Became the mastermind behind the Akatsuki organization

Chapter 64: Recognizing Danzo's True Face
"Shimura Danzo, who is that?"

Bai Ye kept repeating the name, with more doubts in his eyes.

For most ninjas in the ninja world, the name Danzo Shimura does not have much meaning. Even Konoha's own Genin have rarely heard of the name Danzo.

What really made the name Danzo famous in the ninja world was when Danzo ran for the Sixth Hokage.

Black Zetsu seemed to have thought of this as well, and his expression looked a little embarrassed.

In fact, he had never heard of Danzo's name before. After a few days of investigation, he could only confirm that Danzo was not a good person and was using Byakuya.

The logic of using Byakuya is even simpler. It is better to be used by yourself than to be used by Danzo.

After realizing that the atmosphere was a bit awkward, Black Zetsu cleared his throat and explained:

"Shimura Danzo is a conspirator who has planned to assassinate daimyo and ninja village leaders in various countries... and has always wanted to overthrow the Hokage. It is very dangerous to work with him."

Hearing this, Bai Ye nodded slightly:
"Isn't this great? I also want to plan a coup against Yahiko, and Danzo always teaches me patiently. He is a kind-hearted senior."

"And if I can control the Akatsuki organization, it will also be in the interests of Konoha. From this point of view, there is no conflict of interest between me and Senior Danzo."

"But you, you appeared in front of me out of nowhere, and threatened me with something at stake!"

Black Zetsu felt that what Bai Ye said made sense. Compared with an old ninja who had many years of assassination experience and held a high position, his image as a little black man was obviously suspicious and could not be fully trusted.

But what he said was true, Danzo was really using Byakuya.

Although he will use Bai Ye in the future, he is really doing this for Bai Ye's own good now. He wants to gain Bai Ye's trust by helping him. This is clearly out of good intentions.

"I'm doing this for your own good..."

As soon as Black Zetsu said this, he felt that this was not in line with his personality.

After a pause, Black Zetsu continued, "Bai Ye, it seems that if you don't witness Danzo's conspiracy against you with your own eyes, you won't know the cruelty of reality."

After saying that, Black Zetsu took a step forward, trying to grab Bai Ye's hand and perform the Mayfly Technique.

Bai Ye used the body-flash technique to move away from Black Zetsu, and said with a vigilant look on his face: "What do you want to do? Where are you taking me? Or have you finally revealed your murderous intentions?"

"I just want to take you to find Danzo and see his true face." Black Zetsu said expressionlessly.

"Why should I trust you?"

Bai Ye was still alert, but his hesitant eyes betrayed him.

After a few seconds of silence, Bai Ye took the initiative to perform the Paper Clone Technique, and while ordering the clone to follow Black Zetsu, he said: "Humph, then let me see what the true face of the Danzo you mentioned is like?"

Seeing that Bai Ye agreed to his request, Hei Zetsu finally breathed a sigh of relief and said:
"Write a letter to Danzo first, and we'll follow the letter to find Danzo later, and then we can show you Danzo's true face."

Bai Ye nodded, spent a few minutes writing the letter, and summoned the ninja hawk.

After watching the Ninja Hawk flying over the horizon, Black Zetsu emerged from the ground again and looked at Bai Ye helplessly: "You can come with me to see Danzo now."

After tormenting Black Zetsu for a while, Bai Ye let the paper clone follow Black Zetsu.

Black Zetsu didn't waste any time and directly let White Zetsu come out from the ground. After possessing Bai Ye's clone, he sneaked into the underground with the paper clone.

On the way to Danzo's hiding place, Bai Ye once again felt the power of the Mayfly Technique.

Although he also mastered the Mayfly Technique, he could not catch up with White Zetsu in terms of speed.

If the speed of an ordinary jonin running at full speed is the speed of a train, then the speed of White Zetsu's Mayfly Technique is almost the same as that of a high-speed train. Unless it encounters a hard rock formation, there will be no obstacles. Uchiha Madara and later Obito also collected intelligence from all over the ninja world through hundreds of White Zetsu and Mayfly Technique.

Otherwise, the ninja world is so vast that relying solely on a few rebellious ninjas in the Akatsuki organization would not be able to collect any intelligence on the Jinchūriki, let alone arrest them.

It took half an hour for Ninja Hawk to reach the Root base.

Bai Ye and Hei Zetsu also came to this stronghold.

When Bai Ye saw that the base was actually set up in the territory of the Rain Country, he frowned and said, "I didn't expect that the Hokage Assistant would set up the base here without informing me in advance!"

When Black Zetsu heard this, he smiled in his heart.

I don’t know whether he was laughing at Bai Ye’s naivety or lamenting Danzo’s stupidity.

After getting the intelligence scroll from Ninja Hawk, the Root Ninja quickly sent the scroll to a secret room deep in the base, and Byakuya and Black Zetsu followed.

When Danzo learned that Byakuya had sent the intelligence scroll, he touched his chin and smiled, then sent someone to call Ryoma Aburame over and asked Ryoma to accompany him to read the letter.

Soon, Danzo and Aburame Ryoma both looked through Byakuya's letters and began to analyze them.

Because the secret room was small, Bai Ye and Hei Zetsu could hear the discussion between the two.

After hearing Danzo and Aburame Ryoma's serious analysis and thinking about how to reply, Bai Ye looked at Black Zetsu and said:
"Danzo-senpai has no intention of harming me. You are overthinking it."

Black Zetsu's heart remained calm as he said to Bai Ye, "If we keep watching, we will know. They haven't revealed their true colors yet."

Bai Ye said no more and started watching the interaction between Danzo and Aburame Ryoma.

In the past, he was the one being broadcast live, but now he can finally watch other people’s reality show performances, and it starts with the secret interactions between the leader of the Root organization and the top brass.

"Ryoma, take a good look at how sensible Byakuya is! If he wasn't a ninja from the Akatsuki organization, I would have considered recruiting him to become a Root elite!"

However, the next moment, Bai Ye began to doubt his life.

It’s a good thing that Danzo is satisfied with his letter, which means he has gained Danzo’s favor and will receive more assistance in the future.

But what about praise? What he did was actually recognized by Danzo.

This made Bai Ye a little scared.

However, Bai Ye soon realized that Danzo had fallen into his trap and actually began to seriously think about the direction of the coup in the Akatsuki organization and prepare to seize the position of Hokage in the future.

But people are different, and he has a very good chance of becoming the leader of Akatsuki.

Danzo is different. Judging from Danzo's behavior and personality, the probability of him becoming Hokage is infinitely close to zero. Unless the current Hokage dies suddenly, Minato Namikaze and the three ninjas are all killed, it will not be Danzo's turn.

In the end, Danzo and Aburame Ryoma began to discuss how to deal with Byakuya.

"Master Danzo, what should we do next? Let Byakuya assassinate Hanzo's messenger, but this will expose him!"

"Isn't it our plan to stir up conflict between the Akatsuki organization and the Hidden Rain Village?"

Hearing this, Black Zetsu also said in a gloomy tone:

"Bai Ye, do you understand Danzo's purpose now? He is using you. When you are no longer useful, he will abandon you without hesitation."

(End of this chapter)