The Shinobi Cats didn't leave her side. Just as Tsunade was about to lose her temper, Candy stepped out, looking at Tsunade and saying, "Tsunade, what do you want to do?"
Tsunade said, "Call your master out and let him release that female Shinobi named Yakushi Nonō."
Candy frowned. "Tsunade, Yakushi Nonō came to assassinate you. Are you really that generous to let her go?"
Tsunade nodded. "Yes, I have already forgiven her!"
Candy shook her head. "That's your forgiveness. My master won't forgive her. She's a member of Root; if she finds an opportunity, she will kill Ryou."
Tsunade suddenly heard a faint moaning sound. She was furious. "Damned Uchiha, he actually dares to cheat behind my back. Today I must give him a piece of my mind."
Tsunade condensed chakra in her palm, preparing to use a strike of Monster Strength to blow the interrogation room apart and ruin Ryou's good time.
"Tsunade, I've given you enough face!"
Candy immediately formed hand signs. Tsunade instantly lost all her chakra, and her whole body collapsed, unable to stand.
"Dammit..."
Tsunade didn't expect that as Ryou's wife, she would actually be controlled by Ryou's Shinobi Cat.
What then was the meaning of this marriage?
Candy walked with cat-like steps to Tsunade's front and patted her face with a paw. "Tsunade, do you really think you're our mistress?"
"Let me tell you, if it weren't for Madara forcing Ryou to marry you, you would at most be my master's plaything!"
"You—"
Tsunade looked helplessly at the grey-white short-haired cat sitting on her head. As a dignified Sannin, she was actually being sat upon by a cat.
Is there no justice? Is there no law?
Konan wasn't a robot either. Seeing Tsunade controlled by Candy, she wanted to save her, but Candy reacted quickly, forming hand signs to control the spores inside Konan's body.
Now Konan became a helpless Konan, collapsing together side-by-side with Tsunade.
Tsunade said angrily, "Do the people or cats of the Uchiha Clan have to control others just to feel a sense of existence?"
Candy nodded. "Yeah, that guy Ryou feels uncomfortable if he doesn't electrocute someone for a day."
"Tsunade, please summon Katsuyu later. My master wants to control it!"
"Damn it—!!"
At this moment, a cry of alarm came from the interrogation room. "You put poison in—"
At this moment, Ryou's face was purple and blue, and his lips were dark purple and cracked.
A suppressed muffled cough rolled from his throat, and the blood foam he coughed up was mixed with dark black flecks.
The toxin spread through Ryou's blood across his whole body, feeling like countless fine needles gnawing under his skin and flesh.
The Shinobi Cats all crowded around, jumping around anxiously, not knowing how to save Ryou.
Opposite him, Nonō was no better off than Ryou, having the same symptoms.
Her face was dark blue, and she was heavily poisoned.
Nonō coughed up even more blood than Ryou, but her face was full of calm. "Sorry, Root's order to me was to kill you. Only then can the people at the orphanage survive."
Fish Ball roared at Nonō, "So your target was Ryou all along, and Tsunade was just a distraction!"
Nonō's breathing became heavy and long, and her eyes began to lose focus. "I didn't expect things to go so smoothly either. Your master didn't have any defensive measures at all."
The Shinobi Cats all nodded. Going in without any protection—if you don't get poisoned, who will?
Ryou looked at Nonō with a grim face. "What kind of poison is this? It can't even be defended against by Hashirama cells?"
Nonō said weakly, "This is the insect poison of the Aburame Clan's Rinkaichū, nano-sized venomous insects raised by the legendary figure of the Aburame Clan, Aburame Shikuro."
"This poison directly acts on cells. Once infected, the cells will be destroyed and die."
Ryou realized. Aburame Shikuro was the father of Aburame Torune, a legendary Shinobi of the Aburame Clan who had died in the Third Great Shinobi War.
Aburame Torune carried highly toxic nano-sized venomous insects in his body.
In the original work, Obito was also extremely wary of Torune's nano-sized venomous insects. Just by touching them, even with his White Zetsu cells, he immediately cut off his own arm.
To touch them is to die; only Aburame Torune can neutralize this poison.
Nonō's breathing was like a fire about to go out in the wind, each breath drawn out long and weak.
She crawled up and, with her clothes in disarray, crawled toward the direction of the Konoha orphanage in the Land of Fire.
"Kabuto..."
She seemed to see her adopted son being tortured in Root.
...
The Five Kage Summit had ended. Finally, the Five Kage agreed to use Konoha as the headquarters and summon the Shinobi of the Five Great Shinobi Villages to surround the Land of Rain.
Waiting for the alliance to assemble, they would attack Amegakure together.
Danzo returned to Root and arranged for several Shinobi to accompany Yugito and Kushina to Mount Myōboku.
This way, if the battle didn't go well, the people from Root would kill Yugito, putting the Two-Tails into a revival cooldown period.
This would buy time for the Shinobi Allied Forces to breathe.
Those Shinobi in the light care about their reputation; they want to act like saints while being sinners.
Danzo is a shameless whore who will open his legs for money and do whatever is useful; he is the one to bear this darkness.
Suddenly, the Root Shinobi responsible for the Orochimaru cell fusion experiment found Danzo and informed him of the fusion status between Kabuto and Orochimaru's cells.
Danzo was quite happy and went to observe Kabuto's situation.
When he arrived, Kabuto suddenly had some abnormalities. The experimental fusion curve began to drop, and something went wrong with the experiment.
"What's going on? It wasn't like this just now!"
The Root experimental personnel were a bit panicked.
Danzo stroked his chin in thought for a moment, then approached Kabuto's incubation pod and said to him, "Kabuto, your orphanage director's mission failed. She was killed by Uchiha Ryou!"
Kabuto suddenly reacted. His brow furrowed, and emotions like anger and hatred intertwined.
Danzo added, "You must survive. Survive to take revenge on Uchiha Ryou!"
"Uchiha Ryou!!"
The Root experimental personnel were overjoyed. "It's going up, it's going up! It's a success! Kabuto has fused with Lord Orochimaru's cells!"
...
Amegakure.
Nonō gasped and opened her eyes. Her limbs still felt the numbness and sharp pain of near-death, but her nose could clearly smell the air.
"I... didn't die? I'm still alive..."
Nonō rolled her eyes blankly, smelling the faint scent of disinfectant around her. The walls were white. Nonō noticed she was in a hospital room.
Tsunade nodded. "Yes, you didn't die. This guy saved you!"
Nonō saw Ryou kneeling on a washboard, looking as if he were being punished.
Konan was behind him, pressing down on his neck.
At this time, Ryou showed no signs of being heavily poisoned.
Nonō's pupils shrank slightly. "This... what on earth is going on?"
Ryou smiled from the floor. "Nonō, that Rinkaichū poison of yours is indeed very strong. It can even deactivate Hashirama cells."
"But I am Uchiha Ryou. How could I be poisoned to death by a tiny venomous insect of the Aburame Clan?"
At that time, the Rinkaichū poison was frantically destroying Ryou's cells. That nano-sized insect poison was something even Hashirama cells couldn't defend against momentarily.
But don't forget, Ryou has Seven-Tails Chomei inside him. It can resist insect-based Ninjutsu and toxins.
When the Rinkaichū poison was destroying Ryou's cells, the Seven-Tails activated its chakra to clear the toxins from Ryou's body.
Even without the Seven-Tails' immunity to insects, Ryou could have neutralized the poison Nonō gave him using his own Forbidden Jutsu.
He is different from conventional Shinobi. His current state is developing towards that of a Sage, becoming more and more non-human.
"..."
Nonō remained silent, in despair.
Having failed to kill Ryou, her adopted son couldn't be protected, and the children of the orphanage would be used by Root.