My Villainous Life Starting with Naruto

Chapter 20 In chaotic times, life is as cheap as grass

Konoha 47, year ending.

On a day when snow was falling heavily, Hyuga Yuto packed his bags and left the Hyuga clan's territory.

These days, the Land of Fire has experienced heavy snowfall, and Konoha Village is covered with a thick layer of snow that crunches underfoot.

As the New Year approaches, a joyful atmosphere permeates Konoha Village. At this time, even the poorest families will prepare a sumptuous dinner to reward themselves for a year of hard work and welcome the New Year together with their families.

But Yuto Hinata wasn't interested in this.

—His parents are dead, and he cooks in the empty house with no one to talk to. Even Hyuga Yuto feels a tightness in his chest.

Treading through the snow and carrying his pack, Hyuga Yuto left the gates of Konoha Village as he always had.

However, to his surprise, the blonde woman was already waiting for him outside the village.

"Hey, my adorable apprentice." Tsunade patted Hyuga Yuto's shoulder energetically:

"If I leave the village now to carry out a mission, I won't be able to make it back for the New Year."

"Someone always has to bear the burden," Hinata Yuto said earnestly.

"Master, what are your instructions? Is there anything your disciple needs to do for you? Even if it's a mountain of knives or a sea of ​​fire, Yuto wouldn't even flinch."

The blonde beauty was clearly taken aback for a moment, and bent down slightly.

Hyuga Yuto's body hasn't fully grown yet; it only reaches her chin. Tsunade only needs to support herself on her knees with her hands so that their eyes are level.

The last princess of the Senju family reached out her delicate hand and gently flicked Hyuga Yuto's headband:

"I'm just seeing you off, my silly apprentice."

"……Um."

"Hey! Have a safe trip!" Just then, a shout suddenly came from somewhere in Konoha Village, but it was silenced.

The little girl hid behind a telephone pole, revealing two bright, lively eyes.

A few days ago, Shizune and Hinata Yuto had a little conflict—as for the reason, Yuto had already forgotten it, it was probably something like "Why does the fish in your bowl look better than mine?" Hinata Yuto didn't care about it, but the young Shizune held a grudge and vowed "I will never be friends with you again in this life."

However, the little girl still came to see him off today, along with Tsunade.

"Thank you, teacher..." Hyuga Yuto turned around and pulled up the collar of his thick cotton coat a little:

"I will be careful."

"Go, Yuto, you're already an excellent Konoha ninja!"

Hyuga Yuto waved to Tsunade and Shizune in the distance, slung his bag over his shoulder and left. Only when he could no longer see Konoha Village did he suddenly accelerate and run at the normal speed of a ninja on a mission.

The sudden appearance of Tsunade and Shizune made Hyuga Yu feel a little annoyed.

He paused his frenzied cultivation life and left the village to carry out a mission. One reason was to integrate the results of his three months of cultivation and consolidate his rapidly increasing combat power. The other, and most importantly, was to take time to do his personal things!

—According to the timeline of the previous manga, next year, which is Konoha year 48, will be the time when the Ninja World War breaks out completely, with major ninja villages and clans taking turns to fight, resulting in countless deaths and injuries.

The next few years will not be easy for ordinary people and most ninjas, but for the schemers hiding in the shadows, the Third Shinobi World War is the best time to lay their plans!

Hanzo of the Salamander and Danzo Shimura conspired to kill Yahiko, and the exhausted Madara Uchiha successfully planted the seed of madness in Obito's heart... The next few years were almost a carnival for schemers.

Hyuga Yuto certainly wouldn't miss such an opportunity. War would be the best cover for his actions. What would cause a huge uproar in peacetime would not even make a ripple in wartime.

"Everything is difficult at the beginning, I can't back down..." Hyuga Yuto sighed inwardly, pursed his lips, and took out the mission scroll while running.

The task he accepted this time was A-level.

Hyuga Yuto is now Tsunade's apprentice and a descendant of a powerful clan in the village, already holding a certain status. With his own combat strength sufficient, he is thinking of becoming a Jonin as soon as possible, so that it will be easier for him to act after the Third Shinobi World War begins.

Jonin are the elite force in each village. They can lead teams and take on apprentices. Their annual stipends are also extremely generous, and the best of the best can even stand alone.

There are many requirements for being promoted to Jonin, among which the most important one is to "meet the standards in both the quantity and quality of missions".

Completing multiple A-rank missions is a prerequisite for being promoted to Jonin.

The mission that Hyuga Yuto has chosen this time is "assassination".

He was the only one carrying out the task, and as long as he was efficient, he would have plenty of time to do his own things.

Therefore, he maintained a high speed after leaving the village.

The results of three months of training were immediately apparent. Thanks to medical ninjutsu and superhuman strength, Hyuga Yuto now had extremely strong control over chakra. He could unleash even greater speeds with less chakra. Medical ninjutsu could even relieve muscle soreness. After a long journey, as long as he ate and slept as needed, he felt almost no fatigue.

Two days later, he successfully crossed the border of the Land of Fire and arrived in the Land of Hot Water.

This is a small country in the northeast of the Land of Fire. Its territory is long and narrow. Like the Land of Frost, it is located in the middle of the two powerful countries of Fire and Lightning, serving as a buffer zone between the two great powers. Historically, when Konoha and Kumogakure went to war, these two small countries were the first to suffer.

Of course, both of them are better than Amegakure. The Land of Rain is a wretched place where the three great nations of Fire, Earth, and Wind meet, and they are all directly adjacent to each other. It has never had a peaceful day since the country was founded.

Hyuga Yuto had been to the Land of Hot Springs a few times before while on missions, so he was quite familiar with it. He bought a straw hat with gauze on it from a street vendor, put it on his head to cover his entire face, and then walked along the main road like a leisurely traveler.

In the dirty work of assassination, the worst thing is to be impatient. The most difficult part is often "finding the target." However, for the owner of the Byakugan, finding people is never a difficult task. Hyuga Yuto only needs to enter the city, activate his Byakugan, and he can complete half of the assassination mission. The other half is to stab the target's heart with a kunai.

The winter of Konoha in 47 was exceptionally cold. Not only the Land of Fire, but also the Land of Hot Springs experienced heavy snowfall for several days, even reaching the level of a snow disaster.

Although both suffered from disasters, the common people in the Land of Hot Water were in a much worse situation than those in the Land of Fire. After all, the Land of Fire was one of the five great nations. Although it no longer had the imposing prestige it once had when the village was first established, it was still a powerful nation with a strong economy. In the Land of Fire, common people could at least afford a thick cotton coat.

But the Land of Hot Water is different; this country... is too poor.

After traveling less than ten kilometers, Hyuga Yuto saw more than forty small "refugee camps" where people in tattered clothes were exposed to the heavy snow, huddled around fires for warmth, fearing they would freeze to death.

The children, their faces sallow, huddled together singing, despite the low temperature, they were wearing only thin straw sandals.

A pretty woman smiled ingratiatingly at every passerby, offering them a one-night stand for only sixty taels—just enough to buy a bowl of ramen in Konoha.

The withered old men were pushed to the outermost edge of the fire, kneeling and praying, begging for mercy from the omnipotent Sage of the Six Paths.

This is Konoha Year 47, less than half a year before the Third Shinobi World War broke out.

In times of turmoil and constant friction between major powers, the lives of ordinary people can plummet into hell in an instant should a natural or man-made disaster strike.

In chaotic times, life is as cheap as grass.

(End of this chapter)