Naruto: Konoha's Kanpu

Chapter 988: Cleaning Up The Aftermath

The bonfire burned brightly, quickly filling the gap left by the vanishing flames. If Kakashi weren't such a meticulous man, he might have missed the bizarre occurrence entirely!

'Flames disappearing mysteriously?'

'Could it be... Space-Time Ninjutsu?'

Kakashi's heart beats, and he quickly looked around with calm and collected expression.

'No one was nearby!'

Kakashi then looked towards Obito again, and immediately shook his head.

'Obito's Mangekyo had been taken away, so it is impossible for him to use Space-Time Ninjutsu.'

'Wait a minute!'

'Is it me?'

Kakashi quickly removed his forehead protector and pulled out a small mirror. With the beating firelight, he saw a scythe-shaped pattern reflected in the crimson surface of his Sharingan!

'It was identical to Obito's Mangekyo Sharingan...' Kakashi was both surprised and delighted.

More than half a month ago, Kakashi had sought advice from Kanpū on how to activate the Mangekyo Sharingan. Since then, he had been relentlessly training his Sharingan, trying to unlock its full potential.

Unfortunately, despite his efforts, it had remained a three-tomoe Sharingan.

He never expected that under the dual emotional stimulus of Rin and Obito, his Sharingan would evolve into the Mangekyo Sharingan!

It's really ironic!

...

Land of Fire.

Konoha.

Tonight, the Hokage Tower is brightly lit, with countless Shinobi bustling in and out.

Although Akatsuki and Orochimaru have retreated, the mess they left behind was for Konoha to clean up, especially the huge sea of ​​trees that Orochimaru created with Nativity of a World of Trees, which not only destroyed the Anbu's Headquarters, but also crushed many surrounding buildings, most of which were residential buildings. If this wasn't dealt with promptly, many civilians emerging from emergency shelters would be left homeless.

Therefore, Minato urgently dispatched two groups of Shinobi, one for cutting down and transport the trees, and the other for building houses using Earth Release Ninjutsu.

Apart from this, there are two more important things!

"Yondaime-sama." Eagle and Shikaku entered the office at the same time.

However, Orochimaru had taken Hiruzen's body with him.

If he rescues Hiruzen's soul at this time, Orochimaru could desecrate Hiruzen's soul with the Impure World Reincarnation.

So...

'Sandaime, I'll save your soul once I retrieve your body."

'I'm sorry, but you'll have to endure a bit longer entangled with Orochimaru's legs' souls.'

Ka-cha.

The office door opened again.

"Hokage-sama." Kanpū walked in.

In the afternoon, Kanpū had flown out of the village to find Nagato. He searched the highlands near the village, and finally found found a tree hollow where Nagato was hiding. Unfortunately, by the time he found it, Nagato and Konan were already gone.

Kanpū didn't give up and followed the traces of their departure all the way, but eventually, the traces disappeared.

Channeling his inner Conan, Kanpū made a logical deduction and concluded that Konan must have created a paper airplane and left with Nagato halfway from the sky.

The reason why the two did not leave by paper airplane at first may be deliberate action to attract his attention.

When Kanpū told Minato about this, Minato informed him that Sanbi had been captured by Kisame.

'That matched up.'

'Konan must have been buying time for Kisame to escape.'

"Alright."

Minato interrupted Kanpū's thoughts and said, "We'll deal with Sanbi and Akatsuki later. Kanpū, head to the Land of Iron immediately. Kakashi needs your help over there."

'Oh, I almost forgot about the semi-paralyzed Kakashi.'

Kanpū hurriedly left.

Activating Sage Mode, Kanpū followed the network cable all the way to the Land of Iron, and soon found a few of his own Flying Thunder God Technique's coordinates, one of which was on a kunai he had left with Kakashi.

With a burst of wind, Kanpū suddenly appeared by the campfire, causing the flames to flicker.

"Kakashi-senpai, are you okay?" Kanpū looked at Kakashi, then was immediately dumbfounded.

'Mangekyo?'