Forced to sell misery

Scorpion and Deidara left.

Kisame put away his Samehada, stared at Jingye for a long while, grinning with a mouth full of shark teeth, "This is really unexpected, Jingye-kun."

The hand holding the bone spur clenched again and again, and Kimimaro stood stiffly in the same place. The wind blew up his wide robe, and his thin body trembled, as if the whole person would break if he was poked lightly.

"... Lord Orochimaru... cough cough..." The broken voice seemed to contain a bloody taste. Kimimaro suddenly hunched over and began to cough heart-wrenchingly.

"calm--"

Raising his hand to hold Kimimaro's shoulder, Jingye frowned and used medical ninjutsu to deal with his turbulent chakra. Hesitantly whispered, "They lied to him... How could such a troublesome guy like Orochimaru be killed so easily?"

"——Ahem." Cui Leng's green eyes moved slightly, and Kimimaro looked at Jing Ye stiffly, as if he could no longer understand the meaning of his words.

"It was just a little accident—"

Jing Ye made a "tsk" sound and shook his sleeves. A thin little white snake fell out dizzily, with its slightly flaky scales hooked on the cuffs and it hissed at Jing Ye.

"Yes, your Lord Orochimaru," Jingye picked up the little white snake with two fingers and threw it to Kimimaro, saying disdainfully, "Don't raise it to death."

I'll just throw it here, it's up to you whether you accept it or not. The style is exactly the same as before when I threw the ring -

"I'll just give it to you. It's up to you whether you want to raise it or not."

Kimimaro looked at Jing Ye with a dull gaze and subconsciously took the little white snake.

"This……"

Kimimaro was holding the little white snake, and he heard a "woof" sound, and then his fingers felt numb - he was bitten.

It doesn't hurt, but... it's kind of itchy?

The little white snake had its baby teeth hit, and it was shaking its tail. The whole snake was not in a good condition. It coiled up on Kimimaro's wrist with its head buried.

Kimimaro lowered his head blankly, meeting the little white snake's bright golden pupils, "..."

This, the slightly purple scales around the eyes of this little white snake are a bit like Orochimaru... hehe...

Once he accepted this setting... Kimimaro was shocked, as if he instantly understood why Lord Orochimaru was obsessed with a "new body", because Lord Orochimaru, he, he, it...

Shocked! The Lord Orochimaru who had followed me for many years turned out to be a summoned beast...

No... How on earth did he accept the information that "this little white snake is Lord Orochimaru"...

Prosperous in a trance.

Kisame looked at him curiously for a long time, twitched his lips and turned to leave. Jingye put on his hat and followed him. He turned around and saw Kimimaro still standing there in a daze, with a look of shattered worldview. He said helplessly, "Let's go."

"...Yes." Kimimaro floated over like a wandering soul, and Jing Ye was a little worried whether he was watching the road.

But... he wasn't lying, right? The little white snake was what Orochimaru left behind after he sealed it. Even if it wasn't him, what if it was his son or daughter? Snakes are said to be oviparous, right? Or ovoviviparous...

No... Jing Ye shuddered violently, and then told himself that Orochimaru was a human, and a man...

Help... Once you accept this kind of setting, there is no going back, damn it...

but……

Jing Ye urgently stopped his increasingly outrageous imagination and frowned.

Did he forget or overlook something important again?

Now that Orochimaru has been killed by him...

Then that guy's "legacy" - the various bases have been almost destroyed by him and Mangetsu Kizuna, who is very eager to find his brother and is working very hard.

There is also the Sound Village. He just went to find out some information and then hurried to Konoha...so it is still necessary to go to the Sound Village.

And... I heard that Konoha was closed.

It seemed like it was because of what he did this time... Well, I can’t think too much about it, the matter of Konoha... He was indeed impulsive.

However, Orochimaru actually dared to attack Sasuke openly, haha.

Removing the murderous intent from his eyes, Jing Ye thought carelessly—

Then, Kabuto Yakushi and the four Sound-Ninjas who Orochimaru intended to participate in the "Konoha Destruction Plan" should still be detained in Konoha.

We can't just leave them alone, we have to bring them back and throw them all into the Sound Village.

As for the Sound Village... it can barely be considered a place for some people to live... except for stopping those messy experiments, everything else should remain the same.

So now the most urgent thing is to go back to Konoha... But the mission for Akatsuki... Huh?!

Jing Ye's steps froze——

What was the mission that Payne reassigned?!

He was so distracted that he totally forgot about it?!

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The land of rain.

The smell of blood and the cold dampness spread, and the rain in this country seemed to never stop.

The rugged high-rise buildings made of steel seemed to split the sky. A man sat alone on the high place, the wind tore at his black robe, and clouds of fire flew in the air.

The only bright color seemed to be a pure white paper butterfly, which flew through the heavy rain and landed on the pale fingertips.

"Paine,"

Looking at the man's back, Xiaonan raised her hand to smooth away the messy hair on her forehead, "He's here."

"It looks like we have gained something." The man stood up and walked into the shadows. "So, how is it?"

"Orochimaru is dead," Madara was silent for a long time, hiding in the shadows, and said, "It was Uchiha Kagaya's doing."

"...No," Payne said indifferently after a moment of silence, "I'm not very surprised by this news."

"His growth rate is indeed amazing..." Madara sneered with an ambiguous tone, not sure if it was more of a mockery or self-mockery, "The time is ripe, that guy should have realized it, right?

——Because time is running out. "

"Then, what about the Nine-Tailed Fox?" Pain did not comment.

"You go hunting," Madara said simply, "Let's end this conversation now, and let the other members hurry up and deal with the remaining Jinchūriki."

"I see."

"We are almost there... We are only one step away from achieving our goal—" Madara walked over step by step, looked into the eyes of the Samsara Eye for a moment, and said softly,

"By then, everything will return to how it was before."

Walking past Pain into the rain, Madara's hoarse voice echoed in the rain and gradually disappeared.

"Whether it is the true power of the Sharingan or my Uchiha Madara's ambition, it will make the whole world tremble."

Lightning tears through the darkness, giving the world a brief, desperate light.

"The sky is wailing again." Xiaonan said softly, "How sad."

"Why do you say that?" Payne turned his eyes slightly and looked at Xiaonan, but his deep purple eyes were full of indifference. "If he is an obstacle on our way forward, then he is a part that can be sacrificed."

"Of course." Xiaonan looked back at Pain, "Nothing is unsacrificable—"

The unfinished words silenced her voice, and Xiaonan's figure turned into a fluttering paper sheet and returned to the wind.

Nothing is expendable—including ourselves.

If... there really comes a day like that...