Konoha: The thirty-year-old Uchiha lacks motivation.

Chapter 978 I can tell if it's Yin San San just by touching her.

"She is the Burst Witch, one of the three leaders of the Dawn Organization."

The Rain Ninjas guarding Hanzo did not lower their guard because Konan was alone. On the contrary, they drew their weapons and held them in front of them with great seriousness, as if they were facing a formidable enemy.

"They are silent angels."

Konan coldly looked at the Rain Ninja who was wantonly defaming her good name, and corrected her in an unpleasant tone.

"Everyone be careful. The Explosive Witch, who acts alone, is an SSS-class dangerous individual. If you're not careful, you could end up like me."

However, the Rain Ninja didn't seem to intend to correct the situation. Instead, in front of everyone, he pulled open his clothes, revealing his upper body covered in blast wounds. His face, scorched beyond recognition by fire, was filled with solemnity. "Yes!"

The Rain Ninjas, their faces filled with fear, nodded in unison, as if the girl not far away was the incarnation of some kind of monster.

"Useless thing!"

Hanzo glared at his timid subordinate with a livid face, then looked up and carefully examined the seemingly frail girl in front of him. A look of surprise appeared in his eyes. "Fifteen... no, she should be under fifteen years old. I didn't expect her to be so young."

To be honest, this was the first time he had ever seen one of the culprits who had caused him so much trouble over the past year.

In previous pursuits, the arrogant Hanzo did not personally participate, leaving the task entirely to his subordinates.

As a result, his subordinates were too inefficient. Not only did they fail to take down the Dawn organization that was disrupting the normal production of the sweatshop, but they also allowed the organization to rescue many laborers, causing him to lose a lot of money to his clients.

Adhering to the principle of "courtesy before force," Hanzo took the initiative to lower his stance and extend an olive branch to this rising star, preparing to recruit them to his command and help him manage the sweatshop.

Unexpectedly, the other party was not interested in money at all. They refused the generous reward I promised without even glancing at it.

Having been humiliated on his own turf for the first time, Hanzo was not about to swallow his pride. After months of meticulous planning, he finally launched a surprise attack today, determined to annihilate the Dawn Organization that was hindering his path to wealth.

"Considering your ideals, ambitions, and high efficiency, I will give you one more chance to submit to me."

The girl's youthful appearance inevitably made Hanzo, who had dominated the ninja world for many years, feel uneasy. In his eyes, the legendary "Exploding Witch" and "Five Spirit Kings" were nothing more than a group of kids with decent talent.

"If you show a good attitude in admitting your guilt, it is not impossible for you to become my disciples."

Hanzo's first half of his speech did not arouse any emotional fluctuation in Konan. Submission and all that? Being a beast of burden is not as comfortable as being a boss.

"Hiss hiss hiss..."

But upon hearing the following words, her face contorted, and she raised one hand. Countless origami cranes, emitting eerie hissing sounds, flew out from behind her. "Oh no, they're exploding origami cranes! Everyone scatter!"

Having fought against Konan before, the Rain Ninja was terrified when they saw the paper cranes fluttering in the air. "No one is worthy to be my teacher."

With a face as cold as frost, Konan formed a hand seal, and terrifying flames instantly shot into the sky with a deafening roar!

A flame hundreds of meters high pierced through the smog, tearing apart the dark clouds that shrouded the sweatshop. Warm sunlight shone down, and Xiao Nan flapped the wings made of paper on her back, slowly rising into the air.

As the smoke cleared, a massive, murky water shield appeared before the Rain Ninja, saving their lives. "Where did your Dawn Organization get so much money for all these explosive tags?"

Still reeling from the aftershocks of the explosion, Hanzo withdrew his Water Shield Technique and looked up at Konan in the air with a look of confusion in his eyes. That one attack alone had cost at least a hundred explosive tags, which, if converted to real money, would amount to several million taels of silver. How could an ordinary ninja be so extravagant?

"No comment."

Xiao Nan didn't bother to explain. She raised her hand again, and another terrifying wave of origami cranes flew out from behind her, crashing into Hanzo, who had a blank expression.

In the moments before he was engulfed by the sparks of the explosion, only one thought occupied his mind: "Your Dawn Organization is so rich, it's one thing if you don't help me get rich, but why are you hindering my entrepreneurial endeavors to make money?"

Rumble!

"Uh...the factory over there exploded?"

Uchiha Gin, who was crouching outside the drainpipe looking inside, heard a loud explosion in the distance. Full of curiosity, he stretched his neck to look in the direction of the mushroom cloud rising in the distance. With his better eyesight, he could vaguely see several towering chimneys.

"Wait, this aura... Kuonan?"

Fearing he might miss out on a big surprise, Uchiha Gin immediately opened his senses. After detecting several familiar chakra fluctuations, his expression changed drastically, and he instantly transformed into a streak of light and disappeared from the spot.

Konan, manipulating the self-destructing origami crane, precisely controlled the scope of the explosion. The only affected area was where Hanzo and the others had just been standing. One after another, Rain Ninjas lay scattered in the scorched earth, their mournful screams echoing everywhere.

In the very center lay a giant salamander, its slippery skin charred and fragrant by the explosive heat. Even Xiao Nan, looking down from above, couldn't help but swallow hard.

"Bang!"

"Cough cough cough..."

As a plume of white smoke rose, the half-cooked salamander was forced to dissipate its summoning ability. Hanzo, who had escaped unharmed by hiding beneath it, struggled to his feet, his wide eyes filled with horror. If Konan had simply used the explosive tags as a Senbon Guardian, he would have at most sighed at the other party's wealth and capriciousness.

The explosion just now clearly demonstrated Konan's extraordinary control. It's such a pity that such a genius was born in the Land of Rain.

"I acknowledge your talent; become my disciple."

Even at this point, Hanzo still did not give up the idea of ​​recruiting her, after all, Amegakure had been weak for many years and desperately needed a genius like Konan to rebuild their homeland.

"Whoosh whoosh!"

However, what awaited him was a paper shuriken that Konan dropped from mid-air. This time, however, she didn't use explosive tags as raw materials. It's unclear whether Konan was out of stock or wanted Hanzo to see some blood.

Hanzo has been able to control the Land of Rain for so many years because of his exceptional strength. *Crack! Crack! Crack!*

Faced with the overwhelming barrage of paper shuriken, he calmly drew his throwing scythe from his waist, and with a wave of his hands, shredded all the paper shuriken that were attacking him. "If I don't use explosive tags, your secret techniques are nothing special."

Hanzo casually brandished his throwing scythe and shook his head, commenting that the only thing that could give him trouble was Konan's seemingly inexhaustible explosive tags. Apart from that, his opponent was just a somewhat inexperienced Jonin. "Surrender before my patience runs out."

"wishful thinking."

Konan flapped its wings and rapidly ascended. Hanzo, seeing this, shook his head with a sigh, then pushed off with both legs—"Whoosh!"

Seeing Hanzo rapidly approaching her from below, Konan, who was moving slowly using only the Shikigami Dance technique, frowned slightly, and her paper wings immediately scattered countless paper spears.

"Huff! Huff! Huff!"

Hanzo remained calm. He first threw out his flying scythe to clear a safe area for himself, and then slammed his hands together, unleashing "Water Release: Water Chaos Wave".

The thin column of water shot out of its mouth and quickly expanded. Xiao Nan, unable to dodge in time, had a wing broken off by the water and was also splashed with water.

"despair!"

"snort!"

Forced to land, she snorted coldly, preparing to condense a new wing. However, after sending out her chakra, she received no response whatsoever. "You're in the water?"

Sensing something was amiss, Xiao Nan immediately looked down at the water stains on her body and discovered that the water was not clear at all, but visibly turbid. "It's poisonous."

Hanzo, who also landed, made no attempt to hide his dirty methods. Actually, they weren't that dirty; the air he inhaled was poisonous, and the water he sprayed out was naturally no better.

"Since that's the case..."

Seeing Hanzo closing in step by step, Konan, who was poisoned, bit her lip and reached into her pocket for a storage scroll with the word "Explosion" written on it. Inside were the explosive tags she had purchased with the money left by Yin San San. There weren't many, only a few hundred billion, which were her trump cards at this stage.

I wonder if Yahiko and the others managed to rescue the person.

Glancing at the sweatshop where the fighting was still raging behind her, Konan hesitated for a moment as she gripped the storage scroll. If she detonated these explosive tags now, she could survive with the Shikigami Dance, but Yahiko and the others behind her might not.

"Are you still prepared to put up a stubborn resistance?"

Hanzo noticed the struggle on Konan's face and frowned slightly. He didn't want the three leaders of Dawn to die. Such a promising talent, if carefully "guided" for a period of time, would surely become the sharpest sword of Amegakure.

"Become my disciple obediently, and everything in Amegakure will be yours from now on."

Seeing Konan's face gradually turning purple, Hanzo knew that his poison had begun to take effect. A smug smile immediately appeared on his lips. Even the renowned Tsunade couldn't break his poison, let alone a novice like you. If it weren't for the useless Kami and the like, he wouldn't bother wasting his breath on such a brat.

"Don't even think about it."

As the poison began to erode her vision, Xiao Nan's eyesight started to blur, but she still stubbornly refused to fall, raising her head defiantly. "I love disciples like you who are so resolute."

Standing before Konan, Hanzo nodded with an appreciative look, then reached out his wicked hand towards the swaying girl. Hanzo's smug face was reflected in the girl's clear eyes, and a look of despair gradually filled them. "Three...three..."

In her moment of utter despair, Konan's mind flashed with the smiling faces of Yahiko, Nagato, Jiraiya, and others, before she finally made up her mind.

As she looked at the somewhat cynical curly-haired man, a bitter smile appeared on Xiao Nan's lips. Perhaps the person she owed the most in her life was Yin San San, with whom she had only spent three days.

"Yin San San, I'm sorry, I accidentally spent all the money you left behind."

"What are you babbling about, my disciple?"

Hearing Konan's murmur, Hanzo frowned slightly, his outstretched hand about to seize the frail girl, "Slap!"

Suddenly, a large hand abruptly reached in from the side and grabbed his wrist tightly. "Hmm?"

Hanzo was startled by the unfamiliar large hand. He hadn't even noticed anyone else approaching. "Take your dirty hands off my lovely disciple's head."

The owner of the large hand spoke with a slightly flippant tone, but the anger in his voice was clearly audible. Hanzo looked in the direction of the voice and saw a mysterious, curly-haired man who looked very young. His unfamiliar handsome face carried a hint of laziness, and he didn't exude any of the aura of a powerful person. "Who are you?"

But half a lifetime of experience taught Hanzo that the more unpredictable a person is, the more difficult they are to deal with.

"It must be a hallucination...it must be a hallucination...it must be a hallucination..."

Completely weakened by the poison, Xiao Nan vaguely saw a figure she had longed for day and night. Her legs gave way and she collapsed towards him, muttering that the poison was too strong and that she was hallucinating. "Whoosh!"

Reaching out to catch the fallen disciple, Uchiha Gin sensed the chaotic energy within the disciple's body and flung Hanzo away. "Don't waste your energy, my poison... uh?"

Hanzo, who landed in a disheveled state, glanced at the purplish-blue mark on his wrist, then at Uchiha Gin, whose hand was radiating a bluish-green light. The mocking smile that had just appeared on his lips was shut up by the purple venom that the other party easily extracted from Konan's body.

"Hmm..."

Under Gin Uchiha's superb medical skills, Konan, who was already on the verge of death, visibly regained her rosy complexion. With a soft hum from her cherry-red lips, her tightly closed eyelids twitched slightly.

Am I dreaming?

With a dazed look in her eyes, Konan stared intently at Uchiha Gin, who looked tense, and subconsciously reached out to shake the fluffy curly hair on his head.

Duang ~

Plan

Plan

The familiar feel, it's so realistic!

wrong!

The overly realistic sensation gradually brought Konan's brain, which had been numbed by the toxins, back to its senses. Seeing Uchiha Gin's increasingly grim expression, she withdrew her hand with an embarrassed smile and stuck out her cute little tongue at the long-lost Gin. "Sorry, I thought I was dreaming again~" (>。∂)

"I'll deal with you later, you traitorous disciple who betrayed your master."

After confirming that Konan, who had tried to fool him, was completely unharmed, Uchiha Gin stood up and looked at Hanzo, who was standing not far away with a blank expression. Unlike the artificial Hanzo on his side, this Hanzo had followed the old path in the original story. Relying on the prestige he gained in the Second Shinobi World War, this hero of Amegakure completely took control of the Land of Rain.

Unfortunately, power turned this once brave warrior, who was willing to sacrifice his life for his country, into a scoundrel despised by all, turning the sharp blade that should have been wielded against the enemy into a butcher's knife that cut down the suffering masses of the Rain Kingdom.

"Did you build this factory?"

"So what if it is?"

Faced with Uchiha Gin's abrupt question, Hanzo, having regained his composure, did not deny it.

"Those vanished forests, these sewage pipes..."

'

Seeing that Hanzo answered readily, Uchiha Gin raised an eyebrow and continued to point to the barren riverbank in the distance and the pipes that were discharging suspicious liquid.

"It was all my doing. Sacrifice was inevitable for the sake of the Rain Kingdom."

Hanzo was puzzled as to why Uchiha Gin was asking such trivial questions. Although he was somewhat impatient, he still admitted the truth, considering that the other party could easily break his poison.

"Good that you admit it. I'm from the Environmental Protection Bureau. Come with me!"