Chapter 40 What about the reward?

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"Two years ago, I discovered that Ichiro was a spy from the Land of Earth. Ichiro was the spy you killed."

"For this, I have made a lot of preparations, and even gave Ichiro some confidential information, so that he can get the attention of Onoki in the Land of Earth, so that he can play his due role in special times."

After hearing this, Kushina and Chika already understood why Hiruzen was so angry. The two of them completely ruined Hiruzen's plan that he had been planning for two years.

However, Chika still couldn't understand why, and couldn't help but said: "Since the Hokage had discovered it two years ago, he should also know their base for exchanging information. Why did he let us go there?"

Hearing what he said, Kushina nodded and agreed: "Yes, why did you let us go over there to carry out the mission? You clearly know my personality!"

Hiruzen first looked at Chika with appreciation, then said to Kushina unhappily:

"Ichiro is an excellent intelligence officer. His anti-reconnaissance ability is very good. We can't guarantee that we won't be discovered by him on the road, so we have never followed him outside the village."

"Besides, I only need to let him get in touch with the information I want him to get in touch with within the village. There is no need to cause any more trouble."

"I see!"

Chika nodded. He didn't need to get too involved in the details. As long as he controlled the source of the information, everything would be under his control.

Although Kushina heard what Hiruzen said, she still complained: "What! In that case, the Hokage should be blamed for this matter. Chika and I were just unaware of it."

Hearing what Kushina said, Hiruzen's anger, which had already subsided, surged up again, and he suddenly shouted:

"Kushina, you are already a jonin, use your brain to think carefully!"

"Can a team of Iwa Ninjas really get past the heavily guarded border with the help of a Chunin-level perception summoning beast? Do you really think that all the border ninjas are shit eaters?"

"Do you think it's that easy to let Ichiro get this information without being found out to be fake? Do you know how many ninja lives were sacrificed in this process?"

"I wanted to deliver this scroll to that old man Onoki. I put so much thought into it that my hair turned white again and again, but you delivered it to me before they even left the Land of Fire?!"

"All my preparations were rendered useless because of your unauthorized decision, and you still want a reward?!"

As Hiruzen cursed, Kushina's face began to turn pale. She could blame Hiruzen for not telling her these things, but she could not blame those ninjas who sacrificed themselves to ensure that this false information was delivered to the Land of Earth.

After saying so much, Hiruzen finally calmed down. Looking at Kushina who was keeping silent with her head down, he softened his tone and said, "I will punish you with three months of confinement. Do you have any objections?"

"I'm sorry, Hokage-sama!"

Chika looked at Kushina who was silent, then bowed to Hiruzen and spoke.

Hiruzen nodded and said, "Take your teacher with you! This matter is not your fault."

Hearing this, he pulled Kushina and said, "Teacher, let's go!"

At this moment, Kushina suddenly raised her head and walked solemnly in front of Hiruzen.

She didn't act carelessly as usual, but bowed solemnly and said, "I'm sorry, Hokage!"

After saying that, under Hiruzen's surprised look, she took Chika out of the Hokage's office.

After Kushina and Chika left, Hiruzen was silent for a long time, then he sighed and said with great emotion: "It's not easy!"

For many years, ever since Kushina came to Konoha, she has never spoken to him in such a humble tone. He thought there was no hope for this in this life!

He sighed for a while, then when he saw the scroll on the table, he immediately put away his thoughts and suddenly said seriously: "Zero!"

A figure suddenly appeared and knelt in front of Hiruzen, saying respectfully: "Hokage-sama!"

Hiruzen took a cigarette puff and said in a low and slow voice:

"Plan A has failed due to an accident. Start Plan B! This time, we must eliminate all accidents. We cannot let this Kushina incident happen again."

Don't underestimate the impact of a village. How could something that has been planned for two years not have a backup plan? He even has plans C, D, etc.

Even though he spoke to Kushina so harshly at that time, in fact he was not very angry inside.

"Yes!"

After thinking for a while, Hiruzen continued, "Also, during the time when Kushina and Uchiha Chika are in confinement, find two Anbu supervisors, one in charge of Kushina and the other in charge of Uchiha Chika."

Hearing this, the Anbu hesitated and said, "But Kushina."

"Don't worry, I think she will stay at home safely this time."

"Understood!"

After the Anbu replied, seeing that Hiruzen had no further instructions, he went down to arrange these matters.

On the other side, after Chika followed Kushina out of the Hokage Building, he looked at Kushina who was walking with her head covered and not saying a word. After hesitating for a while, he said, "Kushina-sensei."

"Stop talking, I'm fine."

Before he could finish his words, Kushina raised her hand to interrupt him.

Seeing this, his eyes suddenly became strange when he looked at Kushina. It was rare to see Kushina like this.

It seems that this accident has made Kushina much more sensible.

The fault was not theirs in the first place, and although Hiruzen seemed to be scolding them harshly, he actually did not blame them.

He organized his words and wanted to persuade his teacher not to take the matter too seriously.

But at this moment, Kushina suddenly turned her head, clenched her fists tightly, and said angrily: "It's too abominable, Heihachi and Kazuma, I trusted them so much, but I didn't expect that they would team up with the old man third to deceive me!"

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Chika rolled his eyes and almost awakened the Hyuga clan's Byakugan.

"That's right, we must teach them both a lesson!"

However, seeing that Kushina had returned to normal, Chika was finally relieved. He immediately echoed angrily, and then changed the subject: "Kushina-sensei, our C-rank mission is considered completed, right?"

"Of course!" she looked at him in confusion, not understanding why he suddenly asked this question.

He asked bluntly: "What about the reward?"

Kushina was stunned. It seemed that was the case. At that time, she was only thinking about how much credit she could get by stopping the Iwa Ninja, but she forgot the reason why she went out.