The content of the letter that Akio wrote was naturally about what he and his team suspected they had found.
The solution of the Caged Bird Seal
His Cloud Village had wanted to obtain the Byakugan for a long time, but the caged bird seal prevented them from obtaining it on many occasions.
The main members of the Hyuga family were usually well protected and it is almost impossible to kidnap them.
But now they had the opportunity.
A messenger bird might take several days to return to the Cloud Village and deliver the message, but the time is shortened to a few hours by sending the message through a secret house where other ninjas from the Cloud Village will send the letter to the Cloud Village through summoned animals.
These summoning animals had been specifically trained for this type of case.
They just need to be invoked in reverse and could deliver messages in seconds.
The only drawback is the chakra cost at greater distances, which is why these secret houses are spread across all countries.
After returning from the secret house, Akio told his team what he saw and his concerns.
Fortunately, his team also understood his concerns and why he didn't act on his own and instead warned the village about the solution of the Caged Bird Seal.
Although they were tempted by the merits they would gain from acquiring a pair of Byakugan or the bloodline of the Hyuuga clan, they also understood that they needed to be alive to enjoy those merits.
The fact that they notified the village was enough to earn them merit, plus they let the village decide.
In this way, they will not be affected if there is a risk of war between villages.
Forgetting about the Byakugan and the Hyuga clan, Akio and his team prepared to fulfill their mission.
Receive a package
The mission seemed simple, but circumstances proved the mission's difficulty.
First, the package's delivery location was in the land of fire, a place far away from their cloud village.
Besides the fact that any incident in another country could trigger an international problem, there was the question of why the client didn't seek out the Leaf Village for this mission.
Second, the high degree of secrecy and confidentiality.
The customer did not want the package inspected and made it clear that they could be followed by the people delivering the package.
It was obvious that the client wasn't doing good things.
But since nobody was paying 5 million Ryo every day, they accepted the task and Akio and his team were sent.
Akio and his team were specialists in stealth techniques, traps, and speed, so they could travel secretly as the mission required.
The group had arrived a few days before the package recovery date to prepare the way for their retreat.
Whether the mission was completed or not, they needed a safe retreat route.
And during the last few days they had prepared a path full of traps and explosive tags to stop or eliminate any enemy that pursued them.
They had finished the final preparations yesterday, so they just needed to wait until tomorrow to pick up the package.
Of course, Akio instructed the mission's sensor to keep an eye on the leaf team and sent another letter when they left the city.
If her Cloud Village decides to obtain the Byakugan and the secret of how to solve the caged bird seal, they can follow its directions to find the young woman.
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2 days later
Evening
After leaving Hiruya City 2 days prior, Team 8 had decided to spend the night in Furusato City after wandering around the city all day.
Normally, it would only take one day of continuous travel to return to the Leaf Village, taking a night's rest in nature, but for obvious reasons they were taking their time.
Hinata knew the reason for this and gave her team a grateful look as they entered the inn they had chosen.
After a day of traveling and sightseeing in the city of Furusato, the group was tired and relaxed a bit while cleansing their bodies in the inn's hot springs.
Shino and Kiba in the male section and Hinata and Kurenai in the female version.
Hinata and Kurenai shared a bathroom with other women staying at the inn, and although Hinata would normally feel embarrassed being around other unfamiliar women, the young woman had no room in her mind to worry about other things.
After a nice bath, the group went to their rooms.
Throughout the entire journey, Hinata remained lost in her thoughts.
The young woman knew this was one of the opportunities her team was giving her.
But this also made her feel more guilty about choosing to desert and harm them.
But what am I supposed to do?
Her clan would go crazy when they discovered she didn't have the caged bird seal and they would definitely punish her.
Hinata was sure that they would put the caged bird seal on her again and torture her to get information about how she escaped from it.
The young woman was not sure she could endure the pain of the caged bird seal, but she also did not want to reveal the identity of the young man who freed her from the seal.
Hinata's distress had been noticed by her team long ago, so her sensei had approached her and secretly told her she could leave. They wouldn't mind.
The conversation weighed heavily on the young woman's mind as they entered their rooms and she rested on the bed.
As she closed her eyes and tried to sleep, the young woman bit her lips while trying to move her limbs.
A few hours ago, her teacher Kurenai had already told her in a low voice that they would not stop her if she chose to escape.
Therefore, he only had to get up and leave the room, and he would have until tomorrow before his team would be forced to report his disappearance to the village through certain channels in the city.
Kurenai had also given her a lot of advice on how to travel to the land of hot springs and disguise herself as a civilian. She had even given her contact lenses to hide her eyes.
The young woman only had to get up and disappear.
But Hinata couldn't make the decision so easily.
As she thought about her classmates and her little sister, she felt that her limbs were too heavy to make the decision to get up and disappear.
Only after half an hour was the young woman able to regulate her breathing and calm down, and only then did she dare to start moving her feet.
¡Brzzzz!
Hinata's eyes opened and her breath stopped when she heard the distinctive sound of Shino's insects flying.
And indeed a small number of them had flown in front of her.
Hinata's stomach sank, and she thought her partner had changed his mind and was going to stop his escape.
"Enemies"
But when her teacher Kurenai stood up quickly and uttered the word 'enemies', Hinata stopped ignoring the movement of the insects in front of her and remembered that this was a hidden message.
Shino's insects weren't there to stop their escape. They were there because they had found an enemy and came here to warn them.
'Byakugan!'
The young Hyuuga stood up and activated her eye technique, and several veins around her eyes bulged.
The young woman's perspective immediately changed.
Now she could see not only her teacher in front of her, but also the area around the 2 o'clock position.
It was a 360-degree view.
Hinata immediately expanded her field of vision and was soon able to see beyond the walls of the room, noticing other guests and even her two companions approaching them.
But Hinata's vision didn't stop there.
The young woman continued to expand the area of her vision, easily encompassing the entire inn and beyond.
But suddenly it stopped.
Hinata's Byakugan vision had a range of 10 kilometers, so she could easily see far beyond the inn.
But the reason Hinata stopped was because she saw several chakra signatures surrounding the inn.
Chakra signatures much larger than any civilian.
Hinata was able to count dozens of genin and chunin level chakra signatures.
Unfortunately, the young woman could not happily say that there was no Jonin.
After all, there was a huge chakra signature that made his blood run cold.
With a blank face, the young Hyuga quickly told her teacher what she had found, and the teacher frowned.
"Calm down, let's meet with the others first."
Hinata nodded and followed her teacher and team leader.