Naruto: My Progress in Konoha

"You're a pawn? It's really troublesome!"

Qing Ming murmured, stretched out his right hand, and pinched the neck of the bounty ninja in front of him. Then with a little force, he heard a "click".

The bounty ninja's head tilted to the side, completely lifeless.

Bang~

Qing Ming let go of his hand and let the other party's body fall to the ground, but in his heart he was thinking about the information he had just obtained from the other party's mind.

It turned out that it was not that they did not want to take action against the leader of the Craftsman Ninja Village, but that they were not sure of capturing him alive.

Yes, the black market does have tasks related to the opponent, but it is not to kill, but to capture alive.

With the strength of these people, if they cooperate with each other, they are still sure to kill the leader of the Takumi Ninja Village.

But then they won't get the bounty.

Therefore, in order not to let their efforts go to waste, and to have a sip of soup, they sold this information to the black market.

According to this person's memory, the black market seems to have hired reliable personnel to take over this task.

However, they don't know exactly who will take the task.

However, according to the intelligence, the other party will arrive no later than tonight.

Before, these people thought he was the person who took over the task. It was not until he stopped talking to the other person that they realized that he had identified the wrong person.

Later, they discovered the fact that the leader of the Artisan Ninja Village was killed by him, so they hurriedly chased after him.

Of course, this was also intentional on his part.

Otherwise, with his speed and running away with all his strength, these people would not be able to catch up.

However, now it seems that he made some miscalculations.

There may be someone behind these people, and he is also a master who can capture a ninja of the level of the leader of Takunin Village alive.

In this case, there will be some trouble.

Thinking of the marks left by the other party along the way, Qing Ming had a headache.

Now, whether he cleans up these marks or not, it’s really like he is stuck at both ends.

Just when Qing Ming was wondering whether to waste some time to erase these traces, a strange breath suddenly broke into his range of perception.

"This kind of breath doesn't look like a living person!"

Qing Ming murmured, already pulling out the long knife in his hand, and stopped to look at the crackling and burning dense forest ahead.

After a moment, a figure passed through the flames and came to him quietly.

He was wrapped in a black robe, had a pair of green eyes, wore a mask, and wore the Takigakure forehead protector on his head, but there was a scratch on it.

With such aura and attire, even though Qing Ming had never seen the other party before, he recognized him at this moment.

"Kakuzu?"

That's right, the person who came was none other than Kakuzu, one of the famous immortal duo in the Akatsuki organization.

He was originally an elite jounin of Takigakure Village, and accepted the task sent by the village's senior officials to assassinate the first Hokage, Senju Hashirama.

Unfortunately, because of his lack of strength, he was easily suppressed and seriously injured by Senju Hashirama. In the end, he escaped with his life because Senju Hashirama didn't care.

However, just after he returned to the village after going through all kinds of hardships, what awaited him was the charge of failing the mission and a heavy punishment.

The unwilling Kakudu directly chose to escape from prison, and took away the most precious secret art creation of Longyin Village-Earth Resentment Yu!

The so-called Earth Resentment Yu is actually a black tentacle similar to a blood vessel.

It has the characteristic of being alive. Not only can it sew the body, but it can also be used with many secret techniques, such as the 'Secret Technique: Heart Seizing'!

By performing this technique, Kakuzu can forcibly extract the opponent's heart and chakra attributes, and then sew them with his own body, thereby inheriting the target's chakra attributes.

Now, through Sharingan observation, Qingming can clearly see that there are five chakra gathering points in the opponent's body, which are obviously five hearts.

It is precisely by relying on this technique that Kakuzu possesses five chakra attributes, and has a chakra amount that far exceeds that of ordinary people.

And just as he was observing the other party, the other party was also observing him.

Especially when he called out the other person's name, the other person looked at him more carefully.

After a moment, Kakuzu spoke: "Do you know me?"

Hearing this, Qing Ming wanted to say: Not only do I know you, but I also know your past and present lives!

Unfortunately, these words must not be spoken.

However, what he didn't expect was that the manpower hired by the black market this time would be the other party.

As a ninja who has lived from the Warring States period to the present, Kakuzu has experienced countless battles. His combat experience is so rich that Qingming cannot even imagine it.

In this case, Qing Ming would definitely not be able to fight with his fighting skills.

However, he was not too afraid.

Not to mention that he already knew the opponent's information clearly, the existence of the Mangekyō Sharingan alone gave him enough confidence to face the opponent.

Although there is a high probability that he will not be able to use it, 'if you have a sword, don't use it' and 'if you don't have a sword,' there are two completely different concepts.

Seeing that Qing Ming didn't answer his question, Kakudu suddenly said: "The ghost sword Qing Ming has a bounty of 17 million taels."

‘You remember this clearly! ’

Qing Ming cursed in his heart.

Hearing this, Kakuzu continued: "You killed my mission target, right?"

Without waiting for Qing Ming's answer, he glanced at the corpse at Qing Ming's feet and said: "The strength is not bad, then use your life to compensate for my loss!"

After saying that, he came directly in front of Qing Ming with a 'blinking technique', and then punched out.

The opponent changed his face so quickly that he was caught off guard.

Fortunately, Qingming had been alert since the opponent appeared, and with the powerful insight of the Sharingan, he reacted in time.

He tilted his head slightly and avoided the attack by a hair's breadth.

Not only that, he also took the opportunity to counterattack.

Swish~

The knife flashed.

Qingming made a diagonal move, and the long knife in his hand passed through the opponent's armpit and cut straight up.

If he hit this time, with the sharpness of the Kusanagi sword, at least one of the opponent's arms could be taken away.

However, at the critical moment, Kakuzu retracted his fist, completed the seal with both hands, and performed a B-level ninjutsu - Earth Style·Earth Spear!

In an instant, his skin turned black, and his hardness was comparable to diamond.

Ding~

Qingming's long knife chopped on his body, making a crisp sound of metal clashing.

Kakuzu had a blank expression on his face, and he clamped his right arm down hard, trying to clamp Qingming's long sword.

At the same time, he swung his left fist and attacked Qingming's face.

However, Qingming's reaction was not to be underestimated. Almost at the moment he made a move, he pulled back the long sword and stepped back.

Boom~

Kakuzu's powerful punch missed, and Qingming swung the long sword in his hand without any hesitation, slashing at the opponent's neck.

In order to increase the lethality, he also injected wind escape chakra into the long sword, covering the surface of the blade with a thin layer of wind blade.