Chapter 470: Hiruzen's Disbelief!

Fujin analyzed his plans for a while before nodding. He thought, 'Alright, these plans should be good. It'll make my attack patterns extremely unpredictable and increase the difficulty of dodging. At the very least, there is no way a group of well-trained Jounins will be able to counter me as Iwa did.

In fact, once I master them, even a rank S ninja will have to be very careful against me. It'll no longer be as easy as dodging my Vacuum jutsus and putting up a defense for the rest.'

Fujin's eyes moved towards the spot where his clone had dispelled and thought, 'There is just one other thing. Rashomon isn't good enough for me. I need the Triple and the Five-Layer Rashomon. Unfortunately, they aren't available in the library.

That said, creating them shouldn't be very difficult, but it'll require some time for me to create those variations...'

Fujin thought for a bit before deciding, 'Unfortunately, I have been feeling that I have very little time as of late. Screw it, I'll just ask Hiruzen. Once my chakra recovers, I'll tell him to send a Shadow Clone and also take the opportunity to find a better training place. If I keep practicing my Vacuum jutsus here, the scenery in front of my house will be completely destroyed!'

Increasing the number of vacuum cores also increased the amount of chakra required in the same ratio. As a result, Fujin's chakra reserves had become quite low. He decided to do physical training until his chakra recovered.

While Fujin got busy with his training, one place became quite chaotic and heated up.

"What did you say?" A loud shout was heard in the Raikage's office. Darui, C and Samui stood in front of the Fourth Raikage. There was no one else in the room and all privacy seals were activated. Otherwise, everyone in the building would have heard that shout. Even then, the ones near the office felt some tremors.

Ay looked at his three subordinates and asked, "I sent you three to find and kill Suzuki Fujin. You didn't even meet him and yet ten of the sixteen ninjas died? What the hell were you three doing?"

Ay was mad. When Kumo ninjas met Fujin for the first time, he managed to kill more than a dozen ninjas and escape despite facing Darui. His escape resulted in Konoha getting crucial information which resulted in Jiraiya wiping out more than 250 Kumo ninjas while Hiruzen's political maneuvers eliminated every possibility of Kumogakure getting revenge without having to face extremely serious consequences.

Since he couldn't attack Hiruzen or Jiraiya, he set his eyes on Fujin. However, Fujin stayed holed up inside Konoha and later in the Anbu for years, leaving no traces of himself. While it annoyed Ay and strategic planners in Kumo, their annoyance reduced with the passage of time and eventually no one thought of him anymore.

Samui said, "There is another piece of intel we received. Apparently, Hidan had kidnapped 300 civilians inside the Land of Hot Water. Suzuki Fujin's mission was to find them. He managed to find them, but could only recover their corpses.

Our spy reported that the cave where the corpses were was covered in seals, which is why Yugakure ninjas couldn't find them. In addition, every corpse had decayed at an extreme speed. Suzuki Fujin chased after Hidan in the Land of Frost as well, but we aren't sure what happened to him after that.

However, the cave where the corpses were found was destroyed yesterday. Someone eliminated the six Yugakure ninjas stationed there and destroyed the cave. There is no information on who did that."

The additional information troubled Ay even more. He thought, 'So many events... I have a feeling that there is something important happening here. But what is it?'

Unfortunately, Ay had very little information. He said, "We have a lot of ninjas who don't have any missions. I'll deploy them in the Land of Frost and the Land of Hot Water. Lead them and try to find Hidan. Give proper instructions to ensure that they don't fall prey to his technique. I don't want to lose more ninjas meaninglessly.

As for Suzuki Fujin, ignore him for now. I'll send a Grandmaster with you to inspect that cave. I have a feeling that it will have the clues we need."

Darui and the other two nodded. They had the same thoughts as well.

Within a few hours, several hundred Kumo ninjas were dispatched. Every single one was instructed to not engage Hidan in a fight. Their only job was to inform the Elite Jounins they were under about Hidan's location once they found him. Every ninja was given hundreds of Explosion Tags to help escape if Hidan chased after them.

Once an Elite Jounin found Hidan, he would trail him without engaging in a battle while waiting for Darui's team to reinforce him.

Needless to say, the entire mission was pointless. Hidan had already joined Akatsuki and was moving towards the Land of Rain. As for the cave, the Grandmasters Hiruzen deployed had eliminated most seals inside them before the cave was destroyed. The only seals that still remained were the ones that were very well-known throughout the ninja world. So, there was nothing that they could gain.

While Kumogakure was carrying out a meaningless operation, Hiruzen was staring in disbelief at the person in front of him. For the second time, Fujin had sent a Shadow Clone and asked Hiruzen to send a Shadow Clone to help him out. In fact, this time Fujin didn't even bother requesting or asking it!