Starting as a pirate, he rose to become the strongest Shinigami in Soul Society.

Chapter 369 Encounter: Zoro encounters Kakuzu and Hidan.

"If the quality isn't good enough, can we make up for it with quantity?" Bane pondered for a moment, then said, "Do we have that many Sharingan eyes?"

"Yes, I can." Orochimaru nodded immediately. "I can clone as many pairs as you need."

"Then I'll leave it to you, the more the better," Bane said without any hesitation.

Orochimaru smiled and said, "No problem."

Meanwhile, in the Land of Lightning.

In an underground facility near the Hidden Cloud Village, Zoro and Waver were bickering.

"I told you not to wander around, and when I turned around, you disappeared into some unknown place, making me lost too," Weber complained, holding a map and fiddling with it.

Zoro calmly replied, "Don't you find it strange that there's an underground facility in this desolate wilderness? This place isn't far from Kumogakure; it might be their secret base. Perhaps we'll find something interesting here?"

"Perhaps it used to be some secret base of the Hidden Cloud Village, but now it seems to be abandoned. Look around here, it's like a sewer, and the air smells rotten." Webber put away the now useless map and observed the surroundings.

"As long as we're heading in the right direction, let's go deeper in and take a look," Zoro said.

At least the direction they are heading is still towards the location of Kumogakure, only now it has changed from above ground to underground.

"I'm quite surprised that you can even tell directions," Weber couldn't help but remark.

"You bastard, why don't we just fight here?!" Zoro grabbed the hilt of his sword and cursed.

"Fight if you want, do you think I'm afraid of you?" Weber placed his hand on the hilt of his large cleaver at his waist and said without backing down.

They had been out of Ryuchi Cave for a long time, but they still hadn't made it to Kumogakure. You can imagine how many times they had been delayed on the way. Basically, they had to fight every three days, and they had already clashed many times on the road.

Perhaps this is their way of communicating.

Without further ado, Zoro slowly drew the Wado Ichimonji from his waist, his eyes flashing with lightning from time to time, and said in a deep voice, "You haven't beaten me even once along the way."

"As long as we keep fighting, we'll win sooner or later," Webber said with a grin, a hint of competitiveness in his eyes.

However, just as the two of them were about to start fighting, suddenly, the wall about two hundred meters in front of them exploded, and three figures rushed out from inside.

This sudden turn of events startled both Zoro and Waver, and their attention was immediately drawn to it.

The first figure to rush out of the broken wall was a woman. She wore a headband worn by a ninja from Kumogakure, and her long, light brown hair was braided and tightly tied behind her back. She had delicate features and looked very beautiful. As soon as she rushed out, she saw Zoro and Waver drawing their swords against each other. She frowned and said, "Any helpers? Their attire is completely different. It doesn't seem like it?"

When Zoro and Waver went to Konoha to cause trouble last time, they wore the Akatsuki's black and red cloud-patterned trench coats. This time, they were in their own casual clothes and did not disguise their identities.

The two people chasing after the female ninja were both wearing Akatsuki-style black cloaks with red clouds; one was Kakuzu, and the other was Hidan.

Because all three parties were somewhat unprepared to encounter this scene, the female ninja being chased was blocked in the middle of the passage, and Hidan and Kakuzu also stopped their pursuit, looking at the other side with great vigilance, also thinking that they had encountered helpers from Kumogakure.

At this moment, the atmosphere suddenly became tense and silent.

"No wonder that stinky woman keeps running this way, so she has helpers?" Hidan said, cursing as he carried his scythe.

Kakuzu calmly replied, "Idiot, didn't you see that woman was also very wary of the other side? They shouldn't be any helpers, and I didn't see any headbands from Kumogakure."

"That seems to be the case. Samurai from the Land of Iron? But aren't samurai from the Land of Iron usually not traveling around?" Hidan tilted his head, somewhat puzzled.

On the other side, Zoro asked, quite puzzled, "What's going on?"

"That's Yugito Nii, the Two-Tails Jinchuriki of Kumogakure. Didn't Robin give us information before we left Ryuchi Cave? You didn't remember any of it?" Waver said in a deep voice after observing the situation on the other side.

"A Jinchuriki of a Tailed Beast?" Zoro grinned upon hearing this. "Didn't they just happen to run into us? Although we didn't specifically come to Kumogakure to take a Tailed Beast, now that we've encountered them, we can't just let them go, can we? I haven't cut down a Tailed Beast yet."

At this point, Zoro's gaze also fell on Hidan and Kakuzu behind him, and he said, "Oh my, that trench coat looks familiar."

"The Akatsuki." Waver gripped his large cleaver, a fierce smile spreading across his face. "Looks like they're after this Tailed Beast Jinchuriki."

Hidan, carrying his large scythe, noticed the change in Waver and Zoro's expressions and frowned, saying, "Boss Kakuzu, it seems the other side intends to meddle."

"Just kill them all at once. These kinds of things need to be kept secret anyway. Since they've been seen, we have to silence them," Kakuzu said in a deep voice.

Perhaps because they are both incredibly strong and claim to be "immortal," Kakuzu and Hidan are extremely confident and speak without any restraint, loudly plotting to kill Zoro and Waver.

Seeing this, the two Yugitos caught in the middle lit up and looked at Zoro and Waver, saying, "You two, did you hear that? Those thugs over there aren't planning to let you go. Why don't we join forces and take them down first?"

"No need." Zoro, holding the Wado Ichimonji, said with a cold expression, "It's just a matter of two strikes."

As he finished speaking, the two Yukitos felt a flash of lightning seem to pass by them. Their pupils contracted instinctively, and then they were startled because the man with the short, sharp green hair who had spoken earlier had disappeared from their sight.

Keep in mind, she didn't even blink.

"So fast!" The two Yukito were shocked and turned around abruptly to look behind them.

The two men who had been chasing her all the way here also looked surprised. However, unlike her, both of them had been cut in half at the waist. Blood and lightning were floating in the air, and their upper and lower bodies were falling towards the ground.

The man carrying four swords was slowly sheathing his long sword.

With a click, Wado Ichimonji was sheathed, followed by two loud thuds as Kakuzu and Hidan's upper bodies crashed to the ground.

Zoro then looked at the two Yugito and said, "Next, it's your turn, Jinchuriki of the Tailed Beasts."

An immense sense of crisis instantly enveloped the two Yugitos, making her scalp tingle. As a result, she immediately entered a higher state of alert. Her fingernails suddenly lengthened, appearing extremely sharp, and two chakra tails that seemed to be burning with blue flames emerged from her tailbone, transforming her into a half-tailed beast.

Yugito Nii is the Jinchūriki of the Two-Tails from Kumogakure. She is also an extremely rare perfect Jinchūriki, with a very harmonious relationship with the Tailed Beast. She can fully unleash the power of the Tailed Beast and is one of the top fighters in Kumogakure!

Just as the two Yugitos unleashed the aura of the Tailed Beasts, attracting everyone's attention, Kakuzu and Hidan, who had been cut in two, came back to life.

Not a single mistake, not a single poem, not a single post, not a single piece of content, not a single look!

"Wow, that was fast! I didn't even see it clearly before I was cut in two, Kakuzu-sama~" Hidan exclaimed.

As he finished speaking, the black lines that had emerged from Kakuzu's corpse pierced Zoro's body from behind.

"It's over. Your heart is yours." Kakuzu said calmly as he delivered his successful sneak attack.

But before he could finish speaking, he froze.

The eerie black lines of earth-wraith pierced through the man's body from behind, but it seemed to have grasped nothing at all, leaving Kakuzu quite puzzled by the sensation.

At the same time, Zoro looked down at his chest, where the still-writhing black lines of the Earth Grudge Fear filled him with confusion and curiosity. He whispered, "What is that? And why aren't you dead even though your bodies were cut in two?"

The elemental transformation of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit completely stunned Kakuzu.

Not only was he dumbfounded, but Hidan and the two Yugito were also stunned.

What's going on?

However, Kakuzu, having seen many great things and being a seasoned cunning old fox who had lived since the late Warring States period, quickly reacted. He swiftly withdrew his Earth Grudge Fear black lines, pulled Hidan back to create some distance, and said, "It seems quite similar to the Water Transformation Technique of the Hozuki clan of Kirigakure, except that man transformed himself into lightning-attribute chakra."

Before he could finish speaking, he felt the hand holding Hidan suddenly lighten. Then, he watched helplessly as Hidan, who had just pieced his body back together, was sliced ​​into pieces in mid-air by the man. All he could hold in his hand was Hidan's left hand.

Hidan, his body scattered into fifty or sixty pieces, was now lying on the ground. Zoro then shook the blood off his Wado Ichimonji and glanced at Kakuzu, asking, "Can he still revive after being cut like this?"

too fast!

A long-lost sense of fear rose in Kakuzu's heart. This man's speed was beyond imagination. He couldn't even catch the trajectory of his movement. It was as if he was teleporting.

At the same time, the two Yugito also made a judgment: damn it, these two people she had inexplicably encountered were even more troublesome than the two who had just chased her. She should seize the opportunity to run away!

While that samurai, whose lightning ninjutsu was quite terrifying, was curious about this so-called immortal body, let's break through and retreat from the side of this guy with the big cleaver!

With that thought, the two Yugitos exerted force with their feet, and their half-tailed beast forms rushed towards Waver at an extremely fast speed.

She is the Jinchūriki of the Two-Tails Matatabi, also known as the cat demon. Her speed may not be as fast as Zoro's, but it is still quite amazing.

In the blink of an eye, she had already rushed in front of Webber, her sharp claws crossed as she stabbed at him.

"Hey, do you think I'm an easy target?" Webber raised an eyebrow, loosened his foot, and took a step back, narrowly dodging the cat claw attack. Then, he swung his large cleaver in a backhand slash.

The two wooden figures instinctively raised their sharp fingernails to block, but then the cleaver was so sharp that it instantly severed all of their fingernails. At the same time, Webber kicked them away.

As a half-tailed beast, Yugito Nii was very confident in her physical abilities. Seeing Waver kick out, she also kicked out, wanting to crush her opponent with her physical strength. As long as she knocked him away a little distance, she could escape. Once she returned to the village, things would be much easier.

The next instant, Weber and the two Yugitos kicked each other's feet at the same time, but the result was completely opposite to what the two Yugitos had expected.

Weber was completely unaffected by her kick; instead, a surge of immense force sent her flying, crashing heavily into the underground passage wall, causing cracks to appear. The wall then collapsed, burying her in the rubble.

"Who do you think I'm working for? You dare to be arrogant with this little bit of strength?" Webber stretched his muscular body and said with a dark expression.

The next second, the ferocious aura of the Two-Tails Matatabi suddenly exploded in the underground facility, and then Yugito Nii, who had completely transformed into a tailed beast, rushed out of the ruins and opened his mouth to throw a huge fireball at Waver.

Looking at Matatabi's appearance, Waver exclaimed in surprise, "So cool!"

(End of this chapter)