Kakuzu: Embezzle My Money, and I Can Still Lift a Blade No Matter How Old I Am!

As it turns out.

Madara Uchiha was not a morally upright person.

The plan to find a successor was quickly put into action. Black Zetsu and White Zetsu worked together and found a descendant of the Uzumaki Bloodline in the Rain Country, transplanting Madara Uchiha's Rinnegan into the eyes of a child named Nagato.

Certainly.

Madara Uchiha was not the only one to exploit the Uzumaki Clan.

During this same period, Konoha also found a girl named Kushina Uzumaki.

Because the life of the previous Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, Mito Uzumaki, was coming to an end, Konoha needed to find a new Jinchuriki to seal the Nine-Tails- Jinchuriki within him.

"Konoha wants my power, doesn't it?"

The Nine-Tails- Tails lay within the Sealing Space. It already knew Konoha's plan, which made its Chakra extremely unstable. "Now that you've used that Shirou Emiya guy, you want to use me too."

Right?

"I'm sorry, Kurama."

Mito Uzumaki looked somewhat ashamed.

Konoha had done something wrong, both to Shirou Emiya and to Nine-Tails, and she felt guilty for breaking her promise to use Nine-Tails.

"Konoha will not use your power—"

Mito Uzumaki even found it difficult to say these words.

Because-·

Such words sound incredibly insincere.

Given Konoha's reputation, no one would believe it, let alone the Nine-Tails, which has survived for a thousand years.

"Don't call me by my name!"

"What a hypocrite, Mito."

"You even want to use that Shirou Emiya—."

Nine-Tails, looking at Mito Uzumaki's aged figure standing in the Sealing Space, mocked its first Jinchuriki with utter disdain. "Did you think I would believe your words?"

"I heard your Uzumaki Clan is on the verge of extinction, is that it? This is the price your Uzumaki Clan paid for believing in Konoha!"

Mito Uzumaki felt an overwhelming sense of guilt.

The Whirlpool Village was destroyed.

The Uzumaki Clan is dispersing in search of a new home.

In order to utilize the power of the Tailed Beast, various ninja villages Shinobi World began openly invading the Land of Uzumaki, starting with the Uzumaki Land of Whirlpools, which was most skilled in sealing. Konoha, however, was unable to effectively implement any such plan.

Busy.

Just as the Second Tsuchikage Mu anticipated, becoming an ally of Konoha meant only helping Konoha.

When faced with difficulties, they cannot receive positive feedback from Konoha.

The most recent one.

Whirlpool Village brought up an incident.

When Shirou Emiya was traveling in the Shinobi World, he visited the Land of Whirlpools and believed that the Uzumaki Clan, being so powerful, should bear more responsibility. He suggested that they should relocate to the Land of Grass and exchange land with the weaker ninja villages.

In that case...

The Uzumaki Clan can continue to live as neighbors with their traditional ally, Konoha.

At that time.

The Uzumaki Clan did not want to leave their homeland and chose to refuse. The Uzumaki Clan believed that staying in the Land of Grass would definitely lead to conflict with their ally, Miyō. In the past, they chose to migrate away from the Shinobi World Continent in order to avoid any conflict with their extremely powerful distant relatives, the Senju Clan, who lived on the Shinobi World Continent.

Now.

The Whirlpool Village Earth Flow its demise.

The only saving grace was that when Whirlpool Village was destroyed and the Uzumaki Clan became refugees, someone finally stood up to help them. A ninja named Kakuzu discovered the wandering refugees of the Uzumaki Clan and believed that these Uzumaki Clan members in distress could be helped.

"When Lord Shirou the Shinobi World, I ran into him a few times. I remember him mentioning to me that the Uzumaki Clan are always sincere and trustworthy, the kind of friends you can entrust your lives to. Perhaps you could become like-minded people with me. Now, could you help me manage the Orphanage I'm sponsoring?"

In the past...

Kakuzu has never been able to establish any contact with Whirlpool Village.

Because he was missing-nin from Waterfall Village, he thought the arrogant Whirlpool Village was unlikely to pay him any attention, and he ignored what Shirou Emiya had said.

Now that the Uzumaki Clan has lost their home, these wandering refugees have been homeless, prompting Kakuzu to try to reach out to and help them.

However, Kakuzu quickly realized Shirou Emiya's cryptic nature, because the Uzumaki Clan members were, to put it bluntly, rather stupid; these red-haired guys were truly honest and dutiful when asked to do something.

Fortunately.

This is the kind of person that Kakuzu needs.

Because Kakuzu has a hard time living alone.

Over the years, Kakuzu has been trying to help those in need, just as Shirou Emiya said. However, this ninja is only good at killing and making money and never has time to pay attention to anything else, which has led to the occasional emergence of embezzlers in the Orphanage he sponsors.

His money!

He made his money by killing people!

And yet, it was embezzled!

What is that?!

Does he think making money is easy?

As a god of slaughter who wiped out the high-ranking officials of Waterfall Village, Kakuzu had no psychological qualms about killing and even considered himself to have a low moral standard.

Kakuzu usually kills the Orphanage director on the spot, and then starts preparing to recruit the next Orphanage director who will continue to be greedy for money.

Things are going to get more and more outrageous.

This Shinobi World seems to have gone a bit too far.

Although Kakuzu always considered himself a great villain, he had some doubts about whether there could be any good people in the Shinobi World. What was wrong with these Orphanage directors? Although he hadn't had time to deal with them, how dare they embezzle the money of an S-Rank Missing-nin!

Isn't this bullying honest people?!

However, Kakuzu couldn't understand another point.

This is because he obtained the Earth Grudge Fear, which grants him an extremely long lifespan.

However, the Orphanage directors were unaware of this. They simply Kakuzu from Kakuzu's wanted status that he was already quite old and wouldn't be able to earn much money in the future, so they figured they could embezzle whatever they could get their hands on.

Kakuzu is immortal and ageless, has been dealing with corrupt officials.

Fortunately.

Not everyone in the Shinobi World is like that.

According to Kakuzu's opinion, the people whom Lord Shirou should be acceptable.

Because Lord Shirou mentioned that Chakra can affect people.

At least Kakuzu found that these Uzumaki Clan members were genuinely taking care of the orphans, which finally improved his mood considerably. It seems that Lord Shirou was right.

As for the refugees of the Uzumaki Clan...

These members of the Uzumaki Clan, bewildered, accepted Kakuzu's help and managed to find a place to stay, which allowed them to gradually forget the pain of their homeland's destruction. They also tried to contact other clansmen scattered in various places.

Some of our clansmen once wandered to the Rain Country. Fuso, a member of our clan, married into the Rain Country. We hope to inform her of our whereabouts.

"Then I happen to be going to the Rain Country."

"The common people of the Rain Country are having a very hard time. It's been used as a battlefield by the three major ninja villages. I heard last time that some people couldn't even buy food."

As Kakuzu recounted his itinerary, he placed stacks of money on the table and said in a deep voice, "This is the Orphanage's funding. I hope you can truly entrust everything to us as Lord Shirou said."

"Yes"

"Where did this money come from—"

"Kill people, Exchange House buy the ninja's corpse."

Kakuzu an honest man and doesn't shy away from talking about his own affairs. "I just killed a Jonin from Hidden Stone Village, and his body is worth a million ryo—"

Besides rescuing those in need, Kakuzu also traveled to the Rain Country to find new high-priced corpses.

Compared to killing for money, other mission requests are just too troublesome.

"I will help you find out about that woman named Fuso."

Kakuzu looked at the Uzumaki Clan refugees and continued in a deep voice, "If you encounter other Uzumaki Clan refugees, you can let them come over. Besides the orphanages I funded and established myself, I also killed some of the directors of the Orphanage I donated to who had embezzled my money. I don't know if they've found new directors for those places."

"Ah?"

The red-haired women present all stared wide-eyed in horror.

Fate seems to be fair.

Perhaps out of pity for the clan's impending demise, the fate of the Shinobi World quietly began to be intertwined with these two bloodlines known as Uzumaki.

One of the Uzumaki Clan girls is slowly learning to become Jinchuriki in Konoha, while another Uzumaki orphan left behind abroad obtains the Rinnegan.

The situation in the small Shinobi World countries is somewhat dangerous.

The struggles between the great powers have made it increasingly difficult for the small countries near them to survive, especially the Rain Country, where Kakuzu came, and the situation has become increasingly worse.

Water 10+ in Hidden Stone Village

They carry out winter planting sabotage, assassination, and espionage missions, and often even target ordinary people.

Nobody expected it.

The Second Shinobi World War broke out in the Rain Country.

This Shinobi World War was even more brutal than the previous one.

Because the First Shinobi World War was quelled by Shirou Emiya, other shinobi villages had more manpower to participate in the war, but this time there was no one left to quell the war.

Certainly.

The most unexpected thing is that the person who started this Shinobi World War was Salamander Hanzo, the leader of the Rain Country. His strength was extremely powerful in the Shinobi World, and he had earned the respect of countless people. He was considered to be at the pinnacle of ninjas and could be compared with Shirou Emiya's status as a medical ninja.

The leader of the small country's ninja village publicly demanded that the three major ninja villages cease their activities in the Rain Country, or the Rain Country would wage war against them.

This requirement...

Naturally, you get what you ask for.

This guy really thinks he's Shirou Emiya!

Konoha, Hidden Stone Village, and Hidden Sand Village all responded immediately, even directly regarding Hidden Rain Village as the main battlefield of this war.

Certainly.

Nobody expected this.

The Second Shinobi World War ushered in Konoha's golden age.

Konoha's record in the Second Shinobi World War was truly remarkable. Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and Tsunade even led the Konoha ninja to hold off Salamander Hanzo!

Raindrops fell from the sky.

Even the rainwater is contaminated with the deadly poison of the Ibuse.

A diamond-shaped mark flashed on Tsunade's forehead, where black Curse Mark energy and purple Chakra gathered. Her fists were exceptionally powerful on the battlefield, and her self-healing ability was also quite strong in Cursed Seal Mode, making her capable of holding off Hanzo in this head-on battle!

"This is·-""

The Salamander Hanzo looked somewhat familiar.

"The power that Lord Shirou left you?"

Salamander Hanzo had witnessed Shimura Danzo using similar power when he was young, and he had also seen Tsunade's Summoning Beast: "No wonder Konoha was besieged during the First Shinobi World War. It seems you gained too much from Lord Shirou —..."

"Yes-"

"And your antidote for the deadly poison."

Tsunade's face was full of fearlessness. She held two antidote pills between her fingers and tossed them to the nine people behind her.

Orochimaru and Jiraiya:

After searching through the scrolls, I found some records.

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He once treated people who had been accidentally injured by your poison gas.

"Does he also know Wei Yuan-sama?"

Some people asked out of curiosity.

"I don't think anyone doesn't know him, right?"

Orochimaru's summoning Summoning Beast, Manda, flicked its tongue and muttered, "The old ladies back home still remember that person!"

Manda comes from Ryuchi Cave.

The old woman it refers to is naturally the White Snake Sage.

Only Gamabunta, the Summoning Beast of Mount Myōboku, was unaware of this; he had only heard of it occasionally but was not particularly interested in the story of Shirou Emiya.

"Is that white snake still thinking about Wei Yuan-sama?"

Its voice remained innocent and cute, yet brimming with murderous intent. "We should have killed it when we first encountered it!"

"Hey, hey, hey, don't take it out on me!"

Manda panicked and tried to retreat, knowing that it was no match for the opponent and that its power was countered.

"Let's be quiet!"

Gamabunta quickly urged the two men who had fought alongside him to quiet down, and said in a deep voice, "Now it seems we can consider ourselves the victors, right?"

"At least it can be considered a victory."

Jiraiya nodded. Even with Orochimaru supporting him, he managed to drink the potion and said, "As long as the three of us can hold off Salamander Hanzo here, the other battlefield should be fine."

"That certainly seems to be the case now."

Orochimaru's gaze fell upon Tsunade. He saw the changes in Tsunade after activating her Cursed Seal Mode, and his eyes burned with a burning desire, for he too had long yearned for immense power. For power—

It also made him want to cross the line.

For example, certain forbidden techniques sealed within Konoha.

The existence of these forbidden techniques may be a secret to others, but it is not a secret to Orochimaru, who is a disciple of the Third Hokage.

Certainly.

Learning these forbidden techniques is very difficult.

These forbidden techniques are often found in the Book of Seals, the highest secrets of Konoha, and each forbidden technique requires a long time to study and understand the underlying theories.

That's enough.

After returning from this war, he should find a way to gain even greater power; his teammate Tsunade's strength is increasing too rapidly.

"It seems that the Rain Country has no hope of winning this war," Salamander Hanzo sighed. He realized that he had no way to deal with the three young people in front of him, especially since Tsunade's Curse Mark recovery ability and medical ninja ability allowed her to fearlessly block all his attacks head-on.

"Konoha's new generation of ninjas—"

"You guys have really grown up."

"From this day forward, you will shine brightly in the Shinobi World. So, before the war ends, I will bestow upon you a title: the Legendary Sannin of Konoha— "

"Have they finally decided to abandon the war?"

Seeing Tsunade Salamander Hanzo seemed to be giving up, Tsunade breathed a sigh of relief, as this battle had been a huge burden for her as well.

Because she saw the Curse Mark left to her by Shirou Emiya, she constantly trained her Chakra control in order to enter the Cursed Seal Mode. She also developed the Mitotic Regeneration, which could be used in conjunction with the Curse Mark, based on the methods of medical ninjas.

If she hadn't trained hard enough during this period to be able to use the power of the Curse Mark and the Mitotic Regeneration simultaneously, she wouldn't have been able to stop Salamander Hanzo on the battlefield. These powers did greatly enhance her strength, but she would become exhausted after the power she unleashed in a short period of time.

"The ninjas of Konoha".

"It wasn't me who decided to abandon the war."

"In fact, this war was not something I wanted to start in the first place."

Hanzo of the Salamander Hanzo stared at Tsunade below, calmly outlining his plan. "I simply want to do what Lord Shirou during the First Shinobi World War, using my power to try and end the increasing conflicts between you great ninja villages, thus preventing the civilians of the Rain Country from being constantly affected by your strife—"

Tsunade already knows about these things.

To avoid mentioning the disgraceful events of the First Shinobi World War, Konoha rarely discusses what happened during the war, but other villages never shy away from it and even use it to mock Konoha.

As time goes by.

The past events gradually subsided.

However, it seems that a new storm has arisen in the Second Shinobi World War.

For example, people like Salamander Hanzo frequently mentioned Shirou Emiya, even hoping to quell the war like Shirou Emiya, but he ultimately failed.

"Pity"

Salamander Hanzo recalled the man he had met in the past and couldn't help but sigh, "I have neither the power of Lord Shirou, nor his prestige."

"That's true—."

"People like me—"

How could anyone compare to him? Salamander Hanzo shook his head regretfully, preparing to withdraw from the battlefield as he rode his Ibuse Summoning Beast: "If Lord Shirou were still alive, this world would certainly not be in this mess."

"Luckily, he wasn't here."

Tsunade let out a long sigh, and couldn't help but say with emotion, "Otherwise, the current state of our world would probably make him hate this era even more—"