254 Chapter 254
Yeruashi, Tsunade, and the others continued to play until three in the morning.
In the end, Yeruashi won four times out of six, and Conan was in the lead at the other table.
It is worth noting that Conan arrived when Kakashi was already in third place. Having taken his place, obviously, she played much better, winning consecutive victories and eventually taking the first final place.
Kurama, who had taken the last place, spent the rest of the evening gnawing his claws irritably.
The next day.
Yeruashi woke up on the couch and rubbed his eyes.
After the game ended, Conan left, while Tsunade and Shizune stayed behind. Rin and Shizune, who are trained in Ireninjutsu by Tsunade, and have a fairly good relationship, slept in Yeruashi's room, while Anko slept in Kurenai's room.
Tsunade slept in the room left over from Kakashi's move.
Although there are other rooms, but now the beds in them are not ready, of course, the main reason that Yeruashi slept on the couch was not this. This was due to the fact that Rin, Kurenai, and Shizune didn't mind sleeping in the same room with Yeruashi, but strongly objected to the others.
While Yeruashi was sitting on the couch yawning, the door to Kurenai's room opened and a sleepy Kurenai in baggy white pajamas came out.
The poorly buttoned pajamas revealed the slender body of a sixteen-year-old girl.
Kurenai closed the door softly, then turned her attention to Yeruashi, who was sitting on the sofa, and raised her finger to her lips in a gesture of silence.
"Hush...»
"Anko is still asleep.»
Kurenai walked over to Yeruashi and said softly: "Do you want something to eat? I'll make breakfast.»
Yeruashi looked at the sleepy Kurenai and shook his head, " It's better to get a good night's sleep, I'll make something myself, I still need to deal with one issue.»
Kurenai said thoughtfully: "You've been asleep for less than four hours, wouldn't it be better to just send a shadow clone? Shikaku can take care of everything.»
"No, I have to deal with this personally.»
Yeruashi stood up and reached out with a smile, straightening Kurenai's disheveled hair, a move that made her blush and lower her head in embarrassment.
With this movement, Kurenai noticed that her pajamas were poorly buttoned and blushed even more, but she did not button them: "Don't forget to rest...»
"Good.»
Yeruashi smiled and went to the kitchen.
...
9 o'clock in the morning.
Hyuga Clan territory.
A large number of people gathered here, making the spacious courtyard crowded, the crowd numbered at least a few dozen people.
A large number of Shinobi stood on the roofs behind the outer wall.
Some of those gathered were members of the Uchiha Clan and wore the uniform of the Konoha Military Police, and some wore the black capes of the Shadow Guard.
The Second and Seventh Squads usually deal with the internal security of Konoha.
Besides.
Here gathered some Shinobi Konoha, led by Shikaku Nara.
In the center of the courtyard opposite each other stood two groups of Shinobi, one of them was the recently arrived Shinobi Kumo, and the other Shinobi of the Hyuga Clan, led by Hyuga Hiashi.
On the ground between them lay the body of the leader of the Shinobi Kumo.
"Ah, this is indeed one of the noblest clans of Konoha, you not only meanly dealt with our leader, but also do not want to take responsibility, which further defiles his honor...Even on yesterday's celebration not was only your clan, it seems you nor in that not put even entire Konoha.»
The Shinobi at the head of the Kumo delegation looked at Hyuga Hiashi and grinned.
Hiashi frowned and said coldly: "I already said that your leader secretly entered the territory of our clan at night and tried to kidnap my daughter, of course I did not stand aside, but in the dark there was no way to see the appearance of the attacker...»
Last night, someone secretly sneaked into the clan's territory in an attempt to kidnap Hinata, Hiashi of course considered this person as an enemy and without further thought mercilessly attacked.
But Hiashi never expected that when faced with his attack, the attacker would simply freeze in place, not intending to resist at all, and die on the spot.
Upon discovering that the intruder was the leader of the Kumo delegation, Hiashi was shocked and broke out in a cold sweat. It even seemed to him that someone was deliberately secretly targeting the Hyuga Clan, because this abrupt fading of the Kumo delegation leader seemed not just abnormal, but also a little unnatural.
"...I have already said that your leader showed signs of being under control, it is not only my responsibility, perhaps someone deliberately put him under attack.»
"Nonsense!»
The Kumo Shinobi looked at Hiashi angrily.
They didn't know if Hiashi's words were true. Although it made them vaguely feel that something had gone wrong, but they couldn't back down in such a situation and kept pressing the Hyuga Clan Head.
Due to the bad relations between Konoha and the Hyuga Clan, it is likely that the Hyuga Clan will be forced to take full responsibility in this matter.
Shinobi Kumo could not miss such a good opportunity to get the Byakugan of the Hyuga Clan.
"I'm telling the truth.»
Hiashi said coldly and looked at Shikaku, who was standing nearby.
Shikaku stood calmly in place, not showing much concern, he had already roughly understood the process and the essence of what had happened.
There is no doubt that Hyuga Hiashi could not just kill the leader of the Kumo delegation, so the secret infiltration of the leader of the Kumo delegation into the territory of the Hyuga Clan really happened.
Hiashi's words about the other party's death don't look like a fake, at least looking at his behavior and emotions, on the surface he is really very annoyed and thinks the accusations are unfair.
But now it's not so important.
This does not negate the most important fact — the head of the Kumo delegation really died at the hands of the Head of the Hyuga Clan.
In such an important matter, neither he, nor Hyuga Hiashi, nor Shinobi Kumo, can make specific decisions, this should be done by the Fifth Hokage.
"Dear Adviser to the Hokage...Are you really going to let the Hyuga Clan get away with this?! They didn't even participate in yesterday's celebration, completely ignoring the conclusion of peace between us!»
Shinobi Kumo looked indignantly at Shikaku.
Shikaku remained unperturbed: "Do not jump to conclusions, first you need to find out the cause of your leader's death, in addition, I have already reported what is happening to Lord Hokage.»
He knew perfectly well what he had to do in such a situation — it was just necessary to delay the arrival of the Fifth Hokage.
He is not qualified to personally resolve such a question.
Shikaku squatted down and spoke softly to Hinata, who was standing timidly behind Hiashi and clutching the edge of his cape, " Hinata, do you remember exactly what happened last night?»
«...»
Little Hinata shyly shook her head.
Shikaku stood up and looked at the shinobi who was examining the corpse of the leader of the Kumo delegation: "Has the cause of death been established yet?»
The Shinobi in charge of examining the body had actually already established the cause of death, but because of the extreme importance of the matter, he had rechecked it several times so as not to miss a single detail.
Hearing Shikaku's words, he stood up and said in a heavy voice: "After a detailed examination, I found that the cause of his death was a fracture of the occipital bone and a rupture of an arterial vessel...»
This basically confirms that the cause of death was indeed the Hyuga Clan's Juken.
