Chapter 17

It was a normal morning in Konoha. Birds were chirping peacefully. People were greeting each other in-kind manners. Civilian children entered civilian school. The ninja academy students enter their own academy. A few ninjas already started missions and went about doing them while the lower-class ninja did theirs inside the village.

All in all, it was a peaceful and normal day...

However...

There was one thing that was different...

At the hills that were not far outside Konoha, the place where sometimes children used to play or train secretly, a figure landed on the ground after hopping down from a branch.

The figure was ANBU, or at least that's what people would think when they saw her because her outfit consists of Konoha ANBU attire complete with the mask. It was the mask of the Ghost Leader Sparrow.

The ANBU observed the ground she landed upon. There were swords, kunai, scrolls and everything that ninja mostly used in battle. All of those tools were splattered on the ground like they just went unused anymore.

"Since you are here for Renji, Why don't you come out, Going against one of the 5 Great Nation's Hidden Village, I am afraid, You are light years too far to be able to do that."

That got some reaction...

'There!' Her eyes spotted one of the bird's nests when she was jumping to one tree. She immediately tilted her feet to another branch before jumping to the tree where the bird's nest was placed.

She observed the bird's nest and inwardly grinned when she saw a strange kunai those Black color Shinobi used.

Sparrow took the strange kunai and began to observe it. However, it was not long that she checked the kunai before a barrage of shuriken soared towards her from above.

She reacted quite slowly, the shuriken managed to pierce her feet and thighs. She grunted in pain, however before she was able to do anything another barrage of shuriken launched and struck her.

STAB! STAB! STAB!

Her body was pinned to the tree due to the impact of shuriken and she crashed before her body went limp and slowly fell to the ground.

"Heh..."

A feminine voice that was filled with insult echoed.

Three figures leaped down from the tree. It revealed that they were the ninja spies, or kunoichi spies precisely.

"Too easy... Konoha must have been damaged quite severely to have their ANBU weaklings like this." The... Let's call them Kunoichi 1, Kunoichi 2 and Kunoichi 3, and the one who spoke was Kunoichi1.

"Well, they were attacked by nine tails not long ago. And there was a rumor about the Uchiha clan having recently been massacred," Kunoichi 2 said.

"Oh yeah, I also heard it. And the one who did it was an ANBU at the age of thirteen. That was quite scary...," Kunoichi 3 remarked with a slight shudder.

"Hmph. We can talk about that later girls, right now we have our mission, get Uzumaki Renji and let's get the hell outta here," Kunoichi 1 told her subordinates. The two other kunoichi nodded, agreeing with their leader. "Let's take the kunai and leave...," She said as she was about to take the kunai from the dead body.

POOF!

Only to have the dead body replaced by a log.

"What the?!"