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Mountainside.
Akira appeared.
At first glance, he saw the nearest black-faced man and his attendant.
"Kneeling, stooping, slapping the ground... Is this Rock Shinobi?"
Just by looking at the two individuals' postures, Akira could tell they were Rock Shinobi.
At the same time.
Rock Shinobi's Kitsuchi also recognized Akira.
Thanks to the previous investigation at the Kannabi Bridge, he knew information about Team Minato.
"Little brat, you belong to Konoha!" Kitsuchi whispered.
Akira ignored him. Instead, he shifted his gaze and glanced at the two Sand Shinobi on one side.
"Hmm?"
Seeing a somewhat familiar face, Akira remembered.
If he recalled correctly, these two should be Sand Shinobi's Baki and Pakura.
"You, why are you here?" Baki's tone was slightly stammering, in disbelief.
Konoha actually sent this guy to investigate?
"Mind your own business!" Akira replied lightly.
Finally, he looked towards the furthest pair.
"And you two!"
A smile curled the corner of his mouth; Akira felt he was very lucky.
Step!
Ignoring Rock Shinobi and Sand Shinobi, he headed straight for the A-B duo.
"Hey! Brother, it's that brat," Killer B's heart was racing, feeling that something was wrong.
The little brat wasn't looking for anyone else, but came straight for the two of them as soon as he arrived.
"Isn't he fighting Rock Shinobi? Why did he come to the Land of Water?" Ay was also very nervous.
Their only fear was that this brat would trade their lives for his own advantage.
"You guys look very nervous."
Walking in front of the two, Akira said calmly.
Then he added: "Last time you ran away. This time, I'll use my full strength and let me kill you."
At this statement.
Not far away, Baki and Pakura looked at each other, secretly overjoyed.
Kitsuchi on the side was also stunned for a moment, secretly delighted.
Akira's words alone were enough to imply that the Cloud Shinobi duo had clashed with Akira before and fled.
Step!
Just then, Minato Namikaze and the rest of Team Minato arrived.
As soon as they reached the mountainside, they saw the bizarre scene of confrontation.
"The Third Tsuchikage's son, Kitsuchi?"
"Baki and Pakura from Sand Shinobi?"
"And... the Third Raikage's son, A?"
Minato Namikaze recognized these individuals and his expression turned solemn.
Without hesitation, he flashed forward and appeared next to Akira.
"Konoha's Yellow Flash?"
Killer B's eyelids twitched wildly, and the pressure increased significantly.
No one was willing to face Akira alone, and now the Yellow Flash had joined him.
This moment.
The atmosphere in the field was extremely tense, and it seemed that a fight could break out at any moment.
If someone observed carefully, they would notice that Sand Shinobi's Baki and Pakura were subtly moving, inching towards the edge of the mountainside.
The same was true for Rock Shinobi's Kitsuchi and his henchman, slowly and quietly retreating from the battle area.
"This is a lively scene..."
Suddenly, an old voice sounded from nowhere.
Everyone looked up.
They saw an old man wearing a Mist Ninja robe descending from the top of the mountain.
"This symbol... It should be a member of the same clan," Minato Namikaze recognized the clan symbol on the clothes.
"It's a Hōzuki," A stated the person's name.
"Do you think I won't kill you for interrupting?" Akira glanced at the person and threatened him.
If Sensei Minato hadn't appeared too early, he would have started beating people by now.
"Hey! Don't think we're afraid of you!" Killer B felt wronged and spat out a harsh word.
As a result, he found his mouth was covered by his older brother.
"Have some backbone! Don't run away later," Akira smiled, ready to wring Killer B's neck in a while.
The appearance of the Hōzuki clan member temporarily prevented the conflict from erupting.
"Everyone, I know why you are here. But before that, I would like to ask, who killed the hundreds of patrolling Mist Ninjas?" The Hōzuki elder asked.
When he asked this question, the responses from all parties were nonchalant.
Killer B and Ay looked up at the sky, maintaining an air of "none of our business."
Baki and Pakura looked at the distant scenery, staying completely out of it.
Kitsuchi and his confidant twisted their waists, as if relieving lower back pain.
Only Team Minato was whispering.
"It must have been done by Cloud Shinobi. You can tell by their faces that they're not good people," Obito said in a low voice, which everyone present could hear.
Killer B and Ay gritted their teeth, wishing they could beat the rumor-monger to death.
"I think it's Rock Shinobi. Look at them; they must be doing too many bad things," Anko pointed at Rock Shinobi, expressing a different opinion.
Kitsuchi looked melancholic, feeling discriminated against by the Konoha ninjas.
Is my dark skin tone, a result of Iwagakure's environment, related to my character?
"If you ask me, maybe it's Sand Shinobi. If they can invade our Land of Fire, they would definitely kill Mist Shinobi," Rin also got into the role, including Sand Shinobi in the blame.
Hearing this, Baki and Pakura were helpless.
They wanted to refute, but they didn't have the courage.
Clap!
At this moment, Akira clapped his hands fiercely, drawing everyone's attention.
"The facts are already clear."
"The ones who killed the Mist Ninjas were all three of these factions!"
After speaking, Akira smiled, his teeth sparkling.
"Elder Hōzuki! Do you need me to help you capture all these murderers?"
"This..."
The Hōzuki elder looked shocked.
He found that no one from Rock Shinobi, Sand Shinobi, or Cloud Shinobi jumped out to refute?
"This brat is not simple."
Suppressing the turmoil in his heart, the Hōzuki elder, Hōzuki Gengetsu, shook his head.
"Forget about it! However, I want to make a deal with you."
"Oh?" Akira motioned for the other party to continue.
The other three forces were all silent, seemingly accepting Akira as the default representative.
"Our Kirigakure is currently experiencing a sudden civil strife. If you help us put down the rebellion, I can cooperate with your investigation," Hōzuki Gengetsu proposed the condition.
Sudden civil unrest?
Akira and Minato Namikaze exchanged glances.
The others also looked strange.
What a coincidence!
They came to investigate evidence that Uchiha Madara was secretly controlling Kirigakure, and at this exact time, Kirigakure was in civil turmoil?
"We cannot intervene in this situation," Minato Namikaze reminded him.
In fact, Akira wouldn't have intervened even without Sensei Minato's reminder.
Because it didn't make any sense.
Kirigakure would use them to suppress the rebellion, and Akira and the others wouldn't gain anything.
Even if the so-called evidence were found afterward, the Mist Village could completely shift the responsibility onto the defeated faction.
In this way, Kirigakure would benefit, while Akira and his forces would be mere "tool people".
Only an idiot would help.
The field.
Under Hōzuki Gengetsu's expectant expression, Akira picked his nose.
"You Kirigakure's civil strife? What's that got to do with us?"