Gou in the ninja world

Chapter 149 Unexpected Discovery

"Master Tsunade, you are looking for me."

At 9 o'clock in the morning, Yukimura hurriedly came to the ghost hidden inside Hokage Rock under the summons. When he arrived, he found that the conference room was already full of people at such an early time.

At a glance, in the meeting room, Hiruzaru Sarutobi, Koharu Tonkin, Shikahisa Nara, and Itachi Uchiha were all sitting in it, all of them were the top experts and important high-level people in Konoha Village, sitting neatly in two rows, It seems to have arrived a long time ago.

This is……

He was slightly taken aback, it was rare to see so many bigwigs gather together, and not only that, apart from their identities, these people present were all people who knew that they could predict the future.

Could it be that something big happened?

He frowned calmly, thinking to himself.

The question is, what else will happen at this time?

At this moment, Naruto and the others have left Konoha Village for two days. Judging from the time, this time point is exactly the time when the five national wars officially started, but for some reason, Tsunade did not pay attention to that crucial event , Instead, all the people in the village who knew the truth were called together, as if there was something more important than that.

"Sit first."

Tsunade was sitting behind the table, with a large pile of documents in front of him, and was looking at it. When he saw him coming, he didn't look up, but just beckoned him to sit next to him.

"Oh well."

Yukimura looked around and saw that there was an empty seat next to Itachi, so he walked over and sat down, and asked in a low voice.

"Brother Itachi, what's going on this time?"

Itachi didn't speak, but shook his head slightly with a dull face, expressing that he was new here and didn't know anything.

"Alright, Tsunade."

Not long after he sat down, Xiaochun finally couldn't bear it and said.

"Everyone is here, what important matter do you have to call us here, can you tell me?"

"Ok."

At this time, Tsunade finally finished reading the document in her hand, she sighed softly, raised her head, and said.

"Then, please take a look at the report in my hand first."

As she spoke, she handed over the document in her hand and handed it over to Xiaochun, who was at the front.

"Report?"

Turning to bed Koharu was a little puzzled when he saw what Tsunade handed over, frowned slightly, opened it and glanced roughly, only to find that it was a C-level mission report submitted by Chunin Inuzuka Mano.

C-level mission?
Seeing the big characters on the cover, everyone else present was taken aback.

What does it mean?
Because of a low-level mission that is only at the level of Chunin and Genin, so many people were summoned with great fanfare. What kind of medicine is sold in Tsunade's gourd?
Zhuanzhu Xiaochun was puzzled, and read the report in its entirety. It was an ordinary report on the end of a tracing mission, and the content was quite simple.

In Hojo Village, located in the northern part of the Land of Fire, a villager disappeared a week ago. After the locals couldn’t find him, the family members hired ninjas from Konoha Village to look for them. Unfortunately, the mission failed in the end. Inuzuka Mano, who led the team to accept the mission, did not find the missing villagers with the help of Ninja Dog. However, this is not a very unusual thing, and judging from the information given in the report, he also did not find the missing villagers. What a note.

After reading it, she handed the report to Sarutobi Hiruzen next to her, raised her head and said.

"Tsunade, what are you trying to sell?"

"Don't worry, take another look at this one."

Tsunade waved his hand, interrupted her question, did not answer the question, but handed over another report.

Similarly, this is a report on missing persons. Like the previous report, it is a task issued by people from other villages in Konoha to find missing villagers or relatives and friends. Although the location is different and the name of the missing person is different, it is also None of them are important characters, not even ninjas, just ordinary villagers in ordinary villages.

Moreover, after investigation, the ninja who was sent to carry out the mission gave the same reply, all of them believed that the other party encountered an accident or an attack by a wild animal on the way out.

"..."

Hiruzaru Sarutobi looked down at the things in his hands. The two similar missing persons cases happened in different places. Both of them were ordinary villagers. There was also no trace of outsider intervention. To be honest, only from the report In the description, he couldn't see anything strange either.

Missing people, for a country with a population of tens of millions, the loss of one or two people is a very normal event in itself.

After all, accidents are unavoidable. Even in the relatively peaceful Land of Fire, there will often be incidents where villagers die due to wild beast attacks or accidents. If the time is witnessed by outsiders, as time goes by, the traces of the scene will be destroyed by other people or things, and become impossible to find.In the end, most of these incidents will be treated as missing persons, which is no different from the situation described in the two documents in hand. Therefore, these two documents did not solve the doubts in his heart.

The disappearance of people is not a small matter for normal people, but it is not a big deal for the national level.It's just two ordinary villagers in different places. It's not that he looks down on each other. It's just that Hokage is also the highest leader of a country's military power. The things he comes into contact with on weekdays are all major issues related to the country. The basis of this C-level and D-level The task can be handed over to a Chunin or Ninja or a local official arranged by the Fire Nation to handle it. There is no need to bother Hokage to pay attention to it personally, right?
"So, how about adding this one?"

Tsunade naturally saw the confusion on everyone's faces, but she still didn't explain, just raised her hand, picked up the third report on the table again, and passed it forward.

This time, the content described in the report is no longer an ordinary C-level mission, but an A-level intelligence mission carried out by Anbu in Kusanagi Village in the Country of Grass a week ago. News from Murashita Shinobi.

"Scented phosphorus?"

Seeing this name, Yukimura was obviously stunned for a moment, quite familiar name, isn't this the little fan girl of Sasuke?

Not only him, but even the Itachi next to him thought for a moment, his eyes were slightly enlightened, and he also had a deep impression on this girl who was obsessed with his younger brother in the future scene.

"Tsunade, did you send someone to Kusanagi Village?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen asked, who is Kaorin, he knows the future clearly, but he doesn't know, Tsunade actually sent someone to investigate.

"That's right." Tsunade nodded upon hearing the words, and replied, "Because I'm a little curious, why the girl who was supposed to appear in the last joint Chunin exam didn't take the exam as originally planned."

She raised her head, looked around, and explained to everyone.

"In fact, the situation is like this. Before the official start of the Zhongnin Exam, Kusunin Village, as an alliance participating in the exam, sent two lists of participating personnel one after another. The first list included this Xianglin was included, but in the second list sent a week later, for some reason, the name of this Xianglin disappeared, and another name of Genin was changed instead."

"Is that right?"

Yukimura nodded slightly, and only then did he know the inside story.

He who helped Tsunade sort out the information had read the registration lists of each village, but he only read the final list, that is, the second list sent by Kusanin Village, and did not read the first list. So he only knew that Xiang Lin hadn't participated in this Chunin exam, but he didn't know that her quota had been changed.

This situation is indeed a bit strange.

In other words, in this Zhongnin exam, Kusunin Village originally planned to let Xianglin and two cannon fodder take the exam together according to the original book, but it turned out that due to some variables, the senior management of Kusunin Village changed. I got an idea, replaced Xianglin, and changed into another ninja to come to the competition.

It is precisely because of this that Tsunade had the same doubts, and sent Anbu to Kusanagi Village to inquire about the news and find out the specific reasons for such changes.

As for the real cause and effect, Anbu's report has already written it very clearly. Although I haven't seen the specific record yet, thinking of Tsunade's previous actions, Yukimura already has some vague premonitions in his heart.

"Could it be that he disappeared again?"

Hiruzaru Sarutobi frowned, he quickly opened the report in his hand, and then his pupils shrank.

Sure enough, at the end of the report, the information collected by Anbu is very clear. The truth is: Xianglin of Kusanin Village disappeared from the village before the official start of the Chunin Exam. Find her whereabouts, and it is precisely because of this that Cao Ninja Village hastily submitted a second list and replaced it with a new Genin, which is the origin of the second list.

and many more……

Seeing this, Hiruzaru Sarutobi's heart suddenly skipped a beat. When he saw the missing information of Xianglin, he immediately remembered the previous reports.

Several people in a row were missing, plus they were almost in the same time period.

"Tsuna, what do you mean?"

He lowered his voice, thinking of Xianglin's identity, a terrible idea flashed in his mind.

"That's right." Tsunade looked at him with the same eyes, nodded solemnly and said, "As you guessed, although most of the missing people are ordinary civilians, they all have a very distinctive feature. , that is, they all have red hair."

"what?"

Turning to sleep, Xiaochun said in surprise, this was not mentioned in the mission report at all.

"That was not written in the report."

Tsunade nodded. The mission report of Konoha Village is not exhaustive. Otherwise, if everything is recorded, important information and unimportant information will be mixed together, which will become quite cumbersome. It is not convenient for those.

Therefore, in the mission report, only the ninja who performed the mission will record the general process of the mission, as well as some information that he thinks is more important. Unfortunately, the last two C-level and D-level missions to find people were missing They were just ordinary villagers, so the Chunin who performed the task didn't pay much attention to it. They just described the general process and results and it was over.

If it wasn't for the coincidence that he met Asmaban who also delivered the task, Shikamaru, who was keen, discovered some clues during the conversation, maybe this matter would not have been exposed at all.

Red hair is a very conspicuous feature, and the missing people are all red-haired, and the meaning of this is already obvious.

Are they all the Uzumaki family?

Yukimura frowned, thinking.

In the ninja world, when it comes to the Uzumaki Clan, apart from the powerful sealing technique, the most impressive thing is probably their fiery red hair.

If he remembers correctly, the Uzumaki Kingdom perished shortly after Uzumaki Kushina arrived at Konoha. I didn't expect that besides Nagato and Kaorin, there were so many members of the Uzumaki clan in the ninja world.

"After the country of the vortex fell, I thought they were all dead. Now it seems that some survivors escaped from the disaster, hid their identities, and settled down in different places."

Hiruzaru Sarutobi sighed, he was also a little surprised that there were so many members of the Uzumaki Clan that he didn't know about in the Land of Fire.

"So, can it be temporarily concluded that those who disappeared are descendants of the Uzumaki family?"

Turning to sleep, Xiaochun's face darkened, it would be fine if the missing were ordinary villagers, but it was not a trivial matter if they were suspected of being from the Uzumaki family.

No wonder, Tsunade would be so serious about it, and even convened so many high-level officials to discuss this issue.

"In this way, we can't simply use the disappearance and accident to draw conclusions. Is it Xiaoxia's hand?"

She said with an ugly face.

Abducting people secretly, and then pretending to be in an unexpected situation, moving quickly without leaving traces, and using perfect methods, and even deceived the ninja sent by Konoha to investigate, this kind of action and efficiency is indeed very similar to Akatsuki's handwriting.

Even, the continuous turmoil during this period of time, throwing out the dust escape, and provoking conflicts and conflicts between the Kingdom of Wind and the Kingdom of Earth, this may also be one of the purposes.

In order to hoodwink the sight of the five major nations, let them turn all their attention to Dust Dungeon and the ongoing competition, so as not to let others suspect or discover the special features of the missing person.

In fact, they have almost all succeeded. If Tsunade hadn’t known about the existence of Karin, he had found some doubts from the changes in Kusanagi Village’s list. Be cautious when talking to others.

"So, what's the purpose?"

Hiruzaru Sarutobi raised another question. There are quite a few people missing this time. There are only a few reported by Konoha Village. There must be more in the entire Ninja World. With so many people, most of them are ordinary villagers who have not been trained. , it is impossible to pull them into combat power in a short period of time, so what is the purpose of Akatsuki's effort to plunder so many descendants of the Uzumaki clan?
"I think……"

At this time, Yukimura had an idea and suddenly thought of a possibility.

"Couldn't they be planning to... cultivate their own human strength?"

　The last chapter said that the children's shoes of the Uzumaki family stand up, and the teacher will give you candy.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)