After the Nine-Tails Scheme and the sealing of Hanyu's own chakra, with the continued torture of senjutsu and his continued development of new ninjutsu while losing his hair, twenty-five years passed and twenty-six years arrived in Konoha.
Although major events such as the Nine-Tails Plan occurred during this period, overall this period of time was very peaceful, whether for Hanyu himself, for Konoha, or even for the entire ninja world.
So this is a rare period of leisure time, so leisurely that some people can go for a picnic.
After the New Year of this year, it has been ten years since Hanyu came to Konoha as a wanderer. From the age of fourteen or fifteen to twenty-four or twenty-five, he has grown from a psychological uncle to a coordinated uncle in body and mind.
Although his physical age is "younger" than his actual age, an uncle is still an uncle.
The Ninja World War seemed to have just happened yesterday. Peaceful times always pass faster than times filled with blood.
Although he experienced a serious setback in the middle, Hanyu has grown up again. The last time he measured his height, it had reached 183... As a homeless child who has been malnourished since childhood, Hanyu feels that this should be his limit.
Even this is an exaggerated limit.
However, the key question is... As a wanderer, has Hanyu now taken root in Konoha?
It's barely ok, but not really.
So it doesn't count after all.
Fortunately, Hanyu is not the kind of person who doesn't learn as he gets older, nor is he the kind of person who thinks the whole world owes him something - people who think everyone should pamper them are the kind of people who will always be beaten by reality.
So Hanyu has been doing his job conscientiously.
Just the favors and gifts he received from one person were enough to make him correct his attitude towards Konoha.
But the question is, how long can this peaceful life last?
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"Investigate the situation in neighboring countries? Provide detailed underlying data for changes in the world situation in the next few years?
Why did we suddenly receive this kind of mission? Shadow Stream is not a specialized intelligence department, and this is obviously the job of an intelligence department. Are they just eating and doing nothing?"
On this day, Hanyu suddenly received such an order from the Konoha high-level officials. However, because the entire ninja world is relatively stable now, this order seems a bit incoherent.
Shiko took the order and looked at it, then thought for a while before saying, "Master Hanyu, you have to understand... because the Uzumaki clan moved to Konoha, the Shadow Stream has consumed too much funding in the past few years. Although our funding has returned to normal levels now that the Uzumaki clan has settled down, we have left a bad impression on the top management after all.
We have wasted money, and more importantly, we have not produced any significant results, which is a problem."
The most important and far-reaching achievement that Shadow Stream has made in recent years is the plan to split and control the Nine-Tailed Fox. However, due to strict confidentiality, this achievement cannot be announced publicly.
Even though the Third Hokage knew the details, his dry language of defense might not necessarily have much effect - after all, the current Konoha was not a dictatorship, but an oligarchy.
The Third Hokage was just an "opinion leader" and not a "dictator".
So on the surface, the biggest thing Shadow Stream did was to capture a wave of two-tails, and then caused trouble for Cloud Village because of it... The purpose of establishing Shadow Stream was already ambiguous, and they didn't do anything serious, so it's reasonable that some people would be unhappy with them under such circumstances.
"Maybe the higher-ups think we are too idle and some of us are not doing our job, so they assign us such a long-term task." Shiko guessed the origin of the matter.
To put it bluntly, perhaps in the eyes of some senior officials, Shadow Stream is the organization that only eats for free in the entire village.
And there is no way to refute this statement, because the Shadow Stream has not made any major moves recently. Apart from a number of ninjas who are taking on daily tasks in the village, the rest of the people are hiding underground all day and have no problem playing cards.
Hanyu was depressed. "Is this why we have to take on such a task?"
There is nothing wrong with the top leaders sending special tasks to Shadow Stream, but the problem is that the tasks that Hanyu received are too vague. What kind of data is considered detailed data? How can he investigate the surrounding countries?
Such a task, on a larger scale, could not even be accomplished by mobilizing the intelligence resources of the entire village, but on a smaller scale, it only required sending out a ninja to fish around.
Given Hanyu's usual style, when there is such a difference in the tasks he receives, he certainly cannot understand it in the most complicated and labor-intensive way...or he can understand that meaning, but will definitely only do it in the simplest way.
Although the top brass probably intended for Shadow Stream to take larger intelligence actions, they did not issue such clear orders directly to Hanyu, so it cannot be blamed that Hanyu would take a simpler approach.
" Although the Shadow Stream has never conducted large-scale outdoor reconnaissance exercises. A hasty deployment will not have any significant effect. In addition, the mission itself is a bit vague. Therefore... leave this kind of mission to me alone. It's just a trip around the Fire Nation anyway." After thinking about it, Hanyu said this.
A collective task becomes a personal task for him.
"Lord Hanyu, we should at least form a team to carry out such a mission." Shiko felt that it was not appropriate for Hanyu to go alone, so she made this suggestion.
"That's not necessary. When performing reconnaissance and infiltration missions, the fewer people there are, the more flexible and changeable the actions will be, and the safer it will be. Although the efficiency of a single person's reconnaissance is questionable, safety comes first.
Even if I encounter a special situation where I cannot defeat them, I can definitely escape if I want to. And if I leave the village to carry out such a mission, I think the higher-ups will have nothing to say. "
Since the "Shadow Lord" has gone out to run errands, the top leaders really can't say much.
And what Hanyu said makes sense. If he were to move around the ninja world alone, he would be very flexible. To be frank, as long as he didn't do anything stupid and go to the big ninja village, he would definitely be able to ensure his own safety.
So Shiko nodded as well.
Frankly speaking, such a general intelligence gathering task is actually quite similar to a tourist mission. It is nothing more than going out for a walk and then reporting back on the valuable things you see and hear along the way.
So Hanyu didn't think much about it. The next day after receiving the task, he packed a backpack, took enough money, and prepared to leave the village alone.
The daily work of Shadow Stream can be completely coordinated and handled by Shiko.
Hanyu set out in the morning, and this time when he was traveling, he passed by the entrance of Konoha Hospital and happened to meet Tsunade who got up early to go to work.
"Hanyu? What are you doing..." Seeing that Hanyu looked like he was going on a long journey, Tsunade asked, somewhat unsure of the reason.
"I have a small mission and I am going to leave the village. It may take a while."
"Oh, I see."
Hanyu simply explained that he was going out on a mission, and Tsunade didn't think much about it. It was quite common for ninjas to leave the village. Hanyu was a formal jonin, and although he didn't mention it, it was impossible for him to stay in Konoha all these years except for major missions.
In fact, he also carried out a lot of daily outings. After all, jonin were a scarce resource, and some clients' matters were obviously not big, but for the sake of safety, they would be willing to spend money and would therefore specify jonin to carry out the commission.
So after a simple greeting, Hanyu walked forward towards the Konoha gate, and Tsunade turned right to enter the Konoha hospital.
However, before entering the hospital, Tsunade turned back and looked in the direction where Hanyu left.
In the cool morning sunlight, Hanyu was walking quickly forward alone, carrying a backpack and the commonly used ninja tools on his body.
His back looked somewhat broad and yet somewhat thin.
In the blink of an eye, he disappeared around the corner of the road.
But for some reason, Tsunade was unable to describe her feelings at this moment. Hanyu's back lingered in her eyes for a long time... She had a feeling that this person would never appear again after disappearing around the corner.
It seemed as if he would never come back.
Tsunade was aware of Hanyu's strength, and she knew that such a thing would not happen. As Hanyu himself said, this was just a small mission... But for some reason, once this ominous haze emerged, it would never disappear.
Tsunade could no longer move forward, so she turned around and ran quickly in the direction where Hanyu had just left.
"Hanyu!"
"ah?"
Then, on this morning, Hanyu's somewhat puzzling single-byte response was heard.
He certainly couldn't understand Tsunade's feelings at the moment, so his expression seemed a little puzzled... How could an uncle understand the delicate state of mind of a girl?
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