It's been more than a week since Kakashi Sasuke and the others left Konoha. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info In the original book, Jiraiya took Naruto with him, and he went to Kyoshu Street for a week while searching for information and looking for Tsunade, but now Kakashi and Sasuke are still a certain distance away from Kyoshu Street.

can't blame these two people for being lazy and grinding, mainly because they encountered some problems on the road.

Short Book Street is a famous gambling spot in the Land of Fire, located in the north of Konoha Village, near the border of Tanokuni, and quite close to the end valley of Hatsukentetsuma and Madara Uchiha.

Of course, this place is also quite close to the old nest of the immortal madman Orochimaru, Yin Ninja Village.

In short, this border area has a pleasant scenery, with 5A tourist attractions and Las Vegas integration area, attracting a large number of tourists from neighboring countries, and the service industry is booming. However, because it is far away from Konoha Village, a violent institution in the Fire Country, the management of law and order is not enough, and there are many criminal dens hidden under the surface prosperity.

Of course, this does not mean that there are path-cutting thieves everywhere next to the street of Short Book, and even if there are in peacetime, they do not dare to make waves in a big way, and the mountain is king. It's just that there are a lot of fish and dragons here, in addition to thieves and robbers, there are also some powerful other countries, and bounty hunters are infested.

But apparently Sasuke and Kakashi are in a more complicated situation.

"Old man, how many incidents like this have happened?"

In a small village, Rikakashi was talking to the elderly village chief. The old village chief seemed to be preoccupied, and began to ramble at length.

"This is the eighth such disappearance this month, and they all disappeared for no reason."

"It's not surprising that someone has gone missing, after all, the village is surrounded by forests, and a long time ago, there were young people who didn't listen to advice and walked too deep in the mountains and couldn't find their way back to the village."

"Lately, however, things have gone wrong. About three months ago, the men in the village would disappear every now and then, and I organized a team to go up the mountain to investigate, but there was no trace of anyone who had been. ”

"These men are all young people from the village, and many of them have parents and wives to take care of, including my son Lian. Although the village is not very wealthy, we have also raised funds to distribute tasks in Konoha Village. ”

"But all the people who went out of the village to ask for help never came back, and now the whole village is afraid to go out, and if the problem is not solved, we will have to move to the village."

Kakashi looked back at Sasuke.

"It doesn't seem to be a special case, there are people missing from the three surrounding villages."

Sasuke nodded and continued:

"And it's obviously man-made, it can't be so frequent, and it's probably a group of ninjas who can hide from so many people."

Kakashi sighed heavily. This kind of human captivity is not like what human traffickers can do. Most of the people who disappeared first were young adults, and selling such people who had sustenance in their hearts and had the ability to resist was too risky and obvious to be easily detected by the authorities.

If it was a ninja, the situation was complicated. Bounty hunters don't do such things; It is not something that a ninja can do to capture and take care of dozens or hundreds of ordinary people, but an organized wandering ninja can do it, but there is no reason; If it weren't for the above two, then a certain number of ninjas would only have been able to come from within the Fire Nation.

That is, Konoha. Is it the root? No, although Tuan Zang's methods of doing things are vicious, he should be able to do more perfectly with the means of roots.

"More than three months ago?"

Kakasimo rubbed his chin in thought.

"Well, old man, what do you think about this? Or is there any strange discovery in the village? ”

Sasuke tries to dig up the overlooked information from the village chief.

"Why, kid, do you want to investigate this? I advise you to leave this matter alone, for no one who meddles in this matter will have a good result. ”

"Huh? What does this say? ”

"Some time ago, a few ninjas from the west came over to investigate the matter, but they all disappeared without exception. So this must be the work of the mountain ghosts, and it would be better for us to move out sooner. ”

Ninjas in the west, rain ninja, grass ninja or sand ninja?

"But if you promise me to leave quickly, I can tell you a rumor."

"Okay, we can promise you."

"There is a small lake to the east of the village, and every morning there is a thick fog, and the young people are lost there when they hear the singing."

"Singing?"

"Yes, it's a very soft female voice."

With sound, does it seem like an illusion?

Abducted a young man, who is good at using voice illusions, and synthesized the information Sasuke couldn't help but shudder.

Orochimaru.

The Orochimaru's base is not far from here, and it will take a large number of test subjects to do human experiments, and Tayu, the four of the four people under his hands, are even better at using their voices to perform illusions.

The culprit behind all this is likely to be Orochimaru, or the four of the Ninja under his command.

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The next morning, the morning sun rises, and a light mist rises on the surface of the lake, and gradually, the fog thickens until it is impossible to see the surface of the water. Sasuke and Kakashi were hiding in the woods by the lake.

"We went looking for Tsunade-sama, and to put it bluntly, we didn't need to worry about the affairs of this village, and they didn't ask us for help. Are you still determined to continue? ”

Kakashi asked casually.

"Ah, after all, there are so many lives, I can't ignore it. And listen to the old man's words, anyone who interferes will be missing. So from the moment we asked the first question, haven't we been able to go anymore? ”

Sasuke opened the Sharingan and stared ahead carefully.

"Moreover, since you are out of the village, you have to move your muscles and bones!"

Chen-Chou-Mao, the art of water escape and water waves!

Without warning, Sasuke suddenly spat out a huge stream of water in front of him, apparently sensing something hidden behind the fog.

However, Sasuke's water escape was obviously not at home, and he was shattered by the ninjutsu on the other side.

Seeing this, Kakashi also bulldozed the forehead guard covering his left eye, and dozens of complex seals quickly formed in his hands.

Water Escape: The Art of Water Dragon Bullets. Kakashishi's ninjutsu used the water of the lake to form an unusually large water dragon that pressed forward. The huge water pressure creates a huge whirlpool on the surface of the lake.

"Sasuke, don't be impulsive, it's also a ninja on the other side."

"yes, got it."

Sasuke replied to Kakashi as he formed a fire seal.

It should be the Wind Escape Ninjutsu that shattered the water chaos just now, and it may be the ninjutsu with strong attack characteristics such as Wind Slash or Thousand Faces Wind. Fire overcomes the wind, just use this trick to try it.

The technique of the fireball of the fire ball is improved in the ninjutsu, and the technique of the fire explosion is pretended!

I saw a huge golden fireball exhaled from Sasuke's mouth, grazing the water surface like an arrow through the dense fog, causing a huge explosion on the surface of the lake, splashing bursts of water.

"It's so amazingly powerful, is it the fire escape of the Uchiha clan?" Kakashi was secretly terrified.

The fire escaped through the dense fog and cleared the vision ahead, and within two seconds, it caused more water vapor, and visibility suddenly became lower.

Sasuke scolded secretly, what a mistake, or lack of combat experience.

But his troubles soon disappeared.

"Ahh I'm tired of hiding, watch me find you. Wind Escape, Big Cheap Weasel!"

The strong wind blew away the thick fog on the surface of the lake, and also blew countless small wind blades towards Sasuke, who was helpless to use the water array wall to resist for a while. Kakashi on the side frowned.

Sure enough, it's still too tender, and if you don't know the number of enemies, you can directly use B-rank ninjutsu, and I'm afraid that Chakra will not be enough soon.

Poor Konoha Wuwu Kai didn't know that Sasuke, who had a system to open, had a chakra amount that could already be compared to him.

"Kakashi, it's you, I thought I was attacked."

When the fog cleared, the figures were revealed, opposite a middle-aged man with a headscarf covering half of his face, and a blonde girl of thirteen or fourteen years old carrying a huge fan on her back, both wearing the forehead protection of the sand ninja.

"Ah, is it Markey? How did you come to the Land of Fire? ”

The people who came were Kamishinobi Maki from Sand Ninja Village and Temari, who had just graduated from ninja school for two years. At this time, Sand Shinobu and Konoha were still allies, and after figuring out their identities, the two sides immediately stopped fighting.

After some exchange, Sasuke also knew what Markey was coming for. It turned out that it was a passing sand ninja who had disappeared here before, and this time Maki took his apprentice to carry out the mission of investigating the missing ninja. They had also heard rumors in the village before, so they planned to come to the lake to investigate, but they didn't expect to collide with Sasuke.

"Now that the fog on the lake has been blown away by the Temari wind, I think I can only stop here today."

Knowing that Kakashi's purpose was the same as his own, Maki couldn't help but give Temari a reproachful look.

"You can't blame me for this, how did I know that they were Konoha people, and it was dangerous to fight in the mist."

Temari turned his head and looked unconvinced.

"Not necessarily, Mr. Markey. Looks like it's not over yet. Yes, village chief. ”

Sasuke pulled out his sword and pointed behind Markey, where a small piece of linen was peeking out between the trees. A figure heard the sound and walked out, it was the village chief he had seen the day before.

"Ah, little brother, I just came to the lake by chance to see if any young people got lost, and I didn't mean anything else."

Sasuke laughed disdainfully.

"You pretend to be like you, old man, but you are so bad at lying, and from the moment I asked you, I thought you had a problem. Now that you're here, it seems that you're the mastermind behind the disappearance. ”

"Little brother, did you misunderstand something? It's really just a coincidence that I'm here. The village chief tried his best to make a case.

"You said there was a rumor in the village that there was a song here that would make people go missing. If what you say is true and everyone who hears the song disappears, then how do you know that the singer is a woman with a sweet voice? ”

"You look like you want to drive us away, but in the end you told us this rumor, just to lure us over to investigate, and then you can wait for the opportunity to do it. And ......"

Just as he was about to continue, Sasuke suddenly felt a noisy clicking sound in his ears, as if a thousand birds were chirping, and in the blink of an eye, Kakashi's right hand had pierced the old man's chest.

It's Kakashi's famous stunt, the weapon of his dreams, Thunder Escape Chidori.

"Also, your breath is so perfect, it's so flawless that I didn't find a chance until just now. However, it is this opportunity that buries you. ”

"If you lose, just tie your hands, Orochimaru!"