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Chapter 209: The Art of Feeding Yourself to the Wolves [37]
Chapter 209: The Art of Feeding Yourself to the Wolves [37]
"...'
Hyuuga Hizashi bowed to the departing Foyen, but a hint of sigh flitted through his eyes.
If Hyuuga Hiashi couldn't have a child, then his son, Neji, might have been spared from the branch house's fate and become the head of the Hyuuga clan.
But now, that was impossible.
Hyuuga Hiashi's child had been born, and although she was a girl, as long as she grew up safely until she was three years old, Neji would be marked as a caged bird, destined to be a branch house member—a long-standing tradition of the Hyuuga clan.
As Hyuuga Hizashi's gaze turned toward the inner room, a faint glimmer lurked within, and Hyuuga Hiashi happened to catch it.
"..."
Hyuuga Hiashi's eyes turned cold.
However, he did nothing but maintain his smile as he conversed with the guests. It wasn't until after Foyen had left that he glowered at Hyuuga Hizashi.
Foyen had also noticed the subtle exchange between Hyuuga Hiashi and Hyuuga Hizashi, but he didn't pay it much mind. If the brothers wanted to quarrel, let them be.
After leaving the Hyuuga clan's territory...
Foyen heard Kurama's voice in his mind.
"Here comes another one."
"Did you take care of it?"
Foyen tilted his head and walked toward the outskirts of Konoha.
Kurama, gnashing his teeth, said, "How could I let that peeping Tom get away? By the way, can we make this screen bigger and clearer?"
Whoosh! Whoosh!!
After a few blinks, Foyen found himself outside Konoha, where Kurama was lounging on an open space. At the tip of one of his tails was a white creature impaled upon it.
It was a White Zetsu.
Lately, White Zetsus had been secretly spying on Konoha, but they were usually detected by Kurama as soon as they appeared, only to be swiftly swatted or crushed to death.
"This is getting tedious."
Foyen swiped with his palm, turning the White Zetsu into flying ash. He was a bit annoyed as the White Zetsus had been showing up almost daily.
These creatures seemed unafraid of death, blatantly offering themselves as sacrifices.
The feed-yourself-to-the-wolves tactic was indeed the most repulsive strategy, be it in the game or in real life.
None were more vile.
Fortunately, with the 'Gatekeeper Fox' on guard, even if the White Zetsus employed this suicidal strategy, they couldn't get close. Kurama would detect and eliminate them as soon as they ventured within a certain range.
"Rest assured, with me here, I'll turn them into dust as soon as they show their faces. Now, help me figure out how to make this thing bigger."
Kurama spoke as he lifted his claw, pointing forward.
Foyen followed his gesture and his expression darkened.
There lay Kurama, sprawled in front of a large protruding cliff. A boulder cast a shadow over most of the cliff, and beneath it was a large screen.
Projected on the screen was a drama that Rin had been watching recently.
But that wasn't all.
In front of Kurama's claw was a cart loaded with rice cakes and other snacks. Foyen couldn't shake the feeling that Kurama seemed a bit plumper than before.
"I don't know how! Scram!"
Foyen snapped, "Can't you make your body a little smaller?"
Kurama's body was made of chakra, and the amount of chakra he kept within Foyen determined the size of his physical manifestation outside.
"If I halve my size, my sensing range will decrease, allowing the White Zetsus on the village side to get closer and observe the village's situation."
Kurama extended his claw to gesture.
Foyen sighed and said, "Then shrink to half or two-thirds your size. I'll have the Hyuuga clan set up a perimeter of alert on the village side to compensate for the reduced sensing range."
In fact, he had considered keeping all of Kurama's chakra inside, releasing only a tiny bit to form a human-sized manifestation. However, this suggestion had been vehemently opposed by Kurama, who argued that doing so would diminish his majesty.
Unfortunately, just as he was thinking this, the White Zetsus started their daily visits, and as he had his cultivation and other matters to attend to, he didn't have the time to guard the village gates. This task could only be left to Kurama.
"How about shrinking by half?"
Kurama pondered for a moment, feeling that shrinking by half was barely acceptable.
So, with Feng Ye's manipulation, a portion of Kurama's chakra entered Feng Ye's body, and its massive body quickly shrunk by half.
"Why are you drinking now? Who gave you that?"
After completing the operation, Feng Ye noticed the cart of unusual items in front of Kurama and furrowed his brows, directing the question at the nine-tailed beast.
Kurama lazily replied, "A white-haired ninja, what was his name... I forgot. That kid even dared to joke with me, saying he wanted to find something for me... and then I swept him off with my tail to the mountains over there."
"I thought so. Someone reported to me that Jiraiya had been swiped away by you."
Feng Ye rolled his eyes.
Jiraiya deserved it for daring to tease a fox who had been single for thousands of years.
Kurama turned to look at Feng Ye, sensing a deep malice from him, and said displeased, "Hey, are you thinking of something disadvantageous to me?"
"It's nothing. Just keep guarding," Feng Ye replied, shaking his head. With a leap, he departed and returned to find Hyuuga Hiashi to discuss adding a few more watchtowers on the other side of Konoha.
...
Meanwhile, in the Rain Country.
On a certain rooftop, raindrops kept falling as Uchiha Obito stood at the edge with a straw hat, his gaze toward the village below solemn.
This place was the newly established Rain Ninja Village by Nagato, comprised of former Akatsuki members and some surviving rain ninjas, now boasting a considerable scale.
Silent as a whisper.
White Zetsu emerged from Obito's side and said, "It's no use. We can't infiltrate Konoha at all. It's too much to have Kurama guarding the gates."
Obito looked at Black Zetsu and asked, "What about capturing the other tailed beasts first?"
"That's feasible," Black Zetsu replied slowly. "But I don't recommend it. Even if we capture the other tailed beasts now, we can't keep them. There are seven tailed beasts besides the Three-Tails and Kurama. It's impossible to capture them all before Feng Ye reacts."
"Once Feng Ye traces us and takes back a few tailed beasts and controls them, the situation will basically be unsolvable."
Hearing Black Zetsu's words, Obito frowned deeply and said, "In that case... can we only wait for Nagato to grow stronger and resurrect Uchiha Madara before taking action together with him?"
"It seems so," Black Zetsu said, spreading his hands. "Or we can continue to develop Akatsuki's power and then find an opportunity to capture the other seven tailed beasts simultaneously before Feng Ye reacts, ending the battle before he realizes what's happening... As long as we can resurrect the Ten-Tails, we will have the power to deal with him."
Feng Ye's strength was too overwhelming. Even now, Obito still had no chance of victory, and the other party had gained Kurama's power.
Obito did not want to resurrect Uchiha Madara.
He wanted to create a world with his own abilities.
The only advantage he had here was that Feng Ye lacked dojutsu and couldn't decipher the content on the Uchiha clan's monument, unaware of the relationship between the Rinnegan, the Ten-Tails, and the Sage of the Six Paths.
This was his opportunity.
"Anyway, keep White Zetsu on guard in Konoha and send him there to probe every day. Any bit of information is better than none."
(End of Chapter)
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