The sky gradually turned white.
Katsura stood at the window of a room on the second floor of the Izakaya, watching the full moon in the sky slowly being obscured by the sunlight. If he died, he would probably be resurrected here.
After leaving the Konoha Hospital, he didn't return to the Anbu, but stayed in the izakaya. He spent whatever he earned, otherwise it would all go to the captain.
Katsura turned and looked at the bed. Shokyo was fast asleep, her legs exposed from the quilt, smooth and firm. After half a night of communication, he still couldn't find any evidence that Shokyo was a spy.
Perhaps his investigation was not deep enough. Perhaps his investigation was not intense enough. Perhaps he was overthinking it and Shokyo was not a spy.
Even if Shokyo was a spy, she was the kind of spy who relied on her brains rather than her strength to hide, and she didn't pose much of a threat.
Without saying goodbye, he ran away. Katsura jumped out of the window and took advantage of the early morning when there were fewer people around to walk towards the Forest of Death.
The Anbu brigade that Katsura was in was sent to the Land of Waves. The other brigade was sent to the Land of Whirlpools.
The Antelope Squad was in a fishing village in the Land of Waves when they picked up a team of Uzumaki ninjas and escorted them back to the Village Hidden by Whirling Tides in the Land of Whirlpools.
Katsura followed at the end, observing the three Uzumaki ninjas. The original novel did not describe the Village Hidden by Whirling Tides much, as the village was massacred long before the plot began.
One woman and two men, all with red hair. The female ninja in the front had the reddest hair. I wonder if the hair color can represent the bloodline power of the Uzumaki bloodline.
The three Uzumaki ninjas were all injured.
Judging from the wounds, they were cut by swords.
The ninja school in the Hidden Cloud Village teaches ninja swordsmanship, so the Cloud ninjas love to use swords.
Leaving the Land of Waves and entering the woods of the Land of Fire, the three Uzumaki ninjas finally relaxed their tense state.
The Land of Whirlpools is located on a peninsula southeast of the Land of Fire, and the safest route is to go around the Land of Fire.
To buy time, Katsura pointed at the blood on the Uzumaki ninja's leg and said, "I have some medicine here. How about treating it first before we continue?"
Captain Antelope was about to rebuke Katsura for his unnecessary efforts when he heard the female ninja, Uzumaki Yuka, say, "Okay. If i don't treat the wound now, it's likely to become a persistent problem."
The Hidden by Whirling Tides Village was an ally of Konoha, so Captain Antelope couldn't say much.
Katsura handed his medical kit to Uzumaki Yuka.
Unfazed by the crowd, Uzumaki Yuka lifted her slit skirt, revealing her injured thigh.
Unwrapping the simple bandage she had applied, Uzumaki Yuka used a kunai to scrape off the blackened old bandage.
The kunai touched the flesh, causing Yuka to grit her teeth in pain.
Her right hand was also injured, and her left hand wasn't very handy.
Katsura squatted down and said, "Let me help you."
"Thank you," she said, watching the ANBU ninja bandage him. "You're different from other ANBU. Thank you for your suggestion."
Katsura remained silent. He was just trying to buy time, and he might be reprimanded by the captain for this.
It took seven days to reach the Land of Waves, and one day to get from there to the Land of Fire. The Land of Fire was relatively safe, and there would be no encounters with Cloud Ninja.
The longer he could stay in the Land of Fire, the better. It would be perfect if he could die before the next full moon. Knowing what happened before death itself offered a plot advantage similar to that of a prophet.
Uzumaki Yuka chatted:
"Cousin Tsunade once wrote to the Uzumaki clan, requesting a medical ninja for each squad. Unfortunately, the Village Hidden by Whirling Tides couldn't do that. The medical ninjutsu of the Village Hidden by Whirling Tides was taught by the Senju clan. What the Senju clan can't do, we can't do either."
Katsura didn't move his head, his gaze slightly raised beneath his mask, assessing the strength of the female Uzumaki ninja before him.
He glanced at Uzumaki Yuka's chest.
Constricted by the tights, her chest was round and bulging. He wondered what a magnificent sight it would be when it was untied.
As expected of Tsunade's cousin, a slender branch bearing abundant fruit.
After bandaging her, Katsura stood up and stepped aside without a word. Uzumaki Yuka was somewhat disappointed. Konoha's Anbu remained silent.
The team continued on their journey, and after three days, they entered the Land of Whirlpools, a long and narrow peninsula.
Katsura looked at the waves of wheat beside the road, as if he could see the shape of the wind.
If the mission had always been this simple, with stops and starts to admire the scenery, then...
Boom!
In a field beside the road, a detonating talisman trap exploded!
The target of the bombing was the three red-haired Uzumaki ninjas walking in the middle.
From the surrounding wheat fields, two teams of Cloud ninjas jumped out.
The cold flash of the ninja swords made Katsura's scalp tingle.
Uzumaki Yuka was blown into the nearby wheat field, leaving a crater. While still in the air, Uzumaki Yuka spat out a mouthful of blood.
The two Cloud ninjas rushed towards Uzumaki Yuka, but suddenly froze in front of her.
Starting from their ankles, the sealing marks snaked upwards, and the two Cloud ninjas were as if petrified, unable to move.
Katsura was shocked. It was the Self-Cursing Seal mentioned in the original story! One of the sealing techniques used by Danzo.
Captain Antelope shouted, "Mission accomplished!"
After that, Captain Antelope went to stop the Cloud ninja captain.
Purple Cat rushed to the nearest male Uzumaki ninja, took a quick glance, and concluded that no medical treatment was needed.
Unsheathing her ninja sword, she stabbed the severely wounded Uzumaki ninja to death.
Ensuring the Cloud ninja could not obtain the Uzumaki Sealing Jutsu was her primary goal; escorting the Uzumaki ninja back to their village was merely a secondary objective.
The Second Shinobi World War had left ninja villages devastated, and they desperately needed sealing jutsu to allow their jinchūriki to fight. Information on the sealing jutsu must not be obtained by the Cloud ninja.
Katsura leaped to Uzumaki Yuka's side. Uzumaki Yuka lay buried in a heap of straw half a man's height, her lungs severely injured and her chest concave.
Without medical ninja, such injuries would have been fatal. The straw obscured her view, preventing her from witnessing the Purple Cat's killing of the Uzumaki ninja. Seeing Katsura, her eyes gleamed with gratitude.
She had already subjugated the two Cloud ninja; if he could kill them, she would be saved. Katsura raised her kunai, ignoring the two frozen Cloud ninja on either side.
The kunai stabbed down, piercing Uzumaki Yuka's head while she was completely unprepared. Thus, the Cloud ninja would lose all information about the sealing technique.
The light in Uzumaki Yuka's eyes instantly faded.
"Konoha... Konoha is indeed coveting..."
Uzumaki Yuka could no longer utter a single word. Ninjas are tools to carry out missions. The ANBU are tools within tools. Uzumaki Yuka's injuries were too severe. Using two sealing techniques was merely a last-ditch effort; no treatment was necessary.
Captain Antelope was nearby, and Katsura's only responsibility was to complete the mission perfectly and ensure that the Uzumaki sealing technique would not fall into the hands of the Cloud ninja.
With Uzumaki Yuka dead, Katsura quickly used the remaining time of sealing technique to stab the Cloud ninja on his left.
The Cloud ninja on his right, freed from the restraints of the sealing technique, thrust his ninja sword into Katsura's side.
Katsura quickly lunged forward, dodging the sword with a roll.
While rolling, Katsura was still thinking about how to use the Earth Style: Fishing Reflection Jutsu, but he felt numbness in his feet.
Oh no, the Cloud ninja had set up Lightning Style on the ground.
Lightning Style restrains Earth Style , and his only Earth Style Ninjutsu was ineffective.
After a struggle, Katsura was hacked to death by the ninja sword.
Before he died, he saw Captain Antelope escaping alone, and Purple Cat and the Horned Ox both died in the wheat field.
Damn it...
In order to ensure the secret of the sealing technique, can the Uzumaki ninja be killed when necessary?
Unexpectedly, he also died here. Katsura thought the Uzumaki ninja was expendable, but in the end, after all the trouble, he was also expendable.
[Arc of Full Moon is activated!
The host has a chance to resurrect once a month, and will be resurrected on the previous full moon night after death.
A lottery chance is rewarded! ]