Escaping the Mist Ninja starts with backstabbing your teacher.

Grass Village is a fairly ordinary ninja village. It is known as a village that excels in learning, but in reality, it is just a bunch of weeds and a ninja village without its own tradition.

They had to rely on stealing ninjutsu from other ninja villages to build their own village's foundation, euphemistically calling it "studying other countries' ninjutsu."

Its domestic politics are corrupt, and it is only through good diplomatic relations with Konoha that it has been able to maintain its isolated position and avoid war.

However, the Land of Grass, as the battlefield between Konoha and Iwagakure, didn't dare to utter a single word and could only deceive itself, making it a village even worse than Amegakure.

Among them, ninjas are cunning, morally bankrupt, and will stop at nothing to be disgusting.

After disguising themselves, Izumi and his group chose a secluded spot in Kusagakure to stay temporarily, leaving Yekura and Momona behind while he went out to gather intelligence.

Although it's trash, it's still a ninja village with a complete organizational structure, and even an ANBU (Anbu).

"Tsk tsk, the Grass Ninja Building, as expected, they all like to imitate Konoha, and the other major ninja villages are the same."

It's always better to copy someone else's homework than to write it yourself. After all, there are precedents, so if any big problems arise, they can fix them immediately.

Moreover, Konoha is home to strong individuals and was founded by the same people; learning from them is definitely the right thing to do.

Wearing sunglasses, Izumi Kawa came to a corner, leaned against the wall, and gently pulled down his sunglasses, activating the Byakugan in his right eye.

The Kusanagi Ninja Building came into view, and the barrier that appeared on it surprised him a little. He hadn't expected there to be security measures in place; not bad.

"It seems we'll have to infiltrate to get a better look."

With a slight movement, his figure disappeared from the corner of the street. When he reappeared, he had changed into a Grass Ninja outfit.

Just now, he locked onto a grass ninja, attacked him directly, put him into a deep sleep, and then used his ability to disguise himself.

The bones inside his body made a slight sound and kept moving, and his face was also wriggling. Soon he looked like the grass ninja who had fallen into a deep sleep in the corner.

"It's a pity I don't know illusion magic or how to extract information from the other party's mind, otherwise no one could see through my disguise."

"When the time comes, we'll find an opportunity to infiltrate Konoha. Shisui's eyes are quite good; we can't let them go to waste."

Izumikawa pondered to himself that with his ability to control bones and further optimize and transform appearances, apart from chakra which couldn't be disguised and the eyes which needed to be concealed, it would be very difficult to detect any problems.

He was also quite familiar with the situation in Konoha, so he could work around and infiltrate it.

While he was thinking, he quietly entered the Kusagakure building. The colored contact lenses worked quite well, and his eyes looked very natural.

Once inside, he activated his Byakugan again to spy out the area. Without the barrier's cover, the entire Kusagakure building held few secrets in his eyes.

The overall structure, the corridors, and the distribution of ninjas in each room are all very clear, with only a few rooms having their own protective barriers.

These rooms are probably where some valuable things are stored, such as ninjutsu scrolls. Once I learn some knowledge about sealing techniques, I can sneak in and take a look.

After understanding the overall structure, he began to scan the rooms on each floor and soon found where the Grass Ninja stored their intelligence.

His figure vanished again without a trace. The perception of his aura, the observation of his white eyes, and the random shifts in his bones allowed him to slip in like a ghost.

His entire body seemed boneless as he quietly entered some passages and other places where ninjas were hiding, eventually entering the intelligence room.

"There are quite a few scrolls, but I don't know how much of it is useful information. However, we don't need anything too detailed; a general overview of the situation is enough."

Izumikawa muttered to himself for a moment, since he didn't expect the information from the Grass Ninja to be particularly helpful anyway.

His gaze swept across the shelf, and he reached out to pick up a scroll to examine it. It was about Iwagakure (Iwagakure Ninja), but he wasn't interested and skipped it.

Takigakure, huh?

Surprisingly, there was a record of Kakuzu. As for the time, it was a few months ago. He killed several Grass Ninja and then disappeared. The information wasn't very useful.

He quickly flipped through many scrolls, found the latest one, and swiftly looked at the records to find information about him and Yekura.

As expected, both he and Yekura had bounties on their heads for sabotaging the peace talks between the Mist Ninja and the Sand Ninja.

As expected, not surprising at all, nothing to brag about, the charges are arbitrary.

Later, we saw that the Mist Ninja and the Sand Ninja resumed peace talks, successfully signed a peace agreement, and ended the war.

Meanwhile, the Mist Ninja are still fighting against the Leaf Village in the Land of Rivers, but the conflict has decreased significantly, and both sides are showing signs of weakness.

As for the Iwagakure ninja, after suffering a major defeat at the Battle of Kannabi Bridge in the Land of Grass, they completely abandoned their strategy there, and even began to gradually withdraw from Amegakure.

On the Sand Village side, with the Fourth Kazekage Rasa taking office, the Sand Village's strategy gradually changed, and the situation was not as tense as before.

This is good news for Izumikawa. With the war over and the various forces retreating, his area of ​​activity will be larger.

Previously, no matter where you went, you were likely to encounter ninjas on reconnaissance or patrol, or even some ninjas on missions, which was very inconvenient.

In addition...

A piece of intelligence made him narrow his eyes slightly as he looked at the record and began to make plans in his mind.

"The Akatsuki!"

Recently, he has gradually gained fame in Amegakure, advocating for peace and promoting communication instead of war, so that people can understand each other.

Unfortunately, the greater the fame, the faster the Akatsuki would be attacked. Hanzo could not tolerate this, and Danzo should have discovered the Rinnegan by now.

It won't be long before Yahiko dies!

This made him sigh inwardly. Although he didn't believe the other person could succeed, he still hoped that there would be more people like that in the world.

The world is not so dark because there are always people with good morals and ideals who are willing to put them into action.

He might think the other person is naive and that it's impossible for them to achieve their goal, but he won't ridicule or mock them.

It's a pity that the other person was a pawn in someone else's game their whole life, with their fate controlled by others.

Looking at this intelligence, there isn't much more to note, because the information about the Grass Ninja is only superficial; there's nothing deeper.

"It's a pity that I haven't seen any news about the defecting seniors. I wonder where they are now."

With a slight sense of regret, Izumi began his evacuation. Now it was time to study; he needed to fill in the gaps in his knowledge.

Once Momona has recovered from her injuries and is on her way to the Land of Rivers, she can stop by the Land of Rain and investigate it.