"How should we deal with his body?"
Kakuzu walked over to the fallen White Fang. Watching Orochimaru rummage through the corpse while clicking his tongue in amazement, he could not help but break out in a cold sweat.
With the help of Earth Grudge Fear, his body had finally made an initial recovery. However, only his Wind-nature heart remained, and he would need to gather new hearts after leaving.
Sasori had also stored away his puppets with a scroll. He silently stepped forward, his expression somewhat dim as he looked at White Fang's body with complicated eyes, impossible to tell what he was feeling.
Orochimaru examined White Fang's corpse, even using chakra to stimulate it. A trace of fervor flashed through his eyes; he was completely in the state of a mad scientist.
"According to the leader's instructions, we need to disguise this as suicide. But his body is covered in wounds now. Even an idiot could tell he went through a fierce battle."
Kakuzu continued with a frown. In truth, faced with Orochimaru as he was now, he dearly wanted to turn around and leave. That fanatical look was simply too unnerving.
Only then did Orochimaru look up. After some thought, he said regretfully, "Lord Shin wants it disguised as suicide? What a pity. Such excellent experimental material is hard to come by." With a sigh, he continued, "You do not need to worry about the body. Forget a corpse covered in wounds—with me here, even if there were no corpse, I could make one. Leave it to me. But there is still some time before dawn, so you cannot leave yet. I want to use this time to study the traits of the Hatake Clan."
As he spoke, he actually pulled out a scroll from his robes. With