Chapter 157: Chapter – 154 An Awaiting Encounter
After dropping Haku back to the underground residence, Kuroto returned to his secret laboratory.
Although his actions went a little overboard in using the Water Ninjutsu and attracted some attention, Kuroto was still very satisfied with Clone-A's water chakra affinity.
While recording data, Kuroto planned the next step.
It is quite unclear as to why was the creation of Water Clone went unexpectedly smooth. Perhaps it could be related to the high fusion compatibility between his and Haku's cells or maybe somehow related to the stability of the Water Element.
As for why is the affinity of the Water Clone so high?
Kuroto does have a conjecture, and it's probably because of the active genes of his main body, but he can't be sure about it until more test results are obtained, but it is still the most logical explanation.
In short, whatever may be the reason, the experiment of Water Clone Creation went better than Kuroto's initial expectations.
'Now the next thing I have to focus on is the adaption of Soul with the clone-Body!'
After recording all the data, Kuroto thoughtfully closed the data scroll in his hand.
The process of achieving soul and body balance is a water milling work, simply put, it would require Kuroto to stay in the Clone body for a long time.
Only by spending time in the clone body will the fit be perfect.
According to Kuroto's estimation, as long as his soul just resides in the clone body for three years, then the clone would become a perfect fit.
Three years is obviously too long!
Based on the 'three years calculation,' it would take a total of eighteen years to obtain a perfect body soul fit with the six different clones of six different chakra natures.
Eighteen years doesn't seem too long to become the supreme God of the Shinobi World by achieving Kekkei Mora but considering that the Fourth Great Shinobi War broke out about fourteen to fifteen years later as per the original timeline, Kuroto obviously doesn't have eighteen years in his hand.
And taking the Butterfly effect into account, Kuroto thinks that he doesn't even have fourteen years in his hand.
So, speeding up the process is the only option.
Holding his chin, Kuroto thought about it a little.
In addition to simply spending time in the Clone body, participating in battles can also increase the adaption speed between the body and soul.
This is because, during a battle, the body and soul are under constant high-speed rotation; therefore, the speed of adaption increases several times.
And Kuroto knows that the shinobi world may lack anything but there would never be a shortage of battles!
Having made up his mind, Kuroto planned his further actions with this decision.
Since the fighting style of the Water Clone is completely different from the Yin Body, therefore, Kuroto can't continue to use the 'Yama' disguise while in this body.
Therefore, Kuroto spent a lot of time preparing another disguise for the Water Clone.
The base was kept similar to the 'Yama' disguise, a full-body Midnight Black cloak with the golden pattern over it, which was again complex sealing symbol Kuroto sewed with Gold Thread, then a symbol of Water element around the chest part, and five symbols of the basic chakra element printed in a circle around the Yin-Yang symbol at the center at the back.
Finally, a Blue Evil Spirit Mask to symbolize the Water Element, of course, the mask again had the complex sealing symbols on the inner side to interfere with the perception and search type ninjutsu.
Donning the Cloak and the mask over his vest, Kuroto looked at his image in the mirror and nodded in appreciation, and finally muttered, "Since this is Water Clone, then I will need another alias, hmm…, how about 'Suijin'? The Shinto God of Water! Yup, Suijin seems alright! Yosh, Suijin it is!"
With that decided, Kuroto left a Shadow Clone in the Village and secretly sneaked out of Konoha as 'Suijin'.
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1 Week later.
Suijin kicked the corpse lying before him with a disappointed expression.
In order to increase the soul adaptation with the Clone body, Suijin took a bounty mission from the black market.
The bounty mission clearly stated that the target is a Jonin class missing-nin from Kusagakure, but the result highly disappointed Suijin.
"What Jonin, this guy is barely even a Chunin!"
It took only two small moves to solve the target.
Puff…
While Suijin was cleaning up the battlefield, the familiar figure of Kasai emerged with a puff of white smoke.
As soon as the orange cat emerged out of the white smoke, it stretched out its paw and demanded,
"Meow, One Thousand Ryo!"
Suijin immediately had an annoyed face, "Can't you change the opening sentence?"
Kasai hesitated a little and finally nodded with a determined expression as if it had put a great deal of effort to follow his request, "Aright, but you have to increase the money!
Suijin immediately denied, "Forget it, I suddenly found out that I like your opening line very much, you must never change it for the rest of your life!"
With that said, Suijin passed the money and took the communication scroll, and opened it.
"The mysterious person the organization has been looking for was never found!"
"Recently, the organization has been eying a bounty ninja with the name 'Yama'"
"That freak Kakazu said that this 'Yama' is very mysterious and very strong, and strangely enough, until now the organization hasn't found any leads on him even after so much investigation, there is simply no trace."
"Rather than questioning how strong the bounty ninja can be, I tend to think that how can a strong person become a bounty ninja? it's quite strange that this 'Yama' guy is working as a bounty ninja if his strength is as strong as Kakazu says, don't you think so boss!?"
Suijin nodded while reading the last sentence. Indeed, as Shinichi spoke, generally strong Shinobi wouldn't opt to work as black-market bounty hunters, this is very simple because either they don't need to due to being affiliated to some shinobi villages or they can just establish their own small villages or organization.
The reason why he is working as a bounty ninja because his Anbu identity doesn't allow him to take on simple missions, and he will also be under the Village's monitoring.
Anyway, after sending away the greedy cat, Suijin sealed the corpse in a storage scroll and went to the nearest black-market branch.
As usual, the branch was hidden with a cover of a bar, Suijin directly went inside, confirmed the password, and placed the corpse before the branch boss, and added, "Bring me the latest edition of your mission book!"
The branch boss passed over the mission book and got busy with the processing work.
After some time, the boss asked tentatively, "Suijin-Sama, what is your relationship with Yama-Sama?"
Because the dress code of both 'Yama' and 'Suijin' is very similar with only slight differences, therefore, the boss was a bit curious. After all, 'Yama' has gained a very high reputation in the black-market Circle.
Suijin didn't look up, just replied casually, "'Yama' is our leader!"
As soon as he heard this, the black-market boss immediately became more diligent, even a Shinobi Village doesn't dare to take a group of organized and powerful Ninjas lightly, let alone him, who is just a small man with not much power.
What's more, it is believed that Yama's strength is very high, so this Suijin must also be extremely strong if he belongs to the same organization. Therefore, the other party is definitely not someone, the black-market boss could afford to offend.
While the Black-market boss intended to immediately process the bounty, Suijin, who was flipping through the pages of the mission booklet suddenly stopped as he perceived a strong chakra signature approaching him.
Byakugan…
Turning his head to look in the direction after activating his Byakugan, he observed the two people dressed in the iconic black cloak with red cloud prints over it; slowly walking towards the black-market branch…
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Chapter 158: Chapter – 155 Suijin vs Kakazu
"Akatsuki?"
Suijin was slightly surprised when he noticed who the other party was, he didn't expect that not long ago Uchiha Shinichi passed him the information about the Akatsuki searching for his Yin-body disguise, 'Yama' and now he has run into two of Akatsuki members
After thinking a little while the two of the Akatsuki members were calmly coming towards the Black-market branch, Suijin decided to walk out and quietly stand on the street.
As soon as Suijin walked out of the gate, the two members of the Akatsuki noticed Suijin wearing the black cloak and an evil spirit mask, they immediately stopped and faced off the other party.
The pedestrians passing by also noticed the strangeness of the two parties.
Whether it was the two members of the Akatsuki, wearing a matching black cloak with red cloud prints, coupled with Kasa with two bells, or Suijin wearing a black cloak with golden sewing, water symbol print around the chest along with an evil spirit mask, don't look the kind of people you would wanna mess around with, so the pedestrians quickly ran away from here as soon as possible.
In just a few moments the bustling and noisy street became silent.
At this time, the two members of the Akatsuki took off their hats and asked, "Are you the bounty-nin 'Yama'?"
After a short silence of observing the two, Suijin spoke with a light chuckle, "Unfortunately, you have found the wrong person, I am Suijin."
Of the two members of the Akatsuki, Suijin is only familiar with one, the other looked like some ordinary middle-aged dude that can't recognize even after searching his memories for a long time, therefore, Suijin reached the conclusion that this unknown middle-aged member must have died before the beginning of the plot in the original story.
Kakaku frowned, and spoke in a deep voice, "Suijin!? Huh, are you trying to fool me?"
When he heard Kakazu say so, Suijin immediately understood that Kakazu must have memorized the details of his 'Yama' disguise and became confused with the current one, therefore, Kakazu thought that he was 'Yama', so pointing at his mask, Suijin spoke, "You can clearly see this thing here, I am Suijin, not Yama! But if you have some entrustment for him, you can tell me about it, I'll pass on the message to him!"
After noticing the small detail, the second Akatsuki member murmured in Kakazu's ear, "His mask is different from the one 'Yama' wears, and look at that Cloak too, the symbol around the chest is that of Water, not Yin, so he shouldn't be Yama, but I think that they both should be members of the same organization."
Kakazu's attitude remained calm and he questioned in a condescending tone, "Tell me where I can find 'Yama' along with all the information about your organization!"
Kakazu knew just how many freaks are part of the Akatsuki, so he didn't really put any other organization or a Shinobi Village in his eyes.
Can the Kage of any village defeat PAIN?
NO!
Is Kakazu himself afraid of any Kage?
NO!
So does he fear them?
Obviously NO!
Hearing Kakazu's question, Suijin just shrugged, "Come on, catch me and you'll know everything!"
Kakazu said coldly, "You want to die that badly?"
Without any more nonsense, Suijin turned to the side and dashed away from the town.
There are many civilians in this town, and if Suijin fights the Akatsuki duo here, the town would most certainly be destroyed along with the death of many civilians, even if he tries to restrain himself.
Now it's not that Suijin cares about the civilians or anything, but involving ignorant people in a serious mess is not something he wants to do unless he has no other choice, therefore, leading the Akatsuki duo out of the town is the best course of action.
It seems as if Kakazu also understood Suijin's approach, and being the leading figure in the Black-market Circle, he didn't want the branch to be destroyed because of his fighting so he immediately chased out of the town.
Seeing that the three people went out of the town to resolve their issues, the Black-Market Bounty Exchange Master Zengei, breathed a long sigh of relief, "Fortunately, the three of them didn't fight here…"
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In the forest outside the town.
Whoosh… Whoosh… Whoosh…
Accompanied by the sound of breaking wind, the three figures appeared in the forest, one-after-another.
Suijin kept one hand on his waist, he was sort of excited to fight Kakazu.
Although the ranking of the various Akatsuki members based on their strength is actually very controversial as different people believed one to be stronger than the other, putting all that aside, Kakazu's personal strength is unquestionable.
Being the oldest shinobi alive, the mere wealth of his experience of going through thousands of battles alone makes him a force to be reckoned with. Not to mention he and Hidan captured the Nibi and Nanabi.
Even if it was Team-10 together with Kakashi, they couldn't suppress Kakazu and would have surely died if not for Team-7 to arrive as reinforcement at the right time.
In fact, Kakashi's heart would have also become Kakazu's if not for Naruto!
At that time, Kakashi was the most elite ninja of Konoha excluding the two Sannin.
From these feats alone one can imagine just how strong Kakazu actually is, after all, being able to catch two Tailed beasts is not a joke!
And since the soul is currently in Suijin-body, so he can't use the Tenseigan, therefore facing Kakazu is a very difficult challenge for him.
But that's good because the challenges are exactly what he needs now!
Coming all the way here, Kakazu said impatiently, "I really don't like myself to get involved with anyone when I don't gain something from them, sigh, I'll give you one last chance, either you hand over all the information about 'Yama' and I spare your life, or you can die here; your choice!"
Suijin didn't bother answering and directly printed hand seals:
"Water Release: Water Severing Slash!"
Whish…
A high-pressure thin jet of water immediately spouted out of Suijin's mouth and directly went towards the Akatsuki duo with an extremely fast pace.
Both Kakazu and another member jumped away, avoiding the Severing Water Slash.
Slash… Slash… Slash…
The thin jet of water was extremely sharp and immediately cut off the trees in the path.
After dodging the first attack very closely both Kakazu and the second guy got ready for battle with a serious expression
The Water Severing Slash that Suijin used is the weakened version of the Nidaime Hokage's Water Severing Wave, and the power displayed by this Water Severing Slash was not any inferior to a Class-A ninjutsu, Chidori!
From the first tentative attack itself, Kakazu understands that the opponent could be a bit tricky and unbuttoned the Akatsuki cloak, revealing his rag-doll-like stitched body held together by hundreds of thick black threads, and four animal masks that were sewn onto his back.
'Taking out the big guns so soon?' – thought Kuroto, and murmured in a low voice, "Heh, should I be proud of myself or curse myself?"
Roar…
With a roar, the four white masks with threads separated from Kakazu's back and scattered around.
'Earth Grudge Fear, the Secret Forbidden Technique of Takigakure!' – As soon as the four masks came out, Suijin observed them with his Byakugan.
In the Byakugan Vision, he could see that these Masks gave off a Bad Chakra, and somehow, each of them possessed independent Chakra sources, which was rather strange and not so at the same time.
While Suijin was observing the masks, the other nameless Akatsuki member armed with a long sword rushed forward.
Not bothering to turn aside, Suijin just printed hand seals and tapped his foot:
Tiger – Snake – Rat – Snake – Tiger –
"Water Release: Water Formation Wall!"
In an instant, a wall of water rises from the ground and blocked the nameless individual's Kenjutsu attack.
At the same moment, a hand passed through the water wall and clutched the nameless kenjutsu user's throat, and traps him in the Water Prison Technique!
The whole process just took a single breath and the nameless member was already captured, in fact, the process went too smoothly that even Suijin couldn't believe it!
However, while Suijin was dazed, the surrounding light dimmed, and a dazzling electric current rushed towards him.
'Lightning Release: False Darkness!'
Suijin subconsciously shielded against the attack by putting the trapped Akatsuki member before him to block the attack.
Zizi…
However, the sheer force of the False darkness was extremely destructive, so even though, Suijin somehow blocked the attack, he was still paralyzed by it because the lightning was conducted through the water!
Dropping the corpse of the nameless Akatsuki member, Suijin immediately leaped back and landed on the nearby tree while gritting his teeth to resist the paralysis effect.
Looking at the Akatsuki member who had fallen to the ground and died, Suijin couldn't help but snort, "Huh, aren't you a bit cruel to your partner, well what do I know, it only makes things easier for me!"
Kakazu was not affected by Suijin's words and just flashed a Glasgow smile, "With the obstruction removed, you will be the next!"
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