37 Chapter-37 : Smell of Smoke
It had been a couple hours since Hiro dropped Yugao back to her house.
He was currently sitting on the side street in front of a renowned breakfast restaurants, looking at the newspaper in front of his eyes with interest as he sipped on the traditional tea.
Although Hiro didn't have much interest in news, mostly due to it being just local Konoha news, this one was special, it was the monthly print of the "Ninja Times", the only newspaper that spanned almost every country in this world.
It told about the events that transpired in the ninja world in the past month.
Although Hiro had his own information channels, the information he got from them was much narrow in sense.
The newspaper covered most of the major events going on in the ninja world, something Hiro had been using to keep track of the progression of the cannon story
The news this time was also much interesting, the war that was ravaging the land of water for the better part of the last decade had finally ended.
With the victory of the resistance army, the power balance of the country shifted entirely.
The old regime was destroyed as a new competent Daimyo and a New Mizukage took on the role to lead the populace of the land of water.
An emerging Kage level force took the mantle of the Mizukage, and for the first time in the history, a female Mizukage was appointed.
Hiro looked at the colored print of the Mizukage's coronation as a feeling of desire formed inside of him.
He looked at her stunning image as he warned himself, 'I gotta control myself a bit....', He did have a thing for conquering strong women.
Still, she was quite a force to be reckoned with.
The paper went into great detail how she defeated the two leaders of the so called 'cleansing' alliance, two Kage level opponents alone and established a new regime.
As Hiro read through the other miscellaneous events, a certain piece of information caught his attention quickly.
"Rise in the number of chakra beast attacks, those looking to use Uzu sea for travel should refrain from doing so"
Although it just looked like seasonal change in behavior of chakra beasts, Hiro knew it was much more than that.
'Three tails is forming once again' Hiro thought as he made a mental note to not let this opportunity slip.
A tailed beast reforming was an opportunity he could absolutely not let slip by, cause from what he had learned from the old Uzumaki texts, the easiest way to capture a tailed beast is to kill it and capture it when it reformed.
Since the first step was already done for him, Hiro just needed to take advantage at the right time to cash off this great opportunity.
As Hiro contemplated his plan of action, he sensed a familiar chakra signature coming into his radar as he looked at Kurenai eyeing him from a distance.
Hiro, put the newspaper down as he looked towards her and gave her a smile.
Kurenai, who did not expect to get discovered so fast, looked flabbergasted as she awkwardly raised her hand and sent a hi towards him.
Hiro, put down a few bills of thousand ryo on the table as he disappeared from the table in a blur as appeared next to Kurenai moments later.
"So, what do I owe this visit from the rose of Konoha herself?" Hiro said as he smiled and gave a tap on Kurenai's raised hand.
Looking at him appearing close to her, Kurenai became a bit flustered as she said "Well..... I was going to meet you... not like that...you know.... but officially.."
She said, fiddling with her fingers as she continued "You see, Hokage-sama has called us in for for a mission" she said, trying to hide her emotions a bit.
During the annual training camp in the last one and a half month or so, she would regularly keep thinking about her time with him, she tried to get him off her mind but the memory of her hugging him while being completely naked didn't help much either.
Each time she looked at him, she would be reminded of that moment and get embarrassed due to it.
Even though she knew that one of her closest friend, Anko was in a relationship with him, she couldn't stop thinking about him.
Whenever she met him, it was like an invisible charm was pulling her towards him.
Regardless, she maintained her posture and regained her control as she said "It would be better if we leave as soon as we can, I don't cause some inconvenience again"
Hiro nodded while looking around, people had stopped moving around them as they looked at the both of them, most were men.
It wasn't everyday that a beauty like Kurenai would grace the streets of Konoha, not to mention her reputation as the Rose of Konoha.
Usually horny fucks would back away as soon as they saw her Jonin badge on her forehead, but a few dumb fucks would still try their luck, causing a commotion.
"Sure, lead the way" Hiro said as he did the opposite of what he said and placed his hands around Kurenai's waist and Shunshin'd away in a blur.
Both of them disappeared from the street, causing the crowd that had appeared to disperse, except for a single man who refused to believe what he just saw.
The man was tall, had short and spiky black hair, had an unkempt beard. He had olive skin and wore standard Jonin issue clothes in addition of a sash around his waist that had "Fire" written onto it.
He was the Son of Third Hokage and the current clan head of the Sarutobi clan, Asuma Sarutobi.
He crushed the expensive bottle of wine that was in his hands and spat out the unfinished cigarette out of his mouth in anger and disbelief as he saw his crush talking, getting embarrassed and being touched by another man.
"Who the fuck was that?" He muttered to himself in while trying to calm himself, He had a feeling that he knew the guy but couldn't remember from where, He was recently on a mission and was injured a bit due to poison, although he got himself fixed up, the after effects had muddled his senses quite a bit.
Even though his senses were muddled and he couldn't make the face of the man, there were some things he could never miss, Like how Kurenai was acting along with that man.
He had never seen Kurenai act like that in presence of another man, not even himself.
A red glint appeared in his eyes as he thought 'Just you wait, I'll teach you a valuable lesson of what happens when you touch something that belongs to a Sarutobi'
"What happened? you look upset" a man who wore glasses and looked just like a normal civilian said as he continued "Whatever it was, leave it, it's better not to let Danzo Sama wait"
"Hmm, let's continue" Asuma said in a serious manner as he followed the man into an unknown abandoned alley, walking through the maze underneath that was Konoha's sewer system and stopped in a dark place that was only lit up with a couple lantern that were help by a ninja each.
As Asuma saw the man covered in bandages in front of him, a thought appeared in his mind 'This is going to be long'
Asuma was no stranger to deals in the dark, He also knew about the shady past his father, the third Hokage shared with Danzo.
A lot of things had been done by both the old men to take their respective clans to the prestige they possessed currently.
Some were bad and some were even worse, and if the things came out, the forbidden Pandora's box would be opened.
Asuma, lit up another cigarette as he took a deep puff from it and said "What happened this time?"
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