From the moment the employment mission was released, Naruto knew that there would definitely be ninjas who would choose to kill him for money.
However, this is exactly what he needs.
Therefore, he sent Menma to stay at Cardo's mansion, waiting for those ninjas to "deliver goods" and "take the initiative to defect."
"Damn it, Thunder Release, Thunder..." Before the rebellious ninja of Kumogakure could complete the seal of the ninjutsu, his body flew out uncontrollably.
"Rasengan!"
Because he wanted to capture these people alive, Menma did not add other properties to the Rasengan, but simply used the Rasengan to knock the Kumogakure ninja away.
The wind is tight, pull!
The ninja of the Bear Country, also known as Xiongji, immediately knew that something was wrong as soon as he saw Menma's "brutal" fighting style.
He immediately decided to abandon the accomplices he had found, and used a substitute technique to sneak away.
Kumogakure's rebellious ninja was defeated by the Rasengan, and Xiongji from the Bear Kingdom chose to run away. Suddenly, only the middle-aged ninja was left on the field.
"These guys..." The middle-aged ninja looked a little ugly. Of course he knew that these ninjas were unreliable, and he couldn't expect them to fight to the death, but he still didn't expect that this group of people would actually mess up to this extent.
He rolled his eyes and made a decision that Menma couldn't even imagine.
"I surrender!" he shouted, raising his hands in the air.
A rasengan appeared again in Menma's hand.
Since this middle-aged ninja was so sensible, Menma immediately changed his attack target, transformed into a stream of light, and chased after Xiong Ji who was running away.
For a moment, while the middle-aged ninja was still thinking about taking the opportunity to escape, Xiong Ji was captured by Menma in a coma.
Seeing this scene, the middle-aged ninja completely gave up the idea of escape.
In the dark basement, a candle burned tenaciously, bringing a little limited light to the basement.
Xiong Ji slowly woke up from his coma and found that he was sitting on a chair with his hands tied behind his back with a rope.
To be honest, this level of binding couldn't tie him down, but Xiong Ji didn't dare to make any small moves because a man with a white fox mask on his face was looking at him.
He turned his head and saw Kumogakure's rebel ninja tied to another chair in the basement. At this moment, he also woke up.
The middle-aged ninja who came with them stood behind the masked man, with his head lowered and his expression invisible.
"This damn traitor!" Xiong Ji scolded the middle-aged ninja in his heart for betraying him so easily. After venting in his heart, he felt, why didn't he surrender immediately?
After the two woke up, the masked man immediately said: "You actually want to attack me, you are really brave."
Xiong Ji explained: "Sir, we did not mean to offend. Please forgive me. I am willing to pay any price to compensate for my mistakes. I just ask you to spare my life."
"Hmph!" Menma snorted coldly: "Since you attacked me, you have to pay a corresponding price. This is common sense, right?"
"Please give your orders and I will definitely do it." Xiong Ji said quickly.
"I happen to be short of a number of available subordinates recently. If you want to survive, you must serve me."
Hearing this, Xiong Ji hesitated.
The reason why these wandering ninjas are called wandering ninjas is because they are unwilling to be bound by various organizations, and even forming a team is temporary.
In this case, they were asked to join Menma's men, and of course Xiongji... agreed on the spot!
Are you kidding me? The 'freedom' of a wandering ninja is more important than life?
Without hesitation, Xiong Ji also chose to join Menma's team.
The same goes for Kumogakure's rebellious ninja. How could he not care about his own life even if he was considered a rebellious ninja?
Menma ordered Xiong Ji and others to come to him and ordered them to stretch out the palm of their left hand.
He injected a trace of chakra from his body into the palm of their left hand, and then cast a sealing technique!
"Ninja Technique—Four Symbols Seal!"
After finishing all this, Menma said: "I have sealed a trace of chakra in my body in the palm of your left hand in the form of a seal."
"From now on, no matter where you go, I can sense you."
"So, never think about betrayal. The only fate for a traitor is death!"
After receiving this seal, Xiong Ji and others turned a little pale.
"Damn it, if this happens, you won't even be able to escape." Xiong Ji secretly complained in his heart.
With Menma's move, no matter where they go, they will be controlled by him.
Unless he is defeated in turn, there is no way he can live freely after defecting.
Sooner or later one day his head will be taken away from his neck.
"Of course, this four-image seal is not without its benefits." Menma continued.
"From now on, you can rely on this method to judge whether you are the enemy or not. If you want to know if it is one of your own, just stretch out your left hand and open your palm."
Because this four-symbol seal also sealed a trace of his chakra, there would be an inexplicable feeling when they were close to each other.
In this way, even if the enemy wants to fake it, they will not be able to do so.
This move is a perfect defense against the problem of sneaking in with the transformation technique.
After these people became Menma's subordinates, their mentality changed very quickly.
After leaving the basement, Xiong Ji took the initiative and asked: "Sir, what do you want us to do?"
"There will definitely be many ninjas who came here after hearing the news. Although you are the first, you will definitely not be the last."
"What you have to do is to add new 'companions' to yourself."
Xiong Ji and the others immediately responded: "We understand."
Maybe it's because after people are unlucky, they always want to see more people who are as unlucky as themselves.
In the next few days, wandering ninjas from all over the country kept coming, wanting a piece of the pie.
Xiong Ji and the other three used all their strength to knock them down and defeat them.
If they can't deal with the ninja, Menma will take action.
Five days later, Menma's men had expanded to thirty-seven people.
Eight others were killed directly because they died in the battle or refused to surrender.
But compared to the total number of ninjas who attacked, those who refused to surrender were only a minority.
"Thirty-seven ninjas, including two jounin, twenty chunin, and fifteen genin."
Menma counted the number of his men. He did not expect that among the wandering ninjas there were many genin-level rebellious ninjas.
"It's a pity that none of these people are in the original work. They are all unknown extras."
Especially those two jounin, they both came from small ninja villages. They are not as good as the big ninja villages from the five major countries. The status of jounin is too low and too watery.
"Everything is difficult at the beginning. In just a few days, the organizational framework has been set up, so don't criticize so much." Menma comforted herself.
With such a group of "loyal and reliable" subordinates, Menma finally no longer has to do everything by himself.