Chapter 21

Gato Building.

Nearly a hundred wandering ninjas and samurai patrolled the various floors of the building. They were armed with various weapons and had a fierce look on their face.

In the lobby of Gato's office, several Jonins were sitting lazily on different table, chairs and sofas, looking playfully at the two people, one tall and one short, in the corner.

The tall man's upper body and the lower half of his face were wrapped in bandages, revealing only a pair of cold eyes; the short boy had a delicate looking girlish face and was wearing a gray-brown long robes on his body.

These two people were Zabuza Momochi, one of the seven swordsman of the hidden mist and his self proclaimed tool, Haku.

Haku was the same masked boy who was previously responsible for intercepting boatmen and fishermen.

Zabuza was clearly angry after he came to know what his 'tool' had done. Squinting his eyes, he said in a hoarse voice: "So, you dare to stand before me like this after what you have done? The task I gave you was to kill those people to pieces, not to persuade them, you useless trash!"

"I'm sorry, Zabuza-sama." Haku lowered his head, there was a hint of self blame on his face.

"Ninjas are just tools and we don't need any emotions." Zabuza said calmly with a cold face: "If I feel like you no longer have any use of me as a tool, I will break you with my own hands!"

Haku didn't refute, just bowed his head and remained silent.

"How stupid, Zabuza." A frivolous voice suddenly sounded, lazily saying: "This tool of yours is obviously useless, but you still don't plan to throw it away?"

Looking around, the person speaking had short black hair that reached to his ears. The eyebrows are thick and thick, and behind the back are two blades with slits like thunder and lightning.

"You don't need to take care of my affairs, Raiga." Zabuza said coldly.

Although they were both ninjas from the same village, their relationship was actually not good.

Since the Fourth Hokage came to power in Kirigakure Village, the policy of "Blood Mist" was soon launched.

They have been fighting against each other since they were Ninja School students. Even the kids, who grew up playing with them, were not trustworthy, not to mention that Zabuza and Raiga have only met each other a few times during their mission as seven swordsman of the hidden mist village.

"You can't say that. We are a team now." Kurosuki Raiga grinned and said with a ferocious smile: "What if your tool holds us back when we are fighting? If you cannot bring yourself to do it, let me personally help you deal with your tool..."

"Raiga, are you trying to provoke me?" Zabuza said with a cold voice, exuding murderous intent.

"Oh, have you noticed it?" Kurosuki Raiga smirked hearing Zabuza and remarked, "I've always wanted to see the strength of the demon of the hidden mist village for a long time."

Silence!

The atmosphere in the entire hall suddenly became chilling as the man stopped speaking.

Just when the two men were at war with each other and were about to start a fight, there was a loud "bang" sound, and the main door of the building was suddenly blasted from the other side.

Woosh! PItu! Splash!

White paper shurikens swarmed into the room ike raindrops. Raiga, who was close to the door, was unable to dodge, his waist and abdomen were penetrated by the makeshift paper weapons and he was nailed to the wall behind him.

The remaining three jonins were far away from the gate which allowed them to react quickly enough.

These jonins jumped back and managed to avoid the paper shurikens attack in a hurry.

Ting! Tap!

Rhythmic footsteps sounded through the smoke as the silhouette came to into the view. The three jonins were surprised to see that the attacker was a woman wearing a black red cloud robe and a small white flower bun on her head.

"Who are you?" Zabuza held a long sword and narrowed his eyes.

"Akat… the Akatsuki organization!" Maruyama, the former Iwa Ninja star, looked horrified and couldn't believe it, "Why are people from the Akatsuki organization here?"

"Akatsuki organization?"Zanghua, the ninja from the hidden bear village looked confused as he had never heard of such an organization.

"A few years ago, the hidden rock Village hired the mercenaries from the Akatsuki organization to participate in the war against the Kumogakure." Maruyama swallowed hard and said explained the horrifying deeds of the Akatsuki, "The Akatsuki organization only dispatched two people at that time, leading ten jonin from Kumo Hidden Village. The vanguard troops of the Kumogakure were completely wiped out!"

"Wha— what?" At this time, cold sweat broke out on Zanghua's forehead, and he stared at his eyes and said, "Just two people wiped out the vanguard of the army? Are you kidding me?"

"That's it for now, I give up on this job! This has nothing to do with me anymore…" Maruyama shouted, turned around and was about to jump out of the window to escape.

But as soon as he turned around, a paper Kunai was stabbed in his back instantly pinning him to the wall with his blood flowing on the ground.

"What should we do, Zabuza-sama?!" Haku's body trembled in fear as he watched this horrifying scene. He looked at his owner for further instructions.

"Stop her!" Zabuza, who cared about his reputation did not dare to escape and replied without any hesitation. 

At the same time, he also jumped back into the air and stated forming a series of hand seals.

Hiding In The Mist Jutsu!

Zabuza started spitting clouded smoke from his mouth and the entire room was filled by the mist almost instantly. The mist helped the jonins left in the room to hide themselves from konan's sight. 

Looking at the mist all around, Konan did not show any kind of emotion on her face and stood in her place without moving.

Even though she did not make a move, the enemy did not sit still like her.

"Secret Technique: Thousand Flying Water Needles of Death!"