The Resonance of the Sharingan (Seeking Subscriptions)

"Shisui, that kid, seemed to have made quite a bit of progress over the past year or so."

In the distance, Uchiha Kei and Kakashi hid within the trees, quietly watching Shisui and the others fight.

Although Uchiha Shisui's performance was not particularly dazzling, compared to before, his improvement was truly visible to the naked eye.

Back when Shisui was in Konoha, he had not been weak. After all, he had learned so much under the Third Hokage and had carried out incredibly brutal missions with Root.

However, Shisui had not been all that strong at the time. The biggest reason was that he had never encountered an opponent who truly left him struggling to cope.

Akatsuki's situation was entirely different. The organization was still in its early accumulation phase, and they needed to constantly carry out all kinds of dangerous missions.

There were no more than two of the most lucrative ways to make money.

One was to complete assassination missions from the black market. Every person listed there with a hefty bounty was an exceptionally troublesome and formidable individual.

Take Kakashi, for example. Because of his terrifying strength, the boost from his Possess Sharingan, and his position as the head of Konoha's Anbu—

The price on his head in the black market had already reached an outrageous seventy to eighty million.

That was practically the price of a Kage. One had to know that the Kage of the Five Great Ninja Villages had prices but no buyers all year round.

After all, no one was stupid enough to think such a mission could actually be completed.

Even if you could complete it, could you really spend the money in peace?

The Five Great Ninja Villages loomed over the Ninja World. That kind of deterrence was no joke.

Still,