Any more enemies?
After hearing Kakuzu call out Orochimaru's name, Kakashi froze on the spot, rooted to the ground.
Once he came to his senses, Kakashi noticed a handsome young man with delicate features walking out of the forest. The other man looked only twenty or thirty years old, but Kakashi knew he was nearly fifty.
The first time Kakashi had experienced the despair of being unable to defeat an enemy had also been because of this gloomy young Ninja.
The man was none other than Orochimaru, one of the former Konoha Sannin, known as the Cold Lord.
Thinking of Orochimaru's past deeds and his own experience fighting him, Kakashi's palms began to sweat, and his body trembled involuntarily.
When Kakuzu had blocked their path, he had thought of ways to lead his team to defeat the enemy or break through their encirclement.
But after encountering Orochimaru, only despair remained in Kakashi's heart.
Itachi looked toward Orochimaru, his gaze seeming to cross the boundaries of time and space to see the scene of himself speaking with Orochimaru after the Ninja World War.
Orochimaru had asked him what the meaning of life was.
At the time, he had answered that he did not know. Unable to learn the meaning of life, he had chosen to jump off a cliff, but Brother Shisui had saved him. Only then had he found a reason to keep living.
"Orochimaru actually came too. Obito really thinks highly of Kakashi."
Youhu knew they would definitely encounter powerful enemies near Kusagakure, because he had been the one to tell Obito about their appearance there.
Kakuzu's appearance was no surprise either. He was a bloodhound.
As long as news of Kakashi and Uchiha Itachi was released, Kakuzu would follow the scent over. After all, he had been hunting