Chapter 31: Kamui Hides Tears With Difficulty
Hokage Building, Anbu Base.
A head of silver hair, Kakashi without a mask stood silently among numerous Anbu Ninjas wearing various animal masks, quietly applying a medicinal patch to the wound on his forehead.
After Orochimaru escaped, he immediately went to pursue, encountering Orochimaru outside the Village Protection Barrier.
But the current Kakashi still hadn’t emerged from the shadow of death of Rin, somewhat mentally dazed, with his Sharingan greatly consumed, which greatly weakened Kakashi’s combat power.
Thus, he was no match for Orochimaru and failed to keep Orochimaru behind.
However, the explosive tag left by the Third Hokage also injured Orochimaru.
That is, because Kakashi’s three-tomoe Sharingan was transplanted, the injured Orochimaru didn’t think to seize Kakashi’s Sharingan and let Kakashi go.
After being stared at by those snake eyes, Kakashi didn’t continue the pursuit and returned to the village.
Creak—
The heavy Anbu door slowly opened.
When the Third Hokage and Danzō came out one after the other, Kakashi also lowered his palm and put on his white cat mask.
Under the moonlight, Hiruzen Sarutobi took two steps forward and solemnly said to the Anbu Ninjas below the stairs: “This emergency assembly is to capture Orochimaru, who slipped through the net in the previous operation, as quickly as possible.”
“According to intelligence, Orochimaru is already injured. We must capture him before he leaves the borders of the Land of Fire!”
“Listen up! The intelligence, knowledge, and technology that Orochimaru possesses are extremely precious assets to Konoha!”
“I hope you can bring him back alive as much as possible!”
“Once he leaves the borders of the Land of Fire, it will be a very heavy blow to Konoha!”
“So, we must capture Orochimaru before he leaves the borders of the Land of Fire! Everyone! Search with all your strength!”
“Disperse!”
With the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi’s speech finished, dozens of elite Anbu Ninjas dispersed!
Hiruzen Sarutobi turned around and walked toward the interior of the Anbu building.
“A person like you actually failed.” Danzō’s voice rang out.
Hiruzen Sarutobi, who had stopped, did not answer.
“I will fully assist in the capture operation.” Finally, Danzō added: “For Konoha.”
Hiruzen Sarutobi closed his eyes: “That really troubles you.”
With that, Hiruzen Sarutobi opened his eyes again and slowly walked into the Anbu building.
Danzō still stood behind him like a vulture, his single eye staring at Konoha Village with sparse lights under the night.
Outside the village.
Twenty Anbu Ninjas struck out in all directions.
Anbu, including Root, had a total of more than seventy elite Ninjas.
But naturally, it was impossible to deploy them all.
This time, Hiruzen Sarutobi mainly deployed the team leaders and squad leaders of each team, with the lowest strength being special jonin.
Because he knew full well that his disciple was not something ordinary Ninjas could handle.
Even for Anbu, they operated in pairs, carrying signal flares with them. Once they discovered Orochimaru’s trail, they would immediately launch the signal flare to call nearby Anbu Ninjas for support.
Plus, Orochimaru was now in an injured state, which gave them a chance to capture him alive.
Soon, the twenty Ninjas, sensing the direction in which Orochimaru escaped from Konoha through the Barrier Division, began tracking Orochimaru from this direction.
Some ran through the forest, some searched along the river, even diving into the river, trying to find Orochimaru’s trail.
While Kakashi, acting alone, was somewhat lost in thought as he sped through the forest.
‘He didn’t take me seriously at all…’ Kakashi recalled the clash with Orochimaru. Even after being injured by the explosive tag, the opponent didn’t take him seriously and coldly walked past him.
But Kakashi was scared stiff by those ice-cold snake eyes and didn’t dare move.
Only after Orochimaru disappeared did he feel relieved.
‘Next time! I definitely will…’
Kakashi landed, quickly formed hand seals with both hands, then slapped his right hand on the ground.
“Summoning Jutsu!”
Bang!
A puff of white mist dispersed, and eight ninja hounds led by Pakkun appeared.
“Yo, what’s up, Kakashi?” Pakkun sat on the head of a dark brown big dog, slinging a grumpy face as he asked.
“I need you to help me track Orochimaru’s scent!” Kakashi stood up and said to Pakkun and the other ninja hounds.
Hearing this, Pakkun, who was already slinging a grumpy face, frowned even more, complaining in his tone: “Snakes are hard to track because they don’t sweat.”
“Orochimaru is injured and bled a lot.” Kakashi recalled that explosive tag.
“In that case, we can give it a try.” Pakkun jumped out first.
The other seven ninja hounds also sprang into action, searching the forest for Orochimaru’s scent and blood scent.
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Outer Perimeter of Konoha Village, on a branch of a big tree, a spatial swirl slowly distorted, and Obito’s figure appeared.
From here, one could overlook the Konoha Hokage Building.
“Oh dear, so many Anbu deployed. Those who don’t know might think another mysterious Ninja attacked Konoha.”
“It seems Orochimaru defected.”
The pitcher plant Zetsu also oozed out from the tree trunk, chuckling as he said to Obito: “Kakashi seems to be injured too.”
“That guy better not die.” Obito glanced at Zetsu.
Then he asked: “Did you find out?”
The pale white White Zetsu to the left of the pitcher plant exaggeratedly spread his hands and said: “Lost four White Zetsu. The approximate path is from around the Root Base to the orphanage, then to the gate of Konoha Village.”
“Root…” Hearing this path, Obito immediately suspected Danzō.
‘Could it be that Danzō and Orochimaru are conducting some experiment? Captured some powerful Ninja who then escaped?’ But since Root was mysterious to begin with, Obito had very little intelligence on it.
He asked again: “What about that kid at the orphanage?”
“Oh, I almost forgot if you didn’t mention it.” Zetsu slapped his head and muttered: “Heard he was adopted away. Don’t know the specific location.”
“You mean White Zetsu lost the target?” Obito’s voice under the mask was slightly angry.
White Zetsu actually lost the target.
“After all, no one expected such an accident. I’ve already notified the other White Zetsu. As long as that kid is still in Konoha, we can definitely find him.” Zetsu shouted: “But if he was caught by Danzō for experiments, then it’s hard to say.”
“Hmph, then he’s out of luck.” Obito didn’t care about the child’s life or death; he just wanted to watch the spectacle of brothers killing each other.
Calculating it, that child was only three years old. Could he possibly stop his revenge plan against Konoha, stop his Eye of the Moon Plan?
“You continue to scout the situation in Konoha. I’ll go handle some other matters first.” With that, Obito’s figure gradually vanished into the Kamui swirl.
“Ah, you really know how to order people around.” Zetsu revealed a meaningful smile.
Konoha Cemetery.
Under the cover of night, Obito came to Rin’s tombstone and placed a bunch of flowers.
This was a place he must visit every time he returned to the village.
Looking at the black-and-white photograph on the tombstone, the girl’s smiling face, Obito’s Sharingan under the spiral pattern trembled slightly.
“Just wait a little longer… Rin… wait for me…” As Obito activated Kamui, a tear fell on the inscription.
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