Escape From Konoha

Land of Winds, Daming Mansion.

At the top of the castle, a figure sat cross-legged without cover, with a black suitcase beside his hand. Dry wind kept blowing from a distance, rolling up the corners of his black coat.

Kakuzu's eyes radiated a green light, and he saw a team hurriedly running out of the Daming Mansion. Judging from the direction they were running, it was obvious that their destination was Sunagakure Village.

"Do you want to go to Sand Hidden Village to bring in reinforcements? I didn't expect that someone like him, the highest authority in the Kingdom of Wind, would be so unafraid."

Kakuzu originally thought that the Daimyo of the Country of Wind could continue to support him for a while under his intimidation, but he did not expect that the plan went more smoothly than imagined. Such a simple matter made the Daimyo of the Country of Wind feel fearful.

Or is it that the higher the position, the more afraid of death?

No matter which one it is, as long as you achieve your goal.

Although this method is not a royal method, under normal circumstances, Kakuzu just finds the debtor himself very roughly and carries out endless debt collection.

This debt collection mission is obviously different from the past.

On the surface, it is just a debt collection mission, but it is actually a secret contest between the Kingdom of Ghosts and the Kingdom of Wind.

Kakuzu found the behind-the-scenes of this incident more and more interesting.

The Kingdom of Wind does not want to pay off the debt owed by the Kingdom of Ghosts.

Although the Kingdom of Ghosts ostensibly wants to collect the debt, it actually also hopes that the Kingdom of Wind will take a tough stance and not pay off the debt.

Seeing the guards of the Daming Palace rushing towards Sunagakure Village, Kakuzu did not stop them.

The daimyo of the Land of Wind, who was under terror and coercion, summoned the shinobi from Sunagakure Village to protect him, which was only an expected action.

"Next, it's up to you. You can try adding more ingredients."

Jiaodu turned his head and said to the air.

Behind him was a humanoid clay doll with half of its body exposed on the floor. After hearing this, he silently slipped into the floor and disappeared.

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Only the sound of sound sleep could be heard in the dark room.

In every corner of the house, there are almost no blind spots squatting with ninjas.

Because of what happened in the morning, they were collectively reprimanded severely by the daimyo of the land of the wind, and they also hated those who secretly pasted the "pay back" notes all over the daimyo mansion.

Due to the occurrence of this kind of thing, people in Daming Mansion were in panic all day long and did not dare to breathe loudly. The daimyo's face was gloomy all day long, and finally he had no choice but to ask for help from Sunagakure Village.

Compared with the ninja guards of Daming Palace, Sunagakure Village has more soldiers than the ninja guards of Daming Palace, which is enough to replace the ninja guards of Daming Palace and ensure the safety of Daiming himself.

But this is definitely not a good thing for the ninja guards of Daming Mansion.

If the ninjas from Hidden Sand Village came to replace their positions, it would not only mean their dereliction of duty, but also mean that their abilities would be questioned, which would affect their lives.

Therefore, they need to be 100% attentive and not allow people in the dark to disrupt the peace of Daming Mansion.

Just when they were guarding tightly, a human head protruded out of the gauze, without a sound, on the wall. The pale yellow eyes had no light in the darkness, and with the help of the gauze, the surrounding people were not disturbed. Guards alert.

The head protruding from the wall is none other than Shiraishi's Earth clone, General Earth.

Although it was in a dark environment, General Tu could see everything here clearly.

For artificial humans, there is no big difference between night and day, and it will not affect their vision.

The surrounding ninja guards squatted at the location. Through its perception ability, it directly formed a radar map and presented it in its mind. It successfully avoided their defense line and directly invaded the location of the daimyo of the country of wind.

The earth general's head poked out from the wall, and his face was exactly opposite the face of the daimyo from the Kingdom of Wind who was resting on the bed below.

Under the observation of General Tu, the other party was entering a deep sleep, with a deep tired look on his face. He was probably frightened by what happened during the day.

Without any hesitation, General Tu stretched out his hand from the wall, holding a piece of rice paper on it, and gently covered it on the chest of the Daimyo of the Land of Wind.

Only the sound of sleeping sound came from the other party, and he didn't notice anything was wrong.

Coupled with the opponent's obviously overweight body, he looked like a dead pig while sleeping.

General Tu continued to stretch out his hand, lightly wiped something on the neck of the Daimyo of the Kingdom of Wind, and smeared something on it.

The other party just scratched his neck, but there was still no reaction.

"...Huh...Huh..."

There was still only the slight sound of sweet sleep, and it looked like he was having a sweet dream.

General Tu continued to move, without stopping, on the quilt, on the bed, on the wall, all according to Jiao Du's instructions, and put all the decorations one by one.

After doing these things, General Tu spent a total of two minutes.

After thinking about it carefully, he found that what Kakuzu had told him was almost completed, and there was nothing left to arrange.

As a result, General Tu's body slowly sank into the wall, as if he had never appeared before, silently.

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Morning.

A horrified shout came from the room where the Daimyo of the Kingdom of Wind was, immediately breaking the peace of the morning.

"My lord!?"

The ninja guards jumped out of the darkness one after another, came to the daimyo's bed, and their pupils suddenly shrank.

I saw a red note with the word 'death' written on it on the chest of the Daimyo of the Kingdom of Wind.

There was still red blood stains on the neck of the Wind Kingdom Daimyo. The blood stains had dried on the neck. It had obviously been there for a long time.

Not only that, there were many words on the wall near the bed.

Die die die die die die—

Countless words of death overlapped on the wall, and some blood spattered, like swaying flowers of hell, looking very ferocious and terrifying, like a curse to kill.

"What on earth is going on? Didn't you make sure everything was safe last night?"

After the daimyo of the land of winds was extremely frightened, the look in his eyes suddenly became terrifying. He stared at the half-kneeling ninjas in front of him, gritted his teeth, and his face was livid.

"This... this..."

The leading ninja was in a cold sweat and didn't know how to explain it.

In fact, he also panicked.

There's no way this is going to happen.

As the leader of the bodyguard ninja of the Wind Kingdom Daimyo, not only has his strength reached the Jonin level, he is also a sentient ninja himself.

It was impossible for someone to hide from his perception and quietly approach the Daimyo of the Kingdom of Wind, or even use this method to intimidate the Daimyo of the Kingdom of Wind.

But the development of the facts has exceeded his expectation.

His perception ninjutsu didn't detect anyone approaching last night. Could it be that the enemy's sneaking ability surpassed his perception ninjutsu?

How is this possible? It must be just an accident.

"You guys really disappointed me. You let the enemy succeed again and again, and they climbed on top of me to run amok. I punished you for half a month's salary, do you have any complaints?"

The daimyo of the Kingdom of Wind tried his best to suppress the anger in his heart and made his tone calm.

"I'm extremely sorry, Daimyo-sama! We won't let the enemy succeed next time!"

The leading ninja lowered his head deeply and did not dare to breathe due to the authority of the daimyo.

"Hmph, I hope so, let's get down."

"yes."

The leading ninja disappeared from the place with his people and continued to squat in the dark to protect the safety of the Daimyo of the Kingdom of Wind.

One by one, they are all useless things. The great names of the Kingdom of Wind were even more dissatisfied.

He was completely disappointed with the ability of this group of ninja guards. It seemed necessary for Sunagakure Village to cultivate better ninjas to serve as guards for him.

After calming down the shock and anger in his heart, the Daimyo of the Kingdom of Wind was about to get out of bed, get dressed, and go out to take a bath to wash away the blood stains on his body.

Suddenly, his fingers touched something on the bed board.

That is a piece of paper.

Two words were written prominently on it - pay back the money.

The daimyo of the Kingdom of the Wind was so gloomy that he couldn't say a word. He directly put the paper in his hand and rubbed it vigorously, threw it on the ground, stepped on it several times with his bare feet, and made the wooden floor thump. Sound, venting the anger that has been accumulated in my heart for a long time.

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The day passes quickly.

Everyone in Daming Mansion, including the guards and maids, lived in a strange atmosphere.

They didn't know much about what happened to the daimyo, and even if they did, they didn't dare to say anything more.

The night came, and for some reason, Daimyo of the Wind Country couldn't help but feel a burst of panic when he saw the darkness of the night. He touched his neck subconsciously, and he was slightly relieved when he found that everything was normal.

The ninjas of Hidden Sand Village are already on their way, as long as they work hard to survive tonight, everything will be peaceful tomorrow.

After all, unlike the ninjas in his house, the ninjas in Yinsha Village are more powerful and have countless jnin. As long as some of them are transferred, it will be enough to protect his life and clean up the 'rats' who sneaked into the Daming Mansion.

When you find this hateful 'rat', you must dismember it, so as to relieve the hatred in your heart.

After thinking about these happy things, the anger in Daimyo's heart eased a lot.

Tonight, the daimyo of the country of the wind did not plan to sleep in his own bedroom, but found an empty house, and ordered the maid to lay a floor in the center of the house.

Around the floor, there were a total of sixteen ninjas sitting cross-legged on the floor with their backs facing each other. Their sharp eyes carefully scanned every corner of the house, not letting go of any subtleties.

Not only that, there are more than a dozen ninjas squatting on the beams of the house, let alone a mouse, even if a mosquito flies in, they can't escape their sight.

In order to avoid being harassed tonight like the previous two nights, the daimyo of the country of the wind has mobilized most of the ninja guards in the daimyo mansion here, doubling the usual guard strength.

In theory, there is no need to worry about security issues anymore.

The only thing to worry about is the enemy's high-strength infiltration ability that cannot be detected by sensory ninjutsu.

As long as the enemy's infiltration ability is ineffective, it will be impossible for the opponent to approach the target silently.

The enemy can never come in invisible.

Even if he comes in stealthily, it is impossible to show up without breath when he moves.

Daimyo of the Kingdom of the Wind looked at the sixteen ninja guards around him, with their backs turned to him, scanning the outer circle to check the enemy's situation.

And the dozen or so ninjas on the beams also carefully inspected the surroundings, not letting go of any corners.

The daimyo of the country of wind nodded secretly, he could finally sleep peacefully tonight.

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"Hurry up, you must feel the Daming Mansion before dawn!"

In the desert at night, under the moonlight, the sand is as fine and white as snow, and under the blowing of the strong wind, people can't open their eyes.

It may be troublesome for ordinary people, but for ninjas who are often active in extreme environments, this harsh climate is not worth mentioning.

The leader was a male Suna ninja who was about twenty-four or five years old.

Two streaks of red paint were painted on the right side of his face, and he wore a forehead protector on his forehead that represented the Sunagakure ninja identity, and he was running quickly on the desert under the moonlight.

Behind him were eleven Suna ninjas, half of whom were jounin, and among the jonins in Sunagakure Village, they could also be called elite jonins.

"Yes, Maki Jounin!"

The eleven sand ninjas behind him echoed in unison, their voices solemn.

The Daimyo of the Kingdom of Wind has been intimidated and threatened. This is undoubtedly a very serious situation.

Because about three years ago, the Daimyo of the Country of Water was assassinated by the S-class rebel ninja Kisame Kisaki of Kirigakure Village. Although the current Daimyo of the Country of Water is the eldest son of the previous Daimyo of the Country of Water, it is said that When he came to power, he was also involved in a power struggle due to various problems, which caused chaos within the Water Country and the economic level began to decline.

Now the great names of the Kingdom of Wind are also being threatened by unknown persons.

Although the seriousness of the situation has not yet escalated to the level where the Daimyo of the Land of Water was directly assassinated.

But don’t be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the worst. If the name of the Kingdom of Wind is suddenly assassinated, the Kingdom of Wind is likely to fall into chaos like the Kingdom of Water. For Sunagakure Village, this is not something to be happy about. good thing.

Sunagakure Village controls the military of a country, and the daimyo enjoys the highest political power in the country. This is a contract signed by the ninja god Senju Hashirama in the era of one country and one village. It has continued to this day, and no one dares to cross this red line.

Not only because of the influence of the God of Ninja, but also because of this 'contract', which maintains a certain balance in the Ninja world.

The interests of the nobles did not suffer much loss, but were further consolidated due to the establishment of the Ninja Village. The ninjas cooperated with the nobles, so they obtained survival guarantees and the development of military expenses. It was a matter of mutual benefit.

The Sunagakure jounin Maji who led the team was very aware of the seriousness of the threat that the daimyo of the Land of Wind had received.

Because of this, the Fourth Kazekage Luo Sha sent him to Daming Mansion for support.

This is not only a recognition of his strength, but also a supreme trust.

Ma Ji could feel that Kazekage Luosha valued him.

He secretly made up his mind that this major S-level mission must be completed perfectly to bring glory to Feng Ying.

"Maki will bear it."

Suddenly, a Sunagakure Jōnin came up and called out softly in Ma Ji's ear, with a strange look on his face.

Marki understood immediately and made a gesture quietly.

The formation of the Sand Ninja behind suddenly changed, and without any hesitation, they all dispersed towards the surroundings.

Boom!

The desert exploded.

The hot fire engulfed the surroundings, and the temperature of the air began to rise.

The manic heat rushed towards the faces of the Sunagakure ninjas.

They stared at the surroundings and saw figures wearing black coats embroidered with asters appearing one after another. On their chests, there were circular nameplates made of copper or silver.

In their hands they held firearms made of metal and solid wood, but the caliber of the muzzle was much larger than that of ordinary firearms, and the gun's tray also looked slightly bloated, giving people a cold and dangerous feeling.

After Marky saw the clothes of these people, he smiled coldly and said: "So, they are notorious debt collectors in the Kingdom of Ghosts. It seems that the ones who threaten the daimyo are also you guys who don't know the heights of the world."

The debt collectors of the Ghost Country's Aster Flower Merchant Association are definitely not a debt collection organization with a good reputation in the true sense.

This group of people are so greedy for money that they will do all kinds of evil in order to force debtors to repay their debts. Although they do not go to the extent of killing people, they often use various extreme intimidation methods to force debtors to repay their debts, and even use force to coerce them. .

It can be said that it is quite a notorious organization.

In the eyes of the big powers, this organization is nothing. Many underworld businessmen will also use this method to collect debts. The Kingdom of Ghosts has just officially incorporated debt collectors.

That's why Markey looks down on debt collector groups.

"However, don't compare us in the Country of Wind with the group of businessmen from small countries who were intimidated by you. Moreover, you are a little too bold to dare to intimidate and collect debts on the territory of our big country."

Markey knew that the activities of debt collectors from the Kingdom of Ghosts were basically not on the territory of big countries, but they had a high deterrent ability for businessmen from small countries.

Twelve Suna ninja debt collectors were surrounded, six silver medal collectors and seventeen bronze medal collectors, a total of twenty-three people.

They just stared coldly at the surrounded Sunagakure ninjas. Without any hesitation, they quickly picked up the continuous-fire kunai gun in their hands and pulled the trigger.

A large number of kunai were ejected from the muzzle, carrying sparks, and a very terrifying whistling sound could be heard as they shuttled through the air.

Without hesitation, Ma Ji raised his right hand, which was entwined with the breath of wind. He instantly condensed a wind blade and swung it hard at the kunai flying towards him.

There was a tingling in the palm of my hand.

Although he successfully cut off the kunai, Ma Ji clearly saw a wound on the back of his hand, and his pupils narrowed slightly.

Supremacy...a condensed wind attribute chakra!

Driven by the catapult, Kunai's firing speed far exceeds the power fired by normal ninjas, plus Kunai carries wind attribute chakra... the penetrating ability is terrifying.

However, it was too late for him to think.

Kunai came flying one after another. Maki dodged and retreated. When he couldn't dodge, he used the wind blade in his hand to cut off the kunai, but as a result, he got another wound on the back of his hand. , bleeding.

The other Sunagakure ninjas, like Maki, had a hard time dealing with it for the first time because they were not used to it.

But soon they maintained their offensive and defensive formations, and the sand ninja in the back row immediately seized the opportunity and formed a seal with their hands:

"Wind Escape·Big Breakthrough!"

The strong wind suddenly rose, and countless sand was blown up, wreaking havoc on the debt collector ahead.

Using the teleportation technique to dodge, some of the debt collectors put away their kunai guns. They didn't think that they could really deal with the elite ninjas of Sunagakure Village with this kind of kunai guns.

If this is the case, jounin and chuunin are really worthless.

"Art fire escape ho fireball!"

The momentum of the flames overwhelmed the storm, and the fireball suddenly turned into a sea of ​​fire and burned on the desert.

"Don't panic, maintain your formation!"

Mackey is unflappable.

Finding a breakthrough in the sea of ​​fire, he casually used the wind blade to split the kunai that passed through the fire wall and attacked him.

Although his palms were bloody, Marky didn't care.

The wounds only looked serious, but were actually just superficial injuries that had no impact on his fighting ability.

A silver debt collector made a gesture and everyone dispersed.

Even they had heard about Sunagakure Jounin Maki.

A close confidant of the Fourth Kazekage Rasa, an elite Jonin of Sunagakure Village, he can be said to be one of the leading Jonin figures of Sunagakure Village.

Things will become very difficult if you are approached by such a ninja.

"You really underestimate me! You cover me and I'll deal with these rats!"

When Marki saw the group of debt collectors retreating intentionally, he sneered on his face and asked the Sunagakure ninja beside him to cover him.

Wind attribute chakra was condensed on his feet, and he was about to fly over in one breath.

The shadows were like lightning, coinciding with Marki's body, passing through the sky one after another.

Ma Ji subconsciously looked up and saw something like a bird flying far in the air. Ma Ji could not determine what it was with his naked eyes.

Just after this group of strange birds flew by, small black dots fell from the sky.

Finally seeing what it was, Marky's expression suddenly changed.

"retreat!"

I saw those small black dots falling from the sky getting bigger and bigger in my field of vision.

At a distance visible to the naked eye, I finally saw that they were a considerable number of kunai.

Not only that, there is a burning detonating charm hanging on the handle of each kunai.

The aerial attack came so suddenly. Just as Maki finished shouting his words, it was already too late. The kunai fell far faster than he imagined.

The kunai fell to the ground, and the detonating charm just happened to detonate.

There was a flash and a roar.

The sea of ​​fire caused by the explosion engulfed the desert, and during the explosion, the panicked sounds of the Sand Ninjas could be heard one after another.

Due to the terrifying shock wave generated by the explosion, their shouts could not be conveyed outside and were covered by the explosion.

The terrifying sand waves set off on the desert, which only exacerbated the chaos of the sand ninjas.

After the explosion, ignoring the heat wave that hit their faces, twenty-three debt collectors swarmed forward, becoming the last straw for the Sunagakure ninjas.

After about a few minutes, all twelve Suna ninjas fell to the ground without exception, basically leaving only their last breath. Only Jounin Maki still had the last trace of consciousness left, but after the continuous raids and explosions, Next, he was also seriously injured.

"I was too careless. I didn't expect you to be able to do it from the air..."

The air has always been a realm that only very few ninjas can touch.

There were no ninjas capable of fighting in the air in Sand Hidden Village, but among their group, there were no ninjas capable of fighting in the air.

This is also the reason for their defeat this time.

Without giving Ma Ji a chance to say more, a silver debt collector stepped forward and knocked Ma Ji unconscious with a knife.

"Give them first aid. If they die, they will be in trouble."

The victory this time was all because the opponent was caught off guard.

If the two sides open up their positions, it will be very difficult to win, and they will probably be counterattacked.

"The existence of new weapons has been exposed. Don't we need to get rid of them?"

"No need. Otherwise, I wouldn't have used the detonating talisman with high impact power but limited lethality just now, just to avoid killing these sand ninjas."

"That's really strange."

"Kunai guns and flying machines are not real top-secret weapons, so don't worry too much. Moreover, we are all ninjas who have retired from the military, so stop thinking about problems with military thinking. Debt collection work can hurt people, but it doesn't As a last resort, you can’t kill people. This is the debt collector’s rule. Since it’s the bottom line of the rule, we must strictly abide by it. We are not just ninjas.”

The leading silver debt collector spoke.

Although he also wondered about this issue, it was something that the people above should consider.

A debt collector's job is simply to collect debts.

The purpose of attacking these sand ninjas is to better collect debts.

If these sand ninjas are killed, the nature of debt collection will become different.

This defeats the purpose of a debt collector's job.

Soon, the wounds of these seriously injured and unconscious Sand Ninjas were bandaged.

The lead debt collector spoke again:

"Next, hang them all at the door of Daming Mansion, the capital of the Kingdom of Wind. The task will be successfully completed. By the way, don't forget to attach a bill at the end and add some threatening letters. The debt must be recovered. .I’m going to report the debt collection situation here to Jin Jin.”

"yes!"