From the night of genocide, marching towards the strongest.

Yugito was taken aback, instinctively stopping his chakra gathering for a moment before snapping out of it and angrily rebuking him, "You little brat, do you know how dangerous it is to just barge in like that?"

"Get out of the way!"

Huan shook her head, spread her arms, and stood firmly between the two, showing no intention of moving aside. This greatly annoyed Yukito, who shouted:

"If you don't move aside, I'll kill you too!"

"You won't, Yukito-neechan."

"You bastard!"

Yu Muren was furious but didn't know what to do. Just then, an old and calm voice rang out.

"Yukito, stop."

"Grandma Cat?"

The wooden figure looked toward the sound and saw an old woman dressed in a yellow-orange coat and wearing dark gray cat ears, holding a golden pipe, who had somehow appeared in the room.

Yugito hesitated for a moment, gave a soft hum, and finally put away the blue chakra fireball that had formed in his hand.

"Sasuke, you should stop too."

"Yes, Grandma Cat."

Sasuke nodded, silently dispelling the chakra particles on the Fire Armor, and sheathed it.

At the same time, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, he wasn't very confident that he could defeat Yugito in his human form.

Yugito has two more states he hasn't used yet: the Two-Tails half-tailed beast form and the complete tailed beast form. (His humanoid state, regardless of the number of tails, is a half-tailed beast form; only when he transforms into the giant tailed beast form is he in his complete tailed beast form, a prime example being Killer Bee.)

Even if he could kill Yugito, it wouldn't be a good option for him in his current state.

That would mean he had to leave Konoha and face pursuit from the Cloud Ninja.

Although Sasuke is not afraid, it will ultimately bring many changes and inconveniences to his future actions.

"You've grown quite a bit, little Sasuke."

Granny Cat glanced at Sasuke's Sharingan eyes and sighed.

"I'm sorry you had to see this."

Sasuke replied respectfully, and the Sharingan in his eyes returned to its jet-black state.

Since activating his Sharingan, he has deliberately kept his back to the ANBU members and Sakura and Naruto hiding in the shadows, so they did not see the Sharingan in Sasuke's eyes.

After sighing, Granny Cat sighed again and apologized to Yugito and Sasuke:

"It is my fault for not being hospitable enough, which caused some unpleasantness for our two distinguished guests here."

Granny Cat shook her head inwardly. Yugito had arrived in the empty area in the early morning, and her request to Konoha was for Sasuke and the others to come back at noon or 1 p.m.

In her opinion, there shouldn't be any chance for the two sides to meet.

It's not entirely Grandma Cat's fault. Kakashi did tell Team 7 when he gave them the mission that they should set off at noon.

However, none of the Seventh Class listened to this point and rushed over as soon as they got the mission assignment letter.

"I am deeply sorry for this."

"Grandma Cat, you don't need to apologize. This is between me and this guy." Yugito snorted and looked at Sasuke.

"Uchiha Sasuke, I'll let you off this time for Granny Cat's sake. Just don't let me run into you outside again, hmph!"

After seeing Granny Cat appear, Yukito uttered a harsh remark and decisively turned and left.

"Hey."

Seeing that Yukito had left on his own, Granny Cat sighed.

At this moment, Sakura and Naruto entered the arena, and Granny Cat finally put on a kind face.

"My dear guests from Konoha, please come with me."

Chapter 72: I was meek and submissive when facing the Hidden Cloud Village, but I struck hard against the Hidden Mist Village!

A few minutes later, in the underground corridor.

After Granny Cat smiled and took out a book called "The Complete Book of Meatballs" and announced the contents of the mission,

"Grandma Cat, there are some things I need to talk to you about in private."

"No problem." Granny Cat smiled kindly and said to Naruto and Sakura, "Then please wait here for a moment, and I will take good care of you."

"Yes, grandmother."

Sasuke and Granny Cat then walked one after the other into the depths of the corridor.

"Sasuke, I'm sorry for what happened just now."

The two entered a room and had just sat down when Granny Cat spoke up: "You must have noticed that Yugito is the Jinchuriki of the Two-Tails. The Two-Tails, Matatabi, used to have a deep bond with my clan's cat ninja clan. Yugito would occasionally come to my place, but I never expected that you would meet today and that such an unpleasant thing would happen."

"Grandma Cat, you don't need to apologize. That's not what I wanted to ask you." Sasuke shook his head and got straight to the point.

"Grandma Cat, is this mission related to Itachi Uchiha?"

"Did he come to see you before?"

Granny Cat exhaled a puff of smoke and shook her head: "I'm sorry, little Sasuke, I can't tell you anything about Itachi, just like I've never told Itachi anything about you."

"I understand." Sasuke nodded and didn't ask any further questions.

After talking for a while, Sasuke got up to say goodbye and returned to his previous room, where he and Naruto and Sakura, who had been waiting for him, began their mission.

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The scene shifts to Konoha.

Inside the Hokage's office, the Third Hokage frowned deeply after hearing the Anbu's report on what had happened in the Void District. After a long while, he nodded and said in a deep voice, "I understand. You may all leave now."

"Yes!"

After the Anbu group left, the Third Hokage picked up the report again and started reading it. The more he read, the uglier his expression became, and he sighed inwardly at the troublesome situation.

"Shikaku, do you think we in Konoha should try to explain this to Kumogakure through diplomatic channels?"

The Third Hokage put down the report in his hand, smiled wryly, and asked Nara Shikaku, who was standing silently to the side.

Nara Shikaku pondered for a moment and advised, "Third Hokage, I suggest it's best not to do that."

"Oh?" The Third Hokage straightened up with a solemn expression.

"Tell me your reasons."

"According to the intelligence provided by Tenzo, the female ninja from Kumogakure is a Jinchūriki. She is slender with straight, light brown hair. Her identity should be Yugito Nii, the Jinchūriki of the Two-Tails Matatabi."

Nara Shikaku nodded and analyzed calmly, "Yugito Nii went to the battlefield during the last Shinobi World War and fought against our Konoha people. According to the recollections of her colleagues who fought against her, as well as our Konoha's intelligence, Yugito Nii is an arrogant ninja who is extremely confident in her own strength."

"From the details of Sasuke's battle with Yugito in the Tianzang intelligence report, it's not hard to see that Yugito was clearly at a disadvantage and suffered a small loss, perhaps due to underestimating her opponent. Someone as proud as her would definitely not report such a thing or tell anyone. She would only secretly resolve to get revenge one day."

"After all, Sasuke is only a genin now, while she is a big shot in Kumogakure, so there is no need to worry about this. If we go to Kumogakure to explain, it will only let the people of Kumogakure know about it."

The Third Hokage remained silent for a long time before finally nodding.

I hope it's as you say.

After regaining his composure, the Third Hokage brought up another topic.

"I've decided to send Kakashi to lead Team 7 on a mission to the Land of Waves. What do you think, Shikaku?"

Nara Shikaku said in a deep voice, "The Third Hokage was very farsighted. Sending Kakashi's team to do this mission was the most appropriate choice. I suppose the Third Hokage sent someone else in secret besides Kakashi's team?"

The Third Hokage smiled and said, "Indeed, the trip to the Land of Waves is extremely important. We, the people of Konoha, must not allow the Hidden Mist Village to succeed in its plan!"

His words were resolute, completely unlike his previous timidity when mentioning Yunyin!

The two exchanged a glance and smiled at each other, everything understood without a word.

That evening, in a mountain town not far from the airspace.

"How is this possible? You! You... how can you be so powerful?"

Inside the dimly lit palace, a gigantic white cat with a scar near its eye lay on the tatami mat, staring incredulously at the calm-looking boy a few meters away.

Beside the large white cat were a group of ninja cats covering their faces and trembling.

"It seems that Itachi Uchiha did indeed make some kind of deal with you."

Sasuke slowly glanced around the room and said calmly.

As his gaze swept over them, the ninja cats' faces turned pale, their fur stood on end, and they lowered their heads even further.

"You little guys, go down now. I need to have a proper talk with your boss about what's going to happen next."

The ninja cats of this Cat Mountain City all came from the Empty District, and even the cat demons were raised by Granny Cat. So Sasuke simply beat them up and didn't go too far.

Otherwise, with his current strength, all these ninja cats would be dead.

The ninja cats trembled and quickly nodded: "Young Master Sasuke, we'll take our leave now."

As soon as he finished speaking, the group of ninja cats scattered in all directions in a panic, none of them daring to look at their leader, the cat demon.

The cat's forehead veins bulged as it stared at them, inwardly cursing these cowards and traitors.

"Tell me, did Itachi Uchiha find you recently?"

Sasuke looked at the cat calmly and asked again.

"No, no, young master Sasuke," the cat quickly shook its head, denying it.

"Itachi hasn't been able to find me lately. Today's incident was because... because..."

The cat hesitated for a long time, but in the end, it still didn't reveal the information about Itachi Uchiha.

"Never mind, I'll see for myself."

After saying that, Sasuke immediately activated his Sharingan and cast a genjutsu.

A moment later, Sasuke obtained the information from the cat's brain.

"That's it?"

Sasuke was somewhat disappointed, simply because Itachi Uchiha and Nekomata had made a promise years ago that Nekomata would give his all to be Sasuke's opponent in the future.

It's yet another test and love from Nissan.