chap. 21 - Rabbit Hunt

A few days after leaving Konoha, I wear the traditional ninja outfit from the movies I watched in my previous life. Not showing any part of my body except my eyes.

I arrive at the mercenary work establishment, and start looking for a job.

The information booth had numerous options, from the most well known ninjas to the most superfluous, going Kakuzu and many Akatsuki members, the S rank, to the gennin rank like Jiga, who never ranked in any village.

I started the rabbit hunt, first was Unmo Samidare, former Kiri.

To find out information from some people, you must ask some people, so who better than the mercenaries and the nukenins themselves?

To find Unmo, I bumped into Karenbana, a talkative yet intelligent kunoichi. I acquired a lot of good information from many nunkenis up to rank B, which made my job much easier.

The girl was good, very good at genjutsu, but unfortunately for her Isobu wouldn't let me fall for her tricks, so pretending to have been tricked, I killed her and stored her body to collect the reward.

Moving on to the Vegetable country where Unmo was with his group, I met Jiga, who had magnetic control.

It was a good fight. But a pity that my water style does not allow him to train me more. Mai a body to receive the reward.

While I was doing this, of course I passed by the mercenary stores, where bingo was held and who paid for the jobs.

And guess what? I entered the bingo.

After some time hunting and delivering nukenins from ranks D to A, I was already in rank A.

Yes, these things don't take long, you see.

Many of the "nukenins" are actually on a mission for their villages. Itachi is a good example of this.

Then the Hollow name started to skyrocket in the bingo classes.

Going from one side of the countries to the other, today I am in Otogakure, just to visit the place.

Those who welcome me at the gates of the village are Kabuto, Kimimaro who did not die or participate in the rescue of Sasuke, and Kiyomu Fukuda, one of the highest priced ninjas in bingo.

"And who would be our distinguished visitor?" an already defensive Kabuto trying to sound cool asks.

"Hollow, just making a visit and luckily, I found who I was looking for." I make a deeper and colder voice in the best Kakuzu style.

"And who would that be?" replies Kabuto.

I just point at Fukuda. "Your head would pay me very well. I don't want to cause a mess in other people's village, so come, so you or I can make money yes."

I start to walk away from the village, while Fukuda follows me. He knows that Oroshimaru will not protect him, and if through his fault, the village suffers something, Orochimaru himself will kill him.

When we get a good distance away, our fight begins. Nothing needs to be said.

He is very good at lightning style jutsus, which suppresses my water style a little. But nothing much.

So while he attacks me in a lethal and fast way, I use my agility with the flicker to dodge.

He draws his sword and induces lightning into it, as well as into his body, further enhancing his skills and speed.

We exchange blows for quite a while, almost a minute.

You see, this is not a cartoon where each fight lasts 4/5 chapters, this is real, kill or be killed.

I honestly didn't beat him in sword fighting, nor in ninjutsu, I beat him because he got tired first. And since he helped me understand my weak points, I gave him a quick and dignified death.

Arriving at a mercenary post, I receive the price for Fukuda's head and leave to go after Unmo. You see, Unmo is not the strongest, or the fastest, but he is the best at hiding.

So one year and three months go by.

I find him in a place I could not have imagined. Living on a beach near the fire country.

Seeing the situation he was in, I gave up the hunt. But I still warned him that if I found him, so could others. So I stayed with his family for a week.

Yes, he was married to a beautiful wife, had three cute little children, and after I found out why he ran away from Kiri, I didn't care about hunting anymore. The money wasn't even that good either.

Another thing that has changed in that time, is my bingo rating. I am now S-rated.

The price for my head 8 Billion ryos. And that absurd price only exists because I killed the one worth 7.8b which would be Fukuda.

So after giving up the hunt, and with Hollow worth 8b, I took 6 months "vacation".

Obviously not. I was getting information from Akatsuki, and found Hidan and Kakuzu.

They were in Kumo, hunting Yugito Nii and Matatabi. So I went after them with all my might.

Upon arriving, I see Hidan land a powerful blow and she falls unconscious. I use my flicker, reach her body and take her to another place.

We arrive at a clearing, where I had made my mark for this kind of situation. I give her some bandages, and take the opportunity to chat with Matatabi.

"Sister Matatabi. How have you been?" an excited Isobu makes telepathic contact.

"Isobu? How can you?" an astonished Matatabi replies.

"Do you remember when Kurama asked all of us for a favor? It was because of my jinchuriki. The guys who are hunting you will also hunt you if they find out he is a jinchuriki, so we asked everyone to keep it a secret." he calmly explains.

"I see, and how did he save us from the duo?" she is still trying to understand and recover Yugito's body that was badly injured.

"He knows the flying thunder god. But he modified it to body flicker, so he could better use his space-time affinity." a proud Isobu explains.

"And what do we do now?"

"He wants to talk to you, but he asked me to talk to you first while you recover Yugito. Then you can heal her calmly, we have time."