Kasi Cair

Ch268. Is it okay to farm in the desert?

"This is honestly impressive!" Temari exclaimed as the primitive elevator platform finally finished its descent from above the ground to the bottom of a hundred-meter-deep shaft.

In front of her and Ren's eyes, a massive room with no end in sight spread into the horizon. Countless massive pillars were symmetrically organized in rows all ac...

Ch267. Unseen threat on the horizon

The next day, Ren woke up to a beautiful morning. He was warm and comfortable, spooning the still-sleeping Temari, cuddled to him in his arms. He enjoyed the feel of her silky hair against his cheek and nuzzled it gently, sleepily into her head.

Her pajamas were also very comfortable to the touch. Kankuro had a good taste. The cat-patterne...

Ch266. Detective Clone-kun 2

'Is he three-timing all his employers?' The Detective Clone-kun wondered with a measure of amusement as he watched the Jonin kneeling on one knee from the shadows covering the ceiling.

"Well? Is it done?" Akito asked in a commanding tone of a man who already knew the answer. What he was really asking for was a report.

"Yes, Sir." The...

Ch265. Detective Clone-kun

"Was that smart?" Temari asked Ren as they were walking through the halls of the Kazekage Tower after leaving the council meeting.

After Chiyo's little performance, Ebizo got enough of an excuse to adjourn the meeting, and he had happily done so, considering they were not going to reach any useful new conclusion anyway.

Turning towar...

Ch264. Emergency meeting

"Well, isn't this a complete clusterfuck?" Ren jovially asked, and Temari, who stood next to him, instantly grabbed his forearm, giving him an urgent look that screamed 'Shut up!'.

He only smiled at her, pretending not to notice the heavily displeased looks of the Sunagakure council members who sat in front of them behind their round table...

Ch263. An attempt

Assassins! Three of them. Ren realized as they all moved.

The world slowed as the knives neared Ren from the front and back, but these ninjas seemed to be only chunin. They were too slow. It might have worked if Ren hadn't noticed the ambush, but he did. Slipping an inch past the knife coming at him from the front, Ren was already bringing...

Ch262. Because he could and wanted to

Ren leisurely walked through the streets of Suna, quietly humming to himself under his nose as he observed the happenings around him with a measure of amusement shining in his blue eyes.

Stopping at a stall on the side of the street, Ren smiled at the suddenly nervous vendor who glanced at his forehead protector and returned a strained smi...

Ch261. Bimbo

A stream of lightning surged toward Ren as he whipped out a kunai with a brand-new sealing tag and threw it toward it. The kunai and the lightning collided, and the kunai should have been instantly engulfed by the lightning, but instead, the lightning changed direction straight downward as it rushed into the ground until the attack completely va...

Ch260. Something's brewing: Konoha

"Still no news from Danzo?" Hiruzen Sarutobi asked, but his shoulders slightly sagged as he was already expecting the obvious answer that would come.

"No, Lord Third." A kneeling ANBU replied in an impassive tone.

Hiruzen sighed and nodded. "Very well. Dismissed."

With that, the ninja disappeared from his spot, leaving Hiruzen ...

Ch259. Something's brewing: Iwa

"Old man! Have you seen the threat those arrogant bastards in Kumo sent us!?" Kurotsuchi barged into Onoki's office, incensed and yelling in outrage while waving around a copy of the letter he had just read. Looking at her, Onoki let out a long, aggrieved sigh.

Why did his granddaughter have to be so stubbornly mulish? He heard that the sh...

Ch258. Something's brewing: Amegakure

"Tobi is a good boy!" Tobi cheerfully exclaimed and gave a silly wave to the disgruntled members of Akatsuki who were leaving the room after a meeting.

Most of them ignored him, deeming him not a threat or worth attention. A few, like Itachi and Kisame, watched him carefully before slipping out of the room. And Hidan glared at him with a s...

Ch257. Trade deal

Samira Kagero was the last in the entire plethora of identities Samui had made for herself in the recent months. She was changing them more frequently than Ren changed kunai knives, which was honestly ridiculous.

Ino said the woman is trying to 'find herself'. Now, that made Ren wince when he heard it, because of the whole mindscrew thing ...

Ch256. Samira

Ren woke up with a small groan, blinking the drowsiness from his eyes a few times before he dragged his body into a sitting position. Hearing a quietly protesting, "Mhmmm," coming from the spot on the bed next to him, he sleepily turned toward the noise and dryly chuckled, only for his chuckle to become a yawn halfway through.

With one han...

Ch255. But first... food!

Sitting in a living room, Ren heard the front door open. Perking up, he turned his head toward the sound, and chuckled as he heard Temari yelp in pain before hissing a curse under her breath. She no doubt tripped over Kankuro's puppet parts, which the boy had forgotten to clean up earlier today.

That was an ever-present danger of living in...

Ch254. Eleven million well spent

"Come on, Kankuro, put some spirit into it!" Ren smugly exclaimed his encouragement while standing straight in front of the sitting puppeteer, his hands behind his back in a scholarly pose he had seen so often in all these bullshit cultivation stories from his past life. "Make your master proud!"

His jaw hurt from how much he was suppressi...

Ch253. Suna's water supply

"Will this place suffice?" Ebizo asked after he led Ren and Temari to one of Suna's empty water storage facilities. It was basically a large underground room with a 'pool' as deep as the Hokage monument was high, where the drinking water could be stored. Ren could see a system of pipes and pumps on the side that most likely allowed for the water...

Ch252. Suna's council 2

"Why should we trust you? As you so readily reminded us, you are a Konoha ninja. Giving Konoha control over our water supply would be foolish." Ebizo pointed out.

Ren nodded, and his rude demeanor dropped as he was inwardly satisfied. Now they were finally getting somewhere. The negotiation could start.

Honestly, he understood Ebizo'...

Ch251. Suna's council 1

Ren gave Temari a probing look as they walked side by side into the Kazekage Tower. The girl was still disgruntled and refused to speak with him after the 'training' she had gotten earlier today. She did not enjoy facing Ino at all as the Yamanaka girl systematically dismantled her with a contemptuous ease and what Ren supposed was a very irrita...

Ch250. For her own good

"Let's not torture her too much too fast, alright?" In the end, Ren decided to refuse Ino and gently patted her hair, causing her to let out a whine. But as somebody who had spent a lot of time with the girl, Ren heard the barely noticeable hint of content acceptance in that whine as her embrace affectionately tightened a little bit.

"Alri...

Ch249. Temari's special training!

The next day, after breakfast, Ren informed Temari that he would like to start her training, causing her to get excited. Mirthfully wondering how long that would last, Ren teleported them to the Hidden Garden after she fetched her fan. He led the girl to the massive grassy plain in front of his house and smiled at her a bit too sweetly.

No...

Ch248. Welcome dinner

With Gaara's sand manipulation, all the sand from the room was quickly evacuated through the window, and the four of them found themselves sitting behind the table, looking with trepidation at the food Gaara had prepared.

"Gaara," Temari slowly started, poking her fork into the omelet on the plate in front of her, sporting a helpless frown...

Ch247. Like cats and dogs

With an exhausted groan, Ren let himself fall onto a couch in an empty office inside the Kazekage Tower. A few seconds later, the similarly tired Temari sat next to his head, with a small grunt. She nudged him slightly to move because he was taking the majority of the couch, but Ren just huffed. Recognizing a denial when she heard one, Temari fo...

Ch246. Arrival to Suna

As Ren's party neared the Sunagakure's gate, his travel companions were practically oozing a silent excitement to be finally home, while Ren's mood somewhat worsened. It started to feel more and more real, and he couldn't help but think that once he stepped past that gate, it would be a step that he wouldn't be easily able to take back.

Of...

No chapter today.

Sorry, guys, I don't write on Mondays, but this week, I needed to take a break today, on Tuesday as well. I kinda feel under the weather and couldn't produce anything worthwhile.

Don't worry, you will still get 5 chapters this week. I just needed two days off in a row instead of one.

Have a nice evening.

Ch245. Journey to Suna

After the picnic, Ren and Temari returned to Ren's safehouse, and alongside Kankuro and Baki, they made plans on how to move from there. Suna had likely already been informed that they had left Konoha and were on their way, so they could not just take a week off or something. They had to arrive in Suna before the village started to panic about t...

Ch244. Sasori

Konan heard the door to the room reserved only for the Akatsuki members in the Tower open, and with a slight surprise, she raised her head to look at who came back.

But seeing a short man fully covered in a black cloak with a hood covering his hair and face gave her pause as she tensed, preparing for a fight...

But a glimpse of red h...

Ch243. The picnic lunch

Temari yawned, feeling drained as she was distractedly preparing some sandwiches for a very late breakfast. Or lunch. It depended on when one woke up.

Despite being utterly exhausted, she refused to leave her brother's side until very late in the night. Yesterday was a complete mess. First the river, then the bandits, and then... Temari in...

Ch242. Mark 82

Back in his room in the safehouse in the Land of Tea, while having a hard time stopping his snickering, Ren removed the orange ANBU mask from his face. The Raikage's expression at the end was simply priceless.

"Ah! That hit the spot!" Ren sighed in satisfied relief as he put the makeshift Akatsuki cloak back into his storage seal.

Th...

Ch241. A's bad day

The Raikage finished signing a document and let out an aggrieved sigh, wistfully thinking of Darui. If only his right-hand man weren't killed. He usually thre-, uh, delegated these boring, mundane duties to him as 'training'. But since the Stoner had killed him, A was thrust into the world of bureaucratic suffering. Every. Single. Day!

A l...

Ch240. Hinata's handy healing

With a swirl of space, Ren appeared in his no longer so secret safehouse in the Land of Tea, inwardly feeling very darkly satisfied as he gained the memories of a clone he had left behind. The fury on Killer Bee's face was almost as sweet as the 'Oh shit' look in Sasori's eyes before the eight-tailed jinchuuriki decided to start a fight.

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