Chapter 237 Let's just call him Kabuto
"Kaito you're back."
A familiar voice came from behind Kaito.
Kaito looked back and saw Zabuza patting his butt and standing up from the ground.
"What are you hiding here Zabuza?"
Unexpectedly, Zabuza's expression froze when he heard this, and he subconsciously raised his arm to block his chest.
"Nothing, nothing!"
As if he was afraid that Kaito would continue to ask questions, Zabuza immediately changed the subject and pointed behind Kaito and spoke.
"Who is this kid?"
Kaito turned his head and looked at the white-haired kid who was about five or six years old and was following him closely, and replied helplessly.
"Him, just call him Kabuto for now."
Almost a month has passed since Kaito accepted the surveillance mission and left the front-line camp to move freely.
This was also the second time that Kaito returned to the camp to report. He usually did not appear in the camp. There was one time when he returned and left in a hurry.
People who were familiar with Kaito had roughly guessed that he was carrying out some solo mission, so no one asked him what he was doing.
However, this time he did not return to the camp after half a month, but a few days earlier than originally planned.
As for the reason, it is naturally the little guy following Kaito.
For safety reasons, Kaito went out twice and went directly to the northern part of the Land of Fire, the front line of the battle between Fire, Lightning and Earth, as required by the mission.
After all, there is a war going on there now, and countless ninjas die every day.
Whether Kaito waits for an opportunity to attack from the side or picks up the corpse directly, there are many chances to obtain the corpse of a bloodline limit ninja or a secret technique ninja.
Although there is a risk of being accidentally dragged into the battle as a hostile ninja, Kaito is acting alone after all, so there is a little chance of this happening.
With Kaito's current abilities, there are few enemies below the level of Kage who can be his match.
Even if he encounters top-level masters like Minato Namikaze or the Third Raikage, the worst that can happen is that his identity will be exposed, but Kaito is confident that he can escape.
Kaito initially targeted the ninjas from the Iwagakure Village, and wanted to see if he could open the prize pools of both the 'ground' and 'rock' attributes at once.
It's just that the special unit of Iwagakure, the 'Explosion Corps', mostly operates alongside the main forces, so Kaito had no suitable opportunities to attack. He did not see the ninja with the 'Explosion Style' bloodline limit. ( Explosion Corps = Demolitions Unit)
Afterwards, Kaito had to capture an ordinary earth-style ninja to test the "sketch" skill, but as expected, the secret technique failed.
Obviously, ordinary ninjas do not have the "abilities" that can be recognized by secret techniques.
In the end, he just collected some information hastily and returned to the Land of Whirlpool camp.
The second time Kaito was dispatched, he targeted the ninjas in Konohagakure. After all, there were many ninja families in Konohagakure. From Kaito's perspective, many families met the "ability" standards for the secret technique.
At first, Kaito wanted to get someone from the Uchiha clan or the Nara clan back to try to open the "ghost" or "dark" prize pool through the Yin attribute. At the very least, he wants to get a Byakugan to use temporarily, anyway, it was to extract "abilities", and he can also perform "Sketch" on the ninjas of the Hyuga branch and maybe he could even open the "fighting" prize pool.
As a result, none of the above happened.
Instead, Kaito accidentally picked up the body of a ninja from the Aburame clan.
This time, the 'sketch' was finally released successfully.
White paint-like lines wandered across the corpse, connecting to each other until they were completely connected, forming a complicated sealing ritual.
The next moment, the corpse, which had just died not long ago, was quickly drained of all energy by the power of the seal, becoming withered and cracked, and a gust of wind blew away the corpse, which turned into ashes and spread on the ground.
The white oil paint lines that had successfully extracted their 'abilities' emitted a faint glow and quickly retracted.
Finally, it gathered on Kaito's arm and condensed into an oil paint mark shaped like a beetle.
However, the things that gave Kaito a headache were still to come.
Kaito, who successfully condensed the mark, did feel a slight difference, especially when chakra was infused into the seal mark, Kaito could even attract some wild flying insects.
However, the 'abilities' stolen by the 'sketch' secret technique are different from those obtained by the system lottery, and no one has explained what this is.
More importantly, if Kaito wants to open the 'Bug Attribute Prize Pool', he must first learn an Insect Ninjutsu.
Kaito has no idea how to develop a ninjutsu of this ability, which only relies on the chakra to attract insects.
Fortunately, the secret art of "Sketch" can be used and replaced at any time, and the strength of the "Insect Pool" is not so strong that Kaito has to give up other pools for it. When encountering an enemy with suitable "Abilities" in the future, he can simply dispel the seal.
Then, when Kaito continued to wander alone near the battlefield, he met this white-haired kid.
At that time, Kaito was indeed located near Kikyō Pass, and this kid was also wandering alone near the battlefield.
But Kaito dared to do this because he was confident in his own strength, while this little kid was completely confused and wandering around aimlessly.
When he first saw this kid, Kaito didn't want to pay any attention to him. There were just too many tragedies on this battlefield. In the beginning, Kaito even sent some supplies to these displaced civilians, but later he became numb after seeing so much.
However, just as Kaito was about to turn around and leave, a team of passing Konoha ninjas actually wanted to kill the brat.
Then Kaito had no choice but to kill these Konoha ninjas.
While Kaito was killing these Konoha ninjas, the white-haired kid just stood there without dodging or evading, without any other reaction.
After the battle, Kaito was still worried, so he walked up to the white-haired kid, squatted down and looked at him, and used the Aqua Ring to heal all the minor scratches on his body.
It was not until Kaito wanted to ask his name and found that he was dumb and didn't say a word, only shaking his head occasionally, that he realized that this little guy seemed to have lost his memory.
Looking at the other person's white hair, coupled with his silly and amnesiac appearance, Kaito found out after some testing that this kid was a little nearsighted.
In the end, Kaito decided to take the little kid back to the camp early.
Before leaving the battlefield, Kaito looked at the kid whose height was just up to his chest, ruffled his white hair with a smile, and spoke casually.
"Since you've lost your memory, your name from now on will be Kabuto, Ok?"
Kaito decided on the name of the little guy in such a hasty manner.
As for whether he is really the "Yakushi Kabuto" in the original book?
Does it matter?
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Author: Let me talk about Kabuto. The original book only states that Kabuto became an orphan in the Battle of Kikyō Pass, but the time of the Battle of Kikyō Pass has never been accurately stated.
However, after Kabuto was adopted by Yakushi Nono, he became proficient in using medical ninjutsu and helped Orochimaru with his treatment and was praised for his medical skills.
Three years passed in between. At that time, Orochimaru and Danzo were still leading the team in the battlefield.
However, the Battle of Kikyō Pass was won by Namikaze Minato, and the third great ninja war ended quickly after the battle. Later, Hyuga Hinata was captured by the Kumogakure people who came to sign a peace treaty in Konohagakure. In short, I checked the information for a long time, but the various timelines did not match.
Fortunately, the battlefield in my book is already a mess, so everyone can just treat it as if Kikyō Pass has been destroyed. As for whether it's called Kikyō Pass or Kaito Pass, it should just be a translation issue; I will use Kikyō Pass here.
However, Kabuto's age is accurate, he is six years younger than the protagonist and Kakashi.
(Because the timeline of the original Naruto is a bit messy in some places, I often use Kakashi's age as a node. Haha, Kakashi is not just a chakra unit to me.)
(End of this chapter)