Konoha: Uchiha, I get stronger by causing trouble.

Chapter 295 The Immortal Duo

After dealing with Sasori of the Red Sand, Chiga then put away Susanoo.

"How are you? Can you still move?"

He slowly approached Kakashi Hatake and the other three. He saw that, apart from Naruto Uzumaki, who was still alive and kicking, the other three had almost run out of chakra.

Chiga then realized that these guys were no longer capable of fighting.

"I'm sorry, it seems I'll have to send you to pursue the other Akatsuki team alone."

Kakashi Hatake lay on the ground, realizing that Sasori's strength was far greater than he had imagined.

If it weren't for the extra help Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha received, Team 7 would have all been defeated here.

"hateful!"

Uchiha Sasuke tried to stand up, but he quickly collapsed again due to exhaustion.

"Sasuke, don't move around. Your chakra is depleted. You need to sit down and recover!"

Sakura Haruno, who had already assumed the role of a virtuous wife and loving mother, ran to Sasuke Uchiha's side and helped him up.

Naruto, feeling jealous, wanted to pretend for a while, but the Nine-Tails inside him had already restored his body.

"Chiga, isn't it too dangerous for you to go alone? Why don't I come with you?"

"Out of sight, out of mind," Naruto Uzumaki said to Chiga.

Chika gave Naruto a suspicious look: "You? Stop messing around, you're just making things harder for me!"

Naruto puffed out his cheeks, ready to argue with Chika, but Kakashi Hatake stopped him.

"Let's do it this way then. You go ahead first, we'll rest here for a bit, and then we'll come back to help you!"

"Okay, then you all stay where you are and don't move. I'll be right back!"

With her dog in tow and Deira on her back—a human bomb—Chiga set off without stopping.

"Why does his gaze seem so much like the Third Hokage's when he said that?"

Naruto scratched his head and asked, puzzled.

Kakashi Hatake fell silent, and considering Chiga's unreliability, he didn't bother to think about it further.

Knowing that the art duo would be cleaning up the mess, the immortal duo didn't leave very quickly.

"Why haven't they arrived yet? What are Deidara and Sasori up to? I don't want to stay in the Land of Waterfalls for that long, and I have a bad feeling about this!"

With Hidan nagging and dawdling along the way, Kakuzu finally grew impatient and frowned as he looked behind him.

As a seasoned veteran, his ability to foresee danger is clearly much stronger than Hidan's.

Although the art duo was there to clean up their messes, the two didn't really think anyone would follow them.

Furthermore, after the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki was captured, they needed to work together to seal the Seven-Tails into the Gedo Mazo.

"Impatient fellow, you really should be in a team with Scorpion. What bad feeling do you have? Do you think someone can kill both of us? That's the biggest joke in the world! Hahaha!"

Hidan, with his slicked-back hair, said sarcastically, "I think you've lived too long and want to die. Why don't you join me in worshipping Lord Jashin? Lord Jashin is the greatest god, so you won't have to go looking for a heart anywhere."

Hidan's immortality is said to be a product of some kind of experiment by a messy, evil cult, which can be considered a curse.

This curse, combined with the cursed death possession blood technique, was surprisingly effective; Sarutobi Asuma was the one who fell victim to it.

Kakuzu, on the other hand, uses a different approach. He extends his lifespan by using other people's hearts and masters new chakra attributes through the meridians in the hearts of other ninjas. It is this ability that allows him to outlive a large number of powerful ninjas from the Warring States period and barely achieve immortality.

As an old guy, he has much more combat experience and can be considered a rather troublesome opponent. Coupled with Hidan, who is a troublemaker, the combination of the two is one of the more disgusting ones in the Akatsuki organization.

Of course, that's relative. To Chiga, these two were just a bit tougher to beat up.

"Shut up!"

Hidan was about to say something more when Kakuzu suddenly snorted coldly, interrupting him. Kakuzu looked back solemnly and said, "Someone's chasing us!"

At that moment, Chiga's figure slowly appeared in their sight, getting closer and closer.

"Oh, it looks like something unexpected really happened!"

Seeing this, Hidan put the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki he was carrying on his back onto the ground, and then said to Kakuzu, "I'll take care of this guy. It'll be a good opportunity to give Lord Jashin some snacks!"

"Whatever you want!"

Kakuzu said something and silently took a step back.

Chiga approached the two, first sizing up Kakuzu before turning to Hidan and asking with a smile, "You two must be Hidan and Kakuzu from the Akatsuki, right?"

Hidan, slinging his massive scythe over his shoulder, slowly approached Chiga like a thug: "Who are you?"

"Me? I'm the one who lifted the curse of immortality from you!"

"Hahaha, kid, that's the funniest joke I've ever heard. For that alone, I'm going to offer you as a sacrifice to the evil god, so he can hear your joke too. Hahaha!"

Upon hearing this, Hidan burst into unrestrained laughter.

[Negative emotions from Hidan, emotion value +50! First time receiving Hidan's negative emotions, rewarded with the favor of the Jashin; by sacrificing 100 people, one can gain immortality!]

Chiga looked at Hidan silently without saying anything, then turned to Kakuzu: "Hidan has finished speaking his last words. Do you have any last words?"

Kakuzu's face darkened with anger upon hearing Chiga's words. It had been a long time since anyone had dared to speak to him like that, but the sense of crisis he felt made him realize that the enemy was not so easy to deal with.

[Negative emotion from Kakuzu, emotion value +50! First time receiving Kakuzu's negative emotion, reward 1000 experience points each for Wind, Thunder, Fire, Water, and Earth attributes!]

"Hmph! How arrogant!"

Hidan, who was standing to the side, couldn't stand it anymore. This kid was putting on a much better show than him. This was unacceptable. He swung his huge scythe and slashed it horizontally at Chiga.

Whoosh!

The crimson three-sectioned scythe drew an arc in the air, its powerful force even causing the air to explode with a sonic boom.

"You're quite energetic!"

With a flick of his wrist, Chiga's swift wind blocked the trajectory of the Bloodstained March Scythe.

Clang!

"What?!"

Hidan was taken aback, and his expression turned serious. His opponent was incredibly fast and was a tough opponent to deal with.

"Spell: Death Possession Blood, a secret technique that can only be activated by obtaining the target's blood."

Chiga tilted her head and looked at Hidan with amusement: "I have quite a few more jokes to tell you. How about I send you to see your Jashin-sama, and you can have him come to see me in person?"

"Damn it, brat, don't get too cocky!"

Hidan pulled back forcefully, retrieving the Bloodstained Three-Month Scythe, and then jumped straight backward to Kakuzu's side.

"Hidan, this is troublesome. He seems to know about both of us. It seems Itachi Uchiha has truly betrayed us!"

Kakuzu heard Chiga's words and immediately spoke solemnly.

In battles between ninjas, intelligence is a crucial element; whoever has more information than the other gains the upper hand.

A ninja like Hidan, who could kill more than half of the ninjas in the ninja world without the other party knowing his information.

However, once his abilities were leaked, a well-coordinated Chunin squad could easily take down this mini-boss.

"So what if he finds out about us? He only needs one person. The two of us can take him down!"

Hidan rolled up his sleeves, ready to go straight for the fight. In his mind, he wouldn't die anyway, and with a brain even worse than Naruto's, he wouldn't care about such trivial matters.

"Don't act rashly, find a way to retreat first!"

Kakuzu stopped Hidan, his gloomy gaze sweeping over Chiga as he analyzed Chiga's information and devised a countermeasure.

"retreat!?"

Hidan's eyes widened in disbelief that these words came from his teammate: "When have we ever run away from a brat? You're someone who dared to assassinate the God of Shinobi!"

Hearing this, Chiga had to cough to interrupt, "Ahem, excuse me, are you referring to the assassination of the God of Ninjas by throwing a kunai from 800 miles away?"

This was the first time Hidan had heard such a statement, and he was immediately stunned. He turned to Kakuzu like a dazed fool and asked, "Um, Kakuzu, is that really true?"

"Kid, you're talking nonsense!"

Chiga's words immediately provoked Kakuzu, who couldn't help but curse, "Back then, I fought him for three hundred rounds!"

Back when Kakuzu was still an elite Jonin of Takigakure, he received an extremely foolish mission from the village's higher-ups. It wasn't so much foolish as it was because, given the circumstances at the time, the only way to survive around Konoha was to either submit or kill the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju.

Kakuzu obeyed orders and, together with elite ninjas from other small countries, formed an assassination squad and went to Konoha.

Needless to say, Kakuzu was lucky to survive against Hashirama Senju at that time.

As for a battle of three hundred rounds, that's a huge exaggeration and pure boasting.

However, after returning to the village severely injured, his heart sank. What awaited him in the village was the stigma of mission failure and severe punishment.

This was a cruel act for Kakuzu, who had risked his life for the village.

However, Kakuzu is a ruthless and taciturn character. That night, he couldn't figure things out and, in a moment of impulsiveness, broke out of prison and stole the forbidden technique, Jigan-yu, which was regarded as a treasure by the village. He also took the hearts of all the village's high-ranking officials.

However, his actions saved Takigakure from Konoha's retaliation. Although most of the high-ranking officials were dead, the village was at least preserved. The other villages were not so lucky.

Bringing this up again is undoubtedly a sore spot for Kakuzu, and more importantly, Chiga is completely slandering him.

"Never mind, never mind, it's not important anyway. By the way, have you thought about your last words? This place is beautiful."

Chika looked around and found it to be a vast, empty space, without even a blade of grass. She then changed the subject, saying, "In short, the feng shui here is excellent. Burying yourselves here will not only bring peace but also protect your descendants."

Kakuzu and Hidan: "."

Damn it, look at us, neither human nor ghost, do we look like we have any descendants?

This stalemate isn't a solution, and retreating doesn't guarantee a safe escape.

"Go! I'll create an opportunity for you; get as much of his blood as possible!"

Kakuzu said something to Hidan in a gloomy tone, then suddenly stretched out his hands, breaking at the joints, and countless black lines spread out, extending his arms a full seven or eight meters, attacking towards Chiga.

At that moment, Hidan stomped his feet and raised the Bloody Three-Moon Scythe, following Kakuzu's arm as he charged toward Chiga.

He understood that this opponent was no longer as simple as before; they even knew a great deal about him. He alone couldn't defeat them; he would be defeated.

The immortal duo worked together seamlessly and launched a fierce attack, but Chiga seemed completely unconcerned, simply standing quietly with her eyes closed.

Chiga only opened his eyes abruptly when Kakuzu's hands and Hidan's scythe were about to strike him.

Crimson Mangekyou Sharingan appeared in Chiga's eye sockets, while black eyeshadow spread around them.

Ninja Art: Sage Mode!

not good!

Hidan, who was in front of Chiga, sensed something was wrong, but the attack had reached a point where it was irreversible. He stopped thinking about it and instead used all his strength. The sharp, bloody three-month scythe slashed across Chiga's body.

"A clone!?"

Hidan was startled; his scythe seemed to swing through the air without any obstruction: "No, it's an afterimage!"

Watching Chiga's afterimage slowly disappear, Hidan froze, searching frantically for her. Then, when he looked in Kakuzu's direction, his pupils constricted sharply, and he yelled at Kakuzu, "Watch out, behind you!"

Kakuzu sensed something was wrong when Hidan's expression suddenly changed. He grabbed the ground with both arms and pushed hard, causing his body to fly forward rapidly. At this moment, Kakuzu turned his head to look behind him, but instead of seeing Chiga, he saw a huge blue fist.

boom!!!

The next moment, Susanoo's fist engulfed Kakuzu's figure, and terrifying energy erupted instantly, with a powerful gust of wind stirring up a sandstorm that swept around.

Hidan originally wanted to save Kakuzu, but the energy was so powerful that even he couldn't get close. He could only pray that Kakuzu could withstand it. Then, in order to avoid being affected, he quickly leaped away into the distance.

A full minute passed before the explosions gradually subsided.

"Kakuzu... he's not dead, is he?!"

Hidan looked at the huge crater, which was devoid of any life. He couldn't help but feel uneasy about the fate of his teammates. No matter how many hearts they had, if they were all destroyed, what was the point of talking about immortality?

"You should be more worried about yourself."

Chiga's voice came from behind Hidan, and before Hidan could speak, Susanoo kicked him hard, lifting him high into the air.

"He's surprisingly easy to deal with. Asuma was just too careless!"

Chiga sighed. Purely in terms of strength, Hidan's strength was only at the level of a Jonin. However, because he possessed the ability of immortality, he tricked and killed Sarutobi Asuma, who had the strength of an elite Jonin, leaving the beautiful Kurenai Yuhi alone in her home.

(End of this chapter)