Three months went by with this new routine.
Three weeks of hell training, then a batch of quick missions.
But while Yujiro and his teammates were being tortured by their sensei and the Senju clan's medical ninjas.
A troublesome matter popped up for Konoha's higher ups, which they could not ignore.
After thinking for a solution for a moment, Hiruzen realized that they have to solve it directly.
*Sigh
"Call Anbu teams 37, 11 and 25 to my office.
Along with that, call Hiramasu to my office in 4 hours."
When he said that, a ninja with white hair clad in full anbu attire and a dog mask, left the room silently.
It only took 3 minutes for the three teams to gather at his office.
Hiruzen talked to them for about 3 hours, after which they left his office.
About an hour later, Hiramasu arrived at to Hiruzens office.
And what he saw was Hiruzen smoking his pipe with a troubled look on his face.
"Old man, why did you call me to your office before the sun was even up?
Did something happen?"
Hiramasu asked tentatively.
"Well, it's not really an incident, but it's definitely troublesome, so troublesome in fact that I had to drag that lazy Nara to talk about counter measures with me."
"So what's this thing all about?'
Hiramasu asked with surprise.
"It's something to do with land of water and the Kizami family of the land of tea.
The Kizami family has created a trade port, in the old land of whirlpools, which in the past acted as a trade port for the land of fire, water and lightning.
But currently, one side of the land of water has been harassing them, and robbing the merchants of their cargo."
When Hiramasu heard Hiruzen's explanation he understood what was happening immediately.
"So one side in the civil war is short on money and materials, and has resorted to piracy to fill that gap.
And since it's the prime port between land of lightning and fire, means that neither side will abandon it so easily.
And because we don't want to walk into their mess, they get to loot them with practically no consequences."
"Yes but if they think we won't retaliate because we don't want to walk into their mess, they are sorely wrong.
I have already sent out 3 anbu squads to clean out the nearby waters of the port.
And I want you and your team to reply to the official call for help from the Kizami family.
This makes it look like on the surface that a genin squad annihilated the pirates.
Of course anyone with a bit of brains can see that this is a diversion, but as long as we don't admit to anything.
They can't drag us into anything messy."
After understanding Hiruzen's plan, Hiramasu asked the question.
"When do you want us to leave?"
"Preferably in 2 days, so our anbu squads can clean out the nearby waters, that way when they learn that you have arrived they will realize that Konoha was responsible for their losses, and will hopefully send people to take care of you and your team."
"And then the other anbu squads will either kill off the people if they are weak enough, or they will assist me to take care of them?"
Hiramasu stated.
"Yes exactly."
"Okay, I will prepare my team for the mission."
Two days later, you could see team Hiramasu running through the woods, with incredible speed.
While they were running Yujiro asked a question all three of them had been pondering about.
"Why did we all of a sudden go on a mission?
And what are our mission details?"
Hiramasu looked at Yujiro and the other two with amusement.
"What, you want to continue that training?
I can still send you back with my shadow clone, you know."
When the trio heard that they quickly shut their mouths.
Meanwhile Hiramasu was laughing in his mind.
'Haha, kids are so easy to tease.
Though since we are already on the way I guess I can tell them a little.
Hehehe.'
"But since you asked me so politely, I will graciously explain it to you.
The Kizami family which has a lot of dealings with Konoha bringing it a lot of money, has had troubles in the past few weeks, so they paid a lot of money to get capable ninjas like you to protect their port city from bandits, as for the reason they asked for you, it's because you have had such a good reputation in dealing with bandits.
You know it's getting so good that your reputation has started to spread to other nations."
When the trio heard Hiramasu's answer, they all could not help but complain in their heads.
'Yea right that's our mission, even if they paid you directly billions of ryo, id still say that you would rather torture us than take that mission.'
They finally reached the port city of Mizuhana.
When they reached it, the trio was extremely surprised by its prosperity.
The first one to voice his doubts was Mujin.
"How come it's this prosperous? I thought that the land of whirlpools was destroyed in the second great ninja war.
So how come it's this prosperous now?"
Hiramasu directly answered him.
"Almost immediately after the destruction of the land of whirlpools, a trade city was made here, as for the reason, it's because the trade routes that went by here in the past practically directly went through here, and since the land of whirlpools can no longer accommodate the trade routes here, another trade port was established.
As such most of the people here are workers of the trading companies or their families.
And the few normal survivors of the land of whirlpools.
While some are ninjas without a village who have sold their services to the Kizami family in order to protect this city.
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