Kabuto: Who the Hell Is Impersonating Me?!

"How can I help you?"

Temari slept soundly. After waking up, she carefully moved to the bathroom to wash up and suddenly remembered what Naruto had said before she fell asleep the day before.

"I need a small favor, come here." Naruto was eating breakfast. The sun was high in the sky, and he couldn't remember how many shots he had taken, but he was unusually focused.

Sand and Konohagakure are allies, but in essence, it's an alliance between two major powers that could betray each other at any time. Naruto doesn't belong to either side, and he's already feeling somewhat angry about Sand's actions yesterday.

Damn it, they've turned their backs on us.

What does picking a fight with Konohagakure have to do with me, Naruto Uzumaki? Those bastards keep calling me the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. I really want to twist their heads off and see if they're filled with mush.

I'm here to deliver intelligence, not to be executed. Besides, even if a fight breaks out, what do they want? In war, even envoys aren't killed.

Just wait, you bunch of bastards, we've got a big surprise for you!

"Alright, all that mystery, can you tell me now?" Temari chuckled and sat down next to Naruto, her movements still a little stiff.

It's not because of awkwardness. We've known each other for six or seven years. We're not exactly childhood sweethearts, but we've known each other for a long time. There have been all sorts of entanglements and unresolved issues. Now that I've finally gotten my wish, how could I feel awkward?

Yesterday, Naruto was too serious, and she was too shy to call a halt.

It's similar to drinking soda. At first, you want to drink it, but one sip is sharp, burning, and uncomfortable in your throat. After a few more sips, you feel like all the cells in your body are coming alive, but drinking too much will make you feel uncomfortable again.

"Sand doesn't need my information anymore. There were still some things I hadn't said." Naruto pulled her close, paused, and then smiled.

"Kabuto is not actually a person; it's a fake identity."

"What?" Temari was slightly surprised, but not too concerned. She didn't know enough information to make a judgment at the moment.

"Just remember these things, and wait..." His gaze shifted, and he lowered his eyes, speaking slowly, "Tell them only after they've calmed down, understand?"

"Okay." Temari hesitated for a moment, but still agreed.

After a few seconds of silence, Temari couldn't help but add another sentence.

"It's not that the higher-ups don't trust you, it's just..."

"I know I'm always an outsider," Naruto interrupted her. "I know that myself, but I don't plan to stay in Konohagakure in the future."

"That's not how it is!" Temari panicked, grabbing his hand and saying hurriedly, "How could you be an outsider? Wait!"

"After I give birth to your child, you will also be a member of Sand."

Hearing Temari's flustered and incoherent words, Naruto smiled silently, thinking to himself, "This is great! Maybe the Kazekage position will be held by my child in the future."

But he only thought about it jokingly and didn't really think about it deeply. It was hard to say whether he and Temari would have a child. It was only one night; how coincidental would it have to be for them to have a child?

Besides, I'll be very busy for a while. If I don't handle things well, it would be embarrassing if I accidentally fall out with Sand.

Getting too involved is not good; the most important thing is to get out of there as soon as possible after completing these arrangements.

~~

Kabuto took off his hood, stepped onto the land of the Land of Waves, and squinted at the bridge in front of him.

"Naruto Bridge".

"That's a pretty awful name," Black Zetsu remarked, standing not far from Kabuto and gazing at the distant bridge.

"Didn't you go to collect the Tailed Beast?" Kabuto Yakushi glanced at Black Zetsu, his smile widening.

"I've caught them." Black Zetsu said calmly. "Except for the One-Tail, Two-Tails, Eight-Tails, and Nine-Tails, all the other Tailed Beast are already in my hands."

"You've moved really fast, only half a month has passed." Kabuto wasn't really interested in the Tailed Beast, just offering a few ordinary compliments.

"Of course I won't be slow, but," Black Zetsu glanced at Kabuto, "The remaining Tailed Beast are a bit troublesome. We'll have to wait for your Edo Tensei Army."

"The last two are the ones you should remember," Kabuto said. "Zabuza and Haku from the Land of Waves. They almost joined Akatsuki Organization back then."

"I don't really care about that kind of thing. Let's finish this quickly." Black Zetsu looked down on Kabuto's behavior of handling corpses. It wasn't that he thought the Impure World Reincarnation army was meaningless, but he disliked Kabuto's insincere smile.

He spent the entire winter killing time, repeatedly putting off using the Rinnegan, and only controlling the White Zetsu army from afar through a puppet.

If this person hadn't been somewhat useful in reforming the White Zetsu army, Black Zetsu wouldn't have tolerated him until now, completely unaware of what he was dawdling about—was he just trying to show off?

But it doesn't matter anymore, the five great nations will soon be engulfed in war and will have no time to care about the Jinchuriki of the Tailed Beasts.

"It's getting hot, and the scene will be disgusting if it gets any later," Black Zetsu added.

Kirigakure.

Thanks to the Land of Fire, White Zetsu did not enter the area, and the people living here are relatively safe.

At dusk, in the orange glow of the sunset, someone saw a woman wearing a black cloak and a mask walking from the horizon, followed by a large group of dark corpses.

Sunagakure.

Uzuki Yugao's gaze turned cold. She put on a mask and wrapped bandages tightly around her upper body. Behind her, the corpse wearing the Sand Forehead Protector was slowly approaching the village.

It all happened so suddenly. Naruto found her, gave her the specific instructions, and then left. He seemed very busy, coming in a hurry and leaving in a hurry.

But that's not important. What's important is...

She now has the chance to kill that person, the Sand Jonin, Baki. This matter has trapped her for seven years; it's no longer a simple matter of revenge.

Outside the Konohagakure defense line.

Ryūzetsu glanced back at the horde of corpses behind him, a chill running down his spine, but he could only don his black cloak and charge toward Konohagakure's strongest defensive line.

All that matters is attracting attention; they'll attack the defenses of the Five Great Nations at any cost. To profit from troubled waters, the muddier the water, the better.

For a time, Kumogakure and Iwagakure had large armies of Impure World Reincarnation pressing in, which seemed quite frightening in terms of numbers at first glance, but in reality they were just some small fry.

Meanwhile, Naruto made his way to the center of the Capital City of the Land of Fire.

"It's all Kabuto's fault, it's all Yakushi Kabuto."

As he spoke, he walked toward a nobleman's mansion, his gaze slightly gloomy. Nobles are nobles because their wealth is inexhaustible.

Furthermore, most of the wealth of nobles is in real estate. As long as the Capital City still exists and the people of the Capital City still exist, they can earn it back no matter how much money they spend.

If you can't take it all, then you can only take it little by little.

On this very day, half of the Shinobi World was plunged into chaos.

The next day.

Kakashi rubbed his forehead, looking at the crucial intelligence sent from the Capital City of the Land of Fire, feeling an immense headache coming on. Something had happened at the front lines, and something had happened at home.

Even more bizarrely, it seems that the other four major ninja villages have all been attacked, but this time it's not White Zetsu. The information is becoming more and more abundant and increasingly chaotic.

Fortunately, the village was not affected, and the front line did not seem to suffer much damage, except for some mobile corpses.

Is it Impure World Reincarnation)?

"I have some news, Kakashi-sensei." Shikamaru knocked on the door and came in. He had returned from the front lines with Choji after Naruto passed on the information to Choji.

"If it's news from the Capital City of the Land of Fire, don't bother telling me. I've already sent people there, and there's no point in urging them anymore." Kakashi was fed up with those nobles.

Treating ninjas like servants and ordering them around, what's the big deal about losing some money? Those guys can just sit around all day and make tons of money; half the Land of Fire is theirs.

Even Konohagakure has these unscrupulous noble businesses operating in secret. Even Make-Out Paradise has started raising prices. Damn it, why aren't the ninjas' commissions going up?

After grumbling to himself for a bit, Kakashi was about to lie down for a while longer when he suddenly heard Shikamaru say something.

"It wasn't the Capital City of the Land of Fire; the news came from Sand. It seems to be the work of Kabuto, and it's said that he used the Impure World Reincarnation."

"Then, the casualties were not great, but Sand's Jonin, Baki, died."

Kakashi vaguely remembered Kazekage the name of the teacher of the three siblings Gaara, seemed to be Baki. After a moment of hesitation, he looked at Shikamaru again and asked.

"Baki? Is that Baki Jonin from Sunagakure?"

"Yes."

"That's strange, Baki from Sand." Kakashi remembered something: six years ago, Sand launched an attack on Konohagakure, and Baki was the leader.

Although it was later confirmed that Orochimaru was behind it, Baki did lead his ninjas to kill many people from Konohagakure, including the Konohagakure Special Jonin Gekko Hayate.

"What's wrong?" Shikamaru asked.

"It's nothing, maybe I'm overthinking it." Kakashi shook his head, thinking to himself, how could Uzuki Yugao possibly have gone to Sand? It was probably just an accidental death.

The battlefield is also a fair arena where everyone only has one life; if you step in carelessly, you will die.

"Let's ignore it for now, Shikamaru. Organize the intelligence from the Intelligence Department and then hand it over to me," Kakashi casually instructed. "The more chaotic it gets, the less we should act rashly. We need to figure out what those people are up to first."

"Yes." Shikamaru sat respectfully at his workstation and began organizing the information.

One intelligence report after another was sent to the Hokage Building in Konohagakure. The Intelligence Department handled the reports and delivered them to the Hokage's Office through secret channels. Finally, Shikamaru sorted out the clues.

"All the intelligence points to one person: Kabuto," Shikamaru concluded.

"No, this is just our guess." Kakashi interrupted Shikamaru, pondering, "Kabuto has too many false rumors; it's impossible to tell the difference."

"There are two groups of people?" Shikamaru looked up and asked in surprise.

"Perhaps." Kakashi flipped through the intelligence reports and said slowly, "Kabuto left very little information in Konohagakure; it's almost all blank."

"Based on my experience of confronting White Zetsu over a winter, if it were Kabuto, he wouldn't do something so pointless."

~~

Compared to Konohagakure, which had more comprehensive intelligence, the other Four Great Nations held completely different views on Kabuto than Kakashi.

"What? Kabuto is a woman?"

"Where did all these Kabuto from?"

"How could it be a woman? Iwagakure wouldn't be spreading false information to us, would they?"

"Stop arguing! What are you arguing about at a time like this!" Mei Terumi hand on the table and said in a deep voice, her gaze sweeping over the group of Hidden Mist's high-ranking officials.

"The intelligence can't be wrong; these people are all Kabuto." Ao analyzed with a frown, "Perhaps from the beginning, Kabuto wasn't a single person's name."

"They can't even tell the difference between men and women?"

"Now it seems that's the case." Qing glanced at the high-ranking official with his one eye. "Kabuto is just a code name. It's just that someone deliberately led us to ignore this from the beginning."

"That's right, that's possible." Mei Terumi, indicating her agreement with Ao's guess.

~~

"Sasuke, were those people sent by Kabuto?" Suigetsu stood up, squinted at the dwindling number of corpses in the distance, and laughed gleefully.

"I don't know." Sasuke stared into the distance for a while after saying that, then shook his head and said, "It doesn't seem like it."

"Someone is attacking Kumogakure under the name of Kabuto Yakushi?" Karin asked in surprise. "Really? If they have that kind of ability, why would they use Kabuto's name?"

"Didn't they lose?" Sasuke pointed ahead and said, "They're just some corpses of ninjas with little fighting ability. They were probably controlled by Forbidden Jutsu."

"Forbidden Jutsu?" Suigetsu looked at Sasuke with some doubt, then smiled. "Speaking of Forbidden Jutsu, Sasuke, the village with the most Forbidden Jutsu should be Konohagakure, right?"

"I remember Orochimaru also has a Ninjutsu that allows him to resurrect the dead for battle, called Impure World Reincarnation," Karin added from the side.

"Who could have done this?" Jugo muttered in a low voice.

"Naruto Uzumaki." Sasuke said the name expressionlessly, almost instinctively.

He was all too familiar with the scene before him. That bastard had done a lot of things in his name, and then framed him for everything.

Even though Sasuke didn't care about the bad reputation, he was still furious with Naruto and vowed to kill that bastard if he ever saw him again.

"Impossible! The person in the black cloak in front is a woman," Karin said.

"Naruto Uzumaki in disguise," Sasuke said confidently.

"Impossible, the color of his Chakra doesn't look like it." Karin shook her head, then turned to Jugo and asked, "Jugo, what do you think?"

"It doesn't seem like the previous person; it's definitely a woman, and she doesn't seem very strong," Jugo said.

"Okay, let's go then." Sasuke turned and left.

"Aren't you going to take a look?"

"A waste of time," Sasuke said coldly.

~~

"Say that again?!" Kabuto looked up at Black Zetsu, his ever-present smile frozen on his face.

"Someone is using your name to organize a horde of zombies to attack the Five Great Nations." Black Zetsu said as if it were a funny joke. "The nobles in the Capital City of the Land of Fire have also been robbed by you, and a large amount of their wealth has disappeared."

"Who is it! Who is impersonating me!"

"It's not just anyone, it's a group of people." Black Zetsu looked at Kabuto. "A group of people who suddenly appeared, but it won't affect you much, since you don't need to care about your reputation right now."

Kabuto's face darkened almost instantly. Was this a matter of reputation? Who was it?!