Chapter 11: Acting a Chase
Chapter 11: Acting a Chase
Kuroto didn’t entangle with Sasori and directly flew over Mitsui’s corpse, while also throwing a few Kunai’s wrapped in an explosive tag at his corpse without any hesitation.
Boom-boom… boom…
BOOM…!!!
With a violent explosion, Mitsui’s body suddenly fell apart.
The reason why Kuroto destroyed Mitsui’s body was to prevent Sasori from finding his identity based on Mitsui’s identity.
After all, he doesn’t know how long he will stay at the border post. If Sasori rings at the door, he won’t even have a place to escape. You must know that the village is trying to clean him at this moment. If he abandons the post and escapes, the village would just find a convenient excuse of punishing him for a crime of fleeing, and he will be executed fairly, which is not something he will allow.
So, he ruined Mitsui’s body, therefore Sasori would not be able to figure out Kuroto’s identity that easily.
Because no matter how strong Sasori is, eventually, he is only a missing-nin at this point in time, and without the support of Sand Village backing him up, he will inevitably lack a source to give him the required intelligence for him to figure out Kuroto’s identity.
And this time Konoha and Sand Village did secret cooperation. It involves the cleaning of their own people, so there must be very few insiders, and they must be the highest-level authorities of both the villages, so whether Sasori wants to get information from Konoha or Sand, it is very difficult for him to find out the specific list of personnel involved under this purging operation.
Kuroto thought all these messy thoughts while escaping in the sky, while Sasori chased him on the ground, and the distance between the two sides naturally kept on increasing.
Glancing at the furious Sasori that fell far behind him, Kuroto smiled freely.
Sasori at the moment hasn’t joined Akatsuki. Although he has an impressive record of killing a Kage rank individual, he still belongs to the category of the traditional sand hidden puppet master. He has few methods in his hands, and that is being too dependent on puppets or poisons, besides he also lacks the means to deal with all kinds of weird techniques.
Therefore, after Kuroto luckily took away Sandaime KazeKage’s puppet, Sasori’s effective combat power was immediately reduced.
This weakening does not only refer to combat effectiveness. More importantly, it is mobility. Without the KazeKage’s puppet, Sasori lost the initiative on the battlefield.
This is one of the reasons why the Yondaime Hokage-sama can surpass Sannin and other Kage level Ninja at such a young age.
Those fighting against Yonadaime-sama can’t catch up to him in terms of speed, and those who can’t fight him in terms of strength can’t escape him. Where? When? and How? All three initiative lies in the hands of Yondaime-sama’s hands. This is the biggest helplessness all the enemies of Yondaime-sama must have faced. And as the strength of Yondaime-sama kept increasing day-by-day, slowly he became almost unbeatable, and finally, the alias ‘Golden Flash’ became an existence highly feared by the enemies.
The current strength of Sasori hasn’t reached the peak state, once he joins the Akatsuki Organization, learns about the Rinnegan, and understands the concept of power above Kage-level, his strength will be further improved.
With this thought in mind, Kuroto gradually got rid of Sasori’s chase, broke away from the desert, and went in the direction of the woods at the border of the Country of Tea.
After repeatedly confirming that he wasn’t being chased by Sasori any longer, Kuroto deliberately circled around and finally stopped on a big tree mile away from the border outpost.
He knows that if he simply went back, he would be the one blamed for the death of Nara Mitsui.
However, he can’t report his encounter with the Sasori of the Red Sand, because once he does so, then under the vigorous investigation of the village it would get increasingly difficult for him to keep Sandaime Kazekage’s puppet in his hands.
And once an S-level missing-nin is involved in this matter, the village will definitely send elite ninjas for carrying out an investigation, in which case the probability of his Tenseigan being exposed will increase greatly.
Therefore, he must enact a scene to make Mitsui’s death seem reasonable and believable.
After thinking about it for a while, Kuroto started taking action.
He wrapped Sandaime Kazekage’s puppet in a bandage from head to toe, now only his dull eyes were exposed, and finally, he put a grey cloak over.
Because the puppet is originally made from a human corpse so its body shape was almost the same as before only on the chakra line were there now for controlling in manually.
After Kuroto took care of the puppet’s disguise, it now looked like a living ninja covering its body all over.
After a closed inspection and re-checking to find no flaws, Kuroto handed it few kunai and let it cut him to make the act seem more real.
When all this was done, Juroto rushed towards the direction of the outpost.
At the outpost,
Hearing a sound that was calling for help, Mitarashi Anko who was recovering from her injuries was stunned and immediately jumped out of her room and came outside.
At the same time, the other two squad leaders in the outpost also jumped out and looked in the direction of Kuroto’s call for help with full alert.
In a moment, the three shinobi were able to spot Kuroto covered in blood stumbling towards the outpost, and behind him was a strange ninja chasing after Kuroto.
The three Shinobi didn’t hesitate at all and immediately rushed towards the strange ninja with the intent to kill.
Even if the Sandaime Kazekage puppet only used taijutsu, it was much better than Anko and the other two chunin squad leaders, so Kuroto made sure not to overplay so that him being able to escape won’t seem suspicious.
On the side a short confrontation took place, Anko and the two squad leaders together exchanged some blows with the puppet and after a small stalemate, pretended to attack, dodged a few attacks, and then immediately retreated.
The other three were kind of confused why would the enemy choose to retreat when he had the advantage over them in terms of strength, but they still decided not to think too deeply about it and didn’t bother to pursue it.
Seeing the strange ninja no longer around they turned towards Kuroto who was catching his breath and injuries, the most senior of them immediately asked him, “What happened?”
Kuroto just shook his head: “I don’t know, Captain Mitsui and I were attacked as soon as we sneaked into the lands of Wing Country. In the surprise attack we encountered Captain Mitsui died on the spot, I was able to somehow escape but the enemy decided to give chase, I hid on several locations and somehow arrived here.”
When Anko heard Kuroto’s story her expression was gloomy again, however the expression of the two squad leaders was of being surprised.
After Kuroto came to his room, Anko followed him, and now she was helping him wrap bandages over his wounds, when she said hoarsely, “Each one of them is dead!”
The ‘them’ here refers to all the shinobi that were part of Orochimaru’s subordinates who came with Kuroto and Anko to this border outpost.
Today only Kuroto didn’t go for a mission, there were two other teams too on ‘special mission’ but only two squad leaders returned alive and the subordinates in the team encountered accidental death.
Kuroto remained silent as Anko informed him while helping him treat his wounds, and just nodded silently.
Only a stupid won’t notice if there’s no problem if, In such a remote border outpost with twelve shinobi assigned for duty, eight people died in less than two weeks, more so under similar situation, especially during the non-war period.
Obviously, this is all being done under the orders of higher authorities.
After a while, Kuroto spoke in a light whisper, “Be careful of them, most likely they are Root Shinobi, don’t give them any opportunity.”
Anko has also noticed that something is definitely wrong with them and nodded.
Finally, she asked, “What happened to you today?”
Kuroto glanced at worried Anko and replied quietly, “Don’t worry too much about me, we really encountered an accident today.”
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