Konoha: There is a Kakarot inside me

"It's really amazing that people can disappear on their own."

After doing all this, Naruto left without looking back.

"Sir, don't listen to that crazy woman's nonsense." Suzuki Jiro was so scared that he hurried to catch up with Naruto, fearing that he would make Naruto angry, and kept explaining: "Sir Wuwei is a former Jounin of Kusagakure Village, and has a close relationship with the four divisions of Kusagakure Village."

"Oh." Facing Suzuki Jiro's explanation, Naruto just replied indifferently. He had no interest in the distribution of power in the Kusagakure Village.

Not all places are worth Naruto's patience to play ninja games.

At least the Kusagakure Village is not among them.

"What are you going to do in Kusagakure Village, sir?" Suzuki Jiro asked cautiously.

"Looking for someone." Naruto answered Suzuki Jiro's words with the shortest sentence.

Seeing that Naruto was not interested, Suzuki Jiro shut up obediently.

As ninjas, the two men walked very quickly and soon arrived at the gate of Kusagakure Village.

Compared to the prosperous Konoha, the Kusagakure Village is really much inferior.

There are buildings of different heights and uneven streets. The only thing worth mentioning is the castle tower in front, which is exactly the same style as the Kizuna Castle.

If Konoha is a small county town, then Kusagakure is more like a village.

It's far inferior to the Uchiha clan's base on the border of Konoha.

"who."

Seeing Naruto and Suzuki Jiro, a group of ninjas wearing Kusagakure forehead protectors surrounded them.

At the same time, less than a hundred miles away from the Kusagakure Village, a man in a black robe with a red background was confronting another man wearing a mask with a faint green light in his eyes.

"The S-rank rebel ninja of Takigakure, Kakuzu."

“Nice to meet you.”

"My name is——Pein."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 51 Xianglin

Suzuki Jiro is fine, but the key point is that Naruto's outfit is completely the standard attire of a suspicious person.

The mask and hood cover the body and face tightly.

It's just short of writing "I'm suspicious" on his face.

If you say that Naruto is not suspicious, then nothing would be suspicious.

"Lord Yuichi!" Suzuki Jiro greeted the leading Kusa ninja.

"Oh, it's Jiro. What brings you back? Why don't you stay in that Ghost Lantern City? Why do you run to our poor village?" The leading Kusa Ninja recognized Suzuki Jiro's identity.

However, the atmosphere did not ease after their identities were recognized. Instead, it was full of tension.

Indeed, compared with the tower-like decoration style of the Kizuna Castle, the appearance of a small village like Kusanagi Village is much inferior, and it is not wrong to say that it is a poor village.

Although Kusagakure and Kizuna Castle are next to each other, and Wuwei is also a former Kusagakure jonin, the two forces do not feel like neighbors at all. Their relationship is not as bad as fire and water, but it is not much better either.

I won’t go into detail on the reasons.

However, Wuwei would not tell this to Naruto, Suzuki Jiro would not explain this to Naruto, and Naruto would not care about this.

"Who is this?" Yuichi asked with a little suspicion after looking Naruto up and down.

Suzuki Jiro quickly stepped forward and explained: "This is Master Wuwei's distinguished guest, who came to Kusagakure Village to look for someone."

The reason why I keep emphasizing the word "distinguished guest" is that I hope Yuichi can cause less trouble.

However, Yuichi came here to cause trouble.

"Looking for someone?" Xiong Yi raised his eyebrows and said, "Then I'll arrange a few people to help you find someone."

Rather than helping with the search, it would be more like surveillance, and looking for an opportunity to take action.

What does the "distinguished guest" from Ghost Lantern City have to do with my Kusagakure Village?

"No need." Naruto said calmly, completely ignoring the malice that was about to overflow from Yuichi.

During this period of time, he had already locked the breath in a direction: "I have found it."

The distance was far before, and the opponent's energy was too weak, making it difficult to sense.

Now that he had arrived at Kusagakure, Naruto's senses were naturally crystal clear.

That feeling is 5% to 6% similar to your own, it can definitely not be wrong.

As soon as he finished speaking, Naruto disappeared from the spot, leaving behind only a group of confused Grass Ninjas who had not yet figured out the situation and Suzuki Jiro who was disheveled in the wind.

"Where have you gone?"

"I seemed to see him going to that location."

"Oh no, that direction shouldn't be..."

"Come on."

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In the northwest of Kusagakure Village, in a house whose style is very different from other surrounding buildings.

A red-haired girl of about eleven or twelve was curled up in her quilt. Although it was already late autumn and winter outside, the quilt the girl was covering herself with was very thin. She was even wearing a short-sleeved shirt that she only wore in summer. Even though the girl was curled up, she couldn't stop shaking all over.

"Gurgle, gurgle" sounds came from the abdomen.

She felt as if there was a ball of fire burning in her stomach, beating against the stomach wall like waves. Then the feeling gradually spread to her whole body, accompanied by a needle-like pain. The girl held her stomach tightly and curled up even harder.

"I'm so hungry."

This was the only thought left in the girl's mind.

The girl, who hadn't eaten for more than five days, was already starving.

"My mother said that if you drink enough, you won't be hungry." The girl struggled to get up from the bed, took a large glass of water with her thin arms, which were only skin and bones, and drank it all in one breath.

After drinking some water, the dry belly bulged slightly.

The girl gradually felt a little full, but was quickly replaced by hunger.

"Why is Karin still hungry?"

'Mom, you're lying.'

The girl leaned against the wall and slowly slid down to the ground, holding her feet with both hands, her head pressed tightly against her knees, crying silently. The girl's exposed skin, hands, legs and even neck were densely covered with shocking tooth marks.

"Mom, Karin misses you so much."

'So sad'

'So painful'

The girl's mother passed away three years ago.

The cause of death was long-term malnutrition and excessive chakra overdraft.

The girl and her mother are both from the Uzumaki clan, the same clan as Naruto, but Naruto inherited the hair of the fourth generation, while the girl and her mother inherited the natural red hair of the Uzumaki clan. The Uzumaki clan is born with extremely large amounts of chakra, which is why Naruto has such a large amount of chakra in his body.

Among the Uzumaki clan there is an extraordinary physique that can restore chakra, regain strength, and even heal injuries by gnawing on the body.

Both the girl and her mother inherited this physique.

This is both fortunate and unfortunate.

Fortunately, this physique is one in a million, that is, most of the Uzumaki clan members do not have it. Even Naruto and Uzumaki Kushina do not have this ability. Unfortunately, it is because of the situation of the mother and daughter.

If the Whirlpool Country still existed, the mother and daughter would be destined to live a happy life.

But in a place like Kusagakure Village, people with this kind of physique will face not a good life but disaster.

Kusagakure is an extremely xenophobic village. Karin's mother fled here after the destruction of the Whirlpool Country. She is an outsider. Even though she has lived here for more than ten years, she has not been able to fully become a member of Kusagakure. Kusagakure is also a very greedy village. After accidentally learning that Karin's mother has such a physique, they constantly demand and exploit her value.

These grass ninjas won't talk to you about sustainable development, let alone gratitude.

Unlike the Dragon Ball world, chakra is not completely linked to strength, and a large amount of chakra does not mean strong strength. Even though Karin's mother has dozens or hundreds of times more chakra than ordinary Kusagakure, she is still a weakling in Kusagakure.

In order to protect her children, Xianglin's mother silently endured this inhuman treatment.

Being kept in captivity by one person is already unbearable, let alone the mother and daughter being kept in captivity by the entire village.

It's not that she hasn't thought about running away, but where can she, a weak woman with a child, run to? It's not that she hasn't thought about dying, but what about Karin if she dies? Those grass ninjas will definitely treat Karin the same way they treated her, so she can't die yet.

This is a great mother's story, but also a tragic one.

Until that day, Karin clearly remembered that gentle mother, the mother who always smiled at her, the mother who taught her to be optimistic and kind, was bitten to death by the men wearing the Kusagakure forehead protectors.

When the men found out that Karin's mother was dead, they all turned around and smiled at her.

Can you imagine that scenario?

More than a dozen men crawled on her mother's body, biting her body until she died.

That smile also became Xianglin's lingering shadow and nightmare in her life.

This is also the reason why Karin often wakes up from nightmares.

Every time she thinks back on it, Xianglin feels miserable.

Since that year, Karin took over her mother's job.

He treated the Grass Ninjas injured in missions day and night, and endured their bites day and night.

Some bad-tempered Grass Ninjas would even bite hard on purpose, and Karin's miserable cries would make them feel physically and mentally happy.

And the reward for such treatment was just a few insignificant food scraps.

This place is hell.

Or maybe hell isn't that scary.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 52 It’s okay if it hurts

"Oh!"

The door was kicked open roughly, and a strange man with a bandaged right arm, a bottle of wine in his left hand, and reeking of alcohol, stumbled into Xianglin's house.

"Get out of here now."

The man started cursing when he didn't see Xianglin when he entered the room. An astonishing stench emanated from his body, a fermented mixture of blood, alcohol, breath, and sweat.

"Can't you see I'm injured?"

The man continued to curse and picked up things and threw them to the ground.

"You are such an ungrateful idiot, just like your damn mother."

"If it weren't for the Kusagakure Village that was willing to take you in, you would have starved to death outside."

It's ridiculous that these Grass Ninjas treated Karin and her daughter like this, but they thought Karin should be grateful to them because it was them who took her in, and it was they who gave Karin and her daughter "jobs" that allowed them to survive.

It should be said that the Kusanagi ninjas have never regarded Karin and her daughter as human beings. In their eyes, Karin and her daughter are only as valuable as two moving blood bags.

There are even some crazy Grass Ninjas who want to breed more blood bags.

After all, a blood bag will eventually go bad.

Just like the big blood bag before.

It requires a steady supply of blood bags to be produced.

If Karin wasn't too young and unable to bear children, the Grass Ninjas would have been afraid of using her too much, so she would have been spared.

If a few more years had passed and Karin reached childbearing age, an even more tragic ending might have been waiting for her.

"Lord Takeda." Karin suppressed the hunger in her stomach, struggled to stand up from the ground, and forced a smile at the man.

If you don't show up when you're called and hide, you'll be beaten.