Kapitulo Trenta-y-Sais

"What came up with your investigation?"

Obito asked Zetsu who still merged himself to a tree.

"It's a group that called themselves Yggdrasil who used to mostly operate in the land of wind. Right now their influence extends to the other major countries. In the surface, they are a company that focused on making civilian life more comfortable and entertaining. Under that, they sell high caliber weapons to village leaders who wants to improve their military strength. I tried to infiltrate their ranks but they seem to have devised a way to detect my intrusion thus I wasn't able to dive deeper into the heart of the group. Do you want to get rid of this group so bad? Its not like they are the ones who use the weapons they sell, after all it is the user's choice whether to kill or protect."

Obito shook his head.

"I have no such intentions. You are the one who gather intel, so tell me. Don't you find it strangely quiet these days? I just thought that their influence is spreading very fast and wanted to see if they can be used to make our plans proceed faster. "

"Well...

(Zetsu came out from the tree and revealed himself fully)

if that is the case... Why don't you talk to them yourself?"

Zetsu's outstretched hand held a phone that looked like the one Yggdrasil gave to their gray area customers. This version is already a newly developed touch screen phone which are just made available to the civilians a week ago.

"So they discovered you and instead of getting angry, they offered you a business deal? Interesting..."

Obito took the phone and checked its contacts where only one number is saved. He looked at it and stashed it somewhere in his person before using kamui to leave the place.

"Hehehe. This guy, I hope he finds a way to collect the tailed beasts faster so we can revive mother. It has been too long already."

Zetsu muttered before sinking into the body of the tree once again.

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Naruto dilligently trained after moving on from the pain of truth. He thought everything through and decided to let go of his hatred. He forgave Jiraiya and the people of Konoha. In his contemplation he realized that his dream to become Hokage burned even greater than before after knowing the truth about his father.

With the help of his clones Naruto felt like a true blue genius as he soaked himself up with knowledge and aplication of jutsus and in the process learned many of Jiraiya's personally made techniques.

Jiraiya did not slack on training Naruto unlike in canon, this is probably due to the guilt in his heart for not being part of the boy's life like his student would have wanted. As an act to redeem himself he gave it his all to train his new disciple. Now they just have to look for Lady Tsunade and convince her to take that bloody seat because he didn't want it.

'Where's the nearest village with a gambling den again?'

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Temari and Kankuro trained with the chameleon summon Shiromari in its village. Shiromari and her clan taught the siblings their own path which leans more towards concealment and sneak attacks.

Kankuro felt like fish in water as he absorbed all the knowledge they imparted with him while Temari on the other hand had a platonic growth. She reverse summoned herself after a few weeks in the summon dimension after saying that the Kamereon style is just not suited for her.

"Can you teach me sennin mode transformation?"

"What sennin mode are you talking about? Not one in our clan know what that is."

A memory flashed in Kankuro's eyes.

[Inside a memory-

"You guys can make a summoning contract using this scroll, then you must learn everything you can in the summoning realm. Gather as much sample as you can, and If possible learn about something called sage mode transformation from Kamereon no Kuni."]

'Gaara you shit. Where are you picking up all these false info from?'

"Ummm... According to my brother, sage mode is the art of using natural energy alongside the physical and spiritual ones. Supposedly, this will strengthen my jutsus and and will also allow me access to some new jutsus called senjutsu."

Shiromari thought for a moment before nodding his head.

"Well we do have a sage in our clan. Let me ask him for you to see if he knows anything. But don't get your hopes up even if the sage does know something, he is quite advanced in age and will probably refuse to teach you."

Kankuro nodded in understanding Gaara did mention that the entities who could impart sage mode transformation are very rare.

"Thank you very much Shiromari. That means a lot to me."

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Zabuza can be seen on the forested barrier between the Land of Rain and the Land of Wind he looked around and right so saw the markings on the trees around him.

"Are we playing hide and seek or are we going to get this over with? I have other things to do."

A black hooded person wearing a black cloak with patterns of red clouds emerged from the crown of the tree he was hiding in. White creatures came out alonside him surrounding the fully armored Zabuza.

"You have my admiration Mr. Demon of the Mist. I didn't think you'd actually come to this place in this weather."

The man in the dark spoke with a teasing young voice.

"If you really knew who I am then you should know I don't like waiting. Here's two hundred million ryo as per the previous agreement. Where's the scroll? I hope you don't go on having funny ideas like trying to doublecross Yggdrasil."

Zabuza spoke in an irritated tone, he wanted to go back and rest in Takamagahara as quickly as possible but this guy is just full of theatrics. If he just attacked already Zabuza would be more than willing to give him another art to appreciate. The art of killing. But as per Gaara's carefull instruction, this deal had to go through seamlessly. He materialized to boxes that contained the money while showing the back of his hand which is already marked with a laughing demon.

"I am young and bold, but not that bold. I really need this deal unfortunately. A shame I wouldn't be able to show you the meaning of true art."

The hooded figure took out a scroll from the mouth in his palm. He flashed the back of his hand while holding the scroll and sure enough the mark of the laughing demon can be clearly be seen.

Both parties tossed the goods to the other while sizing each other up. The scroll vanished in midair while two white creatures with wings snatched the boxes in the air. The white creatures suddenly moved in for an attack right then bringing Zabuza to a smile. His greatsword appeared and a quick circular slash made the incoming white creatures explode far from him, thick fog suddenly spread arround the forest floor and a huge bird flew out of its range.

"Maybe some other time Mr. Mist Demon."

Deidara laughed as his bird flew out of Zabuza's range when his right shoulder suddenly exploded to bloody mist. Zabuza held in his hand what was akin to a sniper rifle. Seing the power of that weapon Deidara immediately used evasive maneuvers but Zabuza didn't shoot another round. He appeared where Deidara's right arm fell and packed it in a seal before storing it.

'That's for making me waste time.'

"Next time I'll shoot your head."

Zabuza mouthed in one direction of the clouds before he disapeared without a trace. Deidara who was hiding in the clouds felt cold sweat trickle down his back as he stopped the bleeding with his clay. He was planning to pick up his right arm when Zabuza left and get Kakuzo to fix him up but now that it was taken then he would have to ask someone else for help. He lip read Zabuza's threat before the guy left so it seems like he can still have deals with Yggdrasil.

'Ughh. I should have joined Yggdrasil instead of this poor ass organization. If I wasn't lacking resources I woundn't have even thought about selling my [Chakra Infusion] for cash.'