The next morning, Uchiha Kai did some simple training and then headed towards the gathering place.
In times of war, any ninja is a combat resource. Even big families like Uchiha and Hyuga must fight to protect the village.
Of course, there are policies from above and responses from below. For example, the people sent out to fight by the Hyuga clan are basically members of the branch family.
With the protection of a caged bird, they don't need to worry about their Byakugan being taken away by others, especially when a member of the main family dies in battle against the Mist Ninja and has one of their Byakugan eyes gouged out.
The Uchiha clan is not stupid. Although some of the ninjas they will send out have opened the Sharingan, the areas they are heading to are all "relatively safe" places.
Members who have not opened their Sharingan will completely obey the village's orders and go wherever the village needs them.
Uchiha Kai is the type of person who obeys the village's orders. The main reason is that Uchiha Kai has never shown his Sharingan in front of anyone.
Before he felt safe enough, Uchiha Kai would rather stay hidden. Although war was dangerous, it was better than being on Konoha's 'blacklist'.
Doing this has both advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantage is that Uchiha Kei will be very dangerous, but the advantage is that his mentor, the senior ninja, will be someone "trusted by Konoha."
Just like Obito, the "waste" of the Uchiha clan, he has a jonin mentor like Minato Namikaze.
Uchiha Kai and Uchiha Obito are from the same class, but Uchiha Kai is not as lucky as Obito.
His guiding jonin was not a famous figure, certainly not any of Ino, Shika, or Chou.
He is just a Jonin who is completely loyal to the Hokage line, and his name is Tomihisa Kohei.
Moreover, he was not the Jonin originally assigned by Uchiha Kai. His first guiding Jonin had already died heroically while covering his team members in a mission.
As for Uchiha Kai's teammates, they are just a bunch of extras, there is no Mike, no Hong, no Asuma or Shiranui Genma.
His teammate is a civilian ninja named Kenta Imai, who is a ninja with very powerful physical skills and a very smart brain who has survived the war until now.
The other one is even more interesting. Her name is Hinata Aya. Just as her name suggests, she is a member of the Hyuga clan's branch.
And she is also very smart, you can even say that she is a very scheming woman.
Uchiha Kai's relationship with his teammates is average. It's not very good, but there is no much hatred between them. They are grouped together as a result of the constant replacement of the team.
They also carried out many missions together, and it was because of these missions that Uchiha Kai realized their scheming and some hidden thoughts.
During the war, ninjas suffered heavy casualties. Even Uchiha Kai had several teammates who died, and the same was true for the two of them.
To put it bluntly, all three are old silver coins, otherwise they would not have survived until now.
"Why are you so slow? Are all members of the Uchiha clan like this?" When Uchiha Kai arrived at the gathering place, he found that everyone else was already there, and Hinata Aya was looking at him with a frown: "We are going on a mission."
"Mission?" Uchiha Kai nodded calmly, but soon he looked around curiously: "Where's Tomihisa Kohei? Why are there only three of us?"
Imai Kenta, who was sitting nearby wiping his knife, looked up and said, "The captain has already set off to the front line with the other jonin half an hour ago. The Iwagakure's offensive is very fierce, and we have a separate mission."
The Battle of Mount Kikyo was extremely brutal, especially since Konoha had just dealt with the Sand Shinobi and had no time to rest.
Konoha killed 10,000 enemies but lost 3,000 of its own, and its strength was severely damaged. The Rock Country obviously wanted to take advantage of the situation by taking action at this time.
However, it was precisely because they had such thoughts that they also attacked the Raikage. I am afraid that Konoha really cannot hold on.
Although according to the official explanation, it was Minato's squad that destroyed the Kannabi Bridge and completely cut off the enemy's support supply lines.
However, Uchiha Kai felt that being attacked from both sides was also the reason why the Iwagakure ninja could not hold on. After all, they had to face Konoha in front and the Cloud ninja behind them. No one could bear it.
"What is our mission?" Uchiha Kai nodded: "Also, who is the captain?"
"It's you." Hinata Aya seemed a little dissatisfied, but she said seriously: "Our mission is to cover the senior ninja Namikaze Minato team and let them complete their mission."
During the war, ninjas from various countries were militarized to a great extent, and their quality was much better than in the comics.
However, Hinata Aya's words made Uchiha Kai frown. This mission was completely using them as bait.
The mission of the Minato Squad was not told to them, they were just asked to cover the mission of the Minato Squad. Although Kenta Imai and Hinata Aya knew that this was a bait mission, they had no idea what the Minato Squad was going to do.
But Uchiha Kai knew that the mission of this class was to blow up the Kannabi Bridge!
This means that the three of them were simply going to die and attract fire!
Think about it, in the original book, Kakashi and his friends didn't encounter many enemies at all. Just imagine, why is such an important strategic location not heavily guarded?
Even if all Kakashi and the others have to do is sneak in, it's impossible that there are only one or two of them, right?
So it was obvious that someone else attracted their attention, which allowed Kakashi and the others to sneak in smoothly.
Thinking of this, Uchiha Kai frowned. This was not a good task. He remembered that a bunch of Iwagakure ninjas appeared after Obito's death. Doesn't that mean that these attracted people are basically doomed?
In particular, Uchiha Kai remembered that Obito was taken away by Uchiha Madara because of this mission, which means that there is actually a stronghold of this immortal Uchiha near the Kannabi Bridge.
However, Uchiha Kai did not think he had the ability to refuse this mission. Being a deserter during wartime is not much better than losing his life on the battlefield, and may even be worse.
"There are several other groups cooperating with them on the mission." Uchiha Kai thought for a moment and asked, "How deep do we have to go?"
"There are six other teams working with them on this mission," Hinata Aya quickly replied. "We don't know how deep we'll go, but what we need to do is attract the enemy and then contain them."
What a troublesome task!
Uchiha Kai cursed inwardly, but he quickly cheered up. Since there were still six groups of people, they still had a chance overall.
Although this is entirely a matter of luck, Uchiha Kai, who has been hiding something, feels that he can survive.
With so many experiences, Uchiha Kai felt that as long as he was careful enough, he still had a chance.
"Then let's go."
Thinking of this, Uchiha Kai waved his hand and rushed out of the gate. Since it was a mission, there was naturally no way to delay.
Kenta Imai and Aya Hinata also quickly caught up. They didn't have much time so they had to speed up.
Just as they were about to leave the village, they happened to see the group led by Minato Namikaze, who also seemed to be preparing to leave the village.