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In the cave, the former Hoshigakure ninja, Harutobi, after exhausting the last of the chakra in his body to unlock the star meteorite seal, died.

His wife, Natsuhi, felt the child in her womb and became a widow.

It stands to reason that it is impossible for Harutobi to entrust his wife to a stranger who has just met, especially if the other party is here to grab a meteorite.

The reason why he made such a decision before his death was because he saw that Kisame was not only extremely powerful, but also a principled person.

He could have easily killed them and then find the seal and break it violently. But instead of doing that, he gave them a chance to live, and that too more than once.

Moreover, although Kisame is here to get the meteorite, he also understands that the husband and wife's original intention to seal the meteorite is to prevent more people from being harmed by the meteorite.

When Harutobi thought that after his death, his child and his wife, would have to face a steady stream of hunters.

Therefore, he begged Kisame to leave the country with Natsuhi and go to a more peaceful place in the ninja world, and make a new life.

Kisame glanced at Harutobi's corpse and the sad Natsuhi, and said to the latter:

"I'll wait for you outside the cave. In an hour, if you don't come out, I'll leave."

After he finished speaking, he walked out of the cave.

Natsuhi hugged her husband's body like a clay sculpture that didn't move. After a long period of crying, she slowly started to move.

She dug a hole in the cave, buried his body on the spot, and simply packed some luggage.

Finally, she touched her lower abdomen and her eyes shone with a firm light, then she looked at the entrance and walked out quickly.

She can understand her husband's good intentions, and for the sake of her child, she must live on.

Outside the cave.

"Oh? It hasn't been an hour yet, why didn't you spend a little time with your husband?"

Kisame turned to look at Natsuhi and asked in surprise.

"I don't want you to wait too long." Natsuhi said respectfully.

The mysterious person in front of her had shown a terrible strength that was beyond her cognition. In the face of such a strong man, she dare not disrespect him.

"Very good."

Kisame nodded, and under Natsuhi's surprised eyes, a pair of wide black wings spread out from behind him.

"Let's go."

He walked to Natsuhi's side, stretched out an arm, and wrapped it around the latter's waist and said, "Are you ready?"

Natsuhi's face turned slightly red, but soon returned to normal. She nodded to him and responded, "Yes, my lord. I'm ready."

As soon as she said that, Kisame flapped his wings, and a strong wind rolled up in the forest, and Kisame raised into the sky.

'Swiii.'

The two flew eastward all the way in the night sky 100 meters above the ground.

"Is it cold?" During the flight, Kisame glanced at Natsuhi, who was lying in his arms, and asked.

Although she shook her head and said it was not cold, Kisame slowed down a little and released a burst of chakra into her body, warming her.

Natsuhi cast a grateful look at Kisame

Soon, the two passed through the Hoshigakure and the valley full of poisonous gas, and went straight to the sea in the east of the Land of Bears.

Natsuhi finally looked back in the direction of her village, and her inner thoughts were full of turmoil and surging waves. Then she looked forward, no longer feeling nostalgic.

She didn't know where this man would take her, and she didn't dare to ask, so she just let him hold her and head east.

After one day.

Kisame returned to the Land of Water, landed on the roof of the Mizukage building, and released Natsuhi from his arms.

"This is... Kirigakure?!"

Natsuhi stood on the top of the building and looked at the village below with a look of surprise.

At this time-

'Whoosh whoosh.'

Several figures appeared from all directions, appeared on the roof, and surrounded the two. They were all dressed in light gray uniforms, with various masks on their faces, and all of them were athletic, and at first glance everyone worth their salt would know that they were elite ninjas.

Seeing this scene, Natsuhi was a little flustered, thinking that Kisame brought her to Kirigakure forcibly, just like he broke into the Hoshigakure before.

However, Hoshigakure can't be compared to Kirigakure. In particular, the head of the Kirigakure, the fifth Mizukage Hoshigaki Kisame, is well-known even in Hoshigakure, as the Demi-God.

If this Demi-God of the ninja world appears, it is hard to imagine how the mysterious person will respond.

What surprised her even more was that.

"Mizukage-sama."

The Kiri Anbu, who surrounded the two, knelt down on one knee and bowed to Kisame.

Kisame cast a soothing look at Natsuhi, motioning her not to be nervous, then came to a woman with a flame mask on her face, and instructed her:

"The woman I brought back is pregnant. You arrange a place for her and take good care of her."

The woman, Pakura, hearing that was stunned for a moment, then lowered her head and said, "Yes."

Kisame turned his head and said to Natsuhi:

"For the next year, you can stay in Kirigakure to raise your baby with peace of mind, and let's talk about what to do next after you give birth to the child. You can decide whether you want to stay or not."

"Thank you... Mizukage-sama."

Natsuhi bowed to Kisame. No matter how stupid she is, she can understand what happened. The mysterious man in front of her is the famous Hoshigaki Kisame.

Kisame smiled, flapped his wings again and rose into the sky, and soon disappeared into the sky.

After he left, Pakura stepped forward and looked at Natsuhi, the big red-haired beauty. After a few seconds of silence, she said, "Please come with me."

Natsuhi did not hear the loss in Pakura's tone. She nodded and followed her to the small mansion next to the Mizukage Building.

There were no vacant rooms, but after Tsunade became the head of the medical department, she moved out with her disciples, so the room was vacated again.

'Creee.'

Pakura opened the door, brought Natsuhi into the room, and asked if the latter was satisfied, and said that she would send some money and daily necessities later.

"My lord, thank you so much."

Natsuhi was very satisfied with her new residence, and she was very grateful to Pakura.

"There are some things I have to explain to you in advance, so that you may be prepared."

Pakura hesitated for a while, but pointed to the next room, and said to her, "The person living there is called Yukino, Mizukage-sama's woman. I hope you can keep a low profile and try not to come in conflict with her. No matter what the problem is, wait for Mizukage-sama to come back and solve it. Okay?"

"What?"

Hearing these words, Natsuhi opened her mouth wide, and then came back to her senses after a long while, and said in disbelief, "You are mistaken. The relationship between me and Hoshigaki Kisame is not the kind of relationship you imagined."

She had felt that Pakura's eyes were a bit complicated and weird, but now she realized that she was regarded as a mistress.

"The child in your womb isn't his?" Pakura asked in surprise.

It turned out that Pakura has misunderstood, when she saw that Kisame brought back a beautiful woman who was pregnant, she thought that the two had a close relationship.

After getting the truth from Natsuhi's mouth, Pakura apologized feeling a little embarrassed, and at the same time she was relieved for some reason.

Putting the things happening in Kirigakure aside.

After Kisame sent Natsuhi in Kirigakure, he resumed without stopping, rushing towards the next target - Takigakure.

Takigakure, located in the northwest of Konoha, is surrounded by the four countries of Earth, Fire, Snow, and Grass.

A small ninja village like this, which is caught between the great powers, often has a very difficult existence, and will inevitably become a chessboard for the struggle of great powers.

However, Takigakure is much luckier than Amegakure and Kusagakure. Due to the complex terrain in its territory, full of undulating hills and countless waterfalls, it has become a natural barrier, blocking the invasion of other countries.

The location of Takigakure is hidden behind a huge waterfall, which is very secret.

Once upon a time, Takigakure was very strong, and it was expected to become the sixth largest Ninja Village in the Ninja World. It is also the only village with tailed beasts besides the Five Great Ninja Villages.

Moreover, Taki Shinobi's tailed beast is not ordinary, it ranks third among the nine tailed beasts, and its strength is second only to the nine-tailed and eight-tailed beast.

The Takigakure, with a good deck of cards, could have been able to become a force that cannot be ignored in the ninja world. However, the high-level management of this village became overly inflated, and their ambitions were too big to restrain.

They even sent the elite ninja Kakuzu to assassinate the first Hokage Senju Hashirama.

That mission failed unsurprisingly, and Kakuzu was spared by the benevolent Hashirama Senju. It's a pity that the high-level officials of Takigakure committed suicide again, severely fined Kakuzu, and put him in prison.

As a result, when Kakuzu managed to escape from prison. In order to retaliate, he killed all the high-level officials of Takigakure and took away the treasure of the village, the Earth grudge.

After that, Takigakure was completely devastated, almost completely withdrew from the stage of the ninja world, and was no longer active.

This time, he is going to Takigakure to fetch the Hero water, hoping that people there would be more controlled and stop committing suicide. After all, he is not as kind and merciful as Senju Hashirama.

Two days later.

Kisame crossed the borders of the Land of Fire and came to the destination of his trip and stopped in front of a huge waterfall.

'Rumble.'

The flying stream went down a hundred meters and fell to the bottom of the pool, splashing water, and the sound of the water was like thunder in the clouds.

The reason why Kisame found the location of Takigakure so easily was because he sensed from a distance that behind this waterfall, there was a huge and pure natural energy.

It must be the Hero water.

He flapped his wings to the side of the waterfall, and sure enough, at the half-waist position of the waterfall, he found a narrow passage, just enough for one person to enter.

Kisame landed, and along this pathway, came to the back of the waterfall smoothly.

This is a cave, a water curtain cave.

'Da da da.'

Kisame stepped on the stagnant water in the cave, strolled around, and soon found a deep pool. He thought for a moment, then plunged into the water with a wooop, and swam down.

Following the direction of the undercurrent, Kisame went deep into the pool, and when he surfaced from the other side again, he finally arrived at Takigakure.

This beautiful village looked like a paradise.

In the center of the village, there is a huge lake with clear and clean water. Rows of wooden houses are built along the shore and are scattered.

On the island in the center of the lake, there is a towering giant tree with a height of 100 meters.

When Kisame saw this giant tree, his eyes lit up, and he swam towards the island in the heart of the lake, and climbed ashore after a while.

Standing at the foot of this giant tree, he can more intuitively feel how huge it is.

Kisame made a rough observation. The big tree in front of him was more than 40 meters in diameter and 150 meters in height. It probably weighed several thousand tons. Its lush foliage covered the entire sky of Takigakure, but it also left some gaps, allowing the sunlight to form a beam of light to penetrate down, leaving beautiful spots of light on the lake and shore.

It is said that this giant tree has a lifespan of more than a thousand years. Every hundred years, sacred water flows out of the tree, causing the chakra to skyrocket tenfold for those who take it.

That is the Hero water.

"This big tree, it should be part of the divine tree, right?"

Kisame looked at the giant tree in front of him, touched his chin and muttered to himself.

That's because in his perception, this big tree is absorbing the natural energy around it all the time, so that it can grow so big, its branches and leaves covered the sky.

It can absorb natural energy and has a lifespan of more than a thousand years.

Combining these two points, Kisame reasonably guessed that the giant tree in Takigakure was probably part of the Shinju tree planted by the Otsutsuki clan, and it was scattered here by accident.

It is similar to the star meteorite that fell from the sky. Although the shape is different, it is related to the power of the ten tails.

In Kisame's memory, the Hero water seems to be located in the hollow at the bottom of the big tree, inside a wooden house.

However, he can't go to fetch it directly now, because the ninjas of Takigakure have already discovered him.

More than a dozen ninjas wearing Taki Ninja forehead guards rushed over from the bridge across the lake, while shouting and surrounding him.

"Who are you? How dare you break into Takigakure without authorization?"

A man with long green hair shouted sharply at Kisame. He seemed to be the leader of the village, with a calm demeanor and a huge energy hidden within him.

It's seven tails Chakra.

This person is the head of Takigakure, the current seven tail Jinchuriki.