Escaping the Mist Ninja starts with backstabbing your teacher.

Within Sunagakure, after Karura's death, Yashamaru and Maki met again, and both regained their memories.

However, Yashamaru stopped Maki from trying to contact the outside world, because the situation had become complicated since he and Maki returned to Sunagakure.

Although there was nothing unusual, and Yashamaru was even Rasa's brother-in-law, the ever-suspicious Rasa became suspicious of Yashamaru after learning of Maki's and the others' deaths.

Some questions were inevitable. Although the answer was that Yecang was still attached to their past relationship and chose to let Juan go, he himself escaped under the cover of others.

However, he was still not at ease and sent other people to keep an eye on them. Now that the incident in Konoha had been exposed, Rasa was restless and mobilized his men to focus on the border.

This gave Yashamaru the opportunity to arrange a meeting with Maki here.

Yashamaru slightly raised his head, looked out the window, and said in a deep voice, "More than half a year has passed, and we haven't done anything unusual. The surveillance has been relaxed a lot, but it's still there."

"Furthermore, there's no important information about Pakura and the others that needs to be transmitted from Sunagakure right now, so there's no rush to contact them."

Unlike Yashamaru, who is an ANBU member and has special training experience, Maki is a genin with less experience, and he is still somewhat anxious.

To her, the Sand Village of today, especially those high-ranking officials who disgusted her, was a place of such filth beneath its reputation.

Juan couldn't help but ask, "When can we contact each other?"

Yashamaru shook his head slightly and said in a deep voice, "We still need to wait. Unless those surveillance cameras are removed, we will have to wait for a while to prevent them from exposing us."

As one of Luo Sha's trusted people, and also his brother-in-law, he knew Luo Sha's character very well and understood what kind of person he was.

He is indifferent by nature, cunning, and power-hungry. He sees only value in everything, and everything is a tool to him.

Even he, the only one who survived and returned to Sunagakure with the scroll, caused the village to lose trust in him and begin to harbor suspicion.

It must be said that Rasa's suspicions were not wrong, but the premise was that his memories had been modified. If they had not been modified, Yashamaru would not have betrayed him.

Juan looked worried and said, "But our teacher hasn't been able to contact us. Won't she think we've betrayed her?"

Yashamaru fell silent for a moment, feeling that his memory of that night was somewhat hazy.

Although she understood that Yekura had been framed, and that the mastermind was a high-ranking member of Sunagakure, how could Sunagakure possibly have a good future with such a person in charge?

This is also the reason he was willing to cooperate, as he remembers it: to eradicate these malignant tumors and festering sores in Sunagakure and revitalize the village.

Everything he did was for the sake of Sunagakure, to make it a better place, especially for his sister's poor child.

Yashamaru felt a pang of sympathy for Gaara when he thought of him, because the seal was incomplete and the child was unable to sleep properly.

The One-Tailed Beast constantly tries to break free, and whenever Gaara falls asleep, the One-Tailed Beast inside him will find an opportunity to emerge.

Now, the child is kept alone in a corner of the village to prevent him from going berserk.

If possible, he would prefer that child to grow up as a normal person, alongside his older brothers and sisters.

"Since it's a collaboration, we're on equal footing. If we really can't contact each other, it's not our fault."

"If we want to change the village, we really need to rely on Yekura's strength."

Yashamaru understood perfectly well that Rasa had already done everything in his power just to maintain the current state of Sunagakure.

Without the financial support of the Daimyo of the Land of Wind, Sunagakure relies entirely on Rasa's gold mining in the desert to maintain its status as one of the Five Great Ninja Villages.

Even though Konoha suffered a major blow from the Nine-Tails' attack and its strength was greatly diminished, Sunagakure was powerless to do so, as its resources were simply insufficient to support them in starting another war.

Therefore, in his memory, Yekura was the one who broke the deadlock in this situation.

Eliminate the malignant tumors of Sunagakure, reform Sunagakure, demonstrate its value, and restore the financial support of the Daimyo of the Land of Wind.

"It's almost time. Yecang hasn't contacted us yet. Let's talk about it next time we get in touch."

"Um!"

The timing of their meetings was entirely determined by Yashamaru, as only he knew the available time for surveillance.

The reason for each contact was to find out whether Yekura had taken the initiative to contact Maki.

Unfortunately, there has been no movement since they regained their memories, and it is unknown whether they are waiting for them to take the initiative to contact them.

As Maki watched Yashamaru leave in a hurry, she decided to meet him to see if he would do anything suspicious.

The reason she is now being prevented from making any contact and is following orders is because, under Yashamaru's guidance, she has noticed who is monitoring her.

Last time, someone followed me so easily that I almost sold out the teacher. I definitely can't make the same mistake again this time.

This made her murmur to herself, "Teacher, how are you doing now?"

……

"I can't take it anymore!"

Ye Cang shouted, her body covered in sweat as she lay on the ground.

Izumi's fist, formed from the chakra of the [Sage's Talent], stopped above her head.

Yecang looked at the dissipating red chakra fist and felt a tingling sensation all over his body. The chakra in his body was constantly circulating, eliminating the burning sensation.

She was improving her physical skills and chose to spar with Izumi Kawa.

However, he was clearly no match for them and was even burned by the Nine-Tails' chakra.

As for Izumi, he has now refined most of the Nine-Tails' chakra he collected, and his own chakra now has some of its characteristics integrated into it.

He didn't use any physical techniques when sparring with Yecang; he simply stood there and used the abilities of the [Celestial Talent].

A faint, ethereal form enveloped him, and every attack Yekura launched was met with a defensive counterattack. Meanwhile, he was immersed in the transformation of chakra nature, constantly refining it.

He slowly opened his eyes, looked at Ye Cang lying down, walked to her side, and pressed a green medical ninjutsu spell onto her body.

"optimization!"

As he whispered in his heart, the chakra representing green medical ninjutsu enveloped Yekura's entire body, continuously healing and adjusting her physique.

"Your performance has been very good. To adapt so quickly in such a short time, you truly deserve to be called a genius."

"Rest for a bit, then you can try using your Scorch Release technique to attack me!"

"With your current chakra control, you should be able to further refine and enhance the power of your Scorching Release technique using the [Sage Clan Talent]!"

Yekura felt much better after receiving the medical ninjutsu, her body relaxed and her fatigue lessened, and she nodded gently.

"It has indeed increased in power, and the ability to control it has also improved significantly."

"Now my Scorching Escape technique can even contain the heat, making it even hotter. Anything that touches it will instantly dry up."