Chapter 24: Encounter with Sand Village
There are no additional calculations for this operation, and all the team members selected by Shiba Qinghe are truly their own people.

Two of them were from his original squad.

One of them was Kazuki Masuda, who had fought alongside them outside the Kusagakure Village two days ago.

Although this man is a little naive, he is absolutely loyal to Shiba Kiyokawa.

The other person was called Yayu, and he was the first person to teach Shiba Kiyokawa the Lightning Release Ninjutsu. Later, after Shiba Kiyokawa’s strength quickly surpassed his, he became convinced by Shiba Kiyokawa.

The last teammate is Xiaonan’s younger sister, named Hydrangea.

Shiba Kiyokawa had met this little girl several times before in the organization, but he never remembered who she was.

It was not until this trip that Hydrangea used her spiritualism to summon a flock of birds and took the initiative to undertake the team’s reconnaissance and path-finding work. Only then did Zhibo Qinghe suddenly remember the other identity of this girl –

She is the animal path among the Six Paths of Pain in the original work.

Or to be more precise, it was the evil Nagato in the future who used her corpse to make the Animal Path doll.

(Hydrangea)

But now Hydrangea is still just a naive little girl. Because she admires Sister Xiaonan so much, she often follows Xiaonan. Because of this, she is often teased by other people in the organization as Xiaonan’s little tail.

Thinking of this, Shiba Qinghe couldn’t help but sigh.

If you think about it carefully, the Konan in the original work actually had a pretty miserable life. Their mutual friend Yahiko was made into a Tendo doll, and one of their few close friends was later made into one of Pains.

As a fan of Naruto in his previous life, Shiba Kiyokawa was also obsessed with the fashion sense of the red clouds and black robes of the Akatsuki organization. But who ever thought that would Konan really not feel suffocated living in such an environment?
Because he was lost in memories and his thoughts were scattered, Shiba Kiyokawa subconsciously poured a lot of heartache and pity into the look he gave Konan for a moment.

Unexpectedly, this fleeting glance was caught by Xiaonan.

“What’s wrong, Qinghe? You looked at me with sympathy just now?”

Being seen through, Shiba Kiyokawa felt embarrassed for a moment, but he quickly covered it up with words.

“Nothing, I just think about how you were mostly in charge of logistics at the base in the past, but recently you’ve been out on missions frequently because of me, and I feel a little bad about it.”

Xiaonan smiled and deliberately caught up. During the flight, he reached out and touched Shiba Qinghe’s head.

“You think too much, Qinghe, didn’t you teach me before that we are companions and should trust each other?

You call me sister, so of course I will protect you. It is not a burden to do missions with you. I am willing to do it. “

The petite Hydrangea pouted upon hearing this and said jealously, “And me, Sister Xiaonan, I call you sister too, so you can’t forget me!”

Xiaonan smiled gently, and turned to comfort Hydrangea, “Okay, okay, I will protect Hydrangea as well.”

Only then did Hydrangea smile happily.

Masuda Ikki, who was following behind, smiled like an auntie and whispered to Yayu beside him, “Do you think Leader Konan has become more gentle recently? I remember that she didn’t like to smile so much before. This must be all thanks to Captain Qinghe!”

As he spoke, he clenched his fist and said, “In order to protect such a beautiful smile, I will definitely follow Captain Qinghe until my death! Yayu, what do you think?”

Yayu had an indifferent look on his face and didn’t even turn his head.

“I don’t know. I’m good at using a knife, but I don’t think my knife skills are as valuable as Captain Qinghe’s.”

“…”

Soon after, the five of them followed the information given by Hanzo and quickly approached the place where the Sand Village team had camped. Hydrangea was the first to react and raised her hand to signal everyone to stop.

“Stop first! My spirit beast found some traces by the river ahead.”

The traces that can be mentioned separately at this time are obviously extraordinary.

Everyone immediately became alert, took out their ninja weapons, and prepared for battle.

Shiba Kiyokawa asked, “Have you spotted any ninjas around?”

“not yet.”

Hydrangea closed her eyes, as if she was using special means to share the senses of the summoned beast.

She is widening her search.

But less than two seconds later, she opened her eyes with a look of horror, her eyes were irritated and tears flowed uncontrollably, and she screamed at the same time.

“Oh no! They are coming! Be careful! There is a very scary woman, she evaporated my bird in an instant!”

Upon hearing this, Xiaonan immediately spread his paper wings and flew into the sky!
“Hydrangea, don’t sacrifice your summoned beast! I’ll do the scouting!”

Masuda Kazuki and Yayu also quickly dispersed in tacit understanding.

Everyone was an experienced ninja. Although the encounter came suddenly, they remained calm and quickly prepared to meet the enemy.

And Shiba Kiyokawa stayed with Hydrangea, protecting her while continuing to ask for information.

“Evaporation? The fire jutsu that woman used? A fire jutsu ninja from Sunagakure?”

In my impression, shouldn’t the characteristics of Sunagakure be the unique sand-style ninjutsu and puppet mechanism techniques?
Hydrangea was still in shock and tightly clenched the kunai in her hand.

“I don’t know either. It’s a very special fire escape technique. It looks like a suspended fireball, but it only touched my bird for a split second and it completely evaporated it! That feeling is so scary!”

This description made Shiba Qinghe’s heart skip a beat.

He thought of a unique bloodline limit and thought to himself, no way?
However, the suspense did not last long.

The fact that Hydrangea’s summoning bird was killed so easily meant that the enemy had discovered them earlier!
Soon, Shiba Kiyokawa and others clearly caught the sight of several Sand Village ninjas!

One of them was still laughing wildly, “Haha! You really don’t know how to live or die! We haven’t even looked for you yet, and you Rain Ninjas have come to our door!”

The other person appeared calm on the surface, but was actually equally arrogant in his heart. He stood on a high tree canopy, looking down at Shiba Kiyokawa and the others, and spoke.

“You should be the rumored Akatsuki organization, right? Hand over all the wealth and supplies you have recently acquired, and we might consider sparing your lives!”

However, these two Sand Village ninjas who spoke one after another did not attract Shiba Kiyokawa’s attention at all.

All his attention is now focused on the Sand Village woman who appeared last!

The rare mix of brown and orange hair color, the iconic black sexy backless top, the slender and beautiful figure and the smooth and white bare back have become her most impressive labels!
Shiba Qinghe smiled bitterly, thinking that his previous guess had come true!

The person who came was exactly who he thought he was.

The hero of Sand Village, the bloodline limit ninja, the Scorch Release Ye Cang!
For a moment, Shiba Qinghe wanted to grab the other person’s ears and question him.

For a strong man like you, what’s the point of staying in a small country like the Rain Country instead of making a name for yourself on the front battlefield of the Ninja World War?
(End of this chapter)