My ninjutsu is not right

Chapter 128 The Second S-Class Mission

The country of rivers, Daming Prefecture.

"who?"

The guarding warrior shouted and drew his sword. Looking at the quiet courtyard, he tensed his nerves and moved cautiously.

The opponent must be a ninja who is very proficient in assassination. If it weren't for his extremely sharp senses and what ninjas call the perception type, he would not have noticed that someone used chakra to sneak into the courtyard.

[Is it an assassin sent by the rebels? Or is it——]

His thoughts came to an abrupt end as the kunai silently sank into his throat. The knife was grabbed by the killer before it even hit the ground. He staggered a few steps, trying to shout to warn his companions and the king, but it only accelerated his own death and he soon lost his breath.

The warriors who came to inquire saw their companions kneeling on the ground with blood dripping. Just as they were about to take action, they were slashed in the neck by the assassins on the left and right.

In the moonlight, at a quick glance, one can vaguely see the standard equipment representing the Anbu of Konoha Village.

Using a point to break the surface, the two waves of samurai attracted by the initial samurai's cry before his death were eliminated, and their brains were destroyed. Then the assassins came to the daimyo's residence as if there was no one in the world.

"I've got you." The Kawakuni ninja who was in charge of protecting the daimyo put a kunai on the back of the assassin's neck, looked at the other two assassins, and said in a low voice: "What exactly does Konoha Village want to do? Break the alliance with Kawakuni? You..."

"Swish!" Two tigers outlined in ink jumped out from the shadows and tore the neck of the Kawakuni ninja.

"Bang!" His neck was torn and he turned into a straw man.

The Kawakuni ninja who used the substitution technique to dodge the attack did not escape the fate of death. The long ink-black snake hanging from the eaves tightly wrapped around and strangled his body, and finally he died in the pain of suffocation.

The head was also expertly cut off and sealed into the scroll.

The assassins sneaked into the house from various places, and after a few seconds, a short scream sounded in the house.

The dark clouds in the sky quietly obscured the already dim moon. In the dim candlelight, the figure of an assassin standing could be vaguely seen through the shoji door. He opened a manual, made a sketch in it with a pen, and disappeared quietly.

"Whoo~"

The candle went out and everything returned to complete silence.
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"Within a week after the death of the Daimyo and several ministers of the River Country, the rebels advanced rapidly and occupied more than one-third of the land of the River Country..."

Link looked at the news and felt a little troubled. He looked at the client next to him and asked, "If we enter the Kingdom of Rivers now, we may have to face more than just the rebels, right?"

"No matter what, I need to go back for my country and my people, so I have to entrust my life to you." The client, the son of the daimyo of Kawanokuni, knelt opposite him, bowed, his forehead almost touching the tatami, and said solemnly.

You are just the son of a daimyo. Whether you can sit in that position is another matter. But you have already said such words as "my country and my people". You are really shameless.

Moreover, his own country was in such a state, but he still stayed in Tansho Street, eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. When he came to Konoha to hire ninjas to return to his country, he found that his whole family was dead...

He was really lucky. If he hadn't been in Konoha, he would have been assassinated long ago.

Link was too lazy to complain. The fat and white son of the daimyo in front of him was simply a scum of the world, but he did find the Sandaime Hokage with a legitimate alliance agreement and provided an S-level mission to escort him to the capital of the River Country. Anyway, he was paid, and he had no ability to refuse this mission. The client was unwilling to give up and wanted to gamble his life on the position of the daimyo, so there was nothing to say.

"So, we leave tomorrow?" he inquired.

The daimyo's son nodded and said, "As soon as possible, thank you very much." He bowed again.

Apart from other bad habits, his attitude is quite good, and he is quite courteous. It turns out that even if he is a child of the powerful and wealthy who has been spoiled, he knows better than many people how to make others feel good.

"Then I'll excuse you first. I'll bring my men to pick you up tomorrow." Link used a little honorific. After all, the other party was a big client who spent one million taels, so he still had to be polite.

Amid the gentle smile of the daimyo's son, he stood up and left the room, and after exchanging a glance with the three samurai guarding the door, he left the house.

[The rich and powerful are really rich]

Link looked back at the exquisite residence. Even the son of a daimyo from a small country like River Country could eat, drink and have fun every day, buy a house in Konoha Village, and even if his whole family died, he would still have money to pay a mission bounty of one million taels abroad.

[But the current situation of Kawanokuni...]

He frowned. The situation in Kawanokuni was really not optimistic. The news he had just read was from two days ago. In addition to the rebels, there were also a large number of mixed forces.

It is estimated that except for the Wind Kingdom which just experienced a defeat, all countries, forces, and organizations that can lend a hand will intervene.

Most of the land in the River Kingdom, which is adjacent to the Fire Kingdom, has a very good climate and abundant resources. No matter how chaotic it was before, there was always a government to maintain superficial peace. Now that the political center has come to a standstill and the rebels are marching straight in, it has become a piece of fat meat.

Even if the distance is too far to occupy it, it is definitely easy to grab some things and leave.

Theoretically speaking, among the three countries neighboring the River Kingdom, the Wind Kingdom is unable to take care of itself, and the Rain Kingdom is also in a state of civil strife. According to the argument that whoever benefits is suspected, the Fire Kingdom should be the one that most wants to see this scene.

Moreover, it is not so easy to take action against the daimyo of a country. After screening, it seems that the only country left that has both motivation and ability is the Fire Country.

Of course, it is not ruled out that it might have been done by some organization or individual.

Small countries in the Naruto world are already precarious. Scorpion of the Red Sand destroyed a country with ease, and Orochimaru also determined early on that he could easily destroy a country by himself.

For countries other than the five major powers, it is common for them to be born today and destroyed tomorrow.

Take the Kingdom of Rivers for example. In the beginning of Shippuden in the manga, the Kingdom of Rivers was sandwiched between the Kingdom of Winds and the Kingdom of Fire. But when it came to the Fourth War, when the manga map was given, the location of the Kingdom of Rivers became the Kingdom of Valley.

The most important thing is, if it was the Fire Nation that assassinated the entire family of the Daimyo of the River Country, then there would be no need for Konoha Village to take on the mission of the son of the Daimyo of the River Country, right?
[S-level missions... It seems that I have a connection with the Land of Rivers. Most of the high-level missions come from there.]

Link did not stay at the door for long, and instantly went home. He had to leave the village tomorrow, and it was an S-level, extremely difficult mission, so there would be no way there would be no fighting.

(End of this chapter)