Chapter 94: The Rebel Zabuza
“Corpse Bone?” Orochimaru’s snake-like pupils narrowed slightly; it was the first time he had heard this term.
Menma did not explain, merely gently picking up the sleeping Kimimaro.
The still young Kimimaro had some baby fat on his face, appearing slightly flushed from long-term illness torment, with fine beads of sweat seeping from his forehead.
“This is the second one; the next one must be mine!” Orochimaru licked his lips somewhat dissatisfiedly, his tone carrying a hint of jealousy.
Shura was too dominant, taking away an Ice Release child from the Yukigakure Clan wasn’t enough, and now he had taken away a genius from the Kaguya Clan.
“The first one.” Menma tossed a Flying Thunder God Kunai at Orochimaru’s feet: “White isn’t from Kirigakure, and I found him myself.”
“Hmph, I’m starting to regret bringing you along.” Orochimaru said sinisterly.
Menma ignored Orochimaru’s grumbling and directly activated the Flying Thunder God Technique for ultra-long-range teleportation.
In just a moment, Menma returned to the Kaguya Clan’s dungeon.
“Let’s go.” Menma said to Orochimaru, who had a face full of resentment: “The Kaguya Clan Territory is now full of the elderly, weak, women, and children; it’s the perfect place if you want to abduct kids.”
This statement made Orochimaru feel a bit better.
For the entire following night, Orochimaru and Menma shuttled through the Kaguya Clan Territory, abducting some Kaguya Clan children.
If they encountered elderly people or women left behind, Orochimaru would kill them without mercy, then seal their corpses in storage scrolls.
“These Kaguya Clan members won’t survive past tomorrow anyway.” Orochimaru explained with a cold laugh: “It doesn’t matter whose hands they die by.”
Menma took the opportunity to collect quite a few secret technique scrolls from the Kaguya Clan.
Although these secret techniques required the Corpse Bone Pulse bloodline, for Menma, they could serve as prerequisite technology for researching ‘Corpse Bone’ to conduct some explorations.
While Menma and Orochimaru were plundering the Kaguya Clan’s children and stored secret techniques.
An unprecedented rebellion erupted within Kirigakure!
Nearly all the Kaguya Clan’s combat forces mobilized, with the clan head personally leading elite troops straight to the Mizukage’s Office.
However, Kagura Yagura had long ago dispatched Anbu to monitor each ninja clan’s clan territory, reporting any unusual actions to him immediately.
Thus, as soon as the Kaguya Clan’s ninjas left their clan territory, they were discovered by the surveilling Anbu ninjas and promptly reported to their Mizukage.
Kagura Yagura ordered Suigetsu Hozuki to lead all Anbu ninjas into action, while issuing suppression commands to the major ninja clans and civilian ninjas.
Target: Kaguya Clan!
“Hmph hmph, a bunch of fools who don’t know death.” In the Mizukage’s Office, Kagura Yagura sat on the chair like a puppet, while a low hum came from the shadows behind him.
Obito Uchiha wore that deep blue robe, donning the tiger mask, standing by the floor-to-ceiling window, watching the increasingly fierce battlefield in the distance, wishing all of Kirigakure’s ninjas would die off!
“Hey hey, Obito.” A pitcher plant rose from the ground, and White Zetsu’s side excitedly said to Obito: “The fight below is so exciting; it feels like they’re about to have their shit beaten out!”
“Call me Lord Madara!” Obito turned his head, his tone icy cold.
“Got it, Lord Obito!” White Zetsu’s side remained cheeky and smiling.
Obito snorted coldly and turned his head away.
The battle below continued; even without Yagura, the Fourth Mizukage, making an appearance, Kirigakure’s Anbu ninjas blocked the Kaguya Clan’s first wave of offense.
Afterward, the major ninja clans, upon receiving the Mizukage’s orders—though somewhat unwilling due to the commands’ binding force and fearing grudge from this temperamental Mizukage—dispatched ninjas one after another to join the suppression action.
The civilian ninjas had long been fed up with the Kaguya Clan’s madmen; upon receiving the order to suppress the Kaguya Clan’s rebellion, these civilian ninjas were instead the most enthusiastic group.
“How are Nagato and Konan doing lately?” Obito’s voice came from under the mask.
“Same as always.” Zetsu shrugged: “The Six Paths of Pain haven’t been completed yet, and the organization’s new member candidates are still nowhere to be found.”
Obito’s gaze fixed on the battlefield in the village below, pondering the several Seven Ninja Swordsmen who had already defected; he could find an opportunity to recruit these guys under his wing as pawns.
As Obito was pondering, White Zetsu suddenly warned: “Someone’s coming.”
Obito immediately melted into the shadows, and Zetsu burrowed underground.
Thud thud thud—
Footsteps approached from far to near; a ninja with spiky hair, wearing the Kirigakure headband slanted, and carrying a great sword on his back, pushed the door open and entered.
Bandages wrapped half his face, yet unable to conceal the sharpness and killing intent in his eyes.
It was Zabuza Momochi, known as the ‘Demon’.
However, at this time, Jūzō Biwa had not yet defected, and the Kubikiribocho was still with Jūzō Biwa.
As a Kirigakure Anbu ninja, what Zabuza carried was just an ordinary ninja sword.
Obito in the shadows frowned slightly, controlling Yagura to lift his head like a puppet and look toward the spiky-haired ninja at the door.
“Zabuza, instead of suppressing the Kaguya Clan’s rebellion, what are you doing here.” Yagura’s purple pupils gazed coldly, issuing the question.
Though Yagura had a baby face, appearing only in his teens, he actually already had children.
Calculating it, Kagura Yagura’s grandson was two or three years older than Boruto, and Yagura’s son should now be around seven, about the same age as Itachi.
“Mizukage, I have important intelligence to report regarding the Kaguya Clan’s rebellion.” Zabuza took out a scroll from his ninja tool pouch and slowly stepped forward.
Step step step—
Just as he was about to reach the Mizukage’s desk, Zabuza suddenly tossed the scroll in his hand upward, body flickered forward, and swung the ninja sword down fiercely!
Crack!
The ninja sword cleaved the desk and Yagura in two!
But Zabuza’s experience told him the Mizukage wouldn’t die so easily!
Sure enough, the bisected Kagura Yagura turned into a puddle of water.
Water Clone Technique!
Kagura Yagura walked out from the nearby shadows, his purple pupils coldly emotionless as he looked at Zabuza, who had re-shouldered his great sword.
“Hmph hmph, this lord knew it wouldn’t be that simple.” Zabuza, who hadn’t succeeded in one strike, was not discouraged; instead, his battle intent boiled, his eyes full of desire for slaughter.
He had finally found this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity; the Anbu around the Mizukage had all gone to suppress the Kaguya Clan’s rebellion, even Suigetsu Hozuki was absent.
If he didn’t succeed this time, there would be no chances other times.
Thus, Zabuza went all in!
“Are you rebelling too?” Kagura Yagura drew his weapon, a hooked iron staff.
“Hasn’t the Mizukage position always been for the strong?” Zabuza shouldered his great sword, madness flashing in his eyes: “If I kill you, this lord can play Mizukage too!”
Before the words finished, the ninja sword and iron staff clashed fiercely, sparks flying everywhere!
