Konoha: The Innately Evil Uchiha

Chapter 22 Crime and Punishment

"You killed them all?"

Jaeger looked dazed as he stared up at the Konoha ninja who was leading the smoking group.

The other person had a thick beard, a rugged face, and a weathered appearance, with a hint of amusement in his eyes.

Jaeger stared blankly into space.

How could he not recognize those headbands? They were items he had risked everything to retrieve from the battlefield and give to the nearby refugees to deter bandits.

Asuma took a drag of his cigarette, smiled, exhaled the smoke, and chuckled, "Oh, just a few rogue ninjas."

Jaeger said absentmindedly, "They are not rogue ninja..."

"Oh, really?"

Asma smiled, leaned her face against the thin man's side, exhaled a puff of smoke, and said, word by word, "Where's your headband?"

Jaeger's pupils widened, and his face turned deathly pale.

Clang—

With veins bulging on his forehead, the Jonin of the Hyuga branch family activated his Byakugan, inspecting the cabin through a black-and-white perspective.

During the inspection.

The Hyuga branch family Jonin said disdainfully:

"Whether you are refugees or not, it doesn't matter. You can just kill them."

The Land of Fire has no need for refugees.

We call you traitors.

You can be rogue ninja!

In the ninja world.

No matter which country's border you are on, you are all homeless ants.

They were used as cannon fodder by the various ninja villages.

"Haven't you always been destined to be used as rogue ninjas in exchange for money?"

His words carried the pride of the Hyuga clan, even though he was only a member of the branch family.

Jaeger stared blankly at the ceiling.

"It was the war that turned them into refugees. After they fled here, they did not rob or do evil; they lived by hunting."

Nono stood up and said in a cold voice.

She pulled out a kunai from the table, and with a gentle flick, cut the ropes binding Jaeger and Nak.

Nonoyu stared at the Konoha headbands on the heads of the four people and suddenly felt that it was a great disgrace to be from the same ninja village as these people who so casually trampled on human lives.

Jaeger remained seated in his chair.

Dr. Nak ran up to Nono's back. As a shrewd person, he could tell that this woman had no intention of killing them, while the four Konoha ninjas who had just arrived were pure killers.

"Who cares?"

The Hyuga clan's Jonin raised an eyebrow, ignored Nono, and walked straight towards the kitchen.

Asuma scanned the floor of the wooden house, eventually focusing his gaze on Nonou.

He felt the person looked familiar, but couldn't remember them, so he asked with a smile:

"I didn't expect to encounter a ninja here. Which ninja village are you from?"

Although Nono was famous, even within the Root organization, very few people had ever seen the true face of the wandering shrine maiden; this was a basic code of conduct for intelligence operatives.

As for her identity as the head of the Konoha Orphanage, who cares? Konoha ninjas don't have nothing better to do than run to the orphanage every day.

"My name is Yakushi Nonou, a former member of the Konoha Root organization, currently on a mission."

How did you find this place?

What is the purpose?

Nonou pulled out her Konoha headband and the Konoha Root mission scroll from her pocket, slammed them onto the table, and stared at Asuma.

Asma glanced at the headband and quest scroll, his eyes suddenly lighting up as he remembered something. He said frankly:

"So you're the director of the Konoha Orphanage!"

Ha ha.

Sorry.

We have no obligation to disclose the details of our mission to you.

Asuma remembered hearing the name Nonou; he and his colleagues had once discussed the figures of the beautiful female ninjas of Konoha.

That colleague praised Nono as one of the most beautiful and well-built female ninjas in Konoha.

At this moment, a ninja from the Inuzuka family forcibly led his snow-white dog by the leash and laughed:

"Of course, it was because Yukimaru and I smelled the blood that we found our way here. But this place is really remote; it took us ages to find it!"

The five of them waited on the waterway outside Kikyo Castle until late at night, but they did not see the Uchiha defector squad. So when they received reinforcements, they dispersed to search Kikyo Mountain.

The ninja dog smelled the scent of human blood.

They speculated that the Uchiha defector squad had fought on the mountain.

Thus, their pursuit team gathered at this mountain stronghold.

"The smell of blood..."

A look of shame appeared in Nono's eyes, and her body trembled slightly. It turned out that her unintentional act of hunting down the true traitorous ninja and bandits had brought utter destruction to this refugee mountain village.

She also realized that this seemingly well-equipped Konoha ninja squad was actually hunting down the fleeing group from before.

Nonou glanced at Yeager, her heart filled with mixed feelings. Since she had made a mistake, she had to find a way to make amends, at least to prevent this family of three from dying at the hands of Konoha ninjas.

bang——

Hinata Shinobu carried a set of used teacups from the kitchen and placed them on the table; there were twelve in total.

Asuma, a Jonin of the Inuzuka family, and Akimichi, a Jonin of the Akimichi family, are gazing at the teacup.

Jaeger also sensed something, his pupils trembled, and he came to his senses.

"Woof woof!" Yukimaru barked twice at the teacup, then hid anxiously by his owner's legs.

"Yukimaru is indicating that a total of twelve people used the teacup."

The Jonin of the Inuzuka family smiled and explained.

Asuma pushed a teacup toward Jaeger and said, "The master has one cup, so there are eleven left. It seems our intelligence was wrong. This rogue ninja squad has eleven members, not just ten."

"I ask, you answer!"

The Hyuga clan's Jonin, activating his Byakugan, observed Jaeger's facial expression and asked indifferently:

"Which direction did those eleven people flee in?"

Jaeger's mind raced. Without much thought, he pointed south and replied:

"They went in that direction!"

He was unaware of the situation.

However, it is known that if Captain Yinyue escaped from Konoha, then the east where Konoha is located must not be pointed to.

The Hyuga clan's Jonin frowned, kicked Jaeger hard in the stomach, sending him and his chair flying against the wall before he fell to the ground.

Jaeger clenched his teeth, clutched his stomach, leaned against the wall, and sweat beaded on his forehead.

"what……"

Jaeger's wife gasped and tried to protect her husband, but in the blink of an eye, a kunai was placed on her neck and another was aimed at the swaddled baby in her arms.

A Jonin from the Hyuga clan appeared behind her, his two kunai hovering steadily in the air. He said softly, "Don't move. If you do, you'll all die."

Nonou's pupils contracted, she clenched her fists, and quietly waited for the best moment to strike.

Nak was already crouching in the corner, trembling.

Judging from their movement techniques and skills, these ninjas would be considered strong even in Konoha.

"Four Konoha Jonin..."

Nonou's expression was solemn, her gaze fixed on the four people, and she felt an immense sense of pressure.

She wondered to herself, what exactly were the identities of those guys who stole her bathtub that warranted Konoha sending out such a high-level assassination squad?

Asuma ignored this scene. This Hyuga Jonin, whom he had brought along, had spent some time in the interrogation department.

He was dismissed by Ibiki Morino because his torture methods were too cruel.

"Don't try to be clever. I can tell if you're lying just by looking at your face. I won't waste my breath with you. Four directions, excluding the south."

The Hyuga clan's Jonin coldly said:

"Of the remaining three directions, only one is correct. If you lie, I'll just kill someone on a whim!"

You only have two chances!

If you run out of chances, you die.

(End of this chapter)