My Hidden Road

Yuyin Village, in the apartment.

Chao Xiang knelt on the floor and carefully wiped the wound with alcohol to disinfect Naoto. She blew on the wound gently in the hope that Naoto would feel better. The wound felt cool and comfortable.

"Xiao Mao is so angry because he was injured. I'm really sorry that my sister hurt Xiao Mao. Xiao Mao is not like this normally. Xiao Mao is a very gentle boy."

Naoto lying on the sofa was staring straight at the ceiling. There was no curse mark on his tongue. Could it be that Asaka was really just a sister who lost her brother in the war and became like this? She became schizophrenic and formed two personalities.

"sorry."

"Ah?" Asaka looked up at Naoto blankly: "Xiao Mao, what did you say?"

"I just hit you, I'm sorry..."

Chaoxiang narrowed her beautiful eyes: "It doesn't matter, it was my sister who hurt Xiaomao, so Xiaomao is angry. Xiaomao is not angry with my sister now, he is indeed a very gentle boy."

"Talk too much."

"Hee hee hee."

Naoto, who was lying on the sofa, had a lot of thoughts. Asaka was not a Konoha spy, but her appearance was too coincidental. No, she came here because she was sick. Unless she was sick, he would not have met her, but why did he

Will I get sick? Is it just a cold?

I took some medicines with side effects, but I mostly ate them outside. Boss Yiga was a local and would not harm me. Maybe someone else poisoned certain foods.

Naoto put this idea out of his mind. For safety, he basically ate at Yiga's restaurant, and the food was different every time, completely avoiding the possibility of precise poisoning. If he got sick, he would eat at Yiga's restaurant

Other people dining there will also get sick, even the owner Yiga.

All coincidences point to the sudden appearance of Asaka, but all evidence proves that it is not Asaka. Naoto doesn't know what to do now. The scattered information on hand is not enough to support the chain of evidence, and it is impossible to find the Konoha spy.

The next day, Naoto wandered around the precinct as usual.

In the morning, Chaoxiang spent a lot of effort preparing breakfast but he didn't touch it. This made Chaoxiang very disappointed, but she didn't seem too angry and just laughed it off.

Suddenly there is a stranger in his solitary life. Naoto instinctively distrusts her. Moreover, Asaka has been suffering from the disease and thinks that he is her brother who has died in the battle. Every time he drives her away, she starts to look at him as soon as Naoto leaves home.

He would sneak in quietly to prepare meals for Naoto and clean up.

Kill her...

It's not like Naoto has never thought about it, but how can he kill people at will without evidence? If Asaka is really schizophrenic, he is not a Konoha spy, but he kills innocent people by mistake. What is the difference between killing innocent people without permission and Danzo and his like?

"Your arm is injured, Naoto-sama?" Boss Yiga asked worriedly.

He raised his arms and said with a kind smile: "It's just a minor injury, by the way! Has anyone been sick nearby in the past few days? If someone in the jurisdiction gets sick and dies without anyone providing medical assistance, my reputation will be damaged."

"Get ill?"

Boss Yiga brought a cup of hot tea to Naoto: "Thanks to you, the residents in this area are living well. I haven't heard of anyone getting sick or dying recently. Thank you very much for your concern."

"There's none?"

"No, not one."

After having breakfast at Boss Yiga's shop, Naoto deliberately walked in a circle to the quiet and deserted street, then took out the note wrapped in a plastic bag from under the trash can, and walked to Shinta's empty shop in the alley next to Paipai Street.

people apartment.

Danzo was urging himself to obtain information about the fabricated spy, and at the same time scolded himself for not informing him of the information about Amagakure's cooperation with Iwagakure's surprise attack. His tone was very harsh and rare. Usually, Danzo's orders to him were not emotional.

But this time, Danzo's words reproaching himself took up two-thirds of the sentence.

After burning the note and plastic bag, pouring the ashes into the sewer and draining it away, Naoto took out Orochimaru's communication scroll and spread it on the ground. He quickly made seals with his hands, and the small snake pattern on the scroll came to life. He tried his best to spit out a scroll and continued.

Turn into patterns.

【Naoto-kun, keep up the good work.】

What does Orochimaru mean? Let yourself continue to work hard without any other explanation.

Naoto, who was leaning against the wall, looked up to the sky and sighed. In the previous action of exposing Danzo's evil deeds, Naoto had won a great victory, but this time Naoto failed, completely.

One failure in the spy war is enough to be shattered into pieces. Naoto is glad that he survived this failure. One person still cannot deal with the entire intelligence agency. This kind of war without gunpowder is invisible and intangible. No one knows when his flaws will be exposed.

Come.

Holding up an umbrella, Naoto walked out of the deserted apartment. Since the enemy had not revealed any flaws, he had to calm down and find the enemy's flaws while lurking and strike with a fatal blow.

What Naoto has to do now is not to let his flaws show up, and quietly wait for the enemy hiding in the dark to take action, waiting for the opportunity to make a move.

A few days later...

After returning in vain, Hanzo returned to the Land of Rain. This joint surprise attack failed, and the information was obtained by Konoha in time. The surprise attack was turned into a confrontation, and no one benefited, but in fact Konoha gained a lot.

Victory means defeating the enemy's surprise attack.

In Hanzo's iron tower, dozens of Amegakure village jounin knelt down and shivered on the ground. Mita knelt down in fear, and behind him was Naoto. Today's Naoto is the jounin of Amegakure village, and he is half of the village.

The security patrol captain can participate in such a high-level meeting.

"Shame, the plan has been known to Konoha, and the face of the Land of Rain has been thrown to the ground by you again!" Hanzo wandered around on the tatami, waving his hand to tear off the gauze curtain used to pretend to be mysterious, and threw it hard at Mita.

On the body.

"That guy Onoki wants me to find out who leaked the information, otherwise I will cut off military assistance, saying who leaked the information, say!"

Kanda trembled and whispered: "Master Hanzo, the person who leaked the information may also be Iwagakure. Why should we be held accountable?"

"Don't you think I don't know?" Hanzo said fiercely with his finger on the ground: "That guy Onoki just wants to shirk responsibility and blame us for the failed surprise attack, but is there anything I or you can do?"

"I am willing to take the responsibility this time..."

"you--?"

Mita's forehead was close to the ground: "I am willing..."

"Hanzo-sama, this matter is my responsibility." Naoto stepped forward and took the responsibility on himself.

After walking off the tatami, Hanzo looked directly at Naoto with burning eyes, then raised his fist and hit him hard on the lower abdomen. Naoto immediately crawled to the ground and gasped in pain.

"Who do you think you are? Get out of here. If you can't find out who leaked the information, you all will die!"

The rain ninjas in the hall left one after another. Mita bent down and bowed, then pulled Naoto out from under Hanzo's feet and helped him leave the hall. Hanzo was the only one left in the empty hall with a bleak figure.

Hanzo's words of death were just angry words. The key to the problem was not the failure of the surprise attack, nor the leakage of intelligence, nor the Konoha spies. It was Ohnoki who wanted to shirk the responsibility for the failure to the Land of Rain.

This brings out the last thing in Hanzo's heart, the sorrow of a small country, Hanzo cannot protect the dignity of the Rain Country, and the so-called demigod Hanzo must crawl at the feet of Iwagakure.