[Naruto·Itachi BG] Reverse Black and White II

"We will appear here just because we are passing by." Xie took the lead and said, "These two Erha," he raised his finger and pointed at Deidara and Feng Lan, "accidentally teamed up to blow up the headquarters base. The boss asked them When we came out to select a site for the new base, I was responsible for looking after these two saboteurs, and I also came out together. It started to fog when we passed through this mountainous area, and we got lost and couldn't get out. Your sister sent the birds out to investigate, and the results came back It is said that there is a psychedelic formation in the mountain, and you have to break the formation before you can unlock the illusion and get out. So, your sister's bird brought us here."

Feng Lan glared at Xie from the opposite side. What is "your sister's bird"? How can she have a bird? That's Dawu!

Itachi was silent after hearing this, but Kisame couldn't help but turned around and asked Scorpion: "Did it blow up?"

"A group of craters was blown up." Xie replied angrily.

"Hey, it's not my fault." Feng Lan immediately dismissed the blame, "I'm only responsible for cutting down trees, Deidara blew up the hole!"

Deidara didn't want to take the blame, and immediately jumped up to retort: ​​"Bah! If you hadn't left Shandukan bare without a buffer, would the base have been blown up like that by me?"

Kisame: ...You can probably imagine what the situation was like at that time...

"Did you go directly into the mountain, or did you go somewhere before?" Itachi brought the topic back before completely turning the stairs, "Did anything strange happen?"

"We spent the night in the village at the foot of the mountain before setting off." Feng Lan answered quickly without waiting for Xie Xie to respond.

"Quipuan Village?"

"Correct."

"..."

Itachi fell silent after hearing Feng Lan's words. Scorpion was always keen, so when he saw Weasel's hesitant expression, he knew something was wrong. Unconsciously, he became slightly confused and became increasingly vigilant.

"Did anything strange happen?" Itachi asked again.

Feng Lan was about to answer but was stopped by Xie: "As for weird things, there is indeed one."

"However," he looked at Itachi with a half-smile, the provocation in his eyes was very clear, and he lazily said, "What exactly is it, we have to exchange it for the information from your side. We can't empty all the beans here. Okay, you don't have any news over there, right? Besides, you came here on a mission, and you must have more information than those of us who were innocently involved. Even if you don't take into account our humble team, The friendship is good, but your troublemaking sister is with us."

"Ah, actually..." Feng Lan felt worried when Xie used herself as a raft to force Weasel to let go, so she opened her mouth to rebel, but was glared back by Xie with a lazy yet sharp look. So she could only wrinkle her nose, roll her eyes, and just sit aside and watch the two great gods fight. But after staying for a while, she couldn't stay still, fearing that she would interrupt again and offend the two masters, so she took out the remaining noodles from the pot and ate them to divert her attention.

"I didn't want to hide anything from you, I just wanted to know more about what happened on your side and improve the existing information." The confrontation between Weasel and Scorpion continued. He looked as usual and answered frankly. Scorpion snorted noncommittally.

"You just have to say what you want, I will make my own judgment." Xie didn't give Itachi any face.

The members of "Akatsuki" are all arrogant and self-centered. Even though they are both called "geniuses", they always feel that the other party is different from them and question everything. Therefore, the relationship between the members is light at best, and it is the limit of how they can avoid tension.

Of course, except for Feng Lan, a heartless alien who knows everyone.

Knowing his companion's character well, Itachi didn't care about Scorpion's attitude, stopped asking about Feng Lan's experience, and disclosed the information he and Kisame had.

Itachi hid the fact that Pain asked him and Kisame to investigate the remnants of Hanzo who attacked the headquarters, and only said that it was a task given by the boss. He briefly talked about his experience in the Daming Mansion of the Kingdom of Sichuan, and then got to the real topic: the source of the village curse that he heard from the current village chief of Jinyuan Village:

"There has always been a legend circulating in Liyuan Village. There is a deep cave on the mountain behind the village, which is connected to the eternal world. Every once in a while, resentful spirits and miasma will emerge from the cave and invade the real world, causing harm to the village and even more. The vast area brought disaster. In order to prevent the disaster from happening, the villagers built a shrine at the entrance of the cave to suppress it, and selected the women of the village as living sacrifices."

Kisame interjected and commented: "And it needs to be a beautiful and pure young girl."

Itachi raised his eyes to look at him, and Kisame silently closed his mouth knowingly.

On the other side, Feng Lan had already finished two bowls of noodles. She weighed her belly and felt that there was still some room, so she decided to eat the rest of the soup noodles without wasting it.

Itachi continued: "The girl was made into a human form and became a "flesh Buddha". She was enshrined deep in the ground and became a "token" that sealed the road to the other world. The chosen girl was also called "Shadow Miko". This is the original legend about its origin in the village. "

"clang--"

The chopsticks fell from Feng Lan's hand, hit the iron pot with a rumble, and then fell into the ashes. Feng Lan calmed down and saw that everyone was attracted by the movement on her side. She laughed and said, "It's okay, it's just that my hand slipped. You guys keep talking, keep chatting, I'll keep eating, don't worry about me."

As she spoke, she wanted to use her chopsticks to scoop and stir in the pot. When she lowered her head, she realized that her chopsticks were covered in dust and could no longer be used. Just as she was worried, she turned around and saw her brother sitting upright, as if he was talking about business after dinner. An idea suddenly occurred to her, and she reached out and took Itachi's chopsticks. Anyway, her brother didn't seem to be eating anymore. These chopsticks are just idle, so why not let her use them first. If Itachi wanted to eat again, she would just give it back to him.

Feng Lan thought happily, not feeling anything wrong with this behavior at all. Itachi glanced at her twice, but didn't stop her.

"...Why do I feel like I've heard the name "Shadow Miko" somewhere before? ..." Deidara couldn't help but fell into deep thought after listening to Itachi's explanation, muttering to himself, and then suddenly thought of something, "Oh! "With a sound, the carp suddenly sat up straight, raised his finger and pointed at Feng Lan, opening and closing his mouth, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't.

"Oh what?!" Feng Lan saw Deidara pointing at him and knew that he had realized the same thing, but she still rudely dismissed his words, "Don't tell me before you're full. ?The remaining noodles and soup have gone into my bowl, do you still want me to share them out? What a beautiful idea!"

"Who is as big an eater as you?! All you want to do all day long is eat, eat, eat! One day you will become a fat pig! Hmm." Deidara was distracted by her lead, and as expected, he went off topic and did not continue the previous topic.

Kisame on the opposite side listened to their conversation, and then noticed that the half-pot of noodles was all gone in an instant. The corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch, and he thought to himself, this girl looks delicate and thin, but she didn't expect it to be smaller than the five of them. A grown man can still eat it all together. Tsk, it’s true that people can’t be judged by their appearance... whatever my heart desires, I couldn’t help but mutter: "...it’s really edible..."

Feng Lan didn't care when she heard it. Instead, she puffed up her chest proudly. She has always been a big eater and knows how to eat as much as she likes. Others always think she is just a glutton, but in fact she extracts chakra from food and stores it using the "Chakra Still Flow Technique". However, these are not enough for outsiders.

Itachi looked sideways at Feng Lan, his heart sinking slightly and his brows frowning slightly.

"Then what?" Xie was interrupted impatiently by several teasers. He put one hand on his knees to support his chin, and kept tapping the tatami floor with his fingertips on the other hand. He urged patiently with half-lidded eyes, obviously. Already extremely irritable.

"This ritual has been peaceful since its existence, until about eighty years ago..." Itachi recounted the whole story. "In that sacrifice, one of the "Shadow Miko" selected grew up with her childhood sweetheart. boy. The boy loved the girl deeply and knew that he was powerless but unwilling to be separated from her. So he followed the sacrificial procession to the cave, and when someone was unaware, he cut off the little finger of the girl who had been made into a human form and took it back as a souvenir. "

"The boy is good at carving. He carved a wooden statue based on a girl, and hid the fingers he secretly brought back inside the wooden statue. Who knew that this would bring disaster to the village and himself..." Itachi's voice slowly became louder. Low, adding a bit of sadness to this sad and helpless story.

The boy is dead.

He never let go of the wood carving in his hands until his death. People in the village said that the girl couldn't let go of the boy, so she took him with her. At the same time, due to the incomplete human form of the "Shadow Miko", the resentful spirits in the cave of the other world cannot be completely suppressed, and the miasma overflows into the present world, and the entire situation is about to get out of control...

"...At this time, a senior monk happened to be passing by..." Itachi made the most clichéd twist in the most bland tone.

"Wait a minute!" Feng Lan raised his hand to interrupt Weasel's words and asked urgently, "Don't tell me that it's this "eminent monk" with unknown origins who looks like a divine weapon descended from the sky. He passes by here and watches the stars at night. Forget it, you realize that there is a miasma in the mountain, and you guess there is an evil spirit at work, so you take action to subdue it, and then go away, hiding your merits and fame? "

"...That's pretty much it." Itachi replied calmly.

Feng Lan was in a mess, holding her head and broke down, complaining: "What kind of vulgar fantasy novel is the plot of Su Shuang's online novel? It's so unrealistic, so annoying?!!! And what the hell is cutting off the little finger? Lover!" Don’t they all share each other’s hair? The useless ritual of “cutting off the little finger” has even been abandoned by gangsters like Akatsuki? ! ! "

"'Akatsuki' has never had such a strange ritual! Xie interrupted Feng Lan's rant and shouted, "Stop arguing and listen carefully to your brother!" "

I have to say that Xie Xie's drink was still very intimidating. No matter how many complaints Feng Lan had, she could only suppress them in her stomach.

As if he had never been interrupted, Itachi continued unhurriedly: "...the eminent monk sealed the miasma and resentful spirits in the shrine, and set up a formation around it to hide the shrine and prevent passers-by and villagers from mistaking it. Enter. And the statue hiding the witch's finger was also regarded as an ominous object, sealed by the eminent monk, and sealed in the secret room of the village chief's house."

"After that, the village was indeed peaceful for a long time. Until recently, the old village chief passed away..." Itachi paused, "Soon after, the sealed statue of the "Shadow Miko" also disappeared. "

"Eh? What?!..." Among the crowd, only A Fei responded with a shocked expression, while the others had no reaction. Itachi even glanced at him lightly, as if he was dissatisfied with being interrupted. Ah Fei scratched his head and sat back down. He was extremely unhappy: You stinky girl just kept interrupting and you didn't have any objection, but I just performed it once and you still glared at me! Should we treat them differently? ? ?

Itachi calmly withdrew his gaze and continued: "The disappearance of the "Shadow Miko" statue is a serious matter, and the village's senior leaders have reached a consensus to keep it secret. But who knows, people in the village began to disappear one after another, and some bodies were found in the cemetery soon after. Some were found near the village, and many more were never heard from again. Therefore, the disappearance of the "Shadow Miko" statue was shaken out and alerted the side chamber of the Daimyo of Kawanoguni..."

After hearing this, Feng Lan couldn't help but whisper: "...it means that the level of this "high monk" is not very good! Otherwise, why not just settle it once and for all, but also engage in mortgage and installment payments? "

"Shut up!" Xie was too lazy to talk nonsense this time and directly threw an object from the air and hit Feng Lan.

Feng Lan caught it and found that the strap had been connected to the head again. This time it was Xie's own hands. It was really tight and he was determined not to turn around like he did just now. Feng Lan was so happy that she put it in her arms and held it like an ordinary doll. Even with the strap on, he still looked hopeless.

Itachi felt powerless as he watched from the side. Most people would avoid such haunted things, but she, however, refused to let go. However, this ghost doll was treated to death by Feng Lan and could not become a demon at all... Thinking of this, Itachi let her go.

"So, what is your mission?" Xie asked again.

"...The task book says "solve supernatural incidents". To put it into practice, it means to retrieve the missing statue of the "Shadow Miko" and reseal it. "Itachi seemed to be hesitant, and then said after a while, "The village chief has organized the villagers to search the village several times but found nothing. Kisame and I wanted to come to this shrine that enshrines the body of the "Kingyu Miko" to look for clues. After all, the two are closely related. "

"Before leaving, the eminent monk seemed to have expected that something would happen in the future, so he gave the formation diagram of the shrine to the village chief, saying that he would leave it to someone who was destined to do so in the future. According to the diagram, he could find this sealed shrine... which is here. ."

Everyone was silent after hearing this. The sound of the wind and snow outside the house gradually stopped at some point, leaving only the crackling sound of the fire burning charcoal and firewood in the house, which was particularly harsh in the silence.

"No, no," Feng Lan thought for a moment, then suddenly spoke out, murmuring several times, "It's really wrong!"