Although Naruto had not stolen the Scroll of Seals this time, Mizuki, who had fallen for Orochimaru's temptations, had still used some unknown lie to deceive one of the lowest-ranked students in Naruto's class.
The student was arrested as soon as he reached the Hokage's office and, unsurprisingly, named Mizuki. The Third Hokage had already assigned the Anbu to watch Mizuki, and once they had evidence, they arrested him directly.
"Hahahaha! Has Konoha run out of people? They only sent two brats to track me down? Does the Konoha High Command really think two rookies who barely stood out at the Ninja Academy can take us on?"
Mizuki landed alongside the brothers Fujin and Raijin, smashing three body-sized craters into the ground. Naturally, the two brothers with sumo wrestlers' builds had contributed most of the force.
"I was planning to lure the pursuing Jonin into a trap I'd already prepared, but this is quite a surprise. Has Konoha's current leadership become so stupid that they're sending you here to die?"
Before he finished speaking, he gripped his kunai and charged at Yi Xiang and Naruto alone. Yi Xiang used the Body Flicker Technique to evade him, then flickered to a spot over ten meters to Fujin and Raijin's left and said with a smile,
"Fujin, Raijin, want some grilled meat? I've got plenty here."
As he spoke, two plates of steaming grilled meat appeared in his hands in the blink of an eye.
"Grilled meat! I want it! Give me the meat!"
"I want some too!"
Fujin and Raijin rushed toward him like ravenous beasts, moving far faster than ordinary Jonin. It was hard to imagine anyone so bulky could be that agile and quick.
Yi Xiang did not dare get careless. He flickered farther away, then tossed them the