Might Guy's Team, Danzo's Gaze

Time passed quickly. After carrying out this mission, everyone returned to their days of taking on D-rank missions in the village.

Other than missions, they trained.

Through this trial, everyone had come to recognize their own shortcomings and began training with all their might.

Sasuke in particular not only sought Yamei out to learn genjutsu, but also underwent Kakashi's special training.

Sasuke had also begun learning Chidori from Kakashi, much earlier than in the original timeline.

While constantly honing his taijutsu, Naruto continued strengthening his Chakra control. Yamei had also given him Wind Style: Vacuum Sphere, which he was diligently practicing.

As a result, Naruto was no longer the Naruto who could only make Rasengan and Shadow Clones. He now had two Wind Style ninjutsu at his disposal!

It was somewhat unfortunate that his body was still too young for him to dare train Wind Style: Rasenshuriken.

Besides those two, everyone else was working hard as well. Hinata, for example, could already use Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms proficiently and was not far from applying it in real combat.

Of course, Yamei was not among those training hard.

"Ah! Yamei! How can you lie around wasting time during such youthful days?! Let's have a contest of youth!!"

Lying on a tree branch, Yamei looked speechlessly at Rock Lee below, dressed in green and sporting a huge slicked-back hairstyle as he frantically did push-ups.

Yesterday, while lying around here slacking off, he had happened upon Might Guy's Team training in this area!

Tenten and Neji had recognized Yamei at a glance, and Yamei had consequently met Might Guy and Rock Lee.

After Yamei had Hinata deal Neji that blow, Neji had not continued to resent the main family or hate his own fate as he once had.

Instead, he trained diligently, hoping to find an opportunity to break free from fate! He was also doing it for the value Yamei had spoken of back then!

So Yamei had sparred with Neji.

Who would have thought... that one spar would draw Rock Lee's attention!

Yamei knew that when it came to Rock Lee, simply defeating him would only make him stick to you like a burr and constantly challenge you to spar. So Yamei had refused his invitation.

Even though he had not provoked him, that guy still invited him to spar every time they met.

"All right! Push-ups complete!" Rock Lee flipped to his feet.

"Well done, Rock Lee! This is the very embodiment of youth! For youth, let us, master and disciple, run fifty laps around the village now!" Might Guy laughed as he gave a thumbs-up. The corner of his mouth even seemed to glint!

Yamei stared blankly as the two absurd figures ran off, then turned his gaze toward Tenten and Neji, who were still training.

"Tenten, does Rock Lee often ask you to spar?"

Tenten froze for a moment, then shook her head. "No, but Rock Lee often asks Neji to spar."

Yamei could not help looking at Neji. "Neji, if you and Rock Lee fought with everything you had, who would win?"

Hearing Yamei's question, Neji fell into thought. After hesitating for a moment, he Responded, "If Rock Lee opens the Eight Inner Gates, I might not be his match."

Yamei looked at him in surprise. He knew Neji had changed, but Neji's willingness to admit inferiority still caught him off guard.

"Interested in training taijutsu with me?" Yamei looked at the two of them.

"Really?" Neji's eyes lit up. He knew just how formidable Yamei's taijutsu was!

"Of course. Come find me here again tomorrow, and I'll give you some guidance then." Yamei leaped down from the tree, checked the time, and headed toward the village.

"Tenten, come tomorrow too..."

Although Tenten used Space-Time ninjutsu in battle, her taijutsu was not lacking in the slightest. Otherwise, she would not have trained under Might Guy.

"Okay!" Tenten replied at once.

Teaching the two taijutsu was not a spur-of-the-moment decision for Yamei.

There was no need to say much about Neji. Once Yamei removed the Caged Bird in the future, Neji would become a capable subordinate in his hands!

As for Tenten...

Who could refuse an adorable little girl with twin buns dressed in Chinese-style clothes?

Opening the Sea of Derivations, a smile appeared on Yamei's face.

Acquire materials: Complete Konoha Style Taijutsu! Strong Fist, Rotation.

"No wonder they're Might Guy and Rock Lee!"

Konoha Style Taijutsu included Konoha Gale, Konoha Whirlwind, Konoha Great Whirlwind, Konoha Rising Dragon, Konoha Violent Wind, and more!

This was an enormous haul! There was also Might Guy's Strong Fist and Neji's Rotation! His Art of a Hundred Refinements would make tremendous progress this time!

"Analyze them all and integrate them into the Art of a Hundred Refinements."

Analyzing. Estimated duration: 6 hours.

In Konoha's Root, Danzo's eyes opened slightly as a Root ninja abruptly appeared and presented him with a scroll.

"Lord Danzo, this is intelligence regarding Hyakawa Yamei."

Danzo took the scroll and opened it. As he read, his expression grew increasingly grave.

When he reached the information related to the Land of Rivers A-rank mission, he could no longer restrain his expression. A glint of greed flashed through his eyes.

"Source of Life! Power no weaker than that of a tailed beast! And such abundant vitality!"

"How could power as forbidden as this be sealed inside a brat's body? It must be controlled by the village! It must be distributed by me!"

"Only then can it be used to its fullest potential and make Konoha ever stronger!"

Danzo set down the scroll and slowly rose to his feet, tapping his cane against the ground. "Fū Yamanaka, come with me to the Hokage Building."

Fū Yamanaka instantly appeared and respectfully dropped to one knee. "Yes, Lord Danzo."

Upon arriving at the Hokage Building, Hiruzen Sarutobi knew who had come the moment the door opened.

"Danzo, what is it?"

"You have surely heard of the Red Ideology that has been causing such a stir throughout the ninja world these past two years, haven't you?"

Danzo did not bring up Yamei directly, instead changing the subject.

A grave expression immediately appeared on Hiruzen Sarutobi's face. "How could I not? Not only have the small surrounding nations reacted intensely, but there are also countless supporters among the Five Great Nations!"

He did not know where this Red Ideology had come from. Somehow, it had stirred up a wave of fervor among civilians throughout the entire ninja world.

Most frighteningly, it truly worked when implemented according to its principles!

This had directly affected the ruling positions of the major nations and ninja villages.

Thus, not only Konoha, but the Five Great Nations also attached great importance to the Red Ideology and were constantly trying to control it.

If Hiruzen Sarutobi knew that the Red Ideology being spread was not even half of the true Red Ideology, he wondered whether they would become even more anxious.

After all, Yamei and Shisui both knew that if the complete Red Ideology were spread, it might spark a revolutionary tide across the entire ninja world!

Triggering chaos in the ninja world prematurely was absolutely not what Yamei and the others wanted, which was why they had spread only an incomplete version of the ideology.

"Danzo, did you come because you found the person spreading the Red Ideology? Or perhaps the organization behind it?" Hiruzen Sarutobi's eyes lit up as he looked expectantly at Danzo.

Danzo's mouth twitched slightly. How the hell would he know? He had only used it as an opening...