Naruto: Konoha’s Kanpu

Land of Fire.

Konoha.

Root’s Headquarters.

Danzō and Orochimaru met again in the small dark room today.

The two have already acted in collusion both in good and difficult situation, so they are not polite with each other and go straight to the topic.

“What are you calling me for?” Orochimaru asked softly, his hoarse voice is like sand and stone rubbing.

“Two things.”

Danzō said, “The first thing, Hiruzen has asked Namikaze Minato to deal with the alliance with Sunagakure. Do you know what this means?”

Orochimaru was silent for a while, and then said with a chuckle: “So, what about the second thing?”

“The second thing, it is what you asked me to investigate before.” Danzō lowered his eye, picked up a document from the sofa next to him, and handed it to Orochimaru.

“This is?”

Orochimaru took the document, and under the dim light, he saw the one-inch photo of Kanpū at the top right of the document at a glance.

“Gekkō Kanpū…”

During his time at Sunagakure Battlefield back then, Orochimaru wrote a letter to ask Danzō for three things. One was to provoke the relationship between Amegakure and Sunagakure. Now that Sunagakure has been defeated, there is naturally nothing to say about this matter. As for the other two things, one is to track down Nagato, who is a suspected as the descendant of the Uzumaki Clan. Unfortunately, even after Danzō went to Amegakure personally, he still did not find him.

As for the last thing, it is to investigate the reasons for Kanpū’s rise.

Danzō has always been concerned about Kanpū because of the Crescent Moon Island’s incident, but his focus is on Yuki Aoi’s betrayal, that is, until Orochimaru asks him to investigate Kanpū’s rise.

“Gekkō Kanpū… definitely has a secret!”

Danzō said solemnly, “According to the investigation, Gekkō Kanpū’s talent used to be very poor! His teacher, classmates, and even the clansmen of the Gekkō Clan can all prove this! But since Gekkō Kanpū entered the second grade, his talent suddenly emerged. At first, it was Ninja Tools throwing, then it was Ninjutsu, and even his talent in Konoha-Style Kenjutsu has emerged now, which is incredible!”

After finished reading the contents of the document, Orochimaru pondered for a while, and asked: “For an ordinary person with no talent to become a genius, something must had happened to Gekkō Kanpū in his second grade, is there any leads?”

Danzō shook his head and said: “No!”

In order to investigate Kanpū, Danzō asked his Root’s Shinobi to pretend to be Anbu, and secretly contacted Kanpū’s teacher in the Academy, Kashima Yu, some of his classmates, and even his clansmen, but the information obtained was very limited. It can only be confirmed that Kanpū suddenly became a genius from a mortal. As for other useful information, there is nothing about it.

“The information that can be investigated by conventional means is already in the document.” Danzō said.

Orochimaru frowned slightly and couldn’t help but read the document again.

The information in the document is very detailed. There is even the timetable for Kanpū’s schooling, the record of his absenteeism, and the address where he and his friends went on picnics and shopping, as well as the information of his parents. His father, Gekkō Hoshino, who was in Sunagakure Battlefield at that time, rarely came back, and his mother, Gekkō Keiko, was very busy in the hospital. These information can be easily confirmed.

But from these, he couldn’t see anything at all.

‘Since I can’t see it, it’s better to take a look in person.’

The next day, Orochimaru took his disciple, Anko, and started walking around one by one according to the address on the document.

Anko was very excited at first, after all, her teacher is the legendary Sannin, so she kept chatting all the way.

But as they wandered around, she realized that something was wrong.

“Orochimaru-sensei, here…” Anko looked at the river in front of them with a look of surprise.

This is the river from which the village’s sewers are drained. She and Kanpū once had a picnic in the upper stream, and then searching for crayfish downstream. ‘Why did Orochimaru-sensei bring me here?’

‘And now that I think about it carefully, it seems that we have been to the places I visited before.’

Orochimaru smiled and said: “It seems that you have already discovered it.”

Anko looked at him with puzzled expression.

“As a teacher, of course I want to know you better.” Orochimaru looked around, ‘There was nothing unusual here.’

Anko nodded in understanding. Although it feels weird, but after all, the other party is the legendary Sannin, and also Sandaime Hokage’s disciple, so Anko naturally would not suspect that Orochimaru has any ulterior motive.

“Orochimaru-sensei, when will we start training?” Anko asked.

“Don’t worry.”

Seeing that it was getting late, Orochimaru took Anko to Futaki Ramen to eat a bowl of ramen, and then went to Ichiraku Ramen. Finally, Orochimaru found something abnormal.

Ichiraku Ramen’s miso ramen is far more delicious than Futaki Ramen’s ramen!

‘No wonder Ichiraku Ramen is doing so well.’

Orochimaru looked thoughtful.

After Anko ate two bowls of ramen, her belly bloated. She lazily walked on the street to bask under the sun, and looked back at Orochimaru curiously from time to time.

“Anko.”

Orochimaru felt that walking like this was not the way to go, so he felt that he still has to ask Anko. Thinking of this, he slowly said, “When I was in Sunagakure Battlefield, Gekkō Kanpū used to be my subordinate. “

Anko’s eyes lit up when she heard this: “Really! Orochimaru-sensei, Kanpū and I are from the same grade, we are good friends!!”

“Then…”

Orochimaru squinted his golden vertical pupils and said kindly, “Can you tell me something interesting about his school days?”

“Of course.”

Anko nodded excitedly, feeling that this was a good opportunity to increase her favorability with Orochimaru, so at this moment, Anko spoke eloquently and sold Kanpū cleanly.

After listening for a while, Orochimaru finally found an important information!

During Kanpū’s second grade, his younger brother, Hayate, entered the Academy, and every day after school, Kanpū would send Hayate home, but for a while, Kanpū asked Iruka to send Hayate home…

‘So where did Kanpū go during this period?’

Orochimaru tried to ask without arousing suspicion, but Anko really doesn’t know about this.

Orochimaru’s heart felt itchy at this moment. He has a hunch that the reason why Kanpū suddenly burst out with such terrifying talent must have something to do with what happened during that time.

‘Kanpū put aside his younger brother, indicating that he was not going home, and he should have also concealed it from his family.’

‘He also left his classmates aside, so Iruka and the others couldn’t possibly know.’

‘Where did Kanpū go?’

After Orochimaru and Anko separated, he immediately came to Root’s Headquarters.

“Help me investigate one thing.”

Orochimaru found Danzō and asked him to investigate any strange event happening in the village before and after Kanpū’s after school ‘mysterious disappearance’.

Although there are some needles in the haystack, Orochimaru intuitively feels that he will get the results soon by doing this!

Danzō immediately dispatched his Root’s Shinobi, and even took advantage of his position to get Anbu to help.

Hiruzen is the head of Anbu, so he is naturally aware of this, but Danzō often does such shameless things, so as long as he doesn’t cause major incidents, Hiruzen generally doesn’t interfere too much.

In the next few days, pieces of useful and useless information entered Orochimaru’s hands.

Orochimaru checked one by one, and finally, a piece of information entered Orochimaru’s eyes.

“Shinnō…”

Orochimaru’s eyes were half-squinted, and his golden vertical pupil flashed with a terrifying light!