
Cracks...Cracks
On the third battlefield, the fight between Ice and Ice, and Ice and Crystals could be seen, most of the battlefield, if not all, seemed to have been covered in Water, Mist, Ice, ice, or Crystals of various colors.
But the plot of the battle seemed to have been decided from the very beginning.
Despite a strong start, the difference in strength between Yuki Kahyo and the two children, Haku and Guren becomes clearly visible, and the, both Haku and Guren looked breathless and tired while Kahyo on the other hand seemed to be fine.
Even the crystallization ability of the Guren Crystal Element proved futile in the presence of the Kahyo Land Ice Chain.
"Is there anything else you can use?" Kahyo asked Haku and Guren indifferently.
“Huff.... Huff...” While taking a deep breath to calm himself down, Guren said to Haku, “He is strong, very strong..
“Then what should we do?” Haku asked with a bit of hesitation.
Guren looked at Kunoichi who stood opposite him, then clenched his fists with determination and said, “We must use the Curse Seal given to us.
Haku nodded and directly used the Curse Seal implanted into him by Orochimaru.
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"Dam…. How can I get out of this trap ?! ” Mageta sighed while killing another snake that came to bite her.
Just a moment ago, Mageta realized that the enemy might be playing with her, 'Unfortunately for them, he said, they did not realize that slow poison was ineffective on me because I could only remove it from my body using my Kekkei Genkai. But even if that's the case, how can I get out of here? The smoke is endless!
Even my Strongest Wind Release Jutsu can't eliminate smoke...Running fast, and others don't work here, what kind of Jutsu is this? And because of this smog, I could not find anyone, except snakes and trees, I had not seen a single creature since I arrived here ... Damn, if I knew that this mission would be very troublesome.I would never come here!'
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On a cliff in the distance.
Due to their fierce battle, the five Akatsuki Shinobi, Momochi Zabuza, and the other seven Otogakure-nin did not notice the two figures standing on a high cliff in the distance.
These two people were none other than Orochimaru and Kabuto, and they were observing the appearance of the seven children against the four members of Akatsuki.
Zabuza is not counted because technically he is not yet Otogakure-nin, and Orochimaru himself is also not too interested in Zabuza's appearance because Zabuza does not have Kekkei Genkai.
After observing for a while, Orochimaru asked Kabuto, "Kabuto, did you get any new information about the identities of the other three?"
Kabuto shoved his glasses at the base of his nose, then said, “Ya Orochimaru-sama, the person whom Kimimaro and Jugo were fighting called, Kaguya Takashi, apparently, he is one of the survivors of the Kaguya Clan. This file records everything I could find about him.
The one who was trapped in the Smoke World by Herbahime, and Yukimi was called Chinoike Mageta, she seemed to have been saved from the Valley of Hell by someone, and was probably the last survivor of the Chinoike Clan.”
Orochimaru shook his head, he knew better than anyone that this person named Chinoike Mageta was definitely not the last survivor of the Chinoike Clan, after all, 'I guess I should visit En Yahiro and tell him that a member of his clan managed to survive the massacre and has now joined Akatsuki in the trade for something I might find interesting, maybe I can even visit the colosseum and see if there is a Kekkei Genkai there that interests me.'
Kabuto paid no attention to Orochimaru's thoughts, and continued, “As for Kunoichi, his name seems to be Yuki Kahyo, a nuke-nin from Kirigakure. She seems to have left Kirigakure two years ago to search for her missing husband a few months earlier.”
However, Orochimaru had to be disappointed, as Kabuto shook his head, “No, he has no Ice Element. Although he is a fairly powerful shinobi, a shinobi with the power level of Elite Jonin, from what I managed to gather, he mastered the Lightning Element and Water Element, but there is no Kekkei Genkai.”
Orochimaru immediately lost interest, and asked with a bored expression, "So, did he find it?"
Kabuto smiled at Orochimaru's lack of interest, and said, “Clearly. If he did, he would not have joined Akatsuki. I did some research and tried to track him down, to see if I could find anything about him.”
"And?" Orochimaru asked, he could sense that Kabuto had managed to find traces of her missing husband, and that was something important that Kabuto would never mention these details to him.
Kabuto looked towards Kahyo vs. Haku and Guren's fight, then said, “His corpse has never been found so there is no conclusive evidence that he is dead or not, but it is not difficult to assume he died because the mission he did. was the protection of concubine Daimyo from the Fatherland.
And the thing is, there was once a mission in the Dark Market asking for his murder. And this is where things got interesting, the mission was taken by Suijin of Amatsukami and successfully completed by him.”
Orochimaru narrowed his eyes, "So he joined Akatsuki in his quest for revenge on Suijin?"
Kabuto shrugged, “I'm not entirely sure, I heard rumors that he had quit his life as a shinobi two years ago and lived in the Land of Waves ever since, he did not pursue Suijin or Amatsukami at that time, but what suddenly changed and what drove him to join Akatsuki, I do not know.”
“Interesting, he has quit his life as a Shinobi, and then suddenly joined Akatsuki?” Orochimaru muttered, then said, “Fakta that he does not want to kill children, and also does not allow other Akatsuki members to kill children, signifying something. Try to find out more about him, there's more to his story, and I want to know what it is. He might just be a useful pawn in dealing with Akatsuki.”
Kabuto nodded, then refocused on the battle, and said, “By the way, Orochimaru-sama, the seven of them, including, Kimimaro, Jugo, Tenzo, Haku, Guren, Hebahime, are, and Yukimi seems to be performing extremely amazingly. ”
Orochimaru looked back and said in a hoarse voice, "They're still too early."
Although it seemed that they were able to fight against the four members of Akatsuki, in fact, that was not the case at all.
This was because none of the Akatsuki members had actually tried to kill them, and secondly with only their Cursed Seal active, they were barely able to hold back Akatsuki.
Rather than saying that they performed well enough, it would be more accurate to say, that Akatsuki Shinobi was playing with them, even one of the Chinoike Clan did not use his Ketsuryugan ability.
The only one who performed quite well was Tenzo who in his Tree Man form was able to fight against Hoshigaki Kisame.
Kabuto did not deny Orochimaru's words, and said, "In a few years, they will become ninjas capable of rivaling the Jonin Elite or even Kage-level shinobi."
Orochimaru did not deny Kabuto's words, but said in a slightly disturbed tone, "Maybe."
Kabuto's face stiffened as he mentioned Hyuga Kuroto.
Although Orochimaru may never have stated it specifically, however, over the years he worked as Orochimaru's assistant, Kabuto has understood that if there is someone in this Shinobi world that Orochimaru truly values and regards as his disciple, then it is none other than Hyuga Kuroto.
The others were all, including the seven children, of which Orochimaru needed time to train him no more than a disposable pawn.
In fact, even Kabuto, himself was not that valuable to Orochimaru, only Hyuga Kuroto was someone Orochimaru really cared about and tried to watch over him, he said, sometimes he even got to clean up the mess that Hyuga Kuroto might have left behind, and Kabuto really felt envious because of this.
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