Hidden Rain Village.
A hand reached out from the ground, and a figure wearing a raincoat, identical to those worn by Hidden Rain Village residents, emerged.
Satoru looked at the concealed outside world.
He did not step into the rain.
He knew that Nagato's Ninjutsu relied on sensing through the rain.
He used the Transformation Jutsu to transform into an ordinary resident.
He travelled underground using the Earth Release: Hiding Like a Mole Technique, navigating with his sensing Ninjutsu.
He arrived at a tavern, found an opportunity, and slipped inside.
He observed the situation inside; it was no different from a Konoha tavern, only the arrangement of objects was distinct.
At this moment, Ninjas were discussing in small groups.
"This time, I dealt with a giant fish-like beast in the Mist Stream River.
Its body was as tall as a building.
But who am I? With just one Rain Release: Thousand Needles, I took it down.
The local villagers even gave me many gifts; if I hadn't run fast, their Village flower would have married me."
"Tch, there are no large beasts left in the Land of Rain.
They've all been dealt with by Lady Angel and Lord Messenger; you're just bragging."
"There are some that slip through the net. Didn't you forget that the Jonin in the Village had a hard time dealing with the local beast infestation before?"
"The Village environment is so good now, thanks to 'God' and Lady Angel.
It's wonderful to be able to serve them."
Satoru listened to everyone's discussions.
A cup of sake went down, and he felt that much of the dampness from the past few days had been expelled.
Looking at the headbands on their foreheads, these were all ninjas from Hidden Rain Village.
The 'Lady Angel' and 'God' they spoke of were probably Konan and Pain.
The Ninja did not discuss Lady Angel much.
Their words were all reverence, with no other information.
It seemed that intelligence was not so easy to obtain.
Indeed,
If he remembered correctly, Sai, Danzo's subordinate in the original work, had assassinated the hardline leader of the Land of Rain against Konoha.
This indicates that Hidden Rain Village is not impossible to infiltrate,
But obtaining information about Konan and Nagato is more difficult.
His eyes fell on a paper teru teru bozu doll in the tavern, but only for an instant; he didn't look further.
The surveillance in Hidden Rain Village,
seemed even greater than he had imagined.
No wonder even Jiraiya met his downfall there.
So difficult!
…
Underground.
Concealment Barrier.
The three individuals, excluding Satoru, were waiting.
Ibara Keisen watched the two, preventing them from causing any trouble.
This was something his teacher had secretly instructed him to do; he didn't know why, but since his teacher said so, he chose to trust his teacher.
"It seems the captain has successfully infiltrated."
Toriko said.
They had now been in the Hidden Rain Village territory for fifteen days.
As the captain, Satoru had been collecting information outside for a long time. By now, the enemy's sensing method was very clear: it was the falling rain.
Not being discovered for such a long time meant their infiltration method was correct.
Toriko and Tomako exchanged glances.
Ibara Keisen glanced at them, feeling that these two teammates had ulterior motives. No wonder his teacher wanted him to monitor them.
He felt in his heart that Hokage-sama was truly senile; he had even sent out teammates with ulterior motives. Did he not know how dangerous intelligence missions were?
"You two must not act rashly. If you are discovered by the enemy, not only will the mission not be completed, but you will also implicate the captain." Ibara Keisen said.
He felt it was necessary to state the unpleasant truth upfront.
Tomako, with his fair face, revealed a fake smile: "Only completing the mission is our goal. We won't go out and interfere with Captain Satoru, but we need to be ready to provide support at any time, don't we?"
While he was speaking to attract Ibara Keisen's attention, several small black mice burrowed out from under his feet and disappeared into the tunnel they had come.
Toriko also made a slight movement to distract him.
"Good that you understand. Acting rashly is not good for anyone." Ibara Keisen said.
He did not notice the small actions of the two.
Toriko and Tomako exchanged glances, both expressionless, as if nothing had happened.
According to Lord Danzo's intelligence, combined with their interactions these past few days, they both knew that Satoru was a sensory Ninja and dared not make any small movements in front of him.
Today,
They had calculated Satoru's departure time and approximate sensing range, and then made their move.
Ibara Keisen was, after all, too naive and underestimated their abilities.
Meanwhile, Ibara Keisen, while channelling Chakra into the barrier to maintain the Sealing Technique, subtly tapped his left hand under his thigh in different rhythms.
He indeed did not know about the two's actions just now, but he remembered the intelligence knowledge his teacher had taught him.
When confirming that teammates have ulterior motives, in certain aspects, they should be treated as enemies. And enemies, in this situation, attracting attention and differing from previous interactions, must have done something.
In such a situation, if there are trustworthy teammates, a signal must be discreetly sent.
And be ready to act at any time.
The situation with the two just now fit this description; better to kill by mistake than let go, he would not take chances.
…
Hidden Rain Village.
Satoru removed his hand from a Ninja's head, then quickly formed hand seals and touched the area in front of his pineal gland. Tiny runes pulsed, flowing into the Ninja's pineal gland and spreading towards his brain.
Whoosh!
After doing all that, Satoru then burrowed into the ground and disappeared.
After he left, the Ninja slowly opened his eyes, looking around with a bewildered expression: "Huh, how did I get here? Why am I here?"
He had just been drinking, so perhaps he was drunk and just stumbled over here?
Shaking his head, he looked in the direction and walked towards his home, disappearing into the rainy night.
Underground temporary resting place.
Satoru had created a resting place using Earth Release.
His mind was still processing the information he had gathered during this period.
As a Ninja proficient in the Mind Reading Technique and the head of the Intelligence Division's Analysis Team, he was very thorough in this regard.
Due to the Mind Reading Technique, as well as the resistance of a Ninja's body, mind, and Chakra, even he could not obtain all the information in an enemy's mind through the Mind Reading Technique.
So, before mind reading, he would first use some torture unit methods to extract information from the enemy, then use the Mind Reading Technique to supplement and prevent erroneous information.
Finally, he would use a Sealing Technique to seal all memories related to him.
This was what he had been doing these past few days.
He would pick a Ninja who might know information and conduct intelligence gathering.
"So that's how it is. The Rain Tiger at Will Technique's function of distinguishing enemy infiltration is based on differentiating suddenly appearing unfamiliar Chakra from people who have been active in Hidden Rain Village for a long time, thus allowing Nagato to sense them!"
Based on the information obtained from Hidden Rain Village Ninja, his research on the principles of Ninjutsu, and analysis using probability theory, human psychology, and other disciplines, Satoru was 90% certain that Nagato's sensing principle was this.
As for why it wasn't 100%, he had elderly parents and young children at home, so he still needed to be careful and not take risks.
If only he had paid more attention to the details when watching Shippuden; after all, everyone knows Black Zetsu is black and White Zetsu is white, but who would look closely to see that Black Zetsu's fingernails are pink?
Regarding Nagato's sensing method, Satoru was just missing this small detail; otherwise, he would have cracked it long ago.