Konoha's Way of Death

To the west of the Kingdom of Fire is the Kingdom of Sichuan, and further west of the Kingdom of Sichuan is the Kingdom of Wind.

The Kingdom of Wind is vast, and its territory is much larger than that of the Kingdom of Fire.

But it's useless, because two-thirds of the land in the Kingdom of Wind is desert.

Only the oases left in the desert can survive.

Sand Hidden Village is located within the Kingdom of Wind, surrounded by a huge stepped earth wall rising from the ground.

The good weather here is sunny. When the weather is bad, strong winds will stir up huge sandstorms and cover everything. It will not be until a few years later or a gust of wind blows that the traces hidden here will be revealed.

As for the rain, there is no rain. You can't even hope for a month of rain in a year.

In Sunagakure Village, Granny Chiyo walked towards home with a tired face.

The daimyo of the Land of Wind has become increasingly dissatisfied with Sunagakure Village recently and may cut the village's funding again.

The senior management of Sunagakure Village have been discussing this matter in the past few days. Some people want to have a good chat with the Daimyos of the Land of Wind, while others are preparing for the worst and talking about what Sunagakure Village should do if funds are reduced. how to respond.

These things were so loud that her head almost exploded, but she couldn't help but listen.

She was once the wife of the First Hokage, and now even though the Sandaime Kazekage was in power, she still needed help.

Desert flowers will wither one day, but as long as they are alive, they cannot let go.

Although he was exhausted, he could still bring a smile to his face when he thought of his grandson.

Her son and daughter-in-law died in World War II a few years ago. The person who killed them was the hero of Konoha, "White Teeth" Hatake Sakumo.

Of course she harbored hatred and wished she could drink his blood and eat his flesh, but she couldn't kill that man on her own.

Why was that man able to gain such prestige on the battlefield against Sunagakure?

In addition to his super strength, it was also because that man's fighting style was too restrained for Sunagakure.

In addition to escape techniques, Sunagakure relies on puppet techniques and poison.

If you choose puppetry to become a puppet master, this ninja's close combat ability will become a flaw, especially when facing assassin ninjas.

She is such a ninja, a puppet master and a master of poison. The secret white skill she masters can even control ten puppets at the same time, and she has the ability to attack a city by herself.

However, her close-quarters ability is her weakness, as is the case with most puppet masters.

So she couldn't kill White Fang, let alone abandon the village her husband had built for revenge.

The only thing that comforted him was that her grandson was very talented.

In terms of puppetry, her grandson is more talented than her. In another ten years, he may be able to become a being that makes the ninja world tremble.

Unable to avenge his parents, out of guilt and love for her grandson, she always doted on him.

Fortunately, his grandson is a sensible child and has not done anything to embarrass her.

Along the way, the villagers would greet her respectfully when they saw her, and she would respond with a smile.

She was as popular in the village as Kazekage.

Not only because she is the wife of the first Kazekage, but also because of her strength and contribution.

Thinking of this, she sighed.

The Sandaime Kazekage has begun to be dissatisfied with her because her reputation is too high and threatens the Kazekage to a certain extent.

Kazekage had hinted to her and her brother Ebizo more than once to let them take care of themselves in old age.

If Sunagakure is strong enough, she will naturally agree to it in every possible way.

But Sunagakure's current situation made it impossible for her to retreat behind the scenes even if she had conflicts with Kazekage.

When she got home, she opened the door and a red-haired young man appeared, gentle and handsome, about sixteen or seventeen years old.

It was her grandson, Sunagakure's genius puppet master, the Scorpion of Red Sand.

"Back, grandma."

"Yeah, you look like you're going out. What's the matter?"

Chiyo asked involuntarily as he saw Xia holding the scroll as if he was about to go out.

"I have some new ideas and want to go to the warehouse."

Xie welcomed Chiyo in, then bowed and said, "Well, I'll leave first. It may take a lot of time, so you don't have to wait for me to eat. If it's too late, I'll rest in the warehouse. Don't worry."

"Don't be too tired, Scorpion." Chiyo said gently.

"yes."

After Xie responded, he opened the door and left.

Looking at the closed door, Chiyo sighed.

She knew that the child's psychology had changed since the news of his parents' death reached his ears.

When she was young, she was taught the puppet technique to Xie. Unexpectedly, Xie soon used the discarded materials to make two puppets - in the appearance of his parents.

And ever since he learned about his parents, this child has become too obsessed with puppetry.

At the beginning, he would use puppetry to create the bodies of mutilated ninjas so that they could have legs and feet like normal people.

But in the front-end days, after a small-scale battle, one of his friends came back seriously injured. After dragging his body and saying things like "I don't want to die" to him before dying, he changed.

When Chiyo went to visit him some time later, she discovered that Scorpion had made the man's body into a human puppet.

The so-called human puppet is a puppet made by draining the blood of a human corpse and using the body of a ninja and the mechanism of puppetry.

Such a puppet would retain the ninja's unique characteristics before death, such as blood stains.

But this kind of puppet technique is too weird and bloody, and has long been banned by Sand Hidden Village.

When she saw that her grandson had actually learned this forbidden technique, she felt like the world was falling apart.

Fortunately, Scorpion seemed to see the fear in her eyes after being so crazy, so he returned to his original state.

Not only that, but the human puppet was also sealed.

Thinking of this, she breathed a sigh of relief and prepared the meal after tidying up the kitchen.

When the dishes were almost cold and Sha still didn't come back, she knew that her grandson was immersed in puppetry again.

So I finished my dinner alone.

She used to deliver food to her grandson, but since her grandson didn't care about eating and didn't want her to deliver it, she didn't do such a thing.

The sky was getting darker and darker, until the whole village fell into silence and only the sound of sandstorms buried some discordant sounds, she turned around and went back to sleep.

"It seems that Scorpion will not come back."

She used a positive tone, and she seemed lonely alone in the whole house.

This place used to be full of laughter and joy. Her son was a gentle and outstanding ninja, and her daughter-in-law was also gentle and respected her.

After the birth of Scorpio, the sunshine in this house seemed to be brighter.

But all this can't go back.

"Fortunately, I still have Scorpion."

She thought, closing her eyes, but she couldn't fall asleep.

The wind and sand tonight seemed to be more violent than ever before. In addition to the roar of the wind, the sand trapped in it continued to erode houses and other tangible things.

Amidst the whistling sounds like evil spirits coming out of their cages, the sound of gravel hitting the windows seemed to be the souls of the dead returning from hell, begging strangers to open the door and let them go home.

She tossed and turned on the bed, finally wanting to get up and go see her grandson.

Not worried, just lonely.

But after thinking about it, she lay back down again.

"Scorpion will feel guilty and worried if he sees me."

She smiled and could only toss and turn on the bed.

The sky finally dawned, and the wind and sand last night really seemed to be the roar of evil spirits. When the sky was illuminated by the sun, the evil spirits could only return to hell.

Today is another busy day, and the discussion is still about how Sunagakure should respond if the daimyo of the Land of Wind reduces funding.

But when she walked into the conference room, all the senior officials were there, but Feng Ying had not yet appeared.

She frowned and thought to herself: "It seems too petty to use this method to gather power."

But after waiting for a long time, Feng Ying still didn't come, and the conference room had gone from being quiet at the beginning to being quietly noisy.

So she called the ANBU.

"Go and have a look at Kazekage-sama's house."

The ANBU came back soon, but the response they brought was: Kazekage was not at home.

"Send someone to find him."

She gave the order, and the ANBU ninja quickly dispersed, but the news she brought after a long time was that the Kazekage was still not there.

"The whole village has not seen him. What on earth is Feng Ying doing? Does she still want to go out at this time?"

She was a little angry and a little uneasy.

So she patted the table and everyone fell silent.

"Master Kazekage was not found. The meeting is postponed and we will go back to sort out our thoughts."

After finishing speaking, he said to the ANBU ninja: "Send the order, all unemployed ninjas will go out of the village in small teams to look for Kazekage."

The ANBU left in response, and the meeting was over before it even started.

She sighed, feeling that Feng Ying was getting more and more crazy now.

But when she returned home, she found that her home was as deserted as ever. In addition, and more importantly, there was no trace of Xie coming back.

She became increasingly uneasy and ran towards the warehouse.

Finally arriving at the warehouse, she opened the door and saw countless finished and semi-finished puppets hanging in rows and rows like mummies hanging from trees without anyone collecting them. Countless limbs were scattered on the ground, which were the incomplete parts of the puppets. , or props used in research.

The warehouse was very dark, and this scene, apart from the lack of blood smell, looked like Shura Hell.

But she didn't care about this, not only because she was used to it, but more importantly, the person she wanted to see was not here.

"Scorpion, are you there?"

She shouted, her tone a little urgent, but no one responded.

"scorpion?"

She shouted again, but it was still quiet here.

So she left and ran to where Xia liked to go, or to his friend's house.

But except for the occasional visits to some places, he seemed to have no friends.

The only guy who was considered a friend had already been dealt with by him without even a corpse left.

So she began to search the entire village. Every time she met someone, no matter whether she was familiar with him or not, her first sentence was: "Excuse me, have you seen my grandson, Scorpion."

But she was disappointed.

No one has seen a scorpion today.

Her heart sank slowly, like a bottomless bucket floating on the sea. When there was more and more water, the bucket would continue to sink until it fell to the bottom of the sea and was covered by sand.

She started running towards the village entrance.

Since it is missing in the village, look for it outside the village.

So the Anbu who were looking for Kazekage met her at the entrance of the village.

"Chiyo-sama, we failed to find Kazekage-sama, but there are traces of battles in the north."

Upon hearing this, Chiyo immediately changed direction and headed there.

Not for Feng Ying, but to find traces of Scorpion.

Even though there doesn't seem to be anything to do with scorpions.

It was clear that the sky was clear, but a gust of wind blew by, and the sand hit my face, but it brought an endless chill.

got windy!