Journey of Desires

- Ooooh, congratulations! You finally managed to get immortality along with the sharingan.

Orochimaru's status was quite impressive, and seeing that he was able to achieve his goals, Ban decided to congratulate him.

When the brother and sister came to this world, they did not think that one of the people who would become their ally would be Orochimaru, after all, he has a cold and rather cruel character, and also a reputation as a traitor is not something that leaves a good impression. But the knowledge they have made Orochimaru treat them with respect.

Moreover, for him it was not a problem, they did not ask him impossible requests, and the exchange of knowledge was equal. And most importantly, their entire company had characters quite suitable for communicating with the snake sannin.

Ban, although a fan of battles, but he really does not like to quarrel with people or somehow use them, his sister is incredibly calm and to a certain extent kind. And if we take into account the young kunoichi who travel with them, Hikari is also very calm and does not want to quarrel with anyone, constantly remembering how she was treated before, she tries with all her might to treat other people well, she just does not want to be like her offenders.

Problems could only arise with Naruko, who has quite a lot of energy, and by nature she can do something unexpected, but due to the fact that she had knowledge of Orochimaru's strength and character, she did not get into trouble.

That's how it turned out that by conducting honest exchanges and mutually beneficial cooperation, their company and Orochimaru were able to find a common language without any problems.

Now everyone in the room finished studying Orochimaru's status, who had quite a confused thought in his head, on the one hand, only five people except him knew about his powers and features, which is quite dangerous, but on the other hand, they might not have told anyone about the Uzumaki girl's unusual power at all, deciding to think about this situation later, he nevertheless answered.

- Thank you, I must admit I'm quite impressed by this ability, knowing my powers in the digital range is quite useful, but I would be grateful if you gave me the status of someone else so that I could compare.

With this request, Orochimaru decided to make a small test, whether they would dare to give him knowledge of the powers of someone other than himself.

- Hm? No problem, you don't know our powers at their peak and there is no point in comparing with us, but I still have a sheet with Hiruzen's statistics.

Raising his hand with the palm slightly to the right of his shoulder, he covered it with distortions and the status of the third Hokage appeared in his hand, after which he handed it to Orochimaru.

Sanin took the sheet but did not read it now, and having understood the situation better, he continued what they had been talking about before the arrival of the three girls.

- So, let's get back to business, do you agree?

The first to say something after the question was Naruko, as soon as she heard the question, she literally automatically asked, lately she had been clarifying something so often to satisfy her curiosity that it had already become a habit for her.

- Agree to what?

Ban turned in her direction and saw Naruko sitting with a look full of curiosity, and her hands were crossed on her knees, after which he answered.

- Before you arrived, Orochimaru invited me to participate in one adventure.

- Well, come on, talk more specifically!

- The attack on Konohagakure invites me and you to participate in this event.

After which he returned his attention to Orochimaru and still gave an answer.

- In principle, it sounds funny, but...

Seeing Ban's frowning look, Orochimaru decided to clarify what was stopping Ban from joining.

- Are there any circumstances preventing you from joining me?

- Your attack on Konoha will kill a huge number of people, I understand that in this village there are incredibly bad and cruel people, people because of whom you personally suffered greatly, but your actions will also cause great harm to civilians, as well as those who did nothing to you. I don't want to participate in something like that...

- Haa, in principle, a completely expected answer, based on our communication, I tried to create variations of your answers in our dialogue in order to prepare, and such an answer did not surprise me, that is why I thought over my plans and made a plan that would not affect civilians.

- Oh! Now I'm really interested, tell me what you came up with!

***

High in the mountains there was a city, to be more precise, a Ninja village, and in this village there was a rather large building on the highest floor of which there was an office with transparent windows, this was the Raikage's office.

The time was approaching sunset, and the office was already painted yellow, when at that moment the door to the office opened and a very beautiful girl with a dark skin tone entered inside, and noticing her, the Raikage immediately addressed her, of course very loudly and in his characteristic noisy style.

- Mabui! What happened again? You shouldn't have bothered me for another hour!

- Raikage-sama, you have a visitor, he says it's very important and you won't regret accepting him.

- I don't care! Let him go where he came from, visiting hours are over for today!

- I already informed him, but he refuses to leave.

- Throw him the hell out of the building!!!

- It didn't work...

- MABUI!!! HOW! THIS! NOT! DID IT WORK???????

In front of the evil Raikage, the girl still maintained her calm, adjusting her glasses with her finger, she answered, but the answer only confused Ai.

- By the way, tokubetsu jonin Komoi and Memui were hospitalized today.

- What? Why should I know about this? This happens dozens of times every day.

- They have fractures, and these injuries were inflicted by the visitor who requests an audience with you.

- WHAAAAT?

People near the Raikage office building could hear an angry scream, and then the window in the Raikage's office was broken and a table flew out, looking at this scene, one Kumogakure resident turned to another.

- Is this the eighth this week?

- The seventh...

- Hm, and the Raikage is getting old.

- More like he's finally starting to grow up.

In parallel to their conversation in the Raikage building, a man covered in lightning was heard hurrying along its corridors, and having reached the first floor, he began to look around until he noticed a very tall man with blue hair, judging by the cut on his shoulder, as well as the presence of blood on his hands, this is the same person who not only dared to distract him during a time closed for visitors, but also harmed his subordinates.

Noticing A, Ban began to smile widely, and seeing his smile, the Raikage completely lost his temper and at a speed equal to about half his maximum in less than a second covered ten meters, after which he struck Ban in the stomach.

The result of the blow became visible from outside the building, Ban flew straight through the entrance, breaking through the doors and was thrown to the center of the street near the Raikage building.

Ay watched as Ban calmly stood up and demonstratively shook off the dust, such a gesture again enraged the Raikage, because of which he again became covered in lightning and made a dash towards Ban.

But this time the blow was intercepted and accepted for block, and distortions appeared near Ban's feet.

Ninja are used to the fact that he could cling to the ground and various surfaces with chakra, so they can calmly exchange blows of incredible power, without flying off from their force due to the fact that their body does not weigh so much. But Ban did not have chakra and was forced to fix himself in space with his magic so that Ay's blows would not simply open him in different directions like a ball.

When Ban caught Ay's blow, he spilled and accelerated again, and also began to put more effort into his blows. The fight lasted for several minutes and was quite monotonous, just an endless stream of blows and blocks, moving along the street in parallel.

While they were fighting, a whole crowd gathered around them who chanted in support of their Raikage, after two minutes of exchanging blows it became clear that their kage's opponent was not simple either, and people even began to place bets, bets were on how long the blue-haired man could hold out, most people bet on 4-5 minutes, there were also daredevils who decided to take a risk and bet money on Ban holding out for more than ten minutes.

By the third minute, the usual exchange of taijutsu got on Eyu's nerves.

An irritated cry was heard on the battlefield, after which the Kage was covered not just with small lightning discharges, but was covered in lightning armor, the chakra around him became visible to the eye, and lightning struck non-stop in all directions.

Everyone around was already prepared that the fight would be over, but when A struck something unusual happened, a fighting style that no one in this world uses, namely the redirection of the blow, catching A's hand in time and taking him on a sliding block, Ban directed the Raikage's hand straight into the ground, people exclaimed in surprise.

Ban jumped to the side and looked at his opponent's reaction. Ei himself, having calmed down a bit, began to look closely at his enemy until he heard his words.

- But this blow was already dangerous, well, since you used the boost, then I...

But he didn't have time to finish, Ei, realizing what he wanted to say, didn't let him use any technique and, approaching Ban at maximum speed, struck.

This speed was already incredibly huge, at the moment of peak strength and using the maximum of her body, Ei develops incredible speed, if Naruto were here, she would say that at the moment the Raikage's speed indicator went beyond 5000, which exceeds Ban in his normal state.

That is why Ban was unable to completely dodge the blow, and the result of the blow was a torn off right arm, he managed to shift his body, and as a result, Ei hit not the shoulder where he initially aimed, but the arm, tearing it off at the elbow.

Seeing the missing arm, the Raikage finally realized what he was doing, at that moment he had a thought that he would have to deal with more big shots again because he had injured his subordinates.

But the scene that he saw next was a surprise, Ban pulled the injured part of his arm to the side, after which literally before his eyes, bones, nerves, muscles and skin began to appear, and after a couple of seconds, it was as if the wound had never been there, except that the missing sleeve of his clothes hinted at what had happened.

The next thing A saw was Ban's grin, and after it, a phrase was heard.

- Theft: Hunting Festival.

After these words, everyone within five hundred meters felt a decline in strength, and that they had become weaker, the only exception was the Raikage, whom Ban deliberately excluded from the list of targets for the ability.

Theft: The hunting festival devours fifty percent of the strength of the people around him, but unlike physical hunting, not only strength, agility, speed and endurance are taken away, but also mana, reiatsu, ki. Since Ban does not own Chakra, he cannot take away chakra, but the fact that the Shinobi's bodies become weaker in itself reduces their Yang chakra, which disrupts their usual balance, and the ninja are forced to release part of the Yin chakra into nowhere, reducing their chakra reserves, but this lost chakra is not transmitted to Ban.

At this moment, those around were already really scared, at first they felt a decline in strength, and then this unknown man Became even taller, and clearly grew muscles. But they did not manage to continue their thoughts, Ban disappeared from their field of vision and, finding himself near A, struck a blow, kicking into battle, because of which the Raikage sent her into the wall.

But he was not destined to get into it, as Ban was in the path of his flight and kicked him vertically upward, after which he became covered in distortion and appeared next to the Raikage in the sky and kicked him straight towards the Kage's office.

The result was a broken wall and a stunned and not expecting such a thing Ay, while he was trying to come to his senses, Ban appeared in the hole in the wall and spoke.

- Good afternoon, my name is Ban, and I have a business proposal from Orochimaru.

And while Ay was trying to comprehend what was said, the hand that he had previously torn off and which was lying on the street, became covered in distortions and disappeared.