"Is this all the supplies? I really don't know where Lord Payne got these things."
The questioner was a 12-year-old genin from Amegakure Village. He had a round head and a gas mask on his face. Compared to his peers, he was burly.
He cooperated with the other rain ninjas to transport supplies from the tower. These supplies were important supplies to be sent to the front line. They contained not only weapons such as kunai, detonating charms, and military ration pills, but also a large amount of military supplies.
"Don't be so verbose here, Menghuo, hurry up and send the things to the transportation team. If it delays Master Payne's important event, you will be the one to suffer."
Wearing a yellow rubber raincoat, a gas mask, three umbrellas on his back, and a bamboo hat on his head, he was a gloomy-looking Amegakure Jounin.
"I understand, Captain Funato, but can you give me a break? I'm good at making illusion traps, but I'm not very good at doing this kind of physical work."
Genin Yumehui was so exhausted that he was out of breath while carrying a box full of supplies to a tricycle.
"Really, you have only been working for so long, and you are here to complain that you are tired."
The Amegakure jounin named Funato looked at his subordinates helplessly, but he also knew that Yumehuo was tall and tall, but he was just pretending that he was not a powerful ninja, but an illusion ninja who was good at making traps. It doesn't fit in with Meng Huo's appearance.
"Sorry, Captain Funato."
Menghuo apologized.
"Forget it, there aren't many left anyway. There are very few ninjas left in the village, and I'm really worried that enemies will sneak in."
Funato Jonin sighed.
"The senior jonins are here, so it shouldn't be a problem."
"The opponent is the Country of Fire. Even if Master Pain can kill Kanzo who betrayed Master Hanzo, he still feels powerless against the five strongest countries."
Funato Jonin felt worried about the future of the war ahead.
It's no wonder that he is so worried. Compared with powerful countries like the five major countries, the Country of Rain and Hidden Rain Village are really too weak.
Especially during the Third Ninja War, the elite of Amegakure could be said to have been wiped out in one fell swoop, and all their family fortunes had already been lost.
Even if he is a jounin, there is a huge gap in strength compared to the jounin of a major country at the same level.
Not to mention, there is a serious shortage of jounin in Amegakure Village.
Eighty percent of the village is made up of genin. Leaving aside the chunin who represent the backbone, there are currently only five jounin left in Amegakure Village, two of whom are special jounin.
If the enemy's ninja troops attack Yuyin Village in large numbers at this time, they may not be able to hold on for even an hour.
"I just recently graduated from the ninja school and became a genin, but I have heard a little bit about Kanzo."
Menghuo said.
"It's not a pity for that kind of guy to die. I hope Lord Pain can survive. If we lose again this time, Yuyin Village will really be destroyed."
Funato held a strong pessimistic attitude.
In the past, the Kingdom of Rain, even if it was besieged by various countries, was still the number one country among the five major countries.
It's because of the existence of Yuyin Village.
Under the leadership of Hanzo, the military strength of the Amegakure Village is very strong, especially when fighting on the mainland, it can compete with the powerful Ninja Village.
Having experienced both the glory of Amegakure and the ruin of Amegakure, Funado has long put his life and death out of the equation and only hopes that the next generation of young people can live a better life.
"We will win. Master Payne has joined forces with the Kingdom of Ghosts, and the Kingdom of Ghosts will also be our help. The Kingdom of Ghosts has the ability to defeat the Kingdom of Wind, and it can definitely help us defeat the Kingdom of Fire."
Genin Yumehuo has illusions and a tenacity in his bones that refuses to admit defeat.
Funato Jōnin shook his head and did not explain much.
Alliance?
This is the most unreliable paper agreement.
As long as sufficient benefits can be obtained, allies are for sale.
During the Third Ninja War, Amegakure encountered Konoha's betrayal and was surrounded and suppressed by the main force of Sunagakure Village. For a time, Amegakure became a vassal of Konoha.
It wasn't until Kanzang died that those extremely dark years ended.
Countless rain ninjas who resisted were brutally purged from the roots of Konoha. The relatives of the leader Hanzo were also exterminated, even the babies were not spared.
Kanzang betrayed everything inside and outside Yuyin,
Boat owners who have experienced these things never believe in so-called allies.
Sometimes the ones who stab you the most when you betray yourself are the so-called allies.
"I went over to buy a pack of cigarettes, Meng Huo, please help me take a look here."
Funato Jonin took out a cigarette case from his pocket and picked up the lighter. When he opened the cigarette case, he found that there was no cigarette inside. He couldn't help but become distressed and ordered Meng Huo to guard the supplies with the other rain ninjas. .
"Go with peace of mind, Captain Funato. We will be here to guard you. There won't be any accidents."
Menghuo didn't think it was a big deal. After all, it was not just Funato who was here, but also the other jounin who were guarding here.
At the speed of Funato Jonin, the speed of buying a pack of cigarettes, it only takes two minutes to go back and forth.
Funato Jonin nodded and used the teleportation technique to leave the place and headed to the commercial street.
It rains all the time in Yuyin Village, and with the advent of winter, the rain carries a biting cold air.
There were very few pedestrians on the road, and they all huddled at home and used heaters to keep warm.
Although it is said to be a commercial street, it is actually very shabby, with very few items available for purchase, and the cigarettes sold in the canteen are also relatively low-quality.
But this was enough for Funato Jonin. Although he could not afford to buy good cigarettes, low-quality cigarettes had a different taste when smoked. It was better to save the money he could. Otherwise, the money to maintain the ninja will be gone.
Enjoy life and don't interfere with your mission. As a Jonin, you still have this bit of restraint.
After coming out of the canteen, Funato Jonin immediately opened the cigarette case, took out a cigarette, stood under the eaves, lit the cigarette, bit it in his mouth, and took a long puff before spitting out the choking smoke, feeling comfortable Take a deep breath.
"This cigarette still feels so good to smoke, but the work still needs to be done."
After Funato finished speaking, he held up the bamboo hat on his head and walked in the rain, preparing to run towards the tower quickly.
Suddenly, he noticed something with his eyes. He saw a slim woman walking past him holding an umbrella, and he couldn't help but narrow his eyes.
"This feeling..."
Funato Jonin stared at the woman's back, pondered for a moment, put his hands in the pockets of his raincoat, pretended to be nonchalant, kept a certain distance from the woman, and followed her.
The direction the woman headed was to the highest tower in Amegakure, which made Funado Jonin worried.
The highest tower of Yuyin Village is the most important administrative area of Yuyin Village. Generally speaking, no civilians can go there without special permission. Even Yuyin ninjas need orders from their superiors to go there.
This woman is not a ninja, but just an ordinary unmarried woman in the village. She should know such rules.
This is really troublesome. Are you being controlled by illusion? Funato Jonin felt that the matter was difficult.
As he expected, at this time, someone took advantage of the emptiness inside Yuyin Village to sneak into Yuyin Village and inquire for information.
It's just that he doesn't know which side of the people sneaked into Yuyin Village.
Judging from the current situation, the ninjas of the Fire Country are more convincing.
What should I do? Should I seek support? Funato Jonin was following this while thinking about this question.
Then he gave up the idea. If he didn't find the thorn that had sneaked into the village, doing so would only alert the enemy and make the enemy hide deeper. He is a Jonin and can react quickly even if he encounters a battle.
At this time, the best strategy is to use oneself as bait to lure the enemy to appear, and then summon the Rain Ninja to encircle and suppress them together.
Funato held the flare in his raincoat pocket tightly. As soon as the enemy appeared, he would launch the flare and summon his colleagues to clear the nail.
The woman controlled by the illusion did not seem to notice that the person behind her was following her, and walked towards the tower. At the corner of an alley, she suddenly turned and disappeared.
Funato quickly caught up with him, his eyes shining.
After turning the corner, in a long alley, the environment was dark and the lights were dim. The woman's slim body stood vaguely in the rain, with her back to herself.
"Hey, civilians are not allowed here. If Master Payne finds out, he will be angry."
Funato said to the woman's back, approaching cautiously.
The woman turned around suddenly, without any hesitation, and sprinted quickly. Holding a fruit knife that escaped from her pocket, she quickly approached Funato's body and stabbed it in.
The water splashed out and danced in front of the woman's eyes.
Funato's body turned into a pool of water, mixing with the rainwater on the ground and flowing around.
The woman who lost her target suddenly stiffened and fell straight to the ground, unconscious.
In a dark corner, Funato, who was watching all this happening, took out the flare from his pocket and was about to launch it. Suddenly, his wrist was grabbed hard by someone's palm, preventing the launch of the flare.
"who?"
Funato turned around in a panic, not noticing that someone could approach him silently.
It wasn't until his palm was grabbed that he realized the fact that he was being approached.
The sound of his wrist being twisted made Funato groan in pain, and the flare fell to the ground.
Funato endured the severe pain, took out his kunai and struck the opponent's chest.
The man let go of Funato's broken right wrist and stepped back, easily dodging Funato's attack.
Funato also immediately jumped away, ignoring the people behind him, and ran backwards to escape.
The enemy was very powerful and was simply not something he could handle.
Judging the strength gap between the enemy and ourselves, Funato just wanted to pass on the information as soon as possible and summon his companions to deal with this powerful enemy.
However, before he could run a few steps, his body suddenly stopped obeying him, and his hands and feet felt weak. He staggered forward a few steps and fell to the ground suddenly.
"?"
Funato looked at this scene in astonishment.
Only then did he realize that something had happened to his body.
Densely packed black insects began to climb from his feet, sucking his chakra and energy, leaving him paralyzed and falling to the ground.
"This...this is the parasite of the Aburame clan..."
Funato was also a well-informed Amegakure Jonin. When he saw these black bugs, he immediately thought of something and his expression changed dramatically.
"As the information said, he is not suitable for encounters. Moreover, his physical skills are weak and he is good at water escape. He is a back-handed ninja."
The figure walked out of the dark corner, his whole body wrapped under a black hooded coat, with rainwater dripping along the brim of the hat and dripping on his sunglasses.
Aburame Ryoma put one hand in his pocket and stretched out the other. Black bugs were crawling on his fingers, making Funato look horrified.
"you……"
Thinking of the past transactions with Kanzo and Konoha, as a veteran jounin, his information must have been leaked to Konoha's intelligence system, and it was natural for him to be killed.
After all, the ninjas of the Aburame clan were the type he hated to deal with the most.
The insects commanded by this clan integrate attack, defense, medical treatment, reconnaissance, and assassination.
If one is calculating mentally but not intentionally, the Aburame clan's insect secret technique is the most terrifying first-attack assassination technique.
"Damn it! It's a Konoha ninja!"
Funato found that he could not move his body and looked at Aburame Ryoma walking towards him step by step with an angry look on his face.
Aburame Ryoma walked up to Funato, slowly squatted down, and began to search Funato's ninja bag.
Scroll, detonating talisman, kunai, and a gold-bound edition of "Making Love in Heaven".
"..."
Aburame Ryoma was slightly speechless.
The information is wrong, this guy is not only a smoker, but also a pervert.
The Sannin Jiraiya is really a prestigious person. If possible, Aburame Ryoma would like the Sannin to have a more positive influence.
"I will not carry important information with me. And torture is useless to me. I will never betray the village's information. You should give up!"
Funato knew that he was in danger, but he still said these words very forcefully.
Aburame Ryoma stood up and slowly shook his head.
"In this case, I don't need your answer, because the bug will tell me the correct answer. This is the brain-eating bug I carefully cultivated, also called the memory bug. It will eat your brain and gain access to it at the same time. Your memory."
A milky-white insect crawled out from the collar of the clothes, and appeared on Aburame Ryoma's neck. The wings on its back spread out, flying unimpeded in the rain, and landed on Funato's forehead.
Funato only felt an itchy feeling coming from his forehead, and something was crawling on his forehead. Then his forehead hurt, and something penetrated into the cortex. Funato felt that his body was cold, and a look of despair appeared in his eyes.
"Don't worry, you will die in great pain, but you won't be able to make a sound."
Aburame Ryoma's cold eyes fell on Funato through his sunglasses, and he said these words very coldly.
Funato had no strength to struggle, and felt that his consciousness was very heavy. It must be the other party's brain-eating insects that have started to act.
Death by having his brain eaten made Funato feel both strange and extremely uneasy. The state of his death must be very ugly when the time comes.
At this moment, bright lights flashed in the rain curtain, and several slender flying needles passed through the air and shot towards Aburame Ryoma's body.
Aburame Ryoma stepped back in time to avoid the sneak attack of the flying needle.
When he settled down and looked up, Funato, who had fallen on the ground, had disappeared, and he didn't know where he went.
"Escaped? But..."
A lavender-shelled insect flew out of the air silently, leading the way and guiding Aburame Ryoma forward.
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"You, you are..."
Funato felt that it was difficult to speak. He looked at the person who rescued him, showing doubts.
The other party was wearing a raincoat to protect her from the rain. The red and white cloth was looming, and she was dressed like a witch.
"I am a wandering miko from the Kingdom of Ghosts. As requested by your leader, I will deal with the enemies who invaded the Hidden Rain Village."
The wandering witch whispered.
"Is that so?"
Although Funato didn't fully believe it, it was true that the other party saved him.
"Please don't move, I'll help you extract the bugs."
The wandering witch's voice was calm, as if nothing could cause her mood to fluctuate.
Her right palm was covered with a green halo, and she gently pressed it on Funato's forehead, and chakra began to seep into it.
Funato endured the severe pain, but something was burrowing in his brain.
His body was twisted and twitching, and he was in excruciating pain. He wanted to scream loudly, but when he vented the pain, he found that his voice was hoarse and he couldn't make any sound. He could only curl up alone and bear this inhuman pain.
"ah!"
Finally shouting out, Funato gasped violently, the abnormal feeling in his brain disappeared, and the brain-eating worm was extracted.
"Thanks."
Funato said these words extremely weakly, his vision went dark, and he fainted.
"Thus……"
The Wandering Witch stood up and was about to say something when she suddenly felt a pain in the palm of her right hand. Her expression changed. She opened her palm and saw a blood hole the size of a grain of rice appeared on it, and something had penetrated it.
"I see, a chain trap?"
As if she noticed something, the wandering witch frowned.
"Yes, it's just that I didn't expect that I would lead you out. It's an unexpected gain."
A cold voice sounded from behind, and Aburame Ryoma stood there without knowing it, her posture silent.
"Oh, this is really not careless at all."
A forced smile appeared on the wandering witch's face, blaming herself for being careless.
"It seems that this time we can not only get information about Yugakure, but also information about the Kingdom of Demons. I let you escape last time, but I won't let you escape this time, miko. I will analyze all the secrets in your body. .”
Aburame Ryoma pushed up the sunglasses on the bridge of her nose, looking calm.
"Really? Analyzing the secrets of a woman's body is not a serious hobby."
The wandering miko smiled teasingly, but her expression was solemn. She quickly took out a kunai with her left hand, and under the surprised gaze of Aburame Ryoma, she aimed it at her right arm without mercy.
A bloody arm fell from his shoulder.
The wandering miko threw out the kunai in her left hand and shot it at Aburame Ryoma.
At the same time, his left hand was shrouded in green light, aiming at the incision on his right shoulder to stop the bleeding, and his body retreated sharply.
"Don't try to escape!"
Aburame Ryoma took out her kunai block to block the kunai that was flying towards her, and rushed forward quickly, approaching the body of the wandering miko.
A large area of parasites surrounded her from all directions, blocking all escape routes for the wandering witch.
"Mushidama!"
The flying speed of the parasitic bug suddenly became faster, and it instantly pounced on the body of the wandering witch, sucking the chakra in the wandering witch's body with great ferocity.
The Wandering Witch, whose body was wrapped in parasites, was unable to resist and fell into the puddle, her body motionless.
"Huh... the parasites have the ability to eliminate poisons, so you will be helpless."
Aburame Ryoma vaguely remembered that the last time he used iron-eating insects to deal with an opponent, the opponent used an unknown poisonous ninjutsu, which caused a large number of iron-eating insects to be poisoned to death, which made him distressed for a long time.
Unlike the iron-eating bugs with powerful bites, the parasitic bugs are the most basic and most commonly used bugs of the Aburame clan.
The abilities are also diverse and can be used for offense, defense, and detoxification. It is a comprehensive ninja insect.
As he said that, Aburame Ryoma stretched out his hand, and the skin of the severed arm cut off by the wandering miko suddenly bulged out. Something squirmed under the skin, and then bit a hole from the inside, and slowly drilled through the hole. out.
The bug has a milky white body and is a brain-eating bug.
Pulled by Aburame Ryoma's chakra, the brain-eating insect flapped its wings and landed on Aburame Ryoma's fingertips.
Although brain-eating insects have special abilities, using them consumes a huge amount of chakra.
Basically, every time you use it, you have to replenish chakra before you can continue fighting and absorb the enemy's memory.
But there are no more than five people in the root who know this secret.
Ryoma Aburame replenished the chakra to the brain-eating insects while walking up to the Wandering Miko.
"You're careless. Let's stop here."
So far, Aburame Ryoma has lost count of how many assassination missions have been completed using this method.
But in his memory, it seemed that no one could escape his assassination methods.
He had discovered from a very early age that the Aburame clan's secret insect technique could not only be used for investigation, but could also be used for perfect assassination.
When he realized this, he used the power of the roots to start collecting various ninja insects in the ninja world, subduing them one by one and becoming part of his own abilities.
In the ninja world, there is no insect-control ninja more powerful than the ninjas of the Aburame clan.
"I accept your brain without mercy."
Aburame Ryoma raised her finger in front of her face, her eyes behind her sunglasses stared at the brain-eating insect that slowly spread its wings on her fingertips, and said this.
At the moment when the brain-eating insects took off again, Aburame Ryoma suddenly trembled and coughed with difficulty. A strange purple-black blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, dripping on the ground together with the rain.
"This is……"
Aburame Ryoma wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth. When she saw the purple-black blood stained on her fingers, her pupils narrowed desperately and she was extremely shocked.
This abnormal blood is obviously a sign of poisoning.
Poisoned? when?
"It seems the poison has taken effect..."
Under Ryoma Aburame's incredible gaze, the wandering miko slowly stood up from the ground, a smile of success on her pale face.
"You-how is that possible?"
It was obvious that the chakra had been sucked dry by the parasitic bug, and it was impossible to stand up again.
Why can he still stand up from the ground unscathed?
"Sorry, I can use more than just chakra. Moreover, although the brain-eating insects have excellent performance, they need to replenish chakra, which gives me an opportunity. Unlike ordinary poisons, my poison , it is transmitted through chakra exchange, you guessed it completely wrong."
The wandering miko looked at Aburame Ryoma with a smile, as if she admired her miserably defeated look.
"Damn it!"
Realizing this, Aburame Ryoma stepped back crazily, without any hesitation, and ran backwards to escape.
More and more purple-black blood seeped out from the corners of his mouth, and his heart seemed to be tightly grasped by someone's palms, suffocating him to the point where he couldn't breathe.
He had paid special attention to the enemy's poison techniques, but he did not expect that the poison could be transmitted just through the transmission of chakra. That arm was abandoned on purpose. From the beginning, the other party pretended to be helpless and cut off the arm in order to spread the poison to the brain-eating insects. In other words, the wandering witch's body itself is a huge source of poison.
Moreover, the opponent is also very aware of the characteristics of brain-eating insects. They know that brain-eating insects have the disadvantage of consuming a large amount of chakra, and they need to replenish chakra before making the next attack.
The assassination trap he carefully set was successfully used by the wandering witch, and it backfired on him, the hunter who set up the assassination trap.
Who is it?
The information about brain-eating insects is top secret even at the root.
Even Kakashi, who secretly took refuge in the Roots, did not know the information about the brain-eating insects.
Is there a spy in the roots?
Ryoma Aburame's brain began to think quickly, who could have access to this secret and betray his information at the same time.
No matter how he guessed, Aburame Ryoma couldn't determine who the spy in the root was.
"cough!"
In the alley, Aburame Ryoma was coughing in pain, leaning against the wall, gasping for air, holding the clothes on her chest tightly with her right hand, as if this would alleviate the pain in her body.
"Body……"
Looking at the skin on his hands, it turned into a strange purple-black color, and the color became darker and darker. With his vigorous exercise, the poison had spread to his whole body.
"I'm sorry, Danzo...sir...at least...information..."
At the end of the sentence, Aburame Ryoma's voice was barely audible. He raised his hands with great difficulty, maintained the seal movements, exhausted all the chakra in his body, and leaned his back against the wall motionless.
Lowering his head, the skin all over his body had been dyed purple and black, and he stopped breathing in the rain.
The rain in the alley became heavier, and there was a pitter-patter sound.
