It is rare for a rainy country to have a sunny day, but even if the clouds and fog clear, the country is still gloomy.

On the exterior of these buildings, steel pipes of different sizes and thicknesses are erected towards the sky, and the existence of pipes and sewers of different sizes is closely related to the amount of rainfall, which is a specialty of the rain country.

At the top of these high-rise buildings with different shapes and shapes, there are basically no living people living in normal times, but there is one thing that is tacitly understood by the residents of Rain Country.

That is, their "gods" and "angels" live on the top of a certain tall building, protecting them from the invasion of the great powersAbuse of the citizens of small countries.

It was dusk, but the sky didn't show the splendor of dusk.

In other realms, the sky that should have been dyed red by the setting sun was now leaden gray, and clouds that were thicker than the leaden gray sky were slowly fluttering with the evening breeze.

The orange-haired man in a fiery cloud robe sat at the edge of the room, looking through the crescent-shaped hole at the gathering dark clouds outside, and did not speak for a long time.

"Payne," I don't know how long the orange-haired man had been looking at, but suddenly a tall blue-haired woman dressed in the same costume as him suddenly appeared behind him.

The orange-haired man called Payne slowly turned his head to look at the blue-haired woman, and asked with a blank face, "What's wrong, Xiao Nan."

This blue-haired woman was none other than the ninja of Rain Hidden Village, Xiao Nan, who had gone to intercept the carriage of the boat and launched an attack, and after hearing Payne's response, she slowly responded to her companion in a soft voice, "It's definitely coming." ”

Payne's face still did not change, but Xiao Nan, who had known the other party for many years, noticed some strange elements from the other party's silence.

It was during this period of Penn's silence that Xiao Nan continued to add, "He brought news of that person, saying that "that person" will come over later. ”

As soon as she heard Xiao Nan mention "that person", Payne's emotions seemed to become more subtle.

Regarding the existence of "that person" in Xiao Nan's mouth, Payne's mood can be described as extremely complicated.

In fact, if he really wants to say it, he still doesn't like the existence of "that person", which has been the case since the first meeting, and is still like this; But in order to achieve one's own ends, cooperation with that person is necessary.

"Let's go in first," Thinking of the action arrangements he had recently explained to the people below, Payne probably guessed "that person" and the intention of this time.

He stood up from the ground and said to Xiao Nan, who had been quietly waiting for his response.

When I came to the house, I saw Jue who was already waiting on the side.

The other party was wearing the same fire cloud robe as theirs, and although the other party's appearance looked like a human, his body was divided into black and white, and there were two giant leaves on the left and right sides, which made him look more like a plant than a human.

saw Payne appear in front of him, and the first thing he said was:

"Ghost sharks, they failed."

This is undoubtedly bad news, after all, it was his personal order to the "Junan" group to capture Zhou Jianwen.

In the "Xiao" organization, except for the combination of him and Xiao Nan, it is impossible to say which group is the strongest among the other groups - after all, everyone has never fought without restraint, but there are some things that he still knows very well in his heart, that is, the strength of the "Zhu Nan" group is not weak at all.

Whether it's the dried persimmon ghost shark who is one of the "Seven Ninja Swords" and is also known as the "tailless tailed beast", or the Chikuma who usually doesn't say anything but can deliver a fatal blow to the enemy at critical times......

No matter which one of them is, it is by no means something that ordinary people can deal with on their own.

What's more, it's a mission that they perform together?

"Do you want to see the details of the battle," Payne, who saw his leader, who was also the leader of the Akatsuki organization, fell silent for a moment, and continued, "I recorded it." ”

"Let's wait until 'that man' comes," Payne was silent for a moment, but didn't immediately nod in agreement.

If anything, it's probably because he knows that "that person" is actually quite concerned about this matter.

After all, this time to let the "Zhu Nan" group capture the real boat alive is the suggestion made to him by "that person".

Nodding, the three of them sat down on each of the three chairs in the room.

Payne sat cross-legged on the chair due east, on his left hand was the silent Xiao Nan, and on the left hand side was sitting without knowing what he was thinking, as for the empty seat opposite him, it was naturally reserved for "that person".

After waiting for about ten minutes, just when the three of them were waiting impatiently, a figure suddenly appeared quietly in the house.

The man was wearing an orange ||a swirling mask of color, wearing a dark-colored straitjacket that almost envelops the whole body; His mask and bodysuit, as well as his air-exposed hair, were damp, apparently from the rain just now.

The three people sitting in the room were all elites, and naturally they also discovered the existence of the other party, and they all turned their heads to look at the last person who appeared, and their emotions were more or less dissatisfied.

Not for anything else, but because the man came too late.

It's just that Payne didn't say anything about this complaint, and Xiao Nan didn't say it, but Jue, who was sitting opposite Xiao Nan, smiled and teased the important character who came belatedly, "It's too late, right?" Could it be that you encountered something interesting on the way? ”

This is a joke, after all, as the rulers of Yuyin Village, Payne and Xiao Nan both know that before the real dawn comes, there are almost no interesting things that can happen in this excess.

The person who came responded nonchalantly, but he was noncommittal about whether the guess was correct or not.

His head moved slightly from right to left, as if to glance around the three people sitting in the room, and finally his gaze rested on Jue's body, and his right eye looked through the only hole in the mask to Jue, who seemed to be unaffected by his gaze.

"How's that mission going?"

He and the oni shark are also old acquaintances, after all, they had met in the water country before the other party officially joined "Xiao", and the dried persimmon oni shark is also one of the few who knows his "true identity".

Although this mission was specially given to the "Junan" group by Payne as the leader of the "Akatsuki" organization, he didn't know that he had also used his own identity to give the same order to him before the dried persimmon ghost shark carried out this mission.

Although he didn't mention the specific reason for catching the real boat in that mission, there was one thing he clearly told the dried persimmon ghost shark.

That is, we must bring the real boat Jian Min, whether it is dead or alive.

Hearing the masked man ask, the person who was asked by him spread his hands and shook his head, "Failed." ”

"Failed?" This unexpected answer made the masked man's brow, hidden behind the mask, furrow, and he repeated the answer softly, as if he didn't quite understand the reason for this situation.

The dried persimmon ghost shark is by no means a weak team, and the Qianqu who is partnered with him can be regarded as the elder of Xiao, but it is such a combination......

Can't you bring the real boat to him?

Even if it's just a corpse.

"yes, they ran away," he said, watching as the masked man sat down in the last empty seat, and then released his recording.

From the time Kakashi and Chikuma's "Junan" group stopped the carriage that Kakashi was driving, until Funaken got into the carriage and disappeared without a trace with the entire carriage and the two women who used bows as weapons who didn't even get on the carriage, they were played to the three people in front of him.

Watching the effects of the recording, the already dim room suddenly became even more gloomy.

The air seemed to condense, which made the ninja and even the shadow-level masters in this room feel breathless, and in the end, it was the masked man who was the first to react.

Today's video played by the Jedi is not unfamiliar to him, whether it is the torrential rain that fell from the sky and was as dense as the rain country, but the lethality was thousands of times stronger than the rainFried ||Attack ||Hit, or if it suddenly disappeared, I don't know if it's another escape method of time and space ninjutsu......

It's all he and Jue met in the country of birds.

It's just that in addition to these, there seem to be some new "surprises" in this video.

For example, the silver-haired girl who was able to resist the attack of the "shark muscle" in the hand of the dried persimmon ghost shark - if he remembered correctly, he had also seen this little girl by the side of Mafune Kimin in the country of birds.

Another example is the attack that finally stopped the pursuit of the dried persimmon shark, the one that came from behind them.

The masked man didn't think it was a ninjutsu attack - just the explosion that fell from the skyFried ||Raid||But if this wasn't really ninjutsu, he didn't understand how this kind of attack was achieved.

Props?

But even the detonation charm can't achieve this effect, right?

"What do you think, Nan," the masked man turned his head to look at Nan, who was sitting on his left hand, and remembered that the other party had attacked Shinshu Kanmin many years ago because of Payne's order.

Back then, they wanted to catch the real boat and the stream, and naturally it was also for the nine-tails.

Although the Nine-Tails had been sealed at that time, they didn't know the answers to the questions of where exactly it was sealed and whether there was a pillar force, and the only one who knew it was only Mafune Kento, who was a secret confidant of the fourth generation of Mubo Feng Shui Gate, was one of the few people other than the Hokage who knew the answers to these questions.

However, at that time, they didn't really want to catch the real boat, at most they were trying to test one or two, and they had the mentality of "success is success, and if it is not achieved, it will be pulled down".

As for why it wasn't aimed at the other high-ranking people in Konoha Village......

Haven't you heard of the phrase "persimmons should be pinched softly"?

Compared to the other high-ups in Konoha Village who might know about this, Manafune Kanmin is arguably the weakest of them all - it is well known that she was seriously injured in the Second Shinobi War and could not use chakra.

If you don't pick on her, won't it be possible to find the four generations who are already quite vigilant?

He thought about it, but after missing the best time, it was not easy to attack Bo Feng Shuimen again.

However, who would have thought that such a woman who couldn't use chakra would actually make the people of the "Xiao" organization hit the nail three times and twice - and they didn't even know how she did it.

- It's really a ghost in broad daylight.

"The attack that hit the ghost shark at the end was very similar to the attack I received at the time," Xiao Nan recalled the scene when he fought against Zhenzhou Jianwen, or to be precise, with Zhenzhou Jianwen's men, "but there seem to be quite a few people under Zhenzhou Jianwen who can use this move." ”

Since it is limited by the real boat family, the only speculation that can be obtained is ......

"Could it be a secret ninjutsu?"

Xiao Nan shook his head, "I'm not very sure, after all, Zhenzhou Jianwen didn't personally participate in the battle at that time, and it can be seen that her loss of Chakra should not be fake." ”

"I don't think there will be any truth in this matter, after all, the fact that she can no longer use ninjutsu was determined by Tsunade Ji herself," and Tsunade-hime's medical skills are not only famous in Konoha Village and Fire Country, but even in the entire ninja world.

- Good with her||Bet on this thing together.

"Then the best guess about this question should be what secret ninjutsu the Zhenzhou family has, after losing the ability to become a ninja, Zhenzhou Jianwen raised a group of private mercenaries, and then handed over the secret ninjutsu of the Zhenzhou family to those mercenaries."

The masked man speculated in a deep voice, although he had never heard of any secret ninjutsu in the Masuke family before.

After all, before Mayafune's father married her mother, the niece of the Daimyo of the Land of Fire, the status of the Mafune family in Konoha Village was insignificant at all, and how could it compare to other families with secret ninjutsu, such as Nara and Yamanaka?

If the Mashu family really has such a lethal ninjutsu, even if it can't become a big family like Uchiha and Hinata, its status in Konoha should not be underestimated.

After all, according to his preliminary judgment, if the so-called "secret ninjutsu" of the Zhenzhou family was used, even if the user was only an ordinary ninja level, he would probably be able to destroy a city by one person and a country by ten people.

- The kind where no one survives everywhere they go.

Such an existence is rare for the "Akatsuki" organization, which is in dire need of manpower, but it is a pity......

The masked man didn't think that the people of the Masushi family would really be easily instigated.

"Forget it, let's put aside the matter about the real boat for now," since I couldn't catch the living person three times or twice—I couldn't even bring the corpse back, let's put it aside for the time being."

After all, according to the information in their hands about Zhenzhou Jianwen and the observation of several contacts, the other party was by no means a simple-minded fool, and attacking her repeatedly and twice would only arouse unnecessary suspicion.

Until you can't be sure that you will be able to bring back the other party's body, you should leave the woman who hides too many secrets.

Anyway......

"For the next three years, Akatsuki temporarily ceased all activities against tailed beasts."

Payne was naturally clear about this, after all, not long ago, he personally gave this order to all the members of the "Xiao" organization, but he didn't know what the masked man meant by bringing up the old matter again.

Payne and Nan, including the bewildered masked man, saw in his eyes, and he replied very happily.

"I suspect that someone has planted a nail in the Xiao organization."

Hearing the masked man's words, Xiao Nan immediately frowned, and Jue and Payne also showed confused and incredulous eyes.

The four people except the masked man looked at each other, and after sensing the shock on each other's faces, they turned their heads to look at the masked man again, and this time it was Payne, who had not spoken for a long time.

"Are you so sure?"

The Akatsuki organization now has only ten members—if you include the masked man.

And in addition to their behind-the-scenes leaders, there are also the elders of "Xiao" who existed at the beginning of its establishment - such as Qianqu; And the people they were referred in by the Masked Man after he interacted with him - such as the dried persimmon ghost shark.

In addition, many of the remaining members of the Xiao Organization were selected by the masked man himself.

Just like that, ten people still exist||Spy, that's ridiculous, isn't it?

Hearing the suspicion in Payne's words, the masked man snorted lightly, "Naturally not, but I've been feeling a lot of things strange lately, both here and in the Land of Water, so it's better to pay attention." ”

"Could it be that our actions have already attracted the attention of the five major powers?"

"Who knows, I hope it's just me thinking too much."

The masked man's words still made Payne mind a little, but since the other party said so, he could only answer, "I'll pay attention, but I still don't want to cause chaos within the organization for no reason." ”

In the absence of evidence, it is guessed that there is an intermittent existence within the organizationIt's too much to say, Payne doesn't like this kind of behavior that provokes internal contradictions for no reason.

The masked man probably heard the other party's displeasure, and this matter was originally his guess, so he didn't force it, but just said to Payne, "You can pay attention to that." ”

If there really is a gap in the organization||If you spy on it, you will naturally show your feet when the time comes.

So he wasn't in a hurry.

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At the same time that such a secret meeting was being held in the Land of Rain, which is located at the junction of the three kingdoms of fire, wind, and earth, there was also such a conversation going on in Konoha Village, which was not open to the public.

“…… I've already heard Kakashi's report on the situation. ”

Bo Feng Shuimen looked at Zhou Jian Min who was sitting in front of him, although the other party's mental condition was good, but he looked a little haggard than before she went to the Iron Country, and then thought of the news he heard from Kakashiban's report, it was not difficult for Bo Feng Shuimen to guess that the other party was seriously ill again.

"I didn't expect to meet the members of the "Xiao" organization again this time, and it seems that this time they are clearly coming for Miss Jianwen."

He never thought that Zhou Jianwen would just go to the Iron Country to run errands, and he would encounter such a situation.

If he had known that the "Xiao" organization had shifted its target to Zhou Jian Min, how could he let Zhou Jian Wen leave the village easily, or even just take a newly graduated Xia Shinobi's class?

"I was negligent this time, Miss Jian Wen is fine."

Originally, her health was not good, and after going to the Iron Country and being frozen, Zhou Jianwen, who was even worse, held the hot tea in front of her, even if it was in the scorching heat now, she didn't change out of the warm spring clothes on her body, and at this moment she was even holding a cup of warm hot tea in her hand.

"I don't blame you for this, who would have thought that I would be able to meet the people of the "Xiao" organization several times when I went out? I really don't know if they love me deeply, or if they have changed careers to become a paparazzi. ”

What the paparazzi are, I really don't know.

But listening to Zhou Jianwen's tone, he could also guess that this was definitely not a commendable existence.

"But it's good that they're here this time, and if they don't, I really don't know what the hell they're up to," and I wouldn't have guessed something so important because of Chikuga's arrow.

Zhou Jianwen said this, slowly put the teacup in his hand on the smooth table, and then said solemnly to the Bo Feng Shui Gate in front of him, "Their target is really the Nine-Tails." ”

As soon as Bo Feng Shuimen heard the conclusion reached by Zhou Jianwen, he couldn't help but sigh, "...... Sure enough. ”

"According to the information we have received before, the Akatsuki organization will not attack the Tailed Beast for the next three years, which means ......"

Bo Feng Shuimen nodded, "We only have three years to prepare. ”

This is an issue they have already talked about before, Zhou Jian Wen and Bo Feng Shuimen just need to know each other's hearts, and they will not continue to talk about this issue where everyone understands its importance.

After all, it's the action that counts.

"After I came back from the Land of Iron, I have already repaired the book for Tsunade to ask her to come back," Zhou Jian Min said slowly at the shocked Bo Feng Shuimen, "When the middle ninja exam is over, I plan to teach 'that' to Sakura." ”

"It's not necessarily going to succeed – it's more likely to fail, but I see that kind of aptitude in Sakura. If a miracle does occur, it will be of great help in future battles. ”

At this moment, Zhou Jianwen smiled with crooked eyebrows, but the words he said made Bo Fengshuimen's eyebrows wrinkle tighter and tighter.

"It's for the village, it's for Naruto, it's true."

Bo Feng Shuimen naturally understood what Zhou Jian Wen meant, after all, he had also heard Zhou Jian Wen mention his plans for his adopted daughter, and in the same way, he also knew that once Zhou Jian Wen and Haruno Sakura's cultivation was successful, it would be a good thing for the village and his son Naruto.

"But ......"

"Actually, it's not just for the village and Naruto," Minu Funayama raised his hand to stop Bo Feng Shuimon's persuasion, "It's also for Sakura, I hope she will have more means to protect herself and her companions by then, so that she and her companions can be safe and sound on the battlefield." ”

This argument makes Bo Feng Shuimen unable to refute.

Seeing that Zhou Jianwen had made up her mind, Bo Fengshuimen, who knew her strong temper, couldn't say anything more - in fact, he didn't know whether he wanted the mother and daughter to succeed or fail, so in the end he could only choose to resign himself to fate.

If Sakura Haruno really succeeded, this can only prove that this is her destiny.

No one can change it.

After saying what Zhou Jian Wen planned for his daughter, Bo Feng Shuimen naturally thought of his son as well, "Jiraiya-sensei has been back to the village for a while, and I plan to hand over Naruto to him." ”

Although neither he nor Kushina were reluctant for Naruto to leave them prematurely, Naruto had become a ninja after all, and the "that" he had carried since birth was destined for him not to escape the catastrophe three years later.

In that case, in the next three years, let him be by the side of Jiraiya Sensei, who can better teach him to grow.

Bo Feng Shuimen believes that his teacher will be able to teach his son to become a better ninja.

"Sakura will continue to participate in Konoha as a member of Kakashiban for the next three years," although he invited Tsunade back, but Funaya Min didn't want to be wronged anymore Kakashi Hachiki who finally found a warm home.

Bo Feng Shuimen also knew that Zhou Jian Wen would say this because he took into account his ill-fated disciple, and for her intimacy, Bo Feng Shuimen naturally accepted it.

"If that's the case, let's arrange it that way."

Bo Feng Shuimen, who had no intention of changing the configuration of Class 7, nodded, and finally looked at Zhou Jian Wen and couldn't help but let out a sigh, "There are only three years left, I hope that after three years, Konoha will be able to survive that catastrophe safely." ”

- But is it really possible?