Aragaki Yasushi dropped from the sky and landed beside the corpse, investigating the traces around it.
His ninja skills might not have been particularly impressive, but that was only compared to those of a jonin. He still had the basic skills needed to track someone.
Just then, Aragaki Yasushi glanced up at the sky.
A Ninja Hawk?
It was one of the Ninja Hawks the village used to deliver urgent messages, and a scroll was tied to its leg.
Aragaki Yasushi immediately activated the Universal Gravitation Scroll.
In an instant, the Ninja Hawk, which had been flying along just fine, seemed to be seized by an invisible giant hand. It let out a shrill cry and plummeted straight to the ground.
Aragaki Yasushi caught the hawk, untied the scroll from its leg, and quickly unfurled it to read.
Let's see what happened.
Did that old schemer Madara kidnap Rin?
After reading the information on the scroll, Aragaki Yasushi finally understood what had happened.
The Ninja Hawk had been sent by the village's survivors.
They said that they had been ambushed by a group of Hidden Mist ninja while escorting prisoners.
The group of Hidden Mist ninja had acted strangely. They hadn't tried to rescue the prisoners from their own village; instead, they had attacked the survivors mercilessly.
Stranger still, they had kidnapped Nohara Rin.
The only survivors from Konoha were Hyuga Takuya and Kakashi.
Kakashi hadn't been badly injured and had already gone alone to rescue Nohara Rin.
Hyuga Takuya had sent the Ninja Hawk to request help from the front-line camp.
Aragaki Yasushi furrowed his brow.
Just as I thought. Uchiha Madara really did make his move.
*He must have manipulated the Hidden Mist ninja and kidnapped Rin, waiting for Kakashi to walk right into his trap. Then he'll