"Bang~"
The team member couldn't dodge in time and crashed heavily into the earthen wall.
Then, the pursuing puppet stretched out a hand and pierced the team member's heart along with the earth wall with a sharp blade that quickly popped out from the palm of his hand.
A flicker of guilt flashed in Kuchiki's eyes as he watched his dead team members look at him in death, but it was quickly hidden.
A few seconds later, four sand ninja with white bandanas wrapped around their heads appeared in front of him.
The leader was a middle-aged man with very long eyebrows, and when he slightly moved the fingers of his right hand a few times, the puppet immediately and quickly came to his side, guarding his side like a loyal servant.
"I didn't expect that the person who awakened my memories this time would actually be you, Lord Ebizo-sama."
When Kuchiki saw clearly the true face of this middle-aged puppet master in front of him, he immediately took a few steps back and said with some trepidation.
"Hehe, don't be nervous, you are still useful, I won't take your life, as long as you can bring me useful information."
Ebizo said with a grim smile, then stretched out his hand towards Kuchiki.
Seeing this, Kuchiki wanted to dodge, but realized that his body could no longer move.
Unknown to him, Ebizo had secretly bound him with the chakra thread in his hand that was so slender that it was hard to see with the naked eye.
"Tell me, what do you want me to do?"
Kuchiki said in despair.
He had once been captured by the Sand Ninja, and because he couldn't withstand the torture, he surrendered to the enemy, after which he was planted with a jutsu that could temporarily seal a certain part of his memories and was difficult to detect, completely forgetting the fact that he had been captured and defected and becoming a spy for the Sand Ninja lurking in Konoha.
And the person who planted this jutsu on him was the biggest spy head of the Sand Ninja in front of him, Ebizo.
Then later on, he was awakened and sealed again many times, and delivered a lot of valuable information to the Sand ninja.
Because of this jutsu, he had no recollection of betraying Konoha as well as murdering fellow officers with whom he had a good relationship, so every awakening was equivalent to performing a torturous mental torture for him, and it was more painful than ever.
"Don't show that ugly expression, it hasn't happened once or twice, you'll have to learn to get used to it, and don't worry, you'll soon forget about all this pain and can continue to be your proud Konoha ninja happily, as long as you can bring me useful information."
Elder Ebizo said coldly, moving his fingers slightly, increasing the strength of his restraints on Kuchiki, causing Kuchiki to show a pained expression.
Kuchiki was ultimately a soft bone, and after Ebizo slightly tapped him, he gave in once again and obediently told what he knew about the latest border map and the recent personnel movement of the border defense.
After Ebizo got the information he wanted, he once again used the art of subtle brain manipulation sand on Kuchiki, so that Kuchiki, a 'clean' chess piece, once again lurked down.
After that, Kuchiki, who was almost poisoned, was found by another patrol and had another lucky brush with death.
...
A week later, in the underground of Konoha, in the headquarters of the Root Headquarters, in the cool office of the head of the Root Department that looks like the office of hokage, Danzo received an urgent report, his eyes immediately flashed a glint of light, and he coldly laughed, "I didn't think that the value of that kid was far more than imagined, and he actually attracted such a big fish."
The contents of the urgent report that just came in were few and far between, with only five words, "Ebizo is missing."
This piece of information was obtained from the black market of intelligence at great expense to him, and the person who dealt with it was a certain high-ranking person in the Sand Ninja Village with whom he had made many deals, and it was extremely credible.
He combined it with the several Sand Ninja attacks on patrols that had occurred in the border in the last few days, and instantly realized that it must have something to do with Kai Laozou, the Sand Ninja's head of espionage.
Unsurprisingly, that Desert Fox had already left the Sand Ninja Village, and his purpose was most likely to come over to assassinate Konoha, the Konoha Magnet Release Ninja who had already been made a thorn in the side of the Kazekage.
"But this guy is a very cautious and careful, if the chances of a successful assassination are not great, it is estimated that he will not make a move, and once he is allowed to notice that something is wrong, he will even immediately escape."
Danzo rubbed his chin with his hand and mused.
He and Ebizo were the spy chiefs of Konoha and Sunagakure respectively, old rivals, and both sides had carried out a number of elaborate assassination packages for the other.
There were several times when he was almost caught in the act.
Therefore, he knew very well that Ebizo, like him, was a very cautious and careful person who would never make a mistake easily, a guy who would not see a rabbit without a hawk.
"Come on man."
Danzo exclaimed.
In the next moment, a root ninja instantly knelt on one knee in front of Danzo and respectfully said, "Lord Danzo, please command."
"Go and bring the latest information about Kirito."
Danzo ordered.
"Ha."
The root ninja obeyed, immediately sealing and disappearing in place.
In a minute or so, a piece of information that had been organized in detail was delivered to Danzo.
This information recorded in detail the things that Kirito had done in recent days, and also listed them in a data table, specifically coordinating the number of times he had done various things on a regular basis, and finally estimated Kirito's strength based on Kirito's currently exposed ninjutsu and some actual battles.
"Looks like this kid is tricky."
Having read the intel, Danzo came to this conclusion with his Konoha's Darkness' vision.
He could tell from this intelligence that Kirito was very self-disciplined, ever since being graduated, he had been living a three-point life of going to work at the hospital, working hard until the end of the day, and going straight back to the Senju Clan after work.
In between, his body has never gone anywhere.
What is the hospital? It is a place that Konoha focuses on. On the surface, it seems that there is no defense, but in fact, it is heavily guarded in secret. There are no less than ten senior ninjas guarding this place, including elite senior ninjas from the Hyuga clan and the Yamanaka clan.
It can be said that with the elite jonin of the two clans sitting in the town, any suspicious person will not be able to hide from the hospital guard ninja.
What is the hospital? It is a place that Konoha focuses on. On the surface, it seems that there is no defense, but in fact, it is heavily guarded in secret. There are no less than ten senior ninjas guarding this place, including elite senior ninjas from the Hyuga clan and the Yamanaka clan.
And the Senju clan territory, that is even more terrifying than the Konoha hospital.
For no other reason than the fact that the strongest ninja in Konoha are currently sitting there, and no demon or spirit would ever think of messing around in there.
Now that Kirito himself spends time in both places every day, with a large number of ANBU following him back and forth, it would be strange for Sand ninja spies to be able to find a good opportunity.
There were also the three shadow clone he created every day at work, two of which had never come out after going into the orphanage and a certain Yakushi Gourmet Restaurant branch respectively.
Root's people had secretly followed these two shadow clone to investigate; the Pharmacist's Gourmet Shop branch was fine and could be followed inside, but there was a barrier inside that made it impossible to follow it in depth, while the orphanage was completely blocked by the barrier, and it was impossible to even enter it.
As for the remaining clone, every day is just wandering around the village to play and buy various things to bring back to the Senju clan territory.
Unsurprisingly, this shadow clone was used by Kirito for fishing and pleasure.
It was a pity that so far, not a single fish had been caught.
"This isn't going to work, that old man won't be away from the Sand Ninja Village for long, we need to find a chance to lure him out."
Danzo threw the piece of information in his hand onto the table, a sinister smile gradually appearing on his gloomy face.