The Shadow of Konoha

Hanyu carefully identified the appearance of the man in front of him. The enemy's features were not obvious, but combined with the forehead protector on his head, the special eye color and the slightly special facial contour, plus the fact that the man looked between 40 and 50 years old, and the mention of "bounty" just now... Hanyu was able to barely guess the other party's identity.

Could it be the rebel ninja from Takigakure and later member of Akatsuki, Kakuzu, the one who famously escaped the hands of the first Hokage?

But why does he look so funny at this moment?

The specific reasons are probably impossible to verify, but ten to twenty years ago, the leaders of Takigakure Village decided to send the village's genius ninja Kakuzu to assassinate Konoha's first Hokage, Senju Hashirama.

Then, Kakuzu, who accepted the mission, finally discovered the First Hokage who was acting alone outside Konoha... This is commendable, after all, not everyone can find the trace of the Hokage... Then, he found an opportunity to plan an assassination.

And then, nothing happened.

No one knew the course of the battle except the two parties involved, but the result of the battle was that Kakuzu was seriously injured and dying, and fled in panic, while the First Hokage was not hurt at all.

Regardless of whether the First Hokage let him go at the time, being able to survive his hands became the pinnacle of Kakuzu's long ninja career.

But for Hashirama Senju, who was on the other side of the battle, it was completely different... The first Hokage probably forgot about it as soon as he turned around. The peak of his career that others had achieved was not even a small matter to him.

Hanyu even thought that Konoha would not keep any information about Kakuzu. If Kakuzu's target was the Second Hokage, then with Tobirama's personality, first of all, he would definitely not let him escape. Secondly, even if he escaped, Tobirama would definitely record all the information about the assassin, such as his height, weight, specific ninjutsu, etc., in order to require Konoha ninjas to pay special attention to this person in the future.

However, the first Hokage... probably would not honestly submit any battle report to the village.

He probably didn't have the idea of "just pretend nothing happened", because to Hashirama, Kakuzu's assassination was nothing at all... God knows how many times the First Hokage was assassinated in his lifetime?

He had taken a huge risk and carried out the mission to assassinate the First Hokage. If such a mission succeeded, it would have been a miracle, and if it failed, it would have been natural. Kakuzu's defeat could not be considered his fault.

But when he returned to Takigakure from the battlefield with half his life left, he was not treated like a lone hero, but was punished instead, and eventually became a traitor.

But in fact, it should be said that when he accepted this mission, it meant that he had become a traitor... If by any chance he really succeeded in the assassination, how would the little Takigakure bear the revenge of Konoha; and if he failed, how would Takigakure bear the personal wrath of the first Hokage?

The Hokage didn't care about the assassination as it was his own business, but Takigakure couldn't bet that the Shodaime would be so magnanimous.

The only way for Takigakure to bear less or even no responsibility for angering the Hokage and Konoha is to prove that the person who launched the assassination has little to do with itself.

So Kakuzu must be a traitor.

Later, Kakuzu obtained Takigakure's secret technique "Earth Grudge" and defected. It is hard to say whether he stole this secret technique himself after he fell out with the village, or whether it was a reward given to him by Takigakure out of necessity to keep him silent based on the mission he performed and when he could not be silenced.

But no matter what, after Kakuzu left Takigakure, he had already cut off contact with the village, and he really became a purely selfish traitor. So the question is, why would this traitor do such a high-risk thing as attacking the Hokage again?

Someone put a bounty on the black market for the Third Hokage's head? Was Kakuzu just after the bounty?

Is this person the kind of person who values money over life?

Hanyu couldn't quite understand Kakuzu's survival logic. What was the meaning of money to a ninja?

However, this was not something he needed to understand. Hanyu put one hand behind his back and quickly made a few gestures, reminding his teammates to be ready to take action at any time.

"Don't waste time talking to them, get rid of them before the Hokage arrives!" The captain of the Anbu ninja almost spelled out this code at the same time as Hanyu.

The joke Kakuzu made before was not funny at all. The mission of Hanyu and his group is to protect the Third Hokage, so how could they let the enemy get close to the Hokage?

We are enemies, not friends, what are you talking about?!

After the Anbu's order was given, the three Konoha teams rushed towards equal numbers of enemies at the same time.

At this time, the actions of Hanyu's team were not blind, not because he was not motivated to fight, but because the three Konoha teams were just put together temporarily and there was no coordination between them. If they acted hastily, they might even be accidentally injured by their own people's ninjutsu. Therefore, Hanyu positioned his team as a coordinating and supporting team, not a main attacker.

Sure enough, before Hanyu's team rushed into the enemy camp, the Anbu ninja's ninjutsu had already been completed.

The sky above this small battlefield was suddenly blocked by a dark cloud. Hanyu stopped moving forward, looked up, and saw a flying saucer with a rough and simple line, extremely ferocious beast pattern engraved on the bottom, falling from the sky.

No, to be precise, this thing looks more like a flat round pot lid... This is a ninjutsu used by the Anbu ninja, Earth Style, Summoning Technique, and Sky-Falling Cover.

This thing fell naturally from a high altitude and was in a completely natural state of acceleration. Judging from the reaction speed of a ninja, it would definitely not be beaten into a meat patty unless it had no legs.

"boom!"

With a dull sound, the cover fell from the sky and fell to the ground.

Smoke and dust rose up, and all the birds in the woods were scared away in an instant.

Its killing effect is limited, but under an attack of this scale, the enemy's formation was immediately broken up and the battlefield was divided... In this way, the Anbu team, Uchiha Hyuga team, and Hanyu's team can fight the enemies separately and defeat them one by one.

Kakuzu can be considered a powerful ninja, but the average quality of his subordinates cannot be higher than that of Konoha.

Hanyu was just planning to just play a supporting role and help the "powerful" Uchiha, hyuga and the Anbu to clean up the small fry - even a ninja like Kakuzu couldn't deal with eight elite jonin at the same time... To put it another way, even if he could really fight one against eight, it would be impossible for him to eliminate Konoha's most elite force in an instant, and after the Hokage arrived at the battlefield, the victory here would be secured.

However, just as Hanyu was thinking this, a black figure appeared in the smoke and dust that dispersed before his eyes.

"Young ninjas shouldn't appear on a battlefield like this. Haven't you been taught this ?"

The person who appeared was Kakuzu.

In an instant, Hanyu figured it out. It was the most normal thought on the battlefield to prioritize eliminating the weakest enemy... For Kakuzu, wasn't Hanyu the weakest point on the Konoha side?

Hanyu was not taught what kind of battlefield he should appear on, but he was taught that no matter what kind of enemy appeared in front of him, whether strong or weak, famous or not, known or unknown, he must never be stingy in taking action!

Silent and bright arcs of lightning shot out from Hanyu's body. He put his right hand together like a knife, filled with incomparable violent energy, and stabbed at the enemy who suddenly appeared!

Generally speaking, Hanyu is not a tough guy, but to be honest, he is a bit cruel.

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