Mayuri Kurotsuchi Card Game, starting from Naruto

Chapter 103 Meeting

Amidst the thick fog.

Several agile figures moved swiftly through the forest.

"You're too late!"

A disgruntled voice rang out from within the mist. Kakuzu, dressed in a black snake robe, emerged from behind a tree and stood in front of the newcomers.

"It will take us time to leave the village, thank you for your hard work, Mr. Kakuzu!"

A gentle voice followed a moment later, and Lu Nie, Shisui, and Anko stopped in front of Kakuzu.

"This is too much trouble! Wouldn't it be better if I took the lead?" Kakuzu said sullenly.

Just a medical ninja!

It's common knowledge that unless a medical ninja is named Tsunade Senju, they generally don't have much combat power. While the wandering Shennong might be a bit more troublesome, Kakuzu, whose strength has increased considerably, is confident he can handle him.

Kakuzu considered Rokuno's personal visit to be a completely unnecessary act.

"The debt will still be deducted as agreed. Where is he?" Lu Nie's words instantly calmed Kakuzu down.

"In the town ahead. To be honest, he seems like a nice guy, and I had a pretty good time with him." Kakuzu turned around and led the way as he spoke.

"It seems he disguised himself very well, even fooling a seasoned veteran like you in the ninja world." Shiro followed Kakuzu's figure and replied with a smile.

"You mean he's faking it?" Kakuzu's tone was slightly surprised by Lu Nie's words, but he quickly calmed down.

For him, whether Shennong was a good person or not didn't stop him from targeting him to collect debts. As a well-known bounty hunter in the black market, he wouldn't show mercy or feel guilty just because Shennong was a good person.

"Be careful!"

Suddenly, Shisui shouted and quickly formed hand seals. A wall rose up in front of them, blocking the dense rain of kunai that suddenly appeared in the mist.

Knock knock knock!

The sound of kunai hitting the wall, accompanied by the dense clicking of mechanisms, was followed by several volleys of fire that turned the wall summoned by Shisui into a hedgehog in an instant.

Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!

Red Bean quickly formed hand seals, and as its head turned, its puffed-out mouth blew out a continuous gust of wind in a fan shape, clearing away the thin mist and revealing a field of vision with a radius of 100 meters.

In front of the disintegrating earthen wall, a group of ninjas, each holding a strange machine, surrounded a figure familiar to Kakuzu.

"It seems my senses were right. Sure enough, someone has been secretly following me." Shennong looked at Kakuzu and the other three, raised his hand and said, "Mr. Kakuzu, we must be getting along quite well, right? Why do you have such a lot of malice towards me?"

Is it because of these Konoha ninjas?

As he spoke, Shennong's gaze fell on the three figures of Lu Nie behind Jiao Du.

"You really do have a secret!" Kakuzu remained unfazed by Shennong's questioning, even though he appeared to be surrounded by numerous ninjas. He simply looked at Shennong with a strange expression and said, "These ninjas don't seem like the kind a traveling medical ninja would recruit."

"Everyone has secrets, why bother to investigate? Tell me, what is your purpose?" Shennong asked loudly.

If Shennong hadn't felt threatened, he wouldn't have wanted to expose his secret now. But now that it's been exposed, the four of them, including Kakuzu, will inevitably be eliminated.

He's talking so much nonsense now for two reasons: first, he's waiting for the encirclement to be fully established; second, he genuinely wants to know why Kakuzu has set his sights on him, and why he and three Konoha ninjas have come looking for him.

"Zero-tail." Lu Nie stepped out from behind Kakuzu, stood in front, and stared at Shennong opposite him, uttering a name that made Shennong's expression change drastically.

"Hey! That's not what you told me! Aren't you here for the Third Raikage's corpse? And what's Zero-Tails?" Kakuzu frowned.

As a living fossil of the ninja world, he didn't even know about the Zero-Tails! Judging from Shennong's drastically changed expression, it was clear that the Zero-Tails that Lu Nie was talking about did exist!

Is it an unknown tailed beast?

"As expected, I knew it! Konoha discovered that I had stolen the Zero-Tails control technique, so they sent people to deal with me?"

Shennong's face was gloomy as he quickly came up with an answer in his mind, but soon he realized something was wrong.

"The Third Raikage? How do you know the Third Raikage's corpse is in my hands?" Shennong's gaze swept back and forth between Kakuzu and Shikane several times, mistakenly believing that the two had joined forces for their own purposes.

"Does something like the Zero-Tails really exist?" Kakuzu grinned. "If we sold it to a major ninja village, it would be worth a fortune, wouldn't it?"

"Zero Tail is mine! Kill them!" The kindness and compassion on Shennong's face had vanished, replaced by ruthlessness and indifference.

"You've been underestimated! But would you mind if I warmed up my body a bit first?" Kakuzu looked at Shikano, and after watching him take a step back, he quickly formed hand seals.

Lava Escape: Star-Breaking!

Kakuzu's chest and abdomen swelled up, and he sprayed out slick, acidic liquid at the charging ninjas.

The acid spread like water, covering a large area in front of them. Ninjas who couldn't avoid it were covered by the slime, and their flesh immediately began to melt, revealing the white skeleton beneath.

Bang bang bang bang!

Amidst horrific screams, the ninjas, melted into skeletons, struggled miserably in the acid. Then, under Kakuzu's control, the acid exploded in a series of bursts upon contact with air.

The firelight obscured our vision.

The rushing ninjas wiped him out completely. The ninjas who followed stopped in their tracks, somewhat horrified, as they faced Kakuzu.

Shennong's face grew even more somber. However, he did not force his ninjas to continue charging forward. Instead, he made a gesture, and the ninja beside him immediately took out a cylinder from his pocket and released a signal flare into the sky.

Soon, a faint, noisy sound of air currents could be heard from the sky.

Shisui looked up at the sky, his Sharingan eyes spinning rapidly in their sockets.

"A group of ninjas with special ninja tools are flying towards us from the sky." Shisui's expression changed, and he proactively asked Kakuzu and Shikagura, "Should I take care of them?"

Lu Nie nodded.

The three-tomoe Sharingan in Shisui's eye sockets instantly changed, condensing into a four-cornered windmill shape. A green skeleton extended from his body, and a huge green giant holding a green spear rose from the ground.

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