Hoichi

Sunagakure

A maintained graveyard and an abandoned one were completely different.

Because of the wind and sand, an abandoned graveyard would soon gradually disappear beneath their erosion.

A few months ago, Hidden Light Village issued a warning, and many villages relocated the bodies of important figures from their own villages.

Sunagakure did the same, though its people were not particularly meticulous about it.

The environment here was too harsh, and corpses decayed far faster than elsewhere.

The First and Second Kazekage had long since decayed without even scraps remaining.

The Third Kazekage's body had already been turned into a puppet and was being kept by Rasa.

Aside from that, only a limited number of famous ninjas had been relocated.

In fact, the graveyard still contained the body of Bunpuku, the previous One-Tail Jinchuriki.

But Bunpuku had never fought in his entire life.

Many in Sunagakure did not respect the old monk, and after his death, he was buried carelessly. No one thought of him when the graves were relocated.

That was why Chiyo had later been able to take Bunpuku's remains so easily.

But Bunpuku was not without family. On the contrary, he had passed down his teachings, and this generation had an outstanding disciple.

His name was Hoichi. Since childhood, he had studied and inherited Bunpuku's lineage and magical sealing arts.

This lineage did not refer to bloodline in the literal sense.

It referred to the magical Sealing Jutsu used to seal the One-Tail within Bunpuku: Immortal Separation Absorption.

This Sealing Jutsu was extremely powerful, but it required Script Seals to be carved onto the body.

Every Jinchuriki before Gaara had used this type of Sealing Jutsu.

The advantage of this Sealing Jutsu was its powerful sealing strength, making it difficult for One-Tail Shukaku to go berserk.

Its drawback