Chapter 134
After breakfast, everyone went about their business. Kenshin, Kasumi, and Natsumi went to set up formations, Aya looked after baby Natsumi, and Hitomi began familiarizing herself with the new medical supplies that became available with the new level of the "Shelter Creation" ability.
By lunchtime, Kenshin had completely finished strengthening the outer wall, and deciding to rest, after a while he felt how the stranger entered the outer perimeter, slowing down.
"Ichiro, mobilize all four teams, and if it is a messenger from Konoha, bring them to the conference room!" Kenshin commanded, and raised the alert level to "yellow", putting on a tight mask on his head, and instantly activated the exosuit. At this moment, he looked like a classic "ninja" from his past world, with a slightly more futuristic style, with excellent aerodynamics.
"Yes!" Ichiro reported, and quickly headed forward. Like all squad leaders, he had a perimeter breach alert system on his exosuit, and could view data from the problem area every five seconds.
All the sons took this alarm very seriously, and, dividing into two parts, moved towards the supposed enemy. According to Kenshin's precepts, they kept their distance and did not forget about safety, skillfully moving through the forest, covering the rear.
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Hideo Hyuga reached his destination quite quickly, but remembering that the forest area in front of him was the territory of the Nakayama Family, he decided to slow down so as not to be considered an enemy.
He purposefully went on this "task" alone, believing that extra ears would only get in the way during negotiations, and that in battle the weaker shinobi from the escort group would become a burden to him.
After some time, he felt something strange, but he couldn't figure out what it was. It was as if someone had seen him, but even under the Byakugan, he still couldn't notice anyone. It began to seem to him that this group of mercenaries had left these parts in one day. He couldn't explain the lack of buildings and traces of life within a radius of five kilometers in any other way.
Hideo Hyuga noticed the group of numerous shinobi at the last moment, when they were already a hundred meters away from him. At first, he couldn't even believe his eyes. In his memory, it was the first time that a huge group of low-level shinobi remained invisible to his Byakugan.
"Who are you, and what business do you have on the land of the Nakayama Family?" The emotionless voice, apparently the commander of all these shinobi, rejoiced.
- I didn't know that these lands belonged to you. A week ago they belonged to Kazoku Watanabe. - Hideo said with a grin, but seeing that no one appreciated his sarcasm, he got down to business.
"I am Hyuga Hideo, the authorized envoy of the Hyuga clan and the Hidden Leaf Village. Now, take me to your master." Hideo said in a serious tone. And although he tried to restrain himself and be impartial towards this mercenary organization, his dislike was leaking out a little. However, Ichiro and the others didn't care what he thought of them. They were ready to destroy the threat if he suddenly decided to show aggression.
- Okay, follow me, father will meet you. - Ichiro said calmly, and turning around, he moved to the side.
"Father?.." Hideo thought in surprise, but remained silent and followed Ichiro until he finally came to a wide gravel road that led straight to a very impressive fortress.
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After receiving information from Ichiro that a messenger from Konoha's Hyuga clan had arrived, Kenshin ordered all women to hide in the twenty-fold reinforced rest room, which he spent over an hour fortifying, and all sons below Chunin to hide in the gym.
At this time, Kenshin checked again and activated the result of the fusion of psionics and formations. He called it "Formation of Shapeshifting", and after making sure that it worked perfectly, he began to wait for the guest with a slight smile.
Meanwhile, Hideo Hyuga couldn't believe his eyes again. Literally a few kilometers away from where he was, there was a fortress of incredible size, which he hadn't noticed before even with the Byakugan. At the moment, he didn't want to heat up the situation, so he refrained from activating the Byakugan, but after the negotiations were over, he intended to check everything again.
He was led through the gate and down a path into a building that Kenshin had prepared for the meeting. There was nothing technological about it, except for the light formations that could easily be disguised as fuinjutsu. Otherwise, the small, one-story building resembled a small aristocrat's house from the Middle Ages of Kenshin's home world.
For Hideo, everything around him was unfamiliar, and perhaps even "wrong." He couldn't understand what exactly was going on, but a great many details in this house were completely foreign to his perception. He had been to other countries many times and seen their interiors, but now everything was different. All the houses he had seen before had something in common, centuries of accumulated experience that could not help but be passed on to neighboring countries, keeping many details unchanged.
In this same building, Hideo Hyuga subconsciously noticed a huge number of details that were alien to this world. As if the architect who built this house and the designer who decorated it had a school separate from the rest of the world, with a thousand years of experience. However, he only noticed the general "wrongness", but could not characterize what it was.
- Before you meet your father, remember: do not make any sudden movements, otherwise you will not leave here alive. - Ichiro stated emotionlessly, to which Hideo only raised an eyebrow in surprise. He could not understand where such an insignificant mercenary organization got such authority from, but decided to remain silent. He had long since grown out of the age when he was offended by such threats from weaklings, and he considered the young man standing before him, in comparison to himself, to be nothing more than a weakling who had barely stepped into the rank of Jonin.