Chapter 168 Xiao

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In the corridor, Konoha Anbu in groups of three or two, some hurried past, some walked out slowly.

This is the base camp of Anbu ninjas. The Anbu usually needs to come here to prepare for each mission. If you want to count the most confidential and hidden facilities in Konoha Village, this place is the first now and the second in the past.

The reason for this is, of course, that the Root has completely announced its dissolution not long ago...

At this moment, a shorter Anbu member suddenly emerged from the crowd.

He hurriedly walked through the crowd and went straight to the base. Originally, this was a common thing for the Anbu, after all, everyone has received an urgent mission. However, the strange thing is that when people saw this Anbu member who stood out from the crowd, they chose to avoid him.

It was not until he walked away that a few people started to talk about it.

"Kakashi, this guy, seems to be very busy recently." A captain of the Anbu whispered.

"After all, he was once a student of the Fourth Hokage. The Hokage seems to want to train him to be his right-hand man. It is only right that he is valued, right?"

A senior member of the Anbu looked like he had seen through the world.

"It's great. He has been promoted to a squad leader at the age of 15. I was just a Chunin when I was 15..."

The captain of the Anbu sighed and sighed, and was vaguely envious.

However, the old Anbu member next to him knew that the squad leader envied neither Kakashi's relationship with the current Hokage nor his bright future prospects. He envied Kakashi's promotion speed, or to be more accurate, his strength growth speed...

The Anbu department is very different from the organization of ordinary ninjas.

Strength is the iron rule here. All promotions rely on pure hard power.

You must know that the Anbu performs all high-risk tasks. Therefore, the amount of ability determines the difficulty of the assigned tasks. If the strength is insufficient, I am afraid that one task may make you never come back.

Therefore, in the Anbu, strength assessment is very important.

Almost every member's current abilities are clearly recorded.

From this, we can see how amazing Kakashi's growth speed is after only one year to be promoted to the captain of the team...

Although Kakashi is the most dazzling new star in the Anbu, his personality when he first entered the Anbu was very difficult to approach. Coupled with his cold style of doing things during the mission, many people usually avoid Kakashi when they see him.

On the other side, Kakashi, who was being quietly discussed, was filling out a mission itinerary record form in the lounge. This is the normal process that Anbu members must go through every time they complete a mission.

"Is it Kakashi? Did you just come back from the mission?" A voice came from outside the door.

Kakashi looked up and found that it was an Anbu wearing a Shura ghost mask.

The masks of Anbu members are mostly animal-shaped. The mask type of this person can be said to be unique in the entire Anbu, because it belongs to the Anbu captain who is the leader of the Anbu.

After finding out it was Xiang, Kakashi quickly filled in the record sheet, then stood up and nodded and said, "Captain Xiang, are there any new tasks?"

"No new tasks, but I just want to talk to you about something..." Xiang slowed down his tone and smiled faintly.

Kakashi was stunned for a moment, and chose not to say a word, obviously indicating that he was waiting for the next step...

Xiang frowned slightly under the Shura ghost mask, but his faint displeasure was well covered by the mask.

"Then I'll be frank, because the root is officially disbanded, some of its original functions need to be taken over by our Anbu, and the Hokage has decided to expand the establishment of the Anbu.

And the Anbu training department is currently in need of a new captain to be responsible for management. Are you interested?"

Kakashi was a little surprised. The Anbu training department is a place to train new Anbu ninjas. As far as he knows, the training ninjas in it are basically older, slightly disabled, or Anbu seniors who will retire in a few years. Why would Xiang come to ask about his intentions for a position that was almost like a sinecure?

It was easy to imagine with a ninja forehead protector that there would be no young ninja willing to take such a position, right?

Except for Shikamaru, there was probably no young ninja in his teens who wanted to lie down so early, right?

"Sorry, Captain Xiang, I don't have the intention to go to the training department..." Kakashi immediately refused.

Xiang seemed to have expected this result a long time ago, and smiled and sighed: "Is that so, then I will look for someone else..."

The conversation between the two ended quickly, and Kakashi left first because he had completed the record.

Then Xiang was the only one left in the empty Anbu lounge.

At this time, Xiang confirmed that Kakashi had gone far away, and suddenly turned out the record sheet in the folder beside the table, checked the place where Kakashi had just filled in the mission, and found that it was written as the Grass Country, and then calmly put it back to its original place...

...

Rain Country, Rain Village

In the steel-lined high-rise tower complex, on the top floor of one of the tallest buildings, a skinny red-haired man sitting in a strange machine and a blue-haired woman in a red cloud cloak beside him were looking solemnly at the masked man at the windowsill.

The rain outside was getting heavier, and the thunder in the sky occasionally illuminated the dim hall on the top floor.

The atmosphere in the hall seemed a little dull at this time. After a long time, the masked man standing by the window asked: "Why did you act without authorization?"

"According to the plan, Hanzo, the leader of the Rain Village, is still useful for the time being. It's too early for you to kill him..."

Uchiha Obito was quite dissatisfied with the fact that Nagato rashly assassinated Hanzo and formally seized the power of the Rain Village while he was recovering from his injuries.

Because according to his plan, the Ninja World War has not ended yet, and there is still a lot of room for operation to use Hanzo's influence on the Rain Village to intervene in the war to attack Konoha. But before he could implement the plan, Nagato manipulated Pain to destroy Hanzo and his forces first. Obito's resentment was not because Nagato disrupted the plan. The real reason was that he was dissatisfied with Nagato's unauthorized decision.

In his eyes, Nagato and Akatsuki were nothing more than puppets being monitored and manipulated. It should never happen that a puppet goes against the will of the manipulator...

"Your so-called plan is just a waste of the power of the Rain Village."

Nagato responded coldly: "Now I have already taken a step closer to mastering these eyes and the power of the Six Paths, so I decided to start Akatsuki's expansion plan in advance."

"Start recruiting new members immediately and enter the first stage of fund raising."

As soon as he finished speaking, Uchiha Obito, who was standing by the window, suddenly sensed that several breaths flashed in the dark behind Nagato.

Uchiha Obito saw the figures behind Nagato clearly in the moment when the thunder and lightning outside illuminated the hall. There were six of them. All of them had orange hair color, black chakra sticks all over their faces and bodies, neat reincarnation eyes, and uniform red cloud Akatsuki robes...

Is it already completed?

Uchiha Obito was slightly surprised. The last time they met, he only saw a Pein puppet made of Yahiko's body, but now there are six puppets with the scattered Samsara Eye ability systematized...

This shows that Nagato has indeed developed Madara's Samsara Eye ability to a new level.

Such a speed of progress was beyond his expectations.

"Then... it's up to you."

Uchiha Obito hesitated for a moment, but decided to reveal the matter.

After all, on the surface, he and Nagato's Akatsuki organization are only a cooperative relationship, and as long as Nagato does not change the final plan of collecting tailed beasts, everything can be tolerated.

At this time, a White Zetsu slowly emerged from the ground beside Uchiha Obito.

Nagato and Konan were no longer surprised by the existence of Zetsu, who was responsible for exploring intelligence beside Obito, so they were not too surprised.

On the contrary, they admired this White Zetsu with strong reconnaissance ability.

Because every time Jue appears, he brings highly confidential, accurate and reliable intelligence information, and this time will probably be no exception...