At the end of December, the weather became even colder, and it felt like it was completely winter. Occasionally, light snow would fall on the road.

Most of the animals in the mountain forests have also begun to hibernate, and there are fewer signs of walking around.

Standing on a huge tree stump, Kisame looked into the distance with his tiny eyes.

All the surrounding trees were flattened by some kind of sharp object, revealing an extremely desolate mountain scenery.

The wind blowing from a distance is also mixed with an unbearable chill.

Kisame subconsciously touched the handle of the Samehada sword behind him, then jumped off the tree stump and walked in a certain direction along the overgrown path.

The empty cave without any warmth is the meeting point.

It is also the destination of Kisame's trip.

Thinking about it carefully, it has been several months since he defected and left the village. In the past few months, just dealing with the Kirigakure chasing troops behind him to capture him has already made him exhausted.

Coupled with the fact that he had to face a very talkative annoying person, Kisame's mood became even worse.

This talkative person is Bai Jue.

She always comes over to chat with him from time to time, trying to get him to join a mysterious organization, and is more diligent than Kirigakure's pursuit troops to trouble him.

In view of this, Kisame also made up his mind and began to contact the organization they talked about.

After all, being invited proactively and entering on your own initiative are completely different concepts.

The former will not make others suspicious, while the purpose of the latter can be easily seen through by others as having ulterior motives.

Therefore, Kisame also deduced that this organization must have insufficient manpower.

There is too little core members.

If they gather enough strength, they won't be so obsessed with themselves and eager to join them.

And Bai Jue's approach proves this point.

It is consistent with the speculation made over there. Next, just follow the plan. Kisame thought to himself while looking at the dark hole.

When we entered the cave, we found that the space inside was very large.

After entering, Kisame found that two people had already boarded first.

The pale-skinned man with a slender body and long black hair has cold vertical pupils like snakes, and there is a strange purple eye shadow beside the corners of his eyes. A snake crawled out of his sleeves and was playing with his fingers.

Next to him, there was a hunched man with a black scarf on his face, his ugly eyebrows and forehead exposed, and a fierce aura rushed towards his face.

Both of them were wearing black coats with red clouds, and rings with different words engraved on their fingers, as if they were waiting for something.

Orochimaru.

Red sand scorpion.

When he saw these two people, Kisame's body tensed subconsciously and he stopped moving forward.

Needless to say about the latter, the former is one of the Sannin of Konoha and can be said to be a well-known figure.

In terms of reputation alone, the Sannin are completely superior to the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.

Moreover, he felt a vague sense of danger from Orochimaru, as if he was being stared at by a cold snake, and his body reacted unnaturally with vigilance.

As mentioned in the intelligence, this is indeed a rebel concentration camp.

Don't be careless for a moment.

"Oh, are there new people here? This is really a rare thing."

I thought it was just a simple gathering, but I didn't expect that a strange ninja would suddenly show up.

This made Orochimaru raise his eyebrows in surprise, and then chuckled, but the laughter gave people a bad feeling.

After hearing Orochimaru's words, Scorpion also raised his head and looked at Kisame who came here, took a deep look and said:

"Are the Seven Ninja Swordsmen here? It looks like there's a very interesting newcomer here."

Then, he shut up and didn't have much desire to talk.

I agree with him in terms of strength, but in terms of appearance, the other party is not suitable to be a 'puppet' in his hands.

too ugly.

It really can't be kept as one's own collection.

"That's it. This is our new companion who is about to join us."

The human form of White Zetsu and Black Zetsu merged into one, emerged from the ground, stood beside Kisame, and said to Orochimaru and Scorpion.

The one who spoke was Hei Jue.

Then Bai Jue smiled and said, "Although it took a lot of effort, I finally succeeded."

"Really? I don't have a problem. After all, being able to join new people is a good thing. Scorpion, what do you think?"

Orochimaru chuckled and turned to look at Scorpion.

Xie snorted and said, "You can just decide for yourself on this kind of thing. Anyway, the weak ones will be eliminated soon."

"Xiao, if you say that, it will make Kisame feel a lot of pressure. Well, Kisame, you don't have to worry too much, the members in the organization are still very friendly."

Bai Jue chuckled heartlessly.

Friendly? Kisame was speechless at Bai Zetsu's comment.

The people here are all S-class rebellious ninjas who are famous in the ninja world. If this can be considered friendly, it is really an outrageous comment.

Just when Kisame was about to speak, rainbow-colored ripples suddenly appeared not far from them, and then the ripples became more and more violent, forming a human shape.

Three rainbow-colored ripples appeared one after another, and three other people joined in.

Unlike Orochimaru and Scorpion, they obviously did not use their own bodies, but a ninjutsu similar to projection, to project a clone of themselves here.

The new Sannin appeared, two men and one woman.

Although it was just a projection, Kisame could still roughly see the appearance of these three people.

These three people are naturally Nagato, Konan, and Hiruhu.

They came here almost at the same time using projection.

After Nagato arrived here, he first glanced at everyone, then turned his attention to Kisame and said to him: "Welcome to join Akatsuki, the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of Kirigakure Village, Gigangaki Kisame."

"Xiao? Is this the name of the organization?"

Kisame asked.

When Bai Jue and Black Jue came to find him, they did not reveal the specific name of the organization.

The name of the organization cannot be leaked out at will, it is only useful to internal core members.

In other words, external non-staff personnel may not know that the name of the organization is Akatsuki.

Kisame could see that Akatsuki was very secretive. Regardless of Kirigakure, the rest of the great ninja villages knew nothing about this organization.

"Yes. Now that you have joined Xiao, you are a companion. Your business is also the organization's business."

Nagato said this.

"Don't get me wrong, I just came here to give it a try because I had nowhere else to go. If Akatsuki can really bring me more meaning, then let me look forward to it. I hope it won't be too boring. Too boring

If so, I don’t want to be restricted by you.”

Kisame snorted, seeming to remain pessimistic about the future.

"Don't worry, you won't be bored."

Nagato said affirmatively.

He had already learned from Black Zetsu that Kisame was a ninja who was extremely sensitive to the word 'trust'.

Because his experience of betraying his boss twice can be said to be a huge hidden pain in his heart.

It seems that it will take a long process for the other party to convince Xiao.

"So, can we trust you in terms of strength?"

The person who suddenly interrupted the exchange between the two was Bei Liuhu, who had been silent since arriving here.

Black Zetsu replied: "In terms of strength, we can guarantee that his ninjutsu characteristics are also very suitable for capturing tailed beasts and jinchūriki."

This is what he valued about Kisame.

That big sword, Samehada, has a good suppressing effect on jinchuriki and tailed beasts.

Together with other members, you can easily capture the tailed beast.

Orochimaru raised the corners of his mouth, and his voice was a little sinister: "I heard that the current fourth generation Mizukage of Kirigakure, Goju Yagura, is Kirigakure's three-tailed jinchūriki. He seems to be able to perfectly control tailed beasts just like Kumogakure's eight-tails.

.It is a powerful and perfect Jinchuuriki."

He looked at Kisame with inquiring eyes, as if confirming the authenticity of this information.

Kisame hesitated for a moment, nodded, and recognized the authenticity of this information.

"The fourth generation is indeed a perfect Jinchuuriki. He can be said to be the strongest ninja in Kirigakure. Even my sword, Samega, cannot restrict him too much."
To be continued...