The Water Mist Assassin from Hokage

When Kakuzu found Mushu, Mushu had been following these root ninjas for a long time.

These root ninjas seemed quite strange to Mushu. Although these ninjas marched carefully and coordinated smoothly along the way, compared with the roots Mushu had seen before, they still lost a little bit of energy.

If I have to say it, the root cause in the past was the entry of ghost soldiers, but now the root cause is a group of lonely ghosts. It seems to be acting as usual, but in fact it has long lost its direction at that time.

"Didn't the roots disappear? What on earth is going on with these guys?"

Mushu watched them enter a stronghold silently, and the surrounding environment became calm again. It was at this time that Kakuzu found him based on the codes Mushu left along the way.

"Where is the enemy?"

Although Kakuzu's tone was calm, anyone could tell that this guy was quite irritable right now. Thinking about it, he was woken up in the middle of the night and then drove non-stop for a long time. Now he could still talk to Mushu calmly. The cultivation is already quite good.

Naturally, Mushu didn't show off and directly pointed out the root base to Kakuzu.

After confirming that all the enemies were huddled underground, Kakuzu completely transformed into a giant plush monster. A large number of black lines surged out from the joints of the body and back. These black lines instantly pierced the ground. In just a moment, Mushu felt the ground move. The mountains shook, and the ground in front of them collapsed. In the collapsed area, which was as big as half a football field, several root ninjas broke out of the map.

Looking at these root ninjas who had not had time to put on their masks, Mushu discovered that these guys had a horizontal line on their forehead protectors to cut through the symbol of the village. These guys were actually rebel ninjas.

"A rebellious ninja at the root? A rebellious ninja in Konoha?"

Mushu saw that these people were still wearing Konoha vests, and even when questioning Kakuzu, they used Konoha's official tone. This made Mushu subconsciously think that these guys were ninjas pretending to defect like him.

However, Mushu quickly denied this. The equipment of these people seemed to be sharp and sophisticated, but Mushu soon discovered another problem. The scrolls used for the seal were actually a bit old, and they were obviously scrolls that had been used repeatedly. .

Although Mushu seldom describes his consumption, it must be mentioned again that ninja is a very profitable and expensive job. In addition to daily expenses, many props used in battles are basically unnecessary. Thinking about recycling.

Except for the three items of ninja swords, kunai, and scrolls that can be recycled, the remaining shurikens, senbon, etc. cannot be recycled at all.

Although this is true, in fact, except for the Ninja Sword, Mushu never uses the other two weapons repeatedly.

With the village's reimbursement, even if Mushu is not what he is now, as long as he is an Anbu, the village is responsible for these things. After using the kunai, throw it away directly. After all, with the time to sharpen the knife, he can complete two extremely important tasks. , The time spent and the rewards are completely inconsistent, so naturally no one will recycle it.

After sealing things or recording the scrolls, they will be handed over to the sealing class or the intelligence processing class. After they use the scrolls, these scrolls will either be recycled and remade into the most common scrolls as commodities, or they will be cleaned directly. Sent to ninja school as a teaching aid.

If these roots are cleaned and reused, then it can only mean that there is a big problem with their supply of supplies. However, it is simply impossible to say that there is a problem with Konoha's supplies and cannot be supplied to a secret organization, so there is only One possibility is that these roots are rebellious.

After all, iron tools are easy to preserve, but the same cannot be said for scrolls.

"He is actually a traitor to Ninja. So what's wrong with the roots of Konoha?"

Mushu thought about it for a long time and couldn't figure out what kind of problems would happen to the roots of Konoha. Especially when Mushu was operating in Konoha Village before, he did see the root ninjas who were still serving Konoha Village. This made Mushu It is even more impossible to guess the problem.

"It can't be that the leader has been changed, right? I only see the new ones smiling, but not the old ones crying? Doesn't Konoha Village value human care?"

As the culprit, Mushu thought he had some black information about the Leaf Village, completely unaware that these people were all caused by Mushu killing Danzo.

When Danzo died, he passed the news to Sarutobi Hiruzen. It has to be said that although this old guy has a dark personality and always covets the position of Hokage, as an intelligence leader, he is indeed impeccable in all aspects.

He actually set up a mechanism. Once he dies unexpectedly, all his secret actions hidden in the root will be transferred to Sarutobi Hiruzen by his psychic, ensuring that the Leaf Village can control the entire root at the first time.

After getting all the information about the roots, the first thing Hiruzen Sarutobi did was to find out what these root ninjas had done, because each of these guys was burdened with too many sins, but most of them were Being brainwashed by Danzo, Sarutobi Hiruzen could only deal with it as appropriate. In the end, about a hundred root ninjas who were unable to change their views, had no one to rely on, and had persecuted ninjas from the same village were set as traitorous ninjas. These people were told to drive away Demuye Village left them to fend for themselves.

Of course, before leaving, Sarutobi Hiruzen did not remove the Seal of Tongue Bane from their bodies. Instead, he intensified his efforts to prevent these guys from telling their subordinates and the Leaf Village.

However, once a person's three views are established, it is difficult to reverse them.

These root ninjas who were driven out of the village, after being driven away by Sarutobi Hiruzen, instantly split into two factions and went to two extremes. One extreme is the desire to make contributions to Konoha Village and return to the village. We will temporarily call them Konoha. The Ye Licking Dog Group, and another group of people who think that Konoha Village is unkind and unjust, we call it the Orphan Sect.

The two factions of ninjas parted ways after being driven out of the village. Anyway, they had not lost their memories of the roots, and most of them were captain-level figures. Naturally, they knew clearly about the many strongholds and hidden materials that the roots had established. Relying on these materials, they So he was still living in the ninja world.

At this time, Mushu discovered that it was the members of Konoha's dog-licking sect. The leaders of these people were responsible for handling various information about other villages, so they naturally knew that there was a treasure in Takigakure Village that could increase chakra tenfold. .

Of course, these people are also quite interesting. Knowing that Sarutobi Hiruzen didn't like the way these guys worked for others and persecuted their companions, they didn't directly donate the Hero's Water to the Leaf Village. These guys planned to study and use it themselves first, and wait until it was stable. After that, even if the effect fades, it will be handed over to the village.

It's a pity that Mushu discovered the Heroic Water as soon as he got it. It can only be said that it was time and fate.

At this time, Kakuzu was already fighting with the group of root ninjas. He saw that Kakuzu alone controlled countless black lines and fought with more than a dozen root ninjas. Not only was he not at a disadvantage, but he also defeated these people from time to time. Behead.

Seeing that his teammates were getting fewer and fewer, the leader of the root team no longer hesitated, asked two teammates to stand beside him to protect him, and took out a glass gourd from the scroll.

Seeing the gourd, Kakuzu obviously became more ferocious. While a large number of black lines blocked the sky, the five masks sewn on his back all detached from Kakuzu's body, transformed into birds and beasts, and accelerated towards the Gen army captain. .

Mushu, who was just standing aside and watching, naturally noticed the gesture that Kakuzu secretly gave him. He stood on the tree and disappeared in an instant. The moment the captain of the root army raised his head and poured the hero's water, a big wave hit him. All people and water were swept away.

Mushu also moved on the wave, grabbing the captain of the root army who was knocked unconscious by the impact of the current, and came to Kakuzu. At the same time, he turned his palm slightly, pulled out a ray of clear water from the water waves and put it into the gourd.

Seeing that their captain was captured by the enemy, the remaining root ninjas all chose Yushou. Faced with this group of desperate human bombs, three earth-hated Yu monsters representing the attributes of wind, fire and thunder fell in front of Kakuzu. The three monsters All the black lines on his body penetrated into Kakuzu's body, and he held a cannon-like weapon composed of three masks in one hand. Three monsters were seen spitting out chakra of three different attributes in front of the masks.

The three types of chakra gathered together, like a flamethrower, spitting out a huge pillar of fire and thunder, killing all the root ninjas who rushed towards the two.

"Let's go."

Seeing everything in front of him turn into a sea of ​​fire, Kakuzu put on his clothes as he spoke, and asked Mushu for the bottle of hero water behind him.

"Are you going to put it back?"

Mushu looked at Kakuzu and threw the Hero's Water into his hand as he spoke.

"Well, yes, Takigakure Village needs it."

"Do you hope Takigakure needs it?"

"Who knows, after so many years, my goal has long been lost."

Kakuzu put away all the masks, looked at the bottle of hero water, and said nothing for a long time.

"It's said to be the water of heroes, but it's just the water of cowards." Kakuzu looked at Mushu who was walking in front, "Aren't you going to take a sip and give it a try?"

"No, compared to this kind of power obtained by relying on external forces, I still believe in the power obtained through hard work."

"Really... Let me meet you. My name is Kakuzu, and I am a rebellious nin from Takigakure Village."

"Oh?" Mushu stopped and glanced at Kakuzu, then continued walking forward, "My name is Miki Kaki Mushu, codename is Black Spear, and I am a rebellious nin of Kirigakure Village."

"You know? I was actually quite angry back then. Even after killing those guys, I was still quite angry."

Kakuzu spoke silently, and Mushu listened silently.

"It's not just that the battle I risked all my honor on was wiped out by them, but more importantly, because of them, I know for the first time that the world outside the village is actually so big."

"Your Kirigakure Village has its own big island, and beyond the big island there is the sea. You must have known how vast the world is since you were young, but our Takigakure Village is different. Maybe the ninjas now have begun to go out, but in In our time, for ninjas in small villages like ours, if they walked out, they would basically never come back."

"For me at that time, the world was only as big as the village. After leaving the waterfall, what the outside looked like depended on the description of the village's senior officials. But those bastards wanted to control us and prevent us from being absorbed by other great ninja villages. , actually deceived us that the outside world is no different from the inside of Takigakure Village. All Ninja Villages are hidden in various secret places. In addition, the village is almost self-sufficient on weekdays, so we don’t have to leave the village to go outside. "

"I still remember the scene when the scroll that sealed the tailed beast was brought back to the village. I felt the terrible pressure. For the first time, I wanted to go outside and take a look, even if it was such a terrible place outside. So what about tailed beasts.”

"But if you want to go out, you must become strong enough. Only then can you go out with the elders in the village and serve as their personal guard. So since then, I have been practicing hard. In a leisurely and contented village, I am the only one who can do it every day. In training, I was already an alien at that time and defeated ninjas from one village after another. No matter who they were, I would never fail."

"As I became stronger and stronger, I also began to have the opportunity to go out for action. However, the information about the outing at that time was nothing more than some assassination missions, and the targets of the assassinations were several small countries around. Those small countries The strength is even more unbearable, and I gradually think that this is the world."

Kakuzu looked at the sky, as if he was seeing his young, arrogant self.

"Because of the wrong understanding, I gradually gave up exploring the world, and even without realizing it, I became a person like those at the top, telling the young people in the village who were eager to go out, telling them that the outside world is no different from us."

"Until that day, I drink the water of heroes and assassinate the First Hokage Senju Hashirama."

Kakuzu looked at his own reflection reflected in the glass gourd, and seemed to see himself being mysteriously called away by the elder that day. Then, after being told by the elder, Kakuzu resolutely drank the hero's water, and was then overwhelmed by the power. Go straight to the route given in the intelligence.

That night, Kakuzu's world was completely shattered by Senju Hashirama's wooden hands. It turned out that everything before was just a blindfold, and he had just been deceiving himself.

Kakuzu, whose world collapsed, even gave up resistance and only wanted to let Senju Hashirama kill him, but such a simple and honest man stopped his attack at the last moment.

"You are very capable, why don't you go see the world?"

Senju Hashirama said this, Kakuzu was awakened by his words, dropped all his throwing weapons, and ran away in a panic.

That was the first time that he did not return to the village immediately after completing the mission. He kept running in a daze until he saw the endless desert, the golden sand shining in the sun, and the tail he thought was invincible before. The beast slowly lost its strength to struggle in the hands of the first generation Kazekage Reito, and a huge pyramid stood on the desert.

"It turns out that this is what the world is like!"

Kakuzu was so excited that he escaped from the pursuit of the First Kazekage's bodyguards and returned to Takigakure Village.

He didn't want to die, he wanted to see the world. He was still in his 20s and still had enough energy to see those charming scenery.

But everyone knows what happened after Kakuzu returned to the village.

So Kakuzu killed all the high-level officials present, took away the Ji Yu, and left Takigakure Village.

In the earliest years, Kakuzu traveled around the world while earning commissions. It can be said that compared to Mushu, he was the man who truly measured every inch of the ninja world with his feet. He saw a lot After the founding of the country, he also saw the destruction of countless countries. Maybe his strength is not the strongest, but his experience must be the richest.

This kind of carefree life lasted until Kakuzu's first heart broke, and it was also the day his own heart stopped.

That day, Kakuzu fell to the ground in pain, as if he had truly died. It was at that moment of his death that Kakuzu discovered that he had seen too many scenery in his life, but deep down in his heart, he was always obsessed with the well-like Taki. Yin Cun couldn't forget it, and his heart was still locked there.

So from then on, Kakuzu started working crazily and earning a lot of money, not to let himself live a luxurious life, but to change Takigakure Village so that more people could come out of the well and let more people come out of the well. They see the wonders of this world.

So with the help of funds, Kakuzu's reward disappeared, and was replaced by a philanthropist named Kakuzu, who funded the residents of Takigakure Village to do business outside.

Over the years, unknowingly, a large number of residents of Takigakure Village have left the well. Maybe some people have joined other ninja villages, and maybe some people have finally returned to the well, but so what, at least he did it, he Open up that damn well.

"Then Brother Kakuzu, why did you cooperate with A Fei?" Mushu looked at the waterfall not far away and asked.

"Who knows? Maybe it's really for the so-called better world."

Kakuzu glanced at Mushu, and after making sure that he didn't intend to follow, he got into the waterfall alone and sent the hero's water back.

"Who knows?" Mushu looked at Kakuzu who had disappeared, silently took out a small bottle, asked Boiling Squid to spit out the hero water, and then turned and left.

At this time, Kakuzu was swimming underwater. The quiet and dark underwater made him seem to see himself that day.

"Kakuzu! You guy actually caused such a big trouble for the village. Do you know what consequences you will bring to the village! If you are a member of this village, then commit suicide. Only Only then will Konoha Village forgive us."

As cold as the lake, Kakuzu's past and present seem to be connected.

"The Earth Resentment Yu will not give it to you, this damn monster!"

"It's you! What can we do?"

"Why don't you die? Aren't you the strongest in the village! Shouldn't you protect us?"

Back then, Kakuzu returned to the house and looked at the hand-drawn map hanging on the wall. Apart from Takigakure Village, there were only Kusagakure Village and the capital of the Iron Country. He had not even visited Takigakure Country.

Eggs and other objects were thrown into the broken window, and he caught a fruit. Before he could eat it, he clenched his palms and crushed it because of the pain in his heart.

"Go and see the outside world!"

Kakuzu put on everything, looked at his forehead protector, and finally silently took down the map on the wall, folded it, and put it into his ninja bag. He took off the thumbtack stuck in the wall and drew it across his forehead protector, leaving a long stripe. A rift, this rift is not separated from Takigakure, but from this well and his past.

"Give me the Earthly Resentment!"