Chapter 46: Two Preparations
Time is taken back to a day before.
The moment Izayoi stepped out of the black market, he realized Zabuza Momochi and Bai, who were tied up with the shadow clone, had regained consciousness from the coma.
"Great, you woke up that quickly. Just as expected of Zabuza, the 'Demon' of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist." Izayoi praised.
"You didn't kill us. Do you want to sell me to the Hidden Mist Village or the black market?" Zabuza Momochi said weakly.
Before Izayoi could speak, Bai said, "Please don't sell Zabuza-sama to the Hidden Mist Village or the black market. I'm willing to work for money to pay Zabuza-sama's bounty."
"How you ninjas think is very strange." Izayoi growled, "I've murdered Gato. All his wealth must be mine. Do you think I'm short on your change for a coin?"
Having made that statement, Izayoi couldn't help but ask Zabuza Momochi, "How much is your bounty?"
"Seventeen million ryo." Zabuza Momochi replied.
Izayoi immediately looked horrified, "You two are both elite Jonin. Why are you more than twice as worse as Konoha's Asuma Sarutobi?"
"..."
Zabuza Momochi was amazed.
Is that the same? What's his name, and what's my name?
If it wasn't for his executioner's blade, the Hidden Mist Village wouldn't even be thinking about paying seventeen million ryo.
"I rather like the two of you fools. Had you been adhering to professional ethics, Gato's possessions would not have been within my means."
Izayoi scattered the shadow clone and smiled, "So assist me with something, and I'll release you."
"As long as you free Zabuza-sama, I'll do anything." Bai said immediately.
Hearing his words, Zabuza Momochi felt relaxed in his heart, then looked at Izayoi and said, "I'm most skilled in assassination."
"I don't need you to kill anyone." Izayoi nodded toward Bai and asked knowingly, "What is your name? Did you have an arrest warrant issued against you?"
"My name is Bai. I'm Zabuza-sama's tool. I wasn't wanted." Bai endured the scorching pain throughout his entire body in order to establish that he wasn't lying, took off the mask which had not been crushed by the filthy power and the wreckage, and revealed a perfect and delicate face.
"Good, I have a mission for you." Izayoi walked over to Bai's side, pulled out a scroll from his body and threw it on the ground, "Go to Sunagakure Village for me and buy these materials back, and I'll set you loose and Zabuza Momochi."
After conversing, Izayoi rolled up his sleeves, revealing his pale arms, and then, as if recalling something, looked down at Bai and asked, "By the way, are you a man or a woman?"
"I'm a man." Bai replied.
"Then it's a pity for your face."
Izayoi folded up his sleeves, pulled up the hem of his robe, stuck his calf in between Bai's face and his body, and said, "Eat it. Your wounds will heal in one bite."
Watching this scene, Zabuza Momochi's eyes flared, "Physical recovery, are you one of the Uzumaki survivors?"
"As to be expected from one of the assassins who destroyed the Land of Whirlpools back then. You Hidden Mist Village know the Uzumaki clan pretty well." Izayoi jeered.
Bai too had grasped something while listening to the two argue, put head over hard, and bit softly on Izayoi's calf, in case too much fierceness would make the other side angry and kill him and Zabuza-sama.
The instant he bit into it, Bai's eyes widened.
It was like taking a bath in a hot spring on the cold ice field, and a warm current that chased away all the bad energy ran through his body.
In the power of this warm current, Bai's outer and inner injuries healed at a speed perceptible to the naked eye.
Even the shattered bones inflicted by the abhorrent energy and knocking relentlessly against the villa, plus the internal bleeding of the internal organs, were all joined and restored as if time was turned back.
This is the possibility of the Uzumaki clan's physical regeneration.
In the original book, Tsunade, whose body was broken in two halves, was able to be born again through physical regeneration.
All Bai's injuries were cured in an instant.
Izayoi patted his calf against Bai's clothes and said, "The scroll tells you what things to buy. I will give you a budget of 30 million ryo later. Use as much as you can."
"Master, I will do the mission that you assigned me with. Please also cure Zabuza-sama." Bai bowed to Izayoi and addressed him respectfully.
"Leave. Do you think anyone is worthy of biting me? If I didn't need you to work for me, you wouldn't deserve this kind of treatment." Izayoi said angrily, "This guy won't die. If you can come back earlier, you'll have time to take him in for treatment. Remember, you only have ten days. After ten days, I'll consider you dead."
"Bai, don't mind about me." Zabuza Momochi also repeated.
"..Yes."
Soon, Bai took the money and scroll handed by Izayoi and sprinted towards the Land of Wind.
Izayoi also eliminated another shadow clone, dragged Zabuza Momochi along with him, and left.
"Aren't you waiting for Bai to come back here?" Zabuza Momochi asked, "You don't appear to have told him to meet somewhere or other."
"No need. Assuming that he is in the Land of Fire, he can no longer escape from my eyes.
How conceited?.
Maybe he also opened the Uzumaki clan's Kagura Shingan? Or maybe his intelligence agency has agents everywhere in the Land of Fire?
Speaking of which, aren't all the Uzumaki clan red-haired? What's his hair white?
Transformation technique, or half breed?
This was what Zabuza Momochi grumbled to himself.
Walking into a cave over 100 kilometers away from the black market, dumping Zabuza Momochi in there, and having the shadow clone deal with him, Izayoi used Tenseigan to scan the entire Land of Fire and began waiting for the result.
Izayoi had no idea whether he stole Sasori of the Red Sand, would the other side make it known to Nagato.
But since his repulsive force and attraction were discovered, Izayoi felt that the possibility Sasori of the Red Sand told Nagato was great.
If so, then his vest would have pierced into the eyes of Nagato, Obito Uchiha, and Black Zetsu.
After all, repulsive force and attraction are rule-like abilities which not everyone can possess.
There is no hidden way in the original book to become a master of these two skills.
This is one of the basic skills of the ultimate pupil technique.
Other than Tendo Pain, there was another person who could use repulsive force and attraction who came into the ninja world, and he wore a white mask with no eye holes. Izayoi did not know if Nagato and Obito Uchiha would be uncomfortable, but Izayoi knew Black Zetsu would be uncomfortable.
Besides, he had worked for thousands of years to see the promise of rescuing his mother in this era.
Now that an anomaly suddenly appeared, he would be able to locate Izayoi even if he dug three feet underground.
With Black and White Zetsu's Yin and Yang Release, Spore Technique, and Disguise Technique, and the Mayfly Technique that could move at high speed underground, cut off all aura, and blend with the vegetation of earth, even Hagoromo Otsutsuki and Hamura Otsutsuki were unable to find them, Izayoi doubted his Tenseigan could find them.
White Zetsu's intelligence ability is the best among the ninja world. Izayoi's news of buying human puppet materials on the black market might be known to him.
In order not to be fooled, Izayoi had to make a second preparation.
That is why he left Bai and Zabuza Momochi alive!
(End of this chapter)
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