Sunny and cheerful Konoha Genin

"Is there really no solution?"

"..."

Ito Toru didn't answer, just shook his head.

Seeing Ito Toru shaking his head, Kirabi's hand shook unconsciously.

"My elder brother..."

At this moment, past scenes flashed through his mind like a kaleidoscope.

Even the satisfaction from having just eaten disappeared a lot in an instant.

"I mean, I don't know."

Seeing Kirabi's gloomy expression, Toru Ito knew that he had misunderstood what he meant, so he began to explain.

"what?"

Kirabi was a little confused, but some light returned to his face.

"After all, I haven't seen him in person yet, so I don't know what he looks like now."

"We'll know the details later."

"makes sense."

"So, Darui, will the plan you mentioned earlier still work?"

Ito Toru looked at Darui again.

"With my ability, there is no way I can succeed, but now we have Lord Kirabi, maybe we can give it a try!"

Darui was very confident in both of them.

……

Cloud Hidden Village, Raikage Building.

Ai still stood there like a zombie, with no expression in his eyes.

His body was obviously thinner than before, like a dead branch.

Opposite him, a dark human figure once again emerged from the shadows on the ground.

Black Zetsu looked into his eyes and spoke slowly:

"Kirabi escaped."

Ai didn't move, but there was a hidden glimmer in those lifeless eyes.

"He was rescued by someone, a ninja from Konoha, and Darui from your Kumogakure."

Black Zetsu ignored him and just kept talking to himself.

"If you still refuse to eat and want to starve yourself to death, then I can only transfer the restrictions on you to him."

"..."

Ai's body suddenly began to tremble violently. He raised his head stiffly, and in his lifeless eyes, there seemed to be a spark that had never been extinguished.

"You can't control us."

"No matter who you are, the ninjas of the Hidden Cloud Village will never submit to your control!"

"Ha ha……"

Black Zetsu just smiled coldly.

"I'm already doing that now, but - it really surprised me."

He looked at Ai up and down with a bit of surprise: "Even after all this, I still can't completely control you. Even the tailed beasts can be controlled by the ninjutsu."

"It seems that we need to increase the dosage."

He put his hands on Ai's shoulders, and more lines wrapped around Ai's body.

"Damn it! How dare you play tricks on me!"

There was a gleam of anger in Ai's eyes, but the next second it dimmed and disappeared like a fire extinguished by cold water.

"So what?"

Black Zetsu looked at him provocatively, then summoned a White Zetsu, transformed White Zetsu into the appearance of a secretary, and asked people to prepare a lot of sumptuous food and send it here, and forced Ai to eat it bite by bite.

"That's all that matters."

Looking at Ai who was swallowing the food unwillingly like a machine, a malicious smile appeared on Hei Zetsu's face.

"So, how long will it take to get here next?"

His eyes looked out the window.

Mother, please wait a little longer.

The time of your resurrection is coming soon!

dong dong.

There was a knock on the door outside.

Black Zetsu gave White Zetsu's secretary a look, and then he spoke.

"Who's outside? Lord Raikage is having dinner and cannot be disturbed."

"Please report to Lord Raikage that an envoy has arrived from Kirigakure. They said that they found a large number of ninja swordsmen who have escaped to the Land of Lightning, so they need our assistance in capturing them."

"Wait outside. I'll ask Lord Raikage."

"Yes."

So the visitor waited obediently outside the door.

Bai Zetsu's secretary looked at Hei Zetsu in confusion, and Hei Zetsu's face darkened slightly.

Kirigakure has even more thorough control than Kumogakure. He has never even heard of sending an envoy group over!

In other words... are those remnants causing trouble?

Thinking of this, a hint of annoyance appeared in Hei Zetsu's eyes.

The Kingdom of Thunder is not the closest country to the Kingdom of Water. It is conceivable that the Kingdom of Earth, the Kingdom of Fire and even the Kingdom of Wind have received the same news!

This is very detrimental to the mother's resurrection plan!

"Go meet the envoys and then find a reason to imprison them!"

He gave orders to Secretary White Zetsu.

"Yes!"

Although Bai Zetsu was very unhappy in his heart, after all, Hei Zetsu's prestige was there, so he could only obey.

The four members of the Kirigakure envoy group who had traveled thousands of miles to the Land of Lightning were also waiting anxiously.

"You guys think...will this work?"

One of the ninjas couldn't help but speak.

"Ever since I came to the Hidden Cloud Village, I've felt something was a little strange."

“I always feel a little uneasy.”

"What's unsettling."

Another tall and fat Cloud Ninja glanced at him: "Don't show your fear, this is something that Master Qing has asked us to do, we must not mess it up!"

"Don't forget, we are the Ninja Swordsmen!"

When these three words were mentioned, the four people who were originally a little nervous and guilty suddenly became energetic as if they were injected with energy.

"makes sense!"

"In any case, we have to find our companions first, and then try to convince the Raikage to at least provide us with some convenience."

"It's all for Kirigakure!"

"For Kirigakure!"

The four of them were still cheering each other up inside, and the next moment the door was opened.

They saw a brown-skinned, blonde female ninja wearing glasses open the door and slowly walk in.

Behind her were two teams of expressionless Cloud Ninjas.

"Has Lord Raikage agreed to meet us?"

The leading Mist Ninja's heart skipped a beat, and while asking, he gestured to his companions behind their backs to tell them to be on guard.

"I agree. You guys come with me."

The female ninja said so, but the next second, the Cloud Ninjas behind her rushed out!

"go!"

With a loud shout, the leading Mist Ninja rushed forward, the ninja sword in his hand flashing a silver light, and the three people behind him turned around and jumped out of the window without hesitation!

"No one can be let go!"

Along with the angry roar of the blonde female ninja, the Mist Ninja who stayed behind to resist instantly had several huge wounds on his body, and fell to the ground with blood gushing out!

The three people who escaped started running in different directions the moment they landed!

"Chase!"

The blonde ninja waved her hand, and her dark yellow eyes revealed an indifferent look.

“No need to catch them alive!”

"Yes!"

The remaining Cloud Ninjas were also divided into groups of three and chased in the direction the three people were running!

And at this moment on the other side, at the entrance of the Hidden Cloud Village.

Two more people arrived.

"Really!"

Karin complained angrily: "Kimimaro, you are too unreliable. How could you get lost?"

"...I didn't expect that this Hidden Cloud Village would be built on a mountain."

A rare look of embarrassment appeared on Kimimaro's face.

He and Karin had actually arrived a few days ago.

But when we arrived at the location indicated by the map, we did not find any village, only a big mountain.

At that time, they had no idea what was going on, so they just wandered around the foot of the mountain for several times...

And during that period of time, there were not many merchants passing through the Hidden Cloud Village.

It was not until yesterday afternoon when a caravan passed by that they learned that the Hidden Cloud Village was built on the top of a mountain.

Karin was very angry and used the iron fist unique to the women of the Uzumaki clan on Kimimaro.

Kimimaro also felt that he had let down his teacher Orochimaru, so he obediently took a lot of beatings.

After a fierce beating, Karin also found that Kimimaro was not as difficult to get along with as she had imagined.

On the contrary, there are some that are dull and stupid.

The relationship between the two became closer.

Of course, this is only from Karin's perspective.

From Kimimaro's perspective, nothing has changed.

His eyes were fixed and stayed on Orochimaru.

"Let's not talk too much, let's go in first."

Kimimaro weighed his purse and said, "I guess we'll have to take on some missions to supplement our income after we get in. We've already spent nearly half of the activity funds Orochimaru-sensei gave us."

“Isn’t there still half?”

"We still have to go back..."

"Yeah, that's true. Then I should buy fewer bags and shoes."

Karin scratched her head.

"Let's go in and see what's the difference between this Hidden Cloud Village and other villages!"

As soon as the two entered the village, they saw a ninja wearing a Mist Headguard not far away, running towards them with blood gushing out of his body!