When Bai turned the corner holding a change of clothes, he happened to see Butterfly Ninja punching the air.
Veins appeared on her forehead and her ears were red. She first hit the imaginary enemy in front of her - an airman about the same height as her - with two swinging punches, one left and one right, and then added another punch that was so quick that it hit her fingertips.
Hit the opponent in the abdomen.
The last punch was particularly fierce: Butterfly Ninja's clenched uppercut punched hard from below, and he didn't stop the momentum until he was a head higher than himself. It seemed that he was dreaming of punching the opponent on the chin and knocking him away.
.
After doing all this, Butterfly Ninja regained his composure and his shoulders stopped rising.
She smoothed her white coat, adjusted her hairstyle, turned around with a smile that was no different from usual, and made eye contact with Bai's somewhat horrifying eyes.
Butterfly Ren's eyes turned into crescent shapes: "It's Bai, when did it come? I didn't even hear the sound."
"We just arrived." Bai felt his throat was a little dry, so he emphasized: "It took less than five seconds."
Then you won't see anything.
"..." The Butterfly Ninja saw through it but did not say anything. He focused his eyes on the suit of clothes that Bai was holding. There was a small mirror and scissors on the top of the clothes.
"Is this the only kind of clothing in Orochimaru's base?"
"Well, there's not much difference in general. They were originally adult sizes, so I cut them down and re-sewed the sleeves and corners."
"You're great, Bai. You can even cut clothes."
Butterfly Ninja immediately beamed, "In my hometown, apart from tailoring, only girls who want to get married can learn these things. My sister is very good at it, but I don't have much interest in this."
"This..." Bai didn't know what he thought of, and his face turned pink, "As a ninja, you must know a little bit about it."
"That's it." The Butterfly Ninja stared at Shiro for a while, until he was a little panicked by the gaze, and then suddenly said: "I have sent Yan to deliver a message to the Kirigakure ninja named 'Momochi Zabuza'.
In your current situation, it is definitely unrealistic to return to Kirigakure Village. If you want to meet, he can only come to you."
From the Butterfly Ninja's point of view, the Jonin who had severed his hand would definitely not tell the truth completely when he returned.
If he said something like "We were retaliated for torturing Zabuza's followers", he would be severely punished.
So in his words, Shiro has probably become a Kirigakure traitor who is colluding with Butterfly Ninhang.
When the Butterfly Ninja let him go, he didn't think much about it. He just wanted him to serve as a messenger to make Kirigakure realize that there was a sharp sword hanging above their heads outside the village to restrain their behavior.
But now it seems that by doing so, she gave Shiro, a rare good man, a reason not to go back to being a ninja in disguise.
【Good seedlings like this must stay.】
Butterfly Ninja's eyes flickered, and his mind was spinning rapidly.
She asked Tao Ya to tell Momochi that what Zabuza said was all the truth, and she still didn't know how the other party would react.
If the ninja named Zabuza Momochi intends to avoid suspicion and draw a clear line with Haku, then Haku can justifiably end his career as a ninja and stay here.
If the other party plans to use this news to lead the Kirigakure ninja attack to settle the score with her, then Purgatory, Tomioka and her are all here. What will greet Kirigakure is another tragic defeat, and Shiro will see clearly the true face of the other party, completely
Give up.
And the last possibility is that Momochi Zabuza really cares about Haku, and would rather risk being accused of "collaborating with the enemy" to come and see Haku.
What to do at that time will have to be improvised.
Bai didn't expect that in just a few seconds, so many thoughts would flash through Butterfly Ninja's little head, and he was still immersed in the dual emotions of joy and worry——
He wanted to stay here, but he didn't want to betray Zabuza, so he was caught in a dilemma.
"Okay, with Yan's speed, you will receive a reply tonight at the latest, and it won't be too late to get confused by then."
The Butterfly Ninja patted Shiro's shoulder comfortingly, "I'm going to see Kabuto the pharmacist who knows a lot of things first, and see how to deal with him. As for Tomioka, I'll leave it to you. I'll talk to you outside later.
They will meet up."
After saying that, the butterfly ninja left, and Bai calmed down at the door before opening the door and walking in.
Giyuu was getting off the hospital bed with the help of a water clone. The Sharingan he had opened before had long since closed and turned back to dark blue.
Just by glancing at him, Yiyong felt that the other person's body shape was somewhat familiar, and he immediately thought: "You are the child lying on the cliff a few nights ago."
Being called "kid" by the person in front of her, Bai's beautiful face stiffened and she said, "You still remember me."
"Of course I remember. You and your companions don't seem to be very strong, but you still stay so close to the battlefield. You really have no self-awareness."
Giyuu only said a few words out of good intentions, but Shiro's ears were full of disgust and contempt: "If I hadn't been concerned about your safety, I would have directly used a large-scale water escape to deal with Orochimaru."
"Sorry." Bai drooped his eyebrows and lowered his head. It was obviously the first time he talked to Yiyong, but Bai already had complicated feelings towards him.
Why did Giyuu seem to be polite, but the words he said made him feel more uncomfortable than when those Kiri ninjas insulted him?
Shiro still remembers that when he was running away with Yiyong, he was met by Anjuro halfway. The latter's encouraging eyes and warm and grateful compliments were like going to another imaginary world - his self-feeling was so
Good and think that they are worthy of anything in the world.
However, at this moment, in front of Yiyong, he felt as if he was sitting on pins and needles, like a thorn in his back, like a lump in his throat...
In short, two extremes.
【How did the three of them get together?】
"Well..." Shiro still doesn't understand why the Butterfly Ninja calls Uchiha Giyuu Tomioka, so he doesn't know what to call him better. He can only take a step closer and show the clothes in his hand, "I'll help you clean it."
Now, change your clothes."
"You put it there." Yiyong glanced at the water clone beside him, "I can do it myself."
As the Butterfly Ninja said, with such an appearance, even though he knew the other person was a man, Giyuu was still a little concerned.
"Then do you know how to cut your hair?"
Bai grabbed the scissors, making a clicking sound of metal friction, and pointed to the left side of the volunteer rice ball's head, "Most of the hair here has been burned by the detonating charm, so it is curled up. If it is not repaired, the two sides will be unbalanced. Look.
It's going to look weird."
"I should be able to do this simple hairstyle..."
"After all, the clone cannot act according to your wishes at any time. The main body must keep an eye on the command at all times."
Bai Wen interrupted: "You can only see with one eye now, and there is always a difference between seeing with both eyes. Besides, you can't just cut the top of the head and the front, but you also have to deal with the back, otherwise
It looks like someone with a moon-shaped head has new hair... You don’t want to appear like that in front of others, do you?”
In fact, volunteerism doesn't matter.
But when I think about having a good relationship with others, the book also said that the first impression can usually determine a person's basic attitude towards another person...
The next moment, the water body disappeared, and Yiyong said solemnly: "Then I'll trouble you."
"Well, please sit on the chair over there."
The haircut began quickly, and there was no talking between the two of them for the first few minutes.
——One doesn’t want to talk, and one probably doesn’t want to hear what the other has to say.
But this kind of silence is a bit disturbing after all. And there is always a doubt in Bai's heart.
"I can ask," Shiro asked tentatively while trimming the hair on Giyuu's head: "What were you talking about before Miss Shinobu left this room?"
What happened to make the gentle Miss Shinobu so angry?
Surprisingly, Yiyong seemed to have no intention of hiding anything.
"We didn't talk about anything important." Yiyong said casually: "Butterfly asked me if I really think that there is no one more beautiful than her."
The white eyebrows twitched inadvertently, and he had already figured out the content of the conversation between the two before this sentence, and a strange smile appeared on his face.
[It turns out that Miss Shinobu is no different from ordinary girls in this aspect. It’s just... isn’t she a little too early at this age? 】
[And who would give the wrong answer to such a question...]
Wait, that’s not right!
Bai suddenly became alert. If it was a satisfactory answer, Miss Ren would not act like she did just now.
"So how did you answer?" he asked a little worriedly.
"Of course not." Yiyong said confidently.
[No problem?] Bai Bai was confused, [Don’t Miss Ren not like others to praise her appearance, but pay more attention to her intelligence and talent?]
Yiyong hasn't finished speaking yet.
"Because no one more beautiful than her is no longer alive."
Giyuu naturally said it was his eldest sister Tomioka Tsutako, who is also both mother and sister. In his heart, there was naturally no one more beautiful than his sister.
It's just that Butterfly Ren was walking in a hurry and didn't hear him finish the second half of his sentence.
"Click——" The crisp sound of scissors became a bit harsh.
"I'm sorry..." Bai Yan saw a bunch of hair falling on the ground, and said apologetically: "Originally, I wanted to cut my hair short, but now it seems that I can only cut it into an inch."
Half an hour later, Tomioka walked out of the room with a new hairstyle, new clothes, and new bandages and splints on his left hand and left leg.
He was wearing a white coat, with a wide open collar that was only gathered up by a dark purple waistband at the waist. The outside was tied with a twist tie like a rope attached to the center pillar of a shrine, as if a python was wrapped around it. On the waist.
(Sasuke's clothes in Shippuden)
Further down, there are loose riding hakama and sandals that are standard for ninjas.
All in all, this outfit is quite retro, making Giyuu, with his short Shisui-style hair, look like a wandering samurai.
As soon as he entered the corridor, Giyuu recognized that this was the bottom floor where Orochimaru conducted experiments.
The difference from before is that the doors of these laboratories are covered by thick roots growing from the mountains.
"What's going on?" Yiyong looked around and found these roots everywhere, "There were none before."
"Miss Ninja is afraid that those children will run into this place and see horrible things,"
Thinking of the strange experimental subjects I saw here yesterday, the color drained from my white face, and it took me several seconds to finish my next sentence.
"So I used wood escape to connect the plants in the mountain and seal these rooms."
"Mudun?" Yiyong sounded a little surprised, "Did Butterfly master chakra so quickly?"
Because his eyes were uncomfortable, he hadn't used the Transparent World since he woke up, so he didn't notice that the Butterfly Ninja had mastered chakra.
"Yes." Bai nodded, "After you were unconscious, Miss Shinobu had a dispute with a group of Kirigakure ninjas to protect me, which triggered her blood inheritance limit."
Bai's status in Kirigakure Village was not enough to know what Wood Release actually meant. He just thought it was something similar to his Ice Release, so he said it more casually.
"Dispute?" Giyuu repeated the word strangely, "What happened to those fog ninjas in the end?"
"I didn't see it." Because he was "escaping", Bai lowered his head in shame, "But Miss Ren said that he taught them some lessons."
"That's it." Yiyong didn't notice anything wrong. After walking a few steps, he suddenly remembered another person.
"Before Xingshourou and Butterfly arrived here, I asked a child named Kiden Suigetsu to take care of the other people in the base. Did anything happen to him?"
Although he was not looking forward to it, based on Yiyong's limited understanding of Gui Deng Shui Yue, the child should have been eager to sit on his bedside and urge him to teach him sword skills. There should not be any movement like now.
"Well," Bai said with a wry smile on his face, "that child was punished for speaking rudely to Miss Nin."
"Is that rude?" Yiyong had a bad premonition.
He remembered what Tanjiro had said about Fusukawa Saneya's younger brother, Fussukawa Genya, who was tortured a lot when he was being treated at Butterfly House after joining the Demon Slayer Corps.
"Miss Ninja said that you need to rest, but Ghost Light and Water Moon said that he was your disciple, so he insisted on breaking into the room. After being stopped by Miss Ninja, he threatened to cut her into pieces.
,return……"
Bai stretched out his right index finger and scratched horizontally in front of his neck, "And he did such an action."
Yiyong paired it with Gui Deng Shuiyue's usual playful smile and grinning expression, and after thinking about it, he suddenly felt that something was even worse.
"So, what's the punishment?"
Bai looked towards the deepest part of the base, "Miss Nin tied him up with branches and locked him in the refrigerator."
Giyuu knew that the refrigerator was probably the same one where Orochimaru stored the Sharingan and Hashirama cells. He had asked him to take out everything in it, and it looked like it could hold several people in it.
"Isn't it too much?"
[Although the child's words are a bit unpleasant, in essence...]
Yiyong muttered to himself, turned around and walked towards the innermost room without any worry.
Bai's voice caught up with him: "There are a lot of tree roots on the door of that room and on the outside of the refrigerator. It would take a lot of effort for anyone except Miss Nin to untie them. Miss Nin has told me that patients should not go through her."
Allowed, but you must not do anything casually..."
Of course, Bai also understood that it would not be easy to untie the wooden bars with Yiyong's strength, and he didn't expect his reminder to have any effect.
But he didn't expect that Yiyong would actually stop with some scruples.
I have no choice but to do what I promised and do it honestly.
"Where is the butterfly now?" Yiyong asked.
"She is busy and will meet you later."
"Then let's wait until she arrives."
Anyway, that refrigerator only has a refrigeration function.
In this way, Yiyong and Bai set off together and arrived outside the base.
Different from the previous environment with thick trees and rugged rocks, Orochimaru's base has now shed its "shell" and is completely exposed to the air. The surrounding stones have been removed, and the trees have been cut down to their roots.
The surroundings were unobstructed.
Not far away, there were many older boys, girls and adults wielding axes to chop down trees; children who had not yet reached puberty were pushing small wooden carts filled with gravel, transporting stones and branches to the edge.
The smaller ones gathered around a large tree stump, some were playing games and some were peeling potatoes.
But what they have in common is that each group of people has a Xingjulang beside them, who accompanies them to work or play together.
"Miss Ninja said that in order to prevent ninjas from hiding nearby, it was necessary to clear away everything that blocked the view. She originally wanted to remove the tree herself..."
Bai saw Yiyong's confusion and explained: "But Anjuro felt that it was necessary for everyone to contribute to their own safety, so he organized everyone to take part in activities. Although the process is a bit cumbersome, this is the only way
, those who were locked up before will not have random thoughts. And after putting in physical labor, everyone will not feel that they are being given alms, and they will be able to accept the kindness of others with more peace of mind."
Giyong nodded. This is indeed what Anjuro would say.
His clones hang out with these children. One is for safety reasons to prevent anyone from being injured at work. Furthermore, once someone cannot control the blood inheritance limit, these clones can stop them through the Vajra Blockade.
Another reason is that it also serves to adjust the atmosphere. Anjuro can also use his clones to notice which people are in a low mood, and then he can persuade them.
Hearing the voices of more than a dozen Anjuro mingling among the group of forty or fifty people, although it was a bit noisy, Yiyong rarely relaxed.
At this time, a clone of Xingjulang passed by Yiyong carrying a tree trunk more than ten meters long, and pointed the direction enthusiastically: "You finally woke up! The real body is waiting for you on the hillside over there, hurry up
Click over! He can’t wait to see you!”
Yiyong nodded to him, and the former immediately ran away full of energy, while Bai was still dumbly trying to estimate the weight of the tree trunk.
He had never seen Anjuro do anything, but since he was Miss Shinobu and Uchiha Giyuu was a friend, he knew he was not an ordinary person.
But Bai didn't expect that the other party, just a clone, could easily carry such a heavy thing!
【Where did they come from...】
Huge doubts wrapped around Bai's heart like a spider web.
"Let's go." Yiyong walked through the crowd and walked up the hillside.
But just as he was passing by a huge rock at the foot of the mountain, Yiyong suddenly heard a violent collision——
The object that made the sound sounded clanging and hard, but it didn't have the crisp sound of metal.
In addition, it was also mixed with violent breathing and whispered curses.
"It should be Ishisaku and Kimimaro."
Bai and Yiyong climbed a few steps higher and immediately saw clearly the scene behind the boulder.
Three teenagers with no eyebrows and skin as pale as bones surrounded another white-haired boy in the middle. Each of them was panting and ready for battle.
The eldest among the three looks only a little younger than Itachi, and the youngest is about the same as Kisuiyuki. Each of them is holding two bone spurs as long as forearms, and the skin is torn and the wounds are bleeding-but it is Shiro who is besieged in the middle.
The boy was unscathed, his clothes were only scratched, and his breath was the most stable.
The next moment, the bleeding wounds of the three people disappeared without a trace, as if they were closed by an invisible zipper.
This familiar sense of sight immediately reminded Yiyong of the Taketori Karaki he met in Yunin Village and his instructions.
"Kimimaro..." Giyuu called out softly, "That's the child."
All the ninjas present heard his soft call immediately.
Taketori Ishisaku, the oldest among the black-haired boys, glanced over fiercely, and when he saw Shiro, he immediately turned into a surprise.
"You are the ninja who can make popsicles yesterday, right?" He waved happily to Bai Bai, "You also come to join us, just the three of us, it seems that you are no match for Kimimaro!"
"It seems?" twelve-year-old Tie Zuo added, "We have never met him."
Gang Zuo's focus is completely different: "Make me another popsicle, I'm a little thirsty."
"Sorry, I have to take him to the mountains."
Bai was not interested in fighting at all, and even avoided the fighting lunatics of the Taketori clan, "I'm afraid I don't have time to be with you."
"Huh? Is this the guy who was injured yesterday?"
Ishizuo's attention came to Yiyong and he jumped directly in front of him and Bai.
His two brothers followed suit and surrounded Yiyong, looking at him with half curiosity and half contempt.
After all, in the eyes of the Taketori clan who can recover from injuries, all those who need to be healed are scum, and it is normal to have some contempt.
Yiyong faced the malicious looks of the three people and felt that this scene was somewhat familiar.
Only Kimimaro remained in the "battlefield" below, but he looked at Giyu with a hint of vigilance that no one else had.
"Hey, little blind man, if you can walk and stand, just go up by yourself and leave him here for us."
Yiyong didn't respond and looked at Taketori Ishisaku calmly, as if he didn't know who he was talking to.
"Hey," Zhutori Shizuo became impatient and poked Yiyong's shoulder with the bone knife in his hand, "Little blind man, can't you hear me?"
Yiyong finally understood.
"Little blind man, do you mean me?" He pointed to his nose, and then blinked, "But I can see it."
"That's right, he can see." The youngest Gangzuo corrected: "It should be a one-eyed dragon."
"A little cripple can do it, too. Look, he has steel plates tied to his legs."
The three of them looked at each other and started arguing over what nickname to give Yiyong.
Bai was sweating coldly, fearing that Yiyong would stretch out a bloody sword from his fingertips and cut these three people into ashes.
However, when he looked around, Yiyong's face was calm, with no intention of getting angry at all, as if he had been used to it for a long time.
"Let's go." Seeing that the three brothers could not come up with a solution after discussing for a long time, Yiyong said to Bai.
Bai nodded hurriedly, and just as he was about to set off, he was blocked by Zhutori Shizuo again.
"Let him climb up by himself, and you come with us."
There was already a threat in his tone, which must be the way people of the same age in the Taketori clan get along with each other.
"Miss Nin arranged for me to take him up."
Bai had no choice but to use Shinobu's name. Although they didn't know what happened yesterday, these three people were obviously a little afraid of Butterfly Shinobi.
Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, both Tie Zuo and Gang Zuo took a step back.
Just as Shi Zuo was about to act synchronously, he stopped abruptly and stiffly scratched his neck: "So what? She's not here now! Even if she is here, I will never..."
"Is it really?"
Butterfly Ren appeared silently.
Except for Yiyong, no one saw how she acted.
She put her feet on her feet and put her chin over Zhutori Ishisaku's shoulder, "Even if I'm here, you will never... how about that?"
Zhutoshi turned his head mechanically like a puppet, and found Butterfly Nin smiling, and his heart was already half cold.
His throat felt like it was being strangled by a rope to the size of a needle, and he couldn't utter a word.
"You guys like to give others nicknames."
The butterfly ninja held a steaming kettle in his right hand, and three teacups in a cloth bag in his left hand. It seemed that they were prepared for the reunion of the three of them.
While talking to Shi Zuo, she took out a teacup and handed it to Bai's hand, indicating that he could add some ice to it. Bai didn't understand why, but he did so anyway.
"I guess if you win at home, you will give the losers all kinds of unpleasant nicknames to insult them, right?"
The three Taketori brothers nodded subconsciously.
Butterfly Ninja poured hot tea into a teacup with ice, then took the cup and slowly shook it, letting the ice cubes melt slowly, while looking at Taketori Shisaku with his eyes.
"I don't know what kind of nickname you were given by your tribe when you lost, and how humiliating you felt."
Zhu Qishi's eyebrows twitched, obviously thinking of something bad.
"But at least I know that from tomorrow on, you will have a new nickname."
After saying that, Butterfly Ninja poured the cooling hot tea directly on his trouser legs.
Not hot, but very confusing.
Taketori Ishisaku saw that the gray trousers were visibly soaked to dark gray, but he was still confused: "What are you doing?"
"Guess, if I yell here, 'Someone is so old that he wets his pants',"
Butterfly Ninja pointed to the crowd at work below, "How many people will turn their heads to look at you?"
Zhutori Ishisaku was stunned for a moment, then an angry look appeared on his face: "You are talking nonsense, they can all testify to me."
Butterfly Ren raised the corners of his lips and looked at Tie Zuo and Gang Zuo who took a step back again with kind eyes: "He said you would testify against him."
"Of course I will testify!" Tie Zuoyi, a male widow, said, "What's the matter?"
Shi Zuo couldn't believe it, glared angrily, and then immediately jumped away and left this place.
But the Butterfly Ninja stretched out his hand as quickly as a lizard preying on prey, grabbed his wrist and pulled him hard, actually pulling him down.
At the same time, a tree tendril stretched out from the soil and tied his ankles.
【Oops.】 Taketori Ishisaku was really panicked and he didn’t dare to continue to resist.
"How's it going?" Butterfly Ninja came closer and asked, "Do you want me to shout? Let's recall what it feels like to be humiliated in public?"
"What do you want?!" Zhutoshizuo gritted his teeth.
The Taketori clan is not very smart, but he also understands that if Butterfly Ren shouts out, he will have no shame in staying here anymore.
Butterfly Shinobi's smile faded: "Apologise."
This time she wasn't making a fuss out of a molehill.
It is important to make these children aware of what behaviors are hurting others. The best way is to make them feel the same way.
"I'm sorry." Zhutori Shizuo bowed to her aggrievedly.
"The little blind man didn't scold me, so why are you apologizing to me?" Butterfly reluctantly raised his eyebrows, "Do you want to get away with it?"
"No need..."
Yiyong raised his hand. He felt that he had nothing to lose, he was just a group of children, why should he be so serious?
But Butterfly Shinobi glared at him, and Giyuu had no choice but to shut his mouth and accept the reluctant bows of Taketori Ishisaku and his two brothers.
"Not just him, there are many disabled adults and children here."
The Butterfly Ninja warned: "I don't want anyone here to be given a strange title, just like you, the Taketori clan, don't want to be called a fool, idiot, or brain-dead by the Kiri Ninja. It's the same thing that you don't want to encounter.
Don't force things on others, understand?"
"Got it." The three people nodded dejectedly. As for how much they heard, only God knows.
Yiyong finally understood the purpose of Butterfly Ninja's excuse.
This is not to defend him, but to protect others who may be in the same situation.
"Go ahead, I'll find you later."
The butterfly ninja said hello to Kimimaro below, and then said: "I will take him up, you can do whatever you want, don't be too restrained."
"I know." Soon, everyone left, leaving only Butterfly Ninja and Yiyong.
"You look pretty good, but the collar is a little exposed, but you're still a little brat now, so no one will care."
The Butterfly Ninja looked at Giyu, and the unpleasant emotions he felt not long ago seemed to have been completely forgotten.
"However, such a energetic hairstyle should also be matched with brighter eyes."
"You asked me to..." Yiyong pointed to his eyes uncertainly.
Butterfly Ninja nodded.
"The exercises in Changzhong can be done anytime and anywhere. Even the breathing of the moon does not have to wait until night. Didn't I say before that I want you to become familiar with the feeling of amplified emotions? Now
Purgatory and I are both here, so even if you really lose control, there won't be any problem. Is there any better time than now?"
"I see."
After Giyuu switched his breathing method to Moon Breathing, the Sharingan switched over as if it was automatically awakened, but the color was darker and redder than the last time.
"It looks much cuter now."
The butterfly ninja expressed his true thoughts in a semi-ridiculing tone, and without any explanation, he supported Giyuu and walked to the hillside step by step.
Not long after, they saw Anjurou holding a map and looking into the distance, as if comparing himself to something.
Hearing the noise coming from behind, Xingjulang turned around suddenly, his two fiery red eyes dazzling more than the morning sun.
"Yiyong! Well done! I've heard from Miss Shinobi and others about what happened before! It's all thanks to your efforts that these children can bathe in the sun so quickly!"
He paused and looked at the crowd of people around the base who were laughing from time to time. "Now that Miss Nin has been resurrected, we are almost there. It's time to discuss ways to keep this laughter going!"
