As the moon set and the sun rose, several hours passed in the blink of an eye.
It was now early morning the next day.
Seii was leading the team forward, facing the rising sun.
Suddenly, he seed to sense sothing and quickly raised his right arm, signaling the people behind him to stop.
Soon, everyone stopped and beca alert.
A mont later, Uchiha Shisui, who was in charge of the rear, passed the entire team and ca to Seii's side, saying, "What's wrong, Seii?"
Seii shook his head and said, "There seems to be soone ahead..."
His tone was uncertain.
Although Seii's ntal power had surged after awakening the Mangekyo Sharingan, due to not practicing sensory ninjutsu, its utilization was average.
It was fine at close range, even the concealed surveillance of soone like Abura Torune could be detected, but at long distances, it was sowhat inadequate.
Just like now, he could only vaguely sense a group of ninjas approaching them, but the specifics were unknown.
At this mont, he missed the Hyuga clan special jonin who was previously in the team. If he were present, he could see through the situation with a single glance.
Unfortunately, during the attack, as a Hyuga clan ninja, Hyuga Hibana was targeted by the enemy and directly surrounded and killed by several Mist special jonin.
Now, the only sensory ninja left in the team had a shorter perception range than him, which made Seii shake his head helplessly.
However, Uchiha Shisui didn't know what Seii was thinking. After hearing his words, he was imdiately startled and quickly asked, "Are they Mist ninjas? Or..."
He didn't continue the rest of his sentence because there were people nearby.
But Seii still knew what he wanted to ask.
Earlier, Seii had already taken the ti to inform him about the existence of Abura Torune and the others.
Of course, he didn't go into details, only saying that he had discovered several ninjas suspected to be from Root who were monitoring them and had already killed them.
Obviously, the reason Uchiha Shisui didn't finish his sentence was that he wanted to ask if these people were other or remaining Root ninjas.
However, Seii didn't think it was likely.
Having read Abura Torune's mories, he knew very well that only their small team was involved in this mission.
Except for the spy hidden in Kirigakure, Faceless, everyone else had been killed by him. There were no remaining enemies.
As for sending others...
Root's reaction shouldn't be that fast.
Even if they had received the news, it was impossible to mobilize people here so quickly, unless...
Danzo had sent another group of people to participate in this mission from the beginning.
But this was almost impossible.
Given Abura Torune's position under Danzo, if there were such arrangents, Danzo wouldn't have kept him in the dark.
Therefore, Seii was more inclined to believe that these people were from other forces.
But which specific force they belonged to, whether they were friend or foe, required careful identification.
After a brief mont of thought, Seii decided to take the initiative.
With that in mind, he said directly to Uchiha Shisui, "You and the others stay here on alert. I'll be back soon."
Uchiha Shisui opened his mouth, wanting to say that he should go, but when he thought of the gap between him and Uchiha Seii, he couldn't bring himself to say it.
In the end, he could only nod and say, "Be careful!"
"Yes."
Seii responded simply and then dashed forward. With a few leaps, he disappeared into the dense forest.
Uchiha Shisui looked at his disappearing back, turned to the others, and said, "Spread out and be on guard!"
"Yes, Captain!"
Twenty Konoha ninjas responded and scattered around. In the blink of an eye, the place was empty.
At least, on the surface.
...
anwhile, on the other side...
After leaving the team, Seii imdiately accelerated and headed straight towards the sensed location.
With his current strength, although he still needed to be cautious, there was no need to be overly timid.
So, in less than two minutes, he found his target.
However, to his surprise, these people were actually Konoha ninjas, and the leader was even an Uchiha clan jonin.
Although the other party was wearing a standard vest, the Uchiha clan symbol on both shoulders was clearly visible.
"Who's there?"
Seemingly because the result was unexpected, Seii inadvertently leaked a trace of his presence, causing the leading Uchiha jonin to discover him.
He imdiately activated his Sharingan, and several kunai were thrown over.
Seii quickly drew his short sword, deflecting the incoming kunai with a few clangs. At the sa ti, he activated his Sharingan, revealing his figure.
Among Uchiha ninjas, proving one's identity was simple - just activate the Sharingan.
Sure enough, seeing his Sharingan, the opponent imdiately raised his hand, stopping the others behind him who were about to attack.
Seeing this, Seii flashed and arrived in front of the group.
The leading Uchiha jonin looked at him, carefully discerned his features, and then said, "You're... Uchiha Seii?"
Hearing this, Seii was slightly taken aback, wondering if his reputation was so great that the other party recognized him at a glance.
Seemingly guessing Seii's thoughts, the Uchiha jonin smiled and said, "Kid, I'm Uchiha Hachidai. According to seniority, I should be your clan uncle. A few days ago, Elder Kazen sent a ssage saying that you were coming and asked us to look after you."
Hearing this, Seii suddenly rembered that Uchiha Kazen did seem to have said sothing similar, telling him not to worry when he arrived at the Mist battlefield, as soone would take care of him.
Now it seed that those weren't empty words.
However, these could be put aside for now. Seii looked at him and the others behind him and asked, "Clan Uncle, what are you all doing here?"
Hearing this, Uchiha Hachidai's expression imdiately turned grim, and he said with anger in his voice, "Not long ago, I received news that a group of Mist ninja elites had actually broken through the northern defense line.
And judging by their direction of travel, there's an overlap with your route, so I brought people here to et you.
But seeing that you're okay, I'm relieved. Fortunately, you didn't encounter those guys, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.
Oh, right, I rember that kid Shisui is with you, right? Where is he?"
However, hearing his words, Seii's expression suddenly turned strange.
In the end, he didn't conceal anything and told them about the attack they had encountered.
However, as soon as he started speaking, Uchiha Hachidai beca agitated and exclaid, "What? You actually encountered those Mist ninjas and were ambushed? Then how did you escape? What about the others?"
Hearing his words, the Konoha ninjas behind him also beca vigilant, seemingly afraid that the enemy had followed Seii here.
Seeing their reaction, Seii knew they were overthinking it, so he quickly explained everything that had happened.
After hearing his account, Uchiha Hachidai was speechless for a long ti.
After a while, he finally ca back to his senses and asked in disbelief, "You actually repelled those Mist ninjas? How is that possible?"
Hearing this, Seii didn't explain but simply said, "I'll tell you the details later. Our people are still behind. Should we rendezvous with them first?"
"Yes, we should rendezvous first!"
Hearing this, Uchiha Hachidai composed himself, nodded, and said.
Then, the group, led by Seii, headed towards the hiding place of Uchiha Shisui and the others.
However, Seii could see that these people were still sowhat wary of him.
Seii didn't pay much attention to this. Once the two sides t, they would naturally let down their guard.
(End of Chapter)
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