MM Racing Chapter 169 Unexpected Gain, Ishikawa Slips Away
Chapter 169 Unexpected Gain, Ishikawa Slips Away
Night, Misty Village.
"Ugh~ I can finally get a good night's sleep. Seriously, Mizukage-sama, why did you have to go through all this trouble to hold a meeting when we already had a decision?"
"However, what's a little tiredness compared to being by the side of the beautiful Mizukage! It's too much of me, I'm really going too far to complain and whine behind her back..."
Inside the room, Chojuro lay on the bed, muttering to himself, a hint of youthful shyness showing on his tired face.
Just as he was feeling frustrated and lost in thought about a certain figure, a blue and white spirit emerged from the ground and entered his body with lightning speed. "Tsk tsk tsk! I didn't expect you to be such a repressed pervert, secretly liking the Great Mizukage."
"No, I just wanted to protect the Mizukage and didn't have any improper thoughts about her." Hearing the teasing, Chojuro subconsciously shook his head to refuse, but the moment the words fell, his expression changed drastically as he looked nervously at the boy's spirit in his sea of consciousness, "You are, that guy from Konoha! Mitarai Ishikawa."
"You actually invaded my brain! As expected, the Mizukage guessed that Konoha was trying to steal our Kirigakure's information!" Chojuro shouted angrily at Ishikawa, immediately unleashing his chakra to send a signal to drive Ishikawa away.
However, Ishikawa's spiritualization technique was now completely different from before. He directly controlled Ishikawa's body and suppressed his soul and will as Ishikawa moved.
"Sorry, you should rest now." Ishikawa smiled faintly at the struggling Chojuro, then unleashed his Spirit Transformation Technique to completely dismantle Chojuro's mental world until he collapsed and fainted.
Just as Chojuro fainted, Ishikawa's spirit returned to his physical form and burst forth from the ground. He went straight to the bedside, pried open Chojuro's eyes to meet his gaze, and his right pupil rapidly formed hand seals to activate his eye technique.
In an instant, a single eye suddenly opened deep within Chojuro's brain, quickly scanning through all his memories.
"As expected, Kirigakure doesn't have the confidence to participate in this Chunin Exams." As his memories were being processed, Ishikawa instantly saw the contents of the meetings from the past two days.
The core issue is how to refuse to participate in the test without losing the dignity of a great power, and how to prevent enemy countries from knowing the weakness of the Hidden Mist Kingdom.
Ishikawa was not surprised by this and simply skipped it, continuing to search for important information!
"Huh? This is the whole story of the Three-Tailed Fox incident!!" Suddenly, Ishikawa saw a memory and was overjoyed and surprised.
As the Mizukage's bodyguard, Chojuro's memories of the Three-Tails incident naturally contained specific information about the Fourth Mizukage. However, this wasn't the reason for Ishikawa's surprise; what surprised him was that the memory also contained scattered information about the previous Three-Tails Jinchuriki, Nohara Rin.
The most valuable information for Ishikawa was the exact location and time when Nohara Rin was captured by Kirigakure.
Although Ishikawa intends to change Obito's fate, what if things go wrong? Nohara Rin, as Obito's white moonlight, is still in danger, so this information is still very useful.
Immediately afterward, Ishikawa quickly browsed through some memories and felt that he was almost done, so he prepared to wrap things up. But as he was about to look at Chojuro's Water Release memories, a thought suddenly struck him.
This is a free Water Release ninjutsu! Jiro and Karin both have Water Release chakra, so why not take it?
C-rank Water Release: Mist Concealment Technique, C-rank Water Release: Water Prison Technique, B-rank Water Release: Water Wall, B-rank Water Release: Water Fang Blade, B-rank Water Release: Water Whip, A-rank Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique.
Without hesitation, Ishikawa directly copied all six water-style techniques that Chojuro currently knew. Only then did he delete the memory of their recent meeting, and without anyone noticing, he dispelled his eye technique and left with Rin's clone, who was guarding outside the door.
With the combined assistance of Kagura's Mind's Eye and Red Eye, the two of them naturally escaped safely as if they were cheating.
The following morning, the Ishikawa squad was summoned by the Mizukage right after they finished breakfast.
"Mitarashi Ishikawa, please go back and tell the Hokage that Kirigakure has no intention of participating in this joint Chunin Exams. This is a secret reply; please give it to the Third Hokage." After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Mei Terumi gave Kirigakure Ao a glance, and he handed Ishikawa a prepared letter.
"Oh? Kirigakure won't be participating..." Ishikawa feigned surprise, then put away the letter without asking any further questions and left.
He had important matters to attend to and didn't have time to waste here, much less cause trouble that would force Kirigakure to participate in the Chunin Exams. Orochimaru and Sunagakure were planning to give Konoha a surprise this time, and he didn't want Kirigakure getting involved and creating unnecessary trouble for themselves!
"Is that guy really okay?" Watching the departing figures of the Ishikawa squad, Mei Terumi bit her red lips and asked one last time, unwilling to give up.
Although she couldn't afford to offend Konoha, she really wanted to teach this brat a lesson if possible!
"Lord Mizukage, I haven't noticed anything unusual about them in the past three days, nor have they left Iceland to steal intelligence. If you really intend to do something, even Master Yuan might not agree," Kirigakure Ao reminded him with a dark face. He didn't want any misunderstandings to arise between Kirigakure and Konoha at this moment.
"Hehe, why would I have any other thoughts? Ao, you're too suspicious!" Terumi Mei quickly covered her mouth and chuckled sheepishly, then turned her gaze to the drowsy Chojuro beside her. "You brat, what did you do last night to be so tired? In that case, go back and rest. Anyway, there's nothing for you to do here right now."
"Uh? Thank you for your concern, Lord Mizukage..." Chojuro immediately woke up and thanked him. He didn't know why he was feeling so unwell today, and he almost couldn't get up in the morning.
That's strange, I slept pretty well last night!
Meanwhile, Ishikawa, along with Karin and the other two, took a boat and, with favorable winds, arrived in the Land of Water that very night.
However, he did not return directly to the Land of Fire, but instead landed in the Land of Waves again under the cover of night.
"Karin, Taro, Jiro, I still have some information that I need to infiltrate Kirigakure to confirm. You guys stay here and wait for me." Under the strange gazes of the three, Ishikawa said something surprising.
"No!" "Big brother..."
"Captain, we're with you."
Unsurprisingly, Karin and the other two refused outright.
Ishikawa ignored the three's opinions and instead took out a pre-written scroll from his ninja tool bag. "These are some water-style ninjutsu I collected in Kirigakure. Karinjiro, you two train here for the next few days. I will definitely be back in seven days to half a month. My order to you is to stay put and not to go to Kirigakure to find me."
After speaking, before the three could say anything, Ishikawa vanished into thin air with a bang!
"Shadow clone? When??" Karin's expression changed upon seeing this. She immediately activated Kagura's Mind's Eye to sense the surrounding twenty kilometers, but she did not detect a trace of Ishikawa's chakra reaction.
Ah this...
"It seems the captain was prepared. Follow orders, I trust you, brother." Taro smiled wryly, bent down to pick up the fallen scroll, and handed it to Jiro.
He had no complaints about his elder brother giving them the Water Release scrolls; Kirigakure wasn't proficient in Fire Release, so this was just an unexpected bonus.
"That guy is really awful! He didn't take you guys, but why didn't he take me?" Karin pouted and snorted in dissatisfaction. Then, thinking of Kakashi nearby, she suddenly had an idea. "Half a month. If he doesn't come back in half a month, I'll go find Kakashi, a Jonin, and we'll go to Kirigakure to look for him together."
Tarojiro? ?
What did we do to deserve this? (f***ing ***)