The sun had already risen overhead when Senya brought Kakashi and Team 7 straight to the Akimichi Clan's barbecue restaurant.
Senya tossed the menu to Naruto. "Order whatever you want. It's on me today, so eat your fill."
"Kakashi and I have something to discuss, so we'll be stepping out for a bit."
With that, he shut the private room's door and went with Kakashi to a shady spot outside the barbecue restaurant.
"Kakashi, tell me everything you know about the Scroll of Seals."
Kakashi immediately closed the Make-Out Paradise in his hand. His expression grew much more serious as he reported all the intelligence regarding the matter to Senya again.
It was broadly the same as what Orochimaru had said, but there was one additional piece of information.
The sealing scroll had initially been stolen by Mizuki, only for Hiruko to intercept him afterward.
Hearing that, Senya could not help shaking his head.
"Looks like Orochimaru still had a few little schemes going on behind the scenes."
"But forget it. It's nothing important."
"Still, Kakashi, with Mizuki's strength, he probably couldn't have stolen the sealing scroll. What exactly happened?"
Kakashi looked at Senya, shook his head helplessly, and let out a sigh, seemingly rather troubled.
"Mizuki seemed to have undergone some kind of human experiment. I didn't fight him myself."
"But Kabuto examined his corpse and found quite a lot of strange Chakra inside him. It felt somewhat like tailed beast Chakra."
"His body had also withered away, as though all the life force in it had been drained."
As Senya analyzed the intelligence Kakashi had provided, he finally managed to deduce the intentions of the person behind it all.
Although Mizuki was merely an ordinary Chunin and not particularly strong, he was quite ambitious.
In the original story,