Chapter 333: Chapter 333: Sasori and Kabuto
Chapter 333: Sasori and Kabuto
It's no wonder little Hanabi was surprised. The posture of Hinata and Ino at this moment would indeed raise some questions in the eyes of an outsider.
Ino was tall, and Hinata was short. Now, the short one was hugging the tall one from behind, covering the tall one's mouth. They were pressed quite close together, a naturally very strange sight.
Hinata was dumbfounded, her mind a complete blank, not knowing how to explain.
At the critical moment, it was up to Ino. She spouted nonsense with a calm face. "Did you know your sister was in a movie with the big star, Kazahana Koyuki? There's a scene just like this in the movie Icha Icha Paradise. We're just imitating a scene from the movie."
Little Hanabi's attention was immediately diverted. She asked many questions about filming, and Ino managed to muddle through with random talk.
In the end, the swimming practice didn't happen. Little Hanabi was already home from school, which meant it was evening, and she should be heading home too.
"I'll be back tomorrow!" Ino waved to Hinata at the door.
"Huh?" Hinata's little face fell. You're coming back tomorrow?
The next day, just as Ino left her house, she was called away by an ANBU ninja for a mission outside the village. Hinata breathed a sigh of relief when she got the news. Ino's methods were all too complicated; she would just drink milk obediently for the next few days…
The chaos in the Sand Village had escalated from verbal sparring in meetings to open warfare.
The faction that originally belonged to Gaara, the moderate faction that was friendly to Konoha, was suppressed by the hardline faction. With nowhere else to go, the rather bold Temari sent someone to Konoha for help.
No matter what, the two hidden villages were still allies.
If your neighbors, a couple, are fighting at home, don't you need to go over and ask, to mediate? Konoha was in that role now.
Sending several thousand ninja troops over was not mediation; that was war. In the end, Jiraiya sent out the trio of Ino, Shikamaru, and Choji.
The status of the 16th generation Ino-Shika-Cho was high enough. Ino's military power and Shikamaru's strategic mind were both assets. Being a mediator was no problem at all.
The three of them served as the advance party, heading to the Sand Village with a host of tasks such as reconnaissance, mediation, sowing discord, and winning over allies.
Even if some accident occurred in the end, with the Flying Thunder God Technique, they were a small group and could escape if they needed to.
On the other side.
Orochimaru was recuperating under the surveillance of the Konoha ANBU. His former subordinate, Kabuto Yakushi, didn't know he was resurrected, nor did he have any channels to learn such secret information.
Kabuto Yakushi was indeed a talent. He took Orochimaru's corpse and defected to Sasori.
He was originally a double agent for both Sasori and Orochimaru. It was just that before, he was following Orochimaru's orders to spy on Sasori's side. Now that Orochimaru was gone, he didn't even need to transfer his file; he just packed up his surgical equipment and went to work for Sasori.
Sasori was very interested in Orochimaru's corpse.
Orochimaru had no Kekkei Genkai; his value was far less than the Third Kazekage's.
But the two had a considerable feud. Sasori was very happy that his old rival's corpse had fallen into his hands. With a "snip-snap," he turned Orochimaru's corpse into a human puppet, adding it to his figure collection.
He manipulated Orochimaru's human puppet to release a few Wind Release ninjutsu. The effect was average. There was a momentary emotional fluctuation when he got the corpse, but now it had become tasteless.
Sasori's human body was only a cylindrical piece of flesh in his chest area that looked like a fleshlight; the rest of his body had been puppetized.
The conventional puppet materials in the Sand Village were basically wood. Different types of wood had different amounts of residual life force and different levels of difficulty in manipulation.
Sasori's human puppet technique was unique. He directly puppetized the human body, retaining the human life force and chakra pathways while removing the decaying flesh and blood, filling it with puppet technology, and finally creating a unique human puppet.
Sasori was a typical example of someone who "learned one thing in his short life, believed that human ability has its limits, so he stopped being human."
First, he killed his only friend and made him into a human puppet. Then, he made the Third Kazekage of the village into a human puppet. Finally, it was himself.
Sasori's situation was similar to mechanical modification. After his entire body was puppetized, his lifespan was long, he was immune to a host of negative statuses, and he could maintain his peak combat power for a long time.
However, this state also had weaknesses. His way of thinking was no longer the same as a human's. Humans use emotions like joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness to regulate themselves. Emotions have highs and lows; this is what makes a normal and healthy human.
Kakashi used Icha Icha Paradise to dispel the gloom in his heart. Sasuke used hard training to vent his hatred. Ino also had many ways to resolve the hostility in her heart.
Including Madara Uchiha and Obito, they set goals for themselves, constantly adjusting their inner balance to maintain enough reason and motivation.
Their psychology was always near the healthy line, either a little higher or a little lower.
Some ninjas burned, killed, and plundered, committing all sorts of evil, letting themselves go. This was also a way to relieve stress; they still had their reason, they weren't crazy.
Sasori was different. He no longer had these means of regulating his emotions. He wouldn't react to a beautiful woman because he didn't have those functions.
In the original timeline, he was attacked by Chiyo with "parents," and his inner emotions mixed with his memories, causing his mentality to explode, and he actively sought death. This was the shortcoming of being a human puppet. A normal Kage-level powerhouse's heart would not be so fragile.
Sasori's current life form had maxed-out resistance to poison, disease, and aging, but his resistance to memories, emotions, and the mind was extremely low, you could even say it was negative. A person like him could only get by in the ninja world for a few days. If he entered outer space, he would be brainwashed by a higher life form in minutes.
The chaos in the Sand Village also moved Sasori a little. He tricked Deidara away, then took Kabuto back to the village to have a look.
He still had a few acquaintances in the Sand Village. He wanted to turn all his acquaintances into human puppets so that they would stay with him forever.
Sasori used the "Mind Control Sand Technique" to manipulate the memories of the Sand Village Jounin, Yūra. At this time, he opened a former seal and, after entering the Sand Village, immediately gained the loyalty of Yūra. This Sand Village high-ranking official knelt directly in front of Sasori and opened a secret passage into the Sand Village for him.
Master Sasori, pedaling his tricycle inside Hiruko, fully interpreted what it meant to have "no feelings."
He was completely indifferent to the disappearance of Chiyo and Ebizō.
Yūra mentioned some of the Sand Village leadership's analysis: the Stone Village was the biggest suspect, and Konoha Village was also a suspect.
Sasori showed no reaction. Say what you want, I'll just listen to it like a story, in one ear and out the other, and continue pedaling my tricycle forward.
"What's with those guys?" He saw several ninjas playing the shamisen under a tree.
Yūra's face was full of disgust. "They're all crazy. Maybe the scene of the Tailed Beast battle was too cruel, so their minds became deranged, and they all went crazy."
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