Naruto Online: Hyuga Branch Family? Let's go all out!

Chapter 128 Who in the world does not know Ning?

10 month 31 day.

It was already late autumn, and most of the leaves on the trees had fallen.

Nothing major has happened in Konoha Village recently, but due to the changing seasons, there is an indescribable sense of desolation.

Hiruzen Sarutobi flipped through the pages of "The Primordial Era II" in his hands. At first, he was just reading for fun, but as he read on, he realized something was wrong.

This book seems to be more than just a story!

The political maneuvering, strategic battles, and alliances involved are of considerable reference value to him.

For example, the brothers Di Jun and Tai Yi created the demon race in order to unify the world, and then placed all the creatures of the primordial world under this framework.

The advantage of doing this is that the two brothers naturally possess the right to rule over other races.

The downside of doing this was that it forced out the demon race's rival: the witch race.

In gaining something, you also lose something; for every person who benefits, someone else suffers.

The same applies in Konoha. If your policies favor ordinary ninjas, you will offend the ninja clans; if they favor the ninja clans, you will offend the ordinary ninjas.

Konoha's resources are limited. If the Sarutobi clan takes a bite more, other clans will take a bite less. Therefore, it is impossible for Hiruzen Sarutobi and the ninja clans to live in harmony.

His governing policy was thus clear: suppress all ninja clans except the Sarutobi clan and support commoner ninjas.

However, there are techniques to "supporting". Providing resources, funds and development is also support, but simply increasing the number of students to be enrolled is also support, and assigning more tasks to civilian ninjas is also support.

They only assign tasks but don't pass on ninjutsu; they only talk about the Will of Fire but offer no real benefits.

So, commoner ninjas only earn a little more money, but they can never affect the status of the Sarutobi clan. Ironically, the existence of these commoner ninjas squeezes out the living space of other ninja clans.

This kind of support is exactly what Hiruzen Sarutobi wanted to see.

"Knock knock knock"

"Please come in!"

The office door opened, and a tall, beautiful female ninja with a single ponytail and a white swan mask walked in.

"It's a spirit!" Hiruzen Sarutobi breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing the newcomer.

There aren't many people who can make him completely let his guard down; Sarutobi Biwako is one, and Sarutobi Rei is another.

"sit!"

Sarutobi Rei nodded and sat down on the sofa next to him.

Personality reshaping only changes a person's values ​​and worldview, but it does not affect their existing knowledge and skills.

In other words, Sarutobi Rei is still the same Sarutobi Rei, only now he's switched from being loyal to Hiruzen Sarutobi to being loyal to the Ning organization.

"A training fanatic like you actually left the Anbu base!" Hiruzen Sarutobi asked, "Has something major happened?"

"Yes!" Sarutobi Rei nodded, then handed over a document: "The Daimyo has formulated a plan to recruit defensive ninjas, intending to recruit twelve Jonin to form the so-called Guardian Twelve!"

"Why did you have to build something like this?" Hiruzen Sarutobi took the document, looked at it for a while, and then looked up to ask.

"Who knows!" Sarutobi Rei shrugged.

Asuma went to the capital to become one of the Twelve Guardian Ninja after graduating, which means that the Twelve Guardian Ninja were formed a few years later.

However, given the efficiency of the Land of Fire, it takes a considerable amount of time for a plan to go from formulation to implementation, and the policy of protecting the Twelve Ninja was indeed proposed around this time.

The plan is currently in the preliminary stage, and the daimyo wants to know Hiruzen Sarutobi's opinion.

"What do you mean?" Hiruzen Sarutobi asked.

"My opinion is that the Daimyo is courting death, and I can send him on his way!" Sarutobi Rei said calmly.

"Cough, cough, cough!" Hiruzen Sarutobi coughed violently a few times and said, "It's not that bad. After all, he's the daimyo of the Land of Fire. It's only natural that he needs some ninja to protect him!"

"If he wants protection, he could just tell Konoha. Do you think we wouldn't send people?" Sarutobi Rei said irritably. "I think he's just afraid of Konoha's strength and is secretly rebelling here!"

"Don't mention your name like that!" Hiruzen Sarutobi thought to himself, but he was used to being a good guy, so of course he wouldn't say it.

"Since he wants to form the Twelve Guardian Ninjas, then let him form them. Twelve ninjas won't cause much trouble, and our Konoha can also send two ninjas to join them!" After thinking for a moment, Hiruzen Sarutobi said, "You select two Chunin from your clan. I'll conduct the promotion ceremony and then send them over!"

He had just looked at the documents and discovered that the Twelve Guardian Ninjas also received funds from the Daimyo. The Jonin allowance was a large sum of money, so why not take it!

If he weren't afraid of making a mess of things, he could have sent twelve genin over.

"Yes!" Sarutobi Rei nodded, then got up and left.

Hiruzen Sarutobi shook his head. His younger sister was quite cute when she was little, but...

For the sake of the Sarutobi clan, she gave up love and her slender figure, choosing instead to forge herself into a muscular powerhouse.

"Sister, your sacrifice was worthwhile. The Sarutobi clan will surely stand tall in Konoha!"

"Shinnosuke!"

"Aunt Ling! Is there something you need?"

Hiruzen Sarutobi had no idea that his sister, having just returned to the Anbu, had taken the initiative to approach his son, Shinnosuke Sarutobi.

"Let's spar!" Sarutobi Rei didn't waste any words and went straight to the point.

"Huh?" Sarutobi Shinnosuke was stunned, and then his forehead started to ache.

The fact that Sarutobi Rei challenges Sarutobi Shinnosuke is a very logical and character-consistent event.

Because Sarutobi Rei is competitive, he can never beat Sarutobi Shinnosuke.

Then she's not going to challenge Sarutobi Shinnosuke all the time, is she?

This had happened countless times before, so Sarutobi Shinnosuke only found it strange, but didn't think anything was wrong.

He sighed, stood up, and said, "Let's go then!"

Finish the game early so you can get some rest.

"I don't want to fight in the training ground!" Sarutobi Rei said.

"If we don't play in the training ground, where will we play?" Sarutobi Shinnosuke asked.

"The Forest of Death!" Sarutobi Rei exclaimed, "The reason I couldn't beat you before was because the arena was too small, limiting my movements! Once we get to the Forest of Death, with enough space to maneuver, I'm sure I can defeat you!"

"Fine, fine, fine!" Sarutobi Shinnosuke was speechless, but he couldn't argue back, because Sarutobi Rei wasn't a reasonable person.

The two often sparred, so there was no need to report to Hiruzen Sarutobi. As one was the head of the Anbu and the other was the captain of the First Battalion, losing could affect their respective prestige. Therefore, they could not bring outsiders with them when sparring.

Therefore, the two of them went to the Death Forest alone.

"This is indeed a good place for sparring!" Looking at the various crisscrossing ninjutsu marks on the ground, Sarutobi Shinnosuke judged that ninjas must often come here to train or spar.

How come he hadn't discovered such a great place before? It was large and secluded, allowing him to unleash ninjutsu freely without worrying about affecting others or damaging the area.

Turning his head, Sarutobi Shinnosuke was about to discuss the rules of their sparring match with Sarutobi Rei when he saw Sarutobi Rei suddenly reach out his hand.

"Pfft!"

The sharp kunai pierced straight through Sarutobi Shinnosuke's kidneys.

Sneak attack!

Even Uchiha Shisui, with his extremely fast reaction and speed, couldn't defend against Danzo's sneak attack. Zhang Sanfeng also couldn't defend against the sneak attack of Kong Xiang, who was several levels weaker than him. This shows that sneak attacks are indeed a tactic that allows the weak to defeat the strong and maximize damage in the shortest amount of time.

In particular, Sarutobi Rei is the younger sister of Sarutobi Shinnosuke's father, and the two are also colleagues, close in age, and have a very close relationship.

Therefore, Shinnosuke Sarutobi could never have imagined that his aunt would actually ambush him!

"Isn't it all about winning? I'll give you a few points!" Shinnosuke still thinks that Sarutobi Rei's sneak attack was just to win.

But Sarutobi Rei remained silent and continued to raise his hand to slice through kunai.

Although there is a difference in their strength, it is not so great that they can give each other a kidney.

You should know that even with a fist, a single kidney strike can cripple a person's fighting ability, let alone the kunai used by Sarutobi Rei.

The intense pain, coupled with the bewilderment of being ambushed by his loved ones, made it difficult for Shinnosuke to even gather his chakra. On the contrary, Sarutobi Rei became even more ruthless after succeeding in his attack, first severing his tendons and then his Achilles tendons. After a few cuts, Shinnosuke was bleeding profusely.

The person is alive, but has lost the ability to resist.

"That's why traitors are the most despicable, because the damage they can cause is just too great!" Ning Yuan and Shui Men walked out of the forest, silently sighing to themselves.

Many victories that the enemy struggles to achieve despite their best efforts and countless casualties can be easily obtained by an insider.

He began to think, should he put the entire organization under the curse mark?

Otherwise, what if there's a traitor within Ning's organization?

Even after being marked with the cursed seal, those who were already loyal to the Ning organization will remain loyal to it.

Those who harbored thoughts of betraying the Ning organization were silenced by the curse seal.

Furthermore, the seal can also be used to transmit knowledge, information, text, and images.

It is also highly functional.

"Let's evolve it before making it widespread. At least we need to add a network connection!" Ning Yuan shook his head. The current curse seal function is still a bit lacking.

Just like with the theft of personal information, we were very unhappy when older versions of computers used viruses to steal information, but no one cares when any app on a new mobile phone can steal information.

What's the difference?

The reason is that the phone is so functional that we can overlook that small flaw.

"Minato?" Shinnosuke recognized Minato and shouted, "Quickly report to the Hokage, Sarutobi Rei has gone mad!"

He thought Ning Yuan and Shui Men were just passing by.

Minato ignored him completely, but Sarutobi Rei, whom he called crazy, stood obediently behind Ning Yuan.

"Auntie, eh?" Sarutobi Shinnosuke finally sensed that something was wrong.

But it was too late!

"Don't worry!" Ning Yuan said while placing a cursed seal on Sarutobi Shinnosuke, "My medical ninjutsu is very strong. I guarantee you'll leave here without a single injury. However, there's nothing I can do about the blood on your clothes; you'll have to deal with that yourself!"

"Are you Hyuga Neon?" Sarutobi Shinnosuke roared. "What are you doing? What hand seal are you using? You, boss!"

"Perfect!" Ning Yuan nodded, then used medical ninjutsu to reconnect Sarutobi Shinnosuke's blood vessels and meridians, as well as his injured kidney tissue.

A moment later, Sarutobi Shinnosuke was back to his previous energetic self.

"Alright, you can spar now!" Ning Yuan said.

"Yes!" Sarutobi Shinnosuke nodded, then looked at Sarutobi Rei.

Sarutobi Rei raised his hand, and the two formed a standing hand seal.

This is the correct way to have a friendly sparring session!

(End of this chapter)