Chapter 47: This Grudge Is Noted, The Growth of the Demon
"...Sure enough, there's a problem. It's a good thing I watched Cautious Hero in my previous life."
In less than two days, Izayoi, who was monitoring the Land of Fire with the shadow clone, found something out of place.
For he saw a familiar person.
He had seen this individual in the nearby Rain Country with the aid of his Tenseigan when he was in the Land of Rivers.
It was one of Jiraiya's three disciples, the Hidden Rain Village's angel, Akatsuki's Byakko—Konan.
She was riding a sharp-beaked bird and entered the Land of Fire, traveling in one direction.
Since Nagato's health took a turn for the worse, Konan had rarely left the Hidden Rain Village.
Ever since Akatsuki got together, she never performed a mission alone. She was living in the Hidden Rain Village, helping Nagato with his business and taking care of his health.
Ever since the very beginning of the plot began, wherever Konan is, there must be Nagato or Tendo Pain.
Now that Konan appeared in the Land of Fire, she was definitely not here for tourism.
Izayoi had a hunch that the other party was likely here for him.
Half a day later, Izayoi's guess was confirmed.
On a small hill fifty kilometers northwest of the black market, Konan jumped from the rear of the Yatagarasu, her body was filled with numerous cracks, and then pieces of white paper tore apart from her body, forming two wings on her back, like an angel descending, and fell into the woods at the foot of the mountain.
The Yatagarasu also descended, landed with a thud, and turned into a huge cloud of white smoke.
When the white smoke disappeared, a big tree condensed from white paper was present.
Then the big tree was painted automatically from the bottom up, and within a few blinks it seemed to change into a real big tree, indistinguishably integrated with the forest.
In the Tenseigan's perception, the big tree was full of blue chakra, and countless tadpole-shaped runes came out of these chakras, creating a barrier that obstructed perception.
Even Kagura Shingan probably couldn't take this chakra.
But it couldn't stop Izayoi's Tenseigan.
In Izayoi's eyes, there were eight chakras in the big tree, which were Konan, Nagato, and the Six Paths of Pain.
"Hiding in the bird's beak, that's how it moves about. I thought it was summoned here by Konan's lip studs."
Izayoi, who had seen the whole process, was somewhat astonished.
Then, Izayoi couldn't help but complain, "The strongest person of the current ninja world is personally sent. Do you think too highly of me?"
Then, Izayoi fell silent.
He saw the big tree get torn open, and Tendo Pain came out of it.
His body was suspended in the air, and Tendo Pain came to a cliff.
A while passed, then the space next to him suddenly warped, and a fist-sized black hole appeared.
Two warped figures flew out from the black hole.
It was Obito Uchiha, and Itachi Uchiha, the filial son whom Izayoi had seen several times at the school gate in the first grade.
Izayoi couldn't help but use the most sincere greeting in the local dialect of his hometown: "Damn it," as he looked at the duo that stood in a line and performed a world-famous painting.
Super Kage Gatekeeper—Six Paths of Pain, Itachi Uchiha, who pushed the Mangekyou Sharingan to its limits and had many trump cards, and Obito Uchiha, who could use Kamui without fear of going blind as much as he wanted. With such a lineup, even the five Kage's strongest, Onoki, would be done for if attacked.
These three could fight the five Kage alliance.
If they let their guard down against each other, even the five Kage would not be a match for them.
How could he be worthy of this lineup to deal with him!
At this moment, Izayoi heard the voice of the shadow clone in his ear, and it was still Mandarin: "Look, there's also movement in the black market."
Hearing this, Izayoi's eyes immediately shifted towards the black market.
He saw that the middle-aged man in the suit had been speared through his body by a branch.
Then a white creature turned into the middle-aged man.
"Mayfly Technique, indeed, even the Tenseigan cannot detect it." Izayoi's expression suddenly became serious.
"His Disguise Technique can't be found faulting. He deserves to be the strongest transformation technique in the ninja world." The shadow clone said, "If the Tenseigan undergoes the second fetal movement, that is, the final evolution, and can't see through it, then Kagura Shingan is sure to have the power to perceive good and evil."
Hearing this, Izayoi's face was one of contemplation.
He was already thinking in his mind, besides Kagura Shingan, which other abilities in the ninja world can pierce through the Disguise Technique?
Better to destroy the Mayfly Technique as well!
After all, Black and White Zetsu's most feared part is not the Disguise Technique or mind possession, but the Mayfly Technique that can ignore hindrances and move at high speed and merge with the flora of the earth.
That is a method a Six Paths level powerhouse can't detect.
Izayoi felt sick to his stomach imagining being stared at in the darkness by such eyes.
However, for a while, Izayoi couldn't think of a solution.
So, he put this idea aside for the time being.
Tenseigan gazed at the White Zetsu clone in the black market, and the most powerful fusion on the cliff. Izayoi smiled, "I originally wanted to give you a meeting gift, but after thinking about it, I shouldn't waste my energy. I'll let you stand here for a while."
Isn't this also good news!
Such a blatant wait for a rabbit to be caught shows that Black Zetsu doesn't know about the existence of Tenseigan, or doesn't know about the power of Tenseigan.
This is Izayoi's advantage.
In what ways can Izayoi squander this advantage.
"Luckily, I left a backup, or the loss would be huge this time. I'll hold this grudge, and I'll bring you a big present in a bit."
Izayoi looked toward the strongest combination for the final time, then dispelled the shadow clone and went back to the cave to take Zabuza Momochi away.
....
Three days later, at sunset, Itachi Uchiha looked at the setting sun that had only the northern hemisphere left, and couldn't help but ask Obito Uchiha, who was also looking at the sunset, "Has the target not appeared yet?"
"You have to ask Zetsu in order to know this." Obito Uchiha responded in a low tone.
As soon as they heard this, Black and White Zetsu, whose lower parts of their bodies were implanted in the ground, said, "The things have been delivered to the clone, but that individual hasn't appeared yet, and the clone has had no problems."
"Have we been found out?"
"It's possible." Black Zetsu responded, becoming even more melancholic.
If that mysterious person was really the descendant of Hamura, then the purity of his Byakugan was extremely high, and it wasn't surprising that the farsighted distance exceeded the Hyuga clan's limit.
But they were fifty kilometers distant, and they tended to hide in barriers and other spaces nowadays. Could they still be detected?
This is even more ridiculous than the Uzumaki clan's Kagura Shingan.
"Wait one more day, Itachi and I will stay away." Tendo Pain replied indifferently and turned to leave.
Itachi Uchiha got up and closely followed after.
Obito Uchiha also hid in the Kamui dimension.
Only Black and White Zetsu used the Mayfly Technique and the White Zetsu clone to monitor the black market and extend the detection range to see if that person was hidden nearby.
Then another day passed, and the strongest group, who still didn't sense anyone getting closer, left in different humors.
This time they couldn't catch that person. Next time it would be even more difficult.
With such senses, they were already inactive even before the fight started.
....
Six days afterwards, in a forest in the Land of Fire that was pretty close to the border.
"Master, this is what you required. It cost a total of 29,870,000 ryo."
Bai, who had just returned to the Land of Fire from the Land of Rivers, let go of the three large scrolls behind him and addressed Izayoi respectfully.
"Not bad. You don't have to bring back remaining money. It's a bonus for you."
Izayoi accepted the scroll using gravity and then flew into the air and left.
Witnessing his departing back, Bai and Zabuza Momochi, who were both afraid that he would go back on his word, breathed a sigh of relief.
"Zabuza-sama, where shall we go now?" Bai asked, supporting Zabuza Momochi, who had recovered a bit and could barely move with the help of crutches.
"Go eat black." Zabuza Momochi said in a low tone, his eyes gleaming with a superb light, as if he had opened the door to a new world.
The demon, who was taught a lesson by Izayoi, has grown up!
(End of this chapter)
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