Naruto: I Kill, I Loot, I Ascend

Chapter 214 214: The Unreliable Clone and the Village About to Face Danger

"What is he doing?! What the hell is he doing?!"

The original Hyuga Arin was internally losing his mind as he watched his clone teaching Nagato through their shared vision.

Outwardly, however, he remained calm.

Recently, Danzo had assigned him to stay close as a personal guard, so he had been following Danzo around constantly.

The entire village was currently recuperating from the war, and Arin's public identity didn't really have any missions.

Even now, he still couldn't understand why Hiruzen Sarutobi refused to give him tasks.

It felt like their relationship wasn't as good as before.

Which made him a little sad.

Root had also been quiet lately. Their main task was evaluating ninja within the village—checking whether anyone showed signs of betraying Konoha.

Soon, the other four great ninja villages would send representatives to negotiate war reparations.

Hiruzen and Danzo had been arguing endlessly over the issue.

Inside the Hokage's office, Arin stood on the roof beam, looking down.

"We're the victors! Why shouldn't we demand more?"

"That level of compensation will destroy them! It could push them back into war!"

"Then let them fight again!! We won once—we can win again!"

Arin muttered quietly.

"Fight… fight… This time I'm on Danzo's side."

Hiruzen's faction had more ninja—and plenty of strong ones.

He could farm experience to his heart's content.

Of course, afterward he might have to go on the run, which would be a little miserable.

Unfortunately, their conflict remained limited to arguing.

There was no actual fight.

How boring.

Arin withdrew his gaze from them.

He was used to their arguments by now.

But when he turned his attention back to the other viewpoint in his vision—

He felt even more annoyed.

He had sent the clone out to farm experience.

It didn't matter if the clone died—just kill as many enemies as possible before disappearing.

Worst case, he could just make another one.

And what was the clone doing?

Teaching Nagato in the Hidden Rain Village.

I told you to farm experience, not become a teacher!!

How could this possibly be his clone?!

Not serious about work at all!

The clone was a perfect replication of him—personality, thoughts, appearance, abilities.

If it were him, he'd have already stormed the Hidden Rain and started killing.

Instead the clone was teaching people?

And teaching the Nen system to Nagato and the others?

Was he trying to raise a future boss?

Nagato was literally a mid-game boss.

But Arin forgot one important thing.

When the real Arin fought people, he gained experience and loot.

What did the clone gain?

A battered body… and eventual death.

Of course he'd slack off if he could.

Might as well lie flat and take it easy.

Honestly…

That was very much like Arin.

"Hiruzen!! You'll regret this!!"

"Danzo, I'm the Hokage."

Somehow the argument had turned into "you'll regret it" versus "I'm the Hokage."

Danzo snorted and walked toward the door.

Arin and Hiruko instantly appeared behind him, following him out.

Danzo slammed the door shut.

Bang!

Classic.

Meanwhile, on the clone's side—

He felt absolutely no guilt about slacking off.

Worst case, the original could just cancel him and create another clone.

After all, who knew Arin better than himself?

Any clone of him would behave the same way.

The fact that he hadn't rebelled against the original yet was already impressive.

What more did they want?

The clone sat on a rooftop watching Nagato and Yahiko sparring.

Their fighting skills were… honestly terrible.

But with Nen abilities enhancing them, their attacks were still quite powerful.

Yahiko kicked toward Nagato.

Nagato wrapped himself in Chakra Nen and crossed his arms to block.

The result—

Nagato was sent flying, smashing through a straw training dummy.

But he stood up unharmed, scratching his head awkwardly.

"Enhancement type really is strong."

That category naturally excelled in direct combat.

Nearby, Konan was practicing Zetsu, concealing all her aura within her body.

"Nen abilities, huh…" Arin muttered while glancing around at the watching children.

Judging by Nagato's personality, this power would probably spread.

Eventually the entire ninja world might end up using a mixture of Nen and chakra.

"Life energy plus chakra… isn't that kind of like Sage Chakra?"

Arin fell into thought.

In the final battles of the ninja world, ordinary chakra was practically useless.

Only Senjutsu chakra could deal real damage.

That power was created by combining natural energy and chakra.

But what if you combined life energy with chakra instead?

Arin suddenly turned his head.

Konan had climbed onto the roof at some point.

She shrank back with an embarrassed smile.

"I just wanted to try."

After using Zetsu, her chakra had returned inside her body, making her presence hard to detect.

"Don't trust Zetsu blindly."

Arin tapped her forehead.

"Your gaze, heartbeat, and breathing can still expose you."

Whenever Arin used Zetsu to hide from enemies, he stayed completely still.

He even slowed his heartbeat and suppressed his breathing.

Konan sat beside him and asked,

"Teacher, you taught us Ten, Zetsu, and Ren… but what exactly is Hatsu?"

"Hatsu is the most important application of chakra," Arin explained.

"It's the ability to release chakra and create your own ultimate technique."

"It represents your attribute."

"How powerful it becomes depends entirely on you."

"An ultimate move…" Konan murmured thoughtfully.

Her type was Conjuration, the ability to manifest objects from chakra.

"Enhancement really is the strongest! Hahaha!" Yahiko shouted proudly below.

Nagato sighed beside him.

He used to beat Yahiko all the time.

Now Yahiko was beating him instead.

And they had all trained together.

At that moment—

Arin jumped down from the rooftop and looked at Yahiko with a smile.

"Specialization types are naturally weaker before developing Hatsu."

"You're celebrating just because you beat Nagato like this?"

"Come on. Fight me."

"I'm a Transformation type, you know."

Yahiko shook his head immediately.

"Teacher… I don't think I need that."

"Oh, but I think you do."

Arin smiled coldly.

Soon—

Yahiko's agonized screams echoed throughout the base.

The constant screams caused several rogue ninja near the village to stop walking.

They exchanged glances.

"Did someone else discover that place?"

"There's a lot of food stored there."

"We can't let anyone else get it first!"

They quickened their pace toward the village.

As mentioned before—

The Land of Rain had become a wasteland.

A group of children surviving comfortably like this meant only one thing:

They had a large supply of food.

And since they had driven many people away before, the secret of the food stockpile was no longer hidden.

Naturally…

It attracted unwanted attention.

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