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Chapter 244: In Orochimaru's Hands, There's a Puppet Couple!
🕑 Added 2025-08-31 14:27:24 +0000 UTCChapter 244: In Orochimaru's Hands, There's a Puppet Couple!
Konoha's rogue ninjas have always had a lot of personality.
However, their strength was indeed one stronger than the next. The rogue ninjas from the other great ninja villages were considerably inferior in terms of combat power and functionality…
This also reflected another problem from the side: the number one village in the ninja world was not very good at retaining these high-quality talents. This was the Hokage's problem…
While Konan was discussing Hiruko with Nagato, her mind was on another Konoha ninja. When would that youth named Itachi Uchiha also defect?
This was pretty much a daily daydream…
"I'm going to rest first. I need to create a new Human Path tomorrow." Nagato slowly pushed his wheelchair and headed towards the depths of the secret chamber. "Konan, the Deva Path won't be able to act with you for the time being. If any danger arises, notify me immediately with the chakra sensor…"
"Yes…"
Konan sighed, her long, light-blue hair stirring gently. Countless sheets of paper rose up from under her feet, and a pair of paper wings formed on her back, carrying her body away from the dark secret chamber.
She still had many things she wanted to say to Nagato.
With the advent of the crisis, Konan was receiving more and more information from Black Zetsu and the mysterious masked man… Likewise, her distrust of those two was also growing.
Their base in the Land of Bears was under the surveillance of White Zetsu clones almost every day, which undoubtedly made Konan feel uneasy.
Konan believed that the Gedo Statue was perhaps not as simple as Black Zetsu had described. That terrifying husk, compared to being a hope for life, was more likely a nightmare of the apocalypse.
In the entire Akatsuki, besides Nagato, only Sasori of the Red Sand, whom she had personally recruited, could be勉强 considered her own person…
The ugly Hiruko puppet was waiting outside the secret chamber. Sasori manipulated the puppet to follow closely behind Konan. "Konan, is there something you need me for?"
"Bring back the Two-Tails jinchuriki from the Hidden Cloud Village within ten days."
"I cannot guarantee that."
Hiruko shook its head, and Sasori's raspy voice replied, "The Hidden Cloud Village has always been heavily guarded. Ten days is not a lot of time…"
To go and capture the Two-Tails jinchuriki in such a short time, he wasn't brainless. And could this woman Konan please stop proposing questions that were beyond a man's ability!
That was the Hidden Cloud Village, with its treacherous terrain!
According to the intelligence he had received from a spy he had planted in the Hidden Cloud, it seemed the village had not excessively expanded its army like the other great ninja villages, nor had it shown any signs of invading smaller ninja villages…
The reason Sasori dared to venture into the Hidden Cloud was mainly because that group of ninjas had mush for brains and were not very proficient with poison… and besides the puppet technique, what he was best at was poison.
Konan squeezed her palm and said in a low voice, "Are you fully confident you can capture the Two-Tails jinchuriki? You don't have that partner Orochimaru with you this time…"
"Don't worry, Konan!" Hiruko made a clattering sound and chuckled. "It's precisely because that guy is gone that I have the confidence to capture the Two-Tails jinchuriki!"
"…"
Fine, since Sasori has already said so, there's nothing she could do…
Of course, even if Sasori had raised any difficulties, Konan could only have him wait at the base for a while… until she had recruited Hiruko and assigned Sasori a new Konoha rogue ninja as a partner.
"Konan, there's one thing I want to know…"
Hiruko raised its head, looked at the iris flower in her light-blue hair, and said in a low voice, "That guy Orochimaru, did he really defect?"
"…Yes."
"Then after I return from the Hidden Cloud, can you let me go and hunt him down?" Sasori lowered his head and continued in a sinister voice, "I've been unable to stand that guy for a long time…"
"…Alright."
Konan didn't know what Sasori was thinking, but for a subordinate to be so enterprising was worth encouraging.
However, there was one thing she had to make clear first. "Orochimaru's reanimated army includes the Third Raikage and the Second Tsuchikage, and that's not including the other reanimated individuals…"
The meaning was obvious. It was just short of pointing at Sasori's nose and saying, You cannot defeat Orochimaru.
The puppet technique had its advantages to a certain extent…
However, even if Sasori played this ancestral craft to perfection, it would surely not be as powerful as Orochimaru's improved Edo Tensei… That was a forbidden jutsu developed by the Second Hokage!
The forbidden jutsu developed by that dead-faced man—as long as you learned one of them, you could basically make a name for yourself in the ninja world…
"Of course I know his reanimated army has many powerful figures…"
Sasori paid no mind to Konan's words and said in a low, sinister voice, "Among them is a couple skilled in the puppet technique…"
Konan: "…"
Perhaps… she seemed to know what was going on.
If she wasn't mistaken, it must be that guy Orochimaru who had actually reanimated Sasori's parents… When on earth did this happen!
"When Orochimaru was researching the puppet technique, he approached me in private. When I refused him, that guy naturally set his sights on others."
Hiruko looked into the distance and continued, "He naturally wouldn't be interested in the retired old hag, so he set his sights on the puppet couple who had sacrificed themselves in the Great Ninja War…"
"You can search for information on Orochimaru in private."
Konan shook her head. She could only choose to comfort her capable subordinate. "We will not let a traitor to the organization go unpunished…"
Hiruko nodded and walked into the distance, step by step. "According to my guess, that guy Orochimaru should be hiding in the Land of Rivers… or the Land of Wind."
Sasori's guess was indeed correct.
Due to his secret assassination of the Third Kazekage back then, he had subsequently vanished from the world, and when he reappeared, he was already an S-rank rogue ninja of the Hidden Sand.
Sasori of the Red Sand had spent a long time as a wanderer…
He had destroyed small countries, slaughtered towns, collected scraps, and mined ore veins. Sasori was very familiar with the various terrains and landforms of the ninja world.
Although some remote places, such as the Land of Demons, were indeed very suitable as research bases, their remoteness also led to a lack of rich resources. And the inherent limitations of materials meant that those remote bases would not have much potential.
Only some small ninja villages close to the Five Great Nations were the most suitable locations for bases. Even if they were extremely dangerous… they could continuously obtain resources from the great nations.
However, no one could have guessed that Orochimaru would dare to directly usurp the position of the Kazekage, using the Face-Copying Jutsu to directly control the power of the Hidden Sand Village!
Orochimaru sat in the Kazekage's office, holding a document in one hand, and said in a low voice, "All the unstable elements in the Hidden Sand Village have been cleared. The next step is to find a way to incite the people of the Land of Wind's dissatisfaction with the Daimyo…"
Madara Uchiha: "…"
This junior's actions are a bit of a mystery. How can he not understand them?
Every time he saw this kind of person who used their brain to play politics, it made him extremely furious!
