Ye Feng pretended he had only just noticed Karatachi Yagura and hurriedly rose to greet him warmly:
"Oh, if it isn't the Fourth Mizukage! Weren't you clearing out bandits? Finished already?"
Karatachi Yagura was in no mood to banter with Ye Feng. He leaned straight into Ye Feng's face, staring into his eyes as though trying to see right through him.
Fortunately, Ye Feng was sitting at the time. Had he stood up, Karatachi Yagura really would not have been able to reach him.
With fire in his eyes, Karatachi Yagura said to Ye Feng:
"What exactly did you come to the Land of Water for?"
At this, Ye Feng dropped his flippant expression and replied coldly:
"I don't know what went wrong with your mission, but I've already told you, we came to the Land of Water to travel. Have you ever seen a ninja bring so many defenseless women and a baby along on a mission? Especially when that baby is the Fifth Hokage's son!"
Tian Nai, the other woman, and Miroku all practiced cultivation methods under Ye Feng, so their chakra fluctuations were extremely faint, like those of ordinary women. There was nothing wrong with calling them defenseless women.
As for Kushina, she was the Fifth Hokage's wife and had his son with her. Such a group certainly did not look like they were out on a mission.
Moreover, if relations with Kirigakure turned hostile, the Fifth Hokage's wife and child would become his greatest vulnerability. Surely Konoha would not be that foolish.
At that thought, Karatachi Yagura slowly stepped back and said, his composure restored:
"An enemy trespassed into Kirigakure territory just now and disrupted our mission. This was merely a routine inquiry. The Land of Water will be somewhat unsettled for a while, so stay