Kirigakure, Mizukage Building.
The atmosphere was as depressing as the sea before a storm.
A ANBU knelt on one knee, his head lowered, his voice trembling slightly with fear, and reported the bad news that had just come, "... the gold mine garrison, three Jonin sentries were silently killed in the heavy rain, their eyebrows were pierced, the wounds were blackened, and no other traces were found at the scene. Subsequently, a violent explosion occurred in the mining area, and the eastern mining area collapsed and fell into a sea of fire. More than 70% of the supervisors were killed..."
Behind the main seat of the office, a short figure shrouded in the shadows, it was Fourth Mizukage Yagura. He did not react at all, as if what was destroyed was not an important source of wealth for the village, but a stone on the roadside.
On the contrary, the old man sitting nearby, leaning on a crutch made from the bones of sea animals, shook uncontrollably.
Genji's wrinkled old face is full of clouds.
"Ultra-long range... silently... one shot to kill?" He repeated the key words in the report hoarsely.
As a living fossil who has experienced three Shinobi World wars, he knows exactly what this means. This has gone beyond his knowledge of ninjutsu. Is it some kind of unheard-of secret technique? Or is it something more terrifying than the secret technique?
Before he could recover from this fright, another person in charge of intelligence, ANBU, stumbled in, looking even more frightened than the one before.
"Master Genji! Master Mizukage! It's not good! The underground intelligence network... is in total chaos!"
"Speak!" Genji slapped the crutch hard and shouted sternly.
"I don't know where the news came from... that Momochi Zabuza, who had defected, had got in touch with Iwagakure, and had received a large amount of funds and a batch of... assistance with a batch of new weapons. They established Revolutionary Army, and their first goal is... to assassinate you, Lord Genji! To completely end Blood Mist Era!"
ANBU tremblingly handed over a scroll, "The message also includes several possible hiding places for you..."
Genji grabbed the scroll and unfolded it. His cloudy old eyes instantly shrank into needlepoints. Some of the locations listed above are true or false, but two of them are indeed his most secret refuges!
The two pieces of information, like two heavy hammers, hit Genji's tense nerves hard.
Ultra-long-distance assassination methods, coupled with outrageously accurate intelligence capabilities.
This is not a bluff, this is a death warning!
"Yagura!" Genji turned around suddenly and pointed his cane at Mizukage in the shadow. His voice was so sharp that it changed its tone, "Did you hear it? They are going to kill me! Immediately! Immediately! Retract all the hands scattered everywhere! Protect me! Until all these rats are crushed to death!"
Yagura in the shadow finally moved. He slowly stood up and walked to the light, revealing a childish but expressionless face.
"No."
Yagura's voice is as plain as water.
"Maintaining vigilance on the outside of the village and protecting core secrets is an established policy. It cannot be adjusted at will."
Genji was so angry that he was shaking all over.
"Bastard! Are you out of your mind? It's me they want to kill! If I die, who will help you suppress the opposition? Just you, a madman who only knows how to kill?" Genji roared angrily, spittle flying everywhere.
There was no wave in Yagura's purple pupils, and he just repeated mechanically, "The stability of the village is above all else. Master Genji, please abide by the rules."
"Rules? Fuck your rules!"
Genji completely lost his composure. With the support of his subordinates, he angrily left Mizukage's Office and slammed the door.
Bang!
In the abandoned shipyard, Naruto calmly listened to the latest information relayed by Zabuza about the high-level affairs of Kirigakure.
Everything is happening according to the script.
Fear is the best catalyst. Genji's panic will force him to make more irrational actions, further exacerbating the chaos within Kirigakure. And all he needs to do is wait, waiting for the closely guarded fish to emerge from the water on its own.
He was about to give the next order, when deep in his mind, the mental space that he regarded as a "high-energy battery" suddenly erupted into an earth-shaking roar!
"Kid!!!"
Nine-Tails's roar was like a physical shock wave, exploding in Naruto's consciousness, with unprecedented violence and anger.
"The puppet Mizukage you are talking about, what's inside him is Three-Tails! My brother, Isobu! You mean, my brother is being treated like a toy, being played with by some bastard hiding in the gutter!?"
Naruto frowned slightly, and his consciousness instantly sank into the familiar, dark sewer space.
"That's right, but you seem to be a little slow to react. It's been a long time since I finished speaking."
Nine-Tails's scarlet beast eyes stared at him, and the burning anger inside them almost ignited the entire space. The chains on its body were rattled, and the violent chakra turned into a hurricane, sweeping and raging.
This is the first time Naruto has seen Nine-Tails acting so rude.
"Why are you so excited?" Naruto asked curiously. He really didn't understand. "As far as I know, the relationship between you Tailed Beast is not harmonious."
"No matter how bad the relationship is, it's still a matter behind closed doors between us brothers!" Nine-Tails growled, with a complicated emotion in his voice that outsiders can't understand. "No matter how bad the relationship is, it's still much better than the relationship with you humans! That guy Three-Tails... is the most honest one among the brothers, a little autistic, but not bad."
As he spoke, his eyes suddenly dimmed.
"And I am an incompetent brother."
Naruto calmly stared at this furious beast.
What he heard from Nine-Tails's roar was not pure anger, but a kind of affection similar to that of human beings, and... violence that violated their dignity. As Tailed Beast, Nine-Tails would never allow them to be played with like trophies by lower creatures.
Although this is already an established fact, it does not mean that it will give in again and again.
Naruto nodded.
"Liberate Three-Tails? Yes." Naruto responded indifferently, with an evaluative tone, "But I work for you, and you have to provide me with corresponding help."
"What do you want?" Nine-Tails's anger subsided slightly. It knew the character of this brat.
"I want more chakra." Naruto said concisely.
"..."
Nine-Tails's huge beast eyes stared at Naruto. It hated this feeling of being controlled by others. But when it thought of its honest and honest brother, being manipulated like a puppet, the irritability derived from its blood overwhelmed everything else.
"Okay!" Nine-Tails roared in a low voice, as if tearing apart some restraint, "I'll give it to you! But you must do it! Liberate Isobu!"
As the words fell, a scarlet chakra that was far purer and larger than any before surged out from Nine-Tails like a torrent, instantly filling Naruto's body!
Naruto groaned, feeling as if his body had been thrown into lava. On the surface of his skin, a scarlet energy coat formed instantly, and rapidly materialized and densified. One, two, three... until the sixth energy tail danced wildly behind him, and the strong wind it brought filled the mental space.
An unprecedented sense of powerful power filled his limbs.
The transaction is established.
At this moment, Nine-Tails's voice sounded again. This time, it was less angry and more dignified.
"You kid, you can control a Perfect Jinchuriki to such an extent that you can even suppress the will of Tailed Beast and turn it into a pure puppet... According to my experience, there is only one possibility that can do this."
Naruto felt the power rushing inside his body and asked, "What?"
Nine-Tails's beast eyes flashed with a hint of deep fear.
"Sharingan. And it's that stinking, evolved Mangekyō Sharingan."