Naruto: Chronicles of a Fire Ninja - Chapter 337

Chapter 337: Chapter 333: Infiltration
“Kaida, this mission is a little complicated. Here we have to show that it was us who did this, but we also can’t leave any proof behind which can point out that it was us who did this.”

“I think you will need some more experience before attempting such crucial missions,” Hiruzen said. Even though he could easily tell Kaida what to do and the job would be done without a problem, there was a slight variable that stopped Hiruzen from doing that – he had decided to choose Kaida for the Hokage candidate position, so he couldn’t be like other ninja who just follow orders.

That’s why Hiruzen wanted to check Kaida’s thought process, about how he would handle this problem.

“If you say so, Lord Third, but I am a little curious now whether I would be able to meet even the bare minimum criteria for it. Can you please tell me what we have to do in this mission? I want to tell you how I would have attempted it, just to check my level,” Kaida asked with a serious expression. Even though he didn’t know why, he could tell that it was a type of test for him.

“Okay, let’s assume one of the elders of an allied minor village is trying to persuade them to join another major ninja village. We have to eliminate that elder. Now we have to show that minor village what would happen if they actually broke the alliance, but on the other hand, we can’t leave any evidence behind so they can use that against us politically,” Hiruzen explained. Now he was also curious how Kaida would approach this mission.

“I think I really am too young for this, Lord Third, because I can only think of some simple approaches regarding this,” Kaida said, sulking a little.

“Let me hear those simple approaches of yours, Kaida,” Hiruzen said.

“Well, if I have to do this, there are two ways I will approach this. Since that elder is already trying to persuade them, they already know that he is in alliance with the other major village. In this case, I will just go there, read his memories, let him write a note that he was wrong and he understood his crime and that’s why he is committing suicide, obviously leaving enough signs that it was staged. In the other case, I will do exactly the same thing, just this time, rather than making him write a suicide note, I will leave behind some proof pointing toward Iwagakure, which we can leverage further,” Kaida ended his explanation.

“And why did you think those were bad ideas?” Hiruzen asked.

“Because they are so simple. I am sure you would have been able to come up with something much more detailed and complex, which would help the village better,” Kaida said.

“But that doesn’t make your ideas bad. In fact, they are really great, so great that I am considering giving this mission to you, and you are also free to choose any of your plans according to the situation you find out,” Hiruzen said.

“Thank you, Lord Third,” Kaida said with a smile, then bowed and left the office.

Since the mission was the one Kaida had been waiting for quite some time, he left in an hour just after informing his family, mainly Hae and Yomi, about his mission and then jolting away toward Kusagakure.

‘Man, I hope they are alright. I don’t want to reach there after Karin’s mother dies, it would be such a huge loss, and her death would be totally meaningless, dying for a war of a minor village, a war that would end as soon as a single S-rank ninja appears on the battlefield. Losing an Uzumaki for such a meaningless war would be the epitome of foolishness,’ with such thoughts in his mind, he raced through the field.

Since he had to cross a country and go to another for this mission, this one was going to take way longer than his other missions.

“Hey, why are you sleeping? It is just the start of our night shift,” one of the guards said, standing upright in front of Kusagakure.

“Because I have been doing this job for the past 3 months. Not a single person uses this gate to enter our village, not even spies. You will become like me too when you complete your first month.”

Rustle

Before the first guard could reply, a small rustling sound came from the bushes.

“What was that sound?” he asked.

“It must have been some small animal. What do you think, an enemy ninja will be foolish enough to make such sound even if they want to enter our village?” the second guard laughed.

“You are taking this job way too lightly,” the first guard said, cursing the higher-ups who had made this fool the guard. So what if he is the son of an elder? While having a burning desire to kick him in the nuts, the first guard went to check the sound.

Even though he himself had thought that it must have been some animal, when he reached there, all he saw was two pairs of red glowing eyes. Normally, any ninja with even a tad bit of experience of war would look away with the first glimpse of those eyes IF they could, that is. But sadly for this ninja, he was just a genin, a talented one by minor village standards but still a genin.

As soon as he saw those eyes, his mind became blank.

“What is it?”

“…”

“Hey, I asked what is it?”

“…”

“I swear if this is your way to make me move, then you will regret…” If the first guard was inexperienced, this one couldn’t even be compared, and he also became still as soon as he saw those pairs of red glowing eyes with 3 tomoe rotating in them.

“Man, these Sharingans really are cheats. If I’m not fighting an S-rank ninja, an undying man, a self-proclaimed god, a god’s son, a real god… If I’m fighting normal ninja… Well, that aside, what should we do now?” Kaida said it out loud. He had already searched the parameters; there was not even a trace of a ninja coming toward this direction, so he was a little relaxed.

“First, let’s search for a place to get intel,” Kaida said and started scanning the mind of the second guard.

‘Well, all things considered, Kusagakure is still an ally of Konoha. I can do it a little favor by removing this lazy fool from their ranks, but sadly for them and luckily for him, they decided to betray us, so I will let you live to go and destroy the village,’ Kaida thought, but his eyes turned deadly the next second.

With his Sharingan activated, he looked into the lifeless eyes of the second guard and said, “But put your hand on any civilian once again, and I will give you a death so gruesome you will cry in your ten next lives and will be born without your jewels too.”

Even though both guards were in a complete blank state at the moment, they both shuddered at that, and the one it was directed at pissed his pants. But since Kaida didn’t want to announce his visit to the village, he let the fool live, who once again reminded him that this was the world where there was no such thing as justice, and the one who had power was the one who decided the fate of others.

And for that, he left quite a good mental note in the first guard’s mind. With the information he wanted now in his mind, Kaida went inside the village.

After 10 minutes of his departure, both guards came back to their senses, but with a new memory: they both went to check for the sound, and it was just a small fox, but the second guard got spooked by it and pissed in his pants.

“Hahaha!”

“Shut up, it was an accident, and why the hell is my head aching so much?”

“Yeah, nice try. Don’t worry, I’m not going to tell anyone about this. Why don’t you go and change?”

“Hmph!”