Chapter 589: Detective Sasuke
In Konoha Village, the position of Hokage was a bit sensitive now, especially since Kakashi had been confirmed as the successor too early.
Normally it was fine, but as soon as a problem arose with him, it would immediately be magnified and become a topic of discussion.
If Minato were in his seventies or eighties, it would be better. But the Fourth's age was even younger than his successor, Kakashi's. This was awkward.
To say that Kakashi's status as the Hokage-in-waiting was invalid? That could easily be misinterpreted. For now, they could only maintain this state.
Perhaps Minato would die again sometime soon, right?
Now, even someone as thick-skinned as Naruto didn't shout "I'm going to be the Hokage" anymore, just to not put pressure on Kakashi. If you father and son succeed each other, what about Kakashi? Kill him?
Sasuke was directly under Kakashi's command. With Kakashi hospitalized, he had more free time.
By a strange twist of fate, he met the ninja hawk, Garuda, who had a summoning contract with him in another timeline.
After the two of them signed a summoning contract, he left the village to hunt down Deidara.
Deidara's movements were too erratic. The ninja hawk Garuda was so tired its tongue was hanging out, but it couldn't even see a shadow of Deidara.
With no other choice, Sasuke could only go and ask the parties involved, trying to find some clues.
In this day and age, ninja were good at analyzing intelligence. Many ninja could moonlight as detectives.
Sasuke found a temple and asked to see the girl who had been kidnapped by "Deidara."
The result was unexpected.
"This old monk has devoted his life to serving the Buddha. How could I have a daughter? You must be mistaken, benefactor!"
Sasuke took several steps back and looked up at the temple's plaque. It was correct. It was this abbot's daughter who had been kidnapped, and a ransom of eight thousand ryo had been paid to get her back. How could he say he had no daughter?
He went to ask the other victims.
One said, "This poor nun has been chanting scriptures by the green lantern and ancient Buddha. Although you're very good-looking, you can't just slander my innocence!"
Another said, "What are you doing?~ Oh my! I'm a girl. That Deidara has bad eyes. He slandered me as a man. It makes me so angry. Little brother, look at my skin..."
Sasuke was utterly defeated. He couldn't afford to provoke them!
He couldn't get any information from the victims, so he could only talk to the bosses who had put up the bounty.
In this era, monks were indeed a highly educated class.
The bottom-level farmers only knew how to farm and nothing else.
The Feudal Lords? They only knew how to eat, drink, and be merry, and nothing else.
You say the Feudal Lord is striving to govern well? The ninja wouldn't agree.
The monks played a good role in connecting the top and bottom, lending money to the farmers, giving various suggestions to the Feudal Lords, and teaching the Feudal Lords' retainers. Even when two countries went to war, the monks could act like professional managers, accepting employment to command the army for the Feudal Lord.
There was no other way. The Feudal Lords and some of their retainers were too uneducated. With thousands of troops, they had no idea how to command them. They had no knowledge of logistics, supplies, marching routes, and so on. It was a mess before the battle even started. They could only hire knowledgeable monks to help them with these things.
If you do work, you get paid. And if you fudge the numbers a bit on the food and supplies accounts, the illiterate Feudal Lord would never notice.
"Deidara" had targeted them because they only took in money and never spent it. They were all filthy rich.
The Fire Temple had a good relationship with Asuma, so "Deidara" hadn't targeted them. But as the leader of the circle, they couldn't escape either. In the end, the conference to discuss the capture of "Deidara" was held at the Fire Temple.
Other temples didn't dare to host such a meeting. Deidara was a Kage-level master, the Third Tsuchikage's student, and someone who could still roam free after the Akatsuki's demise. You tell me, isn't he strong?
Many ninja who had accepted this mission came to the Fire Temple to discuss countermeasures. Sasuke unexpectedly saw Kurotsuchi from the Hidden Stone Village.
Sasuke now had a disease called "look at a person's eyes first, and if they have the Rinnegan, then I'll pretend to be calm on the outside but panic on the inside."
He first looked at Kurotsuchi's eyes. For a moment, it seemed he saw a ripple pattern in her eyes. When he looked again, it was gone.
Did I see it wrong?
"Sasuke Uchiha, are you here to capture brother Deidara?" Kurotsuchi had seen Sasuke on the battlefield before. They had fought more than once.
Sasuke also had a deep impression of Kurotsuchi's Lava Release.
He responded stiffly, "It's none of your business."
Kurotsuchi pointed a finger at him. "Don't get in my way, or I'll kill you."
Sasuke ignored her, put his hands in his pockets, and walked into the temple.
Ino had been very busy these past few days, so busy that she had no time to go out and commit crimes.
She had gone to the Pure Land and received some relatively bad news from the Sage of Six Paths.
The continuous time travel of Minato, herself, and Urashiki had, after all, caused a "slight" tremor in the timeline. This was reflected in the current time by the emergence of a new sect in the famous "hotbed of cults," the Land of Hot Water. After the Jashinism and the Cat-Dog cult, a new sect had been born: the Ōtsutsuki Cult!
The leader of this sect should be a former resident of the ancient city of Rōran. Having witnessed the power of Urashiki beating up the Konoha ninja, and for some unknown reason, after leaving his hometown, he had developed a cult that worshiped the Ōtsutsuki.
Ino immediately led her subordinates out of the village to the Land of Hot Water to find traces of these cultists.
One "Deidara" had left Konoha, and another Deidara had come to Konoha!
The crazy Deidara didn't care much about the fact that a bunch of monks had put a bounty on him. Does it have anything to do with my art? If not, why should I care?
His purpose in coming to Konoha was simple: to see Itachi Uchiha for "one last time." The man had been dead for a while, but he didn't care about life and death. He would just dance and sing at his grave. That would be enough. He had heard that Itachi had a younger brother. He was preparing to test this brother's mettle and show him his art!
The sensory barrier of the Konoha Sensory Division was no joke. It was a 360-degree defense with no blind spots.
Deidara had also spent some effort to sneak into Konoha.
Ino's name had long since spread throughout the ninja world. Her photos were everywhere. And then Deidara unexpectedly discovered... Huh, this kunoichi looks a lot like me! What a great opportunity!
After learning that Ino was the head of the Konoha Intelligence Division, he applauded his own brilliant plan.
Deidara slightly changed his hairstyle, took off the Akatsuki's black cloak with red clouds, and directly put on women's clothes!
A normal ninja might feel a bit awkward, but he didn't think it was a big deal. Sasori-danna had cut off his own manhood for the sake of art. All I'm doing now is just changing into women's clothes. What's the big deal? It's all for art!
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