239: New Mission

Chapter 239: New Mission

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Neji found an Anbu knocking on his door at the earliest of the morning.

He had fallen asleep last night out of old habit, so he felt a bit annoyed to be woken up. However, when he found himself face to face with the purple-haired Anbu from before after opening the door, he smiled.

"Ah, Yugao-senpai? Are you here to ask me out?" Neji asked, smiling with a yawn.

"You wish." The Anbu replied before freezing, a look of surprise and confusion appeared under her mask as she looked inside the room. "Shizune? Ah…"

"Ah, don't mind her." Neji waved it off, glancing at a naked Shizune who slept on a futon. "We were discussing an important medical mystery last night. The creation of life. In any case, if you are not here to ask me out, what's the reason?"

Being trained to function in shocking situations, Yugao soon regained her senses and said, "Hokage-sama summons you and your team. It's about a mission. You are to meet her in an hour."

What time was it? 3 AM? It must be an emergency mission if they are called so early.

"Understood, I will be there." Neji nodded and closed the door.

Yugao stood on her spot for a few seconds. 'Well, this time he didn't persuade me that hard. That's… good. That's good. Yeah.'

Yugao used Body Flicker to move towards the Hokage tower.

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After using a [Cleanse] on both himself, Shizune, and the whole room, Neji went to wake up Toga and the other maids to make some quick food for them, and then went to Hanabi's room.

"I am coming in." He walked inside without knocking, finding Hanabi sleeping. He crouched down and poked her cheeks. "Wakey wakey. It's time for school."

"Oa-ah!!" Hanabi jumped awake. "School?!"

"Huh." Neji blinked. "No. I lied. What, you got trauma from school or something?"

"Haah… it's you, Onii-sama." Hanabi rubbed her eyes. "What time is it?"

"3:12 AM. Get up, we have a mission." He said, using his telekinesis to give her body a light shake.

Hanabi grunted and woke up, rubbing her eyes and complaining about sleep life as a Ninja.

Neji went to wake Temari as well, and after a while Toga, Nemuri and Kiana served food (the latter two wearing a scowl) to Neji, Hanabi, Temari and Shizune (who had awakened by then).

Shizune in particular, stayed silent the whole time, her eyes wide and her nose red.

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"Sooo, Shizune-san too?" Hanabi asked him as they made their way towards Tenten's house. 

Hanabi was walking on Neji's right and Temari was on his left. Shizune had left already, saying how it would be suspicious if they went in together.

Hanabi looked at Neji. "Hey, Onii-sama, are you perhaps targeting girls? Or are these all just coincidences?"

"What do you think?" Neji asked back, but his attention wasn't on her.

He was rather busy meddling with a weird brick-like 'thing' that he called a phone. Temari was beside him, looking at the phone and asking small questions about this and that.   

"You are targeting them," Hanabi guessed. "Or it wouldn't make sense. You have flirted for a while, but never… 'mated' with so many girls at the same time." 

"Of course he's targeting, that's obvious." Temari shrugged from the side, still watching Neji meddle with his phone. "He didn't tell you? He's making a cult."

"Huh?" Hanabi blinked rapidly. "Hey, hey, really? You are making a cult?" She looked rather… excited. "So the priest talk in the Onsen wasn't a joke? Hey, can I be the Head Priest?"

"Nope." Neji replied and handed her over the phone. "Remember the photos I showed you that day with Tenten? The Head Priestess is one of them. I know it sounds confusing, but it makes sense in context."

"Aww…" Hanabi sighed, accepting his phone. On the screen of the 'phone', cautiously, she clicked [Resume] as the thing Neji was doing continued. Weird brick-like things fell from the top, sticking on top of each other. "What's this?"

"Brick Breaker." Neji patted her head. "Enjoy your time."

Then they continued walking.

She didn't enjoy her time.

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"This is annoying!" Hanabi yelled as she handed over the phone thingy. "I don't wanna play anymore! It makes me wanna beat someone up."

"Noob," Neji shook his head in disappointment, muttering inconceivable words as he put the phone in his pocket. "Anyway, we are here."

They had reached the Hokage's office and now stood in front of the door.

"I really hope it's something important." Tenten said, rubbing her eyes. "Ugh, I am so sleepy."

They picked her up on the way, and she surely didn't like waking up so early, even more than Hanabi. Neji understood why. They were forced to wake up at 3 AM every day until just two days ago, so they were planning to sleep nice for a few days, but that plan was ruined.

While the girls complained amongst each other, Neji knocked on the door and received the typical permit to enter. 

Walking inside, he found another Ninja team in the room. The four-man squad of Team Asuma. There was also Shizune, whose face became red as she focused on her papers.

"You are here, Neji, Temari." Tsunade said, dark circles under her eyes. It seems they weren't the only ones forced to wake up early. "Let me explain the mission."

Neji greeted her and listened to her explanation.

A two-man team of the Akatsuki, consisting of Hiruko – a Konoha missing-nin – and Tobi – someone who was mostly unknown. That team of criminals had attacked the Mist village and abducted the Two-Tailed beast. They had, after that, attacked one of the Twelve Guardian Shinobi, a monk named Chiriku.

At this moment, they are said to be making their way to the bounty house to collect the bounty on Chiriku's head. Team Asuma is to go there and capture Hiruko and Tobi – dead or alive – and Team Neji is to accompany them in this mission. Jounin Temari would work with Neji's team, as sworn in her transferring scroll.

"Tobi…" Neji muttered to himself.

"Sorry to drag you along in this," Asuma said, patting Neji on the shoulders. "But I would appreciate your help."

Neji nodded. "I will help as much as possible."

He would. He wasn't lying. If he could get a hand on Obito and steal his Sharingan, it would be easier to start the 4th Ninja War. He already had enough candidates to complete the God quest, just that he was delaying it because he wanted Tsunade and Hinata. However, the real problem was touching Obito…

Also, who was this Hiruko? He didn't remember him. Sometimes he wished he still had «High Spec» and its Eidetic Memory. In any case,  according to Tsunade, Hiruko was once the friend of all the Sannins. He couldn't have missed such an important character unless it was filler. So probably not someone that important.

"Alright, Team Asuma and Team Neji." Tsunade said. "It is better to leave for the mission right away. Good luck."

Just as she said that, a Quest popped up in front of Neji.

[A quest has been generated!]

[Quest, "The single-eyed Devil", has been generated!]

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Quest: The single-eyed Devil

Description: Uchiha Obito, now under the alias of Tobi, is teamed up with Hiruko, a Konoha missing-nin. Defeat the single-eyed devil, Obito, and his teammate to get easy access to the 4th Great Ninja War.

Main Objective: Defeat at least one of the enemies and capture him alive, then bring him to Konoha.

Bonus Objective 1: Defeat and kill both of the enemies.

Bonus Objective 2: Steal Obito's Sharingan.

Main Reward: A-rank Genjutsu Scroll, [30 Levels].

Bonus Reward 1: [110 Levels + the kill Exp], HP Potion x30, MP Potions 40x, Stamina Potions 50x.

Bonus Reward 2: Divine-class Space-Time Magic- [Time Pause]

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Now he was left with no choice but to body Obito. He did the same with Mirio right? Though Obito didn’t share the heroic-weakness that Mirio did, Neji will figure out something.

Soon, the eight men scrambled off.

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