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Kisame floated at a height of 100 meters above the ground, and his figure was completely integrated with the darkness. He watched Natsuhi running on the ground with the Byakugan from a distance, and slowly followed behind her.

After seeing the Mysterious Peacock Method used by Natsuhi with his own eyes, he became more and more convinced that it was a part of the ten-tails beast.

It seems that this time he didn't make a trip in vain, this star meteorite is something he needs to have.

After half an hour.

Natsuhi wandered around in the woods, and finally came to a dense bush.

She looked around again and made a seal after repeatedly confirming that no one was following. As she urged her Chakra, the bushes in front of her suddenly separated to both sides, revealing the entrance to a dark cave that was as high as one person.

Natsuhi rushed in with a swoosh. Her figure had just disappeared into the cave, and the bushes had come back to their place, leaving no clue about the hidden mechanism.

After a minute.

A dark shadow fell from the sky, and Kisame silently came to the bushes.

Facing this deceptive bush, Kisame ripped it open and walked into the cave. He didn't care whether it alert Natsuhi or not, because the other party had been a turtle in a urn in his eyes since he entered the cave.

'Da da da.'

Kisame's crisp footsteps resounded in the dark corridor. This corridor, the more you go inside, the more spacious it becomes. From the initial width of one meter and the height of one person, in the end, what appeared in front him is a huge cave.

This is the hiding place that Natsuhi and Harutobi had chosen.

Inside the cave, there are some simple furniture, such as tables, wardrobes, beds, etc. There are wall lamps hanging on the walls, emitting a warm yellow light.

At this moment, a man with long black hair was lying on a bed, coughing violently, looking very weak and dying.

He is Natsuhi's husband, Harutobi.

Different from the real genius like Natsuhi, even though Harutobi has also mastered the Mysterious Peacock Method, he does not have enough talent to control this power, so his ending is the same as those he saw before, death.

As soon as she returned to the cave, Natsuhi hurried to her husband's bed and took good care of him.

"Natsuhi, it's my luck to have you by my side during the last period of my life. I'm very happy and will die without regrets."

Harutobi held his wife's hand with a faint smile on his face.

"Don't say that!"

Hearing this, Natsuhi quickly blocked her husband's mouth with her fingers and said firmly, "Harutobi, don't give up, I will definitely find a way to cure your illness."

At this moment, the two looked at each other, explaining what it means to be in love with each other.

It's a pity that this warm and moving scene was destroyed by an uninvited guest in the next second.

"Natsuhi, be careful! Behind you!" Harutobi's expression suddenly changed and shouted at his wife, because he saw a tall shadow appear at the entrance of the cave.

'Swiii!'

Without saying a word, Natsuhi threw a kunai and attacked the shadow.

Kisame stretched out his hand and stopped the kunai, he threw it aside, and said with a smile: "It seems that I came at the wrong time, I disturbed your alone time."

"Are you an accomplice of those people just now?"

Natsuhi stood up, protected her husband behind him, and asked Kisame coldly, "I believe you have seen what happened to your accomplices. If you don't want to die, get out now, and I can give you a chance to live ."

She could feel that the enemy in front of her was not simple. Although she is not afraid of the other party, if she really fights here and if it affects Harutobi, the situation will be bad.

"Hand over the star meteorite and I'll leave immediately. By the way, the third HoshiKage asked me to meet you here."

As he said, he took out a ring from his pocket and threw it towards Natsuhi.

"This is... HoshiKage'd ring?!" Natsuhi got the ring and exclaimed after seeing it clearly.

But she immediately frowned and asked Kisame: "What did you do to the third HoshiKage? He absolutely will not let us return the star meteorite."

"Don't you understand? With your strength, even if you seal the meteorite, you won't be able to keep it for long. Sooner or later, someone like me will come and take it away. I'll say it one more time, hand over the meteorite. Come out, my patience is limited."

Kisame was too lazy to talk to Natsuhi and approached the latter while talking.

"Don't be so sure of yourself!"

Natsuhi just sneered and decided to respond to Kisame's arrogance with strength.

So, she quickly formed a seal again, and beautiful peacock tail feathers appeared behind her. The translucent purple chakra is exactly the same as the chakra beam spewed out by the Gedo Statue.

"Roar!"

A loud roar sounded in the cave, as Natsuhi transformed her chakra into a terrifying dragon, trying to use her most powerful move to directly destroy the enemy in front of her.

Seeing Kisame standing still, seemingly overwhelmed by the chakra dragon, the corner of Natsuhi's mouth could not help but curl up, revealing a confident smile.

As a once-in-a-hundred-year-old genius in Hoshigakure, she learned the Mysterious Peacock Method at a young age, and she also overcame the backlash from the power of the star meteorite.

Although she doesn't want to brag about herself, since Natsuhi mastered the Mysterious Peacock Method, she has never met an opponent worthy of her seriousness.

The third HoshiKage once said that she is already the strongest in Hoshigakure, and she can be on an equal footing with the Kages of the five major Ninja Villages.

Then the next second, Natsuhi saw an incredible scene.

Facing the roaring chakra beam, Kisame unhurriedly stretched out a hand, and his palm instantly became larger and became the Gunbai. Then, he swiped forward.

Uchiha recieve.

'Snap!'

The chakra beam was slapped by the ghost shark, and in Natsuhi's horrified eyes , it turned it's head on the spot and flew back towards her, the caster.

'Not good.'

Natsuhi was caught off guard, facing her most powerful move, in order to protect her husband behind her, she couldn't dodge and could only resist.

She pushed the peacock's tail infront of her, parried desperately, and tried her best to block the chakra beam with her body, but under the impact of this powerful chakra, she couldn't hold it, and knelt on the ground with a thud.

"Natsuhi, are you alright!" Harutobi shouted anxiously, but he could only lie on the bed and watch, unable to do anything.

"Damn."

Natsuhi gritted her teeth, propped herself from the ground with her hands, and stood up staggeringly. She never imagined her enemy's ability was so strange that he could actually rebound her ninjutsu, and she suffered a big loss in one go.

What she didn't expect was the follow up.

'Shhhhhh.'

The ground under Natsuhi's feet suddenly shot out wooden vines, and before she could react, her body was tied in five different ways.

She was shocked and tried to use the power of the Mysterious Peacock Method to break the vines on her body. However, as she used Chakra, the peacock tail behind her dimmed, and soon none of it remained.

That's because these seemingly ordinary vines are actually derived from the wood style of the first Hokage, and have the ability to seal Chakra.

Natsuhi is indeed very strong, and has the combat power of the elite Jōnin level of the Great Ninja Village, but in the eyes of a powerhouse like Kisame, she is no different from ordinary people who do not have chakra in her body, they are all ants.

So, the fight was over in less than half a minute and in one round.

Kisame then walked to Natsuhi.

"I am indeed inferior to you in terms of skill. Kill me, I will not tell the whereabouts of the meteorite."

Without waiting for Kisame to speak, Natsuhi said stubbornly, with a look of awaiting death.

When Kisame heard this, he ignored her and looked at her husband, Harutobi.

"Hand over the star meteorite, or I'll kill her." He directly took out the Kusanagi Sword, put it on her's neck, and threatened calmly.

"Harutobi, don't give it to him! Don't forget why we are here, let me die with you, let's keep the secret of the meteorite forever, and don't let it harm more people!" Natsuhi was not afraid of death and shouted at her husband.

Hearing this, Harutobi was shocked, and finally showed a smile: "Natsuhi, I understand."

Immediately, he looked at Kisame silently, and although he didn't speak, it was clear that he had made up his mind.

"It seems that I have no other choice but to kill your family of three, and then go find Star Meteorite by myself."

Kisame shook his head and got ready to kill them. Even if the two didn't say anything, he would find the stone sooner or later, but it would just waste a little more time.

"What did you say, a family of three?"

Natsuhi and Harutobi were stunned when they heard his words, not understanding what he meant.

"Oh? Don't you even know that your wife is pregnant?"

Kisame looked at Harutobi in surprise, showing a strange expression.

Hearing this, Harutobi looked at his wife, Natsuhi, in astonishment, who also looked suprised. She did feel a little sick recently, but she didn't think about that.

Now, after being reminded by Kisame, she found that all kinds of abnormalities in her body are actually consistent with the symptoms of pregnancy.

But the question is, how did Kisame know?

Seeing the expressions of the couple, Kisame chuckled lightly, he reached out and took off the mask on his face, showing them the Byakugan with bulging blue veins around the eye socket.

"You should know this eye. The Byakugan of the Hyuga clan from Konohagakure is the spoils of war I snatched from a certain Hyuga clan elder on the battlefield. It can see through the human body, so when I met you just now, I saw Natsuhi's belly. The child inside is... a month old."

Kisame stared at Harutobi lying on the bed and praised, "Dude, you are amazing, you still have the energy to make child with your wife when you are so sick. It's a pity that your child will never be able to open their eyes and see this beautiful world."

"Natsuhi, is what he said true?" Harutobi looked at his wife and asked in a trembling voice.

Natsuhi glanced at her stomach, and after a while, nodded silently.

"Now, do you want to reconsider? I can give you one last chance and answer me within ten seconds."

Kisame gave Harutobi an ultimatum, and after saying this, the countdown began, "Ten, nine, eight, seven..."

"I agree."

Harutobi struggled to sit up from the bed and stared at Kisame, "I will tell you the location of the meteorite. But the condition is that you will let my wife and child live."

"Harutobi..." Natsuhi hesitated on the side. The unborn child in her womb shook her will to fight to death.

"No problem."

Kisame readily agreed, and when he snapped his fingers, he untied the wooden vines that bound Natsuhi's body.

Although he killed a lot of people, he was never one who killed innocent people indiscriminately. He just frightened the couple before. In fact, Kisame admired their behavior of willing to take the charge of betrayal and forbearance and protect the villagers so that they would no longer be harmed by meteorites.

Ten minutes later.

With Natsuhi's help, Harutobi came to the corner of the cave, in front of a big rock.

"Haaa!"

The husband and wife shouted in unison and poured their chakras into the boulder together, and a seal appeared on the stone surface, followed by a large number of cracks.

It turned out that the seal in which the star meteorite is, requires the chakra of the husband and wife to open it.

'Click. Click.'

With a crisp sound, the surface of the boulder quickly cracked and fell off, and soon only a stone seat was left. On the stone seat, a purple meteorite lay quietly there.

There are many holes on the surface of this meteorite. As the seal is lifted, a large amount of energy is continuously emitted from those holes, and soon filled the entire cave.

"You take it away."

Natsuhi glanced at Kisame, said coldly, and then helped her husband to the side to rest.

Kisame's eyes lit up as he walked over, picked up the star meteorite with one hand, and suddenly felt a very huge energy coming from its interior.

'This trip is worth it.'

He smiled with satisfaction, and then in front of the two of them, under their surprised eyes, he put the meteorite into the Box of Ultimate Bliss.

Then, he spread his hands and said to the two:

"I know that you hid this meteorite because you discovered the side effects of the Mysterious Peacock Method, and you don't want it to kill more people. Don't worry, the situation you are worried about will never happen again, because this meteorite will be destroyed by me. It will become part of my strength."

"You, who are you?"

Harutobi stared at Kisame in shock, but before he could finish speaking, he coughed violently, coughing up a large piece of black blood from his throat.

In order to open the sealing jutsu just now, the last chakra in his body has been exhausted.

In other words, the man was about to die.

"Harutobi!" Natsuhi hugged her husband while sobbing.

But Harutobi stared at Kisame, exhausted last of his strength, and said with difficulty: "Sir, I beg you... take Natsuhi away, leave this country, and let her and the child in her belly live a calm life."

Harutobi knows that, as a traitor Natsuhi cannot go back to Hoshigakure. She can't stay in this place, and running away is the only way for her to survive.

In the face of Harutobi's request, considering that the other party is dying in order to unlock the meteorite seal, Kisame sighed and nodded:

"I'll take care of your wife, you can go with peace of mind."

After getting Kisame's promise, Harutobi was finally relieved, with a smile on his face, he lost his breath and passed away.