Choosing a Summoned Beast

Yeyu waved his hand. "All right, we leave tomorrow. Get a good night's rest."

With that, Yeyu stood up and took Anko back to his room to rest.

After Yeyu and Anko left, Asama Sandayu wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. He had genuinely worried that Yeyu would simply walk away and leave them to fend for themselves.

That would have been a real shame.

Kazahana Koyuki looked at the windowsill where Yeyu had been sitting, then walked over and sat down.

"What's his deal?"

Kazahana Koyuki looked up at Asama Sandayu.

Asama Sandayu thought for a moment, then told Kazahana Koyuki everything he had seen and heard along the way.

After hearing him out, Kazahana Koyuki fell silent.

She realized how rude she had been just now.

"You really hired him to protect me for only three million ryo?"

Kazahana Koyuki could hardly believe it. Yeyu was so powerful, yet the mission reward was only three million ryo.

It was practically the same as doing it for free.

It was hard enough to hire a powerful shinobi like Yeyu even with money. And even if someone managed to hire him, the fee would be at least thirty million ryo.

After all, Asama Sandayu's goal was to help Kazahana Koyuki reclaim her country.

This was a mission involving war between nations.

Kazahana Koyuki also learned Asama Sandayu's identity.

"So the mission you commissioned him for this time is to help me reclaim my country?"

"He actually agreed?"

Kazahana Koyuki could hardly believe it.

She had thought Asama Sandayu had hired Yeyu simply to protect her while she filmed a movie.

She never expected that he had hired him to help her reclaim her country.

If Asama Sandayu had told her that from the start, she wouldn't have been so rude just now.

"Sandayu, why would someone that powerful accept a mission like this?"

Kazahana Koyuki couldn't understand. Yeyu was definitely much stronger than Kakashi had been back then, and might even be stronger than her uncle.

Kakashi hadn't been able to defeat Dotō Kazahana back then, but that didn't mean Yeyu couldn't.

Asama Sandayu told Kazahana Koyuki about Yeyu's battle in the Land of Waves, and she began comparing the two.

If she'd known Yeyu's strength just now, she never would have offended him like that.

He was a top-tier powerhouse.

Someone she normally wouldn't even have a chance of meeting.

Asama Sandayu thought it over, then said, "It's probably because this is his first mission. Maybe he wants to see it through to the end."

"Is it really that simple?" Kazahana Koyuki murmured.

Asama Sandayu nodded. "I think it probably is."

Kazahana Koyuki found it somewhat ironic. "If he really does help me reclaim my country, that'll be even more ridiculous."

"You've spent so many years plotting to reclaim it, and he'll get it done on a whim."

At that moment, Kazahana Koyuki understood how frightening the strong could be.

Now that she knew who Yeyu was, there was no way she could treat him as she had before.

"He just graduated from the Ninja Academy, yet he's already a Chunin and even the Hokage Assistant."

"He must be a once-in-a-generation genius from Konoha, right?"

Asama Sandayu said, "Probably. The Third Hokage seems to think highly of him. But I doubt anyone who knows what he can do would overlook him."

Indeed, once Yeyu showed his strength, no village could afford to ignore him.

Asama Sandayu sighed. "If only our Land of Snow had a powerhouse like him."

"Maybe then we could make sure Dotō Kazahana never takes over the Land of Snow."

At the mention of Dotō Kazahana, Kazahana Koyuki instinctively shrank back. Those cruel scenes came flooding into her mind again.

Meanwhile, Yeyu returned to his room.

He and Anko were staying in the same room.

Usually, when a ninja squad went on a mission, they stayed together if they could.

That way, they could support each other quickly if they ran into danger.

As soon as Yeyu returned to the room, he was about to go to sleep.

But Anko pulled him back up and asked, "Are you really going to help Princess Koyuki reclaim her country?"

"That sounds dangerous. You might have to take on an entire ninja village."

The Land of Snow also had a village of its own, Yukigakure.

Kazahana Koyuki's father, the Daimyo of the Land of Snow, had been killed by his own younger brother, Dotō Kazahana, the leader of Yukigakure.

Yeyu was definitely powerful, but Anko wasn't sure he could take on an entire ninja village by himself.

But Yeyu knew exactly what Yukigakure was capable of.

Aside from a few Jonin, the rest were just cannon fodder. He could take them all out in an instant.

Even Dotō Kazahana, with his Chakra Armor, could only fight at the level of an Elite Jonin at best.

After all, he had once defeated Kakashi, who was a Jonin at the time, with ease.

He was definitely as strong as an Elite Jonin.

But Yeyu wasn't concerned about even an Elite Jonin. They posed no threat to him.

Yeyu rested his hands behind his head and looked at Anko, who was sitting at the table. "This is my first mission, after all. I want to see it through to the end."

"As for the danger, I'm confident in my strength. And it's only Yukigakure, not one of the Five Great Shinobi Villages."

"They're not even as strong as Amegakure. What do I have to worry about?"

Anko looked at Yeyu's calm expression and didn't try to dissuade him again. "If you've already made up your mind, then so be it."

"Besides, you know the Flying Thunder God Technique. Even if you can't win, you can still escape."

That was the main reason Anko supported Yeyu in taking on this mission.

Even if Yeyu couldn't win, he wouldn't die as long as he knew the Flying Thunder God Technique.

Yeyu smiled. "Exactly. Even if I can't win, I can still get away."

"By the way, your teacher is Orochimaru. Have you signed a Summoning Contract with his Summoned Beast?"

Yeyu had an idea about Anko's Summoning Contract.

Anko froze for a moment.

How had the conversation jumped so quickly?

They'd been talking about the Land of Snow, and now they'd suddenly moved on to her Summoning Contract.

But Anko didn't hide anything from Yeyu. "I haven't signed a Summoning Contract with Manda. I don't have nearly enough chakra to summon him."

"But I did sign a Summoning Contract with Ryūchi Cave. I can't summon those giant snakes, but I can summon ordinary giant pythons."

"What, are you interested?"

Yeyu sat up. "I'm looking for a Summoned Beast. I think snakes would be a good choice."

Anko smiled. "Ask me nicely, and I'll help you sign a Summoning Contract."

Yeyu lay back down. "Never mind, then."

Anko shook her head helplessly. "I was just teasing you. It's just that we don't have time right now. We leave tomorrow."

"After that, we'll be on the ship the whole time. I'll help you sign a Summoning Contract when we get back."

Yeyu took a kunai covered in mysterious markings out of his ninja pouch.

"As long as I have this kunai, I can come back whenever I want."

Anko frowned slightly as she looked at the kunai in Yeyu's hand. "That kunai looks a lot like the Fourth Hokage's."

"Could your Space-Time Ninjutsu be the Flying Thunder God Technique?"

Not many people in Konoha knew the Flying Thunder God Technique, but it was famous.

It was famous throughout the Ninja World.

After all, the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, had earned the title of Yellow Flash thanks to the Flying Thunder God Technique, and had ended the Third Ninja World War single-handedly.

The technique had always been legendary.

It was famous, too.