After picking up the scroll and reading its contents, Ye Wuyue smiled.
"Just as I thought. He couldn't hold back any longer."
Orochimaru had given Ye Wuyue a new location, saying that they should discuss the terms of their deal again.
The location was still within the Land of Grass. Ye Wuyue found it without spending much time. This time, Orochimaru's base was inside a cave.
"Sasuke, Danzo has already been killed by you, hasn't he?" Orochimaru asked Ye Wuyue directly as soon as he arrived.
After battling the two members of the Akatsuki that day, Orochimaru had gone looking for Danzo. However, he had been unable to find any trace of him at all. Even the people he had planted in Konoha had found no sign of Danzo.
In the end, Orochimaru remembered the flash of fire that had appeared for an instant during the battle. He had not paid much attention to it at the time, but later, when he recalled the scene, he realized that the technique was just like the one Ye Wuyue had used against his four subordinates the first time they met.
From that, he reached a certain conclusion.
"That's right. I did it. What about it?" Ye Wuyue nodded readily and admitted it.
"Since Danzo is already dead, shouldn't you hand over the research materials you mentioned before, Sasuke?" Orochimaru could tell from Ye Wuyue's tone that he was about to be tricked, but he still asked.
Ye Wuyue looked somewhat puzzled. "The terms of our deal were that you would help me kill Danzo, and then I would give them to you, weren't they? Since you didn't fulfill your end of the bargain, why should I hand them over?"
"Heh heh heh heh. Sasuke, you have a point. In that case, state