Naruto: Senmei Asahi

After they waited in the forest for about three hours, Shinohara finally rushed back and came back with a three-man squad along with him to relieve themselves of their duties. 

After seeing the people, Asahi looked at Keita first, Keita then checked them with his Byakugan, and then nodded and said, "It's them." 

"Shinohara, what did you got told by Orochimaru-sama?" Asahi asked. 

"Those who have had encounters with Sunagakure ninjas are forbidden to speak about it, Orochimaru-sama told me he wants to see you." Shinohara said while gasping for breath. 

"Understood." In response to these words, Asahi turned his head and looked towards the three Konoha ninjas who were going to replace them. He greeted them and said, "Please take care of things here. Sunagakure may have some sort of secret plan, so be careful." 

"Relax! Leave the things here to us!" 

"Okay, let's go back!"

… 

In the Konoha camp. 

Since the war had started, Konoha had established a unified camp. All ninjas stationed on the frontline would listen to Orochimaru's orders and receive their missions here from Orochimaru. 

But to be honest, Asahi at first thought that this so-called Great Ninja War was going to be the same as the Fourth Great Ninja War in the anime. The two villages would send out their ninjas and find an open place to battle. Then the two sides would just fight for their lives.

However, this was not the case in an actual ninja war. 

The Five Great Ninja Villages knew each other's bottom line. They had to maintain the absolute status of the Great Ninja Villages ruling over the shinobi world, and they must retain enough power to subdue other ninja villages, so a Great Ninja War had always been a very ambiguous thing.

For any of the ninja villages, in addition to supplies, the so-called benefits were more about missions. 

The powerful ninja villages could earn more trust from their clients and get more missions. And in that way they could get more natural resources from their Daimyo. 

Such things were open-view secrets. Those who wanted to understand it would naturally understand it on their own, and those who don't understand it would never get told. 

If the two villages decided to just go all-out in into a battle against each other, the casualties would be too great, and no ninja village would choose to do such a thing. 

The war between the two villages was more about information, destruction, assassination, small-scale ninja battles and so on. Unless two villages play on an open field, they would never fight head-on with each other. 

"Orochimaru-sama!" Asahi saluted, walking into the commander's camp. 

"At ease." Orochimaru faintly responded, "Asahi-kun, these days have been hard on you, and all of your missions have been completed to a very satisfactory level." 

The words of Orochimaru made Asahi feel a little overwhelmed, it was the so called "favor from a direct superior". In his position, it was definitely a great honor to get told "You been doing a good work" by Orochimaru, one of the great Sannin, but Asahi was also feeling the cold sweat behind his back. 

Looking up at Orochimaru, he noticed that there were several people standing beside Orochimaru. 

"Jiraiya-sama is here too." Asahi slightly nodded as a greeting, glancing at the person behind Jiraiya.

'Blond hair and blue eyes! No doubt, it should be Namikaze Minato!' 

'I didn't expect that he was also at the frontline.' He thought

"Well, I heard you kid did a great job and completed several missions." Jiraiya admired. 

Unlike Orochimaru, Jiraiya's words made him feel very comfortable, and the feeling of tension on him just disappeared. 

"Let's speak business!" Orochimaru said in a husky voice, "Asahi-kun, what did you find during this mission?" 

Asahi replied, "In fact, there was nothing but an attack of a small team. However, compared with the previous patrol missions, the number of sand assaults on our position has increased significantly, so I suspect that Sunagakure should be having some thoughts about our area."

"Hmm, the village also got information that Sunagakure seems to be planning something, so I came to support Orochimaru." Jiraiya held Orochimaru's shoulder, and said with a laugh, "Orochimaru, thank me for my life saving grace. Come on!" 

Orochimaru ignored Jiraiya's joke, and asked Asahi, "From your intuition, what do you think about this." 

Asahi did not immediately answer Orochimaru's question, but instead asked, "What information did the three sand ninjas had on them?" 

Orochimaru glanced at him with interest, put out his tongue and licked his lips. "Their mission is to kill our patrol teams, and then the Sunagakure will secretly send elite-ninjas to attack our medic team. Except for your team, many of our patrol teams were attacked by Sunagakure." 

"Assault our medic team?" Asahi quickly discovered the problem, and frowned said, "If that's the case, and they manage to succeed in this conspiracy, our situation will be very difficult. But the process of getting the information this time is going too well, don't you find any weirdness in it." 

"How is that possible? Except for attacking the medic team, they did not attack it anywhere else."

Jiraiya said with an embarrassed expression upon hearing Asahi's words. 

Orochimaru glanced at Jiraiya with disdain, "Only people who have nothing in their heads will believe this information is true." 

"Orochimaru! What are you saying?" Jiraiya hearing this angrily said. 

"Then what do you think the goal of the Sunagakure is?" Orochimaru ignored Jiraiya again and continued to ask Asahi. 

To be honest, for such a difficult question, Orochimaru asked him, a small character, it made Asahi very confused. Maybe Orochimaru was optimistic about him, or maybe he wanted to probe him, Asahi had no way to judge for the time being. 

However, since Orochimaru had already asked, Asahi couldn't do anything else but answer, "The purpose of Sunagakure has not been determined for the time being, but we cannot rule out the authenticity of this information. Maybe they want to make us think this information is false to relax the protection of the medic team." 

This was the destiny of a nobody. In order to implement certain plans, village would not care of the life and death of these commoners. Just like this time, in order to provide Konoha with false information, Sunagakure sent a large number of cannon fodder ninja to certain death. 

Whether or not Sunagakure's plan was successful in the end, no one would remember the names of these cannon fodders. At the end of the reports, it's always the elite ninja's name that appears as the one who completed the plan. 

'Fortunately, after all these years of hard work, I have left behind the destiny of being a cannon fodder.'

Asahi thought with relief.

"Look! Orochimaru! Asahi also says so." Jiraiya hearing this immediately taunted to Orochimaru, "Asahi is right, maybe the Sunagakure just wants us to think that information is false?" 

'It's true that I said it, but is it okay for you to agree with what a little character said so fast?'

Asahi saw that Minato had a little embarrassment on his face after hearing Jiraiya's words. 

"It's really a bit tricky situation." Orochimaru thought for a moment, and then suddenly seemed to remember something.

He looked up and said, "Asahi-kun, you take your leave first, I will have a new mission for you tomorrow."

"Yes sir!"

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