When Asahi woke up, it was already the next day's morning.
"Asahi, you woke up! Thank god!" Seeing him wake up, Shinohara yelled immediately.
"What's going on?" Asahi frowned and asked.
He just woke up, he was still feeling a bit dull and confused.
"You fainted yesterday, Keita and I carried you back. You have been unconscious for around 8 hours now." Shinohara said.
"What about Keita?" Asahi asked.
"He's there! He also suffered many injuries, lost too much blood, and is still unconscious." Shinohara pointed to a bed on one of the sides and said.
"Ah! That's okay…" Asahi finally sighed in relief.
"Are you okay?" Shinohara asked with concern.
Shaking his head, Asahi said, "Don't worry. It's fine, my chakra had just ran out."
At the same time, he used both hands to make hand seals for [Healing Jutsu] to heal the wound on his left shoulder.
[Healing Jutsu] was an advanced version of the [Curing Jutsu], which could activate all cells and heal a normal wound in just five minutes. During the battle, if there is a medical-nin that could use [Healing Jutsu] in the barracks, it was tantamount to having an extra life.
Unfortunately, Asahi's chakra reserves were just too small. It was not enough for even fights, let alone use [Healing Jutsu] to heal others.
"I'm going to see how Keita's injuries are."
After healing his wound, Asahi walked over to the bed beside him, and asked, "What happened last night? I remember Sunagakure's combat force was very strong. How about our casualties?"
"The casualties are okay. Last night, it was Orochimaru-sama who arrived in time and destroyed that group of Sunagakure shinobi. Otherwise, they might have wiped out our entire force." Shinohara said in an exaggerated manner.
"Orochimaru-sama?"
Asahi hearing this got startled, frowning he asked, "How could Orochimaru-sama get the information to support us? Even if Orochimaru-sama really did got informed about the attack, it's impossible to come to support us in such a short notice."
"I don't understand this either. Maybe Orochimaru-sama got informed from someone in advance."
Shinohara said blankly.
'Forget it, looking at this guy's face, he really does not know anything.' Asahi thought.
Asahi treated Keita's wound easily, while asking Shinohara, "Are there any other wounded people in the camp?"
"Yes!" Shinohara nodded, and then exclaimed, "Oh yeah, Ueno-sensei has been poisoned by a puppeteer's poison, and he may be sent back to the village for treatment."
"Fuck! You idiot! What did you say?" Asahi exclaimed, then said, "I have some antidotes in my ninja pouch. Maybe it can help. Let's go check it out!"
"Okay!" Shinohara nodded and said, "Asahi, don't do too much work."
"It's okay, I feel good now..."
...
"Ah!!! Arrghh...!"
Before reaching Ueno's camp, he could already hear screams coming from the inside. The poison of Sunagakure isn't easy to resist or treat.
Entering the camp, Asahi first saw four or five people lying on beds, constantly twisting their bodies and screaming. All around there were a few ninjas who seemed to be talking about something.
"You little kid, what are you doing here?" A ninja saw Asahi break into the camp, and started to scold him.
"I'm a medical-nin. I'll take a look at them." Asahi said as he walked towards Ueno.
"Medical-nin? Just you a little brat?" A ninja cheekily laughed and wanted to stop Asahi, "Get out of here, this is not a place for children to play!"
*Rip*
He used [Chakra scalpel] to gently pat on the thigh of the ninja, the ninja immediately screamed and fell to the ground.
"What are you doing?!" Several others exclaimed.
"Rest assured, I will help him to treat his injury later. I will first look at the poisoning of these people." He indifferently said, not putting these extravagant nobodies in his eyes. He walked to Ueno's bed, to check his situation.
After a moment, Asahi wiped the sweat from his forehead and secretly thought, 'It's okay.'
Fortunately, he brought antidotes in advance, otherwise with these people's poisoned-state, they might really need to return to the village to get cured.
...
In the evening, after detoxifying a few people, Asahi had nothing to do. He hid alone in the forest, and thought about the weirdness of yesterday's incident.
Twelve sand ninjas sneaked into Land of Fire, that could still be explained. They might have sneaked into the Land of Fire before Konoha took the decision to block the border. But how did Orochimaru came to support so coincidentally?
Orochimaru's camp was far from that zone, and even if he gets the news immediately after the incident, it's impossible to get there in time.
"Asahi, what are you thinking?" Ueno walked behind Asahi and praised him, "I heard that you performed very well this time and successfully killed three sand ninjas, one of which was a Jonin. It is really a good performance."
"It's nothing." Asahi indifferently and said, "It just have the feeling of being played."
Looking at Ueno's face, Asahi could still say some things. Yesterday, he felt a little weird.
After all, this matter was related to himself. If this kind of thing happens again, for several times, even nine lives would not be enough for him to last till the end of the war.
"This incident was a plan made by the village, I didn't know about it until after it happened." Ueno explained.
"Oh! So that's how it is!" Hearing that it was a village's plan, Asahi didn't put an interest into questioning it.
Some things were not known to Asahi after all, he's just a chunin. Although he had a feeling of being used and deceived, sometimes being used by others was also a manifestation of value, at least he had the value of being used.
It's all because his strength was still not high enough.
"Now that things are over, I can tell you some things."
Ueno explained, "The village let Sunagakure know that the Third Hokage was going to hold talks with the Land of Fire's Daimyo to discuss matters related to combat supplies, so they sent three teams of ninja, thirty-six people in total, to assassinate the Third Hokage."
"But all of this was part of the village's strategy. When the ninjas sent by Sunagakure entered the Land of Fire, we immediately blocked the border and Orochimaru-sama was sent to deal with those three ninja teams."
After hearing this, Asahi finally understood the ins and outs of this matter.
However, this doesn't seem like the Third Hokage's style, so it should be one of Danzo's scheme. After all, once the incident was passed back to the Sunagakure, Sunagakure and Konoha would start fighting immediately.
From the perspective of the original anime, Third Hokage should try to delay the conflict as long as possible. On one hand, he would try to solve it as peacefully as possible, on the other hand, he would be making secret arrangements and getting prepared for everything.
Anyway, war would start sooner or later. The elites who could confront the sand ninjas were of course the best.
However, according to Asahi's analysis, the Third Hokage must be shouting "Don't" on the outside, but should be cooperating in action at least in secret.
Sunagakure was initially given the message "The Third-Hokage wants to talk to the Land of Fire's Daimyo to discuss matters related to combat resources", and they would have definitely send someone to investigate. Without the cooperation of the Third Hokage himself, how could have they fooled Sunagakure? Maybe they wouldn't even had believed this information to be true.
'Fuck, those two old ghosts, one is acting bright and the other is dark.'
"But since something like this happened, Sunagakure will definitely not give up. We'll have to stay in the border to guard against them, and the village will soon send someone to support us."
Ueno looked at Asahi, and said seriously, "Asahi, by then, it will be a real war."
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