Shihōin Naraku disposed of the Sand shinobi who had no idea what was good for him as though he were crushing a bug.
The man's meaning had been obvious: he wanted Naraku to stay out of Sunagakure's internal strife.
Most importantly, they did not want Naraku to help Gaara.
Naraku had no interest in getting involved himself, but that did not mean Sunagakure's riffraff could come and bother him.
His task was to keep anything from happening to Gaara. As long as nothing went wrong, Gaara's current influence would make securing his position as Fifth Kazekage easy enough.
Since he had already taken a side, there was no need to go back and forth with these people.
Besides, trying to bribe the strongest man in the Shinobi World with a few hundred pounds of gold dust showed just how narrow these Sunagakure people's horizons were.
Naraku had explicitly told the man to leave, yet he had refused. He had been asking for death.
Still, the fact that the man had died so readily under his intimidation really left him speechless.
They could not even find someone with decent strength to send as a liaison.
Without so much as glancing at the motionless Sand shinobi lying on the ground, Naraku soon vanished with the wind.
An unknown amount of time passed before a heavily wrapped Ninja appeared on the rooftop with a swish.
He scanned the area, then quickly approached the dead Sand shinobi and reached out to check him, immediately confirming that he had been dead for some time.
The Ninja quickly and carefully examined the nearby traces, then hoisted the Sand shinobi's corpse onto his back and swiftly left the rooftop.
"What is Shihōin Naraku trying to say?!"
An angry voice rang out in a dim room.
"What is