My Villainous Life Starting with Naruto

Chapter 36 Strong Liquor and Knife on a Rainy Night

Hinata Yuto walked in the cold, rainy night, holding an umbrella.

The natives of Amegakure don't like to use umbrellas. In their view, rain is normal weather, while sunny days are a rare occurrence. They're used to getting wet in the rain, so using an umbrella seems pretentious, since their skin isn't waterproof.

The boy from the branch family was in a good mood. He had gained a lot from this trip out of the village. In addition to getting money and building a secret base in the Land of Hot Water, he also established contact with the Akatsuki organization and, with Nagato's help, completed the "Lion Fang Bite," giving him the means to make a living in the ninja world.

"It's time to go back to the village," he thought to himself as he walked toward the edge of Amegakure.

With a soft thud, his foot stepped into a puddle, and Hinata Yuto suddenly realized that the water beneath his feet had an abnormal "sticky" feel.

His white eyes instantly activated, and without looking down, he could see through his body what was stuck to the sole of his shoe—a piece of bloody flesh.

Then, in Hinata Yuto's vast field of vision, the figure of a man appeared.

It is the source of Takeda's power.

He sat in the dirty alley, leaning against the wall, blood and internal organs seeping out of his body, flowing out of the alley with the rainwater that had accumulated on the ground, until it reached Hinata Yu's feet.

The boy from the branch family hesitated for a moment, then walked into the alley and came to stand in front of Takeda Seigen.

The Byakugan is the best tool for medical ninjas. After just one glance, Hyuga Yuto sighed.

Green light condensed in Hyuga Yuto's palm, and the Palm Healing Technique was applied to Takeda Seigen. After a while, Takeda Seigen slowly woke up and coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Hyuga Yuto withdrew his hand and said softly:

"I'm sorry, your internal organs are all wrecked... Even if my master were here, he couldn't save you... You probably only have a few minutes left to live. For the sake of being neighbors for a month, can I pass on a message for you? Do you have any last words?"

Takeda Seigen opened his mouth, gasped for breath, his voice hoarse to the extreme:

"No... The person who listened to my last words has already died before me."

The stimulation from external chakra, coupled with the final burst of energy from his body before death, greatly improved Takeda Seigen's mental state. Ignoring the large hole in his abdomen, and looking only at his face, he seemed no different from usual.

"Is that so?" Hyuga Yuto nodded, standing calmly in front of Takeda Seigen.

"I will watch you leave. Even a ninja would feel sad if he died alone."

"What a kind person... Yuto-kun." Takeda Seigen murmured, hesitatingly.

"There's a tavern on the next street with a gourd hanging outside. Could you get me a jug? Please hurry, I'm afraid I'll..."

"Wait for me to come back."

Hyuga Yuto used the Body Flicker Technique to leave, and quickly returned.

He crouched down, held up the sake jug, and slowly poured it into Takeda Seigen's mouth.

"Cough, cough..." Takeda Seigen coughed violently a few times, then took a comfortable breath:

"Good wine. On a rainy night like this, this is exactly the kind of good thing to drink. It warms me up."

Hyuga Yuto glanced down.

The sake fed to Takeda Seigen only flowed through his esophagus for a very short time before flowing out immediately.

His body was riddled with holes; the gaping hole in his abdomen caused his soft internal organs to fall to the ground, and his spine was completely broken. At this moment, Takeda Seigen was only clinging to life with the help of Hyuga Yuto's chakra.

"That's quite a skill." The boy from the branch family frowned.

"Attacked from behind, they ripped your body open. How could someone so skilled with a knife be caught off guard and cornered like this..."

"Hey, that guy was wearing a bird-face mask. I asked him his name, and it was [Owl]. He must be from Konoha."

"The best fighters from our village came specifically to kill you?"

"It's probably a purge of our ranks. Kaoru... she's a spy you sent."

Hyuga Yuto clicked his tongue and continued feeding Takeda Seigen the wine.

"Cough cough...slow down...this wine is very strong...hmm?" Takeda Seigen paused slightly and murmured:

"I can't feel my tongue."

"Because you're about to die."

"Ah..." Takeda Seigen slumped against the wall, death beginning to rob him of his last bit of life force. He thought for a moment, then said with difficulty:

"To my right rear, about two hundred meters from here, there's a package containing a lot of money. Consider it your payment for keeping this dying man company with you, talking and drinking with him..."

After saying this, his body weakened as if an avalanche had occurred. In just a few seconds, Takeda Seigen's expression grew increasingly gloomy, and his voice became more and more hoarse and weak.

In the end, the last words Hyuga Yuto heard were merely intermittent sighs mixed with the rain:

"Kaoru... I just wanted to take you to a nice place... but why...?"

A broken seashell fell from the increasingly cold hand of the corpse.

In the alley, Hinata Yuto stared at the man's corpse for a long time without leaving.

Things are getting more complicated, he thought.

Kaoru Asano is a spy, and she's so close to me that she's probably seen everything I've done over the past month and reported it to her superiors.

Cleaning up outside the village... This doesn't seem like the behavior of a normal secret service. Could this extremely secretive and cold-blooded approach be the work of "Root"?

Being noticed by someone like Danzo is not a good thing...

Hyuga Yuto sighed inwardly, knowing that once he returned to the village, he would have one more person to be wary of.

Danzo Shimura was a ruthless man who loved to play dirty tricks in the shadows. In the future, his schemes to ambush the Amegakure trio and to remove Uchiha Shisui's Sharingan were among his masterpieces.

Should we chase after him right now and take down that guy called "Owl"? This thought flashed through Hyuga Yuto's mind.

No, information about me may have already been reported to Danzo Shimura. This operation is too risky, and if Owl escapes, I'll become the target of everyone's wrath. I have no choice but to defect immediately, but my current strength is insufficient...

Hyuga Yuto pondered continuously, and while thinking, he also found a curtain and covered Takeda Seigen's body with it.

"Takeda Seigen, Asano Kaoru, although I'm not exactly your friend, we're similar in some ways. Most people are like stray dogs that don't even dare to bark, while we hopeless fools choose to defiantly draw our swords against fate..."

His hand suddenly stopped.

On a cold, rainy night, a mad flame ignited in the heart of the young Hyuga branch family member.

If you don't even dare to sit at the gambling table, how can you win?

He shook the wine jug and drank it all in one gulp.

The intense spiciness and aroma burst forth from the tip of the tongue, burning into the stomach and dispelling the chill of the rainy night.

His emotions began to boil, something more intense than fine wine roared in the boy's heart, his chakra surged and surged, almost becoming a raging tsunami.

"This is truly fine wine."

Hyuga Yuto chuckled and tossed the sake bottle aside.

The next moment, he crashed into the rain, his speed increasing rapidly. The raindrops hitting him instantly vaporized and rose, forming a long trail of white smoke.

It felt like a scalding hot knife.

(End of this chapter)