
A week later, at the main entrance of the village.
A young girl carefully arranged things for Kuroto.
From the girl's unique eyes, it was understandable that she was also a member of the Hyuga clan like Kuroto, and from her appearance, she was the same age as Kuroto.
The girl's brows furrowed showing that she seemed to be worrying about something.
Kuroto, who was looking towards the secluded Hokage Stone, smiled and said, “Don't worry, it's just a normal defense change. There will not be much danger, especially in the current peacetime.”
The girl nodded slightly, then took out a new pair of glasses from her waist pouch and handed them to Kuroto.
Kuroto glanced at the girl, didn't say much, and simply stuffed the glasses into her waist pocket.
In fact, from a very young age, Kuroto has been wearing glasses like Obito, only the glasses he bought had darker lenses, like sunglasses.
The goal is not only to protect his eyes but also to be able to hide his identity as Hyuga on the battlefield in order not to be targeted for being a censorship ninja.
Another reason was to cover the eyes of the Tenseigan that he would build in the future. After all, in terms of appearance alone both Byakugan and The Tenseigan are too different.
The girl must have been worried that her old eyeglass lenses might break or might break and it would be very difficult for her to buy a new one while patrolling the Fire Nation border, so he bought a new pair and gave it to Kuroto as backup.
At this point, a middle-aged ninja not far away waved his hand and gestured to everyone: “Time is up, we leave.”
Hearing this, pat the girl on the shoulder: Yui, I'm leaving, don't worry too much about me, maybe I'll be back soon.”
The girl's name is Hyuga Yui. Although Yui nodded at Kuroto's words but the obvious signs of worry on her face could not be hidden.
Finally, Yui looked at the Hokage Stone at the far end for the last time and returned to the Hyuga clan courtyard.
This time the village of Konoha again lost the strength of its main pillar. Orochimaru, a Sanin defector, and the other Jiraya of the three Sanins are responsible for following in Orochimaru's footsteps. Therefore, Konoha is the biggest loser in the defection of Orochimaru. So far, the three famous Sanin Konoha who were the backbone of the village in the second Ninja War have left the village!
Although Orochimaru lost the village's support, he also removed the village's constraints.
Shimura Danzo obviously had the greatest advantage; as he incorporated most of the powers previously loyal to Orochimaru into his roots. Kuroto even suspects that Danzo can obtain some of Orochimaru's experimental results on the human body and will probably start doing some preparatory work to transplant the Sharingan and Hashirama cells into himself.
But all these losses and gains are not very important to Kuroto right now.
The village leaders may have reached a consensus to send all shinobi loyal to Orochimaru and not yet incorporated in Akar like Kuroto himself to be replaced at various borders.
Simply put they intend to send these Shinobi out of the village; as for what exactly the purpose of doing so is unknown.
Coming to the side of the team leader, Kuroto glanced at the team members who were currently a part of it.
Including him, there were a total of twelve ninja who were divided into 3 squads, with three squad captains each, responsible for leading the squads. One thing to note is that none of the squad leaders were part of Orochimaru's subordinates while the other 9 team members were under Orochimaru's authority.
This team combination alone made Kuroto quite wary about what she might face in this task?
The team's travel destination is a border post at the intersection of the Fire Nation and the Wind Nation.
As soon as he left the village; his guards were on full alert as if standing in a war zone.
This was not because he was being overly cautious or anything like that, but a deep lesson he learned a few months ago when he was attacked less than 10 miles away from the village. The entire team escorting the injured back to the village from the frontline suffered heavy casualties
It's not a fuss about Hyuga, but he has a deep lesson. Just a few months ago, he was attacked less than ten miles from the village. The entire team escorting the injured back to the village from the frontline suffered heavy casualties. If not for the fact that the support from the village arrived in time, he would have already been buried six feet underground with the name sold on the memorial tablet.
The ruthless ninja wars have taught Kuroto many things and this habit is hard to change for some time even if the war is over.
Kuroto glanced at the figure walking at the end of the team and sighed slightly.
If there was anyone in Konoha Village who would not believe that Orochimaru defected then there was no doubt it was Mitarashi Anko.
Last night he became the prisoner of Sanin's disciple; one is expected to become the pillar of the village's strength in the future. After being imprisoned for so long, he was also sent to the border along with Kuroto, very far from the village powerhouse.
From his sunken eyes and his lethargic expression; it was not difficult to conclude that he was still unable to accept that his teacher, one of the three Sannins, had actually defected from the village.
He had his belief in his teacher collapsing which was something that might be irreversible in his life.
Turning his gaze away from Anko, Koroto took a close look at the other ninjas in the team.
In the team, only the team leader should be Jonin while the remaining eleven including Hyuga Kuroto and Mitarashi Anko are all Chunin. It could be said that this team had a fairly high overall strength as long as they did not face an ambush force consisting of several jonin, which was unlikely to happen.
Moreover, the war had just ended, so the chances of a Shinobi enemy appearing in the Fire Nation were minuscule.
Sure enough, just as Kuroto had expected, the team safely arrived at the border post without encountering much trouble along the way.
After arriving at the border post, the twelve-member team was officially separated into three squads. Kuroto is part of the team of Hyuga Kuroto, Mitarashi Anko, and Inuzuka Oda (some members of the unknown Inuzuka Clan known for their nin-ken).
The Fire Nation and the Wind Nation are not restricted by small countries such as river states or rain states, etc.
The border post where Kuroto is located is responsible for guarding the border for about 40 miles. At one end of the guard post was the edge of the forest, and at the other end was an endless sea of sand.
For now, Kuroto will live a boring patrol life in the desert.
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Time passed, time passed,
2 Months had passed in the blink of an eye.
All news about the village was cut off. Currently, Kuroto is isolated on the desert border with only daily tasks of patrol, garrison work, and rest all day for most of his free time.
During this period, he could sense that team leader Jonin had been monitoring the nine squad members who were under Orochimaru's command. Therefore, Kuroto made sure not to do anything that would cause any trouble for her.
He secretly speculated that such surveillance would not last long.
Even Konoha-like villages cannot manage to keep hundreds of ninja under constant surveillance for very long periods of time, so there should be periods for monitoring.
And sure enough, not long after, the village sent three more chunins to replace the squad captain and squad leader.
At first, Kuroto thought that this was because the village had lifted the scrutiny against them and after some further analysis of the newly arrived third, the village had lifted its guard, he concluded that the three of them were extremely skilled and had a cruel bloodthirsty aura around them!
‘The trio is definitely not the usual Chunin.’
Kuroto soon deduces that they are part of the Anbu under the Hokage or possibly of the Roots under Shimura Danzo.
‘Does a regular Border Post like this require three Anbu members or Roots’ members?
The answer was obvious by itself, so Kuroto's mind spread. He was unaware of what had actually happened in the village, in the past two months, but he clearly understood that danger had come.
Time waits for no one, the Tenseigan revival plan is about to begin…
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