Naruto: I'm in Konoha, my name is Uzumaki Menma

Chapter 91 Teaming up with Snake Aunt

The Land of Waves is a small island located in the eastern sea of ​​the Land of Fire, adjacent to the Land of Fire and the Eastern Sea Kingdom, and shrouded in humid sea fog all year round.

During the Third Shinobi World War, the Land of Waves was also one of the battlefields where Konoha and Kirigakure fought.

Although the war is over, the wounds left by the smoke of battle have not yet healed, and this small island nation has not yet returned to the peace and stability it had before the war.

Instead, it became even more chaotic due to various factors such as pirates, bandits, wandering samurai, and rogue ninjas.

This also created the conditions for the Kado Group to monopolize trade in the Land of Waves a few years later.

On the coast of the Land of Waves, Menma, wearing a white three-eyed fox mask and a black robe billowing in the sea breeze, walked along the coast. Ahead lay a small city, but he did not go to the city; instead, he stood on the shore gazing at the strait.

From here, you can even vaguely see the outline of the continent opposite through the sea fog.

Eight years from now, Team 7 will encounter Zabuza and Haku here, engage in a fierce battle, and build a bridge across the sea—the Naruto Bridge.

"So, the technology tree is really strange. This country is still in the feudal era, but it can build a bridge that spans more than ten kilometers," Menma complained.

In Kagura's mind's eye, a familiar chakra was gradually approaching.

The sound of wooden clogs stepping on the sand could be heard through the thin mist.

The white three-eyed fox mask tilted its head slightly, and a figure was slowly walking towards them.

"Have you kept me waiting?" Orochimaru, dressed as a noblewoman, walked slowly in, his golden vertical pupils flashing behind his disheveled long hair.

Going to Kirigakure is a bit dangerous, so she didn't bring any subordinates. The fewer people there are, the lower the risk of being exposed, and the easier it is to escape.

“That ship is heading to the Land of Water.” Menma gestured to Orochimaru to look at a ship docked in the port of that small coastal city.

Orochimaru followed the gaze and saw the flag of the Kado Group on the ship faintly visible in the thin mist.

The two displayed their skills. Orochimaru used illusion magic to control the crew on the ship, successfully boarding it as a nobleman and even getting a nice room.

Menma jumped directly onto the ship and joined Orochimaru.

After two days of twists and turns, the ship gradually approached the coast of the Land of Water.

The sudden clash of ninja techniques in the fog caused the passengers on the ship to press themselves against the railing, gazing at the several figures fighting on the foggy sea, and discussing among themselves.

When Menma and Orochimaru stepped out of the cabin, they overheard the ordinary people discussing something.

"They seem to be ninjas?"

"How many times has this happened this month?"

“I have traveled to the Land of Water five times and have witnessed this kind of thing three times already.”

"Tsk tsk, just don't come and cause trouble for us ordinary people."

Orochimaru stared at the figures fighting on the sea surface in the mist, his vertical golden eyes glowing slightly: "It seems that the situation in Kirigakure is worse than we thought, with defections happening one after another."

He glanced sideways at the silent Shura beside him, but only saw the fox mask reflecting the hazy skylight, which made Orochimaru somewhat uninterested.

After the ship docked, the two disappeared into the noisy crowd.

"After the last great war, the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist have not been fully replenished. It is said that some of them even defected with their swords. So, what we need to pay attention to are the bloodline limit families in the Mist Village and the Mizukage's Anbu." The two walked towards the Mist Village, and Orochimaru explained the current situation of the Mist Village.

"So, should we act together or split up?" Orochimaru tossed aside his long hair, his golden vertical pupils fixed on Shura.

At this moment, Menma was using Kagura's Mind's Eye to sense the chakra within a radius of one hundred kilometers. He vaguely remembered that Haku was not born in Kirigakure, but in a small village where it snowed all year round. Because his mother was from the Yuki clan, he awakened the Ice Release Kekkei Genkai, but was regarded as an omen of bad luck by his father and the villagers.

Even when his father organized the villagers to surround and kill Haku's mother, and was about to kill young Haku as well, Haku, in a panic, used Ice Release to kill everyone.

From then on, Bai became an orphan, wandering the streets and alleys of the Water Kingdom.

Menma guessed that Shiro's whereabouts should be in the southwest of the Land of Water.

Since Zabuza couldn't stay in the Land of Water for long after his defection, and the Mizukage's Anbu were not to be underestimated, Zabuza would have to leave the Land of Water to escape their pursuit.

So Zabuza most likely encountered Haku when he set sail from the southeast of the Land of Water.

As Kagura's Mind's Eye scanned and explored the area like radar, Menma finally detected a faint chakra carrying a chilling aura in a city not far away.

"I've found something good. Want to go check it out together?" Menma said, then instantly jumped onto a big tree. Without waiting for Orochimaru to follow, he sped into the forest.

"Something interesting?" Orochimaru naturally became interested and followed.

In a city in the Land of Water, heavy snow is falling.

A dirty little boy was rummaging through a pile of garbage for food.

His thin clothes and bare feet looked out of place in the snowy weather.

Suddenly, three stray dogs appeared beside him and began barking at him, as if declaring that this was their territory.

The little boy raised his right hand expressionlessly, and an ice spike condensed in his palm, which he shot at the wild dog.

puff--

The leader of the wild dogs was shot in the head, and blood and brain matter flowed on the snow.

The other two stray dogs howled and fled in panic with their tails between their legs.

The little boy picked up half a piece of hard bread and started eating it.

Suddenly, he saw a figure fall onto the snow in front of him.

The little boy looked up and saw a mysterious person wearing a fox mask reaching out to him.

The little boy who was squatting on the ground got up, stared blankly at the mysterious person in front of him, and for some reason, he seemed to sense something and slowly walked over.

"What's your name?" came the voice from behind the mask.

"White." The little boy raised his head, his expression somewhat blank.

Mianma raised his hand and touched Bai's dirty short hair.

"From now on, you'll stay with me." Menma took Shiro's hand and led her towards the inn in the small town.

"Tsk tsk." Orochimaru, who arrived later, landed next to the garbage heap from before. Looking at the still-smoldering ice spike on the corpse of the wild dog whose head had been blown off, his vertical snake eyes were full of envy.

"You found an ice-style kid as soon as you arrived?" Orochimaru watched the two figures, one big and one small, walk away into the distance.

It seems that bringing Shura to Kirigakure was the right decision. With his 'future intelligence,' he must know which bloodline limits could be abducted from Kirigakure and which young geniuses he could recruit!
However, since the other party has taken a liking to the bloodline limit, it's not something I can just abduct. I'll have to find a way to get some other children with bloodline limits.

(End of this chapter)