Chapter 50: Resurrection from the Dead? (Ch 50)

On the other side, Naraku and his two companions who had evacuated to a safe area stood on a hillside, looking at the battlefield where all kinds of ninjutsu and taijutsu were flying, which was the residence of the Matsukata family.

Matsukata Kiyotaka pointed with a surprised look on his face: “Are all ninjas like this?”

Naraku stared at the battlefield carefully and answered casually: “Not really, there are not many people in the entire ninja world who can do this.”

Kakashi happened to see the scene of the head being activated, his eyes trembled slightly, and he muttered to himself: “Who is this guy?”

Apart from his father Hatake Sakumo and the Sandaime who rarely takes action nowadays, this is the first time Kakashi has seen a hostile ninja of Kakuzu’s level.

Large-scale ninjutsu with multiple attributes, with power and range, requires the cooperation of two or three jonin to eliminate. Even though Might Guy has opened the fifth gate, he only suppresses his opponent in physical skills, which is not enough to decide the outcome.

Isn’t this a B-level mission?

How could an enemy of this strength appear?

If Naraku heard the doubts in Kakashi’s heart, he would only answer that he also wanted to know why this happened.

It stands to reason that before Asuma, no one in Konoha except the First Hokage should have had any contact with the other party, otherwise there would not be no information at all;

Or maybe, Konoha’s ninjas actually encountered Kakuzu, but were not strong enough and were killed by him, so Konoha did not get any information.

But no matter what, it wouldn’t be possible for Minato and Kakuzu to run into each other, right?

Could Minato still die at Kakuzu’s hands?

The biggest possibility is that his coming to this world changed part of the plot, and the mission that Minato took on this time might not have been one he actually took on in the original world line, so he was misaligned with Kakuzu.

As for the original world line, the Konoha ninjas who carried out this mission were most likely wiped out, but this is not described in the anime.

Matsukata Kiyotaka raised his eyebrows: “Oh? So according to what you said, this ninja is very strong?”

“Yes,” Naraku nodded, “much stronger than Konoha’s elite jonin.”

“Humph, how could the Tamai family have the money to hire a strong man of this level after hiring hundreds of wandering ninjas?” Matsukata Seigang said, his tone gradually becoming a little bit gnashing of teeth: “It seems that they can’t wait any longer.”

Kakashi: Who can’t wait?

Naraku: …Brother, please shut up. My character is really going to collapse…

…

Center of the battlefield.

Ishikawa and Kazama’s ninjutsu bombarded Kakuzu one after another, basically allowing Kakuzu to use the mask to perform ninjutsu with restraining attributes to offset them.

Might Guy tried to attack Kakuzu several times in the intervals between ninjutsu, but was blocked by his Earth Style: Earth Spear. Fortunately, Ishikawa seized the opportunity and used Earth Style: Earth Spear to bind Kakuzu’s feet, fixing him in place, and forcing him to endure a set of Lotus Skill from Might Guy.

“drink!”

Might Guy gave Kakuzu a final, solid kick, causing the ground beneath him to roll up into waves and break into pieces like a spider web.

Minato seized the opportunity and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to teleport behind Kakuzu. Kakuzu had no time to react due to the impact of Renge, and was stabbed in the back by Minato with a short knife, with the sword protruding more than an inch from his chest.

Minato even twisted the hilt of the sword carefully to make sure Kakuzu’s heart would be crushed before jumping back to prevent the corpse from exploding or something like that.

Just when everyone present breathed a sigh of relief, lightning flashed on Kakuzu’s body, and in a dazzling white light, he broke through the earth and moved rapidly towards the distance.

“What?!”

Ishikawa’s eyes widened. He had just watched as Konoha’s senior ninja crushed the enemy’s chest. How could he still be alive?

“Oh no, he’s trying to run! Chase him!”

…

“He’s coming towards us!”

Naraku shouted to Kakashi, and the two of them quickly pulled Matsukata Kiyotsugu to retreat to the side.

Kakuzu ran away very quickly, but Minato was even faster and stopped him in time before Kakuzu met Naraku and the others.

“How come?”

Kakuzu was a little puzzled as to how Minato’s instant body movement technique could be so fast. It was most likely not a combination of physical techniques and ninjutsu or illusion techniques, but rather relied on spatial transformation.

Could it be the same technique that the Second Hokage once used?

He recalled the first time Minato touched him just now, and he must have made some mark at that time.

“This is a bit troublesome.”

He glanced at the ninjas rushing over from all directions and thought to himself that this mission was really a loss.

Because in order to leave here smoothly, he can only abandon the fire-attributed mask and clone together, so as to escape the pursuit.

I just killed two targets and only earned a mere 20 million taels, and now I have to pay with a useful heart.

Kakuzu was feeling frustrated and caught a glimpse of three people fleeing from the corner of his eye. Matsukata Kiyotsu’s aristocratic attire and the conspicuous round fan logo on Naraku’s back were clearly visible in the moonlight.

One of the targets is the Uchiha who is good at fire escape…

Just right!

Make another ten million and get a fire heart!

Kakuzu decisively separated a fire-attributed masked clone and used it to perform Fire Style: Head Release, blocking the pursuing ninjas and taking the opportunity to rush towards Naraku.

Kakuzu, who attacked from behind, arrived in the blink of an eye and was about to touch Matsukata Kiyotsu’s back.

With a flash of a knife, his outstretched hand was cut off by Kakashi. Even if he connected it with his tentacles in time, he lost the chance to kill the target.

At the same time, a special kunai shot by Minato had reached Matsukata Seiji’s feet. He immediately activated Flying Thunder God and teleported to the latter’s side, took the person from Naraku, and continued to teleport to a farther place, temporarily taking the only person who was not a ninja away from the battlefield.

Seeing that ten million was gone, Kakuzu could only find a way to make up for the loss of his heart.

Fortunately, this Uchiha kid is not very old and looks easy to kill.