Chapter 61: Money over People

After a busy day, Kakuzu found Hidan in an alley. "Hey, Hidan, did you get your salary today?" Kakuzu asked, spreading his palm in front of Hidan, clearly demanding the money.

Hidan was speechless. He deliberately didn't wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth. Didn't Kakuzu notice it? He didn't care about Hidan at all. "Kakuzu, I was beaten today."

Kakuzu said impatiently, "I don't care if you were beaten or not, just give me today's wages for safekeeping. Hurry up, don't waste my time counting money."

"You really are heartless, Kakuzu." Hidan took out a stack of crumpled coins from his pocket with grievance. Kakuzu grabbed it and skillfully checked the amount.

"Not bad, not a penny less. Keep working hard."

Hidan said, "I encountered Sasuke today."

"Yeah, I know," Kakuzu replied. "Can't you see that my current body is a clone?"

Kakuzu had noticed the commotion a long time ago. Hidan's chakra fluctuations were very unusual.

Kakuzu couldn't think of anyone else fighting with Hidan except for Sasuke and his group, who had a grudge against them.

For the sake of caution, he only used a clone to investigate the situation. Fortunately, his money was fine.

"If everything is fine, we'll leave. We're going to meet two acquaintances." Kakuzu slapped Hidan on the back of the head, not caring about his teammate's feelings at all.

"Acquaintances?" Hidan followed behind Kakuzu.

In the yard where Kabuto and others lived, Karin and others were watching Kimimaro and Kabuto sparring, unable to take their eyes off.

Kabuto's perverted muscles were on display, dragon horns growing rapidly, and his white skin shedding off.

With Sage Mode fully activated, he had gradually left his human form. Kabuto smiled perversely and complacently.

"Kimimaro, it's surprising! I'm no longer the same as before. From a human to a snake, from a snake to a dragon, the complete power of Sage Mode allowed me to shed my snake skin and sublimate into a dragon."

Kabuto's belly bulged like a big frog, and a white torrent spewed out of his mouth, causing the rocks and soil to burst wherever it passed.

The powerful energy fluctuations made Kimimaro cautious, forcing him into his Light Seal state.

Even with all his skills, Kimimaro couldn't gain the upper hand over Kabuto, being pushed into a corner bit by bit.

"Is this the Sage Mode?" Kimimaro looked grim. The Light Seal was originally a defective version of Sage Mode, and the survival rate of ninjas who received the curse seal was less than one in ten.

So Kimimaro could better understand the difficulty of Sage Mode. He didn't think highly of Kabuto from the beginning and was even ready to eat when Kabuto set out for Ryuchi Cave.

"Kabuto, forgive me for underestimating you before," Kimimaro's body had more and more black runes. "Next, I will try my best to kill you as my compensation to you."

Suigetsu, who was watching, had a blank face. "What kind of communication method is this? Sure enough, I still can't understand the fun between perverts."

But Jūgo, who was beside Suigetsu, was very excited because he saw Kimimaro show his powerful strength again.

"Kimimaro, tear him apart," the out-of-control Jūgo held Suigetsu's head tightly with one hand, and it almost exploded.

Fortunately, Suigetsu reacted in time and turned into a pool of water, otherwise, he would have died at the hands of his own teammate.

The frightened Suigetsu said dissatisfiedly, "Jūgo, what are you crazy about? It's not you who's on the field. Stop it."

Although Jūgo, who turned into a monster, did not lose his mind because of Kimimaro, he was still irritable.

Seeing this, Suigetsu stood behind Karin timidly, not daring to look at Jūgo. "If you didn't want to get up, why did you?"

Karin was in no mood to pay attention to them. The battle between Kimimaro and Kabuto had reached a fever pitch.

Kimimaro's bone spear pierced Kabuto's body again and again, but Kabuto, as slippery as a snake, avoided all the vital points.

Even if he was hit hard occasionally, he would immediately slide out of the giant snake's mouth and his body would recover again.

"This guy is simply the second Orochimaru. He spits out snakes and the snakes spit him out," Suigetsu said, but for the first time, Karin agreed with Suigetsu.

Compared with Sasuke, Kabuto was more like a disciple of Orochimaru in terms of appearance transformation and the similarity of ninjutsu.

Sasuke was not as disgusting as Kabuto. Karin blushed slightly, and the scene of her first meeting with Sasuke emerged in her mind.

Dressed in white, with a naked body, perfect proportions, and an extremely cold face. Ahhh! It almost killed her.

"Kimimaro, your attack is useless to me." After deflecting Kimimaro's bone spurs, Kabuto distanced himself again.

He had referred to the principle of the Great Snake Style's Substitute Technique and developed his own Substitute Ninjutsu.

Relying on the alternating cooperation between the giant snake and himself, he could counter most attacks.

Kabuto's abdomen broke open, and a humanoid creature emerged, looking exactly like Kimimaro.

The only difference was that there was no emotion in its eyes. As his good friend, Kabuto thought of Kimimaro the first time he merged cells.

The Shikotsumyaku was a powerful bloodline limit, how could he not have studied it? It just so happened that Kimimaro often came to him for a physical examination, so Kabuto dissected his body structure while he was infatuated with him.

"Tsubaki no Mai."

Kimimaro was furious when he saw Kabuto steal his abilities. When did Kabuto get his cells? It is impossible to analyze his abilities with just a few cells, even if Kabuto has a talent for research. Oh, that time.

"Kabuto, you actually approached me when I was infatuated with you."

Kabuto spread his hands, looking like he couldn't care less.

He didn't dare to say it before because he was afraid of being overtaken by Kimimaro, but now it's not certain who will take over. Kabuto said he felt no pressure.

"Forget about analyzing my abilities, but can you not use such a disgusting fighting method?"

Kimimaro said coldly. He couldn't stop feeling sick whenever he thought of Kabuto fighting and a doll that looked exactly like him coming out of his stomach.

"Ah, so this is why Kimimaro was angry!"

"Only true friends are qualified to enter my body. You will understand my art sooner or later."

"Stop talking nonsense. Watch me shadow you."