Uzumaki

Late April.

The country of tea, the canyon.

 Both sides are steep and dangerous mountain walls, forming a natural barrier.

On the road in the canyon, two groups of people fought here.

They hold kunai and can use ninjutsu, so they can know that both sides in the war are ninjas.

The leader of one of them is Bug Man. He is a cadre of the organization under Shiraishi. According to Shiraishi's request, they collect information in the ninja world while looking for talents that can be absorbed.

The identity of a bounty hunter is undoubtedly very suitable for the five of them.

While collecting intelligence and talents, you can also increase your extra income, expand the fame of the five of them, let more employers find them, entrust them with tasks, and get in touch with more secrets.

This time, it was a task entrusted by a businessman from the Country of Tea, and the five of them were required to clean up an illegal ninja organization in the Country of Tea.

This ninja organization comes from outside the country of tea, and is not affiliated to the five major countries, nor is it from the rest of the small ninja villages, but became ninjas by coincidence, that is, wandering ninjas without ninja villages.

They relied on robbing the passing business travelers to beg for food, which caused the merchants of the Kingdom of Tea to offer rewards in the underground black market to eliminate this wandering ninja organization and restore the stability of the business routes in the Kingdom of Tea.

To be honest, this kind of task is not too difficult for the five of them.

The average strength of the five of them is above Chunin.

Not only were they endowed with strong physical fitness, but also possessed strong perception and self-healing abilities. Under Shiraishi's arrangement, they also practiced their own unique secret techniques.

The strength of their five-person team requires at least three junin to defeat them, but they won't be able to kill them.

As for the ninja strength of the wandering ninja organization, the strength units are mainly Genin-level ninja, and the strength of the leader is mostly at the level of the Chunin-level ninja.

 "What, what is this!?"

The ninja in green clothes and brown hair used his arms to support the neck of a wandering ninja from behind, and fierce sparks burst out from his arms.

 To be more precise, the entire arm turned into flames.

The wandering ninja's throat was instantly charred, and he fell to the ground and lost his breath.

 Immediately afterwards, a wandering ninja stabbed him in the back from behind with a blade. It felt like hitting the air, and the stabbed part turned into a flame without substance.

The wandering ninja was immediately covered by the fire, and let out a frightening scream.

Finally, he returned to his original appearance, with a flat expression on the brown-haired ninja's face.

 This kind of battle can be said to be very child's play.

 "Fire Man, your ninjutsu is still as cruel as ever."

The ninja in purple clothes came over and smiled.

 "No way, each of us has been given a systematic ninjutsu."

 Appearing from the shadow of the stone, the man in yellow clothes and black hair seemed very satisfied with the abilities he had acquired.

Fire Man's ninjutsu is a secret technique derived from the change of the fire attribute chakra.

Another guy's secret technique derived from the change of the Yin chakra nature, he can freely sneak in the shadows, and he is an unstoppable assassin in the team.

The rest of the people also dealt with the enemies they were assigned.

 "The task is over now. At our speed, we will soon be famous in the underground black market."

 "In that way, it will be much easier to absorb talents."

The completion of the task of annihilating the wandering ninjas entrusted by the merchants in the country of tea means that their team has added another achievement in the black market.

If this accumulation continues, within a few years, the underground black market will become famous, and more resources and talents can be attracted.

 "No matter what kind of guy you face, just be careful."

The leader, Bug Man, came to the corpses of these wandering ninjas, and searched for things from the corpses as usual.

Sometimes, these wandering ninjas will also bring some interesting things with them, although the Bug man has never encountered such a situation, and it is just to increase his personal Money.

 Anyway, these wandering ninjas are dead, and all the wealth on them belongs to them.

 This is a lucrative task.

"oh?"

The Bug man raised his brows, and touched a scroll on the corpse of a wandering ninja.

 This wandering ninja man remembered that he was the leader of this wandering ninja organization.

 Judging from the texture of the scroll, it is very cheap, but it is sealed with a magic formula. Is there any secret hidden in it?

 "What's in it?"

 "I don't know. It may be a trap."

 The Bug man pondered for a moment, even if it was a trap, he had to open it to see what was inside.

However, precautionary measures must be taken.

After unlocking the spell above, the Bug man jumped back immediately to prevent any trap spells in the scroll.

 But there was nothing on the scroll, only some scribbled writing on it, the content probably said that they planned to use a certain 'secret' to sell it for a large sum of money.

The five Bug men were puzzled, not sure what the 'secret' these wandering ninjas were talking about, which could be sold for a large sum of money.

 Judging from the writing, they have found a suitable buyer, and today is the day of the transaction.

Unfortunately, being ambushed by the five of them in advance, it is estimated that this transaction cannot be carried out.

 "Boss, do you want to see this so-called 'secret'?"

 "Let's take a look by the way, it doesn't seem too far from here. After all, we need to recruit a lot of people in the future, and even the smallest mosquito legs are meat."

The view of the Bug man is also agreed by the four.

Although the salary of the organization is very good, because it has only been established for a few years, money is needed in many places.

 Only when you have money can you recruit talents.

The talents specified above are not just ninjas, but talents in all aspects.

 Artisans, research, education, medicine and more.

They need to complete the original accumulation in this area as soon as possible, and stabilize the basic framework of the organization before they can develop at a high speed.

Even the legs of mosquitoes must be searched clean. Not a single stitch can be missed.

••••

In the cave, the road was extremely bumpy and damp, and the air was filled with a dirty smell.

 This is the smell of poverty and death.

The five men are very familiar with this smell. In the past, this smell can be seen everywhere in the Kingdom of Rain today.

Here is the lair of the group of wandering ninjas, and their 'secret' that they want to trade with unknown buyers is also here. It is said on the scroll that this 'secret' is of great importance and can be sold for a very good price.

 Of course, the five men are very interested in this and come here to hunt for treasure.

I just hope that this secret will not disappoint them too much.

Because it was too dark inside the cave, the fire man picked up a wooden stick and started to burn it, using it as a torch for lighting.

 There is a lot of food waste and residues in the cave. It is conceivable that these wandering ninjas must be very embarrassed and struggling.

 "Is it here?"

Remove all the traps on the road, and the five men came to a closed wooden door.

There is a sealed iron lock on it, and the top of the lock is rusty.

 An unspeakable stench and a rotten smell came from inside.

 This is the only place in the lair that can be used to hide the 'secret'.

Under the perception of the five of them, They don't know the 'secret' behind the door, but behind the door, there are still many living people.

 The Numbers are eight.

 In the room inside, there are eight living people.

 Locked inside, can't it be the companions of those wandering ninjas, captives?

 Was attacked by those wandering ninjas and caught here?

 The Bug man was a little distressed, but he still broke the lock on the door and opened the door.

The light of the fire shone in, and the room inside also had lights, which were very weak and flickered. The power supply was not very good, but it was enough for the five men to see the situation of these people clearly.

They look skinny and look like They have been abused for a long time.

 There are men, women and children, like members of a big family.

 With chapped lips and a bleak face, the food and water given to them by the wandering ninjas are the bare minimum.

 On them, they are all burdened with heavy anklets and handcuffs.

The Bug man glanced around the eight people, and finally fixed his gaze on a child who was only a few years old.

The shining light of hope and desire is the attachment to life.

 There is still a trace of tension and anxiety.

 "Boss, they seem a little different from ordinary people."

The fire man said softly beside him.

 "Even if they are abused like this, and provided with the minimum amount of water and food, the vitality in their bodies still surpasses that of others, and all of them have red hair..."

The Bug man squinted his eyes and found that these eight people, both male and female, had extremely bright red hair.

 "The remnant of the Uzumaki clan..."

 This is the secret of making money.

 It is indeed a very outstanding 'treasure'.

The Bug man took a few steps forward and came in front of these people.

They emit an unbearable stench, there is a lot of dust on their faces, the wounds on their bodies are infected, and there is no medical treatment, and there are cockroaches crawling on the lunch box next to them.

Here they can only linger on.

 "It's really sad. The Uzumaki clan, who were once incomparable in the ninja world, have fallen to this point."

 Not only did the country perish, but even the people of the clan were scattered everywhere, wandering in the ninja world, living a precarious life.

 "Since you are alive, why don't you go to Konoha for help? As a result, you were captured by wandering ninjas and lived a wandering life worse than underground rats?"

The Bug man touched the little head of the child from the Uzumaki clan, and asked in doubt.

 The Uzumaki clan and Konoha have had an alliance since ancient times.

Even Konoha's Jonin costume is printed with the Uzumaki clan logo to show the friendly relationship between the two parties.

 Having lost their country, their first reaction should be to take refuge in Konoha, instead of living this kind of beggar-like wandering life in various parts of the ninja world.

 "There was a distress call...but they only took one person..."

A red-haired middle-aged man lowered his head and said this, and he could be heard crying. The question of the Bug man seemed to bring back bad memories of his past.

It has been less than ten years since the country of the Whirlpool was destroyed.

For this middle-aged man, it was a painful experience that he had personally experienced.

 Bearing the title of slave to the subjugated country, wandering in the ninja world, being squeezed out and arrested.

 At that time, he clearly remembered that Konoha did not lend any help.

Whether it was before or after the event, the distress signals sent in the past seemed to sink into the sea, and what they got was always despair.

 The thought of asking Konoha for help must have faded a long time ago.

 For the destruction of the country of the Whirlpool, Bug Man can only express his silent condolences.

Perhaps in the future, his former motherland, the Land of Rain, will also follow this path and become a victim of the great power.

At that time, the people of the Kingdom of Rain will become mice in the dark who cannot see the light just like the Uzumaki clan.

When people see people from the Land of Rain, they will also call them slaves of the subjugated country.

The so-called covenant is just a piece of paper.

It is just worthless paper.

 "I feel sympathy for your experience. Everyone has the same feeling of seeing the motherland being ravaged."

The Bug man was deeply moved.

"Our organization is recruiting excellent talents. If you are willing to join, everyone will be your companions in the future. The living environment, clean water and food, and protection will be given to you, but at the same time, you need to pay your loyalty. If you disagree, we will not embarrass you and live your own life."

These people looked hesitant, full of worry and hope.

These people's nerves have long been fragile and dare not, and they only need to give them hope after despair, so they can only commit suicide.

The Bug man said with a smile: "Our leader said that he will not save those who only pray for rain from the sky all day long. In this world, there is no good thing that falls from the pie. While doing good things, we can gain greater benefits. This will give us more motivation to do good things."

The benefits that the Uzumaki family can provide are undoubtedly their blood, as well as the abundant sealing techniques.

Even if they are exterminated, they will come in handy one day sooner or later.

 "There is no need to feel ashamed whether you live like a human or a dog. What matters is the future. As long as people are not dead, there is a possibility to change your destiny. Anyway, your country is gone, and now you only have a dead life. What else is there to lose? You're already homeless?"

The Bug man had a sigh on his face.

Because of the war, his family was broken, and then he relied on robbery and murder for a living, and then he was arrested as a tragic experimental subject. Thinking about those years, he felt terrible, and his back was sweating.

 Fortunately, there is a rainbow after the storm, and many things have been seen, and I am no longer as childish as before.

The world is like this.

He hoped that these remnants of the Uzumaki clan would make a choice that They would not regret.

The important thing is to fool them into joining the organization first.

 In that way, money, women, mansions and so on are all there.

 This is the principle of his Bug man to do good things.

•••

Shiraishi's daily job is to rush to the ninja school to assist Tsunade in teaching the students in the experimental class before three o'clock in order to learn the knowledge of medical ninjutsu.

 In addition, he was occasionally dragged to the hospital as a coolie.

Most of the time, I still stay in the laboratory, doing research quietly.

Of course, in school, from time to time there is a thorny kid named Uchiha Obito, who will come to trouble him.

The brats nowadays are really scary, they are already jealous when they are only five or six years old.

The point is that he didn't do anything to the girl named Rin, he just taught her some medical knowledge after class every day.

In many aspects of the ninja world, common sense cannot be used to infer.

The more you infer, the more outrageous the answer you get.

 Like… the white humanoid that is now lying on his lab table.

 It was the unidentified person captured by the Bug man and the others before, because when he was monitoring 'Akatsuki', he was discovered by the Bug man and was sent to shiraishi after being crushed to death.

After that, Shiraishi was full of interest in this white creature with a simple life structure.

However, after dissecting the whole corpse and revealing the secrets inside, Shiraishi got an answer that made Shiraishi even more inexplicable.

The energy extracted from this creature can rejuvenate a dead branch and bloom new shoots.

Wood Style?

 And there is a breath that is paradoxical to that of a tailed beast.

What is the origin of this creature?

A combination of Tailed Beast and Wood Attribute?

 So weak.

According to the Bug man, the combat power of this creature is extremely weak, and it can be easily settled with one hand and one move, and it doesn't even need ninjutsu.

 "It seems that Akatsuki has a problem."

Although the strength of this creature is weak, Shiraishi was shocked by its secret.

Wood Attribute and Tailed Beast, no matter which one they are, have extremely brilliant legends.

Wood Style is the power of the God of Shinobi that he used to calm troubled times.

Another is a chakra monster that has existed since ancient times. It is immortal and a transcendent creature that cannot be resisted by human beings.

 There are a lot of questions about being able to have a relationship with these two.

Who is behind the white creature?

Why do you want to monitor Akatsuki?

 Is this kind of creature really made with the power of Wood Style and Tailed Beast?

If it is true, where did the Wood Style come from?

Since the death of the first Hokage, Wood Style, which can restrain the power of tailed beasts, has disappeared in the ninja world and has become a legend.

Shiraishi thought of a very big possibility.

 Konoha higher ups!

They are secretly doing research on resuscitating Wood Style.

It must not be difficult for Konoha to extract hidden cells from corpses like him.

Because they are the only people who can touch the corpse of the first Hokage.

 Extract the cells containing the power of Wood Style from the corpses of the first Hokage, and then experiment with human bodies to mass-produce Wood Style ninjas.

 And the creature in front of them is the result of their research.

Then here comes the question, why did you send this to monitor Akatsuki?

 An organization with only eight or nine people, and they are all a group of young people who have not grown up. If you really feel threatened, just send Anbu to eliminate it directly.

 There is no need to bother and monitor like this.

Shiraishi felt a headache, and many places were full of contradictions, but based on the information he had learned, this was a reasonable inference.

 What are the Konoha executives and the others plotting?

 Just as Shiraishi was wondering what Konoha was going to do, the clods on the floor loosened, and the head of the clay figurine made of mud came out of the soil, staring at Shiraishi with black eyes.

A scroll emerged from the mud and placed on the ground, it continued to sneak into the ground as a perfect communication tool.

Shiraishi didn't care about this 'stupid son's' behavior of leaving without saying goodbye. For the time being, Shiraishi didn't have any expectations for his intelligence.

Using spells to unlock the scroll, as expected, it was the scroll sent by the Bug man and the others.

The content of the scroll is extremely simple, Shiraishi glanced at it and understood the general meaning.

 "The Uzumaki family? I thought all the members of this family were dead."

Shiraishi pondered for a while, then immediately too

k out a blank scroll, wrote a few words on it, rolled the scroll, and sealed it with a spell.

 "Give them this scroll."

 He said this to the clay person underground.

The clay figure resurfaced on the surface again, and there seemed to be more humane resentment in the empty pupils.

 Even so, it obediently accepted the task entrusted to him by Shiraishi.

At only half a year old, he accomplished the feat of traveling all over most of the ninja world by himself.

 There is no doubt that This is a perfect tool man that meets Shiraishi's expectations.