Hanzo is a ninja who is calm yet cunning, insidious and extremely cautious. In other words, he is the kind of ninja that cannot be allowed to die... As a person who was not killed when he first saw the Outer Statue, Hanzo's vitality can be said to be comparable to that of a cockroach among the fragile ninjas.
Of course, he was later beaten to death by someone who stole his house and blocked his home, so there is no solution.
After a small battle in the Land of Rice, Hanzo retreated, followed by Hanyu and others who returned to Konoha with the injured Hatake Sakumo. After entering the Land of Fire in just a few steps, the team never encountered any other dangers afterwards.
The team returned to Konoha and first sent Sakumo to the Konoha Hospital, leaving two Hyuga ninjas to explain to the hospital the cause of the injured person's injuries... It must be said that the team returned very promptly, otherwise Sakumo could have been sent directly to the crematorium, and he would have been kept warm throughout the process.
After arranging things here, Hanyu went to the Hokage office building. He needed to report the progress of the mission to the Third Hokage.
Arriving at the Hokage's office building, Hanyu met the Hokage without any obstacles... His tasks have always been of high priority and importance, so he can report directly to the busy Hokage.
Hanyu tried to be as brief as possible in his explanation. It didn't take long for the Third Hokage to finish listening to his report. He then said, "That is to say, the handover at Kumogakure went smoothly, and the other party didn't play any tricks. But on the way back, they were intercepted by Amegakure, and the one who did it was the team led by Amegakure's leader, Hanzo?"
"Strictly speaking, I think Hanzo's appearance is actually a trick played by Kumogakure. After all, such information can only be leaked by one of the two parties, Konoha or Kumogakure. At this time, I naturally prefer to believe that this dirty thing was done by Kumogakure. Otherwise... Anyway, I think the Raikage is unwilling to hand over such a large sum of money to Konoha for nothing." Hanyu said.
He didn't say anything definite, but at the same time he was implicitly asking the Third Hokage some questions.
"There is definitely no problem with the village. Your operation is basically top secret. Only a handful of people know about it, and they are of course trustworthy ... Or if these few people can't be trusted, then the village would have fallen apart long ago."
The Third Hokage can certainly ensure that the information was not leaked from Konoha, otherwise... the leakage of information would only be considered a small matter, and the existence of spies from other villages among Konoha's high-level officials would be a big deal.
Exposing such a high-level spy for such a thing? That would be too stupid. So just from the perspective of rationality, the information could not have been leaked from Konoha.
"That's good."
Hanyu believed what the Third Hokage said.
The Hokage is unreliable only in rare cases, and he is trustworthy most of the time. And the Hokage will not do anything that is harmful to Konoha, this principle applies to all situations.
"We have no evidence of what Kumogakure did, so we probably can't negotiate with them about this matter... Even if we accuse them of leaking information, they will probably just evade the charge.
As for Amegakure, the situation there seems to be very bad, but we will send ninjas to question them about this matter next."
The Third Hokage began to shake his head unconsciously. The Amegakure was a poor bastard, otherwise Hanzo would not have gone out to rob. So even if Konoha held them responsible, what would it matter? They couldn't force Hanzo to commit suicide.
This kind of thing is very difficult. Anyway, Hanzo seems to have very good psychological quality and endurance.
"Where is Hatake Sakumo? How is he doing?" The Hokage finally asked about Hatake's situation.
Because Sakumo had always been by Hanyu's side, he caught the eye of the Third Hokage early on. The Hokage knew that he was a capable and trustworthy ninja - or even if the Third Hokage didn't think so before, after learning that Hatake could fight Hanzo with swords, he would also take Hatake seriously.
"I'm being tormented by the medical ninjas, but there shouldn't be any problem. Both external and internal injuries are easy to treat. The rest is just a matter of slowly detoxifying...
I'll go check on him right away."
After reporting the situation, Hanyu was about to leave the Hokage, but at this moment, the Third Hokage called him again.
"Wait."
"Hokage, do you have any other questions?" Hanyu turned around and looked confused.
"What's the problem? It's a big problem. Where is the money you brought back from Kumogakure to redeem the two-tail? A full 550 million has not given to me yet. Have you forgotten?"
Hanyu was embarrassed, then took out the scroll and handed it to the Third Hokage, "How could I forget such a big thing? But I thought that Hokage would forget it, after all, you are busy with so many things every day."
The Third Hokage: "..."
He quickly waved his hand to signal Hanyu to leave. It would be easy to have a stroke if you stay with this person for too long... Yes, the Hokage's daily work is very busy, but would he forget such a large sum of money? Sarutobi Hiruzen is not yet suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
Or it could be said that the Third Hokage is now looking forward to the arrival of this money to build a new office building, improve the treatment of some ninjas, expand the ninja school, add training equipment to certain departments, conduct research on certain ninjutsu... There are so many places like this where the whole village needs money.
And it must be said that using Hanaguku's money to handle Konoha's affairs is wonderful for the Hokage. This feeling is very similar to Hanyu using the chakra of the two-tail to hit his own map cannon.
Wasteful, indulgent, and artificial.
It's something I got for free anyway.
Hanyu left the Hokage office building and suddenly felt empty inside. A project worth hundreds of millions of dollars just slipped away from his hands... It was a really sad thing that a huge sum of money passed through his hands but not a single cent flowed through his fingers.
When Hanyu returned to Konoha Hospital, the two Hyuga ninjas were still waiting there...
These two people were actually quite nice. They should have left after explaining Hatake's condition to the medical ninjas. After all, they were not in the same department as Hanyu, and they also had to make a mission report afterwards.
But they were willing to stay here and accompany him, which was equivalent to the friendship between companions. It can be seen that the ninjas are not completely cold... Compared with Hanyu's previous words that he threatened to abandon others and run away, it was simply not human language.
Hanyu took a look at Sakumo's condition. He was now in the operating room, being manipulated by the medical ninjas like a piece of cold cut sashimi... It seemed that after being stabbed hard by Hanzo, he had some internal bleeding and needed a minor operation.
Fortunately, the medical ninjas told Hanyu that Hatake's condition was not serious... For some reason, Hanyu was particularly familiar with the ninjas at the hospital and could communicate with them... This made him feel relieved. If he sacrificed Sakumo for such an operation, it would be too much of a loss.
After confirming that there was no problem here, Hanyu did not stay here to accompany Sakumo, but hurried to the Shadow Stream Base. Next, he needed to explain the situation of this mission to his subordinates.
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