Training

"Is it a mission?" Kakuzu spoke expectantly.

"No. But you could consider it as such." Pain looked at all the members. "Kuro Shizumatta of Konohagakure. He may have information on our targets, although we do not know the amount or how exact it is. Therefore, you must capture him with life if you have the chance. His priority is the highest after the Jinchuriki. "

The place was quiet for a few moments before Kisame spoke. "Leader, I have a question."

Pain looked at him. "What is it?"

"Well, Itachi and I reported that this Konoha guy, Kakashi Hatake, had information about Akatsuki. Won't he get any extra attention?"

"Kakashi obtained the information from Jiraiya, however, it is only based on our search for the Jinchuriki and the team distribution. Kuro Shizumatta, on the other hand, likely has knowledge about each of us and from an unknown source. " The members were quite surprised by what Pain said.

Sasori growled, "Why do you think he has that information? Besides, will you tell us more about this guy?"

Pain looked at him. "Zetsu will give you information about him once the meeting is over. My suspicions are because Zetsu was monitoring Konoha due to a certain event, and Kuro Shizumatta left it not long after. He is officially on a secret mission. However, we believe that he was able to detect Zetsu and left the village to avoid him "

All the members were shocked again, as they knew of Zetsu's terrifying concealment abilities.

Itachi was the one who spoke now. "However, that only shows that he has great sensory ability."

"Is right." Sasori agreed. "I don't think that justifies the suspicions of his knowledge of us."

"That's not the only thing there is!" White Zetsu quickly spoke up. "Because there was so much talk about him in Konoha, I sent a clone to follow him. However! He used something that greatly weakened the clone and then killed him! How could he know that I had such a weakness when I didn't even know I had it!? " White Zetsu looked at all the members.

"How noisy…" Sasori muttered, "Besides, why do you think whatever he used only worked on you?"

"Eh? Well…" White Zetsu muttered before falling silent.

"Sigh…" Pain sighed. "Well, even if the suspicion that he has information about us is unfounded, he is still someone who has a high capture priority as of now."

"Will we get paid for doing it?" Kakuzu quickly asked

"Yes." Pain replied before the projections started to fade.

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"Here is all the relevant information..." Zetsu said before sinking to the ground.

"Wow, he's the brat from the Dangos Shop!" Kisame looked at the sheet of paper and turned to Itachi, "Tell me Itachi, you weren't the one who told him about us, right? It seemed like you two knew each other pretty well."

He kept reading the sheet. "Why would I do that? He was my brother's classmate and we talked sometimes. Besides, the suspicion of his knowledge of us is probably an excuse."

"Huh? What do you mean?" Kisame asked, confused.

Itachi looked at him. "The circumstances that White Zetsu went through do not warrant suspecting that he has information about us."

"Hm…" Kisame hummed, "So why are you saying it's an excuse?"

"The leader probably wanted to increase the intensity of the capture. After all, what would you do if you suspect that someone has information about you and you don't know its depth?"

Kisame thought about it for a moment and laughed, "It might actually work, but the leader said they were unfounded suspicions."

"It's still not confirmed whether or not he has information about us." Itachi closed his eyes. "That alone will make the others take things more seriously than usual, so it wasn't that ineffective."

Kisame laughed as he thought about it. "Indeed, you're right. Though why would the leader use that trick?"

Itachi opened his eyes and looked at the sheet of paper. "There must be some other reason why the leader would want to capture him."

"Wouldn't it be simpler to give us the information? Or do you think it's something personal to the leader?"

He looked at it. "It could be that, or the leader isn't completely sure about something either and doesn't want to stir things up unnecessarily. "

Kisame nodded. "Then what shall we do?"

"Regardless of the reasons, we will capture him when we come across him. If even the leader needs to tell us about him to capture him, he must be very hard to find."

Kisame smiled sadistically. "I hope we'll be the first to find him."

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A few days have passed since Karin, Kuro, and Shiori arrived at the abandoned temple.

These days, each of them focused on training.

Shiori would return to the shrine from time to time and upon returning, she would train her senses to detect Hashirama's cells.

Karin has been training her chakra control through Medical Ninjutsu in order to have greater control over the chains and studying the information of the Uzumaki provided by Kuro.

Although she managed to wear a chain in the cave, they are an incomplete type compared to normal ones.

For example; Kushina's are called "Adamantine Sealing Chains" and in addition to its durability, it has the ability to nullify the chakra of who is tied.

Karin's chains are an incomplete version called "Adamantine Attacking Chains" and have no special properties, being used to attack and pulverize the target.

Even so, Karin trained enough to use a chain to bind the target and not destroy them.

However, even if it is to destroy or bind, her mastery of the skill is not high enough to hold the chains for a long time, use more than one, or increase its power to make them a threat.

When she trains enough, the chains will come off her torso with even greater power and quantity and even getting the special properties is not impossible.

Kuro got a lot of information in Konoha about many topics during the Konoha Crush.

While the first clone went to help in the evacuation, the second went to the Uzumaki complex, where Mito and Kushina lived, as well as the Konoha Archive Library, where information on many top-secret topics is kept, he also accessed the upper levels of the Library, among some other places.

All the information related to Uzumakis and their known techniques were studied by Karin and with the help of Kuro she managed to learn a few things.

In addition to chains, she will also learn the Chakra Suppression Technique when her chakra control is better.

Kuro is using the shadow clones to study Fuuinjutsu, he also sent a Clone to try to locate some of Orochimaru's Laboratories.

He is simply trying luck to get information about the implantation of Kekkei Genkai in the body and if no such laboratory is found, the clone will look for information related to DNA and related topics elsewhere.

And if that doesn't lead to anything, he'll just inject the DNA in his body and that's it.

In case something happens, he can always sleep and avoid permanent repercussions. Even so, having knowledge of the subject would be very useful.

"Oh! You made it!" Shiori's excited voice interrupted his reading.

Kuro looked over and saw the fish in front of Karin alive and Shiori looking at it intently.

She looked at Karin. "If you want, I can check its taste for you."

Karin smiled, "I wasn't going to eat it, I wasn't even cooking." She adjusted her glasses. "You can do whatever you want with the fish."

"Hehe~" Shiori drooled and pounced on the fish as Karin smiled.

'Looks like she doesn't have as many worries as before...' Kuro thought seeing Karin's more cheerful attitude.

Even though she agreed to come with him of her own free will, whether it was because of the abuse she suffered in her village, because of some sentiment or both, she was still uncomfortable during some occasions.

Certainly she would act normal during most times, however, at times, she would sink into her thoughts and not pay much attention to her surroundings.

Shiori's active and cheerful presence has helped her quite a bit.

Still, even if there are still certain worries in her mind, the progress shown indicates that she will be able to overcome them with time or to open up in case she cannot do it alone.

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