Chapter 48: Second Phase Task

Tying her somewhat disheveled hair into a bunch at the back of her head, Uchiha Mikoto looked seriously towards the direction of the Kumogakure village camp.

This was her sister's last request before she died...

She had to save the child no matter what.

"Why? Shouldn't we go to rescue them together at this time?", Naruto completely didn't understand why the big sister who saved them would say to separate at this time.

"Rescue? You all seem to be just genin, right?", Uchiha Mikoto expressed her gentlest insistence in the strongest manner.

"There are countless elite ninjas in Kumogakure village, you three genin will only be in the way, better not get involved in my business."

"Don't look down on us, I even have the Six Paths Sage..."

"Even if we are genin, we can still help," Sasuke pulled Naruto, who wanted to boast to refute, aside, and then calmly looked at the young mother in front of him.

'Saying she's only a few years older than us?'

'That means in this timeline, I haven't been born yet?'

'No, this place shouldn't be real... and, just now, Kage's words were reminding me not to get lost here, right?'

"No, I am a jonin, I don't need the help of you genin brats," But Uchiha Mikoto refused without thinking the boy who had been staring at her strangely before and called her mom.

"Jonin?", Naruto looked surprised.

'This big sister, who doesn't look like a powerful person at all, is actually a jonin?'

"I am a genius who has awakened the three-tomoe Sharingan," To dispel the doubts of the three boys, Uchiha Mikoto pretended to be proud and showed them her three-tomoe Sharingan.

"I think maybe... it's better not to save that child," Uchiha Kage suddenly said something that surprised everyone.

"Growing up in Kumogakure might be better than growing up in Konoha, for an Uchiha."

"You... what you say makes sense," Sasuke didn't get it at first, but soon understood.

Yes, the Uchihas who stayed in Konoha were later exterminated, if they stayed in Kumogakure, they might have grown up alive.

"What are you talking about? Let's go save them quickly!", Naruto completely couldn't understand the logic of these two Uchihas.

"What nonsense are you talking about!?"

'How can the bloodline of the Uchiha clan be spread outside?'

Uchiha Mikoto also couldn't understand.

Originally, she had a good impression of this handsome boy who quietly helped her treat her sister with medical ninjutsu and silently helped bury her sister's body, but she didn't expect this guy to say such things.

'This Uchiha is too cold-blooded.'

'And that Uchiha boy over there is nodding in agreement?'

'I really saved them for nothing!'

'Not as enthusiastic as this outsider boy.'

"However, if sister wants to save people, we have no choice but to accompany her," Uchiha Kage suddenly made a turn.

"I don't need it!", Uchiha Mikoto snorted heavily.

Whether she was really angry because of the previous words or not, she now had to shake off these three boys.

She couldn't just save them and then send them back to the dragon's den and tiger's lair, "Don't follow."

"Wait!", Seeing the female ninja in front of her about to leave with the Body Flicker Technique, Uchiha Kage quickly grabbed her wrist.

"To be honest, the three of us don't know where the main force of Konoha is now, if you leave us here, we will die soon, it's better to follow you, a jonin, to act," Because he knew the other party was Uchiha Mikoto, Uchiha Kage could completely guess what the other party was thinking.

'Isn't she just afraid of implicating the three of us?'

However, to be honest, he still thinks that the Uchiha baby being captured by Kumogakure is not a bad thing.

Of course, this definitely can't convince Uchiha Mikoto.

Even if they tell everything.

In that case, there is no choice but to help.

"Hey, your hand!"

'Although the other party is the Kage I trust, but he can't keep holding my mother's hand, right?'

Seeing his overly young mother being grabbed by his companion, Sasuke always feels a bit strange.

"If I don't hold her, she will really run away," Uchiha Kage shrugged, but under Sasuke's stare, he had to let go.

'Just the wrist, and you are this jealous?'

'Does Sasuke have oedipus complex?'

"You, are you telling the truth? You also...", After listening to Uchiha Kage's words, Uchiha Mikoto hesitated.

'So they are also lost?'

'But... is it really good to take them to save my sister's child?'

"That's right, so we can only act with you now," Uchiha Kage knew that Sasuke would not leave Uchiha Mikoto now, and he would not really let Sasuke's mother go to the Kumogakure ninja army's base alone.

Moreover—

[The first phase task 'Survival' is completed]

[The second phase task: Help Uchiha Mikoto save the child]

Just now, the copy sent the task information again.

It seems that no matter what, they have to save that child.

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"Still waiting here?"

Although not very willing, the helpless Uchiha Mikoto couldn't leave the three boys alone.

So they now sneaked back to the mountain near the Kumogakure camp.

However, to prevent being discovered by the Kumogakure patrol ninjas, they all hid their figures.

"No need to rush, since they only kidnapped the child, they definitely won't kill easily, maybe they are treating him well," Uchiha Kage observed with the Byakugan for a long time, and finally found a tent in the Kumogakure camp that seemed to hide the baby.

'But that is the most central area, full of powerful chakra...'

Among them, the most powerful one, Uchiha Kage couldn't see clearly at all.

'Is it a tailed beast jinchūriki?'

"You..."

'Isn't it supposed to be me, the jonin, leading the team?'

'Why does it feel like I am always being led by this boy?'

'But what he said does make sense, if the enemy wanted to kill the child, they would have done it long ago, but they only kidnapped him, indicating that the child should be kept alive for now.'

"Besides, after saving the baby, we don't have milk to feed him."

Uchiha Kage looked at Uchiha Mikoto's chest.

Although that place is bulging, the current Uchiha Mikoto is still a young girl, and it's impossible for her to have milk to feed.

"I...", After being stared at by Uchiha Kage, Uchiha Mikoto's cheeks quickly blushed.

"But, the Kumogakure ninjas may not have either..."

"But they can definitely find milk powder," Uchiha Kage quickly withdrew his gaze from Uchiha Mikoto, because Sasuke's somewhat creepy gaze was staring at him again.

Really, he has no ulterior motives, is it necessary to stare at him like this?

"Then we just keep waiting here, doing nothing?"

"I observed that Iwagakure seems to be unable to hold on, so the Kumogakure ninjas are likely to go for a victory pursuit, at that time, the rear camp will definitely be empty, and the Kumogakure ninjas who are immersed in the joy of victory will also relax a bit."

"So that's how it is, but how did you see that the Iwagakure ninjas are going to lose?"

'You can't see the battlefield at all', Uchiha Mikoto doesn't know what basis Uchiha Kage made the inference on.

"Because the number of wounded here has decreased."

Uchiha Kage pointed to the medical tent in the Kumogakure camp.

Of course, besides this, the history book compiled by Konoha also wrote so.

"You observe really carefully..."

'This boy, except for the strange words he said before, everything else is too perfect.'

However, such an outstanding boy, why has she never heard of him in the Uchiha clan?

Uchiha Mikoto couldn't help but become more and more curious about Uchiha Kage.

———

"Caught an Uchiha baby? But lost three Konoha spies!?"

The young Ay is angrily reprimanding his subordinates in the camp.

Although he has not yet inherited the title of Raikage, he has already inherited the name 'Ay'.

"How did you do things? What if those spies got our key information and reported it to their Hokage, and then Konoha sent people to stab us in the back while we are fighting Iwagakure...",The death of his father, the Third Raikage, is still vivid in his memory, Ay does not want to follow in his father's footsteps.

The most hateful thing is, these turtles from Iwagakure, making it difficult for him to avenge his father.

"Lord Ay, I guess they must have accomplices, so the ninjas guarding the spies were..."

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