Women.
The shop was filled with scantily clad women.
"Hmm? Kid, this place only serves women. What are you doing here?" A middle-aged woman wearing a camisole turned around and reminded him.
"Only serves women?"
Hankuang was slightly stunned.
Well, well.
This was a pretty good setup.
"Huh? Hankuang?"
Kushina, who had just finished making a record at the front desk, looked up and saw Hankuang at the entrance.
Inside the reception room.
"Senior Kushina, could you help me arrange a meeting with Teacher Minato?" Hankuang stated the reason he had come.
"You want me to arrange a meeting with Minato for you?" Kushina asked in confusion.
Why don't you just go find Minato yourself? Why go around in circles?
"Eight o'clock tonight, at the Charred Meat Restaurant."
After leaving those words behind, Hankuang hurried away.
"How strange." Kushina felt completely baffled.
Eight o'clock that evening.
Inside a private room at the barbecue restaurant.
"I heard from Kushina that you wanted to see me. It must be something important." Minato Namikaze wore a serious expression.
Hankuang had arranged to meet him through Kushina, which was enough to show that the matter was significant—and that there was a risk of being discovered.
"It's about you, Teacher." Hankuang lowered his voice.
"Go on."
"Danzo asked me to become his spy and monitor you."
"Hmm?"
Minato Namikaze looked astonished.
He pondered for a moment.
"It should be related to the deaths of those three Root members."
"Teacher, you're taking the blame for me." Hankuang felt a little embarrassed.
After all, he had been the one who did it, yet Danzo had assumed that Teacher Minato was responsible.
"You're admitting that you did it?" Minato Namikaze asked with a half-smile.
"Huh?"
"Don't say things like that again in the future."
Actually, Minato Namikaze had guessed from the beginning that it was his student's doing. That was why he had told Hankuang to burn the bodies.
"This matter should blow over soon." Minato Namikaze offered a reminder.
The defeat at the front line would inevitably lead to disastrous consequences.
At a time like this, Minato believed that Danzo's investigation into him would not be too thorough.
"Go back and train hard. You may have to go to the battlefield at any time."
......
Hankuang felt that Teacher Minato was a jinx.
They had finished talking that night, and the very next day, he was being sent to the battlefield.
Early morning.
After receiving the order for an emergency assembly, Hankuang rushed to the village square without even having time to eat.
"Huh? Little Xi, you have teammates now?" Hankuang greeted Morino Ibiki when he saw him in the square.
Morino Ibiki immediately turned his head away, wearing an expression that said, I don't know you.
"Hey, that dead-last just called you by your nickname." Gekko Hayate looked astonished.
Being given a nickname by a dead-last—how could anyone tolerate that?
Yet the fact was, Morino Ibiki tolerated it.
"Hayate, they might have a pretty good relationship." Uzuki Yugao guessed.
Seeing that Little Xi was ignoring him, Hankuang found another familiar face.
"Anko, why do you look so listless? Where's your team?"
Seeing Anko standing all alone, Hankuang began teasing her.
Then.
He realized that Anko was crying.
This...
Hankuang remembered.
Anko's teacher had defected!
No wonder.
Out of basic humanity—and to prevent Anko from exposing the secret of those three Root members—Hankuang invited her to join Team 9 once again.
"Are you really willing to let me join?" Anko wiped away her tears, crying tears of joy.
Ever since her teacher had defected, her teammates had abandoned her, and the other teams had refused to accept her. Her identity had been branded with Orochimaru's mark.
She had never expected Team 9 to still be willing to accept her.
"But if the team is adding another member, it needs the approval of the higher-ups." Anko was a little worried.
"Isn't that a small matter? I'll go find Lord Danzou in a moment." Hankuang remained calm, his tone relaxed.
As Danzo's undercover agent, it was time for him to ask Danzo to take care of something.
Hearing Hankuang say this, Kakashi and the others looked suspicious.
"When did Hankuang become so close to Danzo?"
As time passed, more and more ninja gathered in the square.
Hankuang noticed that nearly all the Genin teams from his class had arrived.
"Looks like the scale of this mission is huge..." Kakashi exclaimed.
"Could it be that we're going to the front line to fight the Sand Ninja?" Obito asked nervously.
"Probably not." Anko thought for a moment before answering.
"Oh? Do you have inside information?"
"I just heard someone say that we might be fighting the Cloud Hidden Village's vanguard."
The Cloud Hidden Village? A vanguard?
Hankuang was somewhat shocked.
"If that's the case, have the Cloud Ninja already passed through the Land of the Moon and the Land of Hot Water?"
He suddenly thought of Minako and hoped that she was all right.
After glancing at his Attribute Panel, Hankuang's eyes lit up slightly.
Constitution: 1152 (576*2) [Times?
Chapter Forty-One: Ninjutsu Doubled, Planetary Devastation! Hankuang's Invincible Moment Is About to Arrive!
More and more ninja gathered in the square.
Until Minato Namikaze appeared and stood before the numerous teams.
"I'm the commander-in-chief of this mission. You'll learn the specific mission details on the way."
After sweeping his gaze over everyone, Minato Namikaze spoke in a rather stern tone.
"Now, all teams are to replenish their ninja tools. Assemble at the village entrance in one hour."
After saying this, the various teams left one after another.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Hankuang found Danzo and secured a fifth-member slot for Team 9.
"Hankuang, you're quite impressive."
After hearing that Mitaraishi Anko would be joining Team 9, Danzo praised him and agreed immediately.
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