Starting with rogue ninjas, building the insect kingdom.

Chapter 93 Konohamaru had no chance of being born

On the third night of Sarutobi Shinnosuke's imprisonment, a dark figure quietly sneaked into his room.

He was a ninja wearing a Kusagakure uniform, who looked to be in his thirties with an ordinary face. He walked to the bedside and gently nudged the sleeping Sarutobi Shinnosuke.

"My lord, wake up."

Sarutobi Shinnosuke suddenly opened his eyes and instinctively tried to draw his kunai, but found his hands empty.

"Don't be afraid, I'm one of our own." The ninja lowered his voice. "I'm a spy from Iwagakure planted in Kusagakure. I'm here to rescue you."

Sarutobi Shinnosuke narrowed his eyes: "Iwagakure?"

"Yes." The ninja nodded. "The Tsuchikage said that you cannot fall into the hands of the Grass Village. They will use you to blackmail Konoha, which will not benefit anyone. Come with me, I will take you back to Iwagakure, and then send you back to Konoha."

Sarutobi Shinnosuke remained silent for a moment. He certainly didn't believe that Iwagakure would be so kind, but staying here meant there was no way out either.

"My chakra has been sealed."

"I know." The ninja pulled a small bottle from his pocket. "This is the antidote. The sealing techniques of the Grass Ninja Village are very crude. Take this, and the seal will be broken within half an hour."

Sarutobi Shinnosuke took the small bottle, but instead of drinking it immediately, he asked, "What's your name?"

"Nameless," the ninja said with a smile. "Those of us in this line of work don't need names."

Sarutobi Shinnosuke looked at him and suddenly asked, "Are you sure you're from Iwagakure?"

The ninja nodded emphatically, without the slightest hesitation: "Of course."

Sarutobi Shinnosuke didn't ask any more questions. He hesitated for a moment, thinking about the women who had been coming and going from his room these past few days, before finally opening the small bottle and drinking the liquid inside in one gulp.

It wasn't that the Grass Ninja Village was bad, but he was afraid that if things continued like this, his body wouldn't be able to take it and he would die here.

Then, the two quietly left Kusagakure under the cover of night.

Shortly after the two left, two figures reappeared behind them.

"Strategist Bai Mu, are we just going to let him go like this?"

"Three women are already pregnant, which is a good bargaining chip. Moreover, only by handing over the Hokage's son to a major power can they have a chance to compete. If we hold onto him, it will be a catastrophe."

"Shiraki, you're really amazing. If it weren't for your dedicated assistance, I would have started to suspect that you were a spy he sent to me," Negishi Kusa asked with a tentative smile.

Aburame Shisei responded with a sincere smile: "How could that be? I really am just a ninja skilled in sensory perception. If I truly had ulterior motives, I would have killed you and taken your place long ago."

"Now that the Hokage's son has finally been sent away, we can finally clean up the Grass Ninja Village."

"Clean up Kusagakure?"

Aburame Shisei laughed again, "Naturally, they are the spies hidden here in various villages!"

Soon after, the killings resumed in the dead of night...

On the other side, the Iwagakure spy was clearly very familiar with the surrounding terrain, leading Sarutobi Shinnosuke to avoid all patrols and sentries, heading north.

By daybreak, they had already left the territory of the Land of Grass and entered the border of the Land of Earth.

Sarutobi Shinnosuke felt his chakra slowly recovering. The medicine in the small bottle was indeed effective, although it was far from what he had described. At this rate, he would be fully recovered in another hour.

"How much longer?" he asked.

"Almost there." The Iwagakure spy pointed ahead. "Our base is just over that mountain. We'll be safe once we get there."

Sarutobi Shinnosuke nodded and followed him onward.

After crossing the mountain, we indeed came across a secluded valley. Several tents were pitched in the valley, and we could vaguely see people moving around.

"arrive."

The Iwagakure spy breathed a sigh of relief and quickened his pace.

Sarutobi Shinnosuke followed behind him, but in his heart he was thinking: after his chakra was fully restored, should he turn on him and run away, or should he go to Iwagakure to see what was going on?

Just then, the Iwagakure spy in front suddenly stopped.

His body froze in place, as if he had been immobilized by something.

"What's wrong?"

As soon as Sarutobi Shinnosuke opened his mouth, he saw the Iwagakure spy suddenly turn around. His eyes had completely changed—

Those eyes were filled with hatred, as if some kind of mechanism had been activated.

He raised his kunai and stabbed it into Sarutobi Shinnosuke. Sarutobi Shinnosuke tried to dodge, but at that moment, the chakra surging within him vanished instantly, and his body became paralyzed and weak.

It was that bottle of medicine from before. How dare he do that? Why did he scheme against me?

I am the son of the Hokage, everyone's biggest bargaining chip. Even though there have been successive rebellions in Kusagakure, I have not been affected in the slightest, and my life has only gotten better.

Before he could even think about it, the second knife had already plunged deep into his body.

"I'll kill you! I'll kill you!"

"Brother, father, wife, son, I have avenged you!"

"I've never killed a woman, much less... I've never killed a child..." Sarutobi Shinnosuke murmured to himself, blood still in his mouth, before finally taking his last breath.

"Stop!" The Iwagakure ninja who heard the voice from afar roared.

The deafening roar gradually cleared his eyes.

He looked down and saw his hands covered in blood, and the mangled corpse on the ground.

Then he realized that although his father and brothers had indeed died on the battlefield, they were killed by the Rain Ninja. Moreover, he was only eighteen years old and not married at all, so where would he get a wife and children?

"I...I...I've been hypnotized!"

"A conspiracy! It's all a conspiracy!"

He shouted and tried to explain himself, but no one would listen—now that the son of the Hokage was dead, he was the perfect scapegoat.

When he saw the hostile looks in his companions' eyes, he trembled all over, threw away his kunai, and staggered backward.

He then turned and fled frantically, his headband already thrown on the ground, stained with blood.

-

Far away in Kusagakure, Aburame Shisei sat on two corpses stacked together, looking at the lifeless insect in his hand, and shook his head slightly.

The insect was gray all over, with two antennae. Its upper body protruded forward, but its lower body was a large, white belly.

Judging from their color and shape, they look like two insects grafted together, and that is indeed the case.

They are the products of Yu Nu Zhicheng, who grafted a pair of stinky bugs and a pair of emotion-manipulating bugs together using a previous virus.

This insect has no reproductive ability, and its existence was an accidental discovery during the experiment. As for its abilities, they are both useful and useless—because it can only control some low- to mid-level ninjas with weak mental strength, and it is a one-time use item.

Its main function is to enhance illusions, to fabricate memories, and to evoke strong emotions all at once when necessary.

However, weaving memories requires manual operation. This is his first time using it, and as for the results, we'll have to wait until tomorrow to know.