"I just got here, and I've already received such a great benefit. The Land of Hot Water battlefield is dangerous, but danger and opportunity coexist."
He stretched lazily.
Now that he was here, and with a shadow clone handling things at the base, there wouldn't be any major problems even if he didn't return for a while.
...
...
Half a month later.
"Kifū, let me tell you, yesterday we went to the Sakamoto outpost and encountered Cloud ninja. We even fought them! Guess what happened..."
A familiar voice echoed within Kifū's mortuary tent.
It was Uchiha Obito's voice.
"Obito, be careful, don't strain your wound," a gentle voice said inside the tent.
"Rin, it's okay, I'm very strong... Sss—! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!..."
"Idiot."
Kifū sat on a lounge chair, looking at the despair trio in front of him with a face of utter hopelessness.
He hadn't expected Minato Namikaze to release these three on a mission to escort the wounded back to Konoha.
That's right, the three people currently in the tent were none other than Konoha's genius Hatake Kakashi, the lively Uchiha Obito, and the gentle Nohara Rin.
Obito was currently having his bandages wrapped by Nohara Rin.
As he said, yesterday Minato Namikaze led a team to the Sakamoto outpost and was ambushed by Cloud ninja. Fortunately, they survived.
However, Obito was injured.
"I said, you're injured, shouldn't you be in the medical tent? What are you doing here? Want to play dead?" Kifū rubbed his forehead, feeling a headache coming on.
"The medical tent is full," Obito explained, grimacing.
Konoha and the Cloud Village had been constantly at odds, and the Sakamoto outpost, as a key outpost in the Land of Hot Water, was a major target for both sides.
This clash had resulted in many casualties.
The fact that Obito and the others survived was not only due to Minato Namikaze's care but also thanks to Kakashi, who stood in the corner wearing a mask, arms crossed, looking cool and aloof.
"Idiot."
Although young, Kakashi's strength was undeniable.
He hadn't reached the level of a Jōnin yet, but he wasn't far off, and he could definitely contend with a Special Jōnin.
The Cloud ninja didn't take them seriously, and their opponents weren't strong, so Kakashi easily dealt with them.
However, the impulsive and reckless Obito accidentally ran into someone's kunai.
If it weren't for Kakashi, he might not have made it back alive.
Hearing Kakashi's repeated taunts, the hot-blooded Obito declared that he couldn't take it anymore.
"Damn it, Kakashi!!! Sss—!"
"How did they even let you guys out..." Kifū flipped over in despair.
Chapter 101: The Sand Ninja Who Were Scared
"Finally, it's complete."
Sasori, no, he should say Kifū controlling the Sasori puppet with a shadow clone, looked down at the new body.
He raised his hand and foot.
"It's very flexible, without any feeling of stiffness. It's completely different from the feeling given by the previous two puppets. As expected of Sasori's technique."
Kifū exclaimed.
Sasori's puppet techniques were indeed superb. The human puppets he created almost perfectly inherited the original strength. Even if they didn't retain 100% of it, they retained 95%.
Especially Sasori himself.
He had already made partial puppet modifications to his own body, and Kifū's modifications on his original foundation saved many steps and things.
Now that the puppet was complete, it was time to experiment with it.
Kifū gently raised his hand. Precise chakra control allowed strands of chakra threads to extend from his chest.
Connecting to the puppets parked inside the base.
Immediately, the puppets seemed to come to life.
Grumble...
The puppet's joints collided and rubbed against each other, appearing in front of Kifū as if sitting in a row.
"According to Sasori's design for modifying his own puppet, the control source can better control a large number of puppets. The limit of ordinary puppet control techniques is Chiyo's level, which can perfectly control ten puppets. Although more is possible, the puppet's maneuverability and flexibility will undoubtedly be greatly reduced.
But the special puppet core he designed can perfectly control a large number of puppets, with almost no limit."
Dozens of puppets raised their right hands almost simultaneously, and strands of light blue chakra appeared in their hands.
"It was this special core that delayed the production for so long." Kifū lowered his head, and a can-like core wriggled in the hole in his chest, from which the chakra threads extended.
"However, the benefit of this is that as long as one puppet is not destroyed, it can be transferred to this puppet at any time. It can be said that for Sasori, who has become a puppet, the core is the key, and the limbs are no longer important."
Sasori, who possessed such abilities, was actually killed by an old woman like Chiyo and a young ninja like Sakura. There was no doubt that the problem lay with him.
But now that the person controlling the puppets was him, these factors could be avoided.
"Test the abilities and strength. Although there are not many puppets, the existence of the key Third Kazekage puppet has determined the lower limit of strength."
He slowly clenched his fists.
At this time, the main structure inside this puppet was the bones of the Shikotsumyaku.
Making it even harder.
"I'm going out for a bit. I'll leave this place to you," Kifū said to the shadow clones inside the base, turning his head.
"Be careful."
