At that moment, the lead man saw Orochimaru and the others ahead of them, and his face instantly went pale. "Stop! Stop now!"
"What is it, Captain? That monster Kakuzu is chasing us from behind!" After seeing their captain stop, the few people behind him also halted. One of them glanced back and hurriedly spoke, his face full of anxiety and fear.
"Idiot! That guy up ahead is no weaker than that monster Kakuzu. He's Orochimaru, one of Konoha's Sannin!!" The lead man wanted nothing more than to kill this subordinate. Standing before them was Orochimaru, one of Konoha's Sannin!
He might not have been any weaker than Kakuzu, who was hunting them down!
"Why are Konoha's ninja here? Did the Land of Rice Fields hire them? Damn it, if I'd known, I never would've come to the Land of Rice Fields!" The lead man cursed under his breath, his expression incomparably grim.
They had come to the Land of Rice Fields this time for the bounty on a Mist rogue ninja.
No one knew who had spread the news in secret, but word of the Mist rogue ninja had spread throughout the Shinobi World, letting everyone know his whereabouts.
These wandering ninja with no fixed abode had naturally been drawn in by the news, coming with hopes of picking up scraps...
Yet before they had even entered the Land of Rice Fields or encountered the Mist rogue ninja, they had run into Kakuzu first...
As Bounty Hunter Ninja themselves, he was naturally no stranger to Kakuzu. After all, Kakuzu was a frequent visitor to the black market exchange, often hunting ninja with bounties on their heads.
And as rogue ninja from Kusagakure, they had naturally been secretly put on Kusagakure's bounty list as well...
Although the reward was not