Konoha: The Innately Evil Uchiha

Chapter 17 A Life on Thin Ice

On the mountainside of Jiegeng Mountain, there is a hunter's village.

The wooden house is simple.

The lights were dim.

In a short while, the hall was filled with more than a dozen people, and next to the round table lay a wounded man who looked like a mummy.

"Haha, Captain Yinyue, please have a seat!"

It's been so long since you saved us.

Five years have passed.

Time flies!

Jaeger looked excited as he picked up the teapot, turned the teacups over, poured tea for the Uchiha sitting at the table, and invited Yin Yue to sit in the main seat.

Yin Yue sat down, and Mei Qin, who was next to him, looked at his profile with a strange gaze.

Mikoto mentally assessed Yinyue.

In the woods.

The Uchiha team could have taken care of these five rogue ninjas, but Yin Yue didn't because she knew them.

On the run, revealing your whereabouts is basically equivalent to getting into serious trouble.

The best solution.

These people should be killed, their bodies disposed of, and then we should leave quietly.

"He's at least a man with principles."

Mikoto noticed that Yinyue suddenly turned her head to look at her. She calmly withdrew her gaze, maintaining her elegant demeanor as a noblewoman, and picked up her teacup to drink tea.

"Ouch...it's hot!"

Mikoto touched the teacup with her jade-like fingers and quickly withdrew them. In Yinyue's eyes, most of her noblewoman's demeanor had vanished.

Ever since Yin Yue forced me to eat.

Her last remaining dignity was trampled upon.

Mikoto seems to have returned to that naive youth after graduating from the Ninja Academy, unsure of how to interact with a man who ignores her pride and even has a cold and arrogant personality that surpasses hers.

He's clearly younger than me.

When misunderstood and treated differently by other Uchiha, Mikoto can't help but subconsciously focus on this man.

Even though Fugaku had just died.

Mikoto's eyebrows drooped, her expression somber. She tugged at her skirt with her slender hand, looking lost once more.

Yin Yue withdrew her gaze and then realized that the rest of the Uchiha were staring at her.

The Uchiha members all turned their attention away, as they were all very curious about the story between Captain Yinyue and the clan leader's wife and the rogue ninja from Kirigakure.

Hehehe!

Jaeger grinned憨厚ly.

Yin Yue looked at Yeager with a calm gaze.

Memories surfaced.

These "rogue ninjas" were actually ordinary refugees who had fled from the "Land of Frost" during the Third Shinobi World War.

Their homes were destroyed by the war that broke out between the five great nations, and their food was forcibly confiscated by Konoha, the Hidden Leaf Village, which had captured the Land of Frost.

The farmland was repeatedly trampled by ninja teams from various ninja villages, resulting in a complete crop failure in the fall. Of the five members of Jaeger's family, only Jaeger survived.

Five years ago, in winter.

He fled to the border of the Land of Fire.

More than ten people gathered.

Led by Jaeger, these people, unable to survive due to the war, wanted to band together and plunder other refugees.

That year, the border of the Land of Fire was plagued by a large number of rogue ninjas. Even the head of the police force was sent to the border by the Konoha leadership to carry out the mission of eliminating the rogue ninjas.

unfortunately.

That was also the first time Jaeger led ordinary refugees to commit a crime under the guise of "traitorous ninjas," and they encountered Yin Yue, who was dressed in plainclothes but was actually the head of the police force.

Yin Yue did not kill them, but patiently listened to the stories behind their experiences.

Take Jaeger for example.

When this guy first fled, he had money on him, but as soon as he stepped out, he was tricked by the guy next door into investing in financial products issued by the Hidden Mist Village Bank, thinking he could make a fortune from the war. It turned out to be a financial scam in the ninja world.

The elder brother absconded with the money.

He was reduced to a vagrant, and at that time, Jaeger, who hated the rich, thought of robbing wealthy merchants to become a bandit.

But when he actually took a kitchen knife and rushed into a store, he saw a dirty, thin mother breastfeeding a baby the size of a monkey.

Jaeger gritted his teeth, picked up a kitchen knife, and painfully caught a rat. He cooked a pot of rat meat soup for the mother and child, and then left heartlessly.

after that.

Jaeger fled to the border of the Land of Fire, thinking that he would not feel guilty as long as he robbed people from other countries. Just as he was preparing to expand his power, he encountered Yin Yue and her group.

"Are you still the same as before?"

After a long silence, Yin Yue finally spoke.

Jaeger placed his Kirigakure rogue ninja headband on the table and laughed heartily:

"How could that be, Captain Yinyue!"

Since being influenced by you.

We did as you said, came to this mountain, became hunters, and made a living by hunting every day.

This place is extremely rich.

There are many animals in the mountains.

So we're living a very comfortable life now!

This is all thanks to your guidance.

You saved us!

"Wait, Mr. Jaeger, why don't you tell us what happened back then? We can't understand your conversation!" Quan stammered, hesitating to speak.

The other Uchiha members nodded in agreement.

This is another headband from a rogue ninja from Kirigakure.

This is another hunter from the mountains.

Too convoluted.

Quan dared not ask Yin Yue, but she knew that Yin Yue would not care if she asked Jaeger.

"Okay, then I'll start from the beginning!"

Jaeger became interested, and after a moment of recollection, he conceived an opening and began to tell the story to everyone.

During this time, Yin Yue instructed Nan Feng to take two team members to sneak into Kikyo City and "invite" a doctor over before nightfall.

While they were at it, they also purchased some medicine, easily stored food, necessities for the group to take on their escape, and a map of the mountains on the border of the Land of Fire.

Nanfeng wanted to hear more stories, but with a mission to complete, he had to reluctantly leave with his team.

In the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.

After telling the story, Jaeger was quite pleased with himself, feeling that he was quite capable of directing movies and writing screenplays.

Only then did the Uchiha members realize that this "Jaeger" had lived a life of poverty, hardship, constant struggle, and misfortune.

Mikoto glanced at Yinyue's profile out of the corner of her eye, and a new evaluation of Yinyue appeared in her mind:

"Kind?"

The other Uchiha also felt that Yeager was very lucky to have met Yin Yue.

If it were them or any other Konoha ninja, they wouldn't care about Jaeger's past and would have killed them as rogue ninjas long ago.

Completing the task will earn you a reward.

and so.

Captain Yinyue is truly gentle and kind.

"So, you guys picked up your Mist Concealment headbands from the battlefield?"

"No, you're already so unlucky, what's with all the arrogance?"

Quan raised an eyebrow, feeling that this guy was just as bad as her when making a multiple-choice question!

They always manage to be there at crucial moments.

Make the worst choice.

Until I met Yinyue.

"Captain Yinyue, are you leaving soon?" Jaeger looked at Yinyue, his expression composed, and said sincerely, "It's getting so dark. Why don't you stay here tonight? I'll make you dinner, and you can continue your journey tomorrow morning!"

Yin Yue glanced at the people around the table.

The Uchiha were exhausted from their journey, having fled for nearly three days without sleep. They all looked weary and seemed to long to rest here for the night.

"Thanks, we need to leave immediately."

Yin Yue gazed at Yeager, her tone calm.

The desire in the eyes of the Uchiha instantly vanished, but no one said a word.

They are on the run.

It wasn't a picnic.

If we don't leave, there will be trouble here, and it will bring trouble to the local refugees and hunters.

Besides, they were already very unlucky!

Yin Yue also disliked causing trouble for others. Originally, in the forest, he planned to lead his team directly to part ways with Jaeger.

But he couldn't resist Jaeger's enthusiastic invitation.

Moreover.

They really need a place to rest.

"Let's take a break and wait for Nanfeng and the others to return before continuing our journey!"

Yin Yue said calmly.

"Alright, I'll prepare some food for everyone."

Jaeger smiled with relief and headed towards the kitchen inside the cabin.

Quan suddenly asked:

"Mr. Jaeger, why are you wearing headbands belonging to rogue Kirigakure ninjas when you go hunting?"

At this moment, Tama, lying on the ground, weakly said, "What else could it be for? It must be used to intimidate the enemy!"

Upon hearing this, the group of Uchiha turned their heads and looked at Tamao lying on the ground, ignored by everyone. They had almost forgotten about him.

Jaeger laughed heartily:

"This lord is right. There are still many fierce war refugees nearby. If we don't disguise ourselves as rogue ninjas, we won't be able to intimidate them if we encounter them on the road."

After speaking, Jaeger went into the inner room.

"Awooooo—"

Suddenly, a loud and clear baby's cry broke the silence of the night and echoed inside the wooden house.

The Uchiha were startled.

Upon hearing the baby cry, Mikoto's memory was triggered, and she abruptly looked up at the bedroom. In a daze, the sorrow on her face deepened; she missed Sasuke.

Quan frowned deeply.

Yin Yue remained unmoved, quietly sipping his tea. From the moment he entered, he deduced from the shoes, styles, furniture, and baby cushion in the wooden house that it was a place where a family of three lived.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

Fearing he might frighten his guest, Jaeger immediately led a woman from the bedroom into the hall.

The woman had delicate features, wore a red scarf, and had waist-length black hair that obscured her clean face as she anxiously soothed the swaddled baby in her arms.

"Captain Yinyue, this is my wife Sanli, whom I married last year. We haven't decided on a name yet; it's a boy!"

Jaeger looked happy as he introduced his family.

Yinyue smiled back at her family.

"Ha... You're so unlucky and pathetic, yet you still managed to get married and have children."

I proposed to a nurse from the Hyuga clan at Konoha Hospital, but she ignored me completely and told me to get lost.

Is it because I'm mentally ill?

Who do you think you are?!

Uchiha Tamao cursed and swore.

(End of this chapter)