"Everyone, I'd like to ask you a favor."
Kaguya suddenly looked seriously at Jiraiya and the others.
Hatake Sakumo asked solemnly, "What is it? Please, go ahead."
Orochimaru and Jiraiya looked over as well.
"When you report on the battle with Hanzo, please leave out Wuye's contributions. Don't mention him," Kaguya said calmly.
Orochimaru immediately understood. "You're worried he'll draw too much attention and be targeted by the other villages?"
"Yes." Kaguya nodded. "After the battle where he stopped Sand Village, he had already become famous throughout the shinobi world. If he was involved in taking the Demigod's arm as well, he'll become the biggest topic of the entire Second Shinobi World War and attract the attention of the whole shinobi world. That wouldn't be a good thing."
"Why didn't you claim the credit for killing those two Sand Village puppeteers for yourself earlier?" Tsunade frowned.
Kaguya sighed softly. "I did do that, but I never expected Sand Village to put a bounty on the black market—and to say that anyone who encountered him would not be punished for failing their mission."
"What?!"
The others frowned.
Looking at Hyuga Wuye's still-youthful face, they found it hard to believe that Sand Village valued him so highly.
"After all, they were Sand Village's two genius puppeteers. I heard they were meant to succeed Chiyo and Ebizo as elders. Now that they died at Wuye-kun's hands, Sand Village must be extremely enraged," Orochimaru said in his hoarse voice.
Jiraiya and Hatake Sakumo nodded in realization.
"Fine, I promise you. I absolutely won't reveal that Wuye took part in this assassination," Hatake Sakumo said gravely.
Kaguya nodded and looked toward Jiraiya and Orochimaru.
She had always been at ease with Hatake Sakumo. After all, Wuye was the savior of his son's wife...
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