Naruto : Minato back to the past

Chapter 303: Chapter 303 The Only Candidate



Half a year passed in a flash.

 Swish!

 Three figures suddenly appeared in front of Minato's house.

 Two of them were naturally Minato and Kushina, and the other one was Hyuga Hiashi from the Hyuga clan.

 He is now also a Chunin of Konoha, and it seems that his father, Hinata Tenki, has submitted an application for him to be promoted to Special Jonin to Hiruzen.

 At his age of fourteen, it was still a little premature for him to apply like this. However, with someone's help, the fourteen-year-old special jonin status can be achived.

 "Kushina, Hiashi, you two should go back and rest first. I will go to report the mission to the Hokage." Minato smiled faintly and disappeared suddenly.

 "Goodbye, Kushina." Hiashi said and left the Minato family compound.

 Kushina turned around, took out the key, opened the door, and walked into Minato's home.

 Hokage's office.

 "Still as fast as ever." Seeing that it was Minato who came to report his mission again, Hiruzen couldn't help but smile.

 During the past six months, Kushina has never been idle, and has been constantly looking for him to accept various tasks.

 With Minato's Flying Thunder God Technique, the two were able to carry out their missions at an incredibly fast speed, whether it was escorting merchants to another country or transmitting confidential documents.

 These two were always able to complete their missions within a day or two, so the number of missions they had completed continued to increase in their ninja profiles.

 The most common mission level is of course C-level. The difficulty of B-level and A-level missions is relatively high, but they have performed them nearly ten times faster in total.

 "I understand." Minato reported the entire process of the mission to the third hokage , and the former certainly handled it very appropriately.

 After Minato finished reporting the progress of the mission, Hiruzen's expression gradually changed, and then he said: "For the time being, you don't have to accompany Kushina on a mission. I have a mission for you."

 Noticing the change in Hiruzen's expression, Minato realized the seriousness of the matter.

 "What kind of mission is it?" Minato asked, his expression turning serious.

 Hiruzen's eyes darkened and he said, "I want you to infiltrate the Hidden Mist Village in the Land of Water and gather intelligence."

 "The Hidden Mist Village!?"

 When Minato heard this, his face changed. One of the five major ninja nations that had seemed to be dead silent since the Second Shinobi World War began and did not take any action during the war.

 Even after the war, the Hidden Mist Village cut off all ties with other ninja villages, and the Land of Water even blocked its coastline and strictly controlled all personnel entering the country.

 Of course, the top leaders of Konoha were aware of the abnormality in the Hidden Mist Village.

 However, Minato knew that the closure of the Hidden Mist Village was due to some kind of reform taking place in the country, and as a result, the Hidden Mist Village entered a rather dark era.

 The Hidden Mist Village of this era was called the Town of Blood Mist, and it remained in this state until his death.

 The so-called specific reform measures are actually reforms in the ninja training mechanism.

 he heard that in their ninja training system, the ninja graduation examination every year is a fight between the same grade.

 What's worse, to graduate one need to kill all the participant.

 During the Third Great Ninja War, the famous Seven Ninja Swordsmen in the Ninja World were the products of this mechanism.

 This cruel system can undoubtedly cultivate truly powerful ninjas, but Minato completely disagrees with this approach.

 Because doing so destroys humanity, although ninjas are accompanied by killing, they are definitely not just tools for killing.

 Hiruzen nodded and said, "Over the past few years, the village has sent out several experts who are good at disguising themselves and sneaking in to collect intelligence, but they all disappeared before they even entered the Hidden Mist Village."

 Minato nodded with a slightly serious expression. After all, the Hidden Mist Village was one of the five major ninja villages, and it was now completely closed to the outside world. It was not easy to sneak in and collect intelligence.

 "Some time ago, the village sent another person to carry out this mission, and he finally succeeded in sneaking into the Hidden Mist Village."

 Hiruzen said: "According to the information he sent back, the Hidden Mist Village seems to be in chaos. The Third Mizukage has not appeared in the public eye of the Hidden Mist Village for a long time."

 Hearing this information, Minato's brows gradually furrowed.

 HIruzen also looked angry and said, "But after he sent back this information, we also lost contact with him. It has been more than two months now. If nothing goes as expected, his identity should be exposed."

 He stared at Minato in front of him and smiled again: "You once formulated a mission to infiltrate the Sand Village and were one of the participants, so I think it would be most appropriate for you to carry out this mission."

 "I want you to collect as much information as possible about the Hidden Mist Village in recent years and the status of the Third Mizukage. You have mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique. When you have enough information, or your identity may be exposed. And If you encounter an irresistible danger, you can withdraw directly."

 "I've thought about it and you're the only one who can accomplish this mission." Hiruzen sighed. In this matter, the village undoubtedly lost many elites in collecting intelligence.

 Minato is currently the only person who can collect intelligence while ensuring that he can escape unscathed.

 "Understood!"

 Upon hearing this, Minato responded and then said, "However, can you give me the information of the Konoha ninja who sneaked into the Hidden Mist Village? I want to try to contact him."

 Hiruzen was stunned by his suggestion, two months had passed and there was no news. It was ninety-nine percent certain that their spy had been exposed.

 Under such circumstances, Minato still held on to that glimmer of hope and wanted to save his companions.

 Knowing his feelings, Hiruzen couldn't help but smile, then took out a ninja file from his desk and handed it to Minato.

 Minato took it, and after a moment's silence, he said, "Hokage-sama, I need three days to prepare."

 "Understood" Hiruzen replied without hesitation. Infiltration is already extremely risky, not to mention that the target is the Hidden Mist Village. It is completely reasonable for Minato to need some preparation time.

 At the same time, in the Land of Water.

 In the darkness, there was a corpse covered in blood, and on his chest was a bloodstained ninja forehead protector.

 The mark on the forehead protector is clearly the symbol of Konoha.

 "Haha, it seems that the people of Konoha are not totally useless. They manage hid for so long before being discovered. The third hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen is indeed worthy of being the successor trained by those two monster." The old man's laughter rang out from the darkness, bringing with it bursts of chills.

 "The people of Konoha should give up now."

 In the dim light, there seemed to be some plants like hogweed, and the sound seemed to come from underground.

 "No, my plan is just about to begin. Konoha will continue to send people to infiltrate, and this time the candidate will only be that kid."

 The old man's laughter was heard again, he raised his eyelids, and three black magatama slowly rotated in his scarlet pupils.

 "Is it Namikaze Minato? That little brat is becoming more and more troublesome. and now he can already put up a fight with Konoha White Fang." A voice was heard again from underground.

 The old man in the darkness smiled grimly upon hearing this.

 "So, his potential threat is already great enough. This time, we should eliminate him to prevent future troubles!"

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