Naruto: Dark Night Shura

The Minato team, which had just returned from their mission, suddenly stopped on the way back to Konoha.

"There seems to be traces of fighting ahead, be careful."

Minato reminded Kakashi, Obito, and Lin behind him to be careful of ambushes, and went forward alone to investigate the situation.

"Kakashi, let's follow them and see."

Obito suggested that Minato had not returned yet, but before Kakashi agreed, he had only left them with his back.

"Idiot." Kakashi cursed and told Lin: "You follow behind."

When the three saw Minato, the scene in front of them froze them in place.

"This is... a ninja from Konoha... one, two, three... forty-eight, teacher, am I under an illusion?"

Obito pushed away his goggles and rubbed his eyes. All the bodies had no heads, and except for the clothes on their bodies, they could be identified as ninjas from Konoha. The important thing was that this place was less than five kilometers away from Konoha.

"I checked, they are ninjas stationed at the border of the Mist Ninja. They withdrew after the interrogation department went there, and the time is just right."

When Minato saw the scene in front of him, he thought of the massacre of the Hyuga clan and the Sand Ninja during World War II.

At that time, he and Jiraiya teacher searched for clues at the scene, but there was no trace except a bent branch.

But the teacher insisted that they did not die in fratricide, and there must be a third party who was good at handling the scene, until Hyuga said that there was also a Hyuga head family missing.

Now there is still no trace of the Hyuga head family, and the same method appeared shortly after the start of the Third War.

Kakashi frowned, always feeling that these people died strangely, and their heads were not all cut off. It would be troublesome to take them back, unless there were so many sealing talismans like Uchiha Makoto.

"Why were all the heads cut off? Although the head is an important source of information, there are too many heads for dozens of people. Did they kick them away like a ball?"

Obito expressed his doubts. He imagined the scene of himself carrying several heads. Maybe he was soft before he left.

"These people have the poison of the Sand Ninja, and... Ugh~"

Lin's face was very ugly. These corpses had been destroyed beyond recognition. They smelled bad and the injuries were strange, but she couldn't say what was strange.

"In fact, a similar thing happened during World War II, but no one was beheaded at that time. The strange thing is that no information was obtained."

Minato said in a deep voice. He always felt that the death of this man and the Hyuga team was done by one person, and there was no trace left.

"You stay here and don't move. If there is any danger, retreat immediately. I will report to the Hokage and ask the Anbu to participate in the investigation."

The Flying Thunder God Technique was very useful at this time. It was just a blink of an eye to get to the Hokage's office building.

"Hokage, something happened. All the ninjas stationed at the coastal border were killed when they came back."

"What?"

Minato's words made the Third Hokage stand up from the stool immediately.

He asked the torture department and the Uchiha team to replace that unit. What does it mean that all of them were killed? His eldest son Sarutobi Shinnosuke was in it.

"Forty-eight people, all died, and... their heads were cut off," Minato paused, thought for a moment, and reminded: "I suspect that the same party killed the Hyuga team during World War II."

"I checked it. Although the method is different, the handling method is special. I have never heard of such a ninja unit handling the scene in the ninja world. I wanted to ask the Anbu to investigate the matter quickly. The 48-man unit died at the gate of Konoha without any notice..."

Minato's words made the Third Hokage think of Danzo. He suspected that Danzo had asked the Root to do the Hyuga team, not to mention that a head family member was lost and his whereabouts are still unknown, and no ninja village has a white eye.

The Third Hokage clenched his fists, his face gloomy.

"Forty-eight people... are there any Sarutobi Shinnosuke?"

Minato frowned and shook his head, "It's impossible to tell their identities, but what is certain is that they are all Konoha's ninjas."

"Thank you for your hard work, Minato, you lead the Anbu to intercept the heroes back."

Even though he was extremely angry, his face still showed a sense of sadness. He didn't care who those ninjas were at all. He cared whether his son was among them.

After Minato left with a group of Anbu, the Third Hokage had a hideous look on his face. Thinking of the quarrel between him and Danzo before, he said viciously: "Danzo, if I knew that you did this, I would never let you go."

......

Kakashi and others who were guarding the scene sat together to discuss.

"Who is so cruel?"

Lin covered her face, unable to believe that the war wouldIt was so cruel. She had done many missions with Minato. She had seen ninjas who killed people, and some ninjas died in their hands. But this was a scene where dozens of people were beheaded and piled together.

"Rin, I will protect you."

Obito comforted Rin. To him, Rin was his motivation to move forward. He must defeat Kakashi.

"Genius, can you analyze who can do such a cruel thing?"

"The fourth squad of the torture department, Uchiha Makoto."

Kakashi blurted out without thinking.

"What, what do you mean? Uchiha Makoto was your former boss after all. What do you mean by that? We Uchiha people don't take the blame for this!"

Obito stood up and was about to fight Kakashi. Rin stopped him from rushing out.

Although he was not as talented as Kakashi, he knew that saying this would probably cause trouble for Uchiha.

"You're the one who asked, who could do such a cruel thing."

Kakashi approached the pile of corpses, took a look, and continued: "But it's a pity that Uchiha Makoto is far away on the coast of the Land of Fire. If he were here, he would be more suitable to deal with these things than the Anbu."

"Obito, calm down, Kakashi doesn't mean that."

Lin was afraid that if she let go, they would fight, so she quickly changed the subject and said, "Kakashi, I heard that you were away for two years. Can you tell me what missions Master Makoto took you on?"

Kakashi remembered those two years... There were only two missions in total. One of them had wrong intelligence. If it weren't for Uchiha Makoto's proper arrangements, they would probably have been wiped out. The other was a support mission. Uchiha Makoto took them to the end when the other team was about to turn the tables and killed them out, treating the wounds and comforting the other team...

They didn't get any reward for these two missions, but they didn't receive any orders to return to the village. The rest of the time, Uchiha Makoto took them to rob and loot.

Although sometimes he felt that it was embarrassing for a ninja to do such things, since they met a team of more than a dozen jonin disguised as robbers, that was the closest time he faced death.

At the same time, he also had a new understanding of Uchiha Makoto's strength.

Such a strong ninja, but he was wandering around doing the most shameful things. Although he lived in a red-light district... he never let them sleep on the streets, especially after leaving the torture department, this feeling was even deeper.