Chapter 220 Jiraiya and Orochimaru

Inside the Akatsuki office.

Putting the brewed coffee on the table, Bai Ye opened the first letter on the table. This letter was sent by Black Zetsu, and the content was very simple.

After two weeks of getting along, Black Zetsu has initially gained Naruto's trust, and his status in Naruto's mind is no less than that of the Third Hokage.

This was completely within Bai Ye's expectations. He had also been an orphan and understood what orphans needed.

Although Black Zetsu's subsequent actions were a bit rough, they were still within the controllable range, which made Bai Ye very satisfied. He secretly felt that as one of the masterminds behind the scenes in the ninja world, he still had some tricks.

As for why he didn't let Black Zetsu teach Naruto the Dark Depth of Darkness, so that he would follow Menma's path?

A completely corrupt Nine-Tails Jinchuriki could bring great crisis to Konohagakure and even the entire ninja world.

The reason is very simple, Akatsuki is a peace-loving organization.

Maybe some members of the organization are now secretly planning a world-destroying plan like the Moon Eye, but their starting point is for world peace.

As long as Black Zetsu instills truth, goodness and beauty in Naruto, Naruto will sooner or later stand on their side.

After all, apart from the first Hokage, the only ninjas who strictly follow the Will of Fire are some low-level ninjas who stick to their ideals and devote themselves to them, and the Konoha high-level officials do not believe in this.

Bai Ye collected his gradually dispersing thoughts, casually wrote down some suggestions, and asked White Zetsu to pass them to Black Zetsu, as he had other important things to deal with.

For example, the follow-up issues of Tangyin Village.

Thanks to the unremitting efforts of Yahiko and Konan, Yugakure Village was also incorporated into the mutual assistance system established by the Akatsuki organization, and reached a lot of cooperation with the Rain Village, which is also a vassal state.

The cooperation between resource-rich countries and industrial countries can produce an effect that is greater than the sum of its parts.

However, although the cooperation between Yuyin Village and Yuyin Village is pleasant, there is also a huge problem before them that must be solved immediately.

That's the problem of distance.

The Hidden Rain Village is located in the northwest of the Fire Country, while the Hidden Tang Village is located in the northeast of the Fire Country. The distance between the two sides is over a thousand kilometers, and there are many small ninja villages in between.

If the Hidden Rain Village wants to cooperate more closely with the Hidden Tang Village, it will have to consider the influence of these ninja villages.

Once a ninja village interferes, the business activities of both parties will inevitably be severely hindered. These small ninja villages are Kusagakure Village, Tsuyoshigakure Village and Tianguo.

The Kusagakure Village and the Rain Village have always had a grudge against each other, and they are ninja villages that must be attacked. There is even an international prison called Kizuna Castle in their territories, which holds many high-level wanted criminals.

Considering the international impact, it is difficult for the Akatsuki organization to take direct action against the Kusagakure Village. They can only start from the conflict between the Kusagakure Village and Kizuna Castle and see if they can support an agent.

Longyin Village is a small secluded village. Apart from going out to carry out commissions, there is not much activity there.

The Seven-Tails in Longyin Village is what the Akatsuki organization must capture. Only by obtaining all the tailed beasts can they revive the Ten-Tails and start the plan of Infinite Tsukuyomi.

But precisely because of the existence of the Nana-Tails, the Akatsuki organization cannot take any action at the moment.

Now it seems that the only one who can take action is probably the Land of Rice. There is only a small ninja village called Otonin in the Land of Rice.

It is a ninja village founded by senior ninjas, and it has only a few dozen people including the leader.

It was not a difficult task for Bai Ye to take over the Sound Village, but the name of the Sound Village reminded Bai Ye of the cold-blooded Orochimaru, one of the three great ninjas of Konoha.

He deliberately left the Sound Village alone, ready to wait for the opportunity.

Unfortunately, several months have passed since Orochimaru defected, and there is still no news of Orochimaru being active in the ninja world. If he hadn't known the relationship between the Third Hokage and Orochimaru, he would have suspected that Orochimaru had died under the Ruyi Rod of the Third Hokage.

At this time, a member of Akatsuki hurried into the office with a scroll in his hand.

Bai Ye raised his eyes to look at the Akatsuki members and asked calmly, "Is there any important information? I remember that you are the ninja who is specifically responsible for inquiring about Jiraiya."

The Akatsuki member nodded and handed the scroll to Byakuya.

Bai Ye opened the scroll and narrowed his eyes slightly. It recorded Jiraiya's detailed movements and the information that Jiraiya had inquired about Orochimaru's information on the black market.

Thinking of this, Bai Ye came up with the idea of ​​leaving the Hidden Rain Village.

Instead of staying in the Hidden Rain Village and waiting, it is better to take the initiative to find Jiraiya, and find Orochimaru through Jiraiya.

……

After a month of hard work, Jiraiya finally found information about Orochimaru from the intelligence network.

In order to find Orochimaru, he often went in and out of red-light districts, risking being captured, before he found out the exact location of Orochimaru.

After using illusion to control the wandering ninjas on the black market, Jiraiya hid in the belly of a toad and let the wandering ninjas carry the toad towards where Orochimaru was.

Not long after, Jiraiya stopped and looked at the feminine young man on the road ahead.

This feminine young man looks completely different from Orochimaru, but disguise and transformation techniques can deceive people, but chakra and intuition cannot.

After coming out of the toad's belly, Jiraiya stared at the feminine young man and said, "Orochimaru, cancel the transformation technique. Your ninjutsu cannot hide from my eyes."

The feminine young man sighed softly, then lifted the transformation technique and said with a complicated expression: "So Jiraiya, you also received the order from the old man to come and kill me?"

"I didn't expect that the friendship between us is so fragile. It's really touching."

"Did the old man send someone to hunt you down?"

Jiraiya frowned. He didn't believe that the third generation teacher would send people to hunt down Orochimaru, who was the teacher's most proud disciple.

But on second thought, Orochimaru's identity is a traitor ninja, and hunting down traitor ninjas is the duty of all Konoha ninjas.

After taking a deep breath, Jiraiya slowly said: "I am not here to kill you. I want you to go back. When you go back, I will plead for mercy in front of the old man."

"As long as you promise not to continue conducting human experiments in the village, you will still be our companion."

Hearing this, Orochimaru smiled and said, "If you can't explore the limits of ninjutsu, you might as well kill me. You have no idea what I'm thinking. Only an idiot like you would stay in the village."

Orochimaru's words were like a poisonous thorn, piercing Jiraiya's heart and making him feel nameless anger.

"Orochimaru, I'm going to say this one last time. I must bring you back today, even if it's just a corpse. I must go back today. I can't bear to see you make the same mistake again!"

"You mean you can kill me at any time?"

Orochimaru frowned. He was very unhappy after being looked down upon by Jiraiya. After forming seals with his hands, he rushed towards Jiraiya first.

The battle is about to break out.

(End of this chapter)