"Why didn't anyone tell me this? Why did Big Brother Aoba hide it from me?" Naruto asked excitedly.
"That's another matter. It's not the time to tell you yet. In order to stay by your side and take care of you, that person paid a lot." Jiraiya sighed.
"Even if he chose to betray the village, he didn't hurt you. So, I also wondered if he really had a reason to leave."
Naruto suddenly stood up and wiped the tears off his face. He said firmly, "I must find Big Brother Aoba and ask him clearly. Then I will bring him back!"
Seeing that Naruto had finally regained his composure, Jiraiya seemed to see the shadow of Minato on Naruto.
Therefore, Jiraiya suddenly said, "Just based on the current you, the gap is too big. Are you willing to cultivate with me?"
Naruto nodded. No matter what method it was, as long as he could become stronger and bring Aoba back to Konoha, he was willing to try!
Jiraiya heaved a sigh of relief. He chose to keep Naruto by his side because he was worried that Naruto would go to another extreme.
So he needed to give Naruto a hope and then use this hope to tie Naruto down.
This way, in a short period of time, Naruto would obediently follow by his side and cultivate, so there was no need to worry that Naruto would do something stupid.
And when he felt that Naruto was already able to become a great ninja, who would know what the future would become?
If Naruto was still so determined to find Shinomiya Aoba, then he would have to wait until then.
This mess, he had already done his best to clean it up to this extent.
However, he had already heard of Tsunade's whereabouts. It was time for Princess Tsunade, who was welcoming Konoha, to return.
Looking at the horizon, Jiraiya's gaze suddenly became very deep.
...
On the other side, after Aoba left Orochimaru's place, he found a time to contact Pain.
He used the excuse that he had to continue his closed-door training in the near future.
He wanted to make a deal with Sasori and then asked if there were any difficult missions that he needed to take action in the near future.
Pain did not suspect anything. He only hinted that there was not yet, but there might be many missions like this in the future.
He wanted to make use of the time he had now to continue increasing his strength, and he would not be so free in the future.
Aoba expressed his understanding in Yasuo's tone, and after confirming the location of the transaction with Sasori, the connection was cut off.
To be honest, in Aoba's opinion, this was the best time to make a move.
Kirigakure and Sunagakure were both half-crippled, and there was nothing to be afraid of!
Kumogakure and Konohagakure also had not completely recovered their peak strength.
After being messed with by him, even if Konoha wanted to meddle, he would be powerless.
Most importantly, there was no need to make a move against Naruto to extract Kyuubi's chakra. He only needed to find the Shinigami Mask and release the soul of Minato who had been sealed by the Shinigami, and then let Orochimaru reincarnate.
In any case, Minato was already dead, so even if Kyuubi's chakra was extracted from his body, it wouldn't affect anything.
Therefore, there was no need to fight Konoha to the death.
He would not sit by and watch Akatsuki capture Naruto!
He just did not know what Nagato was thinking. He probably thought that Akatsuki still needed to develop for a period of time?
Hidan and Deidara were indeed not fully grown yet, but the others were already in complete form. Even Kisame, who had lost the Samehada, could not be underestimated.
Could it be that it was because of Orochimaru's backlash earlier that Nagato had to be careful?
There was also a possibility. After all, once the plan to capture Bijuu was activated, it meant that the most crucial Gedo Statue would be exposed to all the members.
If this information was leaked, then it was estimated that the several big Ninja Villages would unite to destroy them, and it was right to be cautious.
But Aoba felt that it was not so simple. According to his understanding of Obito, Obito definitely hoped that Nagato would take action immediately, because in the previous encounter, Obito had mentioned more than once that he would start the plan.
It was impossible to immediately shelve it because he was not a Hokage.
Obito wanted to start the next step of the plan, but Nagato disagreed.
If this was the case, then it was very likely that Nagato and Konan were not ready to deal with Obito!
Although the two sides had a cooperative relationship, they had always been using each other and guarding against each other.
If it was said that Konan's 6,000,000,000,000 Exploding Tags were not specially prepared to deal with Obito in the original work, who would believe it?
If it wasn't for Nagato being talked to death by Naruto with his mouth, it would definitely fall into the hellish difficulty category for Obito to get back his Rinnegan and Zetsu!
Because Nagato and Konan had already made preparations to deal with him!
Therefore, Aoba had to guess if Nagato and Konan were not ready to fall out with Madara, which was why they needed more time.
Although he would miss such a good opportunity.
After all, Akatsuki still listened to Pain, the leader on the surface. Akatsuki's strength could also be seen as Nagato's strength. On the contrary, Obito did not care about the life and death of these people.
Aoba felt that it was very likely to be like this, but in the end, it was based on the deduction from God's perspective. As for what the truth was, he was not sure.
However, his next action was very clear. First, he went to find Sasori and turned 4th Hokage's body into a puppet to strengthen Sasori's strength.
When Obito and Nagato fought to the death, maybe he could use his alt account to jump out to pick the peaches and control Akatsuki's powerful strength in his own hands.
There was also the Shinigami Mask. He had to keep this thing in his hands and then take it out when necessary to release the soul in the mask.
After taking the initiative into his hands, he could wait for the result to appear in peace.
He vaguely remembered that the Shinigami Mask had been hidden in the ruins of Land of Whirlpools. When he saw Sasori, he was ready to go to Land of Whirlpools.
After settling these things, Aoba pressed down the bamboo hat on his head and set off again.
......
At the same time, under a certain lake in the Land of Water, a huge shadow streaked across.
The surrounding people thought that it was an illusion.
However, because there were more than one people who saw it, the absurd theory of "Island Sea Monster" hidden under the lake gradually spread in a small area.
However, because no one was injured, and no one had seen it with their own eyes, most of the people who heard of it did not believe this at all.
It attracted many people who were very curious about this legend to come for sightseeing, and some people who thought they had long lives specially went into the water to investigate.
Unfortunately, the final result was nothing.
Not to mention the 'sea monster', they did not even find a ghost.
Thus, the rumors were self-destructed.