Konoha.
Root.
In the gloomy conference room, Danzō and Orochimaru sat on the sofa opposite each other, looking at each other silently.
"What the hell happened?" Danzō asked in a deep voice, "Hiruzen, he… he seems to be beginning to suspect you!"
A smile appeared on the corner of Orochimaru's mouth: "It should be related to the corpses of Sunagakure's Shinobi."
Danzō frowned: "Did you leave any evidence?"
"If there is evidence, it won't be that simple."
Orochimaru's voice is hoarse, but his tone was calm, "But in the next period of time, we have to keep a low profile for a while."
"What are you going to do?" Danzō asked.
Orochimaru has a playful look in his eyes: "He talked to me before, hoping that I could become a Jōnin Instructor."
"Hmph."
Danzō snorted coldly, and said disdainfully, "He suspects that you participate in the human experiment and does not want to see you continue to gain merits, so he wants you to stay away from the battlefield. Asking you to act as a Jōnin Instructor must be because he wants you to regain your humanity after teaching some children. He is really naive, Orochimaru, what are you going to do?"
"Hehehe, since it is my teacher's request, of course I have to comply." Orochimaru said with a smile.
"In that case, I will help you collect the list of students who graduated this year." Danzō said.
"I don't need ordinary graduates."
Orochimaru said, "If someone wants to be my disciple, they must graduate at least two years in advance!"
"Anything else?" Danzō asked.
Orochimaru's eyes flickered brightly, and he said with a smile: "If possible, it will be better if they are in the same grade as Gekkō Kanpū. I am a little curious about his rise."
"I understand."
...
The Land of Rain.
Under the gloomy cloud curtain, in the long and narrow brown red canyon, four Sunagakure's Shinobi are being chased by a group of Iwagakure's Shinobi.
"Doton: Doryūsō!" (Earth Release: Earth Flow Spears)
On the narrow rock path, dozens of sharp stone spears are like the tips of spring bamboo shoots, crazily drilling out of the ground.
The four Sunagakure's Shinobi figures are flexible, as they either flicker or jumped in an instant to escape the stone spear attack.
"Doton: Ganseki Kuzushi!!!" (Earth Release: Rock Collapse)
Another Iwagakure's Shinobi launched Ninjutsu from behind. Under the huge Chakra fluctuations, the rock walls on both sides of the canyon collapsed suddenly. Down, like the top of Mount Tai suddenly falling on the heads of the four Sunagakure's Shinobi.
"Fūton: Kazekiri no Jutsu!" (Wind Release: Wind Cutter Technique)
Kanpū, who is disguised as Sunagakure's Shinobi, gritted his teeth and shot out a huge wind blade, cutting the collapsing rock wall in half!
Half a month ago, when Danzō left, five Root's Shinobi and Kanpū were left behind to continue to wreak havoc. Kanpū was unwilling, so he repeatedly urged the five Root's Shinobi to do a huge rampage. If he didn't succeed, he can follow them reluctantly. But Kanpū succeeded, and they successfully provoke the group of Iwagakure's Shinobi behind them.
After all the chase, two Root's Shinobi have died!
"Doton: Retsudo Tenshō!" (Earth Release: Tearing Earth Turning Palm)
Behind him, the Iwagakure's Shinobi launched another attack, slamming his palms onto the ground, the narrow rock path suddenly split.
The three Root's Shinobi immediately stepped on the rock wall and ran forward. As for Kanpū, his eyes lit up and he went straight in: Doton: Dochū Senkō! (Earth Release: Subterranean Voyage)
Unfortunately, as soon as he got into the ground, the Iwagakure's Shinobi used Opening Earth Rising Excavation and 'suck' him out of the ground.
Kanpū felt uncomfortable!
"Doton: Doryūsō!"
This is not over yet. At the place where Kanpū is about to fall, dozens of rock spears burst out from the rock path, and pierced towards Kanpū.
Kanpū's face turned black when he saw this.
Fūton: Daitoppa! (Wind Release: Great Breakthrough)
Kanpū, who is in mid-air, immediately formed hand seals and spewed out a hurricane, blowing away the rock spears, and at the same time, slowly falling with the help of the hurricane, but at the same time, he was almost surrounded by the Iwagakure's Shinobi behind him.
Without saying anything further, Kanpū just formed hand seals and spewed out a giant fire dragon to force them back, and then flashed away quickly.
Kanpū looked at the front, and saw that the three Root's Shinobi ran very fast. He was four to five hundred meters behind them.
Kanpū had hoped to encounter such a situation before, and then get away from them with just and honorable way, but now that a group of Iwagakure's Shinobi is behind him, if he ran to another direction, wouldn't he help them lead the Iwagakure's Shinobi away?
Kanpū cannot take such a big loss.
So he hung tightly behind the Root's Shinobi.
The current Kanpū has mastered the Taijutsu Body Flicker Technique to the perfect level. The 9-fold increase brought by it makes Kanpū's speed not overwhelmed by the Root's Shinobi, so there is no need to worry being thrown off in a short time.
'It's just that it's not an option to keep running like this.'
Kanpū is very irritated.
At this moment, dozens of messy air breaking sounds suddenly came from above the cliff.
Kanpū looked up and saw dozens of strange kunai covering the sky, and shot towards him and the Iwagakure's Shinobi behind him.
'Those kunai look a little familiar…'
Kanpū's pupils shrank slightly, and as soon as he realized what it was, he caught a glimpse of yellow flash suddenly flickering in the corner of his eyes, and then a hint of coolness came from his neck.
The coolness gradually expanded, and Kanpū's heart was about to burst!!!
!!!∑(ﾟДﾟノ)ノ
Chotto matte!!!
At this moment, he wanted to form hand seals to use Hardening Technique, Body Flicker Technique, and wanted to kick the other party, but at this moment, the muscles of his whole body seemed to be locked by invisible shackles. Except for his brain cells, which are very active, his limbs can't be moved in the slightest!
Kanpū has experienced this kind of feeling many times. He is very experienced, and instantly judged that his body could not keep up with his consciousness, but this time is the closest he is to death… When the throat coolness in his throat gradually expanded, Kanpū finally unlocked his … tongue with powerful willpower!
"Chicken man!!!"
Kanpū screamed hoarsely.
In the next instant, the coolness suddenly disappeared.
Kanpū stopped, he lost his balance and fell five or six meters out on the rock path. After stopping, he immediately touched his neck.
He felt a touch of wetness, and when he looked down at his hands, there was blood on his fingertips.
'People may not believe it, but if it weren't for my quick mouth, I would have been killed by the Yellow Flash…'
There is feeling of a great horror between life and death in his heart. At this moment, Kanpū's heart beat violently and his eardrums seemed to be shattered. The blood in his whole body was rapidly flowing, and then it overflowed from the wound in his throat, and even spread into his trachea. Kanpū was choked by his own blood, and after he recovered, he hurriedly treated himself with Healing Technique.
'So scary!!!'
Kanpū didn't dare to move his neck, so he turned half of his body and looked back. At this time, the group of Iwagakure's Shinobi, who were chasing him, had all fallen to the ground, blood pooled under their bodies.
'If I was a step slower, I might already be like them, right?' Kanpū has lingering fears in his heart!
Then, he saw a blond young man with his back turned to him, and also the special kunai which was scattered around him.
"Who are you."
Minato started to talk without turning his head as he recovered his kunai.
Kanpū looked down at himself and found that he was still dressed as Sunagakure's Shinobi, 'No wonder Minato didn't recognize me.'
After releasing the Transformation Technique, Kanpū returned to his original appearance.
Minato turned his head and showed a trace of surprise in his eyes when he saw Kanpū: "It's you?"
Minato has met Kanpū several times. The first time was at the entrance of Gekkō Tavern, and then in front of Hokage Tower, and he also remembered that his Jōnin Instructor is Aburame Shikuro.
Kanpū looked at Minato with resentment.
"Sorry, I didn't recognize you the first time."
Minato hurriedly came over and apologized.
"It's fine, I've been using Transformation Technique all the time after all." What else can Kanpū do? Of course, he chose to forgive.
"But, why are you here?" Minato asked strangely.
"It's a mission."
Kanpū didn't know where to start for a while.
At this time, the Anbu, who followed Minato, finally arrived on the scene.
Because of this, Kanpū was immediately recognized.
"Gekkō Kanpū, it's you!"
Three Anbu walked out, and when Kanpū took a look at them, he recognized that they used to be in the same tent with him, 'What is their name?'
'Can't remember.'
Thinking of this, Kanpū looked at them embarrassedly.
The three people were furious and stared at Kanpū while gnashing their teeth.
Minato asked around and found out that Kanpū was also one of the Anbu who followed Orochimaru back then.
Kanpū then was targeted by Pakura, so he was transferred to the Land of Rain by Orochimaru, and then was dragged by Danzō to do evil things.
"So that's how it is."
After figuring out the whole story, Minato smiled and said to Kanpū, "Hokage-sama has already handed over the Anbu, who had previously followed Orochimaru-sama, to me, so Kanpū, you will also follow me in the future."
When Kanpū heard this, he was greatly relieved: 'I finally found the safest organization!!'