Chapter 318 Cooperation

It didn't take long for Ruri and Ichihime to come out of the meeting room of the main hall of Nanga Shrine and walk to the foot of the mountain along the original stone steps.

At this time, the ninjas who came to Konoha's Oni Land should have already packed all their things. Next, they only need to come to the various collections of the Uchiha clan and transport them all back to the Oni Land.

The main task for them to come to Konoha has been completed, and there is no need to stay in Konoha.

Those who believe in Konoha think the same way in their hearts, let them leave here as soon as possible, there is an unwelcome atmosphere everywhere.

However

When the two were going down the mountain along the stone steps, a handful of bitterness flew from the dense forest on one side, with a burning detonating symbol attached to it, and exploded beside the two of them without warning.

Boom!

The huge sound was heard far away. .

The flames and smoke engulfed Ruri and Ichihime's bodies at once.

Immediately, a black shadow jumped out from the woods on one side, with a strangely shaped chakra knife on each hand, with an extremely sharp aura attached to it, and rushed into the smoke without hesitation, attacking Liuli and Ichihime, with an extremely cold murderous look in his eyes.

Ding!

The chakra blade is blocked.

Ichihime jumped to the front of Liuli, pulled out the sword blade at her waist, and easily blocked the attacker's attack.

The other party wears Konoha Ninja's unique forehead protection on his forehead to prove the other party's identity.

He has a Chinese character face with a firm face and a short beard on his chin. He looks young, only in his twenties.

Seeing that his sneak attack failed, the opponent immediately jumped back. Just as he was thinking about how to retreat, Kazuki, who was in front of him, suddenly left his field of vision and disappeared.

"What?"

Biting coldness came from behind.

Not daring to be careless, he immediately turned around, and put the chakra blade in front of his hand, which was emitting a sharp light.

Undoubtedly blocked the blade's attack, but the white light of the blade that stings people's skin is all in sight, and the attacker couldn't help but sweat on his face.

If it was one step later, his body would probably be split in half and die.

boom!

Terrifying force came from the blade, which roughly suppressed him, and rolled his body on the stone steps in embarrassment.

When he stood up again, his eyes suddenly widened, and the sword blade exuding a cold light quickly enlarged in his eyes, and it was about to cut off half of his head, and suddenly stopped in front of his eyes.

Yiji looked down at her feet, a slender black shadow overlapped with her shadow, and the strong binding force prevented her from moving easily.

"Finally caught up, what a close call..."

Using the shadow imitation technique, Lu Jiu, who successfully prevented the two sides from fighting, also breathed a sigh of relief.

If there are casualties here, things will be much more difficult.

"Lu Jiu, what are you doing?"

The Konoha ninja who attacked Ruri and Ichihime obviously knew Shikahisa, and he glared at him dissatisfied. Why did he come to stop this battle?

Of course they came here to stop you from dying. Lu Jiu still couldn't say such hurtful words out of his mouth.

He said in a very official language: "These two are distinguished guests who have come from afar from the kingdom of ghosts, Asma, don't be rude here."

Really, this is an impossible battle no matter how you look at it.

The Konoha ninja called 'Asma' just snorted coldly, and did not agree with what Lu Jiu said.

But he was also restrained by Lu Jiu's shadow imitation technique, and his body could not move freely. He knew that his revenge had failed.

At this time, two Anbu also jumped out from one side, took out the rope, put Asma, who was no longer able to move, and tied his hands behind his back, in this way to prevent him from moving again.

Seeing this, Lu Jiu lifted his shadow imitation technique.

Shikajiu came over and apologized in a solemn tone: "I'm very sorry that we have caused trouble for you two. This is Konoha's Jonobi Asma Sarutobi. Because of some misunderstandings before, his relatives died on the battlefield of the Kingdom of Wind, so his emotions are a bit extreme now. We will make him reflect on it."

Lujiu signaled to Anbu over there to push Asma down and continue to let the other party mess around here, feeling that something would happen.

Yiji ignored Asma's hatred-filled gaze before she left, but turned her head sideways, looked at Liuli behind her, and let her make up her mind.

"Your attitude towards ninjas is too lax. I don't want this kind of misunderstanding to happen a second time."

It is impossible for an attack of this level to hurt the two of them, but Liuli still looked at Lu Jiu with a blunt tone.

"I'm very sorry, I will let Hokage-sama teach Asma Jonin a lesson later."

Asuma is different from ordinary jounin. The opponent is not only a ninja from the Sarutobi clan, but also the second son of the third generation of Naruto Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Maybe he is acting a little immature now, and likes to act emotionally, but the special status of the other party is destined to make him impossible to be the same as ordinary jounin.

If there is an accident here, it will seriously destroy the deal between Konoha and the Oni Nation. In that case, what will happen is unpredictable.

At such a critical moment, neither Konoha nor the Kingdom of Ghosts wants to cause extra complications.

It's best if you can stop talking and make peace.

"This is an internal matter of Konoha, and how to deal with it has nothing to do with us. But I would like to advise you that when you go outside, no one will condone his reckless behavior, nor will you show mercy because of his identity as the son of Hokage."

Liuli's tone was cold.

Lu Jiu smiled awkwardly, but didn't speak.

Then Liuli and Yiji followed Lu Jiu back to the Hokage Building.

A dozen or so carriages had already stopped in front of the Hokage Building, and when Liuli and Ichihime arrived here, the carriages were already filled with various sealed boxes.

Inside these sealed boxes are all kinds of precious collections of the Uchiha clan.

Among them, books about family ninjutsu and Sharingan application account for the majority, and some of them are important materials collected by the Uchiha clan in the past, all of which are all kinds of anecdotes about ancient times.

These ancient secrets may come in handy one day, and they are also one of the important inheritances of a family, which must be taken away.

"Master Liuli, it has been transported, and you can leave at any time."

Jonin, who was in charge of transporting and directing the work, saw that the last batch of sealed boxes had also been moved to the carriage, and walked up to Liuli to report to her.

Liuli nodded, and told him: "In this case, let's go, and arrive at the port before the sun goes down."

"yes."

The Oni Land endured and took action, driving the carriage to move, kicking up a little dust on the road, and drifting away.

Lujiu saw these ninjas from the Oni Nation driving away the carriage loaded with goods, so he stepped forward, scratched his head and said, "Well, all the things have been handed over to you, is it about Jiraiysama..."

"Don't worry, we don't intend to break our promise."

Looking at Konoha's honesty and sincerity, Liuli didn't make things too difficult for Lujiu.

She immediately formed a mudra and pressed her palms on the ground.

boom!

An orange cat as huge as a hill appeared, with a white fluffy belly.

"Yuhuo, you have gained a lot of weight again, have you forgotten to exercise recently?"

Looking at the orange cat that was already much bigger than a house, Yiji walked up to it, touched its white fluffy belly, and felt the warm breath transfer to his palm.

"It's really rude, Master Kazuki, I insist on exercising every day. Looking at my toned muscles, you can tell how hard I have been exercising recently."

Yuhuo grumbled, and seemed dissatisfied with Yiji saying that it was lazy and did not exercise.

Ichihime looked at Yuhuo's chubby body, with stubby limbs. Even sitting there, her belly was almost touching the ground. It was hard to imagine its posture of walking on all fours, so she was a little speechless.

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like you are working hard.

"Yuhuo, let him out."

Liuli spoke at this moment, intervening in the conversation between Yiji and Yuhuo.

"Yes, Lord Liuli."

As he spoke, Yuhuo opened his mouth and spat towards the ground.

A total of five people were spit out by it, lying on the ground in disarray, unconscious, and their bodies were full of fish-scented mucus.

Lu Jiu thought about how these people survived in the cat's stomach without being dissolved.

Among these five people, besides Jiraiya, there is Hyuga Takeshi, a branch ninja of the Hyuga clan. The other three are also Jnin with good strength, but they look thin and thin, and there are no traces of physical abuse or torture.

Overall, it was a relatively successful transaction.

"The person has been returned to you, the transaction is over here, and we should leave."

Although it is a diplomatic visit, the relationship between the two parties has already dropped to a freezing point. Hokage and high-level advisers did not come to receive it in person, which is enough to see the problem.

It is also an indisputable fact that the kingdom of ghosts has dealt a severe blow to Konoha's face this time.

After returning the hostages to Konoha, Liuli quickly left Konoha with Ichihime, catching up with the convoy that was one step ahead.

The figures of Liuli and Yiji went further and further away. Lujiu did not go to stop him, but ordered Anbu who was accompanying him to wash Jiraiya and others who had passed out on the ground with water escape ninjutsu.

Crows stood around the dilapidated temple, making ugly rattling noises.

The time has come to dusk, and part of the sky in the distance has been eroded by darkness, and it will soon be night.

Itachi raised his head and saw a figure slowly walking up the stone steps. The figure was wearing the same black-bottomed red cloud coat as him, with snake-like vertical pupils, purple eye shadow beside the eyes, and an evil smile on the corner of his mouth, giving people a weird and gloomy impression.

It is Orochimaru, a partner of the same organization.

"Come here earlier than I thought, Itachi-kun."

Standing about five meters in front of Itachi, Orochimaru stretched out his long tongue and licked his lips. His smile became even more evil, which made people feel a sense of physical discomfort.

Itachi also tried his best to hold back the discomfort, took out a scroll from his arms, threw it at Orochimaru, and said, "This is the five-tailed Jinchuriki corpse you want."

Oshemaru tightly wrapped the flying scroll with his tongue, then raised his neck, and swallowed the scroll into his stomach as if nothing had happened.

It looks like a snake creature is eating.

After swallowing the scroll, Orochimaru smiled with satisfaction: "Itachi-kun is really understanding. Speaking of which, I have an unfinished experiment, and I need the help of Itachi-kun's Sharingan. I wonder if Itachi-kun can help me with this?"

Itachi stared at Orochimaru, and replied blankly: "Sorry, Senior Orochimaru, I can't help you with your experiment. Next, I'm going back to Yuyin to join Kisame. The leader seems to have a new task for me."

This is an obvious rejection.

He has no reason to assist Orochimaru to complete those brutal human experiments.

In short, the experiment conducted by the other party must be the kind of taboo research that violates human principles and morals.

It is like an evil forbidden technique that plays with people's soul and life and death, such as reincarnation from dirty soil.

Because he is a member of the same organization, he can't stop the other party, but he won't help others.

If there is a chance, he also wants to kill Orochimaru, end the opponent's life, and remove this great harm for Konoha.

Let this kind of person live, sooner or later many things will happen in the ninja world.

Saying that, Itachi turned around, wanting to leave here.

Suddenly, his body froze.

A big blue snake appeared out of nowhere and engulfed his body. The big blue snake curled up, and the force of restraint was very strong. For an ordinary person, the bones of his whole body would probably be crushed.

Orochimaru stood behind Itachi, and let out a sinister laugh in Itachi's ear: "Don't be so indifferent, Itachi-kun, you are an important material that I appreciate very much. If you are willing to help me, I may be able to make your Sharingan go further. In this way, your chances of killing Uchiha Ruri will be even greater."

What? Itachi's heart trembled.

Why... Orochimaru would know about Madara's plan?

That guy Madara, is he also connected to Orochimaru?

Killing Uchiha Ruri should be an agreement between himself and Madara. At first he thought that only three people in the organization knew about it. Apart from him and Madara, only the leader Nagato knew about it.

Now Orochimaru said these words very easily, which made him have to re-judge the intricate interpersonal relationship in the organization.

Since Orochimaru knows this, it means that there must be enough contact between him and Madara.

Itachi couldn't tell whether he had contacted Madara before him or just recently.

"I fought against Hinata Ayane, and the power of those white eyes was incredible. Uchiha Ruri's strength is similar to hers. If you use her as an analogy, with your current ability, there is no way to cooperate with the organization to eliminate this great enemy in the future. Joining my experiment is your only choice."

Oshemaru continued to laugh at the bewitching voice.

"To put it nicely, you want to use the forbidden technique you developed to gain the power of the Uchiha clan."

Itachi stared straight ahead without looking aside, and spoke indifferently.

"Why, the leader warned the members not to kill each other. I sincerely invite Itachi-kun to join my experiment. The power of the kaleidoscope sharingan is really impatient."

As he spoke, Orochimaru opened his mouth, revealing snake-like venomous fangs, and bit down fiercely on Itachi's neck.

Pfft!

The big blue snake wrapped around Itachi's body was cut into several sections, blood splashed all around, Itachi disappeared from there, and stood a few meters away holding the blood-stained Kunai.

Seeing that the attack failed, Orochimaru was not surprised. If Itachi was subdued so easily, then the genius who can exterminate the clan would be too disappointing.

"There are many snake hands in the latent figure!"

A large number of thick and thick snakes surged out of Orochimaru's cuffs, blocking all Itachi's escape routes.

"Art fire escape **** fireball!"

According to the movement of Itachi's seal, a huge and blazing fireball was ejected from Itachi's mouth, and the fireball, which was more powerful than ordinary fireballs, burned several thick and big snakes to ashes.

This is not over yet, the fire bombs continue to attack Dashemaru's body.

Orochimaru dodged Hao Huoqiu's attack without hesitation, while staring at Itachi's pair of Sharingan eyes emitting scarlet light, while licking his tongue, his eyes were full of excitement and anticipation.

It is really different from ordinary Uchiha people.

Based on the speed of releasing ninjutsu after strikes, it is difficult for even him, the Sannin who is called a genius, to do it.

"So, what about this trick?"

Dodged the Hao fireball, Orochimaru slammed on the ground with all four limbs, opened his mouth wide, and the terrifying Chakra erupted from his body.

"Array of Ten Thousand Snakes!"

The endless snakes turned into a sea of snakes, overwhelming everything in front of them, and even the dilapidated temple behind Itachi was swallowed up by the sea of snakes.

Oshemaru stood up slowly from the ground, and the surrounding scene suddenly changed, which shocked Orochimaru's face.

The sea of snakes disappeared, the sky was stained with blood, countless black crows quacked non-stop, flew into the sky, and fell a large black feather, landing on Dashemaru and its surroundings.

"my body"

Orochimaru's eyes were horrified.

Huge and strong iron nails penetrated his body, making him unable to move.

The air in front of him suddenly twisted, Itachi's body appeared there, and the scarlet Sharingan stared coldly at Orochimaru.

"I can actually fall into illusion..."

Orochimaru gritted his teeth and stared at Itachi, he couldn't believe that as a Sannin himself, he would fall into such a boring trick.

In other words, a mere thirteen-year-old kid actually surpassed him in the field of illusion?

How can it be.

As long as it is not a kaleidoscope sharingan, this sharingan-level illusion can be broken easily. However, the cruel scene in front of him makes Orochimaru have to believe the truth again.

"You, like Danzo, covet the power of the Uchiha clan, greedy and pitiful."

Itachi said so.

"The kid who was played with by Danzo, also wants to preach to me?"

Oshemaru broke out in a cold sweat, but still sneered hard.

From the bottom of his heart, he looks down on a 'tool' like Itachi, who is just a naive kid who is manipulated by Danzo arbitrarily, and he, who can wrestle with Danzo, can deal with such juniors with ease.

"Hmph, so this is your limit, Orochimaru. It's really sad. Even Sannin is vulnerable in the face of Uchiha's power."

Itachi picked up Kunai and walked towards Orochimaru, killing intent appeared in his cold eyes for the first time.

"Originally, it was not allowed to attack your companions in the organization, but now you are the first to attack me. Then, even if I kill you now, the leader must have nothing to say."

If Orochimaru can be dealt with here, Konoha's situation will undoubtedly be much safer.

The group of traitorous ninjas in the kingdom of ghosts has put considerable pressure on Konoha.

Akatsuki's side is also in danger. Nagato and Madara are not beings that he can deal with for the time being, but there is no need for this guy, Orochimaru.

Such unbridled and dangerous rebellion will only endanger the safety of the ninja world.

Come to stand in front of Orochimaru, and in the slightly terrified sight of Oroshemaru, mercilessly chop off the kunai in his hand.

Blood spurted out and spilled all over the ground.

An arm remained in place, and a piece of shriveled human skin, and Orochimaru himself has disappeared.

Itachi frowned, and was about to chase up and wipe out Orochimaru completely.

The white butterfly suddenly flew past, making Itachi couldn't help but stop chasing Orochimaru.

A large number of white butterflies gathered in mid-air, forming a young woman with blue hair, wearing a red cloud coat with a black background like Itachi, and wearing a ring with the word "white" on her finger. It is Xiaonan.

Itachi's eyes were fixed. He knew Xiaonan, and he was the follower of the leader of the organization, Nagato.

The strength is unknown, and the characteristics of ninjutsu are related to paper. According to Xie's accidental disclosure, the opponent is immune to physical attacks. In terms of detection, he is better than Bai Jue in a certain field.

"Nagato asked you to return to Yuyin as soon as possible and join Kisame. There is a new task for you. I will deal with it at Orochimaru."

Compared to discussing, Xiaonan seemed to be conveying Nagato's order, and his face was calm.

Itachi didn't speak, but silently put away Kunai, turned and left.

Konan floated down until Itachi completely disappeared from view, picked up Orochimaru's severed arm, and flew in the opposite direction from Itachi.

"That **** Uchiha kid... how dare you look down on me like this!"

Oshemaru's face was full of resentment, and his face was distorted due to anger, becoming extremely ferocious and terrifying.

Why is it just a brat who is played by Danzo in the palm of his hand, but can so easily counter him in illusion, which makes Orochimaru feel boundless humiliation.

Even when facing Yuyin's leader, Sanshoyu Hanzo, he had never been so embarrassed before.

Running in the forest, Orochimaru didn't care about the pain of the broken arm. An injury of this degree can be recovered with a little rest. How many parts are needed for the repair of the broken arm.

Compared with physical injuries, mental trauma is the key.

While running in the forest, something fell from the sky, causing Orochimaru to stop in astonishment.

A severed arm fell ahead, blocking his way.

Oshemaru recognized this severed arm, the one he had just been beheaded by Itachi.

Immediately afterwards, Konan, with white wings condensed on his back, slowly floated down from the sky, looking down at Orochimaru.

Orochimaru frowned and looked at Xiaonan.

Are you here to hunt him down?

Soon Orochimaru vetoed this point of view.

He and Itachi just had a conflict, but Xiaonan's body came directly, which is obviously unreasonable.

Just when Orochimaru was about to ask questions, a rainbow-colored phantom condensed from the air and stood in front of Orochimaru.

"Nagato..."

Orochimaru looked at Nagato who suddenly came in the form of a clone, and he had even more doubts in his heart.

Nagato glanced at the severed arm on the ground, and the shoulder where Orochimaru lost his arm, and said, "It's really embarrassing, Mr. Orochimaru."

Orochimaru licked his tongue and smiled, "Why, are you here to clean me up for Itachi?"

As he spoke, he subconsciously backed away slowly.

For Nagato, Orochimaru is afraid from the bottom of his heart.

Itachi is as harmless as a baby who hasn't grown up compared to Nagato.

Nagato didn't speak, but Xiaonan took out a scroll and threw it at Orochimaru.

Oshemaru caught the scroll suspiciously, and scanned Nagato's face back and forth, trying to see something.

"I can ignore what happened just now, but I also hope that Mr. Oshemaru will remember not to be an example. Mr. Oshemaru understands what will happen to Akatsuki."

is not a threat, Nagato is simply stating a fact.

"I see."

Orochimaru's tense nerves relax, as long as Nagato doesn't pursue it, there is really no need to fly away.

Once Nagato is pursued, with his current ability, there is no way he can escape from Nagato's pursuit.

He knows so many secrets about Akatsuki, there is no second way to leave the organization unless he dies.

Oshemaru opened the scroll thrown by Xiaonan, and after just a glance, he was shocked by the content on it, and his eyes showed incomparable shock.

"How, how long?"

Didn't ask if it could be done, Nagato believed in Orochimaru's research ability, so asked him how long it would take to complete the things on the scroll.

Compared with strength, Nagato believes in Orochimaru's talent in research and exploration.

Oshemaru did not give an answer immediately, and after thinking for a while, he slowly answered: "I haven't thought about it, the lack of research data on this part is very serious, and the collection of materials..."

Feeling Orochimaru's embarrassment, Nagato said: "Don't worry, I have collected all the materials."

Oshemaru was startled, took a deep look at Nagato, and said meaningfully: "I see, it seems that you are also quite wary of Madara and Zetsu, and you did such a thing without telling them."

"I don't want to be Madara's puppet, so naturally I have to make more preparations. And in order to deal with Chiba Shiraishi in the future, this is a necessary force."

Nagato replied like this.

Orochimaru looked blank, becoming Madara's puppet?

If he remembers correctly, Madara seems to be quite afraid of Nagato. The cooperation between the two should be based on Nagato. Why do you say that you don't want to be Madara's puppet?

"The specific things, I will explain in detail later. When the tailed beast is captured, Uchiha Itachi's pair of kaleidoscope sharing eyes will be yours, Mr. Orochimaru."

"I will do this by myself. You don't need to do it yourself. Only when you have enough food and clothing can you have fun."

Oshemaru rejected Nagato's assistance.

Nagato nodded, since Orochimaru didn't need his assistance, he could only follow Orochimaru's own way.

"Xiaonan, take Mr. Orochimaru to the No. 2 secret point. I will explain to Xie."

After Nagato finished speaking, the rainbow-like phantom clone disappeared, leaving Konan and Orochimaru behind.

(end of this chapter)