Chapter 87: The chance encounter (Edited)

Indeed, Nara Shika had died, but before she died, she had left a message and information for Danzo.

When he saw the message left by Nara Shika, Danzo's grim expression turned to one of dismay, and he finally lost his composure a little, "This is impossible."

Surrounded by Root ninjas, even when they noticed Danzo's loss of composure, no one said anything, everyone remained silent.

Danzo's expression became extremely dumbfounded, with a hint of disbelief in his eyes.

The information that Nara Shika had left with Danzo was precisely an analysis of Naito's strength and abilities.

At first, the fact that both Nara Shika and Kurama Kuraso would fail had already surprised Danzo beyond belief, and even seemed a bit unbelievable to him.

But after seeing Nara Shika's analysis of Naito's strength, these surprises were nothing.

Naito's strength growth was astounding!

No wonder Hiruzen had transferred Naito to that department, it wasn't to protect Naito, Naito had the qualifications to enter there!

Danzo had seen countless geniuses, like Orochimaru, whom he had watched grow step by step.

However, he had never seen one who would improve as fast as Naito!

Even he had failed repeatedly, and now it seemed almost impossible to deal with him again!

Taking a deep breath, Danzo finally reluctantly calmed down.

There was a steady gleam in his eyes.

"Naito, with his rapid improvement, sooner or later he will become uncontrollable, Hiruzen, what exactly will you do?"

...

Rain Country, in a small town.

In a dark corner, there were three ninjas were talking quietly.

Ninja A: "What's the situation?"

Ninja B: "There are still no moves taken by the Amegakure ninja, and there are no clashes between Iwagakure and Konoha."

Ninja C: "They could make a big move in a while, so stay alert and continue to gather information."

Ninja A and B: "Understood."

The three ninja exchange information with each other.

And just as they finished their conversation and were about to leave, a figure suddenly appeared from around the corner.

It was so fast that none of the three had time to dodge, or even use a Jutsu.

Whoosh!!!

All they could see was a silver flash moving towards them, and then the figure appeared behind the three, holding a sword in his hand, but without a drop of blood on the sword, which was still as clean as if it was brand new.

He was wearing a raincoat which is a common sight in the Rain Country, but it was slightly worn, and his face was somewhat young, but there was no hesitation or wavering in his eyes, only a calmness that belied his age.

It was none other than Naito himself.

Turning around, Naito shook his head slightly and muttered, "It's disappointing to hear a lot of nonsense after all this time."

The three ninjas, for their part, at that moment revealed an incomparable look of shock and tried to turn around, but the upper halves of the three of them suddenly came off.

Blood splattered everywhere.

Naito waved his sword again, and the three men disappeared without a sound.

Still without a drop of blood on the sword, Naito put it away in its scabbard and then pulled out a scroll.

"Seal!"

Pushi!

Naito's sword instantly disappeared into thin air, while on the scroll was an additional text depicting a seal.

As an undercover ninja, it was impossible for Naito to carry his sword on his back all the time.

If it was a short sword, he wouldn't consider doing that, but this sword was still quite long, so it could only be sealed on the scroll.

However, it was really easy to open the scroll and pull out the sword at any time.

Putting the scroll away in his pocket, Naito turned around and left the place as if nothing had happened.

This was a small town in the Rain Country, and Naito had been here for days, but he hadn't gotten any useful information.

It was almost time to change places.

After shaking his head, Naito prepared to leave the town.

However, as Naito walked through the streets, he heard a commotion in the distance.

The town was not large and there were few ninja, so most of the people in the town were civilians.

But since it was in the interior of the Rain Country, it wasn't completely in the middle of a war like the outlying places, and it was still relatively harmonious.

But, it was only temporary, war will come to this place sooner or later.

"Catch the two of them!!!"

"Those two are thieves!"

The shouts were all over the place, and as the crowd went on a rampage, two children, each with a long loaf of bread in hand, pushed their way through the crowd.

The person chasing them could not chase them both because of the large crowd.

Naito didn't even stop in his tracks, not at all interested in such things, but by a good coincidence, a phrase made Naito stop instantly.

"Konan! Let's go!"

"Yes!"

A teenage boy with orange hair rushed from the crowd, while a young girl with short blue hair followed close behind.

From the rear, constant shouting and cursing could be heard.

"Is that them...," A hint of dismay appeared on Naito's face, the two figures were all too familiar.

Yahiko and Konan!

Nagato was missing, but definitely, they were the three children Jiraiya trained.

He didn't expect to meet such important people right away in a random village in the Rain Country; without Yahiko, it could be said that there would be no Akatsuki.

Even if Nagato had created something approximating Akatsuki, it would have required a great effort on Uchiha Obito's part to guide him.

Yahiko fled, with Konan following, but she wasn't as good as Yahiko after all.

Stealing something secretly was fine, but stealing and running after being caught wasn't so easy.

While running, Konan tripped on the muddy ground, let out a startled cry and the bread in his hand slipped out of his hands and flew away.

Coincidentally, it flew in Naito's direction.

Which will he choose... Konan or the bread?

This was a question that a ninja in the ninja world wouldn't even bother to ask, but Naito couldn't ignore it.

Whether it was Konan, Yahiko or Nagato, they were all very important, especially Nagato.

The Rinnegan, which appeared even before the anime began, was a scheme that Uchiha Madara started from his last fight with Senju Hashirama.

After picking up the bread with one hand, Naito reached out his other hand and wrapped it around Konan's waist, preventing her from falling.

"Thank you... Thank you," After Naito prevented him from falling on the muddy ground, Konan unconsciously hugged him and thanked him.

At this moment, she wasn't the cold and icy beauty she was in the anime.

She was a little out of breath because she had been chased all the way.

"It's nothing," Naito nodded slightly and then released her.

On the other hand, Yahiko also noticed what happened behind him, so he hurried back and asked, "Konan! Are you okay?"

Konan simply nodded his head.

It was at that moment that the bread seller, who was in the distance, finally slipped out of the crowd and caught sight of Naito, Konan and Yahiko, so he shouted, "Get those three over there! They're thieves!!!"