Chapter 11: Chapter – 11 Acting a Chase
Kuroto didn't entangle with Sasori and directly flew over Mitsui's corpse, while also throwing a few Kunai's wrapped in an explosive tag at his corpse without any hesitation.
Boom-boom… boom...
BOOM…!!!
With a violent explosion, Mitsui's body suddenly fell apart.
The reason why Kuroto destroyed Mitsui's body was to prevent Sasori from finding his identity based on Mitsui's identity.
After all, he doesn't know how long he will stay at the border post. If Sasori rings at the door, he won't even have a place to escape. You must know that the village is trying to clean him at this moment. If he abandons the post and escapes, the village would just find a convenient excuse of punishing him for a crime of fleeing, and he will be executed fairly, which is not something he will allow.
So, he ruined Mitsui's body, therefore Sasori would not be able to figure out Kuroto's identity that easily.
Because no matter how strong Sasori is, eventually, he is only a missing-nin at this point in time, and without the support of Sand Village backing him up, he will inevitably lack a source to give him the required intelligence for him to figure out Kuroto's identity.
And this time Konoha and Sand Village did secret cooperation. It involves the cleaning of their own people, so there must be very few insiders, and they must be the highest level authorities of both the villages, so whether Sasori wants to get information from Konoha or Sand, it is very difficult for him to find out the specific list of personnel involved under this purging operation.
Kuroto thought all these messy thoughts while escaping in the sky, while Sasori chased him on the ground, and the distance between the two sides naturally kept on increasing.
Glancing at the furious Sasori that fell far behind him, Kuroto smiled freely.
Sasori at the moment hasn't joined Akatsuki. Although he has an impressive record of killing a Kage rank individual, he still belongs to the category of the traditional sand hidden puppet master. He has few methods in his hands, and that is being too dependent on puppets or poisons, besides he also lacks the means to deal with all kinds of weird techniques.
Therefore, after Kuroto luckily took away Sandaime KazeKage's puppet, Sasori's effective combat power was immediately reduced.
This weakening does not only refer to combat effectiveness. More importantly, it is mobility. Without the KazeKage's puppet, Sasori lost the initiative on the battlefield.
This is one of the reasons why the Yondaime Hokage-sama can surpass Sannin and other Kage level Ninja at such a young age.
Those fighting against Yonadaime-sama can't catch up to him in terms of speed, and those who can't fight him in terms of strength can't escape him. Where? When? and How? All three initiative lies in the hands of Yondaime-sama's hands. This is the biggest helplessness all the enemies of Yondaime-sama must have faced. And as the strength of Yondaime-sama kept increasing day-by-day, slowly he became almost unbeatable, and finally, the alias 'Golden Flash' became an existence highly feared by the enemies.
The current strength of Sasori hasn't reached the peak state, once he joins the Akatsuki Organization, learns about the Rinnegan, and understands the concept of power above Kage-level, his strength will be further improved.
With this thought in mind, Kuroto gradually got rid of Sasori's chase, broke away from the desert, and went in the direction of the woods at the border of the Country of Tea.
After repeatedly confirming that he wasn't being chased by Sasori any longer, Kuroto deliberately circled around and finally stopped on a big tree miles away from the border outpost.
He knows that if he simply went back, he would be the one blamed for the death of Nara Mitsui.
However, he can't report his encounter with the Sasori of the Red Sand, because once he does so, then under the vigorous investigation of the village it would get increasingly difficult for him to keep Sandaime Kazekage's puppet in his hands.
And once an S-level missing-nin is involved in this matter, the village will definitely send elite ninjas for carrying out an investigation, in which case the probability of his Tenseigan being exposed will increase greatly.
Therefore he must enact a scene to make Mitsui's death seem reasonable and believable.
After thinking about it for a while, Kuroto started taking action.
He wrapped Sandaime Kazekage's puppet in a bandage from head to toe, now only his dull eyes were exposed, and finally, he put a grey cloak over.
Because the puppet is originally made from a human corpse so its body shape was almost the same as before only on the chakra line were there now for controlling in manually.
After Kuroto took care of the puppet's disguise, it now looked like a living ninja covering its body all over.
After a closed inspection and re-checking to find no flaws, Kuroto handed it few kunai and let it cut him to make the act seem more real.
When all this was done, Juroto rushed towards the direction of the outpost.
At the outpost,
Hearing a sound that was calling for help, Mitarashi Anko who was recovering from her injuries was stunned and immediately jumped out of her room and came outside.
At the same time, the other two squad leaders in the outpost also jumped out and looked in the direction of Kuroto's call for help with full alert.
In a moment, the three shinobi's were able to spot Kuroto covered in blood stumbling towards the outpost, and behind him was a strange ninja chasing after Kuroto.
The three Shinobi didn't hesitate at all and immediately rushed towards the strange ninja with the intent to kill.
Even if the Sandaime Kazekage puppet only used taijutsu, it was much better than Anko and the other two chunin squad leaders, so Kuroto made sure not to overplay so that him being able to escape won't seem suspicious.
On the side a short confrontation took place, Anko and the two squad leaders together exchanged some blows with the puppet and after a small stalemate, pretended to attack, dodged a few attacks, and then immediately retreated.
The other three were kind of confused why would the enemy choose to retreat when he had the advantage over them in terms of strength, but they still decided not to think too deeply about it and didn't bother to pursue it.
Seeing the strange ninja no longer around they turned towards Kuroto who was catching his breath and injuries, the most senior of them immediately asked him, "What happened?"
Kuroto just shook his head: "I don't know, Captain Mitsui and I were attacked as soon as we sneaked into the lands of Wing Country. In the surprise attack we encountered Captain Mitsui died on the spot, I was able to somehow escape but the enemy decided to give chase, I hid on several locations and somehow arrived here."
When Anko heard Kuroto's story her expression was gloomy again, however the expression of the two squad leaders was of being surprised.
After Kuroto came to his room, Anko followed him, and now she was helping him wrap bandages over his wounds, when she said hoarsely, "Everyone of them dead!"
The 'them' here refers to all the shinobi that were part of Orochimaru's subordinates who came with Kuroto and Anko to this border outpost.
Today only Kuroto didn't go for a mission, there were two other teams too on 'special mission' but only two squad leaders returned alive and the subordinates in the team encountered accidental death.
Kuroto remained silent as Anko informed him while helping him treat his wounds, and just nodded silently.
Only a stupid won't notice if there's no problem if, In such a remote border outpost with twelve shinobi assigned for duty, eight people died in less than two weeks, more so under similar situation, especially during the non-war period.
Obviously, this is all being done under the orders of higher authorities.
After a while, Kuroto spoke in a light whisper, "Be careful of them, most likely they are Root Shinobi, don't give them any opportunity."
Anko has also noticed that something is definitely wrong with them and nodded.
Finally, she asked, "What happened to you today?"
Kuroto glanced at worried Anko and replied quietly, "Don't worry too much about me, we really encountered an accident today."
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Chapter 12: Chapter – 12 The Puppet’s Test
After taking care of Kuroto's wounds, Anko returned to her room without saying anything unnecessary as she also understood their current situation.
Kuroto was now lying on the bed, thinking carefully about what happened today.
Expectingly, today's mission was a trap, and Sand also participated in it. If there was no unexpected presence of the 'Sasori of the Red Sand', what Kuroto would have faced today is probably Sand Village's assassination team's combined siege.
Perhaps, if necessary, Captain Mitsui would have also participated in the siege to eliminate him!
As for why Sand Village is getting involved in Konoha's cleaning operation, Kuroto pondered a little over this matter, and after a little Brain Storming, he had the most likely answer.
Sand Village's Yondaime KazeKage has just taken his position because of the disappearance of the Sandaime KazeKage.
With the third Shinobi war being over, the Yondaime KazeKage needs to weaken the influence of Sandaime KazeKage in the Sand Village, so Sand Village actually needs to clean its own people too, and for them, this demand is much stronger than Konoha's.
In addition, after the war, Sand signed the alliance treaty with Konoha.
This can also explain why Sand Village participated in Konoha's cleaning operation. The highest level of the two sides has obviously reached an agreement to clean up the abandoned children for each other.
This not only prevents one's own hands from being contaminated with the blood of his fellow villagers but also provides a possible excuse for them to blame the death on someone.
Having figured this out, Kuroto also knew that even if it was Danzo who presided over this purge in the village, the Sandaime Hokage-sama, and other high-level officials must have tacitly approved of this or at least were aware of the details.
Otherwise, Danzo alone would not be able to bypass the village authorities and negotiate such a major action with Sand Village without consent from others.
At the thought of so many people being ruthlessly abandoned by the village, Kuroto was both disappointed and angry.
It can be said that 90% of these people are innocent. It was only a small group of them who have actually participated in the human experiments performed by Orochimaru, and most of them have only participated in a peripheral scale, like Kuroto.
The real core projects that involve bloody human experiments are almost all done by Orochimaru personally, and there are very few people who are even qualified to about them, much less participate in them in the first place, and even Kuroto is not one of those.
This is not Kuroto trying to shirk the responsibility, but except for Orochimaru, there might only be a handful of people who can independently carry out complex human experiments.
"What is the purpose of the village going so far this time?"
The more Kuroto thinks about it, the more he feels that something is wrong in this whole fiasco. The village's senior leaders cannot be unaware that this purge will affect many innocent people, but they still did it. There must be something Kuroto didn't know about.
Kuroto did more brainstorming thinking about Orochimaru's active defection and the uncharacteristic behavior of Danzo, who has always tried to maintain some level of cooperative relationship with Orochimaru.
And suddenly it finally struck him!
It must be because of some anger and grievance due to something that Orochimaru must have done, that might have made Danzo go into hysteria and the bastard finally decided to eliminate all the possible subordinates or Orochimaru from the village.
It has to be the case!
But regardless of whether Kuroto is correct or not, it can not change the fact that the purge has already begun. So, he has to converge his diverging thoughts and calmly sort out the threat he is facing right now.
The threat at hand is undoubtedly the purge issued by the village.
Now that the purge has already begun, the village will not let go of him, so even if Kuroto has escaped this time, there will be another waiting for him, and the intensity will exceed as the times' increase.
In addition, the threat of Sasori cannot be ignored.
Sandaime KazeKage was once known as the 'strongest KazeKage', but in the end, he died at Sasori's hands. Just this fact alone proves how dangerous Sasori actually is?
Now that Kuroto has offended the other party, he has to be on constant vigilance.
Thinking about it, in fact, what is most imminent is the village's reaction to Mitsui's death. Once the village suspects that Kuroto had some hand in it, then there will only be one option available for him and that is to defect.
"I don't know if I can hide that scene from the village."
It was actually a wonderful move on his part to have used KazeKage's puppet enact as a wandering ninja. Because of the third ninja war that finished not long ago, there are a large number of wandering ninjas who defected from many ninja villages, so it's not strange to have encountered one of those during a mission, as currently, the power spere of each village has weakened to some extent, and this is especially the case at the borders.
In addition, the two other team leaders who were suspected to be the roots ninja in the post also saw the puppet posing as a wandering ninja, which made Kuroto's words more convincing.
After thinking about it all night, Kuroto recovered the Sandaime KazeKage's puppet that had been hidden near the outpost and sealed it inside a scroll at the first opportunity he got the very next day.
Right now, there is serious attrition in the post.
Among the remaining 4 ninjas, there are two wounded, Anko and Kuroto, so the village will send a support team over at any time, or may already be on the way.
And the support squad will inevitably have a scout-type ninja. If he continues to let the puppet wander near the post, it is likely to hit the support squad and be exposed.
In the final analysis, the identity of Sandaime KazeKage��s Puppet is too eye-catching.
Not to mention someone like Kuroto who is very cautious by nature, even the bold Sasori dare not use it so easily, and once it is exposed in Kuroto's hands, it is very difficult for him to give any explanation without revealing the secret of the Tenseigan, which is a risk he is unwilling to take.
After all, the Sandaime KazeKage was once the Kage of a village from the five major ninja villages.
Even if it is just to maintain their image as a major ninja village, Sand Village wouldn't stop at anything from eliminating the possible suspect of killing their Kage and retrieving the dead body of their Kage.
Kuruto who has already been listed as a target to be cleansed by Konoha doesn't have any intentions of offending Sand Village at all.
Anyway, at present, there are only 2 people alive who are aware that the Sandaime KazeKage was turned into a Human Puppet, and they are Kuroto and Sasori. Kuroto has no intention of revealing this information, and as for Sasori, as the culprit who killed Sandaime KazeKage and turned him into a puppet, he would definitely not take the initiative to reveal this information.
Furthermore, as far as Sasori's temperament is concerned, it is estimated that at this moment, he is still wandering around the ninja world collecting corps for making various puppets while also brainstorming on how to retrieve the KazeKage puppet from Kuroto. He won't be exposing this information at all, as it would also disgrace him for losing such a thing in the first place.
While thinking these messy thoughts Kuroto went back to his room to continue rest for recovering.
For the next few days, everything was calm.
Taking advantage of the few remaining opportunities, Kuroto continued studying the Tenseiagn's ability to control the puppet.
After many attempts, he found that the flexibility of the puppet depends entirely on the amount of Tenseigan Chakra he poured into the puppet. In short, the higher the volume of Chakra, the higher will be the flexibility of the puppet.
Kuroto is obviously not a puppet expert.
He doesn't know if KazeKage's puppet belonged to a relatively high-end quality or not? In short, simply activating it consumes almost half of his chakra volume. If he wants the puppet to use its high-end ability like Magnetic-Dun, it requires more than two-thirds of his total Chakra.
So, when the KazeKage's puppet is activated at most one-third of his chakra can be used by Kuroto!
Kuroto also tried infusing all his Chakra into the puppet to see if this puppet could go further and possess a small amount of self-autonomy.
But the result disappointed him.
He doesn't know if his total amount of chakras is too small, or for other reasons, anyway, even if he infused all of his chakras, the Puppet did not change any further.
However, at this time Kuroto has learned to adjust his mentality, and nothing is compared with the impression of Otsutsuki Toneri, so he did not feel too frustrated, just a little annoyed over his weakness…
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