Uchiha Puppet Master, Starting from One Piece

As you walk through the dense fern grove, the air gradually becomes humid, and you can faintly hear the sound of flowing water.

"It's just ahead..."

Toby's voice came from ahead, sounding somewhat weak.

The puppet parted the last bunch of banana leaves, and suddenly a bright and clear view appeared before it.

A clear stream meanders over a rocky beach, with orange trees laden with fruit growing on its banks.

Sunlight refracted into tiny golden glints on the water's surface, and several small, silvery-white fish darted swiftly through the crevices of the pebbles.

With a "plop".

Toby was kneeling by the stream, his head submerged in the water, swallowing large gulps. The water washed away the mud from his face, revealing his pale complexion and sunken eye sockets.

"Eat something first!"

Bai Yu manipulated the puppet Xiao Bai to pick oranges, and then manipulated Xiao Huang to fetch water from the stream.

The stream flowed gently, and Toby carefully handed over a large leaf filled with water. Water droplets slid down the veins of the leaf, leaving winding water trails on the back of his scraped hand.

"Would you like something to drink?"

The wooden puppet took the leaf, its joints making a soft creaking sound.

Toby instinctively shrank his neck, but his eyes couldn't help glancing at the doll's fluid movements.

When Bai Yu took the water, she noticed that the boy's gaze at the doll was a mixture of surprise and curiosity.

"They are dolls, they don't need to drink water or eat, and of course they won't hurt you."

Bai Yu sipped the slightly sweet stream water, his Adam's apple bobbing up and down with each swallow.

"Like tools, you understand? Like the knife in your hand, they are my weapons."

Toby looked down at the dagger in his hand, then suddenly reached out and poked the doll, Little Yellow.

"You mean he can also be your weapon in battle?"

"Of course, once I've recovered a bit, I'll take them to visit your village."

When Xiaobai returned from picking oranges, the sweet fragrance of oranges filled the air. Xiaobai clumsily presented the fruit to Baiyu.

The orange-yellow skin glistened in the sunlight, and a few green leaves still clung to the stem.

Bai Yu peeled the orange, and the juice was so plentiful that it splashed onto his fingers. The sweet and sour aroma filled his nostrils. Mmm, it was delicious.

He noticed Toby staring at the other half of the orange and swallowing hard.

"Give."

Bai Yu tossed half an orange over.

The boy hurriedly caught it and swallowed it haphazardly, the juice dripping down his dirty chin and staining his collar.

Eat slowly.

Looking at the child in front of him, Bai Yu couldn't help but think of Uchiha Itachi. That guy was already a double agent when he was this age. Relatively speaking, the world of One Piece is already wonderful enough.

"There are still many on the trees over there."

Toby ignored him until he had eaten the last bit of orange pith before he looked up.

His eyes sparkled, as if he had discovered a new continent: "Back in the village, I never realized oranges could be so sweet. Really, I've never eaten such sweet oranges! I don't usually like them..."

The words stopped abruptly, and the boy suddenly covered his mouth, looking in terror towards the southeast.

A few wisps of black smoke could be faintly seen in the distance, twisting and dissipating in the sea breeze.

"That is..."

"The direction of our village."

Toby's voice trembled: "They're not burning the house down, are they...?"

Bai Yu squinted.

"Take some food and some wood; I'll recover on the stretcher."

Uchiha Hakuba is not a good person, but he will still help if it doesn't affect his own safety.

Although his injuries were severe, he possessed the power of the Devil Fruit, allowing him to avoid fighting personally.

On his journey, Bai Yu continued to carve the wood in his hands.

"What are you doing?"

Toby looked at Uchiha Hakuba with some curiosity, not understanding what the point of carving these useless pieces of wood was at this time.

Uchiha Hakuba used the Kusanagi sword to continuously shave off layer after layer of wood shavings as thin as cicada wings.

Wood shavings swirled and fell onto the fern-covered ground, releasing a faint woody aroma.

"This is..." Toby Toby leaned closer, his nose almost touching Bai Yu's wrist.

He saw that the originally rough piece of wood was gradually revealing the outline of a human figure.

Bai Yu didn't look up, focusing intently on smoothing out a mark on the puppet's face with his thumb.

"This is my ability; it's never a bad thing to have a few more helpers."

Before the words were finished, a muffled thud came from afar. The ground trembled slightly, startling a flock of seabirds perched in the treetops.

Toby's body suddenly stiffened, and his pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints.

"It's the sound of cannons."

Bai Yu's fingers paused for a moment, then he continued carving even faster.

Toby's lips trembled, and his teeth chattered uncontrollably.

"They will...they will kill everyone in the village..."

"calm."

Bai Yu suddenly grabbed the boy's wrist, and he could feel the thin hand in his palm trembling violently.

"Take a deep breath."

The boy's chest heaved violently, and tears welled up in his eyes.

Bai Yu loosened her grip on Toby's hand and continued carving.

"Crying now won't help, but the fact that they're still fighting is a good thing, it means there's still resistance. Tell me, how many pirates are there in the village?"

Bai Yu's calm tone seemed to give Toby even more courage.

"Twenty...no, maybe thirty."

Toby Toby vigorously wiped his face.

"They have guns. Guns are not easy to obtain normally, but a powerful gang has recently emerged in the West Sea, so many guns have ended up at sea."

"Tell me more about their equipment."

Bai Yu's voice was very calm; as a ninja, he had seen far too much.

"Each of them basically carried a gun, as well as a large knife and their own dagger."

With this kind of setup, they all seem to be weaklings, and weaklings pose no threat to ninjas at all...

Bai Yu suddenly raised his hand to interrupt him. His ears twitched slightly. The gunshots in the distance were getting closer and closer, occasionally mixed with muffled screams.

He quickened his carving pace, and wood shavings fell like fine snowflakes.

"Take this."

Bai Yu suddenly shoved the palm-sized wooden puppet he had just finished into Toby's hands.

The little doll's facial features are just a blurry outline, but the joints of its limbs are exceptionally detailed.

The moment the boy caught it, the puppet suddenly trembled slightly in his palm.

"This...this is alive?"

Toby almost dropped it, but Bai Yu held his wrist down.

"Throw it away if you encounter danger."

As Uchiha Hakuba threw out the remaining puppets he had just finished making, seven tall puppets with different weapons appeared.

"These puppets seem capable of handling a few genin without any problems!"

Although Bai Yu felt that these crudely made puppets were definitely not strong in combat, he could still sense that they were at least at the level of a Genin.

Don't underestimate the strength of genin. In fact, with proper preparation, genin can easily kill ordinary pirates when they are alone.

Especially for Konoha genin like them...

Anyone who has watched Naruto knows that the strongest people in Konoha are the genin.