Land of Fire.
Daimyo's Mansion.
The Mansion, who holds a paper fan all year round, gently twisting her waist, twists his waist softly, and slowly enters his mansion under the protection of several Guardian Ninja.
"Haven't Asuma and the others come back yet?"
Daimyo used a paper fan to cover his face and asked the Guardian Ninja beside him softly.
The Guardian Ninja shook his head and said: "They haven't come back yet, Daimyo-sama."
"They're so slow."
Daimyo twisted in dissatisfaction, and said while panting with rage, "I still have an important mission, get them to come back quickly."
The Guardian Ninja lowered his head expressionlessly, not daring to look directly.
At this moment, at the end of the bustling street, a figure rushed over at an extremely fast speed.
"Daimyo-sama!" Chiriku is very fast, with a few flickers, he has arrived in front of the Daimyo.
Seeing the visitor, Daimyo's eyes lit up. He happily covered his mouth and nose with a paper fan, and said happily: "Chiriku, you are finally back."
"Daimyo-sama, something happened!"
Chiriku knelt on one knee and said quickly, "Kazuma was killed by someone!"
"Eh?" Daimyo's eyes widened, and the smiling face under the paper fan suddenly became serious, "What did you say?"
"How is it possible?"
"Kazuma… died? Is this a joke?"
The Guardian Ninja next to them looked at each other in and exclaimed in disbelief.
After Chiriku got up, he immediately told Daimyo of what happened in the Fire Temple, and asked Daimyo to write a letter to Yondaime Hokage immediately, asking him to severely punish the murderer!
The Daimyo kept fanning the paper fan in his hand, and said angrily: "It's too much! Konoha's Shinobi is getting more and more arrogant! Not only did it in the Fire Temple, they even dared to kill my Guardian Ninja. How on earth did Yondaime discipline his subordinates?!"
"Sure enough, there is no need for Hokage to exist at all!"
"Land of Fire only needs the Daimyo!"
The Guardian Ninja next to him said strangely.
Daimyo nodded approvingly: "I will personally write to Yondaime. If he can't manage his subordinates well, let me help him!"
Throwing away the paper fan in his hand, the feminine Daimyo walked into the study fiercely, and immediately wrote wrote a 3,000-word letter of guilt, and then handed it to Chiriku, who was asked to go to Konoha immediately and give it to Yondaime Hokage, Namikaze Minato!
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Konoha.
In the flat office building next to the Hokage Tower, Asuma immediately came to the second floor after arriving, where the advisor's office is located.
Then, Asuma quickly saw his old man.
He was sitting in an open office, buried in a stack of papers, and at first glance, he could only see his forehead with the growing hairline.
"Old… Dad." Asuma called.
'Eh?'
Hiruzen was startled, looked up, and saw a young man with a non-mainstream hairstyle standing at the door of the office.
Hiruzen rubbed his eyes, and the 'vicissitudes' face of the non-mainstream youth in front of him gradually overlapped with the stubborn youngster in his memory.
"Asuma!"
Hiruzen stood up abruptly and ran out excitedly, "You are finally back!"
Seeing Sarutobi's pale temples, a trace of distress flashed in Asuma's heart, but he said with a straight face: "Dad, Aunt Koharu and Uncle Homura are all retired, so it's time for you to retire too!"
"Hahaha, it is precisely because they have retired that I have to work harder."
Hiruzen looked at Asuma with satisfaction, and said, "Asuma, for you to come back this time, you…"
"I came back this time because I have something to look for Yondaime!"
Asuma remembered the business, his eyes immediately flashed with resentment, and he said, "Gekko Kanpū, that guy killed Kazuma!"
"Kanpū? Kazuma?" Hiruzen frowned slightly. His intuition told him that this matter was tricky. He took out his tobacco pipe, lit it up, and slowly began to puff.
"Tell me, what exactly happened." Hiruzen said.
Asuma said: "Gekko Kanpū used Genjutsu to control Kazuma to kill me in the Fire Temple. After being exposed, he flew into a rage out of humiliation and killed Kazuma! The Ninja Monks in the Fire Temple can prove that, and… Kazuma is one of Twelve Guardian Ninja under the Daimyo! Daimyo should have known about this by this time, and he will never let it go!"
Hiruzen looked at Asuma with a weird look, and said: "You said that Kanpū wants to kill you?"
Asuma nodded solemnly, and said: "I must have troubled him a few years ago. He held a grudge, and was worried that killing me directly would cause trouble, so…"
"There is no such possibility."
Hiruzen shook his head, "If Kanpū wants to kill you, no one can stop him, and of course it is impossible for anyone to notice."
Hearing this, Asuma looked at his father in confusion: "What do you mean?"
"It means…"
Hiruzen sprayed second-hand smoke on Asuma's face, hating him for not being bright enough, and said "Kanpū's strength has… reached the level of Sannin!"
As early as the three people of Kanpū, Shisui and Kakashi joined forces to hunt down Orochimaru, Kanpū's strength had already been at Jonin-Level. In the following years, Kanpū continued to grow, and after signing a summon blood contract with Ryuchi Cave, one of the Three Holy Lands, his strength soared again!
The most important thing is that Kanpū has also mastered Sage Mode in Ryuchi Cave!
Moreover, when he was training Sage Mode in Ryuchi Cave, he also fought Orochimaru, Sasori and Obito several times. Although no details were given, to be able to fight three S-Rank Missing-nin at the same time, Kanpū's strength can be said…
Although Kanpū's Shinobi Certificate is just Tokubetsu Jonin, that's because he keeps a low profile, otherwise, he can change it to an Elite-Jonin in minutes!
So, if Kanpū really wants to kill Asuma, how could he fail?
And Kanpū is not stupid, how can he kill Asuma in full view?
Even Jiraiya who writes novel won't make up such a weird plot!
"Dad, are you cracking a joke with me?!"
Asuma looked at Hiruzen with a shocked face, only feeling dizzy in his head.
'Gekko Kanpū, Sannin…'
'He has reached the legendary Sannin-level?!'
'It's just a joke, right?'
But for some reason, when Asuma thinks of the 300-meter-high Rashomon summoned by Kanpū, and the scene of easily 'killing' himself, Kazuma and the others, he vaguely realizes that his father is not lying.
'But…'
'It doesn't make sense!'
Hiruzen wanted to patted Asuma's shoulders, but his son was nearly 1.9 meters tall, and he couldn't reach it, so he had no choice but to pat his arm, and said: "And as far as I know, Kanpū is not good at Genjutsu."
'Not good at Genjutsu?'
Asuma was taken aback.
Although Hema does not have a certified level, Asuma usually spars with him a lot and the strength of the two is about the same, that is to say, Kazuma is at least a Tokubetsu Jonin.
So here comes the question, how can Kanpū, who is not good at Genjutsu, use Genjutsu to control Kazuma?
'Could it be that Kanpū hides his strength?'
Asuma suddenly remembered that the time when Kanpū was hitting his lungs with one knee and the pain hit his body, he heard a sound from his ears of Kazuma's shouting and he said that Kanpū wanted to kill himself.
He touched the scar on his neck, and his heart felt cold: 'If Kazuma was not hit with Genjutsu at that time…'
'Then, Kazuma was threatening Kanpū with my life?'
'But… I didn't recognize Kanpū at all at that time. Even if I did, there was only a feud between us, and there was no friendship. By doing this, Kazuma would not threaten Kanpū at all!
Asuma's mind is in a mess.
"Let's go, I'll take you to see Yondaime." Hiruzen extinguished his pipe and walked outside.
"Dad?" Asuma subconsciously followed along.
"In the end, that Kazuma is still Daimyo's subordinate. No matter what the truth is, it must be handled by Yondaime." Hiruzen said.