◇ I'll be dropping one bonus chapters for every 10 reviews. comment
◇ One bonus chapter will be released for every 100 Power Stones.
◇ You can read 60 chapter ahead on P@treon of which 10 are free Chapters. if you're interested: patreon.com/Heroicverse
Leaving the barbecue shop, Akira sighed.
The reason Danzō came to him was to arrange for him to monitor Minato.
This didn't surprise him.
What made him sigh was that Danzō revealed that there was a high probability that Team Minato would be performing another mission tomorrow.
And this mission was likely to go to a Hidden Village.
"This is really a busy mission schedule..."
Losing interest in shopping, Akira decided to go home and sleep.
"Hello! Akira."
Just a few steps away, the three girls—Rin, Yūgao, and Anko—caught up to him.
"Is something wrong? You left without a word after meeting Danzō," Anko asked, a worried look on her face.
"You can tell us if anything's wrong; we'll tell Sensei Minato," Yūgao said with concern.
"Yes, yes," Rin agreed.
Looking at the three girls, Akira shook his head.
"Get ready. There might be a mission tomorrow."
After speaking, he put his hands in his pockets and left.
Next Day
Unsurprisingly, the assembly signal for Team Minato came.
Before going out, Akira glanced at his attribute panel.
Power: 916(*) [Super · Kage-level]
Seeing that his Strength attribute had doubled, Akira clenched his fists.
"Surging power."
According to his estimation, his Strength attribute was only a few dozen points short of entering the Sub-Immortal Level.
"If I simply measure it by strength, then my strength level should be at the peak of Super Kage."
At Training Ground No. 9
Minato Namikaze announced the details of this mission.
"This mission is to collect information on Kirigakure, and even information on the Mizukage, while strictly avoiding conflict with the Mist Ninjas."
As soon as he finished, Obito raised his hand.
"Speak," Minato gestured.
"Sensei, why can't we just go to the Land of Grass to collect information? Doesn't that place sell intel?" Obito suggested.
"It's useless! The Land of Grass has no information about Kirigakure," Minato replied with a smile.
"What? How could that be?" Obito didn't understand.
"Because Kirigakure is an extremely closed village; very little information comes out."
After a brief explanation, Team Minato set off.
This time, the journey was extremely long.
Team Minato would not only leave the Land of Fire, but also pass through the Land of Waves, and then travel to the Land of Water by boat.
Along the way, Minato Namikaze and Akira lagged behind the team.
However, as soon as the two of them slowed down, the others also slowed down and gathered around.
"Sensei, you're whispering to Akira again," Anko complained with dissatisfaction.
They had done the same thing on the way back from the last mission.
"Since you want to listen, let's listen together," Minato smiled helplessly.
Next.
Minato and Akira began discussing the key points of this mission.
"It's about Madara secretly controlling Kirigakure, right?" Akira got straight to the point, guessing the reason for the mission.
"That's right! Now that all the ninja villages have heard the news, they should also be sending people to investigate," Minato nodded.
"In other words, we have to look for evidence?" Akira mused.
"Yes! And we must not conflict with the Mist Ninjas."
Don't conflict with the Mist Ninjas?
Hearing this, Akira felt it was a bit difficult.
"Sensei, since we're going into Mist Shinobi territory to investigate, a conflict is inevitable. Otherwise, will the Mist Shinobi politely tell us the information?"
"This is a strict order from the Third Hokage," Minato sighed.
Akira sneered.
Team Minato is required to investigate, but they must not cause a conflict.
For this kind of thing, Akira felt Hiruzen Sarutobi should come in person. He really wanted to see how the Third Hokage would operate.
At the same time as Team Minato was rushing to the Land of Water, Sand Shinobi (Suna), Cloud Shinobi (Kumo), and Stone Shinobi (Iwa) also sent investigation ninjas towards the Land of Water.
The ninjas from Cloud Shinobi were the first to reach the Land of Water.
Killer B and the Fourth Raikage, Ay, stood at the border of the Land of Water, not crossing it for the time being.
"Brother, Lord Raikage told us to go to Mist Shinobi's territory to investigate, but he didn't say we should arrest people. How are we supposed to investigate?" Killer B scratched his head.
"Arresting people is definitely not an option," Ay shook his head.
Then he added: "After we get the information, we can just kill them directly, won't that work?"
"Kill them? Won't we be exposed?"
"Why would we be exposed? The people were killed by Konoha Shinobi (Leaf Village), so what does that have to do with us Cloud Shinobi?"
Ay said it as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
"Brother, you're still the smartest!" Killer B nodded vigorously.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
At this moment, two Mist Ninja frontier guards appeared suddenly and stopped in front of them.
"This is the Land of Water. You—"
Thud! Thud!
The A-B duo instantly beat the two Mist Ninjas to death with one punch each.
On an island.
Baki and Pakura looked across the sea.
Under the order of the Fourth Kazekage, the two were going to the Land of Water to investigate evidence that Madara was secretly controlling Kirigakure.
The sea area in front of them was the territory of the Land of Water.
"Baki, what if we meet a Mist Ninja at sea? We can't fight, and we might get caught," Pakura asked.
"It's very simple: kill them," Baki answered very plainly.
"Kill them? Wouldn't we be exposed?" Pakura frowned.
"Exposed? Heh heh... It was Konoha Shinobi who killed them. What does that have to do with us Sand Shinobi?" Baki looked calm.
In the Land of Water.
Kitsuchi of Stone Shinobi was traveling with a henchman.
A Mist Ninja came quickly and spotted these two strange ninjas.
"Mist Ninja? Hmph..."
Kitsuchi sneered, and slammed his hands onto the ground.
Earth Release: Rock and Soil Spikes!
Crack!
Suddenly, the ground cracked open.
A large amount of gravel and soil condensed into deadly spiked earth spears.
Thwack!
Before the Mist Ninja could even hit the ground, he was stabbed into a hornet's nest.
"Lord Kitsuchi, if this happens, we might be exposed," the confidant reminded him.
"Who says we'll be exposed?" Kitsuchi laughed.
He casually took out a few Explosion Tags and threw them out.
Bang!
Accompanied by several explosions, the traces of his Earth Release were blown away without a trace, leaving only the remains of the corpses scattered on the ground.
"See? This is what Konoha Shinobi did! What does it have to do with us Stone Shinobi?"
On the second day of travel for Team Minato.
Standing on the bow of the boat, Akira and the others looked at the faintly visible border of the Land of Water.
"It looks close, but it's still far," the boatman reminded them.
Akira turned back and sat down in the cabin, glancing at his attribute panel.
Spirit: 2560(*) [God-level Immunity]
To be honest, he couldn't figure out the effect of this God-level Immunity, and he didn't bother to guess.
"Akira! Once we enter the Land of Water, try to avoid conflict with the Mist Ninjas!"
Minato turned around and reminded him again.
"All right," Akira nodded seriously.