My ninjutsu is not right

Chapter 46 Rainy Night
The next few days were unexpectedly quiet.

Link had thought that after entering the Kingdom of Rivers, the attacks would be more frequent than before, but he did not expect that there would be no movement for several days, and the convoy arrived at its destination safely.

A slightly noisy town.

The streets were crowded with people, the sounds of hawking were endless, and pedestrians wearing bamboo hats could be seen everywhere.

[Since it is close to the Rain Country, are there many people from the Rain Country? ]

Link glanced at the pedestrians approaching the convoy, fulfilling his responsibilities as a bodyguard.

"Don't be so nervous." Nara Yanshui said in a relaxed tone, "A B-level mission is actually more than halfway done here. No one would assassinate in broad daylight in the city."

"That's against the rules."

The wealthy and powerful allow private assassinations, but this does not mean they are willing to accept unscrupulous destruction of order.

No matter how bad the Kingdom of Rivers is, it is still a country rich in resources, and other countries will give it some face.

The convoy passed through the city and soon arrived at a hotel to stay. As usual, Link was conducting a security patrol with Iris and Kasumi nearby when he suddenly felt like someone was watching him and looked over sideways.

That was a female ninja from the Sand Village. She was pretty, with short golden hair tied into four short braids. She wore a lavender long-sleeved tight skirt with a mesh jumpsuit underneath, and carried a huge fan on her back.

Height: about... 1.55 meters.

Because of his sensitivity to heights, Link quickly determined the opponent's exact height.

The two of them exchanged glances from a distance, then walked away.

[This image is still the ninja from the Sand Village... Temari?] He guessed in his heart that if the target was really Temari, then it would mean that the jonin sent by the Sand Village to obtain the gold mine would be Maki——

The elite jonin from the Sand Village who killed the protagonist of Shippuden with one move.

[If we fight...]

Link was thinking about countermeasures in his mind. As a time traveler, he was familiar with the information of various famous characters. It was rare for a famous character to be killed on his first encounter. Naturally, he could also rehearse the battle to a certain extent based on the information he got from his previous life.

As expected, the Sand Village attaches great importance to gold mines.

Moreover, at this moment, the Sand Village should have been prepared for the Konoha Collapse Plan. After all, in the setting book, both Temari and Kankuro graduated at the age of twelve, and waited to go to Konoha Village to participate in the Chunin Exam for the Konoha Collapse Plan without being promoted in advance...

Therefore, even though Konoha Village and Sand Village are still allies at this time, they still cannot let their guard down.

After patrolling around the hotel and gathering with his teammates at the hotel entrance at the agreed time, Link realized that not only the Sand Village had come, but the Rain Village had also come.

The officials of Kawanokuni assigned the merchants from the three countries to three adjacent hotels, so they met.

The three of them summarized the news and informed Nara Saltwater who was guarding near the wealthy merchant of the Land of Fire.

"I see."

Nara Saltwater nodded in response and said, "Everyone please work hard tonight."
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The moon is dark and the wind is strong tonight. Perhaps because we are too close to the Land of Rain, it has started to drizzle since nightfall.

“Tick, tick, tick”

Raindrops kept falling on the ground, creating ripples in the puddles.

"Um?!"

Link, who was leaning against the wall and silently waiting for time to pass, suddenly stood up straight. He felt that his physical strength had suddenly been lost a little more. This meant that his shadow had discovered the abnormality and changed from two-dimensional to three-dimensional. The consumption caused by standing up increased, thus reminding him.

Refining chakra, forming seals, releasing——

Clone technique.

Link grabbed the kunai, opened the window and climbed onto the rooftop. The shadow clone was standing on the edge, looking at the hotel opposite.

That was the hotel where merchants from the Rain Country and ninjas from the Hidden Rain Village stayed.

Looking from the rooftop, he couldn't tell what was happening over there. He gathered chakra at the tip of his nose, his nostrils moving slightly, and a smell of blood diluted by the rain rushed into his nasal cavity.

Looking down, the water in the drainage ditch of the hotel opposite has turned dark red.

[Something happened...] Link did not rush over, but just kept on alert silently. The people of the Hidden Rain Village died, and it had nothing to do with him, but he had to worry that the murderer would turn around and attack them after killing the ninjas of the Hidden Rain Village.

"Crack!" The window shattered, and a ninja from the Hidden Rain Village wearing a respirator flew out and landed on the street. His face turned blue and there was a hole the size of a bowl running through his chest and back. He quickly lost signs of life after landing.

Link couldn't help but glance towards the window. In the dim light, he could clearly see the ninja inside -

An adult man, wearing a conical hat and a forehead protector from the Hidden Rain Village hanging around his neck. He was not wearing the most classic Hidden Rain Village respirator. He had a scar on his right cheek. When he noticed that a kid from the Konoha Village was looking at him, he returned a provocative look.

Traitor? No...

Link stood there calmly, while the shadow beside him quietly drilled from the two-dimensional plane to under the hotel under the cover of the rainy night, ready to launch a sudden attack at any time.

In the operation of a group of four, the senior ninja Nara Yuito is responsible for the most core protection and will not leave the rich businessman for a single step. Among the other three, he is the middle ninja who needs to make decisions and give commands.

A body fell to the ground. Even though the sound of rain covered it up, Iris and Xia who were on guard downstairs must have heard it.

Even if provoked, he could not make any attacking moves.

For the sake of the mission, there can be no unnecessary complications.

"Tick, tick." Raindrops dripped from Link's cuffs. He seemed to be petrified. He looked down in the increasingly heavy rain, quietly watching the group of 'rebel ninjas' from the Hidden Rain Village evacuate calmly after slaughtering everyone in a hotel.

Only when the group of ninjas went away did he withdraw his gaze, return to the hotel, release the clone jutsu, and quietly guard the high point while enduring his wet clothes.

No sleep for one night.

In the morning, the wealthy businessman from the Fire Nation went to the gold mine bidding site, and Link followed behind in his still damp clothes.

"Well done." Nara Yushio deliberately fell behind him by a few steps, walking parallel to him (everyone knows why they can't walk side by side), and did not hesitate to praise him. Then he quickened his pace and returned to the crowd.

Can the jonin find out what's wrong with the hotel across the street?
This is beyond doubt, and maybe they discovered it earlier than him.

Link was slightly delighted. No matter what, at least until now, all the performance of him, a Chunin who was promoted out of turn, was satisfactory.

Otherwise, he wouldn't get even a single word of praise from the Jonin.

But... the ninjas from the Hidden Rain Village without respirators made him think more. According to the timeline of the comics, the Hidden Rain Village was still in civil strife at this time.

Salamander Hanzo should not be destroyed yet, after all, the Hidden Rain Village ninjas in the Chunin Exams are still wearing respirators...

In other words, the ninjas who attacked the hotel last night were most likely from Akatsuki. So, will Akatsuki give up this gold mine?
(End of this chapter)