A long time passed.
A low voice finally brought Nagato out of the silence.
"You've seen his power. It's difficult for us to compete with him at this stage, at least not until we collect the tailed beasts."
Uchiha Obito stood beside Nagato, his eyes were deep and low, and he slowly spoke.
Nagato came back to his senses, looked at Obito, and said: "After this battle, only Uchiha Itachi, Inigaki Kisame, and a few of us are left among the senior members. The middle-level members and the bottom-level members have suffered heavy losses. I think To accumulate enough strength again, I'm afraid it will take a long time... "
"no need to worry."
The person who interrupted Nagato's words was not Uchiha Obito, but an extremely hoarse and deep voice. It was Black Zetsu who had never appeared from the beginning!
Black Zetsu attached himself to a white Zetsu, and slowly spoke to Nagato, "Regarding this matter, Madara-sama and I have already thought of a countermeasure."
Nagato frowned slightly and turned to look at Uchiha Obito. When he saw Uchiha Obito's calm expression, he shook his head inwardly.
On the surface, he is the leader of the Akatsuki organization, but in fact, he is not the one behind the scenes. He even feels that he is kept in the dark about many things.
Uchiha Obito seemed to notice something was wrong with Nagato's expression, so he stared at him and said in a deep voice: "There are some things I haven't told you so as not to distract you. No matter what, our purpose is the same..."
"Yeah...the purpose is the same."
The wavering look in Nagato's eyes was once again replaced by determination.
…
In the Kingdom of Rain, above the ruins of the Akatsuki organization base.
Roja couldn't help but smile when he looked at the abyss that was cut out by his sword and spread for many miles, as well as the thick dark clouds that split in the sky, and the sunlight that fell through the cracks in the dark clouds.
"I still prefer sunny days."
"Similarly, I don't like rain very much."
Hancock stood next to Roja and responded quietly. After she paused, she glanced at the torn depths of the Akatsuki organization's base with the corner of her eye.
That was where Nagato and others were before.
Hancock's Observation Color Haki covers a very wide range. Even if Nagato prevents the leakage of chakra, it will be useless, because the perception of Observation Color Haki is not perceived through chakra. Naturally, it has long been discovered that he is hiding in The secret Nagato body and Uchiha Obito and others.
However, she also knew that since she had discovered it, it was impossible for Roja not to notice it. However, Roja did not interfere and allowed the other party to escape. This must have been Roja's purpose.
Although she is a proud and cold empress in front of others, in front of Roya, she will never interfere with Roya's ideas and will only silently support him.
She looked at that corner with a hint of mockery in her eyes.
I'm afraid those little bugs who escaped still thought they were controlling everything secretly, but they didn't know that everything must be under Roja's control.
"Let's go back."
Roja looked at Hancock and seemed to see through her inner thoughts, and smiled at her.
…
A vacant lot in the Hidden Mist Village.
"Ice Escape! Ice Spin Killing Spear!"
"Corpse Bone Veins! Dance of Iron Flowers!"
Kimimaro and Shiro are constantly intersecting and colliding here. Shiro's strength is obviously not as good as Kimimaro. Although the ice escape ninjutsu is powerful, it is still slightly inferior under the limit of Kimimaro's corpse blood. Being constantly defeated.
With Roja's permission and Yuhi Kurenai's teachings, Kebai's perception ability is extremely powerful and he can always clearly capture all Kimimaro's movements and avoid them.
It's like having a pair of three magatama sharingan eyes.
Not far away from the confrontation between the two, there were only a few Kirigakure ANBU ninjas, and no one else was allowed to come near. These ANBU ninjas couldn't help but feel frightened when they saw the confrontation between Kimimaro and Hancock.
"Kimimaro is worthy of being Lord Roja's disciple... With this level of strength, I'm afraid we will be easily killed in a few rounds."
"Shiro is also recognized by Master Roja. If we join forces, we are probably no match. I'm afraid we can go head-to-head with Master Mizukage."
Almost all of these ANBU watched Kimimaro and Haku grow up rapidly. The feeling in their hearts at this time cannot be explained in words. From the beginning when Kimimaro and Haku joined the ANBU, their strength and experience were inferior to them. It took less than a year to completely surpass them.
But now, Kimimaro and Shiro's strength has reached a level that they need to look up to.
If you don't count Yuhihi Kurenai, Kimimaro and Shiro alone can annihilate all the Kirigakure ANBU.
"Huh..."
An ANBU ninja looked at the constant explosions coming from the field. After wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, he suddenly turned his head and looked at another figure on the side with lingering fear. At the same time, he thought to himself, who can fight these two monsters? , then there is only the third monster.
Not only him, but several other Anbu also showed palpitations and fear when they looked at the figure in that direction. They were just impressed by Kimimaro and Shiro, but they were purely afraid of that figure!
Ghost!
This is the title that Kurama Yakumo is secretly called by some ANBU and high-level officials in Kirigakure in Kirigakure. It is also Kurama Yakumo's code name among Kirigakure ANBU, and is often called Genki Yakumo.
The ANBU present were all afraid of Yakumo because they had all been attacked and tortured by her abilities. They were frightened by the terrifying feeling of having their five senses controlled by their body and completely controlling their life and death in the hands of others. And fear.
boom! !
After another confrontation, Kimimaro and Shiro separated. Both of them had consumed a lot of chakra, their foreheads were stained with sweat, and they exhaled.
Since both of them improve their strength relatively quickly, and if their strength improves too quickly, they need to practice in actual combat to master the strength that improves too quickly, so it has become a habit for the two to fight against each other once every few months.
There is almost no outcome in every battle. Of course, if you fight to the death, the unsurprising result will be that Kimimaro lives and dies in vain.
In a fight, Kimimaro's chances of winning are still much higher than Shiro's.
But when it comes to who will play a greater role in a war, it is impossible to distinguish. After all, in many cases, the perceptive ninja is much more important than the combat ninja.
"Bah bang bang!"
At this moment, a sound of applause came over.
"The strength of you two has improved again. I'm afraid I am no longer your opponent now."
Seeing the person coming, the ANBU present cheered up, stood up straight, and then saluted to the figure.
Kimimaro, Shiro, and Kurama Yakumo on the other side did not show any disrespect to the visitor, especially Shiro, who bowed to the visitor.
The person who came was naturally Yuhi Hong.
Terumi Mei is the Mizukage and has to deal with all kinds of busy government affairs. In comparison, Yuhi Kurenai has a lot of free time, but this time she came here not for a walk.
After smiling friendly at Kimimaro and Shiro, she came to Kurama Yakumo.
"There is a task for you to complete..."