On the road, Naruto carefully searched through Awen's memories and found that there really had been such a mission.
At the beginning, Tsunade had sent Asuma, Shikamaru, Ino, and Choji of Team 10 to investigate near the border that had come under attack.
However, Tsunade had not expected that the D-Rank Mission she had casually assigned Naruto would become connected to this and draw him into an internal conflict within the Land of Fire.
The daimyo of the Land of Fire and the Hokage of Konoha were two rulers in contention, and a serious split had emerged within the Twelve Guardian Ninja.
One faction, led by Asuma, supported the Hokage. The Guardian Ninja under Kazuma supported the daimyo instead, believing Konoha should not exist at all. The Land of Fire could not have two rulers; only by destroying Konoha could the Land of Fire awaken!
Naturally, the daimyo would not support such an incompetent yet wildly ambitious man. As a result, Kazuma assassinated the daimyo in an attempt to seize power.
Yet even after failing, Kazuma refused to give up. He concealed his identity, and during the Nine-Tails' Attack, he collected the chakra the Nine-Tails had scattered through the air and sealed it into his own biological son, Sora. For his selfish desires, he cared about nothing—not even his own son.
That was how the conflict began. The reason Naruto remembered this matter was mainly because of a female ninja named Fū, a ghostly woman whose hair seemed to have come alive.
In Awen's memories, Fū had taken a liking to his Wind-Nature Chakra and kissed him all over, leaving a deep impression on him.
But now? Naruto thought of his current strength. Things were different from before. He would not let Fū pin him to the ground and kiss