Chapter 43 Angel

(The Akatsuki timeline in this book adopts the version of the ninja drama Akatsuki Creation in the game Naruto: Ultimate Storm, which means that Nagato officially began to recruit Akatsuki members only after killing Hanzo of the Salamander, two years before this.)

The tingling sensation of the wound awakened Giyu from his slumber. He opened his eyes and saw a wooden vaulted ceiling covered with vines.

White roses hung on it like white clouds dotting the sky, some scattered in a corner, and some blooming in groups.

As for the light source here, it was the big hole on the other side of the roof.

The rare sunlight in the Rain Country poured in from there, and the vines that broke through the bottom board looked particularly thick where the light shone.

"Hiss..."

Giyu supported himself with his elbows and stood up, looking around, but he didn't see anyone else.

The last thing he did before he lost consciousness was to use the Second Form Waterwheel to bring himself and Hydrangea to the stream, and then he used Water Style Wave Ride to float down with Hydrangea.

At that speed, even if the Rain Ninjas who were chasing Nobujuro returned in time, they would not be able to find their whereabouts.

Although it was a bit risky, Giyuu couldn't move with his legs at the time, so he had to take a risky move.

Now he appeared in this strange house, but he didn't see Hydrangea, so he couldn't help but worry about her safety.

[Speaking of legs...]

Giyuu's eyes quickly moved down and took off the black robe covering his body.

His shoulders, neck, head and other parts that were directly hit by the ceiling, as well as his knees that were broken due to weight and friction, were all carefully bandaged.

The gauze and bandages were very clean, and each had a piece of white paper pressed tightly at the joint like Velcro. This treatment method was very special.

He focused his eyes and found that the gravel, sand and other foreign objects in the skin of the knee, which was the most seriously injured, had been cleared, and the muscle tissue was slowly growing under the effect of the medicine. This was why he was awakened by a tingling sensation.

Now that Yiyong has woken up, he can use the transparent world to manipulate the nerves and blood vessels at the wound to connect and heal faster. I believe it will be intact in a short time. Of course, if medical ninjutsu is used, his recovery speed will be even faster.

[Such a delicate bandage is unlikely to be made by hydrangea. Now I have to find her first...]

Yiyong stood up from the floor carefully.

In order to try not to pull the affected area, he looked like a mummy who had come back to life, and his movements seemed stiff and funny.

After getting up, Yiyong noticed that he was lying on a huge frog jumpsuit, which was equivalent to his "mattress".

Judging from the dull color like ointment, it should have been a long time since anyone wore it.

In the shadows in the corner of the room, there were three smaller frog jumpsuits, half leaning against the wall, like three lazy children dozing off.

[Someone has lived here. It seems to be someone else's home, but it has been abandoned...]

Giyong shook his head and stopped thinking about the whereabouts of the owners of the three small frog suits.

He held the wall and moved forward a little bit, because the door was just in front. After walking to the outer room, he was attracted by the three cards on the wall on his left hand side, and looked towards the light.

Two red cards and a card with a white frog pattern were hung on the wall with a strong rope.

Three names were written under the three cards, from left to right - Nagato, Yahiko and Konan.

Combined with the frog card above the name [Konan], Giyong roughly understood that this was the owner of the three children's frog suits.

[So, the large frog suit...]

He turned around with a sense of something, and sure enough, he saw another white frog card on the opposite wall.

The name below was [Jiraiya], which should be the adult who took care of the three children.

[I seem to have heard this name from someone, it should be a writer. 】

Giyong had some impression of the three words [Jiraiya], and thought about it lightly, but couldn't remember which book it was.

When he returned to Konoha, he could just go to the bookstore to verify it.

Thinking of this, Yiyong didn't stop and continued to walk towards the door.

Through the cracks in the cracked door, he had seen the figure of Hydrangea squatting on the ground outside, and it sounded like she was washing something. After confirming that the other party was still alive, Yiyong immediately felt relieved.

But before he opened the door to say hello, the sound of wind blowing through the pages of the book sounded above his head.

Yiyong looked up and saw a square piece of paper, which was clinging to the edge of the big hole in the roof. It was rustling in the breeze, but it was unwilling to fly out of the house, unexpectedly tenacious.

The next moment, more identical square pieces of paper appeared at the entrance of the hole, first swirling like being rolled up by the wind, and then overlapping one by one, and the color gradually changed.

In less than five seconds, a purple-haired woman with huge paper wings was suspended above the cave entrance. This move was somewhat similar to Shisui and Itachi's Crow Clone Technique.

The woman had her back to the sun, and was dyed with a golden halo by the sun. Her emotionless orange-red eyes looked down at Giyuu. The black robe on her body was exactly the same as the one that Giyuu had put on before, but it had no special features.

Neither of the two people, one big and one small, one tall and one short, spoke.

The two pairs of extremely similar indifferent pupils did not show any information that could be read or written - no hostility, no fear, no surprise, nothing. They were like two wooden men, competing to see who could not stand this silence first.

But everyone knows that the winner of this game can only be Yiyong.

Three minutes later, the purple-haired woman's lips with lip studs slightly tilted downwards, and her body slowly descended from the hole. The slightly obstructive wings immediately turned into scattered paper sticking to her body.

"I heard from a village that someone was looking for me everywhere, so I followed the clues to find him."

Her voice was also cold, as if she deliberately made herself sound cold.

"Last night, I found you on a tree trunk in the river not far away, and brought you here."

"..."

Yiyong looked at the bandages on his body and uttered two words: "Thank you."

"It's too early to say thank you now."

The purple-haired woman's eyes became a little stern, and several square pieces of paper flew out of her and stuck to Yiyong's wrists and knees.

Giyuu didn't dodge, he just felt that the two pieces of paper on his wrists were extremely tight against his skin, even to the point of oppression.

"When people lie, their pulses change. I can read your pulse through the paper. If I know you are lying..."

She made a few seals with her hands and stuck them on the two pieces of paper on Giyuu's knees, and immediately added the word "explosion".

Shisui reminded Giyuu that he should be careful of three things in the Rain Country - poison, detonating talismans, and instant body movement. Now he is really getting more and more impressed by the first two.

Seeing that Giyuu didn't mean to ask questions or beg for mercy, the purple-haired woman simply asked directly.

"Did you kill the Salamander Koga?"

When she was looking along the way, she saw the body of the Salamander Koga cut in half by a knife, and also heard the description of Ziyanghua later.

However, when she saw the injuries all over Giyuu's body, she couldn't believe that it was such a child, in this physical state, who solved one of the strongest ninjas in the Rain Country -

even the opponent's summoning and instant body movement didn't have time to use.

"Yeah."

Giyu nodded calmly.

The reason why he chose to stay at that time was, on the one hand, the situation forced him.

On the other hand, it was Hydrangea's declaration of revenge that made him decide to completely eliminate the initiator of this transplant experiment.

Less than two months after the transplant experiment began, the number of people killed by the Salamander Koga was more than that of ordinary upper-rank ghosts in a year. Giyu couldn't wait for the next opportunity. In addition, if Hydrangea wanted revenge, other children would inevitably have the same idea. It would be better for him to clear this nightmare so that they can get out of the shadow of this tragedy as soon as possible.

"Who sent you to kill him?"

"No one."

"Which country are you from?"

"I'm not a ninja. The country cannot be mentioned."

Shisui emphasized that the country and the ninja village cannot be mentioned in order to avoid political friction.

The woman frowned.

She was very dissatisfied with this answer, but Giyu's pulse was completely the same as before.

A child who can endure the pain brought by such injuries and kill three jonin at the same time in a desperate situation must have undergone quite harsh training, so it is likely that she is a genius ninja from a large ninja village.

This is also the reason why she was so wary of Giyu after clearly lending a helping hand.

"Why did you go to find Koga the Salamander, and why did you take the other children away?"

"I was looking for my missing friends and found there by the way. As for saving them, aren't you also doing it?"

Giyu asked back, "You are the 'angel' they are talking about, distributing food to the settlements in the Rain Country, right?"

From the moment he saw the pair of wings, he already knew the identity of this woman.

In essence, this person is just as he guessed, a person who has extra compassion for children, otherwise why would he need to treat his wounds, just wake him up and interrogate him, there must be many such people among ninjas.

"I was born in the Land of Rain, so I did this."

The purple-haired woman frowned, "But you are from another big country. If it is not for the mission, why risk your life to take them out of the Land of Rain?"

[Isn't it because of the value of the experimental subjects? ]

"Human life is human life, and it has nothing to do with the country."

Yiyong said impatiently: "Take them away to find a doctor to solve the hidden dangers in their bodies."

[No lie. ]

[Either he knows how to control the pulse to deal with this simple interrogation method. ]

The purple-haired woman fell silent, [Or is he just a child with some power but very naive? ]

"Then why are you looking for me everywhere?"

"My friend is missing. The investigation traces point to the Land of Rain."

Yiyong's tone is slightly hopeful, "We came here not long ago. I heard that you can fly and your movements are also suspicious, so I specially look for your location."

The purple-haired woman's expression warmed up a little.

This time, Yiyong's pulse obviously changed.

But it was different from the feeling of a normal person lying. It was just a normal ups and downs of emotions, not the kind that suddenly jumped and then calmed down.

This showed that his worry about the two missing people was real.

He stared into the purple-haired woman's eyes, "They are thirteen and sixteen years old, and they look very similar. Have you ever seen them?"

"Is it a ninja?"

"Yeah." Yiyong nodded.

"It's been a long time since I've seen ninjas from other countries."

The purple-haired woman shook her head, "You've found the wrong person."

[Still no clues about them...]

Yiyong frowned slightly, took two steps back and leaned against the wall.

[I just hope that Shisui can gain something in the Hidden Rain Village. 】

Now, Sanshou Koga, who caused a lot of tragedies, is dead, and Anjuro has been summoned, but his most important goal of coming to the Land of Rain this time has not yet been completed.

Giyuu just wants to find Shisui urgently and see if he has made any progress there. Besides, they had already agreed on a time to meet, and it should be coming soon.

"If there are no more problems, I'm leaving."

He pulled off the detonating talisman with two swipes and handed it to the purple-haired woman, not worrying at all that the other party would detonate it directly.

"I still have important things to do, so I can't waste any more time."

"Even if I don't stop you..."

The purple-haired woman did not reach out to pick up the explosive talisman, but shook her head and said, "You can't go far. Do you know where you are now and where you are going?"

Although this boy concealed his nationality, he was too direct in everything he said and did. The purple-haired woman was inclined to believe that he was just looking for someone.

In addition, although he came from a big country and had some naive ideas, he did save many residents of the Rain Country, as well as Hydrangea and other children from the Rain Ninja, so she had a good impression of the child.

Let him leave now. If he encounters Rain Ninja, he will probably die.

She doesn't want to do this.

"It's a small country and I'll always find a way."

Yiyong was very determined, "I have something I must do."

With that said, he was about to open the door outside the house.

"You know you only have a pair of underwear besides the bandages."

Yiyong's hand that just touched the door bolt was withdrawn.

"Hydrangea is cleaning your bloody clothes."

The purple-haired woman didn't know whether she was smiling or not. Anyway, seeing the kid not daring to turn his head, she felt a little relieved.

"Besides, I don't know the status of the implant in her body."

She suggested, "You stay here tonight and help me remove the things from her body.

"Your clothes will be dry tomorrow, and I will take you out of here personally. How about it?"

Yiyong still didn't look back, he nodded his head hard twice towards the door, then supported the wall and slowly moved back to the back room, covering himself with the black robe and motionless.

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