Chapter 479
Although he was traveling with the crew, the mission was to assist Fenghua Xiaoxue in regaining the title of Daimyo of the Snow Country. In order not to interfere with the itinerary, the director simply recorded some of the scenery along the way. The main content of the filming would not begin until the mission was completed. Therefore, Naruto and others entered the territory of the Snow Country seven days after departure.
Although some neutral factions in the Snow Country have publicly stated that they will support Fenghua Xiaoxue's actions because of the sky curtain, Fenghua Nutao has been the Daimyo of the Snow Country for ten years after all. Before he intends to give up this identity, he still has some appeal, so Fenghua Xiaoxue does not have many obvious advantages in this regard.
Fortunately, it is also because of the sky curtain that there are basically no people in the ninja world who don't know Naruto. After knowing that the opponent is his team 7, many good players in the black market have rejected Fenghua Nutao's commission. After all, no one wants to be a stepping stone on Naruto's growth path.
Feng Hana Nu Tou also tried to issue a commission to Akatsuki, but Nagato, who had changed his policy, was naturally not interested in such a task. A Fei was also worried that this was a trap to entrap him, so he ignored it.
Kakuzu, the only one who was interested in the commission, gave up the action because he was not sure whether the Nine-Tails would help Naruto. This is the idea of everyone who watched the last sky curtain.
Of course, it does not mean that Feng Hana Nu Tou cannot recruit any helpers. Not to mention the ninja world, there are a lot of desperate criminals. Not to mention a mere Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, even the Six Paths Sage, there are not a few people who dare to take action.
Under such harsh conditions, most of the ninjas recruited by Feng Hana Nu Tou are only Chunin, and the few Jonin are all at the bottom level. However, this is also a big challenge for Team 7, which Jiraiya does not intend to take action.
Don't look at the fact that the opponents that Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura fought on the sky are not simple. They are either famous jonins in the ninja world or shadows of various villages. Due to the short growth time, they have to use all their skills even against a chunin now, not to mention the situation that the enemy is in the dark and we are in the light.
Therefore, the moment they set foot on the Snow Country, the speed of travel immediately dropped to the minimum.
Under the leadership of Kakashi, the three of them dealt with various enemies every day, and almost every day they consumed their physical strength and chakra to the limit.
This was the most difficult mission they had done since graduation. Although they were exhausted physically and mentally, the strength of the three was visibly increasing rapidly, and even Kakashi, the jonin who led the team, could see a significant improvement.
In this situation, Fenghua Nutao, who felt powerless to save the situation, fled the Snow Country with his men and family before Naruto and his friends arrived. He didn't want to try what Naruto's seven-color Rasengan tasted like.
In this way, Fenghua Xiaoxue entered the Snow Country in a logical way and officially became active in the ninja world as the queen of the Snow Country. Of course, her identity as an actress is still retained.
After a satisfying mission, Naruto returned to Konoha with great satisfaction after getting the autographed photo of Fenghua Xiaoxue. Unfortunately, he did not get the queen's kiss this time. The mature elder sister did not want to join Naruto's Shura field.
As usual, Jiraiya and Kakashi went to the Hokage Building to deliver the mission. The three Genin parted ways at an intersection and went home to rest.
Walking alone on the way home, after leaving the crowded main road, Sasuke turned into a sparsely populated alley and stopped with his hands in his pockets.
"Come out."
A deep voice came from Sasuke's mouth. He turned sideways and looked at the figure behind him wearing an Anbu costume and an animal mask. He pursed his lips and said, "During this mission, the aura I sensed was you, right? You helped me block several fatal attacks. Am I right..."
"Uchiha Itachi."
Hearing this name, the man raised his hand and took off the mask on his face, revealing a face that Sasuke had been dreaming about.
"Sasuke...long time no see..." Itachi looked at Sasuke calmly, and Sasuke also looked at him expressionlessly. The two brothers just stared at each other silently in this deserted alley.
After a while, Itachi took the initiative to break the atmosphere: "Let's go home first, and then we can talk slowly..."
"...Okay."
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No one knows what the two brothers talked about afterwards, and Itachi disappeared from Sasuke's side again, but Naruto seemed to have a feeling that Sasuke seemed to be less tense recently, and the two were returning to their past bickering and quarreling ways.
After that, Team 7 carried out several more missions, with varying degrees of difficulty, but most of them were passed without any danger.
During this period, the ninja worldOn the surface, everything was calm. Whether it was the ambitious people who had no news since being exposed, or the mercenary organization Akatsuki, which had now become the first in the ninja world, they all stopped and fell silent, as if everything had returned to the time before the sky curtain appeared.
However, the situation in the dark was extremely turbulent, and the exchanges between countries were unprecedentedly frequent.
The Grayl Research Institute was built on the Grayl ore vein. Villages in various countries arranged personnel to settle in for research according to their own needs. The Box of Bliss was also moved here as planned as one of the research projects.
The Loulan ruins also established research institutions and protective measures under the leadership of Sand Village. After all, it involved the major event of time travel, and the countries invested more and more.
Against this background, Naruto packed his luggage, said goodbye to his companions in the village, and embarked on a journey of practice with Jiraiya.
It is worth mentioning that in addition to the two of them, there were two other people on this journey of practice-Itachi and Sasuke.
And the actions of this team also fell into the eyes of those who were interested.
A Fei established a private base on a mountain wall somewhere in the Land of Grass.
Black Zetsu crawled out of the completely closed mountain wall and said to Afei who was sitting cross-legged in the base holding a crystal ball.
"Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke have left Konoha, and only Jiraiya and Uchiha Itachi are with them."
Afei did not answer, but just rubbed the crystal ball in his hand, and didn't know what he was studying. Seeing this, Black Zetsu asked: "What should we do next? I think this is a good opportunity to take action against the Nine-Tails."
"...With Jiraiya following, the Nine-Tails will be summoned back to Myoboku Mountain by reverse summoning at any time. It is not feasible to catch him." Afei responded lightly.
Black Zetsu was a little anxious, but he still tried to calm himself down: "So I ask you what to do next? Nagato and Konan, those two little brats, have already become disloyal, and the other members of Akatsuki have also begun to become seemingly united but actually alienated. If this continues, there is no need for the outside world to do anything, and our Akatsuki will disband and go their separate ways."
(To be continued)