Chapter 466: Recollection 4
The clash with Alice had taught Arthur a bitter lesson: he could not fight the entire world alone.
To help compensate for such a setback, he needed a team. But standard recruits were useless to him. They asked questions and they had morals. Arthur needed an organization of his own that could go unmatched in any scenario, built from the ground up.
Who better to satisfy his needs than the fallen ninjas of the world?
All of them could be aligned into one, so long as he coerced them correctly.
His first target was in Blood Prison. He had breached the facility by bypassing the guards. And when he found Tayuya, who had been transported here after her defeat, he ripped Orochimaru’s curse mark straight from her flesh.
An ultimatum was then given: stay in a cage or join him. She chose the latter.
His next step was acquiring the bodies of the dead. But his political cover as John required maintenance. So he returned to the Water Country to sign trade agreements that kept up appearances.
Then the door opened.
Two men walked in. They wore black cloaks patterned with red clouds. Who else could they be other than Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki?
They were hunting Arthur, acting on rumours that he had survived the clash in the Tea Country.
When they stood right in front of him, entirely unaware that the politician sitting behind the desk was the man they were looking for, they questioned his whereabouts.
Arthur played his part well and acted like a standard bureaucrat.