Who was it?
Sweat slowly beaded on their foreheads, their faces drawn tight with tension as Dosu and Kin stared fixedly at the door that had been knocked on.
Kabuto Yakushi? He came so quickly? At that moment, the same name flashed through both their minds at once.
This was, after all, the Sound Village's guesthouse. The Sound Village had always remained closed off and rarely interacted with the surrounding shinobi villages, so visitors were basically impossible.
And now, someone had knocked on the door.
That meant there had to be a visitor.
Considering Zaku's injuries, they naturally thought of Kabuto Yakushi, whom Orochimaru had sent to treat Zaku.
But the timing was too much of a coincidence. They had only just been about to make a move when someone knocked on the door. If it really was Kabuto Yakushi...
Then it was basically deliberate. Kabuto Yakushi had intentionally knocked at this moment to interrupt their conversation. Clearly, he had ulterior motives.
It was practically a blatant declaration that he had heard their conversation and understood their intentions.
Most likely, he would open the door next, then threaten them with that smiling, treacherous face of his.
And if that was truly the case, they might never escape Kabuto Yakushi's grasp.
After all, Kabuto Yakushi was now Orochimaru's right-hand man. Though Kabuto had never exercised it, Orochimaru had granted him partial authority over handling test subjects. In other words, Kabuto already held a certain degree of power over their lives and deaths.
He could act first and report afterward.
And their conversation just now was undoubtedly leverage against them.
Although nothing they had said contained any sensitive terms or openly disloyal remarks toward Orochimaru, Kabuto Yakushi, who knew Orochimaru's personality well, was fully capable of twisting those ambiguous words into suspected