The ones who come and disturb the war are Sasori and Deidara, Akatsuki members. Zoro has seen their bounty pictures so many times, so he recognizes them right away.
"2 assholes, ruining my fun."
Zoro is pissed off while Sasori and Deidara are surprised that he can find them. They have been hiding really well that no one among the Suna shinobi could find them even though there are some great sensor type shinobi there.
Yet, it's Zoro who finds them first and he's quite quick at it. He even sends an attack to expose them, a casual attack that has enough power to split the desert and cut the boulder they use to hide.
Actually, Zoro has detected them much earlier, but he thought they were Suna shinobi. He only attacked them because they intended to attack him when he was busy fighting Rasa. He doesn't want to be disturbed, so he sends an attack at them, only to find out that they are Akatsuki members.
"Do the 2 of you want to enter the list of Akatsuki members that I've killed?" Zoro is really annoyed by their interference that he starts thinking of killing them instead of continuing the war.
"Heh, you sure know how to talk big." Deidara says it mockingly. He doesn't take Zoro's words too seriously.
"Shut up, Deidara! Don't bring me with you if you want to die." Sasori warns Deidara.
"Eh? Come on, Mr. Sasori. There's no way you are taking his words seriously." Deidara is still being cheeky.
But suddenly, Zoro sends a horizontal slash towards them using Enma. It flies really fast and avoiding it will be hard. So Sasori takes out his 3rd Kazekage puppet to create a big iron shield in front of them.
Zoro's slash hits the iron shield and it pushes the shield back, surprising Sasori, Deidara, and even Rasa. That slash attack doesn't look particularly strong and it is sent from quite a long distance. But its power is enough to push the 3rd Kazekage's iron shield.
"Shit! Deidara!"
"Y-yes!"
Deidara quickly creates a clay bird and both of them immediately jump on it when it turns big. The bird then flies up and right at that moment, the iron shield is cut in half. The slash attack would have cut them if they didn't get away on time.
"T-that's crazy." Now Deidara is shocked by Zoro's attack power.
"I told you to not look down on him. He's a monster that even our leader can't defeat, so you'll die if you don't take him seriously."
Right when Sasori says it, Zoro raises Enma, ready to send another attack at them.
"WAIT, RORONOA ZORO! WE AREN'T HERE TO FIGHT YOU." Sasori quickly shouts to stop Zoro from attacking them.
"Not attacking me? What do you take me for? As if you come all the way to this place when I fight this village just to watch it. Even a 5 y.o won't believe that crap."
"It's true that our main objective isn't you, it's Sunagakure."
"That doesn't mean you aren't targeting me too."
"Then how about this? What if we work together to destroy this village and we won't do anything to you? We have the same objective anyway, right? Destroying Sunagakure." Sasori tries to negotiate with Zoro.
"Don't put me at the same level as you assholes. My target is just Rasa and the village leaders who have annoyed me. I am not a psychopath like you guys who like to kill people just for fun."
Zoro thinks that this is getting out of hand and there's no benefit in continuing this. So he sheathes his swords and walks away from Sunagakure.
"Where are you going, Ninja Hunter?" Rasa calls out to him while frowning.
"I'm leaving. My day is ruined. You guys can keep fighting if you want."
No one even tries to stop him because they are being wary of the other enemy. The war between Zoro and Sunagakure ends just like that, all because of Akatsuki's appearance.
Though if it's just Sasori and Deidara, then Zoro won't leave this fast. It's because he senses 3 more presence watching them from far away and he knows who those 3 are.
Obito, White Zetsu, and Black Zetsu. They are spying from a rather far location. Those 3 are much better than Sasori and Deidara at hiding their presence, but Zoro still senses them with his Observation Haki.
"These damn motherfuckers are still stalking me and ruining my days."
Zoro grumbles while walking away. Now he has gone far from Sunagakure and they can't see him again. No one is trying to attack him too, so he just leaves without any problem.
Meanwhile, the Suna shinobi and the 2 Akatsuki members are looking at each other very tensely. No one makes a move even after Zoro disappears from their sights. They just stare at each other without saying a word.
"Your appearance has changed, but I know that it's you, Sasori. There's no mistaking it with the 3rd Kazekage puppet in your hands. How dare you show your face here, you traitor." Rasa finally breaks the silence.
"What can you do about it, Rasa? You can't even handle a single bounty hunter and you call yourself a Kazekage? An incompetent man like you is the reason this village keeps declining. You are just someone living in the 3rd Kazekage's shadow. It's better for you to join my collection instead of leading this village."
Rasa frowns when he hears Sasori wants to turn him into a puppet like his predecessor. This is Akatsuki's objective for sending Sasori and Deidara here. To kill both Zoro and Rasa then turns them into puppets.
If they can't make Zoro join them alive, then it's better for them to kill him and make him join them after death. They just wanted to kill him at first, but then they thought of turning him into a puppet like the 3rd Kazekage because it's too wasteful to just kill him.
But Zoro found them out before they could even launch their attacks. They plan to use Deidara's jutsu to bombard the whole battlefield and kill their targets along with many Suna shinobi. But now they can't do it because they've been exposed.
They don't leave yet though because they still plan to kill Rasa even though Zoro has left. They've gone this far already, so they can't return empty-handed. Besides, they've been exposed, so might as well try to get one of their targets.
Also, they don't just want to kill Rasa, but they also want to catch Shukaku. It's not yet the time for their main plan, but the war between Zoro and Suna is a good chance for them to catch Shukaku too.
Too bad, their good plan to reap all the benefits after letting their targets kill each other is ruined when Zoro exposed them. Now they need to fight the whole Sunagakure that still has a lot of energy to fight.
But they don't want to back down before trying. At the very least, they can gauge Sunagakure's power with this fight. They also can weaken this village by killing many Suna shinobi.
Or at least that's their intention. Too bad they can't do it because they suddenly receive a letter sent using an eagle. Obito sent it after seeing that there's no benefit in continuing this fight because it will just make them into a bigger threat for the Shinobi World.
They are still amassing power and shouldn't expose their intention to the world yet. Their main plan hasn't started, so they need to keep a low profile for now.
Once they start attacking villages and catching Jinchuuriki, the whole world will hunt them actively. That's why they need to catch the Tailed Beasts in a short period of time because the villages will protect them much more seriously and it will be much harder to catch them.
So if they catch Shukaku now, the other villages will be very wary of them and the other Jinchuuriki will be more protected which will hinder their plan, so they need to hold back now.
Zoro also retreats because he knows this. If he continued to fight, he would just help Akatsuki get Shukaku earlier than it should be. He doesn't want their plan to work well, so he decides to retreat.
Besides, he has shown his point already by attacking Suna, so it's enough. Now other villages will need to think many times if they want to mess with him because he is crazy enough to attack them back.
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Chapter 124. Paid to Fight
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After the problem with Suna, Zoro stops hunting their missing nins, just like how he stops hunting Kiri's missing nins ever since he has a problem with the 4th Mizukage. Now the 4th Kazekage, Rasa is joining Yagura on Zoro's enemy list.
Before he had a problem with Yagura, Zoro actually wanted to save him from Akatsuki. But now, he doesn't care whether that guy will die or not.
Well, he actually already guessed that Yagura would not be a nice guy because that guy grew up in the Bloody Mist. There was no way someone who led the Bloody Mist would be a kind person. But he never thought that guy would be such an annoying Kage.
Actually, there's no kind Kage in Zoro's opinion. Even those like Hashirama or Minato aren't exactly kind. They are only kind to their people, but they will still be ruthless to their enemies.
If not, then they won't be shinobi because shinobi are basically killers or assassins. The Kages are even more cold-blooded because they are the ones leading these killers and they are also the ones who receive all the dirty jobs and assign their people to do these jobs.
Well, that's just how it is in this kind of world. That's why Zoro just does whatever he thinks is right and necessary for him. He doesn't care if he is labeled as good or evil as long as he thinks he already does the right things based on his own standard.
*****
Zoro's attack on Sunagakure has become a hot topic for a few weeks. People keep talking about it because it's such a crazy thing for 1 man to do. Furthermore, he survived and left just because a 3rd party came to disrupt the war.
People now can only guess what Zoro would do if Akatsuki didn't come to the war. They are guessing whether it would be Zoro or Suna that got destroyed if they kept fighting.
But no one will ever know the answer although it's more likely that the village will win. After all, they have thousands of shinobi while Zoro is alone. It's almost impossible for him to win against a village no matter how strong he is.
It's just that these people don't consider that Zoro must have a plan and confidence to win against Sunagakure or he won't attack them alone. Though well, Zoro surely has the confidence to win, but not with the plan.
He actually just came to Sunagakure without any concrete plan. He only believed he would win because he believed that if Madara could fight that many shinobi in the 4th world war, then he can do it too.
In his mind, if he can't at least do that now, then he won't be able to defeat the Six Path Madara in the war a few years later. That's why his attack on Sunagakure is also a kind of test for himself to see how strong he has become.
But Akatsuki ruined it again. They always ruined his life by showing up at the wrong time. He is actually tempted to just destroy them, but he still can't find a way to do it once and for all.
If he wants to destroy Akatsuki, he needs to destroy them completely. Especially, he needs to kill Obito and Black Zetsu, which is the most troublesome. He doesn't think they are strong, but their abilities make them really hard to kill.
So for now, Zoro just leaves Akatsuki alone. Besides, getting rid of them doesn't really benefit him. They sure trouble him sometime, but he won't get much benefit for all the trouble he needs to do to get rid of them.
Also, they are too big of a problem for a single person like him to handle. It should be the big villages and countries that deal with them because they are a threat to those villages and countries, not him.
While they try to kill him a few times now, it actually helps him too because he can try his moves on them. He is someone who lives through battles anyway, so their attacks are just normal things for him.
Though after the incident in Suna, Akatsuki doesn't attack him anymore. It actually confuses him because they seemed determined to kill him. But now they suddenly stop, as if he's not worth their time anymore.
It somehow annoys him when he thinks like that. So he just ignores it and continues his life as usual. He keeps hunting missing nins from anywhere except Suna and Kiri that he has banned.
However, the number of high-rank missing nins that he can hunt has reduced quite a lot now. It seems like he has hunted too many of them, so their number has gotten quite low.
Most of the remaining high-ranking missing nins are very smart at hiding, so even the very reliable information broker groups fail to find them. Without knowing where they are, Zoro can't target them and hunt them.
So for now he just hunts whoever he can. He hunts the ones with high bounty rewards like A-Rank missing nins even though they won't really give him decent battles. But at least they can give him decent amounts of rewards.
*****
Time passes like that for Zoro. He just enjoys his life for now without thinking much about the upcoming events in the story.
Well, he doesn't think about them because he has forgotten most of them too after all these years. Besides, he's sure a lot of things will change with all the things that have changed too.
Just having their parents still alive will surely change Naruto's and Sasuke's lives. The lives of those 2 main characters of this world will surely change the story that Zoro knows.
So it's better to not rely on the story plot from now on. Maybe some events won't change if fates are real in this world. But if it happens, that means no matter what Zoro does, some things will never change.
If so, then there's no need for him to be so worked up on changing the future. Though he never actively tries to change the future. He only does what he wants and only changes something when he is involved in a plot coincidentally.
Zoro rarely wants to get involved in the Naruto story plot. But sometimes, he gets involved even if he doesn't want to. Coincidence is such a scary thing because someone can even die by coincidence.
Such a strange coincidence actually happens to Zoro now. He is just going through a forest on Torao's back and they are about to cross a river. They have just gotten information about a wanted ninja from Iwagakure and are on their way to catch the target.
But when they are about to cross the river, Zoro senses a very weak presence. He knows it's a human's presence and it is strangely weak like a sick person. His years of experience tells him it's not the presence of a ninja, not even a ninja that can hide their presence, but a normal person.
It's not a normal situation because they are in a forest now. So he decides to check it because he often finds people getting lost in wilderness and most of them are children.
He might be selfish and his hands are stained with blood. But he will always help people that really need help, especially if they are children. He won't let children suffer and he never kills children, even if they are ninja or criminals. Teenagers are different though.
Zoro and Torao check the weak presence that Zoro senses. His gut feeling is right, it's a normal person, a child at that. The green-haired child is lying weakly on the ground under a tree near the river and she looks very pale.
"OI, KID, CAN YOU HEAR ME?"
Zoro quickly checks the little girl's body and her pulses are weak. He isn't a doctor, but he knows what happened to her because it often happens to the people lost in wilderness that he finds sometimes.
This little girl is malnourished. She is starving. Probably hasn't eaten anything for a couple of days. There's a fishing rod near her, so she has tried to catch fish, but couldn't get any.
"Seems like she was drifted here when fishing on that broken boat." Torao sees a broken boat near them and the damage is new.
"It doesn't matter now. Hurry up and take out the bread and water. She can't eat anything heavy with her weak stomach, but we don't have time to make porridge. So let's just mix water with bread to make an easy bread porridge to fill her stomach while we prepare a proper porridge."
Zoro is very serious right now. He is not an angel or a kind person. But he won't let a child die like this.
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