Listening to Kakazu's cold words, Suijin was reminded that throughout his time at Akatsuki, Kakazu did indeed changed several of his partners by killing them in fits of rage, and it wasn't until he was teamed up with Hidan did the duo lasted together for a long while; simply because Kakazu couldn't get rid of, or kill off Hidan due to the dude being sort of immortal, thus their the two became famous as the Zombie Combo.

'This shows that the weak will never be safe, even if one joins the Akatsuki, he/she wouldn't be able to survive if he/she is weak!' – Sighing deeply, Suijin no longer cared about the nameless Akatsuki member who lied on the ground in cold, instead focused his attention on Kakazu. ​​

The full brunt of the Lightning ninjutsu was bored by the Akatsuki member, but Suijin was also affected by the paralyzing effect of the lightning attack so body movement was a bit difficult.

Kakazu obviously understood Suijin's current situation, so without wasting any time to let the other party recover, he directly closed the distance between the two.

At the same time, the four mask monsters also surrounded Suijin from the four sides.

Suijin immediately printed hand seals,

Tiger – Ox – Monkey – Rabbit – Ram – Boar – Ox – Horse – Monkey – Tiger – Dog – Tiger – Snake – Tiger – Ox – Monkey – Rabbit – Bird –

"Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique!"

With the launch of Suijin's ninjutsu attack, a huge amount of water was expelled high into the air from his mouth, and after reaching high enough, it cascaded down towards Kakazu, in the form of a giant waterfall.

Kakazu's expression shrank and for the first time in a long while he showed a surprised expression.

The power of this Great Waterfall Technique was far beyond what he expected from the other party.

Even in a place with no water source nearby, the opponent could perform such a largescale Water Style Jutsu, in Kakazu's experience of over 70 years, not many people can do such a thing.

Although Kakazu was surprised, that didn't delay his reaction. He tapped his foot on the ground as a result a high mud wall rose to defend against the Great Waterfall technique

At this time, the thread monster with the red pattern mask opened its mouth and spewed out a countless barrage of fireballs.

Seeing the incoming fireballs, Suijin immediately printed hand seals and shouted,

"Water Release: Multiple-Water Dragon Technique!"

Instantly; multiple small water dragons appeared around Suijin and directly faced off against the Fireballs barrage.

Boom… Boom… Boom…

The fireballs and the multi-water dragons collided against each other with booming sounds and producing high-pressure steam that covered the forest in a thick mist.

It didn't take even a few seconds and a wind release Jutsu was fired off by another mask:

"Wind Release: Pressure Damage!"

The attack was strong enough to blow away most of the steam covering the area, damaging the leftover Water Dragons, and also throwing away Suijin by the resultant pressure.

The Water Dragons collapsed and fell to the ground with water crashing sound while Suijin crashed on a tree branch and held himself by the support of his legs.

But he didn't have the time to recollect himself as at this moment Kakazu jumped to the adjacent tree branch and punched Suijin right in the face.

While still hanging on the tree upside down, Suijin hurriedly took out a Kunai to meet the incoming punch.

Ding…

The metal Kunai couldn't cut through Kakazu's hand and produced a harsh collision sound.

Obviously, Kakazu has used the Earth Spear technique in this attack that Suijin could judge based on the dark color of Kakazu's arm, giving it a diamond hardness.

Using this opportunity while Kakazu retracted his arm, Suijin leaped back using the offset momentum while thinking, 'This guy is really so strong!'

This time Kakazu didn't immediately pursue but pointed towards Suijin who was still in mid-air and stretched his arm that separated from the joint and extended towards the leaping Suijin.

The black threads extended and quickly shot Kakazu's arm towards Suijin in midair.

Being in midair Suijin couldn't avoid it, so he attempted to spew out a jet stream from his mouth to dodge the incoming hand, however, the enemy was faster than him, as a result, Suijin was caught by the two arms that clutched his neck tightly.

With the other party caught, Kakazu slowly retracted his arm and brought Suijin before him.

When his arms were again back to joint, he held Suijin by the neck and said indifferently, "Boy, your strength is definitely not weak, but it's about time we finish this game, now tell me all you know about Yama and I can still let you live!"

While desperately waving his legs in a struggle, Suijin suddenly stopped putting any resistance and said with a grinning tone, "G-guess, wi-will I… I spare y-your life?"

As soon as he comprehended what the other party meant, Kakazu's expression shrank, "You ar-… SHIT!"

Boom… Boom… Boom…

Before Kakazu's words fell, a series of violent explosions occurred centered around Suijin who was held by Kakazu.

Flying out of the range of the explosion with some burns and injuries, Kakazu coughed violently while looking for the bastard's figure.

At this moment, another Suijin came out from behind a tree and said thoughtfully, "Hooh, even such a close-range explosion couldn't hurt you, you really are, as they say, The Immortal Kakazu!"

"I have to say, you aren't half bad either, using an exploding clone to deal with me, huh, it seems that I was underestimating you!" – The unusual green irides with no pupil or sclerae stared at the masked individual and spoke, "It was when the steam covered the battlefield that you substituted yourself with a Clone!"

Suijin smiled and tilted his head sideways as he in a comical tone, "As expected of someone with your vast experience, you figured it out in an instant!"

"Very well, I want to see to what extent can you keep up!" – With this sentence, Kakazu's eyes became sharper.

At this moment Kakazu understood that from the beginning the other party never got serious, and the act of using the multiple water dragons to face off the fireball barrage was not just to defend but also to obscure his field of vision with the resultant mist and create a clone, to obtain a recovery time.

It wouldn't be wrong to say that Kakazu was playing exactly in the hands of his opponent, it is only thankful that he didn't actually deactivate the Earth Spear Technique that Kakazu was able to withstand the exploding clone without any damage, but playing into the others hand is very embarrassing for him.

…

Somewhere near the Land of Fire.

Uchiha Shinichi and Biwa Juzo were sitting in front of a bonfire.

While stretching his waist, Shinichi complained in annoyance, "Pain wants us to find some mysterious person all over the world, but we don't even know what the mysterious person looks like, tell me, isn't this a bit ridiculous!? For all you know, Yama could be anyone, in fact, some neighbor, and we wouldn't know, coz' the guy wears a freaking mask, how are we supposed to recognize him when he appears before us without the mask?"

Biwa Juzo, sitting on the side leaned against a rock boulder, unperturbed by Shinichi's ranting.

He didn't react to Shinichi's complaining at all, and it seemed as if he was already accustomed to Uchiha Shinichi's daily grumpiness.

While the two were sitting, suddenly a thought wave was transmitted to the two people's minds.

Immediately Shinichi curled his lips and said, "Now what does the leader want!?"

Biwa Juzo didn't say much, just made a few hand seals and muttered, "The Magic Lantern Body Technique, Connect!"

As soon as the two used the Magic Lantern Body technique, their thought waves were converted into illusionary projection and appeared inside a cave.

The cave looked gloomy and dark with the face of a wooden statue that looked very strange with nine closed eyes and an open mouth that contained a large scroll between its teeth.

The illusionary projection appeared on one of the fingers of the statue.

Coming back to the familiar site, Uchiha Shinichi looked around and discovered that in addition to him and Biwa Juzo, the leader of the Organization has also brought two other Akatsuki members.

Pain who stood on the thumb of the right hand said, "Kakazu's team has encountered a powerful enemy in the territory of the Land of fire, from the report, Zetsu has delivered, the other person is somehow related to 'Yama', Orochimaru, Sasori, Uchiha Shinichi, and Biwa Juzo, the four of you are nearest to Kakazu's location. I want the four of you to go after him and immediately capture the other party alive!"

Shinichi said, "Huh, from the looks of it, Kakazu appears to be a strong guy, I didn't expect that the ragdoll couldn't even handle another Bounty ninja!"

Orochimaru's gaze stayed on Shinichi for quite a while before he turned towards Pain and asked, "Is the other person 'Yama'?"

Pain shook his head, "There is no detailed information about the other party, only that he is related to 'Yama', therefore, you are to go after him!"

At this time, Sasori in his Hiruko puppet questioned, "Location?"

After telling the four people the location of Kakazu, Pain said, "Disband!"

Immediately the spiritual projection disappeared from the cave…

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