Chapter 40 Nothing But Being Handsome

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Under the dim night, several sneaky figures gathered together.

"Kukie, what's the matter with you? Why are you so late and someone is there with you?"

"That's right, it caused us to temporarily change the contact location."

Hearing the complaints of his companions, Kukie’s nose was sore, and he was almost on the verge of tears.

After being played around by the two little brats for a long time, he almost changed his job from a Shinobi to a chef. After the two little brats left, he found the secret message left by his companions from the back door of the shop. So, he rushed all the way to the new contact location, and didn't even have time to eat anything.

Trying to calm down the restlessness in his heart, Kukie explained, "Sorry, I didn't expect to be entangled by two troublesome little brats."

"Entangled? "The others were taken aback and asked quickly, "You were discovered?"

"No way!" Kukie waved his hand, "If I was exposed, a lot of Konoha’s Anbu would jump out now and grab us... mmfftt, what are you doing?"

"Don't talk nonsense." One of them released his right hand covering Kukie's mouth and glared at him fiercely, "I used to have a companion, and every time he said something similar, it came true."

The corners of Kukie's mouth twitched, and he whispered, "How is this kind of thing even possible? It's not Shinobitific at all."

"Okay." The leader of this group stopped them, and then asked, "What happened?"

"There are two little brats from Konoha who want to provoke me on purpose, so as to attract the Shinobi’s inspection..." Seeing that the others’ expressions changed drastically, Kukie quickly explained, "Don't get me wrong, those two little brats don't know who I am. They did it just to provoke conflicts and avenge Nidaime Hokage."

Hearing this, the others laughed and said, "I didn't expect that even when Konoha's higher-ups are all coward, there are a few hardliners among those little brats."

Kukie also laughed and said, "Haha, one of the little brats also claims to be the son of Sandaime Hokage..."

"Huh? Why aren’t you laughing?" Seeing that the smiles on the faces of the others suddenly disappeared, Kukie was puzzled at first, but he soon "woke up" and regretted it. "I understand, I should have caught that little brat directly at the time. After all, that little brat is obviously worth more than the target..."

"Idiot!" The leader scolded in a low voice, "Haven't you heard that the Sandaime Hokage like to use the Telescope Technique to peep?"

Kukie stared wide-eyed upon hearing this, "Peep?"

The Shinobi next to him replied, "What Hyakumi-sama meant is that Konoha's Sandaime Hokage is a person with a very strong desire for control, so this technique was specially developed for monitoring."

Kukie was surprised and said, "What should we do then?"

"It's fortunate that you idiot didn't do it, otherwise we'll be finished now." The leader asked with suppressed anger, "Quickly recall it. Did you show any flaws before?" "

"Should...not? "The more Kukie recalled, the less confident he became.

"Should not?"

At this time, the Shinobi on the side asked a question, "Wait, as the son of Hokage didn't even come back for dinner, wouldn't Sandaime Hokage send someone out to find him?"

The leader pondered for a moment, and then suddenly asked, "You mentioned earlier that there are two Konoha’s little brats, who is the other one?" "

Kukie pondered for a while, and felt that kid has no sense of existence other than being hands, "I don’t know, except for being handsome..."

However, the leader was overjoyed upon hearing this, "I see, that little brat must be Shimizu Sōseki whom I have found out about the past few days. I heard that Sandaime Hokage is very optimistic about him. Maybe when Sandaime Hokage used Telescope Technique, he found that the two of them were staying together, so he is not worried and didn't continue to watch after them."

"Is that so? "Kukie was very confused, ‘He is obviously with no good point besides being handsome. Could it be that Konoha has fallen to the point of choosing people based on looks?’

"Captain, what should we do now?"

The leader pondered for a moment, then exhaled heavily, "Well, the risk of our exposure has greatly increased now, so we must take action tonight!" "

...

Fearing that they would be discovered, Sōseki and Asuma were tracking from a very long distance, but the flaw of this method was that they could not hear the other party’s conversation.

"Ha~ Why haven't they acted yet? Could it be that they fell asleep? "Asuma yawned, and whispered, "Sōseki, why don't we get closer?" "

Sōseki shook his head slightly and said, "The strength of these Shinobi may not be stronger than ours, but their experience of performing missions is definitely better than ours. If we get closer, the risk of being discovered is too great!"

"Okay. "Asuma sighed helplessly, and then clenched his fists fiercely, "When I catch these bastards, I must let them know the fate of making me miss my sleep." "

"They’re out! "

"What is coming out... they are finally going to act?"

Sōseki nodded and whispered, "Prepare to follow them."

They are far away from the enemy, so although it is safe, they may lose their target if they are not careful.

So, the two did not dare to be distracted at all, and when they saw the enemy move, they quickly followed.

After following for a while, Asuma exclaimed softly, "Huh, in that direction? "

Sōseki feigned ignorance and asked, "Is there a problem?"

"Except a very fierce big sister living there, there are no other people living in that direction. Asuma said, and then asked, "Sōseki, do you know Land of Whirlpools?"

Sōseki nodded and replied while jumping and following, "The Land of Whirlpools was originally a friendly ally of our Konoha, but it was destroyed by a war a few years ago. "

"Well, this big sister is the survivor of the Land of Whirlpools. "Asuma said the "truth" he knew, "In order to protect the orphan of Land of Whirlpools, that old fogey and the others let that big sister settle down in the village. And because of being an outsider, she doesn't seem to have a good relationship with the rest of the village. "

"However, why did these Kumogakure’s Shinobi tried to catch her?"

When Sōseki heard this, he almost burst into laughter.

According to the memory of his previous life, only Sandaime and a few elders knew about the fact that Uzumaki Kushina became Kyūbi’s Jinchuriki, and the others didn’t know, not even the Sannin.

This also led to a very awkward situation. If they send someone to monitor her, the spies from other villages will definitely find something wrong. But if they don’t send someone to monitor her, it is impossible for them to keep an eye on her all the time.

In the end, they can only choose to believe in Konoha’s security protection.

On the other hand, Kumogakure has never thought of capturing Kyūbi at all. Otherwise, it would not be these weakling they sent out. They are really only interested in the other party’s special chakra, but who knows they would catch a super big fish.

 

(A/N: According to the setting of the original work, this incident occurred 27 years before the end of Fourth Shinobi World War. As the event happened can be said to happen between the end of year 41 to the beginning of year 42, I have made some mistake as it should have happened at the end of the previous year, but I forgot it and inexplicably changed it to the start of the second year. Another thing is that people often think that this plot happened during Namikaze Minato’s Academy years, because the first part of this episode happened to be the part of Kushina just joined the Academy, but in fact, when Namikaze Minato saved Kushina like a hero, both of them already wore the Konoha’s forehead protector and graduated.)


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