After they finished the explanations, they went to collect Kaguya's corpse, but when they arrived at the scene, the body was gone.
Almost immediately Hyori asked a question with an ingrecious expression.
"Where is the corpse?"
This single question made them all silent.
After a minute Yujiro gave guesses to the question.
"There are three possibilities.
The most likely one is that he had some kind of technique in his body that destroyed his body after death, I have heard that many ninjas carrying secrets have used this technique especially in the anbu units of different villages.
The second option is that something took the body from below our noses, despite how unlikely that is.
And the final and most terrifying one is that he faked his death and escaped when we were treating Mukin.
This is also quite likely, as we didn't land the finishing blow due to the wounds he inflicted on us, and he himself exhausted himself to death with chakra exhaustion, so he might have had a method to create a similar state for himself."
After Yujiro finished his guesses, the trio were quite annoyed by the fact.
But as they had nothing they could do about the matter, they started running toward the place they separated from their sensei.
As for where Teri Kaguya's corpse actually was.
It was indeed like Yujiro had said, it was taken by someone, but unlike how Mujin and Hyori might have thought, the body wasn't taken by an enemy.
It was taken by their own teammate.
An hour ago.
As Yujiro was going towards Mujin's direction, he got an idea and acted on that idea immediately.
He took a look at the body 7 meters away from him and confirmed that he was in fact dead.
After he confirmed that he was dead, he took a scroll that he had gotten from Hiramasu, when they were learning the healing palm jutsu.
The scroll had many fishes that the trio had used to train the jutsu.
But that scroll wasn't like normal sealing scrolls that only stored objects.
It also slows down the time inside the scroll.
This is how the fishes that had been stored inside could survive for weeks.
And from the tests Yujiro had done, the time is almost still inside the scroll.
From this he got an idea very early on to store extremely precious materials or corpses that he might need.
Originally he had planned to use it to store Hashirama cells and the sharingan he would rob from Danzo during the Uchiha massacre.
But now he had another though.
The Hyuga and Kaguya clans are documented to be related.
And from the example of Senju and the Uchiha where one inherited the eyes while the other inherited the body, Yujiro theorized that the same kind of phenomenon could be happening between the Hyuga and the Kaguya.
And so he decided to steal the body of Kaguya Teri, even if he was wrong, it wouldn't cost him anything.
At worst he would simply discard the corpse.
Back when the trio separated from Hiramasu.
The Kiri leader could be seen frowning from the by the moves of the trio.
"Teri, go kill those brats, and don't take your time, we will leave immediately after we kill Hiramasu, so we won't stay here waiting for you."
After Teri Kaguya heard this he automatically split from the team with a smile on his face.
As for why he was smiling, it was because he didn't really like these teammates, he only endured them because of the Terumi clan who gave him shelter during his time of need.
When he left all that was left was the 8 Kiri ninjas and Hiramasu.
The first one to speak was Kibaburi.
"Senju Hiramasu, Elite Jonin of Konoha, bounty 50 million ryo.
Aren't you worried that your little genins are going to get killed by Teri.
Even if I don't like to say it, he can fight against Jonin without getting injured, so how are your little students going to survive?"
Kibaburi immediately tried to make Hiramasu uneasy.
But Hiramasu who could think clearly because he knew this was a trap saw this immediately, as such he played along to buy some time for himself.
"Hump, cowards targeting people weaker than themselves, no wonder you are hiding from the mizukage, I bet if he knew where you were, he would immediately kill you people like bugs."
While Kibaburi was still smiling, veins had appeared on his forehead.
"Hehe don't take it so personally, we are here to pay you back for killing our people, but your head is also a good bonus for our cause."
While they were taunting each other, it didn't take long for Kibaburi to lose his temper and order an attack.
While Hiramasu was delaying with his clones, it didn't take long for the a warning to be heard from the Kiri sensor.
"Watch out, we are surrounded."
The moment he said that, the Kiri chunins became distracted and Hiramasu and a white haired anbu took the opportunity to kill two people.
Hiramasus shadow clone immediately launched himself at a chunin, when the Chunins attention was forced to the clone, his heart was suddenly pierced from the back.
All he could see was a hand wreathed in lightning coming out of his chest.
The the two shadow clones that Hiramasu had left, like the solo clone that launched himself at the other chunin did the same to another chunin, and the three mud clones that Hiramasu had created at the same moment used three earth release jutsus to distract, hamper and attack the Chunin, leading to the two shadow clones almost immediately killing the Chunin with hundreds of lightning senbon.
When Kibaburi quickly came to his senses. He immediately gave a warning to his teammates. "Disrupt your chakra, it's a genjutsu."
And when the remaining 6 Kiri ninjas on the scene saw their current position their expressions could not help but darken.
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