I'm in Konoha, and I started with Ashura Chakra.

Chapter 126 The Stunned Kurama Yakumo, The World's Disparity

The ninja world is currently in a peaceful era, but this only applies to the five great ninja villages.

In the eyes of other small countries, there is no such thing as a peaceful era; war can break out at any time.

Although in the eyes of the five great ninja villages, the wars between these small countries are just playing house.

But for other small countries, the arrival of war means a moment of life or death.

If defeated, they would likely be annexed.

Therefore, these small countries located next to the five great nations would entrust tasks to the behemoths next door, and the five great ninja villages were happy to accept.

Any commission involving the national level starts at least at level A, and the highest level is above level S.

The reward for an A-level mission is generally between 150,000 and 1 million taels of silver, while an S-level mission starts at 1 million taels of silver.

This kind of money is just too easy to make!

The reason why the five major powers allow so many neighboring countries to be located nearby is to profit from them and use their territories as buffer zones and war zones.

It doesn't matter which small countries are surrounding us, as long as they exist.

The tasks of an S-class mission might include accepting an invitation from another country to participate in a war, assassinating important figures, or moving classified documents, etc.

The S-rank mission that Yagyu received this time is to help a small country assassinate an important figure in another small country.

The other party was not a ninja, but a high-ranking official from a small country.

After all, not every small country has a ninja village.

Many small countries, like the Land of Demons, still use cold weapons and bows and arrows, or cannonballs that are many times heavier than explosive tags.

Moreover, both of these small countries are located on an island, and the nearest land is the territory of the Land of Lightning.

a few days later.

Arriving at the island by sailboat, Yagyu first secretly met with the client to obtain more detailed information about the target. After that, he took Kurenai and the other girls to a location ten kilometers away from the target's location.

"There are eight bodyguards inside the residence, and eighty-seven samurai and thirty-five archers outside..."

Hinata activated her Byakugan and began her report.

Three years later, Hinata's farsightedness has already exceeded one kilometer, and ten kilometers is no longer her limit.

After all, at the age of nineteen, Hinata's farsightedness could cover the entire city of the Otsutsuki clan on the moon.

At this moment, her strength is many times greater than when she was nineteen years old in the original story.

"Are there any ninjas?" Yagyu asked.

"uncertain."

Hinata shook her head and said, "Many samurai have chakra in their bodies, so it's possible they are ninjas in disguise."

"Is the mission objective inside?"

"Yes, but we cannot rule out the possibility that it's a stand-in."

Instead of giving orders, Yagyu stood with Kurenai Yuhi, looking at Hinata, Shino Aburame, and Yakumo Kurama, and asked, "If it were you, how would you plan to complete this mission?"

Hinata and Yakumo Kurama exchanged a glance but remained silent.

The former looked thoughtful, while the latter looked bewildered.

Kurama Yakumo, who had never attended a ninja academy, was taught some basic knowledge by Yuhi Kurenai. Her overall abilities were nowhere near those of top students like Hinata and Aburame Shino.

This was her first time going out on a high-level mission, and she had no experience. Her first instinct was to think about whether or not to wipe out all those people.

But she was afraid that she was too murderous, so she dared not speak her mind.

Shino Aburame adjusted her sunglasses and said slowly, "If I were acting alone, and I wasn't sure whether the target was the real body or a clone, I would spend a lot of time observing and gathering information."

"Because I don't know whether the other party is a substitute or a ninja transformation hired by the enemy."

"If this is a trap, killing this 'mission target' would be like stirring up trouble, allowing the enemy to hide even deeper, and could even implicate the client."

"However, with Hinata's Byakugan as a guarantee, we can confirm that there are no outsiders around the target at a great distance, and there is no chakra or life fluctuation underground, so we can rule out that this is a trap or bait."

"Considering that the target is just an ordinary person, it would be very easy for him to disguise his appearance, making it highly likely that he is a stand-in."

"If he hired ninjas, then he has either already hidden somewhere else or swapped identities with his other subordinates. Among these hundred-plus people, it is possible that some inconspicuous person is the real target of the mission."

"Of course, there is also the possibility that the target is very confident and not afraid of being assassinated by the enemy's hired ninjas, and that he is the real person here."

After presenting several possibilities that astonished Kurama Yakumo, who possessed a wealth of knowledge, Aburame Shino suggested, "My suggestion is to arrest all of these people and then interrogate them one by one."

"If the mission objective is inside, then just complete the mission. Afterwards, Yagyu, use the memory sealing technique to seal their memories, or to go to the extreme, kill them all. That way, the client won't be implicated."

Kurama Yakumo stared in disbelief, feeling the strangeness of the world.

No wonder Kurenai-sensei still doesn't agree to let me participate in the Chunin Exams; it turns out there's still such a big gap between her and the high-level ninjas!

They were both thinking about killing all the enemies. Yakumo Kurama was just subconsciously thinking about not missing a single one, but Shino Aburame was considering so many things.

If it weren't for Hinata's Byakugan's farsightedness and X-ray vision, he might have actually chosen to spend a lot of time investigating in order to rule out these possibilities.

This is not even in the same league as a low-level mission that involves escorting a client and some items, and then fighting off enemies blocking the way.

Even though the target of the mission is just an ordinary person, it requires more caution and attention to detail than other missions.

Is this a high-level mission?

After listening to Shino Aburame's words, both Yagyu and Kurenai Yuhi showed expressions of admiration.

Although Shino Aburame is not the strongest member of Team 8, he is definitely the most versatile member of Team 8 besides Yagyu.

His strength ranks among the top five of the new generation, and his intelligence is second only to Nara Shikamaru. With his possession of the Micro-Fragrance Insect, his tracking-type perception is the best among the new generation.

He truly deserves to be called an invincible war god with no blind spots.

"So what do you plan to do?"

Liu Sheng continued to ask.

In the past two years, when Yagyu took Hinata and Shino Aburame out on missions, he rarely took action himself; he almost always had Shino and Hinata work together to complete the tasks.

He will step in to resolve any unexpected situations.

After all, with Yagyu's strength, even a super S-class mission would be no challenge for him.

This time was no different; Yagyu planned to have Shino Aburame and Hinata set an example for Yakumo Kurama.

Aburame Shino adjusted her sunglasses again and explained her strategy: "Considering that they may have the ability and tools to contact the outside world, we need to use Yakumo's bloodline limit to pull them all into the illusion space. This way, they will lose contact with the outside world, making it easier to capture and interrogate them one by one."

"Then you should get to work."

Yagyu said to Hinata and Kurama Yakumo, "If you don't have any better suggestions, then follow Shino's instructions from now on."

"yes!"

Hinata and Yakumo Kurama nodded in agreement.

Yagyu raised his hand and flicked two fingers, and Aburame Shino and the other two instantly vanished in afterimages.

Before long, both Yagyu and Kurenai sensed a powerful Yin Release chakra enveloping the location of their mission target, just like the art studio at Satomi Hill Manor was shrouded in Yin Release chakra back then.

(End of this chapter)