After giving Kisame a few instructions, Zou Hyuga sent him to the trading company's base, making sure to notify Taro Utada near Capital City remotely as well.
Once Kisame disappeared from sight, Zou Hyuga headed back toward the village.
Recruiting Kisame this time had taken little effort. He had already had something similar in mind when he spared Kisame back then. Officially, he had used Kisame for an experiment, but his real aim had been to influence him.
Still, this move also meant that the Tailed Beast Organization he controlled behind the scenes had fully transformed from a simple trading company into a military organization, intervening in the wars of the shinobi world.
Aside from protecting the trading company, he had also recruited Kisame with the idea of finding orphans with kekkei genkai.
After this upheaval in Kirigakure, many people with kekkei genkai would undoubtedly flee the village. Compared to ordinary ninja, those with kekkei genkai were not only easier to train, but also grew stronger more quickly.
He simply had no idea where the surviving kekkei genkai orphans he remembered were.
He could only have Kisame, a Kirigakure ninja himself, find and train them on his behalf.
After all, he did not have as much free time as Orochimaru. Orochimaru could travel all over the shinobi world, but he could not. He was still an ANBU serving the Hokage and a member of the Hyuga Branch Family.
After returning to the village, Zou Hyuga quickly submitted his mission report and collected his payment.
Zou Hyuga then stepped onto the streets. The village had not changed much since he left, but the villagers' conversations had shifted from Shisui's Mangekyō Sharingan to Kirigakure's Blood Mist.
Without question, Kirigakure's civil strife had shocked the shinobi world.
Before this happened in Kirigakure, no