Starting with rogue ninjas, building the insect kingdom.

Chapter 382 The New Akatsuki Organization

Damn it, that woman Mei Terumi is ruthless. She's determined to use me as a sacrifice!

Watermelon Mountain Pufferfish Demon cursed inwardly, and his escape speed increased even further.

Mei Terumi looked at the large figure that had disappeared into the water and was so angry that she almost cursed. In fact, she had never intended to take the watermelon or the Yamagawa Touki.

The main problem is that there are too many people these days. You can get by with polite words, but in general, it's all about picking things up hard and putting them down lightly.

Tie him up, punish him severely in front of everyone, and then secretly release him and take him in as a dog. I didn't expect him to be so ignorant. He's lived to be so old and still thinking about defecting. He'll be hunted down.

She looked at everyone, and finally gritted her teeth and said, "Now, as the Fifth Mizukage, I declare that Suigetsu Hozuki is an S-rank rogue ninja."

The full moon lantern shook its finger and said with a smile, "No, no, no, that won't do. You haven't fulfilled your promise to me yet. So I don't want to back out right now..."

"You want to back out!" Mei Terumi frowned, not expecting to appear unexpectedly beside her.

Just as tensions were about to rise, Master Yuan suddenly appeared and said, "Alright, stop it. Kirigakure is already more severely injured; let's not cause any more trouble."

After Man Yue laughed, she jumped back onto the ship with her weapon. Mei Terumi also took a few steps back with a cold smile, frowning as she looked at her blood-stained dress.

Seeing that the two had finally stopped, Master Yuan slowly said, "Sunagakure has sent an invitation. They will be holding the Chunin Exams soon. Hozuki Mangetsu, I hope you can go there on behalf of the village."

Seeing everyone looking at him, Hozuki Mangetsu chuckled, flicked out a sewing needle and stuck it into the invitation, then grabbed the invitation and turned to leave.

Because he knew very well that Master Yuan and the others had already made their choice. Since you had already chosen who the fifth generation would be, why bother with this selection process? Is it really that interesting?

Hozuki Mangetsu left without saying a word, feeling that this ninja village was rather uninteresting.

"Master..." Mei Terumi said, turning her head after Hozuki Mangetsu left.

Master Yuan didn't say anything else, but interrupted her, saying, "I've bought you some time. Whether you succeed in the next few days depends entirely on your performance."

After saying that, he leaned on his cane, turned and left.

On the other side, dozens of miles away in the open sea, the Watermelon Pufferfish Demon emerged from the water.

At this moment, the sole of one of his feet had turned white and ulcerated, so they had to use sharkskin to scrape off all the rotten parts.

"Damn it, I'll come back to kill you one day!" He climbed back onto the boat and cursed at the few remaining henchmen.

"What are you still looking at? Hurry up and set sail!"

He had already made up his mind. If he couldn't become the Mizukage, he could always become a pirate. With his strength, he could be free to go anywhere.

Fortunately, he had a backup plan; these were people he could trust.

"Sir, please have a drink. We don't have any anesthetics, so we're sorry, but you'll have to make do with some strong liquor." A burly young man with a shark-like face held a bottle of strong liquor in front of Suigetsu Hozuki.

Looking at the sincere young man, Suigetsu Hozuki couldn't help but lightly punch his hard chest. "Kid, you've trained well, you're showing some of my skills. From now on, you'll be my second-in-command."

"Thank you for your guidance, sir, but I do not wish to become a discarded pawn like you."

Suigetsu Hozuki instantly sensed something was wrong, but his body was paralyzed. There was something wrong with the wine!

But what kind of poison could be so undetectable to him, and so capable of instantly paralyzing his already fragile physique?

Little did they know, there were far too many of these colorless and odorless poisons.

Tsunade, the medical genius of the ninja world, can do it; Chiyo, the master of poison, can do it; Sasori, the puppet alchemist of the Akatsuki organization, can do it. In addition, Shennong, Yomi, Orochimaru, and even the insect demon Aburame Shijo, and half of his insects can do it.

At this moment, not only him, but also his other subordinates were paralyzed.

Kisame Hoshigaki easily picked up the greatsword Samehada, pointed it at the man's head, and decapitated him with a single blow. Then, he leaped into the sea with Samehada in his arms.

Not long after, on an island, Kisame Hoshigaki shook the sweat off his head and then spent a lot of effort evaporating the water stains on his body.

Next came the crucial step: he bit his finger, formed hand seals, and cast a summoning contract on Samehada.

He had gone through great lengths to trick the unique psychic into giving him the real psychic spell, but the other party was so foolish as to give him the real spell.

"The Samehada sword is mine from now on."

"Oh my, congratulations!" Just then, a black and white figure emerged from the ground. Kisame Hoshigaki turned around and almost chopped the person in two.

"Friend, are you dissatisfied with me?"

"Oh, it's you. I thought someone was attacking us."

Kisame took out a bandage and wrapped it around Samehada. At that moment, Black Zetsu took out a black robe with red cloud patterns and threw it in front of him. Kisame didn't stand on ceremony and simply put it on.

Black Zetsu said, "Now that you're wearing our organization's uniform, you are a member of our organization from this day forward."

Kisame froze for a moment, but still didn't take off his clothes. Anyway, he had nowhere to go, and he had already been interested in joining the organization before.

"You guys certainly know how to get people on a pirate ship."

"How can you call it a pirate ship? To be honest, I have to tell you the truth: actually, only the two of us are truly on the same side within the organization. We have a grand plan called the Eye of the Moon..."

"We're on the same side. So the dark organization uses espionage too?"

Kisame nodded. Since they were close friends, they would be a team from now on.

Soon after, he was taken back to the Land of Rain.

Inside an air-raid shelter in Dawn City, he finally met the other Akatsuki members.

Among them were Pain, who possessed the Rinnegan; Juzo Biwa, the former head of the Executioner's Blade, who was wiping his blade; and a purple-haired girl who walked straight toward him.

She pulled a metal ring from her pocket with the word "Nan Dou" written on it, and then took out a whole bunch of nail polish.

"We're all dressed in black, what color do you like?"

Kisame Hoshigaki remained expressionless. Although he didn't understand this behavior, he showed respect. Perhaps this was a unique custom of the Akatsuki organization.

"Then paint it black for me too."

Just then, a blond young man and a short, fat man pushed open the door and entered.

"Gentlemen, the Sand Village has sent an envoy with an invitation to our Rain Village to participate in the Chunin Exams. Who among you would like to lead the team this time?"