Chapter 261: Chapter – 257 Greedy Cat!
There are only a handful of people in the shinobi would who would dare to attack or cause trouble with the Raikage.
Kuroto is no exception to this, as even he is unwilling to cause conflict with Raikage unless absolutely necessary, so the identity of the attacker is not so hard to guess, in all likelihood, it has to be the handiwork of Akatsuki, and this guess is more than likely to be true because there is mention of this member with plant-like appearance, which has to be Zetsu without a doubt.
But Kuroto is a little puzzled as to why would Akatsuki attack and intercept Raikage and his two guards?
'Moreover, even if they did attack, why would they want to blame this upon Amatsukami? Are they worried about something? That… should probably… not be the case, right!?' – thought Kuroto but he wasn't so sure.
At this time, Shisui who has also read the information asked Kakashi, "There is too little information about the enemy here, did Raikage not fight the new suspected member of Amatsukami?"
Kakashi shook his head awkwardly, "Raikage… Raikage was actually too impatient and rashly chased after this member of Amatsukami and was deliberately led away, neither was he able to catch this member nor did he have any battle with him. So, there is not much we know about this enemy."
"But it can be determined that Amatsukami's target was probably Rai." – After a pause, Shisui continued, "Rai's life and death status are unknown, but what could be the reason that Amatsukami went after Rai, weren't their target the nine Bijuu, so why to attack a non-Jinchuriki, after all, we do know that Amatsukami does not attack any unrelated party, so why attack him? Was it just the bounty on his head or did they hope to extract any information out of him, like the probable location of the Jinchuriki, or maybe the secrets of Storm Release?"
Kakashi said, "Both are possible, the second reason is more than likely to be the case, based on the fact that Amatsukami has already kidnapped two Uchiha Shinobi, it wouldn't be wrong to judge that Amatsukami is also targeting shinobi with different Kekkei Genkai too, but we can't loosen our guards as who knows when they will start to target Bijuu..."
Guy continued, "The threat on Naruto is more eminent; if Amatsukami dares to openly attack Raikage's entourage just for Kekkei Genkai user, unlike the other times when they carried out sneak attacks, there is no telling whether they will again sneak inside Konoha and try to do steal the Kyuubi, as such Hokage-sama has added more manpower to ensure Uzumaki Naruto's safety!"
'Storm Release huh!?' – Hearing Kakashi and Guy's words, Kuroto suddenly recalled Hiruko, and thought, 'Is it possible that Akatsuki's attack on this Storm Release user is related to Hiruko?'
Kuroto is not sure, this is because it's too early for Hiruko to act, even in the original series, Hiruko started to steal Kekkei Genkai when Naruto's generation had already grown up into teenage, it was also at that time that Hiruko completed his imperfect Chimera Technique.
But Kuroto has to also take into account that there have already been too many changes in the timeline, as such, the sudden attack and disappearance of this storm Release user at the hands of Akatsuki does lead to the possibility. Since Hiruko has joined Akatsuki, so this could be the only reason.
'But how come Hiruko manage to perfect Chimera Technique so early? Is it because he joined Akatsuki and got all the help he needed to complete that technique?' – thought Kuroto.
This could be the only possible case.
After completing their shift, Team-11 separated and went to their respective homes.
Shisui and Kuroto were going in the same direction, and after Kakashi and Guy left, he asked eagerly, "Kuroto-san, what's going on? Are there other members in Amatsukami?"
"If there were other members in Amatsukami, then why would I not inform you about them in advance!?" – snorted Kuroto, and continued, "The person who attacked Raikage and his entourage is someone else pretending to be a member of Amatsukami; their goal is obviously to put the blame of their actions on our head!"
Shisui was immediately angry, "Scoundrels! Kuroto-san, let's find them!"
Kuroto glanced at Shisui and said, "Don't be in such a hurry!" Then asked after a pause, "First answer this question of mine, what is the objective of Amatsukami?"
Shisui was confused as to why would Kuroto-San ask this, but he answered nonetheless, "To solve the conflict between the Uchiha Clan and the village?"
Kuroto nodded, "That's not exactly correct but it is one of the objectives in the big game, so does it really matter whether someone is putting the blame of their action upon Amatsukami? Although their intentions are obviously malicious towards us, by doing so, they are actually helping us further increase the threat of Amatsukami in the eyes of everyone, so this is obviously very helpful for us!"
Shisui thought a little and said, "Right, the more threat Amatsukami poses, the more concerned the Clan and village will grow towards them, so the internal conflict will continue to get delayed as time passes."
"Exactly!" – Kuroto nodded.
"But… but these people are doing such things and using our name to put on the blame, I always feel a bit uncomfortable, are we going to let them do as they wish?"
Kuroto said casually, "I have a few things in mind that we will be doing to deal with this problem, so you don't need to worry about this too much, what we should focus on now is to ensure Uzumaki Naruto's safety, because Akatsuki will definitely target Kyuubi!"
Shisui nodded as he understands the importance of Kyuubi for Konoha, and Uzumaki Naruto who hosts the Kyuubi must be protected at all costs.
With this final understanding, Shisui bid Kuroto farewell and returned to his home.
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Kuroto who also returned to his home pondered a little, after biting his finger and printing the hand signs, Kuroto tapped his hand on the ground and muttered, "Summoning Jutsu!"
Poof…
Followed by a puff of white smoke, an all too familiar orange cat appeared before Kuroto that… didn't… look... familiar at all!
Kuroto frowned seeing this, it's because this orange cat's orange hair was covered in some stripes, these stripes were black in color over the orange fur, making the cat unrecognizable at the first glance.
Even Kuroto was a little confused and doubtful whether this is the same greedy cat, "You are…?"
Kasai, who was suddenly summoned by Kuroto looked a bit annoyed and said, "Meow, I am dying my hairs today, so I would not be delivering any message for today."
As soon as he heard that voice, Kuroto was sure that this fake tiger is definitely the same Kasai, and asked with s smile, "You gave me a good shock Kasai, for a moment I thought that a real tiger appeared in my room, those stripes look so real on you!" – said Kuroto in a fake surprise.
"Really?" – hearing from Kuroto, the cat was suddenly joyful and happily curled on the table, "Do they really look real? I guess I didn't do anything wrong after agreeing to his offer, the tiger stripes are dyed markings, I felt that when I get these markings, I will look intimidating and mighty."
'Who fooled this stupid cat?' – Kuroto thought but did not speak it out loud, and said, "Anyway, I called you because I want you to pass on a message to Shinichi."
The cat didn't seem to have heard what Kuroto spoke as it was busy daydreaming about how mighty and ferocious it will look with the tiger stripes, "Huh, it seems that hair dye shop is pretty good, you can also visit it and get some tiger stripes in the future if you want, I am telling you, you will also look intimidating, meow!"
Punch… crack…
Kuroto beat the table to bring Kasai out of his daydream and spoke, "Did you hear what I just said? I said that I called you this time because I want you to pass on a message to Shinichi for me!"
Kasai denied immediately, "Meow, I have to go back and complete the dying of my hair, consider me unavailable until then."
As soon as the cat spoke, Kuroto immediately took out a thousand Ryo bill and put it in front of Kasai.
"How about now?" – asked Kuroto.
A tangled expression was evident on Kasai's face, it still didn't faze it, looking back and forth between the thousand Ryo bill on the table and him, Kasai, shook his head, "It… gulp… I have to dye my hair…"
'Greedy Cat!' – Before Kasai could complete that sentence, Kuroto took out another thousand Ryo Bill and placed over the previous one, "How about now, do you still have to dye your hair?"
As soon as two bills were present in front, the cat's eyes were glued to them but still shook his head, "Hahaha… don't be funny, bribing me won't get you…"
Before Kasai could complete his words, Kuroto again took out another bill of thousand Ryo and put it over the previous two, and side while gritting his teeth, "I am sorry! I didn't hear you correctly, so what were you saying?"
By now the cat already had stars shining in his eyes and saliva literally dripping from the corners of his mouth, as soon as Kuroto asked the question, the cat fiercely grabbed the three thousand Ryo, and immediately put them inside the small bag hung around the neck while patting the chest with a determined expression, "Meow, you are of course a special exception to this, what message needs to be passed on to Shinichi, give it to me, I swear in the name of Nekobaa that it will be delivered in one minute!"
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One of the many training grounds of the Uchiha Clan.
Uchiha Hiiragi, who had been training for the whole day, dropped his sword on the ground and wiped off the sweat with a hand towel.
The previous encounter with Homusubi has become a shame for Hiiragi, being defeated is another thing altogether, but being treated as nothing more than trash, and yet not being able to take a single step in the face of the enemy has become a thorn in Hiiragi's heart, he has not been able to let go of that look he received from Homusubi.
"To think that I would be intimidated by just a mere glance of his, it's unforgivable!" – whenever he thinks of that scene, Hiiragi not only feels anger at Homusubi but also upon himself, but he is ashamed of himself and his weakness, 'First I lost to Hyuga Kuroto, and now this Homusubi!?'
So, to make sure that such a thing does not happen again, Hiiragi has been constantly training whenever he is on a break or holiday from his regular Konoha Military Police Duties.
The effort he has been putting in is obviously being paid off as Hiiragi feels that his strength is steadily improving.
And this has made him feel somewhat better, but he still too far from reaching Homusubi's level who can fight against Kumo's A-B brothers at the same time.
After having wiped off the sweat, just as Hiiragi was about to draw his sword that rested on the ground, an unusual spiraling whirl appeared in front of him.
Hiiragi was immediately cautious and asked, "Who are you?"
He asked this because Hiiragi saw a figure emerging out of the eye of the spiraling whirl…
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Chapter 262: Chapter – 258 Steel Release, Dark Release, & the Sharingan!
Somewhere in the Land of Earth.
Kicking the beaten and bruised-up person lying in front of them, Kakuzu said to Sasori, "If not for the requirement that Hiruko needed him alive, I really want to dig out this guy's heart!"
There are only two things that Kakuzu desires, first is wealth and the other is heart, the desire of collecting as many good hearts as possible is almost instinctive to Kakuzu, therefore whenever Kakuzu encounters a strong shinobi in a battle, he will always have the urge to dig out their hearts.
Sasori also has a bit of greed in his eyes, "This Steel Release user was stronger than I expected, and dealing with him was more troublesome, he is actually quite strong; if made into a puppet I should be able to obtain a rare masterpiece."
Even with Sasori's high standards, he has to acknowledge the strength of the Steel Release user in front of him.
The fierce battle a while ago was not much difficult for Sasori or Kakuzu, but that was only because the Steel Release user knew nothing about their abilities, and was also affected by the poison that Sasori used.
If not for that, then the battle might have been much difficult, as the opponent's extreme defense and endurance courtesy to Steel Release made him a shinobi who matched the toughness and defense of the current Raikage if not the previous one.
After injecting the drug into the unconscious ninja's bloodstream, Kakuzu carried him by the neck and started walking towards the Land of Rain while muttering, "I hope that ritual would not destroy his heart."
Sasori remained silent and walked next to Kakuzu.
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Somewhere in the Land of Bears.
A ninja wearing torn rags was constantly running through the forest.
Boom…
Boom…
Boom…
Suddenly a series of explosions sounded around him.
The sound of the explosions soon subsided and the dust cleared.
The shinobi who was running through the explosions suddenly turned around, threw several Shuriken in the direction of the enemy, and after immediately printing the hand seals, he shouted,
"Dark Release: Judgement!"
Whiish…
Accompanied by heavy winds, the tornado of Dark Chakra shot from the hands of the ragged ninja and rushed towards the sky.
Hiruko who was standing on the artificial bird had a Glasgow grin at this moment, it was as if everything was going perfectly according to his plan.
As the tornado of Dark Chakra was rushing towards him, the artificial bird slammed its wings fiercely and flew high up into the sky, using the altitude to its advantage it easily dodged the attack.
Immediately as the tornado passed away, the artificial bird flapped its wings again and shot down countless feathers.
Whiish… Whiish… Whiish… Whiish… Whiish… Whiish… Whiish… Whiish…
The feathers collided with the earth at an extremely fast speed and were nailed to the ground as a Kunai would.
After having dodged multiple attacks for so long, the ragged ninja was panting and did not have much stamina left anymore, so when he saw another rain that covered hundreds of meters of territory in the range of the attack; he had a look of despair on his face.
Soon, several of those feathers pierced through his body, and some were stuck on him, then there was an…
EXPLOSION…!!!
BOOOOM!!!
When the smoke and dust settled and the view became clear; it could be seen that the whole forest suffered severe damage as almost all the area was burnt to crisp, implying that the explosion was large enough to destroy the forest, but strangely enough, there was no damage on the one-meter vicinity where the ragged ninja lied in a pool of his own blood, although his life and death status was unknown at the moment.
After the enemy was successfully incapacitated, Shinno who did not act throughout the battle spoke in a complimentary tone, "Using explosions and physical attacks was indeed the most effective method to deal with someone who can easily absorb ninjutsu using the Dark Release Kekkei Genkai."
Hiruko nodded, "No Kekkei Genkai is perfect, so long as one master the right method to deal with them, winning is pretty much determined!"
With those words, the bird descended on the ground, Shinno jumped of the artificial bird and determined the state that the ragged ninja was in currently.
After confirming that he was indeed alive, Shinno injected the drug into the ragged ninja's bloodstream and then threw him on top of the artificial bird. "The Dark Release Kekkei Genkai has been captured, now all we need to do is to return to Amegakure, and wait for the others to bring the Kekkei Genkai users that they were assigned to bring, but I still wonder whether it would be possible for the leader to capture Hatake Kakashi?"
Hiruko firstly nodded then said with a confident expression, "I don't think there is anything to worry about it, the leader has the eyes of Rikudo Sennin, obviously Hatake Kakashi who only has a Sharingan would be no match to the leader, so obtaining the Sharingan shouldn't be much difficult, what I am more concerned about is Steel Release user, both Sasori, and Kakuzu are not the type to allow a good corpse to get away so easily. And then there is also some worry about the Swift Release user; if that person wants to escape; then stopping him is not so easy, unless you have the same level of speed then catching up to him is likely impossible for both Uchiha Shinchi and Biwa Juzo."
Shinno thought about it a little and said, "I don't think that will be an issue, as Uchiha Shinichi and Biwa Juzo's duo undoubtedly has the best teamwork out of all the duos, moreover, Uchiha Shinichi also has the Mangekyou Sharingan so he should be able to figure out something together with Juzo who can use Silent Killing."
Hiruko also thought about what Shinno said and then nodded, "I suppose that is true."
At this time, Shinno asked, "If all goes according to the plan then when are you sure to start the ritual?"
Hiruko said, "There will be a celestial phenomenon at the end of next month, and if all the Kekkei Genkai are successfully gathered, then I will try to complete the ritual ceremony during that celestial phenomenon."
Shinno's eyes flickered when he heard this, but masking it soon enough and not letting his thoughts be seen by Hiruko, he said with a smile, "I am really looking forward to seeing how things will change after this."
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One of the Uchiha Training Grounds
The strange arrival of the person immediately made Hiiragi realize that the person in front of his not ordinary.
He immediately activated his three-tomoe Sharingan, and vowed to himself, 'I will not let the same thing that happened the previous time repeat again!'
The figure emerged out of the spiraling whirl and looked at Uchiha Hiiragi was had already raised his sword, activated his Sharingan, and stood in a battle-ready pose, then he cast a deep look at the pair of Sharingan spinning in his eye sockets, and chuckled, "You have a nice look in your eyes."
Looking at the black robe with golden patterns and the orange spiral mask that the other person wore, Hiiragi asked coldly, "Are you also a member of Amatsukami?"
Neither did the masked person denied nor did he agree.
"Where is Homusubi, where is he!?" – with a roar, Hiiragi dashed towards the masked person, and shouted, "Answer my question!"
In Hiiragi's heart, Amatsukami is indeed a very strong organization, But Homusubi is the only person he is truly afraid of; as for other members of Amatsukami? Hiiragi is not scared of them.
The masked man chuckled, "Why the hurry? Why do you want to know where Homusubi is so ardently!?"
Hiiragi's eyes become colder, "If you are here to play games, then you can die for all I care!" – finishing this sentence he immediately reached next to the masked and waved his sword with all his strength!
Wouch…
Accompanied by the sound of whistling wind, Hiiragi's sword traversed a perfect arc and slashed towards the masked man's throat.
But suddenly something that Hiiragi didn't anticipate happened, his attack that was supposed to have been too fast for the other party to be able to react, the attack that was meant to cleave off the enemy's neck of his torso in just one strike, that very same attack did not even give Hiiragi any feedback that he cut through the flesh of the enemy.
What happened was strange, the sword and him, both passed right through the enemy without even making momentary contact with the enemy, it was as if he passed right through a projection, it was as if what stood before his was not a person but a projection.
"Huh…?" – Hiiragi was confused.
Coming to a stop, Hiiragi turned back and glanced at the place where the masked-man or maybe some kind of projection stood?
At this time, Hiiragi had a puzzled look, and the three tomoe in his Sharingan were spinning, he was trying to see if what stood before him was some kind of Genjutsu.
While Hiiragi stood there in a stupor, the masked man also turned around and slowly walked towards him.
Looking at the approaching masked-man, and that similar indifferent and cold aura oozing off of him, Hiiragi instinctively trembled, and muttered, "Why am I feeling like this?... Why…? Am I…? A am I afraid of him? No… I am… not… I am not afraid of him!"
But no matter how much Hiiragi tried to reassure himself, his hand that carried the sword was shaking!
Hiiragi still gritted his teeth and raised his sword hand and waved fiercely, once… twice… thrice… fourth… fifth… again… again… and again… and again, and again, and again… and again… but no result, every time the sword passed right through the masked man's body, it was as if he is not even present here, yet he was there, laughing coldly!
"W-what are you? Are you even a person or some kind of ghost???" – shouted Hiiragi in hysteria.
"Perhaps I am the death itself." – masked-man muttered to no one.
At this point, Hiiragi has already started to back away, the sword in his hand dropped heavily to the ground, he turned around and wanted to run away but is that even possible?
The masked man grabbed Hiiragi's collar which did not allow Hiiragi to take even a single step and dragged him inside the spiraling whirl regardless of all the resistance Hiiragi tried to put.
Amidst the sound of Hiiragi's exclamation, shouts, and begging to let him go, his figure was distorted and disappeared into the spiraling whirl.
After the disappearance of Hiiragi, the masked man looked at the four faces carved on the Hokage Mountain at the other end of the village and then disappeared in a similar whirl, leaving the place to the strange silence where only the sound of cicadas echoed.
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Hyuga Kuroto's home.
Poof…
With a cloud of white smoke, Kasai appeared before Kuroto and passed on a scroll to him.
Kuroto took the scroll and passed a thousand Ryo bills to the greedy cat. While the cat happily took the money and went away; Kuroto started reading the content written in the scroll, and after reading a bit, Kuroto's eyes narrowed as he muttered, "Sure enough I was right."
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