31 Truth

At this moment, Hiruzen remained silent for some time, he looked towards all of their faces and analyzed them very carefully. He didn't find any sort of deceit from their words as well as their expressions.

He finally nodded after saying, "Alright, go and collect your reward for this mission." All 8 of them including Shun went out of the office to collect their mission reward.

'From what I knew by the Anbu reports, the team that Kumo sent was just filled with Chuunins, was there a need for them to fight so seriously? But there wasn't a slightest amount of deceit on their faces, it was as if this was what exactly happened.'

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At an unknown place in Konoha, a man with a bandage over his eyes was sitting as he read the reports that came from his men, he calmly spoke out, "So, the rat did inform the Kumo about the information on the Jinchuiriki huh… Tell me about the team which was assigned to capture that Kumo team."

"Sir, there wasn't a specific team, it was combined with a group of ninjas who were taken together randomly, Kushiro-san was the leader of the team while the only Genin of the team was Shun Uchiha." One of his men spoke out with a dead look.

"Ohh… So that is the case huh. The hokage did well in that case but he defeated the main purpose of giving that information to that rat, looks like we won't be able to gather any intel from Kumo ninjas." Danzo stared at his men as he spoke it out.

He also displayed his calmness as he heard his subordinates' words, he wasn't happy that his plans were foiled as it prevented him from knowing some information about Kumo.

'Looks like I will have to move my plans forward, if the war continues at this pace then even our village won't be able to get out of it without paying some great price. Looks like the time has come to discuss that plan and bring it into fruition…' Danzo thought that out before he decided to head out of his room.

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Shun met up with Mikoto who was running around the house with an excited expression as she had just passed out her graduation exam, she was very delighted even though she easily passed it without any problem.

Kushina congratulated her, she was also happy as in these years, no student has bullied her. They didn't talk to her and the same was the case with her, she also didn't talk to them and minded her own business.

When Shun returned back home, he was greeted with a happy Mikoto running all around the house as she excitedly spoke out, "Now, I can finally help you out in missions. We can finally go out on missions together."

Shun smiled a little as he heard that but he didn't actually like the thought of it, most of his missions turned bloody where he would to cause a massacre of a small gathering of men.

It wasn't something he wanted Mikoto to experience for now, he wanted her to stay away from these things and also not experience them. He sighed out as he cursed his powerlessness in this case.

Kushina was jealous of Mikoto as she heard those words, she puffed her cheeks with full of air and spoke out, "I will also become a ninja soon enough and help out Shun dattebane~"

"I appreciate that you both want to help me but most of my missions are solo so I don't think that Lord Hokage will ask you to tag along with me." He smiled out as he spoke out the truth regarding the matter of tagging along with him on missions.

Mikoto looked towards Shun as she had a serious expression on her face, "Shun, I have some doubts, tell me how did you train in these years? When we were 7 years old, we didn't know the true depth of your strength, why did you know so much?"

Now this was the question that she and Kushina had been holding out for quite some time, they wanted to ask how he could get such strength in such a short amount of time. Even with Sharingan, it was nothing other than a miracle.

Shun smirked at that, he let out a sigh and started speaking, "So, you finally ask this question huh. Alright then, sit down… I will start from the beginning."

Kushina and Mikoto followed his words and sat down with a curious expression on their faces, they were also a bit excited as they could finally know the secret to gain strength similar to Shun.

"After I read Aunt Miyuki's letter, I started to use my Clone to substitute me in the Academy, this you already know. At this time, I would be training with the weapons and train my accuracy."

"It took some time but I finally had a good accuracy, all that remained was to use it in an intelligent way in a fight. As for the Fire Jutsu, I saw the Can Head teaching the Fireball Jutsu to Fugaku Uchiha with my Sharingan and did the same Jutsu after they left the area."

"It was already very large for the first time that I attempted it and I started to train my hand seals more and more, it was so that they could be barely visible to the naked eye. One of the reasons why my speed of making hand seals is so fast is because I spent half a year to make hand seals and practiced different combos of them."

He paused for some moments as he let them digest all that he said, Mikoto did wonder about something, "And how did you know the hand seals for the different combos? I don't think that's something that would be given in the Konoha Library."

Shun smiled a little at her question as she was right, he nodded his head, "You are right about that fact Mikoto, I wouldn't have learned those from the books from Konoha Library."

Mikoto nodded her head as she wanted to know this thing, he knew too much despite the fact that he was just an Academy Student.

Shun lowered his head as he had a sad smile on his face and spoke out, "It took me about half a year but I had a thought that Aunt Miyuki wouldn't just leave us without giving us something with which we can sustain ourselves. Didn't you ever wonder how I got the money?"