Chapter 128 Going Home

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Chapter 128 Going Home

The "rescue" of Hozuki Suigetsu was carried out personally by Rengoku Kyojuro.

To be honest, he didn't quite understand the way Giyu and Kocho Shinobu got along. The special atmosphere between the two that is always at the two extremes of "excellent and extremely bad" is as unpredictable as the clouds on a windy day. It makes it impossible for him to say anything. Even if he has just come up with an idea, it will be difficult for the two of them to communicate. Disruptions in expected behavior or language.

For the first time in his life, Kyojuro felt powerless, as if nothing he could do would help the two of them have a good relationship, but would instead lead to unnecessary things just like how he guided Giyu before.

[Giyu, you can only rely on yourself to get along well with Miss Shinobu. ]

After signing for a while, Kyojuro went to the third underground floor to release Hozuki Suigetsu.

However, just like Uzumaki Naruto and Hyuga Hinata were once Giyu left them alone, Giyu and Kocho Shinobu didn't say a word for a long time after Kyojuro left.

But unlike the tense atmosphere between Naruto and Hinata, the current calm between the two is not awkward, but extremely harmonious, just like the water surface without a breeze in spring, quietly reflecting the unrest on the shore.

Kocho Shinobu bent over the table and drew a huge cross on the blank space of the notebook with a ballpoint pen.

These two horizontal and vertical lines are like a coordinate system, dividing the white paper into four evenly sized quadrants. Kocho Shinobu wrote in four boxes respectively - "Important and urgent", "Important but not urgent", "Urgent but not important" and "Not important nor urgent".

Giyu stared at the paper motionless, a little confused at first, but as Kocho Shinobu began to write, he immediately realized: Kocho Shinobu was making plans for the future, and prioritized them to facilitate her planning and allocating time.

She wrote in the "Important and Urgent" quadrant: [Learn the knowledge left by Orochimaru; try to reverse his experiments and rescue or free the experimental subjects who are still alive. ]

It concerns dozens of lives on the three underground floors, and it must be completed before leaving the Kingdom of Water or before the experimental subject dies, so it is also the most important.

"Important but not urgent": [Check Ranmaru's body and collect information related to the 'blood disease'; raise Flower Breathing and Water Breathing to normal levels, and then try to mix chakra to use; practice wood release, cultivate crops. ]

These are equally important, but there is no need to rush.

Whether it is blood diseases or cultivating crops, it will take a period of time to produce results, so it needs to be done slowly. Fortunately, both Ranmaru and Uchiha Itachi still have enough time.

"Urgent but not important": [Collect various intelligence on the Kingdom of Water before leaving. ]

But when the tip of her pen fell on the last quadrant of "not urgent nor important", Kocho Shinobu stopped. It seemed that she couldn't think of anything similar, so she put the tip of the pen against her cheek while thinking.

"Is it really possible?"

Giyu suddenly asked, "It will be difficult to reverse Orochimaru's experiment. There is a big gap between the ninja world and the earth, and Orochimaru has been studying these things for many years but he couldn't do it."

Thinking of those half-people at the bottom. He felt sad for the half-human and half-monster children lingering in the nutrition tank as if they had been transplanted with animal organs, Who are like the dying "monsters" like tree men in the deepest part.

Unfortunately, the knowledge involved in these experiments is quite advanced and cannot be understood by Giyu in a short time.

"It's about human life. It's better to take risks than to do nothing, otherwise they can only die slowly in pain."

Kocho Shinobu gave the answer, but it didn't sound like there was no hope at all.

"Although I can only bite the bullet and give it a try, when I was researching drugs against Kibutsuji Muzan with Miss Tamayo, I already had some foundations in cutting-edge biology and medicine, and I also dabbled in mathematics. Last night, after I replaced the strange words in Orochimaru's experimental report with words on Earth, I could barely understand half of them."

Kocho Shinobu wrapped her fingers around the hair beside her forehead and said with some tangles: "But the rest part, I have to ask Yakushi Kabuto for help. After all, apart from Orochimaru himself, he is the person who knows the experimental procedures best, and he also knows how to operate those experimental equipment and computers. But I don't know if I should Trust him..."

"Do I need to use illusions to make him cooperate?" Giyu asked.

With the Three tomoe Sharingan, those genjutsu that couldn't be used in the past are no longer a problem now.

Although he dislikes this kind of thing, using illusion can indeed save a lot of trouble, and now is not the time to dwell on it.

"No, for this kind of high-precision work, if you use illusion to control him, it will actually reduce his ability to judge the situation of those 'experimental subjects', so I can only give him some room to play in this regard."

Kocho Shinobu frowned and expressed her worries.

"Yakushi Kabuto is different from Miss Tamayo. Although he promised to help, so far, he has no real regrets for his actions of helping others. I can't figure out what he wants. "

"I have made it clear to him. Well, even if he helped me save those people, I wouldn't let go of a bad guy like him so easily. But Yakushi Kabuto actually just smiled and said that he only had one request, that is: if he is to be killed -"

Her eyes fell on Giyu's face, "He hopes to die in your hands. So that you can continue what you didn't finish last time. "

Hearing this, Giyu's face tightened. Yakushi Kabuto was talking about the last time Giyu almost strangled him to death.

"I don't know what he was thinking. "

Giyu shook his head firmly, "But I have no interest in being an executioner. "

"I knew you would say this, so I told him the same thing, 'If you decide to die now, just hit the wall yourself.' "

[There is also a saying 'save other people's hands from being dirty'.] But she did not convey this to Giyu.

As Kocho Shinobu spoke, she filled in the "Important but not urgent" column with a pen, "Unlike ordinary 'demons', Orochimaru's death did not have as great an impact on him as I imagined. You have to find a way to figure out what he is thinking. At times like this, I really envy Tanjiro's nose that can sniff out the secrets of people's hearts. "

After her words fell, there was another silence between the two of them.

This silence was completely different from the peaceful harmony before, as if the sky had suddenly turned cloudy.

Kocho Shinobu reluctantly felt something, and raised her head, just in time to see the tomoe in Giyu's Sharingan eye spinning rapidly, and there was an urgent desire in it that Giyu had never experienced before.

The skin on Giyu's neck was slightly red, and he couldn't help but take two deep breaths. He didn't even know that the Moon Breathing rhythm was interrupted.

His eyes were locked on Kocho Shinobu's face, and as if he had made a difficult decision, he asked the question that he had been avoiding asking since he woke up.

"Kocho, did you meet Tanjiro before you came?"

He was uncharacteristically nervous, and for a moment he forgot the agreement between the three of them on their names.

According to the Demon Slayer's diary, all swordsmen who turn on their patterns will not live past the age of 25.

Giyu himself died two years after the Battle of Infinity Castle, at the age of 23. Tanjiro was 17 at the time.

Five or six years later, Kyojuro came to the ninja world. Tanjiro was 23 years old, but he had not yet reached the upper limit of the life span of a demon slayer marked swordsman, so Kyojuro did not meet Tanjiro in the underworld. This also made Giyu breathe a sigh of relief.

But when Kocho Shinobu arrived, more than three years had passed, and it was finally time for the final answer to be revealed - did the mark take away Tanjiro's young life?

Giyu unconsciously held his breath and waited solemnly for Kocho Shinobu's answer.

In his opinion, Tanjiro's contribution to killing Muzan Kibutsuji was greater than all ten of him combined.

It would be unfair if Tanjiro died young and could not be resurrected because of this incident.

No matter what, Tanjiro is more qualified to survive than him!

"He is over twenty-five years old, but I have never seen him."

Kocho Shinobu smiled and gave the answer that Giyu wanted to hear most. It was also a definite fact, not an excuse for comfort.

"My lord said that perhaps when the Muzan cells took over Tanjiro's body, they contributed a lot of nutrients to make up for his damaged lifespan. Therefore, he should be able to live to a very old age like the original swordsman who used the Sun Breathing. Nezuko, who once became a demon, will also live a long life."

When Kocho Shinobu finished speaking, the rustling of leaves could be heard above her head.

A gust of warm wind shook the big trees and apple trees next to the two of them, and it hit Giyu's frozen face accurately as if it had a precise target.

"That's... great."

With a slightly trembling sigh from the bottom of his heart, Giyu's ice-lake-like face began to melt.

His shining Sharingan narrowed in happiness, and hot tears burst out uncontrollably. Even the gauze bandaging his left eye became wet and soaked in just a few seconds.

"Great, great, great, great..."

Giyu sat there blankly, repeating these simple words like a mantra, over and over again, just like Himejima Gyōmei walking in meditation and reciting the name of Amitabha with full of emotions and Genuine gratitude towards God.

Even on the day when he knew that all the Hashiras could be resurrected, Giyu had never been as grateful as he was today to the fate that controlled everything.

"It's great that Tanjiro can survive!"

Giyu muttered like crazy, while raising his right hand and wiping the tears that flowed to his mouth and chin again and again.

His movements were clumsy. After all, Giyu, who had been emotionally isolated from himself for many years, did not always have the opportunity to shed tears.

Across the round table, Kocho Shinobu looked at this scene in astonishment, a little at a loss.

She had never seen Giyu in such a state. She didn't know whether to comfort him or rejoice with him.

Kocho Shinobu instinctively reached out, trying to do what Kyojurou often did to others, pressing Giyu's shoulders to calm him down a little. But just when that right hand was about to touch Giyu, it stopped suddenly, and then turned back to cover her mouth.

The summer wind blew the leaves above them wildly.

At this moment, Kocho Shinobu also saw clearly that when Giyu awkwardly wiped away the tears near the corners of his mouth, the corners of his lips were slightly raised in the gap between his movements.

Giyu smiled.

The smile that had not been seen in nearly ten years suddenly bloomed like a rare flower that was picky about the environment, catching people off guard.

Kocho Shinobu really wished that she had a camera at hand that could preserve Giyu who was crying and laughing at the same time. The most important thing is that he could cry and laugh at the same time. As evidence, she could show it to the lord and his wife who had been looking forward to this scene but had no chance to see it.

[Only I can see it, what a pity...]

However, the moment Kocho Shinobu had this idea, a sharp and angry voice broke into her ears.

"You bad woman, what did you do to the teacher!"

The released Hozuki Suigetsu suddenly jumped out from the ramp up the mountain and got stuck between Kocho Shinobu and Giyu.

He blocked the sight of Kocho Shinobu, looked at the latter with vigilance and suspicion, and said with a threat: "Don't think that you can bully the teacher just because he was injured. I am no longer the person I was yesterday. That technique of yours can't try to control me anymore!"

As he spoke, his hands turned completely into transparent and flowing liquid instead of the semi-solid jelly before.

It seems that from last night to now, in order to break free from the wooden bars tied to his body and escape from the refrigerator, Hozuki Suigetsu has also stimulated his own potential and completed an important qualitative change in the art of hydration.

He rushed over excitedly, not only to take revenge on Kocho Shinobu and avenge what happened yesterday, but also he was eager to see the teacher.

Unexpectedly, he actually saw the expressionless teacher crying!

For Hozuki Suigetsu, who was born as a Kirigakure ninja, crying is the most embarrassing act. So this woman must have said something hurtful and hurt the teacher's self-esteem.

"You misunderstood." Giyu stopped crying.

When he stood up from behind Hozuki Suigetsu, although his eye circles were still red, his expression had returned to its normal state, "I'm fine."

Noticing this scene, Kocho Shinobu couldn't help but exclaim that it was a pity, so she looked at Hozuki Suigetsu with a hint of unkindness.

On the other hand, Hozuki Suigetsu felt that he had "achieved a great achievement" and no longer cared about Kocho Shinobu who easily subdued him yesterday. He turned around and praised his teacher: "You are worthy of being my teacher. You were obviously injured so badly yesterday, but today you're alive and kicking again. Damn it! I knew that Orochimaru could never be your opponent!"

He seemed to be more confident in Giyu than himself.

"Teacher, in the days since you left, until that handsome guy with the firecracker head came, I have taken good care of everyone in this base as you asked. From the first floor to the third floor, there are meals for more than a hundred people every day. I personally delivered all three meals one by one. I feel even more tired than when I was training in swordsmanship!"

"I've heard Kyojuro say this before," Giyu said sincerely, "Thank you."

" Oh, this is all the teacher's request, what's there to be grateful for?"

Hozuki Suigetsu twisted his body with a playful smile, "But, teacher, if you are satisfied with my performance..."

Although he had his hands behind his back, Behind him, Giyu always felt that he saw the action of a fly rubbing his hands.

"Isn't it time to teach me that handsome sword skill?"

Seeing that Giyu didn't react for a long time, Hozuki Suigetsu finally revealed his goal.

This is what Giyu promised him before he left.

"It should be like this, but..."

Giyu glanced at Kocho Shinobu, and his tone was a bit awkward, "I can't demonstrate those sword forms to you until she doesn't agree."

"Ah? Why do you want her permission? You obviously said you would teach me when you came back..."

Hozuki Suigetsu was obviously a little disappointed, and then glared at Kocho Shinobu maliciously.

Although Kocho Shinobu also has a baby face, Hozuki Suigetsu intuitively feels that Kocho Shinobu and Kyojuro are very old, which is completely different from the teacher who sometimes feels like eight years old and sometimes feels like eighty years old.

But what he didn't expect was that Kocho Shinobu turned a blind eye to his angry glare and instead smiled gently.

She suggested to Giyu: "How about this. During the period when you can't do strenuous activities, I will guide him to practice water breathing. In this way, you don't have to worry about it, and you can rest assured to recover from your injuries."

" Is this okay?"

Giyu was a little surprised. But then I thought about it, and in this way, the promise to both people seemed to be fulfilled.

Kocho Shinobu nodded kindly, "Don't forget, I was originally a Water's swordsman. During this period of time when I will be training him, I also want to become proficient in water breathing and my sister's swordsmanship, and improve it to a normal level."

When she reached normal level, she could use chakra while performing the breathing method, and her wood release became even more handy.

"And it's not so much teaching..."

Kocho Shinobu glanced at Hozuki Suigetsu, "It's better to practice with him. One is a beginner and the other is a repeater. Fighting with each other from time to time should have unexpected benefits."

" Hey, are you kidding?"

Hozuki Suigetsu's eyes flicked back and forth between the faces of Giyu and Kocho Shinobu, and finally stopped at Kocho Shinobu full of doubts, "How about I wait until the teacher is completely recovered? Won't you mislead your disciples if you are a dabbler?"

However, Giyu only used two or three sentences to give up the idea of Hozuki Suigetsu continuing to wait: "You first learn the breathing rhythm and sword movements from her. This part is fixed. No matter who teaches you, there will definitely be no problem. When I get better, I will teach you further content."

Hozuki Suigetsu knew that Giyu had obstacles in lying, and immediately had no doubts.

"Well, since the teacher said so..."

He couldn't hide his impatient nature and accepted the suggestion, "But you have to think about it carefully. If you want to use me as a sparring partner, I have a big advantage with my special physical condition. On the contrary, your little arms and legs may be accidentally broken by me one day."

"Hey," Kocho Shinobu said, covering her mouth in surprise, "Didn't Giyu tell you that chakra is not allowed to be used in the initial stage of learning breathing techniques?"

"?"

Hozuki Suigetsu was stunned, "Doesn't that mean..."

He can't use the Hydrification technique to restore his body at any time?

"It doesn't matter. Pain itself is the best teacher. I won't really get hurt anyway."

Kocho Shinobu picked up the notebook and wrote in the "Not important and not urgent" column: "Teach the disciples of Giyu a lesson."

But after thinking for a while, she crossed out the word "lesson" and changed it to "education".

Seeing the way this child defended Giyu just now, I knew that there was a big difference between him and the cold-blooded young men from the Kaguya clan who were born and raised and had almost no emotions.

Hozuki Suigetsu shuddered and suddenly felt that something was wrong. Just when he was about to ask for some details, Kyojuro walked up from the slope with a small Katsuya on his shoulders.

There is no need to wonder about his relationship with the Great Slug Sage.

Just last night, he and Kocho Shinobu were persuaded by Katsuya to sign a Summoning contract because their respective chakras tasted very similar to those of the Uzumaki clan and Senju Hashirama.

After all, it is a Summoning beast that can conduct Yang attribute chakra, which is medical ninjutsu. For Hashira, this temptation is too great.

"Young Hozuki, Shinobu is the one who knows how to teach children best among us, you are very lucky!"

Kyojuro put Katsuya on the table, "In this way, Giyu, you can rest in peace and recover from your injuries! There's no need to worry about Konoha. Before I came here, I had already sent a letter to Sasuke! He said that if you are with me, you will probably go back later..."

"Wait a minute!" Katsuya interrupted Kyojuro's words, "Speaking of things in Konoha, Hozuki boy, have you forgotten something important?"

Hozuki Suigetsu was stunned for two seconds, and then suddenly realized: "Yes, A scroll given to Orochimaru by a Konoha ninja!"

"A scroll given to Orochimaru by a Konoha ninja?" Giyu's pupils narrowed in alarm.

[ Why are the ninjas of Konoha connected with the rebellious ninja Orochimaru? ]

"It was the day after you left, teacher. A ninja from Konoha came here to find Orochimaru. He brought an encrypted scroll. The person who wrote the letter seemed to be the leader of an organization in Konoha, he wrote something against you, teacher."

"Aimed at me?" Giyu felt even more wrong.

Hozuki Suigetsu touched his head with hands, "Hey, where did I put that thing?"

"Oh, luckily you called me out before you left, Giyu."

The crisp voice of Katsuya was full of emotions. It is a satire on Hozuki Suigetsu's rough nerves.

It swelled up its body and spit out a smaller scroll just like it had spit out the Summoning scroll. "Because I knew this thing might be important, I kept it."

There was no mucus as imagined on the scroll. So Giyu thanked Katsuya and started reading.

Kyojuro and Kocho Shinobu stood behind him, one on the left and one on the right. After browsing through it, their expressions were equally serious.

The spell on the scroll has been deciphered by Yakushi Kabuto, so the content inside is directly a secret letter written to Orochimaru.

First, Roots wants Orochimaru to capture Giyu who may have reached the Land of Water.

Second, Root knew that Hidan's head was on Giyu's body and asked Orochimaru to hand the head directly to the Root ninja who sent the message.

Thirdly, Root also wants Giyu's Sharingan to be sent to Konoha.

No matter which one of the three "orders" there is a strong flavor of conspiracy.

"Root." Giyu muttered this syllable and frowned, "Is it the root that deceived Itachi last time?"

Back then in the Land of Rain, two root ninjas planned to sacrifice their lives to increase Itachi's recognition of the root, but fortunately Shisui saw through it, otherwise things would have become very troublesome.

"I know the root. It's the ANBU team controlled by Konoha's advisor, Shimura Danzo. Before I left Konoha, I met the reclusive advisor for the first time! But it's a bit of a coincidence..."

Kyojuro introduced: "Giyu, your left hand and eye were injured and were bandaged, but the elder Shimura Danzo has a disability in his right eye and right arm, which is completely opposite to you!"

Giyu did not pay attention to this "coincidence" and remained serious. Thinking about it he said: "Since Orochimaru is a traitor, why would Shimura Danzo issue such an order? Although I am not a ninja, I am still a student of the ninja school. He asked Orochimaru like this..."

Kocho Shinobu had a sullen face and hit the nail on the head. She said: "I just want Giyu life."

"And my eyes."

Giyu added, then remembered what he found in the refrigerator of Orochimaru base.

Those eyeballs are indeed Uchiha's. But even if those eyes were soaked in maintenance fluid, Giyu could still tell with his transparent world that those eyes were at least ten years old. Judging from the time, they should be the eyes of the clan members who died before and after the Third Ninja World War.

In other words, these "collections" have nothing to do with Uchiha Flame and Uchiha Fumi, who died mysteriously three years ago, so Giyu temporarily gave up his doubts about Orochimaru.

However, Shimura Danzo asked for his eyes by name, which made Giyu have some strange considerations about this Konoha elder who he had never met but heard about him for a long time.

In Itachi's mouth, it was this Danzo who asked him to steal the experimental report on the venom sac transplantation of Sanshouo fish in the Land of Rain.

According to the "angel", it was Danzo who, together with Hanzo, wiped out the peace organization led by the three young men in the Land of Rain.

And now, Giyu discovered that this character seemed to be controlling Orochimaru's movements remotely.

In short, there seems to be nothing good about this person.

[Is this the first time he has had the idea of using the Sharingan? ]

[So the last time Itachi was attacked, was it also under the instruction of this person? ]

[Also, why would he know that I have Hidan's head? What does he want to do with Hidan head? ]

Gradually, Giyu has sketched out the image of the mastermind behind the scenes in his mind.

"By the way, I asked Yakushi Kabuto why Danzo knew that we had Hidan's head in our hands!"

Suigetsu Hozuki added, "As a result, Yakushi Kabuto told me that according to the information collected by Orochimaru, The reason why the Evil God Cult has been revived is because the roots of Konoha are secretly supporting it in order to obtain information about Hidan's Immortal body!"

"Hey." Giyu squeezed the scroll in his hand tightly, his eyes filled with tears. The anger in his heart turned deep red.

That night, hundreds of people were killed or injured, and it was actually the root of Konoha that was behind this? !

Kyojuro sighed with emotion: "It seems that even the most glamorous Konoha has a dark side that we can't see!"

Kocho Shinobu looked at Giyu's expression and secretly screamed. According to her understanding of Giyu, that "sense of tearing" may be getting worse.

"Where is the ninja who delivered the message?" Giyu raised his eyes and looked at Hozuki Suigetsu and asked in a cold voice.

"We send him away." Hozuki Suigetsu spread his hands, and then added a little uneasily: "Well, in order to stop Konoha from staring at the teacher, I stained your summer homework with some blood, and talked with Yakushi Kabuto to imitate the reply in Orochimaru style and gave it to the ninja to take back..."

At that time, he felt that he had done a good thing.

But now, Hozuki Suigetsu looked at the serious expressions of the three of them and wondered if he should have taken the risk and stopped that person from leaving.

Giyu continued to ask: "What did you write in the reply?"

Hozuki Suigetsu shrank his neck and replied: "I credit Orochimaru's tone, saying that Orochimaru has caught you and you were killed in an experiment, and he didn't say anything about Hidan's head. The blood-stained summer homework is evidence that you have been caught by Orochimaru, because Konoha will definitely be able to identify your handwriting..."

"I'm dead "Really?"

Giyu muttered, thinking about the possible reactions of his father, mother, Itachi and Sasuke when they received the news, all the expressions on his face disappeared and became a little dazed and pale.

"Did I...did I do something wrong?"

Seeing Giyu's appearance, Hozuki Suigetsu became increasingly uneasy.

He does not have a normal family, and his relationship with his clan is very weak. Even if his clan was exterminated, he would not feel anything wrong. Even if he suddenly received the news of his brother Hozuki Mangetsu's death today, he would probably only express a few words of emotion, so he cannot imagine what would happen if the news of Giyu's death reaches Konoha, it may cause a reaction.

Giyu's brain was busy.

Although there is a high probability that the root will conceal the news of his death, what if it happens?

Thinking of the dark chakra in the minds of his father and Shisui, as well as the way the Sharingan evolved and its impact on people's personalities, Giyu really couldn't help but worry.

Especially when Shimura Danzo himself was very interested in the Sharingan, Giyu's worries were magnified exponentially.

You know, just a few years ago, the Uchiha clan was planning to rebel!

"I have to go back." He stood up and shamefully broke the promise he made to Kocho Shinobu in the morning, "Otherwise..."

"Needless to say, the situation is special, I understand."

Kocho Shinobu did not dwell on the rules . She can completely understand Giyu's feelings at this time.

"But if they really have any conspiracy, your current physical condition cannot handle it well. Otherwise, I will go to Konoha with you -"

"No." Giyu refused her directly, " they can live without me here, but they can't live without you and Kyojuro."

Kyojuro is very fast and powerful. He can handle no matter how strong the enemy appears, so he must stay behind just in case. Moreover, the chakra of those Bloodline limit boys and girls is very unstable. Kyojuro's Adamantine Sealing Chains can stop them from breaking out at any time. In comparison, Kocho Shinobu's Wood Release is not fast enough."

As for Kocho Shinobu, now she is the only hope for those "experimental subjects" to get better, and she must not leave casually.

"This matter is a personal grudge between me and this root. It has nothing to do with you."

Giyu held the scroll and said, "I will handle it myself."

Faintly, he had a hunch that it would take three years for him to pursue it. There are so many things - the causes of Flame and Wen's deaths are finally coming to an end.

"Katsuya," Giyu turned to look at the Katsuya on the table, "can you summon me directly to the Kingdom of Waves through reverse summoning technique?"

"Moist Bone Forest", the holy land of the Great Slug Sage is near Kingdom of waves

"No problem." Katsuya clicked its tentacles, "Uzushio Village has a road connecting it to Konoha. For ordinary ninjas, it's only less than two days away. But in your current situation, I'm afraid it will be a problem to get there."

This is exactly what Kocho Shinobu is worried about.

"Maybe medical ninjutsu can't help restore bones and eyes."

At this time, Kyojuro had an idea, "Then how about we borrow the chakra of Kurama?"

"Wait a minute, What you are talking about is..." Hozuki Suigetsu looked around, "Are you talking about the fox boss? Where has he gone?"

However, what they didn't know was that just when Giyu discovered a mastermind behind the scenes, Kyuubi also contacted him. The three tails, who were locked in the same container, completed a key conversation.

"Is that Uchiha brat dead? He hasn't let me out for so long!"

In the kettle where the Three-Tails was sealed, the little Kyuubi stepped on the Three-Tails' head arrogantly and manically, looking up into the darkness, "Old Man Here, there is amazing news!"

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The story of going home together will take place in a few years. I don't want to write too many emotional scenes now. After all, I'm still very young on the outside, so the progress is going too fast. After writing the chapter about returning home and adding a few chapters about the Kingdom of Rain, it should speed up time by a few years.

(End of this chapter)