"That guy's gone?"
Peeking out from beside the broken door frame, Kazashiro looked around but couldn't find Feng Xing.
"That's right, they're gone."
Ignoring Kazashiro's curious gaze, Kakuzu quickly walked past where Kazashiro was, picked up the ledger, and began to admire it.
Bringing his nose close to the ledger, inhaling the scent of the ink, was simply wonderful for Kakuzu.
My boss really found me a good job. The income I've earned from hunting bounty targets for years is less than a nobleman's annual tax.
I wish I had acted sooner.
Kakuzu stared intently at the numbers in the ledger with his green eyes, but even so, he didn't have the guts to actually deal with the nobles himself.
Although he had fought three hundred rounds with the legendary God of Shinobi Hashirama Senju and had single-handedly avenged the murder of the Takigakure high-ranking officials who ordered his execution, Kakuzu was still somewhat apprehensive about actually going against the nobles.
Hunting ninjas, especially rogue ninjas, generally won't attract too much trouble from their revenge.
But what if a nobleman is hunted down...?
This didn't just attract a few ninjas, but a whole cartload of them!
It was one of those carriages with ninja figures hanging all over the roof, the floor, and both sides!
Now that's good, once things are exposed, he can completely shift the blame onto Danzo. This is a method that Danzo's own son himself told him.
Kazashiro has gone further and further down the path of being a complete jerk.
"Suckling sound..."
Seeing that Kakuzu was completely absorbed in his own world, Kazashiro, having nothing else to do, decided to tease the children in the inner room.
"Come here, let your brother give you a hug. By the way, let me tell you, this older sister and that big guy are your father's killers. If you want to avenge your father when you grow up, go find them."
Watching the little baby crawling and playing on the ground using all four limbs, Kazashiro squatted not far away and pointed to Pakura and Kakuzu him to see.
"You bastard!"
Pakura was angered by Kazashiro's words and immediately joined the Hyuga Clan.
"Don't worry, to me and this child, you are like a benefactor."
A somewhat haggard-looking woman slowly walked out and picked up the bewildered child.
This is the child's biological mother.
However, according to the household registration records of the Land of Fire, the other party is already listed as deceased.
At only seventeen years old, she was forcibly married by the over sixty-year-old Fujiwara Ushiji through certain means. Her parents had been killed by him, and she was overjoyed by the arrival of Kazashiro and the others.
"It doesn't matter what kind of benefactor we are, we're just using each other." Kazashiro shrugged, not daring to accept the other party's kindness. "If you want to thank someone, go thank Lord Shimura Danzō of Konoha, it was all his idea."
Danzo: Lately, I've been feeling increasingly heavy on my back. Do any of you have any pigs?
Kazashiro: Guess.
"Shimura Danzō..." The woman chewed on the name, her face filled with gratitude. She nodded to Kazashiro, then carried the child back into the house.
Her current identity is that of a wet nurse hired by the head butler of the Fujiwara Clan for the child, allowing her to be with the child openly and legitimately.
Kazashiro only wanted to acquire a young puppet that was easy to control, and he didn't want a Fujiwara Clan matriarch there to hinder him. However, considering her tragic past, he could only use this method to cut off her future possibility of regaining the Fujiwara Clan.
Danzo, the old man, said that all dangers should be nipped in the bud!
"She's a pitiful woman too." Reflecting on her own plight, Pakura's tone became somewhat unusual.
"This is the Shinobi World, there's nothing we can do about it." Having witnessed even worse situations in the Land of Water and the Land of Rain, Kazashiro wasn't particularly moved. At this moment, he was more concerned about Kakuzu would be able to unleash his power and use the Fujiwara Clan's wealth to make money.
Some are happy, some are sad.
While Kazashiro was carrying out his plan without any hindrance, Jiraiya his disciples in Amegakure were caught in a fierce battle.
Hanzo went berserk, ignoring the other separatist forces in the Land of Rain, and dispatched all his forces, determined to wipe out the Akatsuki Organization.
Jiraiya didn't want Obito to get involved, but as Hanzo closed off all of the Land of Rain's borders, Obito inevitably joined the battle.
"Hanzo, you really are no longer human!"
Gasping for breath, Jiraiya looked at Hanzo, whose arm he had broken in Hanzo, and had an expression that said, "I knew it."
From their very first encounter, he sensed that something was wrong with Hanzo.
The movements were too stiff, and the wound was unexpectedly pale.
Hanzo remained silent, raising his weapon with his only remaining arm.
Not far away, his greatest asset Ibuse, was pinned down by Gama Ken with a fork and couldn't move, while Hattori and Shinta's left and right hands were respectively entangled by Nagato and Konan.
Obito and his companion tightly protected Yahiko, who was recovering from serious injuries, to prevent him from being ambushed by the enemy.
In terms of high-end combat power, Jiraiya's side has the advantage.
However, Hanzo had far too many men under his command, and at this point, they disregarded the fact that their teammates were being entangled and began to poison the enemy.
"Everyone, surround me!"
Seeing the poisonous fog approaching, Jiraiya hurriedly called for all Akatsuki Organization members to gather around him.
"The Toad Mouth Binding Technique!"
Seeing that everyone had entered the range of the ninjutsu, Jiraiya decisively activated the ninjutsu.
The surrounding scenery gradually changed, and some of the Rain Ninja, along with Hanzo, were pulled into the esophagus of the Myoboku-juku toad.
Rock Golem Toad: I feel a bit choked up today.
Fire Release: Great Flame Bullet!
Taking advantage of Hanzo's feet being bound by the mucous membrane, Jiraiya decisively hurled a Great Flame Bullet at his opponent's face.
Having been struck Hanzo by this attack, Hanzo was completely disintegrated amidst an ominous sound, his upper and lower body splitting apart.
The sharp chain sickle circled in mid-air a few times before falling freely and embedding itself in the esophageal wall.
"Hateful."
Because Jiraiya and the others had suddenly disappeared from the battlefield, the search for their whereabouts abruptly stopped.
The mark on Hanzo disappeared, and he lost control of the other party.
"What's wrong?"
Noticing the slight change in his expression, Black Zetsu turned around curiously and asked.
"Shut up, you damn bastard!" In a fit of rage at losing a powerful puppet, he yelled at Black Zetsu.
Black Zetsu: Damn it, I'm used to it.
"I underestimated that guy named Jiraiya. Damn it, why hasn't Nagato fallen into darkness yet?"
Seeing his plans thwarted, he was extremely annoyed.
Why is everything always so bad in Amegakure?!
Without the Rinnegan, how can I control the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and collect the Tailed Beast?
Without the Rinnegan, how can Lord Madara be resurrected?!