354 Annoying Elder Chiyo
Seeing that Hidan had completely turned into ash and there was nothing left to burn now, Yami retracted his scorch-release tentacles. Firstly, he took back his devouring law which turned the tentacles back into their original red color, and then they dispersed.
By this time, Obito who had now lost his arm also canceled his Kamui and the distorted space went back to normal. Yami looked back at the paper talisman that he had thrown a minute ago to activate the formation. With a flick of his finger, he threw a button-sized fire at the talisman making it burn to ashes and stopping the formation entirely.
He then looked at Obito's arm and picked it up. "What are you planning to do with this arm?" Chiyo asked but Yami wasn't one to answer her questions and he just tossed the arm toward Sasuke who caught it instantly.
"Send the arm to Lady Tsunade for research." Yami said. Yami turned around toward the door and started to walk outside when Gaara asked "If you were planning to use Hidan as bait then why not tell us about it?"
Kakashi knew that Yami would give some rude answer and since Gaara wasn't just anyone but the Kazekage Kakashi had to intervene now.
"He wasn't sure that the plan would work like this or else he would have informed you about it." Kakashi said.
"Is that so?" Elder Chiyo asked as she raised her eyebrows and looked at Yami. She knew that Kakashi was trying to cover up for him so she wanted to hear it from Yami's mouth.
Yami looked at Kakashi and the other leaf shinobis and all of them were indicating him to nod and get this over with. Even Sasuke understood that this matter could affect the relationship between the two villages so he wanted his brother to cooperate.
Yami nodded and said "He is right." and then left.
Naruto who had been quiet this whole time walked toward Sasuke and picked the arm to inspect it for himself.
"Why would he have you send an arm to Granny Tsunade? Does the arm have anything to do with Akatsuki member appearing from empty space?" Naruto asked but no one had the answer and Sasuke had just asked a question.
"Kakashi sensei, why did it sound like this isn't the first time Yami had encountered this space jutsu Akatsuki member? and he spoke as if Itachi had something to do with it."
Kakashi and Guy knew were the only ones in the room right now who knew about Itachi coming to the hidden leaf.
"I don't know anything about this Sasuke." Kakashi said and everyone's including Lee and Neji's attention shifted to Guy who is Yami's sensei. Seeing himself get put in such a situation Guy gave a small laugh and said "Hehe..we didn't have any mission like that. It must be something that happened during a solo mission that Lady Tsunade gave Yami."
Sasuke and the others were about to accept the answer and leave the prison cell when Lady Chiyo said "They both are lying. They definitely know something."
She didn't stick around to see Sasuke's and the others' reactions to this and left the cell. Baki followed her out and started instructing the sand shinobis who had now gathered a few meters away from the cell due to the noise caused during the fighting.
Gaara looked at Sasuke and the others and said " I apologize for elder Chiyo's behavior. She is still skeptical about the alliance between the hidden sand and the hidden leaf. Please don't take her words seriously."
Kakashi also wanted to give a polite reply but Naruto pushed his aside a little and stood in front of Gaara and said "Gaara we aren't going to get affected by something like this. Don't worry about it and let's focus on getting back at those Akatsuki bastards."
"Naruto Gaara is the Kazekage...you can't talk to him so informally." Neji reprimanded but Gaara shook his head and said "No its alright...even if I became the Kazekage, I still treat you all as my friends."
"Don't worry Gaara very soon I will also become Hokage." Naruto said lightening everyone's mood and making Sasuke chuckle which earned him a glare from Naruto.
The group left the prison and went back to the hospital to get an update on the patient's condition. As they reached the hospital they saw Temari standing in the corridor.
"How are they doing?" Gaara asked as he saw her sister.
"You guys just came on time. Sakura was able to figure out the poison and removed most of it from Kankuro. The other doctors are using her technique to heal others as well. She said that since the quantity of poison wasn't much it isn't life-threatening anymore but she will start working on preparing the antidote."
"That is good news. I knew nothing could happen to them when Sakura is here." Naruto said as he walked inside the room toward Kankuro. At this time, Sakura was standing to the side trying to feed medicine to Kankuro.
Seeing Naruto and the others Kankuro removed the medicine cup and said "Naruto, Sasuke thank you for coming."
He then looked at Yami with an embarrassed face and said "Even though it was you who did almost all the work, we ended up becoming a burden. We are sorry and thank you for protecting us and the village." Kankuro said trying to bow a little which failed due to the pain.
"What's to thank for in this...just get better fast and then we can go and find those Akatsuki bastards." Naruto said trying to cheer up Kankuro.
Yami had let Kankuro fight with Sasori and Kakuzu for the sole reason that he would be able to get something that Kakashi can track just like the canon.
'If things can't happen like the canon then I will have to create situations like that.' Yami thought.
Yami looked at Kakashi and said "We should start spreading into small groups to find the Akatsuki hideout. They must have a place where they wanted to take Gaara. They won't travel too far."
"The desert is vast and it will be hard to find them." Neji said to which Kankuro looked at Baki and said "Can you bring the destroyed puppet that I had used last night?"
"We have retrieved it but why do you need it?" Baki asked to which Kankuro said "You will understand everything when you bring it."
Baki nodded and instructed one of his men to go fetch the destroyed puppet. After a few minutes, the shinobi returned with the remains of the puppet. He laid them out beside Kankuro's bed.
Kankuro looked for a few seconds and pointed toward a wooden hand with a closed fist and said "Open that fist...It contains a piece of Sasori's clothing. I am sure that the scent on it will be enough to track him."
Kakashi crouched and picked up the cloth. He looked at it and said "Very good..my summoning animals will definitely be able to pick up something. I will go out and have them start the search." Kakashi said and left the room.
Seeing that there was nothing much to do Sasuke said "I will also leave and send the arm to Lady Tsunade."
"Arm? Whose arm is that?" Sakura questioned. Temari and Kankuro had the same question but then Gaara said " I will explain everything to you later Kankuro...just rest for now."
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5 mins ago (Hidden Rain) Akatsuki HQ
Just as Pain and Konan were deciding the next steps of their plan, they heard a loud scream coming from their building. Both of them quickly rushed toward the building source of the scream and saw Obito on the ground still screaming while holding his shoulder in pain.
They could see that his arm was severed and the closing had become black with not even a drop of blood coming out from it.
"What happened?" Konan asked. Obito who was now on his knees didn't even look at her and said "That kid he is a bigger threat than I thought. We will need to focus on him sooner than I thought."
"He did this to you?...Did you go to rescue Hidan from the hidden sand ?" Pain asked.
"Yes...he used Hidan as bait to get to me...I got Kisame and Itachi out the same way a few years ago. He remembered that and used it against me. I am unable to heal." Obito said.
He didn't know why the potency of the Hashirama cells wasn't working.
"What do we do now?" Konan asked.
Obito with his bloodshot eyes looked at her through the mask and said "Find Orochimaru...he and the 5th Hokage are the only ones capable to finding out what happened to my wound."
