"Yahiko, who do you think that person was talking to Jiraiya-sensei."
The blue haired girl asked in a whisper to an orange haired boy.
"I think it's probably a ninja from Konoha, but why is he wearing this mask on his face, is it because he's ugly?"
Yahiko replied, tilting his head and dropping his eyes in thought.
"A Konoha ninja!"
The red-haired boy who hadn't said anything on the side couldn't help but tremble when he heard Yahiko's words, and subconsciously didn't dare to look at that ANBU ninja from Konoha outside the door anymore, and couldn't help but recall the image of his parents' murder in his mind, and instantly crouched down on the ground shivering with his hands holding his head.
"Nagato, are you okay."
The blue-haired girl asked with concern as she noticed the red-haired boy's current state.
"Nagato, are you uncomfortable somewhere? I'll go find Jiraiya-sensei right now, Konan, you take care of Nagato here."
Seeing this, Yahiko also immediately went up to check on Nagato's condition, he noticed that Nagato's face was incredibly pale, and he was also sweating a lot, his situation was very wrong, he decisively chose to go and find his teacher Jiraiya to come over and help him.
But just as he turned around, Nagato violently reached out and grabbed his clothes, gripping them tightly in death, and said with a face of fear, "Don't go, you'll be killed, don't go ..."
"Nagato ..."
Konan saw this look of Nagato, heartbroken and anxious, not knowing what to do.
"Don't worry Nagato, I won't die."
Yahiko smiled confidently at Nagato, the smile was infectious and caused much of the fear in Nagato's heart to subside before slowly releasing his grip on Yahiko's hand.
"What happened?"
At that moment, Jiraiya rushed back into the house, noticing that Nagato was not in the right condition, he asked the trio with concern.
With Jiraiya's return, Yahiko and Konan instantly found their backbone, and their nervousness quickly subsided.
Seeing that the Konoha ANBU ninja hadn't come in, Nagato also regained his composure and forced a smile at Jiraiya, indicating that he was fine.
"If you're not feeling well, be sure to say something to me oh Nagato, I happen to know a very powerful medical ninja, and the person is also very beautiful, absolutely the world's top beauty, with her help, any disease in this world is not a problem ..."
Jiraiya said to Nagato in concern, then didn't hesitate to brag about how great Tsunade's medical skills were.
"Jiraiya-sensei again, you really do have a crush on that big sister named Tsunade, don't you?"
Konan ridiculed.
"That's right, that must be it, otherwise how could he always talk about that big sister, and I've seen sensei smiling strangely at that big sister's picture several times ..."
Yahiko followed suit, not hesitating to name some of Jiraiya's dark history.
"Yahiko, don't talk nonsense you kid, I didn't do it ..."
With his black history being dug up, Jiraiya was instantly anxious, he rushed to cover Yahiko's mouth, but the resourceful Yahiko had already run away.
The two instantly chased after each other in the room.
Konan was cheering Yahiko on from the sidelines.
Nagato looked at the playfulness of the three in the room and was in an inexplicably good mood, a happy smile on his face.
"It's so good, I wish I could live like this forever ..."
Nagato thought darkly.
...
The time turned to the late night hours.
Jiraiya suddenly opened his eyes from under the covers, then got up gingerly in case he woke up the three little ones who were sleeping on the floor together nearby.
He then used his Shadow Clone Technique to leave a shadow clone in his comforter, then glanced at the three little kids who were sleeping, smiled, and sneaked out of the house.
As soon as he left the house, the Konoha ANBU ninja who had approached him during the day quickly appeared in front of him.
"Did you find the person?"
Jiraiya asked in a small voice.
"Ha, the target of the mission is now in a small town dozens of kilometers away, and our men are keeping an eye on him."
The ANBU ninja nodded.
"Very well, lead the way."
Jiraiya said with a slight smile, a hint of anticipation on his face.
During the day, he had already received a letter from the old man from the ANBU ninja in front of him, learning about the next mission he was going to undertake.
In this regard, he was very much looking forward to it.
He had a premonition that if he was able to convince Hattori Masanari to enter into a partnership with Konoha, this country would see peace after a long time.
He was energized by the thought that he could contribute to the peace of this country.
He had once embarked on a journey in search of the Son of Prophecy in order to seek a change in this war-torn world, but he had never found the Son of Prophecy, and had only seen the tragedies caused by the war among the people of various countries during the journey, and had once felt powerless for it.
However, he did not give up because of his powerlessness, but became more and more convinced of the Sage Toad's prophecy, that he would in the future find the son of prophecy who would be able to bring peace to the world, and then take him as his disciple and guide him on the right path.
But before that, if he could forge a small peace for this world with his own hands, that would also be something that would make his blood boil, and he would be willing to fight for it.
"Let's hope it goes well this time, this country has been crying for too long and needs peace to appease her."
Jiraiya sighed as he followed the ANBU ninja leading the way ahead, looking up at the sky as the rain fell once again.
On the other side, in a small town where more than fifty percent of the buildings were destroyed.
Kirito's White Zetsu clone was playing the role of Hattori Masanari, a vestige, drinking and pouring to himself alone in an izakaya, where he had disappeared during the afternoon of the day using the Mayfly Technique, and reappeared at night as a way of giving Hanzo of the Salamander a piece of his mind.
On the one hand, he was showing that he possessed excellent hiding jutsu, and on the other hand, he was showing that he did not mean to go back on his word.
However, to his surprise, he hadn't long appeared before he realized that there were many more ninja from other countries around him who weren't Ame-Nin, and judging from the way they had been following him without moving, these people had come to find him, and there were several sets of people from different camps.
The fact that these ninjas were just following him and not making a move against him made Kirito more than a little depressed.
Couldn't find a reason to strike.
He was a person who had always been a person who didn't offend me, and although it was annoying that these ninjas were following him, it would be too much to make a move to kill someone just for that reason.
As for attracting strong enemies, he didn't have to worry about that, with his soul perception that had a great range of perception as well as his chakra perception that was formed by natural energy, he had the confidence to be able to make it to these strong enemies before they came and left.
"Hm~, finally two ninja that are barely passable have arrived."
Suddenly, Kirito sensed the appearance of two jōnin level chakra in the vicinity that were rapidly coming his way.
Soon enough, a pair of handsome men and women came in to the izakaya, both wearing Sunagakure forehead protectors.
When the two saw Kirito, the red-haired beauty spoke to the dark-haired beauty beside him before walking over to Kirito's side alone.
"It's Mr. Hattori Masanari isn't it, let me introduce myself, I'm Akashige from Sunagakure village, could you follow me over here for a moment, I have something very important I want to discuss with you sir."
The red haired beauty sat himself down across from Kirito and smiled politely.
"Introducing yourself to people and requesting them to discuss something like this should be done by the person himself, is it good enough to have a puppet come over? The puppet masters of the Sunagakure Village are really a bunch of guys who only hide in the shadows and play small tricks."
Kirito sniffed and laughed coldly before bringing the wine from the glass in his hand to his mouth.
Relying on soul perception, the puppet master's trick of disguising himself with a puppet was useless in front of him.
As soon as these words came out, the expression of the beautiful red-haired man in front of him instantly froze.
In the next moment, a spike quickly stabbed out from the palm of the red-haired beauty's right hand, which was resting on the table, and then swung at Kirito.
But before he could complete his movement, a huge ball of water instantly covered him, rendering him unable to move.
Water Release - Water Prison Technique!