June 6, 62 Konoha
Fire Country, Konoha New Naruto Building
In the meeting room.
It was like putting corn kernels into a microwave oven.
"Why is Orochimaru still alive!" Sarutobi once again broke his vow to meddle in other people's business and sat there.
"It's normal that Orochimaru is still alive." Mito Pyloritis looked at the exasperated Sarutobi and laughed until his stomach hurt. They were in Konoha.
There was never a moment of peace. "Watergate has suspected that Orochimaru is still alive since the day Orochimaru died."
"I thought your focus would be …" Xiaochun was forced to come again. "Orochimaru and Watergate really have a deal."
"It's obvious that Orochimaru and Little Watergate have a deal.
How many times have I told you that Watergate is closer to Orochimaru than to Jiraiya … "Mito Pyloritis looked for Jiraiya in the meeting room. He really wanted to see Jiraiya's expression when he heard that Orochimaru was still alive. Although he never admitted it, Jiraiya had been uncomfortable with Watergate for the past two years.
He still blamed his disciple for killing his good brother. "Where's Jiraiya?"
"He took Naruto to Mount Myoboku to cultivate." Hiroyuki Yamanaka felt that he didn't have to show up even more than Xiaochun. After Genma made a fuss last time, the prestige that he had accumulated over the past 20 years was gone. He instantly changed from a good-tempered uncle to a stubborn, old-fashioned, and cold-blooded old man. "Don't waste time chatting.
May I know Huo Xuanmen -sama?
Let's start the meeting. "
Genma would no longer feel awkward because of an honorific.
He knocked on the table and adjusted the microphone. "Please be quiet.
Next, the fifth generation leader candidate will speak. "
Kakashi pulled his hair with one hand and looked at the bill in his hand.
A long piece of paper.
It was an old standard form printed by Konoha's logistics department. On the left was the time, and in the middle was the project.
On the right was the price. The price column.
Lots and lots of zeroes.
Kakashi didn't want to count at all. The timeline spans from September 49 in Konoha to December 59 in Konoha.
Three months before Orochimaru's head was chopped off, the list of items was filled with a variety of miscellaneous items. There was a traitor's name that was crossed out, and there was a certain intelligence investigation.
There were records of him lending money to Konoha, borrowing money from Konoha, buying things from Konoha, buying things from Konoha, even shares and dividends, and bribery! Orochimaru actually bribed Sensei!
Of course, the most obvious thing was the dense signature superimposed on the bill. Four Generations leader Naruto and Bo Fung Watergate's autograph. On top of the signature, there was a red seal and fingerprints … Kakashi knew that Orochimaru always went to Konoha, but he never knew that there was such a bill. God damn it, Orochimaru was still alive. "I think we should first confirm whether Orochimaru is really alive or not. Maybe someone is impersonating him."
"Yes, someone must be impersonating him." Sarutobi glanced at the bill and found it even harder to accept it than Kakashi. He knew that Watergate had contact with Orochimaru, but it started from Konoha 49, the second year of the Nine Tails battle! And the biggest bribe that Orochimaru gave to Watergate was to lobby the Lord of the Land of Rice! Doesn't that mean that Watergate already knew that Orochimaru was the one who established Otogakure! Even if Orochimaru was able to establish Ninja Village in the Land of Rice, Watergate might have helped! It's simply …
"It's outrageous!" Kakashi slammed the table, "Anbu Minister, I give you full authority to investigate and find out who is impersonating Orochimaru!"
"Okay, but I'm sorry, Kakashi, I'm afraid Orochimaru -san is still alive." Uchiha Shisui raised his hand and spoke.
"Evidence." Shikaku Nara stared at Shisui.
"Do you have evidence?" Everyone on the oval table looked at Shisui.
Shisui was sure that the gag order was a good thing. For example, the Anbu that seven or eight people died in order to save Naruto, he didn't need to let the Four Generations know for a lifetime. But when it came to the meeting, he really couldn't speak. For example, Kakashi killed Belt Soil, and Kakashi gave him everything after that. Kakashi didn't want to hear any news about Belt Soil, but now it was not up to Kakashi. "Aoha Yamashiro has been in contact with Orochimaru after Orochimaru's death. He said that he didn't know that Uchiha Belt Soil was an Akatsuki person. He always thought that Belt Soil was Orochimaru's people."
"…"
"…" Shikaku Nara knocked his head, "Wait, let me think. Orochimaru, Aoha Yamashiro … Land of Rice and Land of Hot Water are next to each other, Watergate's external intelligence system … Youjiwei?"
"I haven't seen Orochimaru since he was declared dead by Konoha." Youjiwei pushed up his sunglasses, admitting some of his responsibilities, "Shisui, do you want to tell me where Uchiha Belt Soil came from? How many years ago did he die? "
Shisui could only tell the truth, "In short, you have seen the news about the Akatsuki. They wanted to collect Nine Tails to carry out an absurd plan called the Eye of the Moon, and Uchiha Belt Soil tricked the Akatsuki to come to Konoha to steal the Force Of Human Column to assassinate Naruto. In order to make the assassination easier, he and Aoha Yamashiro swapped bodies, but due to a freak combination of factors, he was directly locked up. Then Aoha was unwilling to let Belt Soil steal his body, so he chased back to Konoha, but was also detained by the Anbu. Xiaonan was weak and couldn't kill Four Generations during the Chunin Exam, which led to Payne to steal the Force Of Human Column. "
"Wait, wait, wait!" Hiroyuki Yamanaka was also a little confused. "What do you mean by swapping bodies?"
Shisui nodded to the Anbu at the door. A few minutes later, the elevator door opened, and a Konoha Ninjas in prison uniform was pushed out.
Then the popcorn in Konoha's microwave finally exploded.
"Kakashi! This is! "Sarutobi was stunned. Uchiha Belt Soil was executed by him!
The others weren't much better, but Kakashi was the most upset. Kakashi didn't blame Belt Soil for the accidental disclosure of information that led to the death of sister Kina. There was nothing he couldn't let go of when a thirty-year-old man looked at a boy in his teens. But when he finally let it go, he learned that Belt Soil was the masked man. It wasn't an accident, but the masked man who destroyed Sensei's family. What about him? So what if Hatake Kakashi was! From his teens to his thirties, more than half of his life, who was he commemorating, who was he missing, who was he aiming for, and who was he living for?!
However, no one cared about what Kakashi thought.
"Aoha Yamashiro." Uchiha Shisui couldn't care less about Kakashi. The name Orochimaru represented trouble. "Explain yourself, Belt Soil and Orochimaru."
"Sandaime-sama, seniors." Aoha Yamashiro was no longer as lively as before. "I was wrong, I was guilty. I really never thought that Belt Soil was a complete traitor. I thought that Belt Soil was the same as Orochimaru sensei … I didn't even think that Belt Soil was the masked man. If I knew that Belt Soil was the masked man …"
"Wait, wait, wait, what do you mean that Belt Soil is the masked man?" Shikaku Nara didn't care about Orochimaru anymore. A masked man made him break out in a cold sweat.
Hiroyuki Yamanaka was also sweating. "Aoha Yamashiro, in the report a few days ago, you only embezzled public funds, right? Economic crimes aren't serious crimes in Konoha. At most, you'll clean the toilets for a few days and have your future salary deducted. There's no need to make false accusations to reduce your punishment. Where did the masked man come from? There was never a masked man! "
"There is, and the evidence is conclusive. Otherwise, I …" Aoha Yamashiro suddenly froze.
Youjiwei and Uchiha Shisui exchanged glances.
Hinata kept her head down from the beginning.
Sarutobi turned off the microphone, got up and left. This time, he really swore that he would never set foot in the New Naruto building again.
In the cold conference room, Mito Pyloritis asked carefully, "Watergate, do you know that Belt Soil is the masked man?"
"Yes." Kakashi just remembered that Konoha officials had never admitted the masked man's existence. Nine Tails' accident until now was his sensei's full responsibility. "Otherwise, do you think that Golden Flash collapsed because of overwork?"
Mito Pyloritis took off his glasses, wiped them with the corner of his shirt, and left. Xiaochun followed after him. Shikaku Nara, Hiroyuki Yamanaka, and Hinata also left quietly.
"…" Aoha Yamashiro swung the iron chains on his hands and feet in silence. "Can I go and see the Four Generations?"
"You should continue with your transformation." Uchiha Shisui knew that this time, he was in big trouble.
"Zhiwei -sensei." Aoha Yamashiro finally saw an acquaintance. "I really didn't embezzle anything. I didn't mean to hide the matter about Orochimaru and Belt Soil from you."
"I'll go and see you later." Youjiwei watched as Aoha was taken away and sighed. "Okay, they've all left guiltily, but Orochimaru's bill still needs to be settled. He said that if you don't pay him, you'll have to bear the consequences. Orochimaru's consequences aren't fun. "
"The problem is that we can't pay him. If we pay him, Konoha won't be able to do anything for the rest of the year." Shisui had the urge to ask Itachi to accompany him in killing Orochimaru. "Kakashi?"
"Anyway, Sensei can't be disturbed." Kakashi's head was about to explode. "Why don't we try to negotiate with Orochimaru first? What do you think, Genma? "
Huo Xuanmen sniffled.
"Why are you crying?" Kakashi wanted to slap him.
"Sorry, I suddenly remembered when Naruto was born." Genma wiped his nose. "You weren't there, Kakashi. There was obviously a masked man, but those people just now refused to admit it. It wasn't Kina -san, the Four Generations, or Naruto's fault … "
"Shut up. Don't say anything else." Kakashi also recalled what he finally learned when he sealed Chakra. Sensei was dying, and Konoha didn't want to waste precious resources to save him, so he used the Senju family's scroll as a last resort … Sensei survived, but what about Kina -san, who also used a so-called life-saving scroll? Yes, the Force Of Human Column would die if their tailed beasts were removed … but if Dingzhuo and Zhiwei -senpai didn't notice anything wrong and told Sensei, Sensei wouldn't even remember that he was seriously injured. If Sandaime-sama hadn't noticed that Sensei was indeed getting weaker and weaker and told Jiraiya about the scroll, Sensei wouldn't even know about it. "Have Guy try to contact him first, and then issue a second gag order. Just like before, it's only for the Four Generations — block Orochimaru!"
And so, Konoha Hospital.
Naruto's personal ward.
Bo Fung Watergate was still happily listening to the radio, eating, drinking, and getting an IV drip. He was in a really good mood, and his daily IV drip had been reduced to eight hours of sleep and two hours of afternoon nap. And the time that Chino could talk to him was extended to an entire afternoon, an entire afternoon.
"You really know how to enjoy life." Of course, it was good to be able to chat with Minato. No matter how much the two of them talked, it wasn't a lot. However, she watched Minato eat snacks, and she watched Minato drink … Of course, ghosts wouldn't be hungry or thirsty, but ghosts didn't lose their memories. The taste that they had tasted when they were alive was as meaningful as love. "If you knew how to treat yourself better in your early years, you wouldn't be in such a sorry state now."
"If I wasn't in such a sorry state, I wouldn't have been able to see you." Minato's smile was as bright as a flower. He slumped on the sofa and stretched out his arms. "A powerful ninja like your husband, if I live to be more than a hundred years old, you might not love me after waiting for me for a hundred years."
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If you choose not to go to heaven, you can't go there anymore. I can only pester you until the end of time. "Kina Maelstrom snuggled into Watergate's arms. She suddenly wanted to eat.
"Wait a few days. I'll take you to eat in a few days."
Kina wanted to cry again. "How do you know what I'm thinking?"
"Because I'm Bo Fung Watergate. Your sun can not only shine on the earth, but also warm you." Watergate pretended to kiss Kina's hair and forehead. He was sure that he was kissing her hair and forehead.
Kina straightened up and moved her head close to Watergate's mouth. "But why do you have to wait a few days?"
"Because it's too far. I'll be too tired to eat if I walk there." Watergate pretended to play with Kina's hair. "Think about it. If you can't eat, and I don't have any appetite, we'll be kicked out by the boss."
"He won't. The boss is the most enthusiastic." Kina raised her hair and helped Watergate curl it a few times. Then she pretended to rest her head on Watergate's arm, pretended to hear Watergate's heartbeat, and pretended to hug her husband tightly. "You're right. You're out of breath when you're cleaning the wardrobe. You really can't do it."
Watergate turned over and pretended to press Kina under his body. "So instead of seeing you like this, we'd better practice how to touch you first."
Kina's face turned red. She wanted to remind Watergate that although there were no cameras in the ward, Yamato, the Dark Group, and those who had been sent outside the room were all there. It was enough that Naruto was a psychopath. My Naruto was a psychopath who didn't even care about his face … Well, it was quite interesting when she thought about it.
However, Watergate still drew the curtains.
"Hey, hey, hey. Are you serious?" Kina was embarrassed and hurriedly looked around. Fortunately, she had been beating Uchiha Shisui hard these days. That guy didn't dare to come forward for no reason. Otherwise, if he saw it … she wouldn't be able to help but kill him. "Go and open the curtains."
Watergate lay on the bed. "Hey, drink deer antler and deer blood every day."
"I didn't feed you deer penis! Can you think of something else in your mind? "
"What's wrong with thinking about embarrassing things between husband and wife?" Watergate poked Kina's itchy flesh and pretended that he could poke it. "Anyway, it's just a thought."
"Yeah, it's just a thought." Kina didn't pass the itchy flesh to him. Instead, she sat on the bed and pretended that she could poke Watergate's itchy flesh. "Are you tired?"
"Yeah."
"I told you not to do laundry, but you insisted." Kina finally took off the bloodstained and tattered dress she wore before she died and put on a clean shirt and jeans. "It's just a smell. Ghosts can't smell it."
Watergate wanted to say what if he could smell it one day? But he didn't even have time to think before he fell asleep.
Kina could only watch as the ward door opened. Yamato came in and helped Watergate take off his shoes and cover him with a blanket. Then, he connected the heart monitor to the blood vessels all over his arm. After much difficulty, he inserted the needle. "Thank you."
Yamato didn't answer. He washed a hot towel and covered Watergate's needle hole. Then, he released Mokuton in the room. One of the disgraces of Konoha's Black Ops, the unstoppable Orochimaru, really came back to life again. This time, he, Thousand-Armed Yamato, didn't have no improvement at all. Konoha's Black Ops couldn't have no improvement at all!
But Orochimaru didn't care what a few Black Ops thought. He only cared about whether Konoha would continue to renege on their debt! Yes, in the past, Konoha was poor, and Watergate didn't have the money to pay, so they exchanged IOUs. But now, Konoha was rich! Rich!
Land of Hot Soup
Lava Cave with many hot springs.
"Orochimaru -sama, what does Konoha mean by this? Are you going to pay or not?" The red-haired girl with red-rimmed spectacles said in a hoarse voice. She held a newspaper in her hand. On the newspaper was an advertisement for the latest novel by Jiraiya the Toad Sage. Using the password to unlock it, it was an invitation from the head of Konoha's border station, Metke. "The perverted thick eyebrows next door wants you to talk to him in detail."
"Mm." Orochimaru was holding a glass syringe as thick as a candle and drawing blood. He was drawing blood from a person. The man was red-haired and skinny. "Aromatic Phosphorus, go give this relative of yours a bite. He's about to die."
"Why is he foaming at the mouth? Please don't draw too much blood." Aromatic Phosphorus really hated this guy who was hanging on the wall. He was a descendant of the Uzumaki family. He was supposed to be so powerful, but he turned himself into a monster. He deserved to be studied. "Orochimaru -sama, why don't I go to Konoha on your behalf to collect the debt?"
"No, don't listen to Aromatic Phosphorus, Orochimaru -sama. She just wants to see Sasuke."
"Shuiyue!"
The moon in the water and the flower in the mirror is fate.
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