asleep on the hospital bed.

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Early morning.

Sunlight shines through the mist on the buildings of Kirigakure Village.

On this silent morning, a troop of more than a dozen ninjas rushed towards the outside of Kirigakure Village.

The leaders were two male ninjas.

A woman with long yellow spiky hair, a Kirigakure Anbu mask on her face, and slender limbs as young as a young woman, but her real gender is male, and she is carrying a tool as long and slender as a needle on her back.

There are seven people with ninja swords, and the wielder of the long sword and needle is Kushimaru Kuri.

The other person has long black hair, a vertical whip and a long beard that are also very recognizable. His left eye is covered with a black cloth and his teeth are sharp, giving him a cruel and vicious image.

There are seven people with the Ninja Sword, and the wielder of the Explosive Sword and Splash - Muri Jinpachi.

As the "ruthless duo" among the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, Kushimaru Kushimaru and Jinpachi Muuri are often inseparable. They fight in pairs. In the ninja world, because they always kill their enemies with brutal methods, it can be said that is the infamous ninja.

But the two of them took it as fun and glory.

Following behind them were all elite ninjas from Kirigakure Village.

Now the two of them are carrying out a confidential S-class mission personally conveyed by the third Mizukage.

When they arrived outside the village, they also kept moving at high speed.

"Really, the two of us are actually asked to handle this kind of task. It seems that the third generation really has no one available."

Muuri Jinpachi's arrogant voice spread through the misty forest.

The people who followed were all close associates of the two of them, so there was no need to be so secretive as in the village and not dare to talk nonsense.

And to say this is just to complain.

"After all, at such an old age, it is inevitable that she is a little incompetent. I have already said that it would be less troublesome to let him execute people directly. It must be said that it is a companion from a village who contracted a serious illness and lived a long life in the name of a genius. Die young. Old eyesight."

"Hmph. Compared to this, I care more about who let that woman out privately."

"There are too many people who are suspicious."

Kurumi Kushimaru answered.

There are also many people in the village who oppose the extremely glorious 'Blood Mist' policy. Although some of them have been cleaned up before, it seems that the effect is not very good, and they are still stubbornly resisting.

"After dealing with this sick man, come back and kill him. Just use my explosive knife to blow up the blood of the opposition."

Muuri Jinpachi grinned his lips, revealing extremely sharp teeth, and let out a cruel and weird laugh.

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The land of fire, Konoha.

In the conference room with only three people present, Hokage Hiruzen stared at Koharu and Mito Kabuto who were sleeping indifferently.

Facing Hiruzen's look, the two advisors hesitated for a moment. Before they could speak, Hiruzen took the lead and asked them: "Why did you secretly send my order to search the Hyuga clan?"

At first, he was reluctant to believe it.

Koharu and Mito Katobu would be bold enough to secretly pass on him, the Hokage's warrant, to investigate the Hyuga clan's Byakugan-related information.

After learning this, Hiruzen almost wanted to vomit three liters of blood, his face extremely angry.

If these two people hadn't been his comrades since childhood, he would have wanted to have the ANBU put them in Konoha Prison right away and reflect for a while.

As consultants, they really don't know what level of felony it is to fake the Hokage order?

One who is not good, even deprived of his status as a consultant, will have to enter Konoha Prison, and there is almost no possibility of getting out of prison.

However, not only did these two people do it, but they were still at this juncture.

If because of this incident, the Hyuga Clan is dissatisfied with him as Hokage, then no matter how to make up for it later, it will be difficult to fill this wound.

"We did this for the sake of you, Hyuga. The situation that was finally balanced cannot be broken because of the Hyuga clan."

Xiaochun said after turning to bed.

"If you really take me as the Hokage seriously, you won't do these unnecessary things. The same goes for the Uchiha, and now even the Hyuga clan... Do you plan to push them all to the opposite side?"

Hiruzen questioned the two angrily.

The sound was so loud that even Anbu, who was guarding outside, could clearly hear it.

It was also the first time for them to see that Hokage-sama, who was always gentle and benevolent, would burst into such terrible anger.

"This... we didn't force it. In fact, after we went there, the people of the Zong family quickly allowed us to read the relevant information about Bai Yan there, and there was no dissatisfaction."

Mitomonyan tried to divert the topic to other places to cool Hirizhan.

"...That's not the problem. You..."

Ri Zhan's headache was splitting, and he really didn't know what words to use to reprimand these two comrades in arms.

Why do you have to disrupt his deployment every time?

"The matter of Baiyan has a lot to do with it. No matter how you say it, we are also in order to protect the village of Konoha and adhere to the philosophy of Teacher Toikama."

Hearing the words 'Teacher Feijian', Ri Zhan's face was complicated, his heart softened obviously, and he sighed.

"Yes, and only in this way can we rest assured. After all, the role of Hinata's Byakugan on the battlefield is obvious to all, and there cannot be any surprises. And this time we went to the Hyuga clan to discuss, and we did learn a lot of secrets about Byakugan. We I will sort out the information and give it to you to decide."

Mitomenyan continued to change the topic, mentioning what he and Zhuanshu Koharu had gained after going to Hyuga.

"It won't happen again."

After saying these words, Ri Zhan felt that he had aged a lot in an instant.

The body is not old yet, but the inside has gradually felt powerless.

"I will deduct your fault this time from your salary for the next three years. In addition, you are not allowed to secretly pass on my orders again!"

"We get it."

The two of them breathed a sigh of relief, and the matter was finally over.

Just when the two were about to continue saying something, there was a knock on the door.

"Come in."

An ANBU ninja came in and reported to Hiruzen: "Lord Hokage, the envoy of Kirigakure wants to see you."

"Kirigakure?"

After hearing this, Hiruzen and the other three looked at each other in surprise. They wondered what the purpose of Kirigakure's visit to Konoha was at this time.

Then the ANBU presented the letter from the Kirigakure ninja.

Hiruzen opened it and frowned after reading the contents of the letter.

After that, Koharu and Mito Monobu, who moved to bed, also read the letters one after another and frowned.

The content of the letter is simple.

Hoping to let Tsunade, one of the three ninjas, take action to cure the disease of Lin Yuri, the wielder of the Thunder Fang of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, Kirigakure was willing to start diplomacy with Konoha.

"What do you think?"

"Since you want something, then agree to it. The war is so fierce now, and Konoha is in urgent need of a heavy ally."

Although Kirigakure's 'blood mist' has a bad reputation recently, this is someone else's family matter, and as a high-level official in Konoha, I can't judge anything about it.

What they valued was Kirigakure's attitude towards Konoha.

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In Konoha Hospital.

Tsunade held the printed information. Not only were there diagrams of the human body's structure, but ominous black dots were also marked in many places. The more she read, the deeper Tsunade's brows furrowed.

She looked at the woman on the operating table who felt like a cold corpse. Her breathing was weak and she might die at any time.

Then, she put down the information and walked out of the operating room. In the next room, there was a Kirigakure female ninja sitting here waiting anxiously.

Seeing Tsunade come in, the female ninja immediately stood up and asked extremely anxiously: "Tsunade-sama, how is Ringo's condition? Can he be cured?"

Tsunade could see the anxious state of mind of this Kirigakure ninja, shook her head and said: "Forgive my incompetence, what she has is not an incurable disease at all, but a long-term poison that has completely destroyed her body functions. . It’s already a miracle that he is still alive today.”

The Kirigakure female ninja was stunned.

"Tsunade-sama, you are the strongest medical ninja in the medical field, are you kidding me?"

She was in disbelief.

"You are also a medical ninja, right? You should know how bad the condition of Miss Yuri Lin is. To be honest, this is no longer something that a medical ninja can treat. The poison has been deeply rooted in her bone marrow and integrated into one body. .”

"Then we have to give up?"

"Well... not really."

Tsunade's words gave the Kirigakure kunoichi hope.

"How to say?"

"I have cleaned out the poison in Miss Ringo's body. But if I am correct, this poison has been deeply rooted in Miss Ringo's body for a year. The poison has already eroded all her bones. Even if the toxicity is removed, The bones throughout her body became extremely fragile as a result. The price of saving her life was that she could only spend the rest of her life in a hospital bed."

"..."

The Kirigakure female ninja remained silent.

To a ninja, this is no different than death.

"Anyway, thank you very much, Tsunade-sama. Kirigakure will remember your kindness."

"You're welcome, that's all I can do."

Tsunade sighed.

Seeing Yuri Lin's appearance, she roughly guessed the chaos inside Kirigakure.

Instead of directly killing Ringo Yuri, the holder of the Thunder Fang, he slowly eroded her with poison and disguised her as a genius who died young... For a woman, for a ninja, it is more difficult than ever. Death is more brutal.

"Then, I'll take my leave first."

No matter what, Ringo's injuries must be cured. This is an order personally issued by her immediate superior, and must be carried out unswervingly.

However, even Konoha's medical master, Tsunade, one of the three ninjas, was unable to do anything, and the Kirigakure kunoichi was also at a loss.

We can only take one step at a time.

Just as she was walking out of the door, Tsunade hesitated for a moment and called out to the Kirigakure kunoichi:

"Well, please wait."

"Is there anything else, Tsunade-sama?"

"It's nothing, I just want to ask, will you still be busy with Miss Ringo's affairs next?"

Tsunade asked.

"Yeah. I know it's a long shot, but I don't want to give up."

"It's a good idea, but it's a bit unrealistic. Besides, if you seek medical attention in such a hurry, it will only be a waste of time."

Tsunade said.

The Kirigakure kunoichi's eyes regained their vitality and asked, "Does Tsunade-sama know of someone who can heal Ringo Jounin's injuries?"

"Well... to be honest, I don't really want to mention that person's name."

There was a hint of complexity in Tsunade's eyes.

"That person's name?"

The Kirigakure kunoichi tilted her head.

"Chiba Shiraishi."

"?"

I've never heard of him. Is this person famous?

A trace of confusion flashed across the eyes of the Kirigakure female ninja.

Among the famous medical ninjas in the ninja world, there does not seem to be an outstanding medical ninja named "Chiba Shiraishi".

No matter how closed Kirigakure is, they still can't know anything about it.

However, the name sounds familiar, but I just can’t remember who it is.

"The S-class defecting ninja who escaped from Konoha before is considered one of my students."

"Tsunade-sama's...student?"

"It's not like a master and apprentice. I taught him some medical ninjutsu when I was in the ninja school."

Tsunade said.

The Kirigakure kunoichi seemed to remember something about this person.

"Is his medical ninjutsu better than Tsunade-sama?"

"No, overall, his medical ninjutsu should not be exaggerated to this extent. But he is better than me at treating injuries in this area."

Tsunade guessed that Shiraishi, who had studied senjutsu, must have mastered the extremely powerful healing senjutsu for living dragons.

It shouldn't be difficult to convert chakra into strong vitality and rejuvenate Lin Yuri's body.

"But the problem is, I don't know where he is now."

"..."

The Kirigakure kunoichi didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

"Is there any other method?"

"Go to the land of ghosts."

"The country of ghosts?"

"The drugs developed by Ziyuanhua Pharmaceutical Company have active body functions. According to my inference, there should be better body-active drugs within their company, but they are not sold on the market."

Tsunade told the Kirigakure kunoichi that there was another way.

"That pharmaceutical company in the Kingdom of Ghosts?"

The Kirigakure female ninja looked thoughtful.

Indeed, that company's medicine is indeed very effective, and Kirigakure also cooperates with it.

"I understand. Anyway, thank you very much, Tsunade-sama. So, without further ado, I will say goodbye. Say hello to Hokage-sama for me. Kirigakure will remember Konoha's friendship."

"goodbye."

Tsunade watched the Kirigakure kunoichi leave and sat on a chair looking out the window in trance.

(PS: There is another chapter to be updated in the evening)