I'm retrieving corpses in Konoha.

"Wait... like a madman?"

Uchiha Natsu suddenly had an idea, and he thought it was very feasible.

The wooden clone can share information with the main body in real time, thus knowing the main body's thoughts without needing to communicate verbally.

Then, the wood clone nodded, leaped upwards, and used earth-escape technique to emerge from the ground.

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At this moment, in the forest near the temporary base of the Konoha ninja army.

Two men dressed in red robes were walking closer and closer to the camp from a distance.

One of them had his face covered with a black cloth. He was short but very bulky, and looked as if he were lying on the ground.

Behind it, there is a long tail, shaped like a scorpion wearing clothes.

The other, taller one, wore a headband with a misty, hidden design, but it had a horizontal crack on it.

On his back, he also carried a large sword almost as tall as himself.

The two continued talking as they walked.

"Scorpion, this time our target was someone who used to be a hopeless underachiever, but he managed to rise to prominence so quickly. Do you think he might have some special secret technique?"

Pipa Juzo, carrying a large sword, looked somewhat puzzled.

"Hmph, no matter how many secret techniques you have, they won't be of any use to me." Scorpion snorted coldly in a low voice.

"How boring."

Pipa Juzo turned his head and let out a long sigh: "Let's devise a strategy. That guy named Uchiha Natsu might not be so easy to deal with."

Sasori interrupted Juzo Biwa impatiently, saying:

“I can take him down by myself. You just need to think about how to cover our retreat so that we don’t get blocked by those people from Konoha.”

A few days ago, the Akatsuki organization received a commission to assassinate a ninja named Uchiha Natsu.

The leader of the organization, Pain, sent him and Juzo Biwa.

Both of them had only recently joined the Akatsuki organization, and their personalities were not very compatible.

Therefore, there have been constant disputes over several missions.

The employer of this mission said that the target, a young man named Uchiha Natsu, was not to be underestimated, even though he had not awakened the Sharingan.

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Scorpion, however, scoffed at this.

An Uchiha who hasn't awakened his Sharingan, and is only a Chunin, can't be that strong.

In his view, those previous events were nothing more than coincidences.

Pipa Juzo choked for a moment, then snorted, "Then let's execute Plan A, each of us does our own thing."

After a pause, Pipa Juzo reminded him again:

"However, don't underestimate this Uchiha Natsu. Even the Fourth Raikage couldn't hold him back..."

"puff!"

Just then, a figure suddenly emerged from the ground in front of the two.

"Attack!"

Both Scorpion and Loquat Juzo were startled and quickly scattered to the left and right.

At the same time, Pipa Juzo, who had created a slight distance, immediately drew his guillotine from his back.

He aimed at the figure in front of him and swung the weapon hard.

"call!"

"Go to hell!"

With a fierce expression, Juzo Biwa swung his broadsword, which whistled through the air, directly at the neck of the figure in front of him.

Meanwhile, the scorpion on the other side also shot out its tail from behind, aiming straight at the suddenly appearing "assassin".

"laugh!"

"Shh!"

The decapitation blade sliced ​​across the neck, severing the head of the person in front of him.

The scorpion's sharp tail pierced the man's heart in an instant.

"boom."

As the head fell to the ground, Juzo Biwa, leaning on his executioner's sword, let out a long sigh.

The scorpion also pulled out its tail.

However, the two immediately noticed something was wrong.

Because the person in front of me wasn't bleeding!

"Something's not right!" Hibiki Juzo's eyes turned cold as he stared intently at the person slowly falling to the ground.

Then, it slowly changed and became a wooden figure.

Scorpion narrowed his eyes slightly and said in a deep voice, "It's a substitution technique. This person reacted very quickly."

Pipa Juzo also became alert, and then spotted a figure in a large tree not far away.

So he immediately shouted, "Scorpion, the person is there!"

Scorpion looked over at the sound and saw that the person standing in the tree was the same masked "assassin" from before.

At this moment, at the end of their line of sight.

Uchiha Natsu's wood clone stood on the tree trunk, looking down at the two people on the ground.

He had just crawled out of the ground when these two men attacked his vitals without saying a word.

If he hadn't used his wooden clone to dodge, his wooden doppelganger might have been destroyed.

Even if he suddenly emerged from the ground, most people wouldn't kill him.

At most, we can control them first. If they are really the enemy, we will try to extract information from them.

However, when Uchiha Natsu saw what the two people looked like, he immediately felt relieved.

It's no surprise that they were from that mentally ill asylum of the Akatsuki.

As the appearances of the two people before him gradually overlapped with his memories, Uchiha Natsu immediately knew that these two people were Sasori and Juzo Biwa.

"Just now, I think I heard those two say, 'Don't underestimate me...'"

The moment Uchiha Natsu was unearthed, he happened to hear the last words spoken by Pipa Juzo.

Combining this with the locations where the two appeared, Uchiha Natsu understood.

Someone must have hired the Akatsuki to kill me.

And the employer, without even thinking, is definitely either Kumogakure or Iwagakure.

It's not surprising that these two countries want to rely on the Akatsuki organization's power, given that the Akatsuki leader himself led the Uchiha clan to kill so many of their elites.

After all, money can be earned back, but talent is hard to cultivate once it's gone.

"It's only because there's a war going on right now that these two people could appear so openly near Konoha."

"Alright, I'll use these two to test my Wood Release technique."

While Uchiha Natsu was pondering this, the two people on the ground not far away were already getting impatient.

"What should we do? This guy is quite strong. If we don't kill him, it will be difficult for us to continue our mission," Pipa Juzo asked in a low voice.

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In reality, Juzo Biwa knew that even if they killed the masked ninja, they might not be able to complete the mission.

If their battle becomes too large-scale, Konoha will definitely notice.

Their identities as members of Akatsuki would make Konoha more wary of them.

The two avoided encountering any living people along the way.

If you encounter one, kill it immediately.

Unexpectedly, this time, someone crawled out from underground and bumped right into him.

“Kill him, then leave for now,” Scorpion said in a deep voice.

This is the only way now.

Before Konoha discovers them, eliminate the masked ninja and leave the scene immediately.

In this way, once the turmoil subsides, they can return to continue their mission.

"Swish!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Pipa Juzo and Sasori immediately separated.

Surround the Uchiha Natsuki clone in the tree from both the front and back to prevent him from escaping.

Immediately afterward, the scorpion struck first, its tail lashing out from behind.

"call out!"

Its tail seemed to transform into a sharp dagger, shooting straight at Uchiha Natsu's wooden clone.

The wood clone formed hand seals, then stretched out its right hand and immediately shouted, "Wood Release: Great Forest Technique!"

In an instant, several wooden vines shot out from Uchiha Natsu's wooden clone, spiraling towards Sasori's tail.

"Click-clack!"

The tail collided with the vine, sending wood chips flying everywhere.

"Wood Release?!" Sasori exclaimed in surprise.

Although Scorpion's outward appearance is actually that of a puppet, his true form is always hidden inside the puppet.