The Shadow of Konoha

In the jungle, Hanyu's performance was much more experienced. The skills he displayed in alertness, pathfinding and movement were even comparable to those of experienced ninjas... if the various uses of chakra were excluded.

Soon, he found the footprints he had left behind, and then followed the clues and returned to the place where the Second Hokage was burned.

"There is no sign of other people appearing." Hanyu made this judgment the moment he saw the scene... He had never thought that he would come back here before.

The huge hollow tree had turned into ashes along with the remains of the Second Hokage. After mixing with the autumn rain that fell from the sky a few days ago, it turned into a gray paste that spread on the ground. If someone had approached here before, they would definitely have left footprints on it.

However, his judgment did not attract everyone's attention. To be more precise, he did not get any feedback from everyone. Sansho, Mitokado Homura and Uchiha Kagami just stood there in silence.

This unknown primeval forest was the last place where the Second Hokage stayed and where he was buried. The Second Hokage's burnt remains were mixed in the ashes on the ground. Therefore, for Sansho and the others, even if they accidentally stepped on it, it would be a kind of disrespect and blasphemy... No one wanted to disturb the Second Hokage's eternal sleep.

Then think of the Senju Tobirama who was famous in the ninja world since the chaotic era, and finally died peacefully in such an insignificant place, and even his body could not be recovered, and the only person who accompanied him in the end was a strange boy. Although for the Hokage himself, this kind of death can't be called a death without regrets, but at least it is a good thing, but for his relatives and disciples, it is really a sad thing that can't help but feel helpless.

Hanyu quickly realized everyone's state of mind from their expressions, so he turned to Hatake Sakumo and said, "Hatake, come with me, let's go search for Kinkaku and Ginkaku's bodies."

"But..." Hatake hesitated. Is it okay to act on your own? The person who can issue orders in this ninja team is not Hanyu.

"Let's go." Hanyu ignored Hatake's hesitation and pulled him away forcefully.

At a time like this, let's just let those three people stay like this for a while.

Before, Hanyu was moved to the tree hole by the Second Hokage while he was unconscious, so using the tree hole as the coordinates, he did not know the exact location of Kinkaku and Ginkaku's bodies, but they must be nearby. After all, given the Second Hokage's condition at the time, it was impossible for him to carry the unconscious Hanyu for a long distance.

Therefore, with the place where the Second Hokage died as the center, Hanyu and Hatake Sakumo searched in a fan shape towards the periphery, and soon after, they found the two bodies.

"Judging from the degree of decay of the corpses, they don't look like people who have been dead for nearly a week." After quickly coming to the corpses and examining them one by one, Hatake Sakumo said... Although it is now impossible to tell which is Kinkaku and which is Ginkaku... the odor emanating from the corpses was not serious, and the imagined scene of them being eaten by insects and ants in the forest until only bones were left did not appear at all.

After thinking about it, Hanyu said, "Maybe it's because they ate some preservatives when they were alive."

He remembered that the two guys in front of him seemed to have swallowed the Nine-Tails' chakra, and he thought that thing must have a strong bactericidal effect.

"Would there be a ninja who embalmed his body while he was still alive?" Hatake expressed serious doubts about Hanyu's guess. However, the fact that the remains of these two people have been preserved until now must be related to their physical conditions. He just didn't know the specific reason.

Hatake continued, "You stay here, I'll go get the captain and the others to come over."

The nominal leader of this team is Mitokado Homura, but in reality, any decision is made through consultation among the three of them. Now, it's time for them to pay their respects to the Nidaime, so it shouldn't matter if Hatake goes to call them.

Hanyu stayed where he was and searched for various items as much as possible... The reason why Kinkaku and Ginkaku had such powerful fighting power during their lifetime was, on the one hand, because they had absorbed part of the Nine-Tails' chakra, and on the other hand, because they possessed multiple powerful ninja tools.

The sword and gourd that were broken by the Second Hokage were two of them. Hanyu was the first to collect the fragments of these two things, but because they had been completely destroyed, these two things had long lost their original functions and completely turned into a pile of scrap metal.

I just don't know if Kumogakure still accepts such souvenirs...

Hatake Sakumo came and went in a hurry, and soon he brought the three people here. At this time, Sansho and the others had calmed down, at least there was nothing unusual in their expressions.

"Are these Kinkaku and Ginkaku? Can you confirm their identities?" After arriving here, looking at the two unrecognizable corpses, Sansho asked with a frown.

In this case, it is really difficult to confirm their identity based on appearance and physical characteristics alone.

" It is indeed them." Mitokado Homura first checked the fragments of ninja tools collected by Hanyu, and then said with certainty, "These are the ninja tools used by Kinkaku and Ginkaku, called the Seven Star Sword and the Red Gourd respectively."

Then, he walked to the side of another corpse, raised one of its arms, and showed a light golden rope wrapped around the arm, "Golden Rope, then this corpse is Kinkaku... I didn't expect that they really weren't found by the ninjas from Kumogakure or other villages first."

They did not move very fast, and before they saw the bodies, they were still worried that ninjas from other villages would get there first. Specifically, six days had passed since the attack at the alliance ceremony, and at least three days had passed since Kinkaku, Ginkaku and the Nidaime died, so it was indeed a lucky thing that the two bodies had not been discovered by others yet.

It has to be said that this had a lot to do with the procrastination of the Second Hokage. The alliance ceremony was held in the Land of Lightning. When Kinkaku and Ginkaku led a group of elite ninjas to launch an attack, the Raikage died on the spot. The Second Hokage fled with his disciples. After taking the initiative to act as bait, he and his disciples moved in the opposite direction . In the end, he died in the Land of Rice. This shows that he was fighting and retreating. After fighting alone for three days, he finally achieved the ultimate one-for-two here.

"The rainy day before must have helped a lot. Not only did he cover up the Second Generation's battle route, but even the fire that burned the Second Generation was not discovered in the low visibility in the rain... However, if you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, no one would have thought that they would die in such a far place." Sansho explained.

Traces of recent rain from a few days ago can be seen everywhere in the mountains and forests. The battle between the Second Hokage and Kinkaku and Ginkaku was largely obscured by the rain, but this is only one aspect. As Sansho said, who could have thought that under such an extremely disadvantageous situation, the Second Hokage could drag the battle all the way to the Land of Rice?

It was truly a battle in which I was alone, without any reinforcements, a long battle full of despair, yet also filled with comfort and hope.

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