Chapter 272 Rebel Ninja!
The Kage of a village, this term is a bit too heavy for ordinary ninjas.
Although many ninjas had arrogantly and ignorantly said things like "I want to become a kage in the future" when they were young.
But when they grow up, they will understand that some achievements cannot be achieved just by thinking about it or working hard.
Now Kaito actually suspected that such a kage was being controlled by someone inexplicably?
Moreover, Kaito couldn't reveal the source of information for many things, and could only express it vaguely with words like "guess" and "suspicion".
This also makes it even more difficult for people to believe such a thing.
"Everyone, at least the Kumogakure was waiting there in advance, the carrier of the 'Tailed Beast Zero' was replaced, and the Wood Style Ninja rushed out later, these strange things are indisputable facts."
"Please join me in investigating the truth."
Kaito didn't really need these people to help, but under the current circumstances, it was not a good idea to let them leave the team and return directly to the Kirigakure Village.
In the end, it was Harusame who made the final decision. The six-man team was temporarily commanded by Kaito until what Kaito said was confirmed or refuted.
Although this was definitely because Kaito had displayed his supernatural power in the battlefield just now and intercepted the people from Kumogakure, thus saving the lives of everyone present in disguise.
However, Kaito felt the weight of trust when he saw that everyone was willing to disobey the orders of the village based solely on his own words and some guesses.
After determining the target, Kaito directly wrote down a short intelligence scroll and handed it to Blue.
The main purpose was to arrange for Ao, who was still in the front-line camp, to come out for a meeting.
The situation in the village is not clear at the moment, so everyone plans to contact Ao secretly to avoid showing up directly in the front-line camp and exposing their whereabouts, which would then make it impossible to recover.
Fortunately, Kaito left in a hurry before this mission, and Blue's summoning scroll was still with Ao. He only needed to cancel the summoning jutsu to quickly deliver the message.
After a brief communication with Ao through summoning, everyone continued to speed up and rush towards the Land of Whirlpool.
But perhaps because they were aware of the seriousness of the situation, everyone had a serious expression along the way and there was no unnecessary communication.
One day later.
The moon was bright and high in the sky. Unlike the bad weather in the Kirigakure Village which was shrouded in mist all year round, the climate near the Land of Whirlpool was closer to that of the Land of Fire.
Even in the dead of night, under the moonlight, Kaito and others could still see the outline of the island from afar.
They rowed the ice boat in the dark and came to a remote coast north of the Land of Whirlpool.
Maybe it was because of the not-so-nice memories of the last landing, but this time even when they arrived at their own front-line camp, everyone was still very vigilant.
Just as Kaito and his companions jumped onto the shore, a figure dressed as an Anbu quickly came over from a distance and stood in front of them.
These people were so frightened that they immediately drew their weapons and became alert.
It was Kaito who reacted first and spoke.
"Ao-sensei!?"
Ao nodded when he heard this and raised his hand to take off the mask on his face.
Kaito noticed the veins at the corners of Ao's eyes that had just faded, and it was obvious that he had used his Byakugan before. He should have arrived nearby a long time ago, and used his Byakugan to observe in advance, determine the location of everyone, and rushed over directly.
Combined with Ao's concealing ANBU outfit, Kaito immediately had some bad guesses.
"Ao-sensei, what are you doing?"
"We'll talk later, just follow me first!"
After saying that, Ao turned around and ran towards a low hill.
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment when they saw this, but they still hurried to follow.
Kaito thought about it, turned back and smashed the ice boat that everyone was riding on, then chased after them.
Not until everyone entered a cave under a low mountain did Ao stop and turn back to cast some kind of seal on the entrance of the cave.
"This is?"
Harusame looked at Ao's series of actions with some suspicion.
On the other hand, Kaito, because of his guesses in his mind and his trust in Ao, did not say anything to stop the other party's actions.
"It's a temporary anti-perception barrier that I set up here earlier."
After Ao finished speaking, he turned around to look at Kaito and the others and asked with a serious expression.
"What mission did you go on?"
"Do you know that the village has now defined you as traitorous ninjas?"
"Ah??"
Everyone was shocked when they heard the news, except Kaito, who didn't react much because of his vague guess just now. However, he still clenched his fists with gritted teeth.
Kaito raised his head and looked directly at Ao and asked.
"Ao-sensei, when was the notification of the rebellious ninja issued?!"
Ao obviously understood why Kaito asked this, and directly threw an intelligence scroll to Kaito.
Kaito took the scroll and opened it. The date on it was yesterday noon!
"Heh, yesterday!" Kaito sneered.
"That's right." Aoye nodded to confirm.
"Not long after you asked Blue to send me the message yesterday, the order to pursue the rebel ninja was issued."
"Impossible! We had just left the border of the Land of Lightning at that time. According to the normal mission, we might have just arrived near the Kumogakure Village and had not officially started the mission yet!"
The one who spoke was Hozuki Shingetsu.
Because of the death of Yuka Tamura in the past two days, Hozuki Shingetsu has fallen into a depressed state. He basically didn't say a word the whole time and just followed the crowd.
But it's no wonder, the atmosphere in Ken's team was always good. But Ken died at the hands of the Fourth Generation Ai, and Azusa gave up and hid in the village as a logistics staff, basically giving up his identity as a ninja.
Now even Yuka Tamura, who had always been with him, died at the hands of the Kumogakure Village. The reason why Hozuki Shingetsu was able to follow everyone silently these two days was all thanks to the fact that these people in the ninja world had seen a lot of life and death and had a better mentality.
But what did he hear now? He and his companions were actually labeled as traitors by the village!
The most important thing is not the identity of a traitor.
After completing the mission, the group did not return immediately, but took a detour to the front-line camp, prepared to be punished.
But the time when the village issues the order is the most critical.
Judging from the time when the intelligence reached the front line, it might be that Kaito and his group had just finished a fierce battle with the Kumogakure troops and successfully escaped, but the village had already defined them as traitorous ninjas.
The other people were obviously aware of this problem as well, their faces all looked bad, and they thought of the "guess" that Kaito had mentioned before.
Seeing this, Ao continued to explain.
"The explanation given by the village is that you stole important technology from the village and defected en masse, and they asked the frontline to cooperate in the search and capture."
"We can kill on the spot if necessary!"
(End of this chapter)