Chapter 46: Danzo and Byakuya's Thoughts

After getting Bai Ye's permission, Aburame Ryoma, who was already sweating profusely, left.

At this moment, he finally understood why Lord Danzo chose Byakuya among all the senior leaders of the Akatsuki organization.

Because in some aspects of Bai Ye's behavior, he was exactly the same as Lord Danzo, and the meeting just now reminded him of the first time he met Lord Danzo.

Bai Ye is simply the dark side of Akatsuki.

After calming himself down, Aburame Ryoma rushed towards the nearby Root base without looking back, ready to tell Danzo all the information from the previous meeting.

As for the root team, they had been abandoned as pawns.

In order to complete Lord Danzo's plan and to protect Konoha, some useless ninjas must always be sacrificed to complete valuable actions. This is also the reason for the existence of the Root.

Soon, Aburame Ryoma met Danzo in a dense forest.

After seeing Ryoma Aburame returning alone, Danzo frowned at first, but after listening to Ryoma Aburame's report, a subtle curve appeared at the corners of his mouth.

Sacrificing four Root Chunins is nothing, there are as many cannon fodders as needed.

Reaching an agreement with Bai Ye of the Akatsuki organization is the top priority and is related to his future plans.

Aburame Ryoma recalled what happened just now and couldn't help but remind him:
"Master Danzo, isn't it too dangerous for you to cooperate with this Byakuya? Not only does he hide the fighting power of an elite jonin, he also guessed your intentions."

"And isn't he a little too young in terms of age?"

Danzo glanced at his old subordinates, chuckled and said, "Age and combat effectiveness can be faked. These are not important. What is important is that Bai Ye has ambitions and the ability to realize them."

"As long as he continues to grow, he will be able to threaten Hanzo's position sooner or later. By then, whether Akatsuki replaces Hanzo or is destroyed by Hanzo, it has nothing to do with us."

"Don't forget, our goal is just to create chaos in the Rain Country."

Hearing this, Aburame Ryoma nodded slightly.

With Lord Danzo's ability, it is not easy for him to control a Jonin lurking in the Akatsuki organization. He is just too sensitive and worried.

Worried that Byakuya might actually rise up and become a threat to Root and Akatsuki.

Now it seems that as long as Lord Danzo is around, this situation will never happen.

But Aburame Ryoma forgot one premise, that is, Danzo was truly concerned about Konoha, and was not using Konoha's excuse to pursue his own interests.

……

After Ryoma Aburame left, Bai Ye found a place to sit down and began to study the benefits left by Ryoma Aburame.

The seal on the storage scroll was very simple, and Bai Ye could break it with just some effort.

Inside were several boxes of well-made kunai, shurikens and steel wires, in addition to several secret manuals recording C-level ninjutsu, and three million taels in cash.

Bai Ye made a rough estimate of the value, conservatively estimating it to be 10 million taels, equivalent to one-third of Asuma's head, or the completion of ten S-level tasks.

Considering that we are still in a war, the actual value of these materials is even higher.

Thinking of this, Bai Ye couldn't help but sigh that Konoha was really rich. The Root was not just a training institution for the Anbu, but it could give such a generous gift.

No wonder every time there was a great war in the Ninja World, everyone would collectively attack Konoha. On the one hand, Konoha was too strong, so they had to drag Konoha down to prevent them from taking advantage of the situation. On the other hand, Konoha was too rich, so even if they lost, they might be able to get some reconstruction funds from Konoha.

After putting the supplies back into the storage scroll, Bai Ye opened the spiritual contract scroll.

There were only a few names written on the scroll, which should be the previous owners of the summoned beasts. I wonder if they are still alive now? Will they have become cannon fodder in the Ninja World War?

After carefully checking to confirm that there were no traps, Bai Ye dripped blood on the psychic contract and performed the psychic technique.

The spirit beast is a bird of prey, which is convenient for transmitting information. Unfortunately, unlike other special spirit beasts, it has no combat power and only has the advantage of fast flying speed.

After canceling the spiritual communication technique, Bai Ye put the two scrolls into his backpack and fell into deep thought.

Before today, he really didn't expect that he would have contact with Danzo, and even reach an agreement to help each other and become partners who used each other.

However, since Danzo took the initiative to come to his house to give gifts, he had no reason to refuse.

Judging from what Aburame Ryoma said, he and Danzo have the same short-term interests, and both hope that Akatsuki will rise in the Land of the Rain.

It’s just that Danzo’s goal is to create trouble for Hanzo of the Salamander and put the Rain Kingdom into chaos.

His goal is to replace it. After all, the Akatsuki organization will sooner or later come into conflict with the Hidden Rain Village. In order to avoid the annihilation of the Akatsuki organization in the original plot, he can only prepare to annex the Hidden Rain Village in advance.

And after making contact with Danzo, he will be able to obtain information about Konoha and Root more easily, and will be closer to achieving a win-win situation in the future.

Of course, this win-win means he wins twice.

Not long after, Konan found Bai Ye with the body of the Root ninja, and his face looked very ugly.

During the pursuit of the Root Ninja just now, Bai Ye stepped into the trap set by the Root Ninja, and his body was directly engulfed in flames and blown into pieces.

Xiaonan was completely stunned at that time and thought Bai Ye was dead.

After killing all the Root Ninjas, she belatedly realized that Byakuya was not that weak at all, and that he was just a paper clone following her from the beginning.

Looking at the angry Xiaonan, Bai Ye's expression gradually became serious: "Senior Xiaonan, do you still remember what I said when we first carried out the mission?"

"I want to show you the truth about the ninja world. Even this is just the tip of the iceberg."

After hearing this, Xiaonan fell silent. She did remember this sentence. Bai Ye was doing this for her own good. He had been training her and letting her feel the cruelty of the ninja world.

But Xiaonan still felt something was wrong. It had been several months, and it wasn’t over yet?

After letting Xiaonan reflect and successfully evading the topic of the paper clone's deception, Bai Ye looked at the corpse of the Root ninja next to Xiaonan and asked:

"Senior Xiaonan, have you figured out the identities of these attackers?"

Konan nodded, and found several tokens with the Iwagakure mark from the bodies of the Root ninjas, and said, "I suspect they are Iwagakure ninjas."

Then, Xiaonan recalled the previous experience and said uncertainly: "It could also be a ninja from the Hidden Grass Village? They disguised themselves once before."

"Senior Konan's information is almost the same as no information at all..."

Bai Ye joked as he walked over to the bodies of the Root ninjas and after checking them out, he said, "These people are neither Kusagakure nor Iwagakure. They are all members of the Konoha Anbu."

(End of this chapter)