Chapter 72: Mist Ninja Appears
Kinoshita Jiro died, and he died right in Naruto's arms.
A large amount of blood dyed half of Naruto's body red. Naruto looked blankly at Kinoshita Jiro who had fallen into his arms.
"Mission accomplished."
One Root ninja raised the scroll in his hand and spoke in a low tone to the Root ninja blocking Kakashi.
Kakashi's expression was unusually ugly. Kinoshita Jiro was an extremely important figure belonging to the Mist Village. Such a person dying at the hands of Konoha would definitely cause big problems!
"You two, stop right there!!"
Naruto slowly placed Kinoshita Jiro's corpse on the ground, raised his head, and roared at the two Root ninjas.
At the same time, a tyrannical chakra began to emerge from Naruto's body.
Of the two Root ninjas who were originally preparing to turn and leave, one figure stiffened suddenly.
The other Root ninja hurriedly turned around to look at Naruto, whose body was starting to emit fiery red chakra.
Kakashi did not notice the small movements of the two Root ninjas because the moment the Nine-Tails' chakra leaked, Kakashi had already appeared beside Naruto.
One hand pressed on Naruto's head, and the other hand held Naruto's shoulder to make Naruto calm down.
"Naruto, calm down!"
Kakashi's voice sounded in Naruto's ear. Hearing Kakashi's words, the originally tyrannical aura on Naruto's body began to slowly subside.
"Kakashi-sensei." Naruto's face still carried an angry look. He clenched his hands into fists, and spoke with somewhat unstable chakra in his body.
Seeing that Naruto did not undergo Tailed Beast transformation, Kakashi breathed a sigh of relief.
Root ninjas are different from other Konoha ninjas. Once a conflict occurs with Root ninjas, it would likely be a headache for the Third Hokage as well.
However!
Kakashi raised his head, his face cold, and spoke in a low tone to the two Root ninjas:
"I will truthfully report what happened today to the Hokage!"
Hearing Kakashi's words, those two Root ninjas did not seem to care at all and directly turned to leave.
In the blink of an eye, the two Root ninjas had already disappeared from everyone's sight.
"Jiro-san..."
Sakura walked over at this time. Looking at Kinoshita Jiro lying on the ground completely devoid of life, she covered her mouth slightly.
Sasuke, who was to the side, was somewhat silent. Suddenly he raised his head to look at Kakashi and asked: "Are those two Konoha ninjas really Konoha's Anbu?"
Kakashi's expression did not change. The existence of Root is a secret to ordinary ninjas, so Kakashi naturally would not tell them.
This is not only to protect Konoha's secrets but also for the good of Sasuke's trio. The less they know about some things, the safer it is.
Sakura is fine, but both Sasuke and Naruto have identities that are too sensitive. They absolutely cannot have contact with Root.
On the other side.
The two Root ninjas who left did not stop until they were a certain distance away from Kakashi and the others.
One of the Root ninjas twisted his waist lazily. He casually threw the mask on his face onto the ground and crushed it with one foot.
"Oh my, that was really thrilling. I didn't expect that brat to be Konoha's Jinchuriki. If we really fought, we probably would have been exposed."
Hozuki Suigetsu rubbed his neck and muttered in a low voice.
Bang!
Accompanied by a soft sound and white smoke, Hozuki Suigetsu released the Transformation Technique.
"But having said that, Kinoshita Jiro is really admirable. Unexpectedly, at the cost of death, he wiped away all the flaws."
Hozuki Suigetsu's tone carried a sigh. From his bosom, he opened the scroll Kinoshita Jiro had handed to him.
It could be seen that the content of the scroll was a blank sheet with nothing on it.
Hozuki Suigetsu stuffed the scroll back into his bosom again, then turned his head to look beside him at that Root ninja standing motionless.
His identity as a Root ninja was fake, but the one beside him was real; he was just controlled by Genjutsu.
Thanks to the fact that they all wore masks of Konoha's Root, plus yesterday night, he specially let this Root ninja meet Kakashi once.
Otherwise, given Kakashi's caution, he would probably have been suspicious.
"Your mission is over."
Looking at this Root ninja, Hozuki Suigetsu grinned slightly. The next moment, a kunai had already pierced through this Root ninja's heart.
After arranging the surrounding scene slightly to look like a fighting scene, and at the same time destroying the corpse to eliminate traces, Hozuki Suigetsu turned around and disappeared.
"Kakashi-sensei, what should we do with Jiro-san's corpse?"
Looking at the somewhat silent Naruto, Sasuke, and Kakashi, Sakura was stunned for a while and spoke helplessly.
Forget about Sasuke, but what are these two guys dazing off for!!
Sakura could not help but complain in her heart, but there was no change of expression on her face.
Hearing Sakura's voice, Kakashi's eyes could not help but flicker, and he recovered from his contemplation just now.
He did not know why, but Kakashi always felt there was something strange, but for a moment he could not recall what was strange.
Kinoshita Jiro was indeed somewhat strange, but he was already dead now.
The people of Root were also somewhat strange, but the people of Root had always done things like this.
Kakashi sighed softly. Let's leave this matter to the Third to handle.
"Let's bury Kinoshita Jiro's corpse in this place."
Kakashi pondered slightly, then spoke.
Although Kinoshita Jiro died, his body actually still had quite high value. However, leaving aside that Kinoshita Jiro was after all a person of the Mist Village.
As the clan leader of the Kinoshita clan, I am afraid that before dying, he would definitely set a seal regarding memories in his mind. Even if the corpse was brought back, probably no important information could be obtained.
A dejected look appeared on the faces of Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura. Although they had only been together for a few days, the three of them were full of good feelings towards Kinoshita Jiro.
Especially Naruto. In Kinoshita Jiro, Naruto seemed to feel a trace of father-like warmth.
Step—step—
Suddenly, two sounds of footsteps came slowly from the distance.
Kakashi and the others hurriedly raised their heads to look in the direction the sound came from.
It could be seen that what appeared before the eyes of Kakashi and the others were two extremely young figures.
One of them was a girl around seventeen or eighteen years old with brownish-red hair, carrying two swords on her back, and a cold look on her face.
The other person had long black hair, wore clothes with a blue and black combination, and had a gentle smile hanging on their face.
These two people were none other than Ringo Ameyuri and Haku.
Ringo Ameyuri glanced at Kakashi, and a look of excitement flashed faintly in her eyes.
Regarding Hatake Kakashi who could defeat Momochi Zabuza, Ringo Ameyuri was quite interested.
On the other side, seeing the forehead protectors on these tw
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