Jiraiya let out a low whistle as he looked at the newest edition of the Bingo book from k.u.mogakure. He waved Orochimaru as well as Tsunade who was with Dan over.

"Look! Jiro is in the Bingo book and he"s listed at S-Rank."

The four young adults all looked into the Bingo book with curiosity. The three teammates already had experience as to how despairingly strong their youngest teammates was. Dan had heard stories from the trio, but he also remembered the incident where Ezekiel was in control of Jiro for a time and their monstrous killing intent was something that he would never forget.

Orochimaru immediately sneered after reading through the description provided.

"k.u.mo"s being sneaky and shameless again. Purposefully lowering Jiro"s abilities to make him seem less dangerous. Look, they even boosted Jiro"s age by like five years to make him seem less potentially dangerous."

The young adults left after taking a look in the Bingo book and Jiraiya put it away as he got ready to charge right into another battle with and Orochimaru. Tsunade was now a medic and put at the base in order to heal shin.o.bi. Before they all separated, Tsunade handed each of them three vials.

"Each vial contains an antidote to the newest poison from Suna. The newest poison was something that could cause a person to drop unconscious after being hit by it. If you see Suna shin.o.bi, then drink the vial. It brings immunity for about twenty four hours. Good luck."

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Kakuzu grimly closed the Bingo book that he had taken from an informer in k.u.mo. He walked out of one of his many bases situated as he contemplated on what to do. The bounty listed on Jiro was placed much lower than he expected and the information he had gathered years ago was not matching up to the provided information about Jiro.

Knowing k.u.mo"s reputation as being shameless and sneaky to an annoying degree, Kakuzu dismissed the information. He flipped through the Bingo book and found a couple entries that had different information than the ones he listed in his own book. He set about correcting the information and updating his own book to match up to most of the provided information.

He set off for a bounty while a clone set out ahead of himself by about an hour just in case the area was full of shin.o.bi.

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Jiraiya wiped blood off his face and began wiping his weapons down as well, cleaning the blood off of them. He also inspected them to make sure there wasn"t any damaged kunai or shurikens that might present trouble when noticed too late. After the inspection a couple kunai that initially looked fine were actually damaged on the inside severely. The same was noticed of shurikens that Jiraiya just put into a separate pile for reparations later on.

Jiraiya marked the handles of the kunai slightly differently, planning on throwing those with explosive tags in order to maximize efficiency. He glanced at Orochimaru who was also finished with his own inspection and the duo took off to claim more lives on the battlefield.


They spotted a squad of Ame shin.o.bi fighting with Iwa shin.o.bi. The Iwa shin.o.bi had gotten an Ame shin.o.bi trapped inside a dome made of mud. The sound of flesh being pierced resounded as blood began to seep from out of the dome. Knowing that their comrade was dead, the rest of the squad began to retreat while the Iwa shin.o.bi continued to chase them.

Jiraiya and Orochimaru exchanged glances while keeping an eye out for any other possibly dangerous characters. While on the down low, they spotted another squad of Ame ninja retreating towards the city of Amegakure while this time, a squad of Suna shin.o.bi chased them. Jiraiya and Orochimaru stealthily began to follow them and their following led them to a lake.

While getting near the city, Jiraiya and Orochimaru walked into the zone where rain fell in Amegakure. The two were soaked, but otherwise fine. They noticed that the Ame shin.o.bi were experts at moving on the water surfaces and had managed to counter attack and kill both squads of shin.o.bi that had chased them earlier.

Intending on retreating from their home turf, Jiraiya and Orochimaur quickly took off while sending two shadow clones in another direction in case they had been spotted. The kunoichi who had been secretly watching the duo went back to her own squad with the news that the duo had split up using clone techniques which made the squad give up on chasing them.

Jiraiya turned to Orochimaru smiling and gave him a high five.

"Great idea man now let"s go back to homebase."

Orochimaru who was grinning suddenly stopped.

"You mean you"re not the shadow clone?"

Jiraiya slapped his own head as he realized that he had gone with the shadow clone of Orochimaru instead of the real one.

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Fugaku stabbed a kunoichi with a kunai in the eye. She staggered backwards while holding back a scream. As she carefully watched Fugaku while holding onto the kunai in her eye, she didn"t notice the kunai that slit her throat with a quick swing. Blood leaked out of her throat as she staggered backwards clutching both the kunai and her throat before she fell onto the ground dead.

Teuchi dropped down from branch he had been standing upside down on while Duy walked out carrying a couple of shin.o.bi that were unconscious. Teuchi was covered in a mottle of paints that helped him blend into the forest canopy while he was dressed in dark clothing. Duy was dressed like usual as was Fugaku. Their dark clothes didn"t help them blend into the green and brown of the forest, but it did help them blend into the shadows.

"We aren"t finding much shin.o.bi between Konoha and Suna. I think we need to start moving towards Ame now."

Duy nodded to show that he agreed with Fugaku"s idea, but he also wanted to do something first.

"Alright. Let"s drop off the captured ninja first though."

While the two were talking, Teuchi was changing. He wiped off most of the coloring on his face and changed into dark clothes that were also slightly reinforced with armor on parts where he could use his body as a weapon.

The trio disappeared as they began moving towards the main battlefield of Amegakure.

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