Konoha's task master

The heavy rain still hasn't stopped.

The root ninja dressed in black and wearing a ghost mask is slowly approaching the Tsuchiya, one step...two steps...

They cautiously approached to test, but Hatake Sakumo showed no reaction to their approach until they reached within ten meters of the Tsuchiya.

Hatake Sakumo suddenly made a move. One second he was still a downcast middle-aged man, and the next second he was like a sharp knife unsheathed.

White Fang's low whistle cut through the air.

White Fang carried the wind chakra's slashing attack, and easily drew a straight and obvious straight line on the land in front of the root ninja.

"Whoever crosses this line dies."

Hatake Sakumo spoke calmly, and the next second he retracted his white teeth and continued to look at the rain curtain, becoming the decadent and downtrodden middle-aged man again.

Those root ninjas wearing ghost masks did not dare to move even an inch forward. Just now they clearly felt the pure murderous intention erupted by Hatake Sakumo.

They were extremely sure that if they crossed the line...Hatake Sakumo would really kill someone!

"What should I do?" someone asked in a low voice.

"Wait...Danzo-sama."

In the sky, there is only the crisp sound of the heavy rain hitting the stone slabs, and the water splashes on the ground that are constantly spreading and fragmenting.

Hatake Sakumo looked at the rain curtain, worried about the safety of Hatake Kakashi, and secretly hated his own negligence.

The weird part of this assassination kept popping up in my mind. Two jounin and sixteen chuunin... just to target a six-year-old child... Is this normal?

This is not normal...the person behind the scenes wants to plot against him.

Is twenty-five million really enough for two jounin to risk their lives... and what role did the Daimyo of the Fire Country play in this?

No...there must be other interests secretly forcing them to participate in this silent robbery.

Is there a third-party force behind the current result? Is this level of explosions and meticulous planning really something that a wandering ninja can do?

Hatake Sakumo thought about the real culprit behind the scenes.

"Poison...explosion..."

Hatake Sakumo suddenly felt that the methods of the person behind the scenes were very familiar, as if he had dealt with them before...but he couldn't remember the time when he had developed a grudge against this kind of enemy.

"Hey, it's all the fault of being young and frivolous..."

Hatake Sakumo shook his head and sighed.

When he was young, he had no taboos. When he started the mission, he refused to recognize his relatives and killed too many core members of the ninja clan. In the end, those people couldn't defeat him...retribution was passed on to his own son...

"Don't talk about martial ethics!"

Half a minute later, Hatake Sakumo's shadow clone carried Reiko Aoyama back to the Tsuchiya.

Aoyama Reiko immediately jumped off Hatake Sakumo's back and immediately entered the Tsuchiya.

"How's it going?"

Reiko Aoyama asked immediately after entering the Tsuchiya, and immediately took out the surgical tools from the storage scroll.

"It's almost done..."

Yakumo spoke with some embarrassment. He really didn't expect that the subtle trouble extraction technique and the palm sensibility technique could work together to achieve such a terrifying effect.

Aoyama Reiko looked at Kakashi Hatake who was lying on the ground, and saw that his face was rosy, his breathing was steady and strong, and the small wound on his chest had completely healed, and his eyelids rolled slightly as if he was about to wake up in the next second.

Perhaps...only the several purple marks on the ground around him can prove that Kakashi was indeed poisoned.

Aoyama Reiko silently stretched out her hand, and used the palm sage technique to light up the green light ball. He closed his eyes and checked the situation inside Kakashi's body. After more than ten seconds, the light ball on his hands became dim, and he opened his eyes again...

Silence... is the tacit understanding between you and me.

Half a minute later, Danzo arrived...

Bald and one-eyed, wearing long robes.

His whole body exudes an aura similar to that of a villain,

Behind him were ninjas wearing ghost masks, holding up black umbrellas, but due to the fierce rain, most of their clothes were still wet.

He opened the umbrella, but didn't fully open it.

"Hatake Sakumo, what exactly do you want to do?"

Danzo asked with a sinister flash in his one eye, and with his question, everyone hidden around him pricked up their ears at this moment.

All they knew was that Hatake Sakumo wielded a blade and walked through the rain, killing eighteen people in a row in one minute, and then returned here.

But who exactly those eighteen people were, where they came from, what they had committed in Konoha, and why Hatake Sakumo chased them all are unknown.

"An enemy took advantage of the rain and the weather to ambush my son Hatake Kakashi here. Fortunately, I happened to be nearby, so the tragedy was avoided. But Kakashi was still seriously injured and unconscious, and he was receiving emergency treatment in the earthen house.

"

Hatake Sakumo raised his head and answered very calmly. His voice gradually spread outwards, and the sound of rain around him could not affect the spread of the voice at all.

"This is just your one-sided statement. Why don't you let ANBU members go in to check?"

Danzo's eyes rotated rapidly. The inspection was just an excuse. The most important thing was that he wanted to confirm Kakashi's condition at this time.

"Because I can't believe it!" Hatake Sakumo replied.

"During the assassination just now, Kakashi briefly lost consciousness and fell into a trance. Is this similar to Danzo-sama's special ability of the psychic beast Dream Tapir?"

"Huh... maybe it's an illusion."

Danzo snorted coldly and retorted without hesitation, a trace of guilt flashing deep in his remaining left eye.

"Most of these people are bounty ninjas. Konoha Hidden Village is covered with a huge sealing barrier. How did they sneak into it if there were no insiders?" Hatake Sakumo continued.

"It's possible that there is a loophole in the sealing barrier."

Danzo continued to retort.

"Every month, the sealing class will regularly check the barrier for reinforcement, and there will be a dedicated person to take care of it 24 hours a day. There has been no loophole in thirty-five years. Is it such a coincidence that this time... I happened to be encountered by these bounty ninjas?"

Hatake Sakumo stood up and his tone was filled with anger.

"This..." Danzo was a little unsure.

"Just in time...I collected the corpses of two jonins and asked the members of the ANBU Zhongshan Clan to browse their memories. I want to find out who the ghost is!"

Hatake Sakumo casually took out two corpses from the storage scroll, and two ANBU wearing fox masks appeared on the scene. After quickly forming seals, they placed their hands on the foreheads of the corpses.

Danzo subconsciously clenched his fists and his pupils shrank slightly.

Fortunately, he had already prepared the scapegoat. All he had to do was push the scapegoat out when the time came. His confidence in designing Sakumo Hatake came from Sarutobi Hiruzen. As long as the support of the Hokage was still there, he would have nothing to fear.

"That person wears a demon mask, and the place where they hide is the safe house at the root."

Three minutes later, the two fox-masked ANBU members simultaneously retracted their hands and said to Hatake Sakumo, pointing directly at the roots and Danzo in just two words!

"What do you have to say...?" Hatake Sakumo said indifferently, revealing a cold and forbidding chill.

Two ANBU members in Fox Mask went back into hiding.

"In that case, I will investigate it!"

"Investigation...?" Hatake Sakumo sneered.

"Danzo old dog, die!"

In an instant, Hatake Sakumo pulled out White Fang with his right hand, and the dazzling arc of electricity covered his body like armor.