My Hidden Road

A person's journey is still lonely after all. People are social animals, and it is very painful not to have friends to accompany you.

When I left, I was calm and relaxed, as acquaintance is a friend. Naoto is not an emotional person. In fact, he is very restrained in showing his emotions.

He could see the sun but not Chang'an. He could not refute Jiuzuke's advice to give up his ideals. Compared with the ideal peaceful world, the rain in the sky was closer.

Is it that the ideal world created is far away, or is the sunshine in the sky far away? Naoto thought for a moment, or is the sunshine in this country relatively far away.

Ideals can be followed, but the sun never shines in this country...

There are a lot of moss and green clothes on the roadside. If you step on it accidentally, you will fall. It is not that nothing grows in the Rain Country. At least algae plants such as moss are still prosperous.

With one foot on the moss, Naoto stood on a desolate rocky mountain. The mountains and rivers in front of him were just gloomy. A person appeared behind him, as if he had been waiting for him. Naoto was a little disappointed. He thought he was smarter, but others

People are not all fools.

"Sunagakure Village is at war with us, but their puppet technique is very powerful. I need you to sneak into Sunagakure to get information about puppet technique. I believe you have a way."

Naoto looked at Hanzo, maybe this was his destiny, being coerced into becoming a spy.

"This is asking me to die."

"But you have no reason to object, and you don't have the strength to object."

Hanzo took out a scroll and threw it to Naoto: "The spy I trained was too incompetent and was killed before entering the Kingdom of Wind, so Fumiki recommended you to me. Treat it as a task. For the Kingdom of Rain, your

Isn’t it the same with friends?”

"That profiteer!" Naoto vowed to strangle him to death if he could go back alive.

"Don't hate him too much, you have no chance."

Naoto was stunned for a moment and then suddenly realized: "He is dead, who killed him?"

"I."

Hanzo didn't bother to argue, "Because I need that batch of medical supplies. He told your information in order to survive. I am very interested in you."

"What do I say? It turns out this is the case. Why don't you say it in the village?"

"Smart people don't need force as a threat. You will understand the hidden meaning. Okay!"

Hanzo said with blazing eyes: "In short, I need someone who can sneak into Sunagakure, and you meet the conditions very well. I heard that you have also been in contact with Sunagakure, which is even better."

The two confronted each other for a long time, and Naoto finally accepted this identity and became Hanzo's spy, and may also become a spy for other ninja villages in the future. However, Naoto always felt that this spy mission was a false lie, and actually meant to split the three-person group.

Raindrops dripped from the brim of his hat and fell on the ground. Both places were dark and gloomy, and the distance could only be seen for a hundred meters. Hanzo left, leaving a few words and a scroll behind, leaving only Naoto standing in the rain curtain.

“Ahhhhh——!”

Naoto roared helplessly, as if he was being teased, being toyed with in the midst of applause.

Huge raindrops hit him, and he was like a weed swaying in the wind between heaven and earth, blown down by the wind and rain at some point, and trampled into the soil.

Going to Sunagakure to perform a spy mission, Naoto was a little wavering, but in the end he chose to let it go and go to the Country of Wind first. Sunagakure was at war with Amegakure and Konoha. There were many ways to infiltrate, and Naoto planned to give it a try.

, if it doesn’t work, forget it.

Wearing a black raincoat, only a ninja sword was exposed, and a rib and a ninja tool bag were hidden in the bulge at the back of his waist. Hanzo's mission was very vague, to obtain information on the puppet technique, why didn't he go to Konoha Village to kill Kushin?

Nai grabbed it.

Hanzo's search for him this time was really a pushover. This was not a sincere search for him at all. It was more like driving an unrelated person to die. As long as he could die, that would be enough. Don't force too much.

He stood up, jumped off the rocky mountain and ran along the ridge. Naoto started to run as a fire shadow with his arms behind him. (Please fill in the BGM by yourself)

This time, Hanzo was more like a half-threat and half-expulsion, threatening himself to leave the Country of Rain, because he found that there were rain ninja groups who had different ideals from others. They had this country in their hearts and wanted to change it. This was the rule of Hanzo.

A threat.

Naoto declined Hanzo's invitation yesterday. Since he can't become a subordinate, he should get out. Hanzo's purpose is very clear.

For the sake of his own rule, or perhaps because Naoto and the other three were dedicated to working hard for the Country of Rain, he chose to persuade Naoto, the leader of the team, to leave the Country of Rain. In name, he was ordering Naoto to spy on information, but in reality he was free.

To expel, you can leave the Country of Rain and go to any country, as long as you don't appear in the Country of Rain.

Without Naoto as the 'leader', the remaining people will not be able to make any trouble. This is still a relatively mild method. Naoto is a smart person and will not fail to see it.

Hanzo's subtext is that don't toast or eat as a penalty, as long as you can live with it, and get out if you don't want to be your subordinate!

After several days of trekking, Naoto returned to the market. The market had changed a lot. Hanzo discovered the smuggling road and took it for himself. There was a rain ninja guarding the entrance to the market. It was a pity that old man Fumiki was dead, otherwise he would have been much easier.

.

Wrapping his forehead protector and ninja tools in oil paper, Naoto hid all the items on his body that could represent his identity as a ninja. He put on his raincoat and walked towards the market, but he was stopped before he could walk in.

The guarding rain ninja stood in front of Naoto, "You kid, you have to pay to get in."

"I have no money."

"Why go to the market if you don't have money? Are you stealing?"

Naoto was extremely disgusted with these rain ninjas but he still tried to please them and said, "No, I just went inside to visit my friends."

"As soon as I see that you are not a good person, get out!"

The guard Yu Ren kicked Naoto and tried to drive him away. This kind of kid is the most difficult to deal with. If you give him money, he will pester you and won't let you in if you don't give him money. He is like a slutty dog.

Naoto, who was refused entry, had to wait outside. The market had also changed a lot from before. Although the previous market was in decline, it was still popular, but now it was really deserted. Hanzo and his men only knew how to ask for things but never knew how to give back.

, let alone govern the village.

Naoto waited until nightfall, during which time no one entered the market, only a few rain ninjas came in and out. The guarding rain ninja had no intention of guarding, and left with a yawn, and Naoto took the opportunity to sneak into the market.

Walking left and right in the market, the door was closed when passing by the lumber shop. It seemed that what Hanzo said was true. Old man Fumiki was really killed. Naoto walked to a bakery and knocked on the door, but there was nothing inside.

The door is closed.

"here······"

Naoto followed the sound and saw that the skinny bakery owner was hiding at the entrance of the alley and waving to him. He kept looking around, very carefully.

"What happened?"

The bakery owner dragged Naoto into the alley with a bag behind him. He breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that there was no danger around him.

"How dare you come back and risk your life?"

Naoto pretended not to know, "What happened?"

"Not even two days after you left, Hanzo-sama came here with his men. There were many caravans staying in the market at that time, and they were all killed. Even old man Fumiki was killed. I heard that Hanzo-sama ordered this

Yes, and his subordinates were collecting taxes everywhere, so I had no choice but to close the shop."

"Old Man Wenmu is dead?"

The bakery owner nodded: "Dead. When I opened the door in the morning, I saw his body passing by my shop, being carried as if for burial."

"You didn't run away?"

"Of course I have to run away!"

The bakery owner patted the big bag behind him and said, "I was getting something in the store just now, thinking someone was knocking on the door. I won't say anything anymore. I will leave here tomorrow morning. Those rain ninjas are even more hateful than you. At least you can buy something."

Give me money, and they'll just grab it."

Naoto lamented: "Be careful along the way."

"You should leave here quickly and find another place to eat. I hope we can have another chance to meet in the future."

The bakery owner packed up his bags and said goodbye to Naoto. Who would be willing to leave his shop and his hometown if he didn't push him too hard? Leaving hometown is not a written idiom, it is a picture shown in front of Naoto.

The thin young man originally had his own shop and job, but now he has left his hometown because of the war and ninjas. The rain here will continue to fall. I wonder if he will return to his hometown.

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