Ninja World: I, Kisame Hoshigaki, am no longer human!

“That’s right. Our boss used to be an elite Jonin of Kumokage Village and the King of Hozuki Castle’s prison.”

Oh?

Upon hearing this, Kisame looked surprised, then frowned and continued to ask, "But I heard that the King of Hozuki Castle's prison is Kisame Hoshigaki, right? Besides him, no one else is qualified to have that title, is there?"

"Humph."

The one-eyed man snorted coldly and said arrogantly, "Don't you know? Kisame Hoshigaki is dead. His era is over. Now, I am the King of Hozuki Castle."

"If that's the case, why don't you stay in prison and behave yourselves, instead of running away to kill and set fires?" Kisame asked again.

"You have too many questions. We've finally gotten around to it."

The one-eyed man pointed to the ground, then his eyes flashed, and he suddenly shouted, "Attack!"

As soon as he finished speaking, dozens of prisoners from Hozuki Castle shouted and rushed towards Kisame, intending to swarm him and kill him.

However, the next second, Kisame snapped his fingers, and a large number of trees rose from the ground, spiraling upwards and piercing through the bodies of the prisoners, lifting them high into the air.

"Who...who are you?"

Upon witnessing this scene, the one-eyed man's pupils constricted sharply, and a chill ran from his tailbone straight to the top of his head. Regaining his senses, he turned and ran without a word, showing absolutely no courage to fight Kisame.

call out.

The one-eyed man hadn't run far when a whooshing sound suddenly came from behind him. He turned around in horror and saw a bone sword fly out of Kisame's hand, instantly extending dozens of meters and catching up with him in a flash.

"Ah!" The one-eyed man screamed as his legs were severed by the Kusanagi Sword. He immediately fell to the ground with a thud, unable to escape.

Kisame took a single step, covering a distance of several dozen meters, and arrived in front of the one-eyed man.

"Sigh, why did you attack me and force me to kill you? Wouldn't it be better to maintain peace?"

Kisame grumbled, then pressed the tip of his sword against the one-eyed man's throat and said calmly, "Now, you should be able to answer my question, right?"

“I’ll tell you everything.”

Despite the excruciating pain, the one-eyed dragon told Kisame everything that had happened in Hozuki Castle and Kusagakure.

original.

In the past two years, under the instruction of the Daimyo of the Land of Wind, Nagato further expanded the influence of Amegakure to the north, provoked a war with the Land of Grass, and annexed the Grass Village without any suspense.

The leader of "Grass Stone," the former lord of Hozuki Castle, Mui, was also killed by Sasori of the Akatsuki and turned into a human puppet. With Mui's death, the Fire Release: Heavenly Prison Technique imprinted on the prisoners of Hozuki Castle was released, freeing them from their restraints and restoring their power.

Under Nagato's rule, these prisoners initially stayed obediently in the prison, not daring to cause trouble. However, during the Five Kage Summit, Nagato was seriously injured, and in the subsequent Fourth Shinobi World War, the Daimyo of the Land of Wind was assassinated.

For a time, the entire Land of Wind and Amegakure were leaderless. Amidst the chaos, Kusagakure was the first to break free from Amegakure's control and descend into utter disarray.

Meanwhile, the prisoners of Hozuki Castle seized the opportunity, killed the prison guards, and escaped, roaming freely throughout the Land of Grass, making the country even more chaotic and disorderly.

In today's Grass Country, human life, just like the country's name, is as worthless as grass.

Kisame frowned slightly after hearing what the one-eyed man said.

This looks bad. If Karin and her daughter really do arrive in Kusagakure, can they survive in such harsh conditions?

Thinking this, Kisame didn't want to waste any more time. He planned to end the one-eyed man's life with a single sword strike and then rush to Kusagakure. Hopefully, he could still make it in time.

The one-eyed man sensed Kisame's killing intent and suddenly shouted:

"My lord, please don't kill me! I have a girl named Ryuusei in my possession. She possesses a bloodline limit called Dragon Life Reincarnation, which can revive the dead. If you spare my life, I'll tell you her location!"

"Dragon Tongue?"

Upon hearing this, Kisame also remembered that there was indeed a white-haired girl who was his childhood sweetheart, Mugou, the son of Hozuki Castle Lord Muwei, and she had eyes with patterns similar to the Rinnegan.

In the original story, Ryuzetsu sacrificed his own life to resurrect the critically injured Naruto using the reincarnation of a dragon.

Unexpectedly, there was an additional benefit.

Half an hour later, Kisame, carrying the one-eyed man who had lost both legs, arrived at a cave. After killing the guards at the entrance, he entered the cave and found an iron cage taller than a person.

A girl with short white hair and a headscarf was curled up in the corner of the cage. Her hands and feet were shackled, her eyes were dull and lifeless, and she had lost all will to live.

The one-eyed man kept Dragon Tongue alive, clearly intending to use her dragon life to prolong his life should he be severely injured. Unfortunately, the enemy he encountered was too powerful, preventing him from using this trump card.

"My lord, I beg you..." The one-eyed man was still pleading, but before he could finish speaking, Kisame snapped his neck and tossed him aside.

Clang.

Kisame smashed open the iron cage with a punch, walked over to Ryuzetsu, and squatted down to examine the latter's body. Due to long-term imprisonment, the girl's body was very weak, but fortunately she was not injured and would recover after some rest.

"Who, who are you..." Ryuze looked up at Kisame and spoke with difficulty.

She didn't believe that the strange man in front of her was there to save her. He was probably just like the one-eyed man and his group, using her as a tool—that was her only value.

"Don't think about anything, just get a good night's sleep. All you need to know is that from now on, you're safe."

Kisame didn't answer Ryuzetsu's question. Instead, as he spoke, he reached out a hand to the latter. A suction force emanated from his palm, drawing the astonished Ryuzetsu into the Box of Elysium.

Then, he stood up and vanished from the spot in a flash.

Kisame entered Kusagakure.

Looking around, collapsed houses were everywhere on both sides of the street, and there were even many corpses on the road. Although there were ninjas cleaning up the bodies, they were clearly too busy to keep up.

"stop!"

Kisame hadn't walked far when two ninjas approached him, questioning his identity and suspecting him of being a ninja or spy from an opposing force. Kisame didn't bother explaining, simply slapping them away. He then used his sensory abilities to search for Karin and her daughter.

found it.

In the northwest corner of the village, he sensed two special Yang Release chakra streams, quite different from the chakra of ordinary ninjas. However, one of them was extremely weak, like a candle flickering in the wind, seemingly about to be extinguished at any moment.

Kisame crossed the street and arrived at his destination. He immediately saw a long line of dozens of people outside a house. The people in line were all ninjas, and almost all of them were injured. They were cursing and urging the people in front of them to hurry up.

Every now and then, a ninja would emerge from the house with a satisfied smile on his face, and all his wounds would have disappeared.

Seeing this, Kisame knew he had come to the right place, so he walked straight toward the queue.

"Please make way, everyone."

As he spoke, he forcefully pushed aside the people in front of him and squeezed into the room.

"What do you mean by this, you bastard?" Kisame's behavior quickly aroused the anger of the crowd, and he was condemned by everyone present.

"What does that mean? It means cutting in line, of course! Can't you even understand that?"

Kisame said confidently, and before he finished speaking, he slapped out again, sending several ninjas blocking his way flying more than ten meters away.

Now everyone knew he was not someone to be trifled with, so they quickly made way for him and let him walk straight into the house.

Upon entering the room, Kisame's pupils contracted. Even a villain like him couldn't control his anger upon seeing the scene before him.

On a dilapidated wooden bed in the room, a red-haired woman lay disheveled and limp. Most of her clothes were torn, but the men hadn't intended to assault her; instead, they had left rows of gruesome teeth marks on every possible spot on her body.

At that moment, two ninjas, like zombies, lay on top of the woman, biting her arm fiercely, seemingly greedily drawing some kind of energy.

The woman endured excruciating pain without uttering a sound, instead gazing tenderly at a red-haired little girl in the corner by the bed.

They are Karin and her daughter, whom Kisame is looking for.

257. Let's go back to Wuyin.

What happened in the dilapidated hut of Kusagakure was shocking.

The red-haired woman lay on the bed, being torn apart by a group of zombie-like ninjas, her arms and thighs covered in rows of teeth marks. Her face was pale, and she looked weak and old, but her eyes were still full of tenderness as she gazed at her child in the corner.

To end her life of wandering, to have a place to stay, and to ensure her daughter's survival, she had long been prepared to sacrifice herself.

“Mom…” Karin sat in the corner, hugging her knees, tears streaming down her face. A grass ninja pressed her shoulder down expressionlessly, rendering her immobile and leaving her only able to watch helplessly.

For a four-year-old girl to witness such a scene is simply too cruel.

Kisame shook his head upon seeing this.

For Karin and her mother, after losing their country, their village, and their people, the only thing they could beg for was to survive, even if it meant being utterly humiliated and worse off than pigs and dogs.

That said, Konoha really is inhuman.

As the former leader of the Five Great Ninja Villages, Konoha repeatedly claimed the Uzumaki clan as its most important ally, even printing the Uzumaki clan crest on the combat uniforms of Konoha ninjas. However, when its ally was besieged by other nations and ninja villages, Konoha stood idly by, choosing to betray the Uzumaki clan and allow them to perish.

If it's understandable that Konoha was unable to help the Uzumaki clan during the Second Shinobi World War, given that Konoha was preoccupied with its own problems at the time.

So, after the war, why was Konoha, as the victorious nation, unwilling to send people to search for the survivors of the Uzumaki clan and provide them with shelter?

In the original story, Naruto's parents died to save the village. As the son of a hero, he not only did not receive love, but also suffered discrimination from a young age. Nagato's parents fled to Amegakure, but were still killed by Konoha ninjas. And then there's Karin and her mother, who could not find protection in Konoha and could only suffer humiliation and torment in a place like Kusagakure.

From this perspective, it's not unfair at all that Konoha suffered because of Nagato.

I pulled myself back to reality.

Kisame's eyes flashed, and he strode to the bedside. Without any politeness, he pushed aside several grass ninjas and said in a gruff voice, "Get out of the way, it's my turn."

However, after picking up Karin's mother's arm, he frowned and looked disgusted: "How come there are so many teeth marks and saliva? It's so unhygienic. Besides, this woman is almost bitten to death and is useless."

After saying that, he plopped down on the edge of the bed, looked at Karin in the corner, and said to the grass ninja behind her, "You, bring that little girl to me."

"Please, don't..."

Upon hearing this, Karin's mother suddenly unleashed a burst of strength, gripping Kisame's clothes tightly, her eyes filled with pleading, "My lord, bite me! I will definitely heal your wounds. My daughter is still young, please spare her..."

Kisame suddenly turned around, grabbed the woman's arm, and smiled at her, revealing two rows of sharp white teeth that sent chills down her spine.

But at the same time, she was surprised to find that a warm power was flowing from Kisame's palm, along her arm, and into her body.

That power was the same Yang Release chakra as the Uzumaki clan.

"You..." Karin's mother's lips parted slightly as she stared blankly at Kisame, her eyes filled with disbelief.

"Who is this guy? What gives him the right to cut in line and boss us around?"

Just then, a grass ninja pointed at Kisame and asked with a surprised look.

Upon hearing this, the group of Grass Ninja in the room quickly realized that this strange man was not a Grass Ninja at all. He had swaggered into the room and demanded that the Uzumaki mother and daughter treat him.

Moreover, this guy doesn't look injured at all.

Therefore, the truth is obvious: this person deliberately came to cause trouble.

After everyone came to their senses, their eyes flashed with ferocity as they surrounded Kisame. Some crossed their arms and glared at him with disdain, while others placed their hands on their ninja tool pouches, drawing out kunai and shuriken, ready to attack at any moment.

"Who are you, and what is your purpose in coming to Kusagakure?" A jonin from Kusagakure looked down at Kisame and questioned him sharply.