Naruto Kakashi

The Country of Rock is located between the Country of Wind and the Country of Sichuan. It is a small country.

In fact, Iwa Country is a country rather than a city.

Mainly because the geographical environment in the Kingdom of Rock is very bad and many places are not suitable for living, so most of the country's population is concentrated in a city called Rock City.

Xiaonan's trip to the Country of Rocks has two main purposes.

One is to accept the commission from the Country of Rock to help them resist foreign enemies.

A ninja who threatened to destroy the Rock Country.

Second, the organization is very interested in the ninja who attacked the Rock Country and wants to recruit him into the organization.

However, after the two went to the Country of Rock, they found that the enemy was in trouble, so they asked for organizational support.

After Kakashi took over the mission from Zetsu, he rushed to the Kingdom of Rock without stopping.

Konoha is not very far from the Kingdom of Rock, and Kakashi arrived at Rock City on the evening of the third day.

Looking at the heavily guarded stone city in front of him, Kakashi did not rush in rashly.

Instead, he informed Xiaonan in the city of his arrival through the organization's contact method.

After a while, Kakashi saw the familiar Origami flying out of the city and coming to him.

The origami overlapped each other and soon formed the shape of Konan.

"Sister Nan, I didn't expect to meet again so soon." Kakashi greeted.

With Konan's recommendation, Kakashi successfully entered the Iwa City and met the daimyo of the Iwa Country, a burly man.

What Kakashi found strange was that the daimyo's skin was a gray-brown color, like a rock.

With his burly figure and rock-like skin, just standing there brought a lot of pressure to Kakashi.

The daimyo attached great importance to Kakashi's arrival, but he did not communicate much with Kakashi. He only expressed some words of gratitude to Kakashi.

Obviously, Xiaonan had already communicated with him before he came.

Therefore, after a brief meeting with the daimyo, Konan took Kakashi to the residence prepared for them in the Country of Rock.

After returning to his residence, Xiaonan started to introduce his mission to Kakashi without any nonsense: "The target this time is a person named Scorpion. The people of the Rock Country call him the Red Sand Scorpion. He is a very special person." Special puppet master."

"Special?" Kakashi caught the point.

"Yes, the puppets he controls are not ordinary machine puppets. His puppets seem to be made from the human body and can use ninjutsu and even blood succession boundaries."

"Puppets made from human bodies?"

Kakashi is no stranger to the puppet master. This is a profession unique to Sunagakure Village. Kakashi has also fought against many puppet masters and seen many strange puppets.

But this was the first time he heard about a puppet that could use ninjutsu and blood inheritance.

"Yes, this should be the reason why he declared war on the Rock Country." When Xiaonan said this, he couldn't help but lower his voice, "I heard that the Rock Country was founded by a family called the Rock Clan. The life of the Rock Clan Laibin has rock-like skin that can resist ordinary sword attacks."

"Apparently the puppet master named Scorpion is eyeing the special physique of the Rock Tribe people and wants to turn them into puppets."

Kakashi couldn't help but think of the Iwa Country Daimyo he had just met, and nodded with deep approval.

After Konan's introduction, Kakashi had a basic understanding of this mission.

But after understanding it, Kakashi was a little confused.

Because in his opinion, this mission did not reach the point where support was needed. After all, there was only one opponent.

Although Scorpion has a human puppet that can release ninjutsu and blood succession.

But let's not talk about making a human body into a puppet, which can maintain some of the abilities of that person in life.

Even if it can maintain all its abilities, it is still just a puppet and needs to be controlled.

And this puppet master named Scorpion is just one person. How many puppets can he control?Three or four?

As far as Kakashi knew, in the entire Sand Hidden Village, except for an old woman who had retreated to the background, the strongest puppet master could only control four puppets.

Although he didn't get along very well with Kakuzu, Kakashi never underestimated his strength. Without more than double digits of Jonin, it should be difficult to pose a threat to him.

And Konan doesn't need much. The art of origami plus the detonating talisman should be very restrained by Kakashi.

Logically speaking, it shouldn't be difficult for the two of them combined to deal with three or four puppets and a puppet master.

Konan obviously saw what Kakashi was thinking, and added expressionlessly: "There is a puppet in Scorpion's hand. Based on its appearance and ability, it can be inferred that it is the long-lost Sandaime Kazekage."

"And in the last fight, Kaku was accidentally poisoned by a scorpion. Although his life was not in danger, he temporarily lost his fighting ability."

After hearing what Konan said, Kakashi's expression froze and he couldn't help but take a breath.

The Sandaime Kazekage is said to be the strongest Kazekage in history, and he has established himself in the ninja world with his blood-successor magnetic escape.

But later he mysteriously disappeared for unknown reasons, and his disappearance became the trigger for the Third Ninja War.

Such a legendary figure would actually appear here now, and he was even made into a human puppet. How could this not make Kakashi feel frightened.

And a very important point is that being able to make the Sandaime Kazekage into a puppet fully shows that the strength of this puppet master named Scorpion cannot be underestimated.

A human puppet made by the Third Kazekage, plus a puppet master who can kill the Third Kazekage.

Thinking of such an opponent, Kakashi couldn't help but feel a little dizzy.

"Well, I want to say that I refuse to participate in this mission now. Is it okay?" Kakashi looked at Konan cautiously and said.

Konan didn't speak, just stared at Kakashi expressionlessly.

"Okay, okay, just pretend I didn't say anything." Kakashi was a little embarrassed by Konan's look, and quickly waved his hand, "Then what are your plans next?"

"There are still two days before Scorpion attacks the Kingdom of Rock, but I have successfully found Scorpion's hiding place."

"What are your plans?" Listening to Xiaonan's words, she seemed to want to turn around and touch Scorpion.

Sure enough, it didn't go beyond Kakashi's expectation: "I plan to go to Scorpion's base before the war starts to see if I can draw him into the organization."

"Isn't it a bit too risky to break into a puppet master's base?" Kakashi looked bitter.

"That's why I waited for you to come before I chose to act."

"By the way, when will Kakuzu recover?" Kakashi thought of Kakuzu who was poisoned.

"He is in seclusion to eliminate the toxins in his body. Depending on the situation, he will probably recover tomorrow." Xiaonan thought for a while and determined the time for action. "We will set off immediately after everyone recovers."

No wonder I haven't seen Kakuzu from the moment I walked in until now.

"Uh, okay." Kakashi didn't object because he couldn't think of a better way for the time being.

There are still many benefits to contacting Scorpion in advance. It would be great if you can convince him to join the organization. If not, you can also use it as a way to find out the enemy's situation.

Of course, the premise is that they can leave Scorpion's hiding place alive.

But Kakashi suddenly remembered that Konan and the others had had contact with Scorpion before, so he asked curiously: "Didn't you already fight against Scorpion? What was the other party's attitude like?"

"We were attacked by a sneak attack. The opponent didn't even show his face. He just used the Third Kazekage's puppet to attack us." Konan explained to Kakashi, "After a brief fight, he seemed to realize that we were in trouble, so he didn't I didn’t bother much and left immediately.”

Kakashi nodded. Although Scorpion's attitude was unclear, he was not clearly refusing like Orochimaru.

"Okay, you have a good rest tonight." Having finished what needed to be said, Xiaonan left the room after giving her instructions.

Inside Konoha Village.

As the protagonist of the attack some time ago, Uchiha Itachi had just finished being interrogated by the ANBU and was on his way home.

Although three days have passed since the incident, because the murderer has never been found, Itachi has been staying with the ANBU to cooperate with the ANBU's investigation, and it was not until today that he was released.

For the past three days, Itachi had been confused and would often recall the scene three days ago.

And every time he thought about it, Itachi's eyes would turn bloody.

Yes, he opened the Sharingan. When his companions and teachers were killed in front of him, he finally opened the Sharingan.

But if he had to choose again, he would rather never open the Sharingan.

Soon Itachi arrived at the door of the house, calmed down his mood a little, and the Sharingan that was revealed gradually disappeared, and then walked into the house.

As soon as he opened the door, Itachi saw his parents, obviously he had received the news in advance.

This was the first time Itachi had seen his parents in a while.

As Konoha's security captain, Uchiha Fugaku did not participate in Itachi's investigation in order to avoid suspicion.

Seeing Itachi return home, Itachi's mother Uchiha Mikoto quickly stepped forward and held Itachi in her arms, obviously very worried about his safety.

Uchiha Fugaku looked into Itachi's eyes and said with admiration: "As expected of my son, he has opened the Sharingan at such a young age."

Itachi looked up at his father. At this time, he no longer had the joy of being praised by his father in the past, but instead felt a little angry.

"My companion is dead, and the leader of the team is also dead." Itachi tried his best to control his emotions, but his voice was still slightly trembling.

Hearing Itachi's words, Mikoto couldn't help but touched Itachi's head distressedly.

Fugaku was stunned for a moment when he looked at Itachi who was slightly losing his temper in front of him.

Itachi's consistent display of maturity made Fugaku hardly treat him as a child.

It wasn't until he saw the tears flashing in Itachi's eyes today that Fugaku realized that the child in front of him was only eight years old.

But the long-standing majestic image made Fugaku unable to say words of comfort: "Since the birth of our clan, if we want to truly gain the power of our clan, we must go through such pain. This may be why God has such a powerful gift for our clan. The curse of power, you just have to adapt and accept it.”

Mikoto gently stroked Itachi's head and comforted her softly: "Although I don't know your companions and your teachers well, I still thank them from the bottom of my heart for allowing you to survive. At the same time, I hope You can understand that since you have survived, you must live well and take their share."

His parents' words gradually calmed Itachi's mood.

At this time, a three-year-old boy walked out of the room, ran all the way and threw himself into Itachi's arms: "Brother, is your mission over?"

"Well, it's over." Itachi's expression remained unchanged.

"Then teach me how to use shuriken. You said before that you would teach me after completing this mission."

"okay."