Escape From Konoha

The atmosphere in the cave became silent.

Because it is a completely enclosed space, no wind can be heard in this sealed cave.

"Speaking of which..."

In the end, it was Scorpion who broke the silence of the sealing ceremony. His tone sounded like he was interested in something.

He focused his gaze on a rainbow-colored illusory figure.

Even though it was an illusory figure, only a pair of scarlet three-magatama Sharingan eyes were extremely eye-catching, clearly revealing the identity of the other party - Itachi Uchiha.

Being looked at by Scorpion like this, Itachi was naturally confused.

In fact, the relationship between people in the organization, apart from the members of the same group, and the relationship with members of other groups, in short, is not considered friendly.

Especially the S-class rebellious ninjas in the organization are all people with quite eccentric personalities.

Deidara, who was surrendered by him, might be Scorpion, a veteran cadre in the organization.

They are all the first-rate artists in the ninja world with eccentric behaviors and elusive behavior patterns.

The other party was once in the same group as Orochimaru, but the relationship between the two, judging from Itachi's observation, was not good.

In other words, no one in the organization would express their affection for someone like Orochimaru.

Even Nagato, the leader of the organization, relies heavily on the other party based on his indispensable talents.

The same is true for Scorpio.

Because artistic values ​​are denied, they will quarrel with others, and even kill people, just to make sure that their art is the right idea.

In the past, my relationship with Scorpio was just about meeting and saying hello, and the communication with each other was not deep. If the other party focuses on me at this time, it should be because he has something to ask.

Recalling his recent actions, which were nothing out of the ordinary for the organization, Itachi calmed down.

To survive in this organization, every step must be taken carefully to prevent mistakes.

"... Konoha's Nine-Tailed Jinchuuriki is also among the team searching for the One-Tailed Jinchuuriki. And he is a very difficult guy. He is completely different from what is recorded in the intelligence. He even mastered the name of Senjutsu. The power, Itachi, do you know what’s going on?”

He shattered the shield wall made of sand and iron with his bare hands. His extraordinary physical skills, including strength, reaction ability, and movement speed, were not the qualifications of ordinary ninjas in Scorpion's opinion.

If he doesn't deal with it carefully, he will also fall into the hands of the other party.

"No, I don't know about this. If you want to ask why the other person masters magic, I think you are looking for the wrong person."

Itachi didn't blink, he looked at Scorpion calmly, and answered neither humble nor overbearing.

His connection with Konoha has long been broken.

Due to Sasuke's defection, Danzo Shimura had already regarded him as a dangerous abandoned son and would no longer make any further use of him.

Regarding Konoha's movements, he now basically only relies on Bai Zetsu's intelligence to obtain some information.

If there is no record in Bai Jue's intelligence, he is also unaware of it.

"Is it magic? This is really unexpected information."

Another person became interested.

His voice was hoarse, like a poisonous snake that had found some delicious prey.

--Orochimaru.

His golden snake-like vertical pupils lingered on Scorpion for a while, seeming to be very interested in the 'immortal arts' mentioned by Scorpion.

"Hmph, not only that, that Jinchuuriki seems to be targeting this rotten snake and wants to get information about you from me."

Xie smiled coldly.

"Are you really not going to give up? His personality is exactly the same as his mother Kushina's."

Orochimaru continued to smile in a deep voice, but this time his tone was a little more alert and serious.

Generally speaking, only he sees others as prey, rather than others seeing him as prey.

But what Scorpion mentioned about the 'immortal arts' that Naruto had learned was something he had to pay attention to.

All his powers, including reincarnation ninjutsu, are based on the premise of the 'curse seal' before they can be successfully used.

The essence of the curse seal is incomplete magic.

It was precisely because of understanding this that Orochimaru understood how tricky real magic was.

Does this brat actually have the same talents as Sasuke? This made Orochimaru feel instinctively uncomfortable and irritated.

Why can one or two of them learn magic that he cannot master at all?

Sasuke, who inherited the excellent bloodline of Uchiha, coupled with the guidance of his curse seal and the accumulation of various resources, was able to touch the field of senjutsu. In Orochimaru's view, learning senjutsu was a matter of course.

But relying on a destroyed holy land, an idiot master Jiraiya, and being an idiot himself, how could Naruto learn celestial magic in such a short period of time?

You know, Jiraiya has been studying senjutsu for twenty or thirty years, but in the end he is only half-experienced. The assistance of the two immortals is needed to activate the immortal mode normally.

Even so, compared with other senjutsu users, Jiraiya's sage mode has a very obvious shortcoming - interrupting the connection with the two great sages, Jiraiya's sage mode will be self-defeating.

Thinking of this, a layer of haze appeared in Orochimaru's golden vertical pupils.

The reputation of the Sannin as geniuses seemed to be sobbing secretly compared to these young juniors.

Although he often admires and is infatuated with young talents, Orochimaru also has a dark instinct at work - he doesn't like to be surpassed by more outstanding juniors.

This represents the fall of genius.

All his achievements seemed to be negated by these 'geniuses'.

"I advise you to be careful. There have been more and more people looking for you recently, and every one of them is an extremely difficult ninja."

Scorpion issued something like a warning.

Orochimaru still smiled, but this time he didn't reply, but fell silent.

Anyone who knows his character knows that Orochimaru is completely obsessed with this matter.

What actions he plans to take are unknown.

Although he is a member of the organization, his actions have a relatively high degree of freedom compared to ordinary core members, and he will not be too restricted by the leader.

"In addition, I need support here to distract the enemy. Deidara's information was leaked, and he even lost an arm. The next battle will be very difficult."

Scorpion made unceremonious demands to Nagato.

"Of course. Although I plan to capture Kyuubi at the end...but since I delivered it to you, it doesn't matter a little earlier."

Nagato nodded and did not reject Xia's proposal.

He glanced at Hidan who was distracted not far away.

"Hidan, how far is your body from here?"

Hidan saw everyone's eyes staring at him, and the invisible pressure was like a heavy stone, pressing down on him, and he immediately answered absentmindedly:

"Ah, this...it's probably still a few hundred kilometers away."

A less precise figure was given.

"Now you immediately interrupt the sealing ceremony and let your body come over within four hours. This shouldn't be a problem for you, right?"

"Well... if it's only four hours, to be honest it's a bit..."

Hidan wanted to say that this time limit was too late, but when he saw Nagato's unruffled look, he instantly changed his tone:

"Yes, I understand, I will take care of this matter."

After saying that, he put down the sealing gesture and stopped the sealing ceremony. As the rainbow-colored phantom trembled slightly, it disappeared from the fingers of the giant wooden man.

…

In a tree hole hundreds of kilometers east of the sealing site, Hidan sat cross-legged and suddenly opened his eyes.

With the unsatisfactory feeling of wanting to massacre, Hidan stood up from the cold ground, cursed in his mouth, and made an annoyed sound with a curse:

"What kind of leader is this? What a mess. I am a religious believer, not a bounty hunter who lives by money. Now I am going to support you. Why do you want me to do such a thing? These bastards will go to hell sooner or later!" "

Hidan doesn't like having his freedom controlled by others, and just wants to cause killings to satisfy the 'salvation' of his own beliefs.

"Speaking of collecting tailed beasts and creating true peace... the people in this organization make people feel unhappy from top to bottom!"

The so-called peace is just that people who can't survive in this world are deceiving themselves and others.

Moreover, there is no such thing as peace.

If you really want peace, just commit suicide and die.

That way, you can have everlasting peace without being disturbed by anyone.

Therefore, in Hidan's heart, the organization's actions would only make him feel hypocritical and disgusting.

For him, killing is peace.

Only killing can save this sick and twisted ninja world.

All other good things are hypocrisy deliberately piled up by human beings.

"Hey, Master, are you awake?"

Outside the tree hole, Hidan was heard cursing, and Yixue, whom Hidan identified as the bishop, walked in.

"Don't talk nonsense here. Pack your things and leave here quickly. There will be work soon. This time I must kill to my heart's content!"

An astonishing anger flashed across Hidan's eyes, and an uncontrollable desire to kill almost filled his chest.

He needs more killings to suppress his inner anger and dissatisfaction.

"OK."

Not paying attention to the heavy killing aura around Hidan, Yixue just obediently started to pack her bags.

Seeing Yixue with his back turned to him, he was humming a song while packing his luggage, as if he was in a good mood for an outing.

This made Hidan even more irritable, and he had the urge to sacrifice this guy too.

Others' happiness is only your own pain.

In this world, happiness can only be obtained by killing.

Otherwise, happiness obtained in any other form is a 'sin' born against the will of the evil god.

This is also one of the supreme doctrines of the Evil God Religion.

…

"Haha, it seems that even immortal religious believers are afraid of the leader."

After Hidan left, Kisame teased him interestingly.

"That's of course. After all, the leader is much scarier than some illusory evil god."

In response to Kisame's words, it was a strange man who was half black and half white, completely covered in pitchweed - Zetsu.

A mixture of Black Zetsu and White Zetsu.

At this time, the two of them merged together as closely as usual, providing chakra for the technique and sealing the power of the tailed beast into the heretic golem.

As time goes by, the fourth eye of the heretic demon statue, which looks like a giant wooden man, is slowly opening and looking down at this space.

It gives the impression that this huge open eyeball is a living creature, rather than a dead sculpture.

Itachi briefly glanced at the opened eyeball, then looked away, maintaining the sealing ceremony calmly.

Time passes minute by minute, I don’t know how long it has passed.

Black Zetsu and White Zetsu, who had fallen silent, opened their eyes again at the same time.

"Someone has broken into the 'area'."

It was Black Zetsu who spoke.

If it were an ordinary traveler, Hei would never take the initiative to report it.

Now take the initiative to report it, and the people who accidentally broke into the 'area' are not ordinary people.

"Which side?"

Xie turned his head slightly and asked.

"There are two sides. On one side are the guys from the Kingdom of Oni, led by Chiba Saishi, the second son of Chiba Shiraishi. On the other side are the joint teams of Sunagakure and Konoha, led by Chiyo of Sunagakure, and among them is Konoha. Ye’s Nine-Tails Jinchuuriki and the Wood Release Ninja.”

Hearing Hei Zetsu's words, Deidara felt a dull pain in his empty left arm again.

When Xie heard the name 'Chiyo', her originally emotionless eyes seemed to have a slight fluctuation.

"Byakugan and the legendary puppet master who has reached the 'Ten Fingers' realm? These people are indeed a bit tricky. However, the sealing ceremony will take another two hours to end... Which group will go over and hold them back?"

Nagato glanced at Gaara, who was quietly wrapped in chakra and floating in the air, paused, and asked aloud.

Although most of the One-Tail Chakra has been absorbed by the Heretic Golem, a small amount of it still remains in Gaara's body.

Finally, after scanning all the members, Nagato's eyes settled on Itachi and Kisame.

Kisame sighed helplessly, knowing that he couldn't escape, so he said: "Well, I'm not very good at dealing with taijutsu-type ninjas..."

Before he finished speaking, Itachi said in a calm voice: "My Sharingan can deal with jinchūriki."

After saying that, he put down the sealing gesture and changed it to another sealing gesture. He closed his eyes and ignored the gazes of the people around him.

"In that case, Kisame, it's up to you to deal with the Byakugan."

Nagato also closed his eyes and decided on the course of action.

"……knew."

Kisame was silent for a moment, but still obeyed Nagato's arrangement.

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"The missing time has been far more than two days... Isn't that Gaara already dead?"

On the way, Xianglin expressed the speculation that had been brewing in her heart for a long time.

"It has nothing to do with us. Our mission is to find the lair where they sealed the tailed beasts and annihilate as much as possible the core members gathered there. As for capturing and protecting the tailed beasts, it's just rhetoric to the outside world."

Cai was indifferent to this.

Although in the communication with Sunagakure, he made it clear that he wanted to protect the jinchuriki and the tailed beasts, in his personal actions, Aya would not pay attention to the fate of the jinchuriki.

Whatever accidents happened between the Jinchūriki and the tailed beasts had nothing to do with his mission.

If you die or are sealed while being kidnapped, you can only say it is bad luck.

There is no need for Oni Country to pay for Sunagakure's negligence in work.

"It's a very cold statement, but it's good, at least the work is much easier."

Yamazaki Jiu flew through the forest, keeping up with Ai and Xiang Rin's pace and running forward.

"After all, after this mission, it's hard to say whether you are an enemy or a friend of Sunagakure."

Cai glanced around the surrounding forest. The light was very dim in this place covered by towering trees.

"It should be in this nearby area. Xianglin, use your perception ninjutsu to sense the maximum range."

"good."

Xiang Rin's body kept running at a constant speed while forming seals, activating the perception ninjutsu to sense the surrounding environment to the maximum extent.

"It seems like it's over here...wait, there's something going on!"

Xianglin, who wanted to change the direction, suddenly felt a strange and powerful chakra reaction in the sensing area.

The intensity of this chakra was more abundant than the accumulated chakra of the three members of their team.

This is definitely not the chakra that ordinary ninjas can hold!

Ai and Yamazaki stopped walking.

Cai Geng opened her eyes and glanced forward.

A section of the bandaged sword was exposed, cutting through the hard ground in the forest as it marched forward.

The posture of the bandage-sword tearing open the earth was like a ferocious shark swimming on land, rushing towards this side at an alarming speed.

The chakra of this 'shark' is also incredibly powerful.

Although the strength of a ninja cannot be absolutely evaluated based on the amount of chakra.

But the more chakra a ninja has, the stronger it will be!

The 'shark' swimming in the land was getting faster and faster, and it was about to approach. Cai jumped out of the team first, waved his arm, and struck the ground hard.

boom!

Under the attack of Rou Fist, the entire land was detonated, and the 'shark' lurking in the soil was also strongly blocked.

The powerful force squeezed over and the 'shark' had to give up the idea of ​​continuing to lurk on the way and jumped out of the ground.

"Water escape--"

The person who jumped out of the ground was none other than Kisame.

He placed the Great Sword Samehada behind his back and began to form seals with his hands, intending to use ninjutsu to stop the three men from advancing.

Although he is a spy placed by Kirigakure in the Akatsuki organization, the face project must at least be done beautifully.

However, what was faster than him was Xiang Rin's ninjutsu.

The golden chain flew from Xianglin's back like a long snake through the air.

It immediately wrapped around Kisame's right hand.

Xianglin grabbed the golden chain and pulled hard on the ground.

Before Kisame could react, he felt a terrifying force that separated his hands that were about to form the seal, and slammed his entire body toward the ground, preventing him from forming the seal.

Click!

The ground cracked.

Although in the process of hitting the ground, Kisame barely adjusted his body and landed on his back, minimizing the injury.

But the heavy blow to his back still made him let out a dull hum.

Not only that, Kisame was surprised to find that his right arm, which was wrapped in a golden chain, could not mobilize any chakra.

Moreover, the effect of suppressing chakra is gradually expanding. Before long, the rest of his body may no longer be able to mobilize the chakra in his body.

Kisame naturally knew what this meant.

The source of all ninjutsu comes from chakra.

If chakra is suppressed, ninjutsu cannot be performed.

Just as he was thinking about what to do next, silver-gray metal balls were thrown into the sky above him from nowhere. As they fell downwards, the surface of the metal balls suddenly released a dazzling white light, causing Kisame's vision was completely white, and his vision was completely blocked.

Boom!

The impact of the explosion squeezed Kisame's body from all directions.

The forest ground also trembled like a wail in this sudden explosion.

The leaves rustled for a long time.

When the weather calmed down, Cai and three others surrounded him.

Looking at the huge crater in front of him caused by Yamazaki Hisashi's bomb, there lay quietly a strange corpse that looked completely different from the previous 'shark'.

Although most of this strange corpse's body has been destroyed, it can still be seen from its relatively complete face and body shape that this is not the previous 'shark'.

"……who is he?"

Yamazaki asked confusedly.

He remembered that the last bomb he threw out obviously killed a ninja that looked like a shark man. How could it turn into a ninja that he didn't recognize at all?

Moreover, on the forehead of the corpse, Iwagakure's rebel forehead protector was still worn.

The scene before him surpassed his understanding.

"It should be some kind of 'possession' type of forbidden technique."

Cai pondered for a moment and expressed her opinion.

"What will happen to this body?"

Yamazaki asked.

"Take it with you first, and confirm your identity when you get back."

Judging from the other party's status as a traitor, no matter how big or small it is, it is a credit, and Cai has no reason to let it go.

After hearing this, Yamazaki Jiu skillfully took out the scroll and carefully sealed the body.

"We encountered an attack here. I'm afraid Sunagakure and Konoha also encountered similar things. Let's go over and see how they are doing."

Sai looked towards the direction of action of Sunagakure and Konoha. Because they were searching separately, they could search for traces of the enemy in a wider area.

Now that they have encountered an attack, if nothing unexpected happens, Sunagakure and Konoha may not be able to stay away, and they must have encountered a similar situation.

…

Inside the cave, Kisame felt a lingering fear and slowly opened his eyes.

Before he could recall the 'humiliating' battle before, he felt that the people around him were looking at him, revealing an indescribable weirdness.

It seems to be asking "Why did you come back just after you went out?"

"..."

Kisame couldn't help but have a hint of embarrassment flash in his eyes.

After all, less than five minutes had passed since Nagato's order. According to normal procedures, the enemy would have to be held back for at least an hour before the mission was completed.

Now he has only been able to block the target for less than five minutes. This is really worthy of his reputation as a seven-man swordsman.

Really unable to stand the strange looks from everyone, Kisame had no choice but to hold back a sentence:

"Ahem, you don't know, the kid is getting more and more difficult these days."

What comes up is the extremely destructive soft fist.

Then came the unique sealing technique of the Uzumaki clan, which was seamlessly connected, suppressing his chakra and prohibiting him from using ninjutsu.

Finally, a powerful bomb is used to detonate it at close range.

Every step is directed towards attacking the enemy's weak point, without any hesitation.

End the battle as quickly as possible and annihilate the enemy as soon as possible.

Under this series of offensives, Kisame felt that even if his own body went there in person, he would probably overturn due to carelessness, let alone a 'substitute' who only inherited 30% of his chakra.

After hearing Kisame's lame explanation, everyone slowly looked away and no longer looked at him, but the strange look in their eyes probably would not disappear for a long time.