Butterfly Effect?

Sora Uchiha turned off the faucet, wiped his face with a towel, and pushed his hair back, looking at the delicate face in the mirror. He slapped his cheeks.

"Hajime Sora, you guy, did you get even more handsome than yesterday?"

After washing his face and changing into a clean ninja uniform, he pushed open the floor-to-ceiling window and quietly waited for the crows to arrive. Yesterday, the monkey told him he had a mission today.

Feeling the autumn breeze on his face and watching the golden plane tree leaves fall in the yard, he felt it was another beautiful day.

A month had passed since the Chunin special training ended. In this month, Sora Uchiha had felt an unprecedented sense of peace.

His usual friends who came to play with him were all on missions near the front lines, and for some reason, there were fewer missions from the Anbu. In the past month, he had only completed two.

You could say this month was the most leisurely time since he could remember. He practiced his basic skills every day, trained with Shisui, and if he had time, he would visit Itachi's house to tease him. It was truly carefree and joyful.

But at the same time, he always felt something was missing from this kind of life, a sense of aimlessness.

"System, any missions?"

[Ding--]

[None.]

"Tch, what a piece of trash."

The system fell silent. Sora Uchiha pouted. Ever since he completed the Anbu mission last time, this darn system had gone dormant, not even offering a next mission.

"System, next time, just reward me with Sage Mode directly," Sora Uchiha muttered to himself. He had wanted to learn Sage Mode for a long time, preferably like Mitsuki in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, glowing coolly all over, looking so handsome.

The system remained silent.

"If Sage Mode is not possible, then just make the after-effects of me using Karasu Tengu disappear," Sora Uchiha daydreamed.

Unfortunately, the system still ignored him.

He sat there leisurely for a while, having said everything he wanted to the system. Finally, the caw of crows could be heard from afar.

Seeing the crow perched on the fence, Sora Uchiha stood up, patted his clothes, took the Sword Box from the nearby wall, and put on his fox mask.

"Brother Crow, let's go."

"Caw, caw caw!"

"Huh? Brother Crow also thinks I'm more handsome today?"

The crow rolled its eyes and took flight, leading the way.

Sora Uchiha shrugged and followed. As he stepped outside, he noticed there were a few more people around the usual breakfast shops.

A farmer wearing a straw hat eating breakfast, a young man reading a newspaper, and a burly man with his chest bared, smoking a cigarette. They were all doing their own things.

It seemed normal.

Sora Uchiha initially thought it was normal. If one day in life was like this, it would be perfectly normal. After all, people could go wherever they pleased. But what about two consecutive weeks?

He lowered his gaze and glanced at the group. Two weeks ago, there would be a group of people "hanging around" his house every day. Sometimes it was an aunt, sometimes an uncle, sometimes a child. In short, the people who came were always different.

Once might be a coincidence, but doing this for two consecutive weeks was different. After all, he knew very well the foot traffic of the dilapidated shops next to his house.

To put it simply, it was a miracle that they were still in business.

Therefore, he suspected someone was monitoring him. Once, he directly confronted one of the people, but that person called him crazy and inexplicable.

He was annoyed at first, but when he realized that these people seemed to be purely monitoring him and not taking any other action, he stopped caring, merely telling the alert team to pay more attention.

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Leaving the Uchiha compound, Sora Uchiha followed the crow directly to the gate of Konohagakure... well, the small side gate. After all, as an Anbu, why would they use the main gate?

Such obscure little gates were their usual way of traveling.

Soon, following the crow, Sora Uchiha arrived at the meeting point. Upon arriving, his brow twitched because this time he saw the tiger mask, Captain Shin'nosuke Sarutobi.

This mission wouldn't be simple if even the captain showed up, he thought to himself, walking up to everyone.

Shin'nosuke nodded lightly. "Good, everyone is here."

He then began to explain the mission. Anbu missions, especially for Shin'nosuke's squad, always informed the team members just before departure. This method maximized the prevention of information leakage.

"This mission's objective is to rescue Jonin Tsunade."

"Cough cough!"

Everyone looked expressionlessly at the instigator. Sora Uchiha patted his chest, his mask hiding his shock.

"Not the captain? Rescue Tsunade? It's questionable if any of us here are stronger than Tsunade?"

His mind was currently in an uproar. The original story didn't mention a mission to rescue Tsunade. Was it something Kishimoto didn't write, or... the butterfly effect?

Shin'nosuke glanced at Sora Uchiha and said calmly, "The Anbu's duty is to execute missions. Seven, this is the first time."

Sora Uchiha opened his mouth, speechless. "Yes."

Shin'nosuke turned his head back. "Jonin Tsunade was discovered by Iwagakure during a secret mission. A fierce battle ensued, and she retreated. However, during her escape, she encountered ninjas from Ryuuchi Village. With her strength, dealing with Ryuuchi Village ninjas shouldn't be a problem, but she was seriously injured in the battle with Iwagakure. She expended a lot of effort to send one Konoha ninja out."

Sora Uchiha nodded, knowing the captain was explaining to him. Despite his myriad doubts, he didn't speak up at the moment.

Some things were enough to offend once; don't think Shin'nosuke was a good-tempered person.

He retreated behind the others, his brow furrowed.

Tsunade is seriously injured? Not only is Tsunade famous for her monstrous strength, but also for her healing abilities. Her Hundred Healings Technique is practically a bug. It can be said that the caster only has two states: either peak condition or completely exhausted from Chakra depletion.

Oh, and there's also being decapitated or stabbed through the heart and dying.

No, he suddenly remembered something and had a slight answer in his heart.

That is, Tsunade at this moment might not have learned the Hundred Healings Technique, which is why she might be seriously injured and need rescuing.

Of course, he didn't care whether Tsunade was seriously injured or not. What he cared about was why Tsunade was seriously injured. If it was already part of the plot, that would be for the best. But if this incident was caused by his butterfly effect, it would be troublesome. It would mean that this butterfly had quietly altered the course of the Third Shinobi World War.

He shook his head. Thinking too much now was useless. He would find out what happened when he met Tsunade.

He looked up and saw that everyone was ready.

"We need to find Jonin Tsunade before dark," Shinnosuke said in a deep voice. With a raise of his hand, he shot out like a wild horse that had broken free of its reins.

"Seven, this mission is very dangerous. Be careful," Kazuki Utsuki patted Sora Uchiha on the shoulder before following.

Sora Uchiha looked at his retreating back. Speaking of which, Kazuki Utsuki was the one among the Anbu who cared about him the most. Because he was still young, Kazuki would take special care of him in many things.

After a while, he followed.