Poof!
Satoru took out a Kunai and, after Chunin Hayakawa finished his lunch, plunged it through his chest.
"I'm sorry."
"Mind Reading Technique."
While his neural signals were still active, Satoru's mind traversed through time as if through a tunnel, searching for the other party's memories.
Before long, he had absorbed most of the memories.
Yin-Yin-Wu-Yi—
"Seal."
The scroll at his waist unfurled, and runes rapidly poured out, pulling Hayakawa's corpse inside. The character for "corpse" appeared in the centre.
"Transform."
With a 'bang,' Satoru transformed into Hayakawa's likeness.
"Genjutsu: Deception."
Another Genjutsu, specifically targeting the Rain Tiger at Will Technique, was applied to his body.
This Jutsu was a Genjutsu he had developed over five days, capable of deceiving external probes. Any Chakra detection would automatically feed back the Chakra information he had collected.
Since completing the development of this Jutsu,
He had been searching for a suitable target.
After a month of observation, Satoru had a thorough understanding of this Hidden Rain Village Chunin's life trajectory, position, who he interacted with, and his social relationships.
He had also absorbed the other party's Chakra information during the process.
With the addition of the Mind Reading Technique, it could be said that,
Except for very familiar people, he was Hayakawa.
But Satoru's target was someone with ordinary social connections.
Born a commoner,
His closest relationships were with his superior and his three subordinates.
His life trajectory was also simple; as a team-leading Chunin,
His daily routine was to lead his team on missions.
This also allowed Satoru to learn more about the Hidden Rain Village.
In the past, the Village was isolated,
Even he, a Konoha Jonin, knew very little about the Hidden Rain Village.
Now he had some understanding.
The Hidden Rain Village, a Ninja Village with highly developed assassination capabilities, was deeply favoured by various national powers.
This allowed them to develop greatly.
They did not have the various mission resources of the Five Great Shinobi Countries,
But in terms of assassination mission resources, they had far more than other Villages.
This reminded him of the existence of Asuma, Chiriku, and other Guardian Twelve Ninja.
It was likely that the Daimyo and the nobles' internal struggles often employed Ninja from the Hidden Rain Village.
Hayakawa's last assassination target was a minor noble from the Land of Birds, which shows that the Hidden Rain Village had a considerable amount of covert mission resources.
"No wonder Konan claimed to have six hundred billion explosive tags. Besides Kakuzu's diligence,
The bulk of it probably came from the Hidden Rain Village's stronghold."
"Hmm, from now on, I am Chunin Hayakawa, a ninja of the Hidden Rain Village."
Satoru picked up the special Ninja tool placed to the side, an umbrella-like Ninja tool.
According to his memories, this item, combined with Hayakawa's unique Ninjutsu, was very suitable for assassination at certain times.
The Hidden Rain Village placed great emphasis on the development of individual abilities.
The so-called team-leading Chunin merely led newly-minted Ninja to adapt to initial mission operations.
More often, it was about the individual assassination of mission targets.
Team assassinations were rare,
So every Ninja promoted to Chunin had their unique assassination methods.
Next, he would familiarise himself with Hayakawa's behaviour patterns, and then he could slowly begin his espionage activities.
He also wanted to see if his intelligence-gathering abilities could surpass Jiraiya's in some aspects.
This was very interesting!
...
Caw!
Above Konoha, a flying eagle landed on the rack of the Konoha Communication Department. The Ninja of the Communication Department retrieved the intelligence and, after deciphering the encrypted information, brought it to the Hokage Office.
...
"Hiruzen, your head of the Analysis Team is truly an extraordinary spy. Are you not considering handing him over to me?
He would certainly be able to realise his value more fully than by remaining in your hands," Danzo Shimura said.
After more than two months of exploration by Satoru, more and more intelligence was sent back, leading to a greater understanding of the Hidden Rain Village.
This made Danzo greatly admire Satoru's abilities. In his mind, this person's intelligence-gathering capabilities were already those of an elite rarely seen even within Root.
If he could control him, his intelligence power would surely bring huge benefits to Konoha.
"Don't think about such things. That's impossible."
Didn't Hiruzen Sarutobi know what kind of person his old friend was? If he were placed in Root, Satoru would merely become a tool for completing missions by any means necessary.
Hiruzen Sarutobi finished reading the intelligence sent back by Satoru: "The current leader of the Hidden Rain Village calls himself a god and rarely appears among the Hidden Rain Village Ninja. He is mostly led by the god's subordinate, a Ninja named Angel.
Hanzou is dead!"
The intelligence in his hand made him frown deeply. Hanzou, known as the strongest Ninja after the First, the Demigod, had died during the Third Shinobi World War, killed by a fellow calling himself a god.
Any Ninja who had experienced the Second Shinobi World War knew how troublesome Hanzou was. If he truly died fighting the current individual who calls himself a god, then it would not be an exaggeration to call the current Hidden Rain Village leader a god.
"It seems that the Land of Rain, which once sparked the Second Shinobi World War, has once again produced a powerful Ninja." Danzo thought of that Rinnegan youth, his eyes shadowed.
Such powerful strength, how could it be in the hands of an enemy? He must be killed to prevent him from threatening Konoha.
Soon, he had already deciphered the Hidden Rain Village's sensing ability and had secretly sent spies in. Find him, kill him, and then take his eyes.
"Danzo, you can call back your two subordinates. Satoru has successfully infiltrated the Hidden Rain Village. Don't stay too long and let the enemy discover them, which would affect Satoru's intelligence gathering." After pondering, Hiruzen Sarutobi instructed Danzo.
He had been careless, not realising that the enemy's sensing covered the entire Land of Rain. A large number of people would not be useful.
Danzo: "No, since they haven't been discovered for so long, it means there's no need to worry about that. On the contrary, I think they should stay there. If Satoru steals intelligence and is then discovered by the enemy, they can provide timely support, giving him a chance to send the intelligence back."
Hiruzen Sarutobi pondered for a moment: "Then let them be quiet and not make excessive moves."
He knew Danzo's character of achieving his goals by any means, so he emphasised it heavily.
Danzo nodded, but inwardly, he was dismissive.
Anyway, besides those two, after deciphering the Hidden Rain Village's sensing Ninjutsu, he had already sent several teams of Ninja to infiltrate.
...
"Wah-ee~"
Tenyu and Maki, the two infants, held Satoru figurines in their hands, cherishing them, and enjoying their mother's feeding with "wah-ee wah-ee" sounds.
After more than three months, the two babies became even cuter, no longer having the wrinkled appearance they had at birth.
Suddenly.
Both babies made "woo-wah~ woo-wah~" sounds.
Ayame was puzzled. Weren't they already breastfeeding?
Swish swish~
Two parrot-like small birds appeared from outside the window, and the babies' eyes widened as they looked over.
"Safe, safe, everything is safe, don't worry," the parrots spoke.
Then they landed in front of Ayame and transformed into two bamboo-woven figurines.
Wah-ee~
The two babies suddenly laughed.
"I feed you every day and you don't smile this happily. Your dad just needs to have news, and you burst out laughing, right?" Ayame saw the parrots transformed into figurines and understood that Satoru was safe, feeling much more at ease.
But looking at the two "wah-ee wah-ee" little ones, she suddenly became very jealous.
When he comes back, just wait until I 'deal with' you.