Konoha: Uchiha Shisui's Advisor Alliance

Chapter 177 Chasing Kakuzu
"That's all. By order of the Hokage, I will take over the mission from Izayoi Jounin. Izayoi Jounin will lead the team to hunt down Kakuzu."

In Tokaido, at Kamimura Takeshi's small residence, the Uchiha Jonin who received the mission from Shisui brought Itachi and the other two to find Izayoi and informed them of the information one by one.

"Kakuzu, humph, have you finally found him? I get it. For the honor of the Uchiha, I will not let him leave the Land of Fire alive."

Izayoi said this in a somewhat cold tone, then glanced at the other three people.

"But... why are the three of them following us?"

There were three children, the two older ones were not dressed as jonin, so they could only be mid-level and low-level ninjas. Izayoi did not know these two people and had no impression of them at all, so they were most likely not Uchiha members.

Another person who didn't even have a ninja forehead protector was Uchiha Itachi, he did know something about Fugaku's son, the genius that Shisui had chosen, and he might be the next clan leader.

"This is a team that the Hokage has temporarily formed. However, the Hokage values ​​them very much. Before he left, he told them that Izayoi Jounin would be their leader in the future."

"what?"

Izayoi was stunned, he had been a leading jonin before, but the people he led were all chunins, and they were all people from the family, what kind of team was this?

"They are here for training, and they will be responsible for assisting during the mission."

Kakuzu, Izayoi thought that he was enough with the power of the Mangekyō, but
"Since it is the order of the Hokage, I will naturally not object. Let's pack up and set off immediately."

"Yes!"

Although they said they were packing up, there was actually nothing there. After saying something to Kamimura Takeshi, Izayoi led his men north.

Takeshi Kamimura looked at the backs of the people leaving and waved his hand reluctantly.

"We must succeed. I can't sleep outside the village unless the corners are dead!"

Although Izayoi is famous, he is alone after all, which makes him feel far less at ease than when the two Uchiha teams were guarding him together.

"Trust Izayoi, it will work. That is the ultimate power of the Uchiha."

The Uchiha Jonin who took over said quietly.

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"The last Uchiha was also so confident, eh~"

a few days later.

"Remember, leave the corners to me, and you are only responsible for living a stable life. If you can't even do this, don't even dream of the future."

As they approached the Land of Hot Springs, it began to drizzle and the ground became muddy. Izayoi and his companions had no choice but to put on white raincoats and run through the rain.

The rain also took away some clues, but fortunately the ninjas in the north had already made preparations, and Kakuzu's whereabouts were firmly under control.

Kawakami Akira, Kujo Moeka, and Uchiha Itachi listened quietly to Izayoi's teachings.

After a few days, they gradually understood the teacher's true character. Although he was usually aloof and looked down on others, he was very concerned about their safety and had reminded them of the same thing many times along the way.

"Yes, teacher, we will definitely protect ourselves. Thank you for your concern."

Kujo Moeka, the only girl in the team, said with a smile. She had short yellowish hair and two dimples that made her look cute when she smiled.

"..Kid, you are a little too proud. I am not concerned about you! It's just that if something happens to you, it will damage the reputation of my Uchiha!"

Izayoi paused, then glanced at Itachi and quickly scolded him.

Itachi ignored this scene and looked ahead carefully, although he was on a mission, it seemed like a rare break for him.

Shisui kept Sima Yi's reminder in mind, fearing that Itachi would think too much when idle, so he arranged a lot of learning for Itachi.

In addition to the various training and physical examinations conducted by several teachers in turn every day, Itachi also had to read a lot of miscellaneous knowledge including but not limited to ninjutsu, sealing techniques, travel notes, etc.

Itachi seldom has time to rest, and when he does have a holiday it is to practice with Shisui or Fugaku. For example, running away for more than ten days without practicing or studying is simply a long vacation!

"Hey~ the teacher said it so coldly~"

Kujo Moeka said these words with a smile on her face, but she was not afraid of Izayoi's shouting at all.

The boy walking beside her is Akira Kamikawa, fourteen years old, with a spiky haircut. Compared to Izayoi's fearlessness, Kujo Moeka's boldness, and Itachi's nervousness yet relaxation, as a reconnaissance ninja, he is fully committed to the whole process.

"teacher!"

Izayoi raised his eyebrows and was about to give a lecture, but Kamikawa Akira, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke.

Izayoi's eyes changed instantly, he raised his hand to signal, and the three people immediately dispersed.

At the same time, Jiaodu, who was a few hundred meters away from the others, slowly stopped.

"What a pity. It seems we still can't get rid of them."

After being scared away by Shizune, Kakuzu wanted to quickly enter the Land of Hot Springs to escape Konoha's pursuit, but Konoha's reaction was faster than he thought.

The ninja army stationed in Yu Kingdom began to dispatch personnel to track his location and intercept him.

Kakuzu is confident that he can break through the blockade, but behind Konoha's blockade is Kumogakure, and with the amount of his bounty, Kumogakure will not let him go.

He could only head east, hoping to take a boat to the river country.
"The last team of Konoha's scouting ninjas have also left. It looks like they are almost here. Who could it be?"

Kakuzu knew that he had always been in the sight of the Konoha ninjas, but he had already gone far away from the Konoha northern military camp, and Konoha could not send a large force of ninjas to hunt him down.

He didn't care about one or two teams, unless the people coming were famous strong men like Jiraiya, Tsunade or Shisui, but even if these people came in person, he was sure that he could escape alive.

"And that guy, with his ability to appear and disappear at will, I'm afraid I won't be able to get rid of him even if I go to the River Kingdom. Do you want to agree to him?"

Jiaodu was walking in the dense forest in the drizzle, and he began to think about his future plans for a rare occasion.

swoosh~
After an unknown amount of time, a kunai shot out from the woods.

The sound of rain reduced some of the noise, but Kakuzu still sensed the murderous intent, and he gently turned his head to avoid the kunai, and after confirming that there were no detonating tags, his eyes fell on the direction where the murderous intent came from.

"Only four of us? I hope we can get something valuable~"

A calm murderous intent flashed across Kakuzu's dark green pupils. After living for so many years, he rarely had any emotional fluctuations.

Boom~
"Turong Tulong Spear!"

The ground shook, and ripples suddenly appeared in the mud under Kakuzu's feet. More than ten earth spikes quickly rose from the ground and stabbed towards Kakuzu's face.

Kakuzu looked calm as he jumped up and flipped backwards. Several shurikens shot out from behind him while he was in the air, but they were easily knocked down by him by swinging his briefcase.

"Chance!"

"Back off!"

After Kakuzu landed on the ground, a pair of hands suddenly reached out from below and pulled him into the ground.

On the other side, Kujo Moeka showed a look of joy on her face, raised her kunai and rushed towards Kakuzu.

Itachi, who was ambushing in another direction, rushed out quickly, but his target was the oncoming Kujo Moeka.

Itachi was faster. He jumped over Kakuzu in the soil, grabbed Kujo Moeka, and then dodged to the side.

The next moment, a black monster broke out of the ground where the nine cute flowers were moving forward, but was dazed to find that it had lost its target.

"You didn't fall for it?"

Seeing that his plan had been seen through, Kakuzu stopped pretending and let his joints fall apart, connected only by silk threads, before he quickly broke through the hole and freed himself from the restrictions.

"The black line itself, and the black monster!"

The few of them had already read Kakuzu's intelligence and were mentally prepared for this, but seeing such a bizarre creature in person still shocked them a little. "Uchiha, it's you guys after all. Where's the last person? Is it Uchiha Shisui?"

Kakuzu noticed Itachi's eyes and immediately looked around vigilantly.

"Who knows?"

Itachi naturally wouldn't tell Kakuzu the information, and instead said to Kujo Moeka, "I'll make a test attack, you stand back and observe carefully."

After saying that, Itachi performed shuriken techniques with both hands at the same time, and dozens of shurikens were thrown out by him at various tricky angles.

Under the dark clouds, there was a continuous drizzle, and the high-speed moving shurikens were almost hidden in the rain lines, making them extremely difficult to observe.

This is especially true for Itachi's shuriken. Under his careful calculations, the shurikens constantly collide and change positions in the air, making them difficult to capture.

Kakuzu looked around with his eyes, his pupils trembling slightly.

"This is?!"

Kakuzu was a little surprised. Even he couldn't do this technique now, let alone compare it with his past self.

"What a pity, kid, physical attacks are useless to me."

All of Kakuzu's joints were connected by black lines. With a wave of the long lines, his arms could sweep around and instantly knock down the shuriken in the air.

Then he swung his arms and swung his hands towards the two of them.

Itachi immediately threw out a kunai with an explosive tag, which stopped the left hand that was grabbing towards Kujo Moeka, and then he drew out his short blade and chopped off the right hand that was near his face.

Then, without waiting for Kakuzu to attack again, Itachi quickly retreated, put away his short blade and formed seals with both hands.

"Fire Release: Dust Hidden Technique!"

Itachi opened his mouth and spit out high-temperature dust that instantly obscured Kakuzu's vision.

"Turong Tulong Spear!"

There was another strange movement under his feet, but Kakuzu just jumped lightly without paying any attention. He withdrew his hands and threw them to the ground.

The ground that was originally lined with muskets suddenly shattered, and a black shadow broke out of the ground and threw out a young man, who was caught by Kakuzu and strangled by the neck.

This person is Akira Kamikawa.

"Another nameless person, wasting time!"

Kakuzu sneered, evaluated Kamikawa Akira's value, and then prepared to crush him to death.

"Art fire escape ho fireball!"

After the dust, a red fireball quickly passed through and hit Kakuzu's head. Kakuzu was stunned. The fireball seemed to be aimed at his head. However, no matter what the other party wanted to do, he just had to interrupt it.

The next moment, a masked monster emerged from Kakuzu's body again.

"Water Escape·Water Curtain!"

A high-pressure water cannon slowly gathered in the monster's mouth and sprayed out when the fireball approached.

呲~
There was the sound of water and fire blending, and high-temperature steam rose instantly, covering the two of them.

Kakuzu became suspicious upon seeing this and subconsciously exerted force with both hands, preparing to strangle one of them to death first. At this moment, a red light flashed in the mist, and several flaming shurikens cut towards the silk thread between his wrists.

"I see!"

Kakuzu suddenly realized something and moved very quickly. He immediately slapped out his giant black hand and knocked down all the flying shurikens with flames on them.

Before he could relax, several pitch-black shurikens instantly cut the silk thread.

The next moment, Kamikawa Akira, who was caught in the act, fell down along with his hand.

"what?"

Kakuzu suppressed the shock in his heart, and the silk thread grew on its own as if it had consciousness and connected to the severed hand.

At the same time, his other hand was not idle either, and he quickly grabbed Kamikawa Akira who had not yet reacted.

"That's it!"

In the mist, a pair of blood-red eyes suddenly opened, Kakuzu's body paused, and then recovered the next moment.

However, a katana gleaming with silver light was already approaching his neck.

Kakuzu raised his hand and tried to block the attack with his hardened part, but was blown away by the huge force.

Seeing this, the two masked monsters stopped staring at the other side of the dust.

"Water Escape·Water Curtain!"

The water cannons gathered together and bombarded towards the suddenly appearing Izayoi. Seeing this, Izayoi had to temporarily suspend the attack and retreat with Kamikawa Akira.

The other masked monster burrowed into the ground and came to Izayoi's feet and took back the severed hand.

After reattaching his severed hand, Kakuzu finally came to his senses. He looked at the four people, especially the Uchiha brat who had just shocked him.

"Use the fireball to evaporate some of the rainwater, paving the way for the subsequent use of Impatiens Claw Red, then use Impatiens Claw Red to attract my attention, and finally use ordinary shuriken to cut off my hand. In such a short time, you can come up with a countermeasure to save your useless teammates, Uchiha brat, what's your name?"

Akira Kamikawa.
Itachi didn't say anything. Izayoi, who was ignored, raised his eyebrows and said in a rather unfriendly tone: "There is no need for a dead man to know his name."

"Dead person? Hahahaha~"

Kakuzu laughed wildly, no longer hiding his weakness, and directly entered the Earth Resentment Mode. Black threads covered his entire body, and two masks appeared on his shoulders, exuding a very violent aura.

"You are just an Uchiha. I have killed more than one of you. Seeing your ignorance reminds me of the first Uchiha I fought. His name was Uchiha Madara!"

"What did you say?"

Izayoi's pupils trembled, and his face was full of disbelief.

"Uchiha Madara? Who is that?"

Akira Kamikawa and Moeka Kujo looked confused. They had already graduated from the ninja school and had never heard of Madara's name.

Itachi explained: "The ancestor of the clan was a ninja from the same period as the first generation. He and the first generation worked together to establish Konoha. The name Konoha was given by the ancestor."

"what?"

The two were shocked, and Kujo Moeka even said, "There is actually such a person in Uchiha. Why haven't I heard of him in the Ninja School? I got full marks in cultural subjects!"

this.
Itachi couldn't explain this question, so he looked at Izayoi and said, "If he had lived from the first generation to the present, combined with the characteristics of his ninjutsu, his ninjutsu should be the secret technique of the Takigakure Village, Earth Grudge."

"Did Hokage-sama give you the information?"

Izayoi asked subconsciously.

"No, but I have learned in the Ninjutsu General Education class that he should have five hearts, and all of them need to be destroyed to kill him. The masked monster is the embodiment of the heart. In addition, he can stay alive by robbing other people's hearts. These are all records within the clan and have not been confirmed.

At this point, it can’t be wrong.”

Izayoi turned around and looked at this unprepossessing little fellow for the first time.

"I understand. You guys step back and leave the rest to me!"

It’s too late, I’ll send it first and then check for typos.

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(End of this chapter)