Orochimaru sighed leisurely.
If you are not Hokage now, Tenten is a little greedy... no, if you are making a little contribution to Konohagakure, you may really not have enough money.
Fortunately, some of my previous experimental results have been transformed into more mature commercial technologies. When the time comes, through the Trade Association established by Snake Shadow outside the village, I should not have to worry about running out of money.
Land of Grass.
In an open space in the dense forest, Kakuzu, who had just completed an order, came out of the black market and sat cross-legged on the ground, carefully counting the recent harvest.
Since Orochimaru had the useful tool Snake Shadow, many inconvenient tasks have no longer been outsourced to Kakuzu, even after becoming a Hokage After, Orochimaru has more people available to him. Kakuzu has not received business from Orochimaru for a long time recently.
This has also caused Kakuzu's recent revenue to be significantly lower than before.
After all, when Orochimaru contributed to Konohagakure, he gained a lot of money and was quite generous. But now that he has lost such an important source of customers, no wonder Kakuzu's income has plummeted.
ke~Tee, Orochimaru, you scumbag! When you have a new love, forget about the old love, right?
Sure enough, anyone may betray you, but money will never betray you!
Kakuzu happily counted today's harvest again.
Large orders of this level are not available all the time.
"I have long said that such small tricks are not worth mentioning. I only need to use some tricks, and Kakuzu will naturally appear near this black market."
A cold and old voice came from the forest. Danzo, like Pain beside him, walked up to Kakuzu wearing Red Cloud Black Robes.
He considered himself Orochimaru's biggest competitor to Fourth Hokage. Danzo had carefully studied all the information on Orochimaru from his birth to the present, trying to find out any existing weaknesses of Orochimaru that he could attack.
And Kakuzu had a series of cooperation with Second Ninja War and later with Orochimaru, and was also dug out by Danzo.
It's just that Orochimaru's hands and feet were too clean, and Kakuzu was too strong, and it was difficult to arrest him as a witness, so this information could not be used at the beginning.
However, this information finally came into play today. Danzo understood Kakuzu's character and behavioral motives, so he set up this trap and successfully lured Kakuzu near the black market.
"Shimura Danzō? It turns out that what Konohagakure released was false information. You are not dead. But when the news comes out that you are still alive, Konohagakure and the other ninja villages of the four major countries will pay a large sum of money to put a bounty on your head."
Kakuzu looked at Konoha Ninja's Spiral Headband who had a scratch on Danzo's head, and shook his head with some pity.
Then he stared at Rinnegan with his little mung bean eyes and looked at Pain with some solemnity.
As a super veteran strongman who has lived for more than a hundred years, he sensed an extremely dangerous feeling from Pain. This sense of threat was stronger than that of Hanzō and others. Except for the assassination of First Hokage in his life, Pain was the most threatening person he had ever seen.
"If you can walk with Danzo, then who are you?"
Kakuzu was already ready to run away. If he hadn't known how to play dead and run fast, he wouldn't have been able to survive First Hokage's... Wood Clone.
He remembered that he fired a shuriken from a distance... and then First Hokage didn't even look at it. At any time, a Wood Clone shot out and Wood Clone chased him, without even looking at him.
"I am the new god of this world! Immortal Ninja Kakuzu, I am here to invite you to join Akatsuki."
Pain's pair of Rinnegan stared at Kakuzu without any emotion.
"Xiao? It doesn't sound like it's worth much, but you seem to have offended me!"
Kakuzu had a bunch of tentacles sticking out from his body. Facing such a strong person, he planned to use all his strength from the beginning.
"Do you want to fight God? Then come on. Once you lose, just join Xiao. As a member of Akatsuki Organization in the future, I can fulfill your wish."
Pain's confident voice sounded, as if Kakuzu had already lost before the fight started and joined Akatsuki Organization obediently.
"This guy...First Hokage, who was actually considered to be God of Shinobi back then, was not so arrogant when he faced me!"
Danzo, who was standing aside to watch the battle, trying to see the leader's strength, looked at Kakuzu coldly.
Knowing how powerful First Hokage is, he felt that Kakuzu was bragging.
With your strength, if First Hokage gets into a fight, I'm afraid they won't even look at you. I estimate that one Wood Clone can resolve the battle.
Although Kakuzu likes to brag about his great achievements in the past, but he has been able to live freely in Shinobi World for so many years, and he is still more or less a powerful Kage Level.
Four Earth Grudge Fear Mask Monster appeared behind him and kept squirming. Finally, masks with thunder and fire attributes emerged from his shoulders and a large number of tentacles spit out from Kakuzu's mouth. There was also a wind attribute mask on top of it, forming a turret.
"Earth Grudge Fear·Final shot!"
Although the name of this move is a bit low-key, it is actually a combined ninjutsu formed by the three attributes of Chakra with the blessing of Earth Grudge Fear. It is extremely powerful. A huge fire pillar carrying a stream of electricity bombards Pain, emitting a huge sound and light effect.
Kakuzu Then... turned around and ran away!
This guy is almost the strongest person he has ever seen except for First Hokage. If he doesn't use the dazzling sound and light effects brought by his ultimate move now, if he doesn't run now, when will he wait?
Pain was extremely calm, without blinking, as if Kakuzu's powerful move in front of him was like a mosquito tickling him.
"Shinra Tensei!"
Turning sideways, he stretched his right hand forward, and a transparent shock wave appeared, scattering Kakuzu's ninjutsu.
"Banshō Ten'in!"
The repulsive force dissipated, and another gravitational force appeared.
Kakuzu had just jumped to a nearby branch, trying to use the branch's strength to jump farther away to escape. However, in mid-air, the person was attracted by the strong gravity centered on Pain.
Kakuzu, who was in mid-air, had nowhere to draw on, and was directly dragged by gravity to fly towards Pain. However, Kakuzu was an experienced ninja after all, so he simply retreated to advance, and eight giant black lines stretched out from his body to attack Pain.
At this time, shurikens with extremely sharp Wind Chakra flew in, cutting off these black lines, and Kakuzu was also attracted to Pain, who was held high by Pain's neck with one hand.