Naruto the Genius

Chapter 28 Puzzling Intelligence

The next day, before dawn, Yamato received information from the Wood Clone and immediately woke up Naruto and the others. As a ninja, he had to remain alert even when sleeping, so Naruto woke up immediately. Yamato said to Naruto, "I just received information from the Wood Clone that a large number of ninjas from the Moon Country Ninja Village are starting to move out, but the direction they are moving in is not the direction of Konoha, but rather the direction of the Lightning Country."

Naruto said, "Never mind that, we will follow them immediately, but we must not let the enemy find us, and we must quietly follow behind them." On the way, Naruto kept thinking, what exactly is this group of ninjas planning? Are they going to gather together with the ninjas from the Land of Lightning first, and then organize and launch an attack? But that doesn't make sense. If we launch an attack directly from the Land of the Moon, the distance is closer, and the benefits are self-evident. It should be more advantageous to have the characteristics of rapid attack and suddenness. As a Raikage, it is impossible for him not to know these simple truths.

However, judging from the current situation, the group of people are all heading to the Land of Lightning. Wouldn't it be more troublesome to go back and forth? From this point of view, the Raikage must have a more terrible plan, but Naruto still can't figure it out. At this time, the ninjas have already arrived in the Land of Lightning, but they did not go to the Hidden Cloud Village, but went to a small town by the sea in the Land of Lightning. There are not many ninjas in such a border town, and the Land of Lightning usually does not spend a lot of effort to defend such a place. Naruto and others once again successfully sneaked into the town and began to closely observe the movements of the ninjas.

A few days passed, and Naruto began to doubt that following this group of people might be a wrong decision, and that this group of people might not have any important information. Until one day, under the close surveillance of Yamato's Wood Release Avatar, a man was found, a ninja with the word "Thunder" carved on his shoulder. This man had a very high status in the Hidden Cloud Village. He was Darui, who was highly valued by the Raikage. The appearance of Darui undoubtedly told Naruto that something important must be happening, otherwise the Raikage would not have sent him here.

Darui came with several other Kumogakure ninjas, and there were probably some perceptive ninjas among them. As a result, Naruto could not monitor them closely, and could only carefully grasp their basic movements. At first, he only felt that there were ninjas coming one after another. Although he knew that something was unusual, he did not know what it was. It was not until the morning of three days later that a large number of ninjas began to set out for the nearby port. However, the ships at this port were not heading to the Kingdom of the Moon. Judging from the direction of the ships at the port, they were heading to the Kingdom of Water.

This news surprised Naruto, and he thought: "Could it be that Kirigakure is going to join forces with Kumogakure to attack Konoha? But in that case, Kumogakure can just send ninjas to Kirigakure, and then attack Konoha by water from the Water Country. Besides, both sides are big countries, so the chances of winning if they join forces in an attack, there's no need to involve the Moon Country at all." All these doubts really made Naruto confused, and Yamato and the others had no clue for a while.

However, Naruto was the captain of this operation, and at this time, only the captain could make the decision. After careful consideration, Naruto decided to keep an eye on the ninjas leaving the port. Naruto and the other three team members first quietly found a place where no one was, and swam towards the Water Country from underwater. They only started to emerge when they were far away from the shore. Not to mention that no one was paying attention, even if someone saw someone on the sea, they would probably not care. When they swam far away from the port, the people on the shore could not see them anyway. At this time, Naruto asked Yamato to use Wood Release to make a boat, disguised as a merchant ship of the Lightning Country, and quickly rushed to the boat where the ninjas were in front.

As Naruto used water escape technique to push the boat forward from time to time, he soon saw the big ship in front. The ninjas on the boat saw that it was a ship from the Land of Lightning, and ships from the Land of Lightning could not sail without permission, so they did not pay much attention. But Naruto was different. He carefully observed the ninjas on the big ship. However, judging from the forehead protectors, there were very few ninjas from the Land of Lightning, and the number was roughly the same as that of ninjas from the Land of Moon. After repeated observations by Naruto, he found that there were no strong ninjas like Darui, and judging from the number of people alone, there was no way that the ship could carry more ninjas.

According to Naruto's previous thoughts, if the Raikage and the Mizukage joined forces, the Raikage should send elite ninjas to the Land of Water, and then attack Konoha together after gathering in the Land of Water. However, in fact, the ninjas sent by the Raikage were not very strong, and there were even few ninjas from the Land of Lightning. All these strange phenomena were really puzzling, and Naruto changed his mind and thought, no, there must be other reasons. Suddenly, Naruto had a flash of inspiration, yes, it should be like this
Naruto turned around and said to the other three: "Yamato, hurry up and use water escape with me to push the boat to move quickly. Xuanguang and Liuying, you two should also row as hard as you can. We have to get ahead of them as quickly as possible."

"Okay, Captain," the three said and immediately took action. Naruto also started to move. Under the strong push of the three, a boat moved forward like a sword, almost ten times faster than the big boat in front. Soon Naruto's boat surpassed the boat of the Land of Lightning and drove quickly towards the Land of Water. Although this took a lot of chakra from the group, Naruto's team soon arrived at an unknown island.

Although this island is uninhabited, it is the only way for ships to and from the Land of Water. The island is full of edible wild vegetables and wild animals, which is undoubtedly a great place for ships to rest, so most ships will go to the island to rest when passing by. Naruto guessed that the ninjas from the Land of Moon did not receive any particularly important missions, but just rushed to the Land of Water first, so they would not be on guard. It is very boring to stay on the ship, so they will definitely go to the island if they can.

Naruto is now with Yamato and Xuanguang. The four of them rushed here as quickly as possible for Naruto's plan. If Naruto's guess is right, it is estimated that the Raikage will give up the plan to attack Konoha. The first thing the four of them did when they arrived on the island was to eat and rest. After a long journey, each of them consumed a lot of chakra and physical strength. Before resting, Naruto did not forget to sink the ship. When the physical strength is almost recovered, it is time to start the arrangement. In order to be foolproof, Naruto decided to set up a lot of traps. After the task is completed, all he has to do is wait.

(End of this chapter)