That woman had come specifically for him.
"What eliminating Moryo? That was nothing but an excuse!!"
Hyuga Akira swore under his breath.
Moryo had not even required him to get particularly serious. He admitted that his opponent had immense chakra, but could a tailed beast that could not even fire a Tailed Beast Bomb really pose a threat?
After returning to Konoha, Hyuga Akira went back to Hiruzen Sarutobi to report the mission's completion.
"There weren't any problems with this mission, were there?" Hiruzen Sarutobi asked, smoking.
Hyuga Akira nodded as a matter of course. "Of course there weren't any problems."
The mission wasn't what had a problem. I was!!
Hiruzen Sarutobi gave Hyuga Akira a dubious look, seriously doubting that he could really have been so quiet. However, Hyuga Akira had provided Moryo's handwritten letter.
The mission did indeed count as completed.
"All right, here's your mission payment." Hiruzen Sarutobi placed the payment in front of Hyuga Akira, intending to send him on his way.
Only then did Hyuga Akira put away the payment and leave, satisfied.
Once Hyuga Akira had left, Hiruzen Sarutobi finally frowned. "The situation is getting more and more chaotic."
News of the Kazekage's disappearance had already broken in Sunagakure, exposed by other small ninja villages.
It had also shown all the small ninja villages a chance to replace Sunagakure as one of the Five Great Shinobi Villages. The entire Land of Wind was now in complete chaos, and quite a few small ninja villages had launched attacks on Sunagakure.
Yet Amegakure, reputed to be the strongest among them, had made unusually little movement. Konoha's intelligence teams could not infiltrate it at all, either; they would be quickly discovered.
Amegakure probably possessed some sort of detection ninjutsu now. Hanzo also appeared frequently, and he was