Chapter 58: Do Something
The full moon was like a silver plate, moonlight like white frost, and Yoru gained a new resurrection opportunity.
On the full moon night, he entered the Anbu Base, wearing a mask, walking in the dim corridors of the Anbu.
Candlelight flickered, shining on the masks coming towards him, the oil paint on the masks even more ferocious.
Everyone’s steps were very hurried; heavily damaging the Hidden Stone Village made every Anbu member feel proud.
The Anbu nominally belonged directly to the Hokage himself; the Third Hokage appointed Danzo as Anbu Minister, giving him full authority to manage the Anbu.
Danzo and the Anbu faithfully carried out the Third Hokage’s will.
From the time Yoru had traversed over, Danzo had not made any extreme moves yet.
However, his ambitions were already obvious.
In the battle at Ushi-ga Mountain, Danzo had seemingly become the greatest contributor, but the actions hyping up Danzo came to an abrupt halt.
It was said that the Third Hokage directly ordered the Anbu to stop the propaganda.
Heavily damaging the Hidden Stone Village was a great achievement, a victory jointly won by Mito Uzumaki, the Senju Clan, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and others.
But in the rumors, Danzo became the protagonist. Danzo had laid ambushes for thousands of miles and planned for a full half year to create this opportunity.
The Third Hokage also did not pursue the matter of the rumors.
Yoru came to the Kiiroinu Captain’s office and reported the Kurozaru Squad Leader’s recovery status.
“One and a half months…” The Kiiroinu Captain frowned in thought.
He really wanted the Fox to fully take on the Squad Leader’s duties; one squad being crippled had a big impact on the battalion.
But after thinking it over, Kurozaru was an important figure in the Akimichi Clan, so he had to consider Kurozaru and the Akimichi Clan’s feelings.
“Alright, I understand.” Kiiroinu took out the mission scroll list for the Kurozaru Squad, looked at it, and said:
“The Whirlpool Princess’s guardianship mission isn’t too urgent; I’ll arrange another squad for it.
The Hidden Stone Village spies have been completely cleansed; every spy is dead.
Before Kurozaru returns, you’re in charge of training the squad’s new recruits.”
“Understood, Captain.”
Qiao Yi’s matter was temporarily fine; the Yagura Squad was all dead, and no one knew Qiao Yi’s specific situation.
Mei Yi’s corpse had been handed back, the total number of spies matched up, and the Anbu hadn’t discovered any flaws.
Training new recruits and completing some simple patrol and night watch missions—this one and a half months should not require leaving the village.
So Yoru had to do something then.
He left the Anbu and headed to Tsuruzuki Izakaya, pondering as he walked.
Go straight to the Hokage Building? Assassinate the Third Hokage?
Hiruzen Sarutobi’s abilities, aside from the Summoning Jutsu Enma, weren’t strong enough and had a low ceiling.
Even if he drew Enma, he couldn’t summon it.
Summoning Enma would result in Enma smashing him dead with one punch.
High-level summoning beasts had very irritable tempers.
Ambush Danzo in the Anbu?
Danzo’s abilities were focused on Wind Release, and Yoru had no Wind Release Chakra; he couldn’t train Wind Release Chakra in this one month either.
He had a premonition that he would definitely break ties with Danzo in the future.
In front of Danzo, two lives might not be enough to die.
【Moon Arc reminder: Being killed by the same person twice will result in direct death for the host!】
His own thoughts had triggered the system’s keywords, and the system specially reminded him.
No way, someone as dangerous as Danzo couldn’t be proactively gone after to die; he had to save the precious resurrection opportunity.
What if Danzo came to kill him someday later?
Go sneak attack the Kiiroinu Captain?
Forget it; the Kiiroinu Captain knew his intel inside and out, and he would die very pathetically.
Yoru jumped onto a streetlamp, looking at the Konoha Village night scenery.
Go to the Uchiha Clan Compound?
What if he drew a Sharingan? Wouldn’t that mean soaring right there on the spot?
He was tempted.
He just had to be careful then; anyway, wearing a mask, the Sharingan wouldn’t be so easily exposed.
Anyone who saw his Sharingan would be killed.
There was some risk, but it was controllable.
He looked toward the Senju Compound again.
The Uchiha Clan annihilation was a long time away; no rush for now. The Senju annihilation could happen in the next year or two.
Better to choose the Senju Clan; the Senju Clan abilities were also good, with huge chakra amounts and strong physiques.
Next was to formulate an action scheme: on the night of the 14th, challenge the strongest Senju Clan ninja.
Clan Head Senju Rinki or Tsunade would both work.
Back at the izakaya, Yoru changed Qiao Yi’s bandages with the Anbu’s best healing medicine.
Qiao Yi had to recover quickly; otherwise, the long nights would be so boring.
Before traversing, Yoru had slaved away like an ox or horse. Coming to this different world, couldn’t he enjoy it a bit?
The next day, in a training ground deep in the Death Forest, Yoru stood on a stone, overlooking the new team members below:
“I’m the acting Squad Leader of the Kurozaru Squad; during the Kurozaru Squad Leader’s injury treatment period, I’m commanding the squad.
I’m also the Squad Leader of the Fox Squad; you can call me Fox.
The Kurozaru Squad now has three squads.
The Aries Squad Leader is also in treatment and is expected to return in two weeks.
The Yagura Squad is all new recruits, from Squad Leader to team members.
Next, basic kunai throwing coordination training…”
The person wearing the Yagura Mask suddenly stood up:
“Fox, though I’m a new Anbu recruit, when I was a normal ninja, I had already carried out many A-rank missions.
Basic kunai throwing coordination—this training seems too basic; I think I qualify to…”
Purple Cat frowned under her mask; Root had just been established and wasn’t fully integrated yet?
How did Root train new recruits? Why was there such a prickly ninja?
“What do you qualify for?”
Yoru used Body Flicker Technique to appear in front of Yagura, slashing a ninja sword toward Yagura’s shoulder.
Yagura’s strength was indeed very strong; he crouched and dodged Yoru’s blade.
He grabbed for Fox’s wrist, wanting to defuse the conflict: “Fox! I don’t mean anything else; I just…”
However, he only grabbed a handful of mud.
Earth Clone?
Yagura didn’t have time to stand, quickly rolling on the ground, guarding against a sneak attack from the Fox behind.
However, there was no one behind.
The others saw Fox emerge from the mud, having predicted Yagura’s roll to guard his back.
Yoru held the ninja sword inverted, smashing the hilt viciously into Yagura’s forehead, sending Yagura flying and passing out mid-air.
“Captain!”
One of Yagura’s team members shouted, and seeing Fox look at him, he quickly lowered his head, not daring to do anything else.
Yoru jumped back onto the stone, shaking his head and saying:
“The Anbu truly gets worse with each generation; you are the worst batch of Anbu Ninja I’ve ever seen.”
He suddenly paused; why was this sentence so familiar? In his previous life going to school, he’d heard many teachers say this.
Those teachers didn’t know to cherish it either; one generation worse than the last, so this generation was definitely the best in the next few years.
Yoru collected his thoughts and said:
“Yagura has been kicked out of the Kurozaru Squad; awaiting him is punishment from the Anbu and the village.
The Root ninja responsible for his training will also be disciplined because of him.
An Anbu Ninja’s mission is only one thing: go all out, use your lives to complete the mission!
Obedience! Obedience! Fucking obedience still!”
Training began, and the new recruits finally realized the Anbu’s harshness.
Training ended, and Yagura still hadn’t woken.
Yoru carried him to Root to return him.
There weren’t many Root Ninja, from A to J, a total of ten people.
Hearing Fox say this guy had openly challenged the acting Squad Leader, all the Root Ninja looked at D.
D breathed heavily, took the unconscious Yagura, and said:
“Please rest assured; I will assess if he has the potential for retraining. If not, I will handle him according to Anbu regulations.”
From D’s tone, Yagura probably had no hope of retraining.
Konoha Village had quite a few simple-minded ninja who really thought Konoha Village was like the high-ranking officials propagated: caring for each other, cherishing companions, upholding the Will of Fire.
They were stupidly cute, really believing the high-ranking officials’ brainwashing, and would one day die because of the high-ranking officials’ brainwashing.
Readers said the golden finger was too big, so I went back and toned down the golden finger; the first chapter was revised. Sorry sorry, newbie didn’t know how to control it; no more revisions later.
