After wandering around the outskirts of Kumogakure for five or six days, they had run out of places worth visiting.
Xuanhui had actually wanted to visit Turtle Island or Hell Valley, but neither seemed to be on the peninsula where Kumogakure stood.
The three disguised themselves and slipped into Kumogakure without trouble.
The architecture here was truly one of a kind!
Most of the rooms were built into the mountainsides.
The buildings were primarily constructed from blue-toned, high-tech materials, giving the place an unmistakably scientific feel.
Using a map they had picked up cheaply, the three made two circuits of Kumogakure's main street.
"Is that the Raikage Building?"
Xuanhui pointed at a building in the distance, and Kakuzu and Orochimaru followed his gaze.
"Yes."
"Then all we need to do is find the Valley of Clouds and Lightning."
"The Valley of Clouds and Lightning?"
"Yeah. That's where the Hidden Cloud Village's jinchūriki trains."
"I know. What I meant was, I know where the Valley of Clouds and Lightning is."
"Huh?" both asked.
Orochimaru and Xuanhui were rather surprised.
Kakuzu certainly knew a lot, but did his knowledge really extend to other Shinobi Villages' secrets?
"I once took a job gathering intelligence on the Hidden Cloud Village's jinchūriki, so I actually do know where the Valley of Clouds and Lightning is."
There were jobs like that, too?
Xuanhui could have guessed which country was behind it with his eyes closed.
"Did ninja from Iwagakure hire you?"
"How did you know?"
"I guessed."
That old man Ōnoki really did grow craftier with age!
Iwagakure had long been using mercenaries and outsiders to gather intelligence on other countries.
It was cheap and safe, and they could shift the blame onto someone else.
The drawback was that nobody would take the difficult jobs, so