- Oh, chocolate! - We were distracted by the redheaded kunoichi's exclamation. - Ryo, where did you get the prisoner from Kumogakure? - She looked back in my direction. - And there haven't been any conflicts lately, and in the last war you only fought against the Stone-beasts and couldn't capture her.
- A few years ago, someone leaked my mission parameters to Kumogakure, and I was ambushed by a dozen teams at the end point," I grinned.
- Danzo! - The women looked at each other and exclaimed with near glee, obviously remembering that long ago escort mission.
- Maybe, but even that training didn't help them, and the hunters became prey," I looked at Ma's unconscious namesake lying on the floor. "That jonin, among several others, was captured.
- Wait, so the commotion with Kumo's sudden activity was because of you? - Nara quickly linked the incidents together after receiving the missing information.
- Yeah, I completed the mission, cleanly interrupted the ambush and cleaned up all traces, returned home, - I waved my hand with a smile.
- And not a word to my mother," Saya said, her lips tightening unhappily.
- There were three teams from the Root that were supposed to stab me in the back or just follow up on the elimination, which I also cleaned up, so keeping quiet was the best solution at the time," I said.
Now, with Danzo's death and Anbu Ne's transformation, it was no longer a secret, at least in the home circle.
- The old bastard got what he deserved, and now he's probably in Shinigami's stomach for his deeds! - Ma muttered hatefully, clenching her fists.
- Ryo, next time I want you to give me the news one by one, not all of it in a short period of time," Linley asked unnaturally calmly, putting a hand to her bulky chest, "because my heart has tried to jump out too many times today, and I'm not a girl to worry like that.
- I can't promise anything," she replied with a cheeky smile, "I have too many secrets like that!
- Don't even try it, Linley - that little bastard only regularly messes up his bedding," Ma sighed once again today, closing her eyes tiredly for a few moments, "but for everything else, his ability to keep secrets would be the envy of a veteran, as well as the number of them.
- Hey, I'm an iryonin of the first degree and a master of seals - by definition, I should have a lot of secrets that can't be shown to the general public and a few that can't be shown to anyone but my closest friends! - I took umbrage, choosing to ignore the first part.
- Or rather, you had secrets when all normal kids have only games on their minds," Nara put her hands to her sides, making me look away and cough embarrassedly into my fist.
Rather, I had secrets already when I was still walking under the table, and with the passage of time, they only grew like a snowball, and if now suddenly open even half of it, someone may have a stroke, despite the iron health.
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