Konoha Drunkard

"asshole!"

"boom!"

This time, Shanks wasn't going to wait for Sasori to continue showing off his clumsy skills. He just shaved Sasori's head and delivered a loving punch. Right now, he doesn't have the strength to take on Chiyo and the second male lead's wife one-on-one more than ten years later. He just turned Salamence into a toy and was KO'd by the rich man Nan in his first battle. Since then, he hasn't practiced Salamence's skills. Now, in a moment of brain rush, he took it out against Steel Shanks without thinking. Isn't that just asking for trouble?

"hiss!"

The familiar feeling returned, like his soul was about to leave his body. Handsome Scorpion lay on the ground, covering his head with a huge bump on it. After being inside for a while, this feeling came back again, and he almost couldn't help but cry. It hurt so damn much.

"Sigh! You've really been slacking off. If Salamander knew you'd shown off his Magnet Release like this, I wonder if he'd jump out of his coffin and kill you." Shanks sighed, looking at the handsome Sasori lying on the ground.

"Damn it, one day I'll turn you into a puppet." Being a coward in person but not in words is an obligation that everyone in Naruto must uphold.

"Alright! Now I'll teach you another lesson: if you can't beat someone in this world, don't talk nonsense. Either endure it or fight back like your life depends on it." After Shanks finished speaking, he walked over to the handsome Scorpion lying on the ground, and without saying a word, he gave the handsome Scorpion a good beating.

It's been so many years since I've beaten anyone up, this time I'm going to make up for it all at once. Nothing is more satisfying than beating up a character in a storyline, and if there is, it's because the person being beaten up isn't a super genius.

"Bang bang bang!"

The sound of pounding echoed throughout the room. Perhaps it was because of Sasori's bad temper, or perhaps it was because he was used to banging and hitting things around the house, so the Akatsuki members were used to it. Therefore, while Shanks was beating up Sasori, things outside remained the same, and they didn't find the sounds coming from inside the house strange at all.

392. Handsome Scorpion cried.

"boom!"

"Get up, aren't you going to take me down?"

"boom!"

"Serves you right for talking nonsense!"

"boom!"

"Get up! You're so old, why are you still such a spineless coward!"

"boom!"

"Don't think I won't beat you up just because you're handsome."

"boom!"

.............

An hour later, the handsome scorpion's toy house finally quieted down. The handsome scorpion lay on the ground, looking utterly hopeless, with his Buddha-like head and tearful eyes staring ahead.

The familiar feeling returned. While experiencing a sharp pain in his head, he was also annoyed by the constant nagging in his ears. Most importantly, he had never let up in the past few years and had been working hard to make his toys. Why, after all these years, was he still easily defeated by this bastard?

"Holy crap! You actually cried! Quick, take a picture!" Shanks, still not satisfied, had just raised his fist when he saw the handsome Sasori with tears in his eyes. He exclaimed in surprise and pulled out his mother's wicked camera to take a picture of Sasori. Seeing the handsome Sasori cry was incredibly rare; he'd been beating the young Sasori for half a year and hadn't seen him shed a single tear. He'd thought Sasori's heart was made of iron.

"asshole......"

Handsome Scorpion watched as Shanks took a series of photos of him with his camera. He was utterly exhausted; even being beaten required immense physical strength...

"You're still young, you have time to read more books. Your low-level talk is useless to me. Don't be like that coward Seven-Tails, who has lived for so many years and only says the same few words over and over again. There's nothing new about it." After filming, Shanks sat next to Sasori and started nagging again, stroking his red hair.

"Who do we have here? It's Konoha's Red from the Land of Rain." Shanks had just finished muttering to himself when a cold voice came from outside.

"Oops! I was just having fun." Shanks covered his forehead in annoyance. He was indeed so focused on beating people up that he didn't realize how loud the noise was. After all, the leader of Akatsuki has round eyes. If he hadn't noticed that kind of noise, his base would have been raided long ago.

"Oh! I didn't expect there to be sextuplets in the ninja world. How did your mother give birth to you?" Shanks walked outside and saw six expressionless people with round eyes standing on the opposite roof. Shanks pretended to be curious.

"It's said throughout the ninja world that Shanks of Konoha is incredibly strong. I'd like to see if his words are as powerful as his actions," the blond-haired man with round eyes said coldly. Shanks's verbal attacks were useless against him; the man was utterly emotionless.

"Ha! It's all just empty fame. I never thought there were sextuplets in the world. That's amazing! By the way, you rich girl who beat up my former disciple, come out too. I never thought Jiraiya's disciple could beat my disciple. That's incredible." Shanks glanced around the room.

"Why would Konoha's Red-Haired Shanks come to our Land of Rain for no reason? I have no idea what valuable things we have in the Land of Rain." The door of the house opposite opened, and Konan walked out. Konoha's Red-Haired Shanks, like their Kakuzu, is the kind of person who goes wherever there is money. This time, he actually came to their poor, remote place.

"Haha, don't say that. You're the richest person in the ninja world. I heard you used over a million explosive tags to take down Sasori. No one in the ninja world can produce that many explosive tags at once. How about it, are you interested in joining our Konoha family?" Shanks didn't care about the murderous look in the eyes of the one person and six puppets in front of him. These are the puppets with circles around their eyes. Sasori was just a toy.

"Stop wasting your breath on him. Let him know that in front of God, the more nonsense you spout, the sooner you'll die." The blond man with round eyes was even more murderous. Wasn't this just trying to steal his girlfriend right in front of him?

"Shinra Tensei!"

The man was ruthless and taciturn. The blond-haired, round-eyed man unleashed a powerful attack right away. Shanks felt a strong impact and his body was involuntarily sent flying backward.

"boom!!!"

The repulsive force generated by Shinra Tensei destroyed all the surrounding buildings, and the people around had obviously been dispersed, with not a single person to be seen.

"That's a really strange ability. It must be controlling repulsive force," Shanks said, brushing the dust off his clothes as he emerged from the ruins.

"Hmph! There's something even more surprising coming!"

"Spiritual communication..."

"boom!"

Before the Animal Path could even finish completing the hand seals for its summoning jutsu, Shanks shaved his head and smashed it open, pulling a black root out of his body.

"If you're going to fight, then fight. Why are you playing around with summoning? Huh? Why does he have a stick on him? And it's a high-end one." Shanks looked at the black stick with curiosity.

"asshole!"

Seeing his brother killed before he could even make a move, the strangely shaped, round-eyed creature became enraged and unleashed all sorts of creatures from its body as it charged towards Shanks.

"Superhuman strength weapon. Just randomly firing!"

Shanks never backs down from a head-on confrontation, throwing a punch at the strange creature charging at him.

"boom!"

"Clang!"

Although Nagato's puppet Six Paths was more advanced than Sasori's toys, it was of little use to Shanks. With one iron fist, he instantly killed another Asura Path and took out a black stick from his body.

"Why bother with weapons when you're fighting bare-handed? You have no professional ethics at all. Oh? I found you." Shanks looked at the Shura Path, now a pile of scrap metal, with disdain, then deliberately exclaimed with delight as if he had discovered something.

"not good!"

The wealthy Nan Ting understood Shanks' words instantly. A pair of paper wings appeared in front of Shanks. Although she didn't know if she could deal with Shanks, after all, his toughness was well-known in the ninja world, she absolutely couldn't let him run to Nagato.

"Hey! This rich girl even has fashionable wings!" Shanks teased, looking at the rich girl standing in front of him. If her face wasn't so cold, she might actually be a little angel.

"The Godly Paper Technique!!"

The wealthy Nan didn't bother arguing with him and immediately unleashed his ultimate move. Although it wasn't as extravagant as the 6000 billion yen attack, it was still a couple billion yen. This was like he was going to tear his own house apart. He wondered if Kakuzu would be furious and betray Akatsuki when he returned and saw this. Damn it, he thought, "I'm working myself to the bone to make money, and you guys are destroying my home like crazy."

"Boom boom boom boom!!!"

The violent explosions continued, and mushroom clouds kept appearing where Shanks was.

One or two billion explosive tags sounds like a lot, but if they explode all at once, the time is very short, just two or three minutes. This spendthrift woman probably squandered more explosive tags than all the ninja villages in the ninja world combined.

"careful!"

The explosion had just ended when a black figure appeared behind Tuhao Nan. Renjian Dao suddenly called out a warning, but it was too late for him to react. However, another figure had already arrived between Tuhao Nan and the black figure, helping Tuhao Nan withstand the next wave of damage.

393. Handsome Scorpion got hammered again.

"boom!"

"How is that possible!"

The hungry ghost was punched in the face, cried out in shock, and was then slammed to the ground.

He didn't absorb Konoha's Shanks' attack, and his face was smashed. How is that possible? Did Konoha's Shanks not use chakra in that punch?

Shanks looked disdainfully at the Preta Path lying on the ground. Did Nagato think he didn't know that Nagato wanted to use the Preta Path to absorb his chakra? "Armament Haki is high-grade stuff, never seen it before, have you?"

"That damned bastard!"

Nagato watched the arrogant Shanks from afar through the circle eyes of the blond-haired Deva Path. This was the first time he felt powerless since fully awakening his circle eyes. This bastard was just too tough. His comrades' two billion explosive tags could have blown up an entire ninja village, but this bastard was completely unharmed. He also had strange fists. The Preta Path couldn't even absorb his attack power. Not long after the battle started, he had already lost two puppets and a half-crippled Preta Path.

"Your puppet is far superior to my handsome disciple's, but a puppet is still just a puppet. I heard from Jiraiya that you're also a member of our Uzumaki clan, right? Why don't you come out and chat with this old clansman of yours today, and get to know each other better?" Shanks threw his black stick on the ground and started chatting with the blond-haired, round-eyed man, completely ignoring the fact that they had just been fighting to the death.

"Damn it! I'm not one of your kind, I'm a god! And I've never heard of any Uzumaki clan." The blond-haired, round-eyed man still had a deadpan expression, which annoyed Shanks greatly. Damn it, are all villains this cold-blooded?

It seems that all the villains he encounters are emotionless and lifeless. His older brother Danzo is like that, Madara is like that, and Obito, after evolving, also changed from the simple and cheerful sunny boy at the beginning to a cold man. Even when Itachi was an undercover agent in the future, he had to pretend to be wearing pants, which is completely inconsistent with the cute little boy he was as a child.

"Yes, yes, you are a god. So, god, may I leave now? It's really annoying that I have to be disturbed just to reunite with my disciples. This rich girl of yours also said that there's nothing in the remote and impoverished Land of Rain that I'm interested in. Besides, you were the one who attacked me first, weren't you?" Shanks pouted and grumbled.

"........."

The blond-haired, round-eyed man controlled by Nagato was speechless for a moment. What he said made perfect sense. The other person had come to reunite with his former disciple, and it seemed he had attacked first, thinking his brother had been killed... This was completely contrary to his advocacy of low-key development before the plan began. With Konan's billions of explosive tags, there was no way to keep a low profile anymore. Those spies from the ninja villages weren't blind or deaf.

Nagato, controlling the blond-haired Pokémon, felt a pang of sympathy as he watched Sasori, who was being carried by the Human Path, his head covered in bumps and looking utterly hopeless. Having a teacher like this was truly the greatest tragedy of his life. His former teacher, Jiraiya, was so much better; Jiraiya was so gentle, especially towards Konan, where he was incredibly caring…

"What? Speechless now? If you have nothing to say, I'm leaving. Honestly, I've run into a bunch of lunatics." Shanks muttered to himself as he saw the blond-haired, round-eyed man remain silent, then closed his eyes.

↑←↓→↑←↓→↓→.

After a series of skillful maneuvers, Shanks disappeared from their sight.

"Is Scorpion alright?"

After Shanks disappeared, the blond-haired, round-eyed man turned to the wealthy Nan who was examining Sasori.

"It's nothing, I'm just exhausted."

On the emotionless face of the nouveau riche Nan Mo, the corners of his eyes curled up slightly as he suppressed a smile. This was the first time he had ever seen someone beaten to exhaustion. In the past, he had only encountered people who were exhausted from beating others. This time, he had met a real oddball.

"Scorpion, is the Red-Haired Konoha really here to see you?" the blond-haired guy asked, looking at the handsome Scorpion whose eyes had regained some of their sparkle.

"...You saw it all."

Handsome Scorpion really lost face this time. He was utterly humiliated in front of his family and girlfriend, and most importantly, the single tear in his eye couldn't fool these experts. It seems his mortal body still limits his artistic aspirations.

If Shanks knew what Sasori was thinking right now, he would definitely slap himself. He had finally managed to correct his mistake after half a year of hard work, but he couldn't resist the urge to hit him again and messed things up.

"Arrange a lab for me tomorrow. You blew up my lab, and tell Kakuzu not to try to fool me with secondhand stuff again. I'll really get angry." Handsome Scorpion struggled to his feet and coldly said this to Rich Nan before walking away. His toy house had been destroyed by Rich Nan, so he had a good reason to get a new one, which finally made his wounded heart feel a little better.

"........."

Looking at Sasori's retreating figure, and then at Orochimaru's research lab, which was remarkably well-protected and remained intact even after her massive explosion, Tuhao Nan was speechless. Kakuzu's favoritism was excessive. She'd heard some gossip before, but lacking formal education, she'd never considered Sasori's lab to be any different from Orochimaru's. Only now did she realize the vast difference between the two. They were locked in a fierce battle with Konoha's Shanks, while Orochimaru hadn't even shown up yet. Leaving aside the bomb disposal measures, the soundproofing alone was the best in the ninja world… Looking at Sasori's weary back, Tuhao Nan suddenly felt incredibly sorry for him. Since Kakuzu wouldn't even give him a new lab, she almost wanted to sell explosive tags to help him…

"Pain, this Konoha red-haired guy is really tough to deal with." Rich Nan turned to look at the blond guy with round eyes.

"...Sigh! If he were so easy to deal with, he wouldn't be alive now." The blond-haired, round-eyed man sighed. He'd only ever heard of Konoha's Shanks in the ninja world—the stories of him wiping out a village one day, crushing countless people the next, and tricking someone the day after. But in his mind, it was all just boasting. The attack on Kirigakure was decades ago; new generations had replaced the old. Who knew if it was all true? Even Hanzo of the Salamander called himself a demigod, and he was still instantly killed by him.

Today I finally witnessed it. He killed three of his Six Paths Puppets with his bare hands and withstood billions of explosive tags from his friend. As expected, he lived up to his reputation. Moreover, that guy's abilities left even someone like me with the Divine Eye completely helpless. He could even withstand the ultimate move that I used by expending my life force, Shinra Tensei. I really wanted to ask God if this guy was even human!

"Will he affect our plans? Kurama is still in Konoha." Rich Nan asked his friend.

"...Don't worry, our plan might be implemented ten or twenty years from now. Even the Third Raikage couldn't withstand the ravages of time." It was unclear whether Nagato was comforting himself or his friends; whatever the case, they were young, and the future belonged to them.