"Who are you people?!"
One of the Sunagakure ninja spoke.
It was time for Nawaki to make his appearance. Before setting foot in the Land of Wind, the group had already settled on their identities.
They were all children from the Land of Rivers who had lost their parents and been left alone in the world. To survive in this harsh world, they had sworn brotherhood and supported one another through life.
As the eldest, Nawaki had naturally become everyone's big brother.
In truth, the identity of orphans suited the four of them quite well.
First, Hyuga Shinichi and Nawaki truly had lost their parents early, while Inuzuka Gai and Aburame Tomohiro had it slightly better, though both came from single-parent households.
Thus, they were already accustomed to the identity of orphans. They would not reveal any flaws that might make others suspect something was amiss.
Second, only an orphaned background like theirs could reasonably explain why children around ten years old, with no one to care for them and needing to survive, had risked their lives to come to the Land of Wind to sell fruit for a living.
Lastly, due to the various problems of the current era, many people had become orphans. Such an identity might evoke greater sympathy from others.
Of course, whether that last point would still be useful now was impossible to say.
After all, they had encountered Sunagakure ninja. Although ninja education differed from village to village, it all essentially revolved around the idea that ninja had to cast aside most of their emotions and become people who endured humiliation and bore heavy burdens.
So now, it depended on whether these four Sunagakure ninja would feel a momentary sympathy for their identities as orphans and be less strict in investigating them.
At that