Besides wiping out that band of bandits, the mission he received from the Hokage included one of an even higher rank.
Kill Konoha rogue ninja Uesugi Toru!
Uesugi Toru came from a very small family in Konoha. It was so inconspicuous within the Hidden Leaf Village that it had practically faded into the civilian population.
However, Uesugi Toru was a rare little genius born into this family. He mastered the family's secret technique for erasing pheromones, granting him exceptional stealth abilities. It was this skill that earned him the rank of Special Jonin.
Unfortunately, after becoming a Special Jonin, all he thought about was restoring his family's former glory. He gradually became obsessed, developing intense hostility toward the Hokage. He believed that if not for the Hokage's policies, the Uesugi Clan would not have declined to such a state.
He had even attempted to assassinate the Hokage. The outcome was obvious.
It was only thanks to his pheromone-erasing secret technique that he survived the Anbu's encirclement.
The intelligence Hyuga Satoru had obtained was also merely what the Anbu had inferred after investigating him.
At first, he felt a trace of sympathy for Uesugi Toru. How many small families like the Uesugi Clan had declined within Konoha?
The Kato Clan was another prime example.
That Kato, not that Kato.
They possessed the rare S-rank soul secret technique, the Spirit Transformation Technique, and had even produced Kato Dan, the man who won over Tsunade. Though his life had been short, there was no denying that the Kato Clan had once flourished before the Second Shinobi World War.
Yet due to a combination of reasons, the clan now did not even have a single Jonin in Konoha. Even their inherited Spirit Transformation Technique had been recorded in the Book of Seals.
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