Konoha’s Thief Hand

The palm with fair complexion was facing up, and a withered leaf fell on it.

Xia Shu squeezed the dead leaf with his fingers, and with a chirp, the leaf parted a corner, and the incision was like a knife cut.

"Although Fire Style is good, it is too kind. Recently, the focus has shifted sharply. Wind Style training still needs to work hard!"

Secretly urging from the bottom of his heart, he casually put aside the dead leaves and let them fall.

"Why not move forward?"

A cold word came from the luxurious carriage, and Sakura lifted the curtain and squeezed out from it.

The girl was dressed in a military uniform, holding a knife in her armour, and her temperament came out spontaneously.

She looked round and quickly locked on the ninjas, and it was these ninjas that stopped the team's pace.

"Please stay calm." Yukihiro Yueguang glanced at her, then slightly nodded at Hyuga Keita who was approaching.

"Byakugan!" The latter immediately sealed, with blue veins protruding from the corners of his eyes, and his vision turned into a clean black and white state.

After a while, Keita Hyuga put down his hands and nodded slightly dignifiedly.

"Detour!" Yueguang Xingbo made a decisive decision to avoid the enemy's edge.

"Why a detour?" Sakura asked with a frown, "Xiazhi Forest occupies a vast area. If you take a detour, it will add a day's journey in vain."

The so-called Xiazhi Forest is the bleak jungle in front of you. The withered fallen leaves still have a dark red color after being yellowed. The sunset glow like embers seems to be named after.

It's a pity that I set foot here a little later, and it was already late autumn, and the scenery that was like a burning sky still shifted and passed over time.

"There are unpredictable people lurking in the forest, maybe the gangster is ambushing the princess." Yueguang Yukihiro replied indifferently.

"Since it's a bad guy, just get rid of it!" Sakura snorted, unhappy with it.

"Sorry, our task is to escort the princess to the Frost Land safely. It is unwise to get caught in a dangerous situation." Yueguang Xingbo was neither humble nor overbearing, and he vetoed it without hesitation.

Sakura's face was slightly cold, and her pretty face was covered with frost, and she stared at Yueguang Kobo for a long while, before finally snorting coldly, turning around and entering the carriage.

"If you want to bypass Kasuminoki and approach it from the south, or from the north to get closer? What about the future journey? Which one is better?" Yukihiro turned and asked Geninosuke Aoki who had explored the road before. Maruxoshi Kosuke.

"The detour from the north is closer." Geninosuke Aoki replied, rubbing his chin with his fingers, "but considering whether the journey will be smoother afterwards...then it should be to the south."

A sentence was inserted at this time.

"That's before. If I guessed correctly, this conclusion is drawn from the map, right?" Musashi approached with a serious face, and immediately reverently said: "I once approached Kasuga no Mori not long ago and asked the local residents. , So I know that a small road connecting the main road was built on the north side of Kasuminomori."

Xia Shu took a deep look at this honest-looking samurai.

"Oh? Samurai-sama, are you sure?" Aoki Kennosuke said casually.

"Please don't be so polite, just call me Musashi." The honest samurai hurriedly returned the salute, in a panic gesture of shame.

"Well, Musashi." Gennosuke Aoki shrugged and didn't insist.

"I can be sure of this." Musashi continued: "Not long ago, I personally walked on that path, which can be used by the team."

"All right, then." Aoki Geninosuke nodded slightly, turning his head to look at Yukihiro Yueguang inquiringly.

"In that case, we will detour from the north of Xia Zhi Mori." The latter shrugged and nodded without hesitation.

As a result, the team marched north along the left edge of Kasuminomori.

After staying a little farther away, Natsuki jumped off the carriage that was slowly driving in, and moved to the side of Hyuga Keita.

"Are the lurkers in the forest still following?" He lowered his voice.

"I only followed it for a while, but now I'm heading east." Keita Hyuga was also a little confused, and then added: "It's out of Byakugan's insight limit."

"Yeah." Xia Shu nodded in response, thinking about the weird situation in her mind.

Is it to give up? This thought came up and shook his head secretly.

The probability is close to zero, after all, there is no match yet.

So, is there an ambush elsewhere?

After following for a while, I gave up tracking, but it was enough to determine the approximate direction of the escort team, then... the arrangement is in the north of the forest?

When his thoughts reached this point, he glanced at the honest and reliable samurai again.

Is it a coincidence? Or is there another reason?

There are so many things that seem to be possible, but only then can they be fully confirmed.

The forest of Xiazhi is not easy to walk along the road. The dead leaves falling from the branches are piled together, like a layer of yellow and reddish plain clothing. The foot is deep or shallow, and ordinary people can't stabilize their body at all, even among the samurai. He also exclaimed several times and fell to the ground embarrassedly.

This is already the case for walking, not to mention the carriage.

So Xia Shu and others also saw the princess's face for the first time.

The luxurious carriage went through bumps and bumps, and finally came to a halt with a shout.

Sakura opened the curtain, holding a soft, boneless hand.

The innocent girl looked at the outside timidly, and quickly hid behind Sakura's attendant, looking at the world like a newborn cub.

Shuangshu with different temperaments appeared, and instantly took everyone's attention.

It's just that after the samurai reacted, they all bowed their heads for fear, not daring to take another look.

"That's it, princess? Sure enough..." His eyes lit up, then he wiped the corner of his mouth, and quietly glanced at Kyoko Saito. His eyes were quite resentful, and the corner of his mouth curled up with such a smile. .

But who knows, this eye was caught by Saito Kyoko's keen intuition. She curled her eyebrows and looked at the gentle and innocent princess, and then contrasted herself secretly-her expression stiffened for a moment, and then...

Instant time! She looked at Hisano Heiyu in her eyes, and she became fierce!

Kuno Hei Yu was agitated all over, and looked around guardingly, but found nothing. He immediately became puzzled. Why did he feel cold in his back inexplicably?

Sakura waited calmly, rolled up her trousers and sleeves for the innocent girl, holding her hand, and walking forward slowly, unexpectedly more stable than those of the samurai.

At dusk, there are thousands of rays of sunshine in the distant sky, and the sunshine of the forest is reflected, adding a little bit of the scenery of the past.

It is speculated that there is a hidden danger in the north of Xiazhi Mori, and it is not only Xia Shu.

At this moment, Keita Hyuga followed Yukihiro's orders and left the team, sneaking into the lonely forest with two tacitly accompanied teammates, and using Byakugan's insight to observe the northern end of Kasuminomori, which is close at hand.

"There is an ambush!" This unexpected result made Hyuga Keita's face solemn, with blue veins protruding from the corners of his eyes, and he looked a little hideous, and then added: "And, it's a ninja!"

When Kurama Nozomi and Saito Kyoko heard this, their expressions changed!

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