Amegakure.
The top floor of the central steel tower.
Nagato, who was sitting in a wheelchair, slowly opened his eyes. His Rinnegan stared at the heavy rain outside the tower, as if he could see Jiraiya sitting on Gamabunta hundreds of kilometers away.
'It's a pity that the signal has reached its limit, otherwise…'
Nagato let out a long sigh, then closed his eyes and controlled Six Paths of Pain to return.
…
In the depths of the jungle, Jiraiya is standing on Gamabunta's back, feeling confused.
'Six Paths of Pain really gave up the pursuit?'
'Why?'
'Could it be that Yahiko discovered his conscience at the last moment?'
'Or is this a trap?'
Jiraiya is puzzled.
"Jiraiya, it seems that there is no need for reverse summon."
Gamabunta asked roughly, "What are your plans next?"
Jiraiya rubbed his chin, and said thoughtfully: "Something's wrong!"
"What's wrong?" Gamabunta rolled his eyes in confusion and looked at Jiraiya standing on top of it.
"I can't tell, but I feel like something is wrong."
Jiraiya really couldn't figure it out, and then said irritably, "It seems that I have to go to Amegakure again."
"Hello, are you crazy?" Gamabunta said depressedly, "Have you forgotten what just happened?"
"Don't worry, I will use shadow clone this time."
Jiraiya is a wise man. Although he is proud of his strength, he knew when to back down.
After he said that, he creates a shadow clone, and ordered it to sneak into Amegakure to continue investigating the steel giant tower!
"What about you?" Gamabunta asked after the shadow clone was gone.
"Me?"
Jiraiya looked at the dark night, and said, "The weather in the Land of Rain is too bad, and I feel a little uncomfortable, so I'll find a hot spring to soak in."
'Along the way, I can also collect some materials.'
'With so much rain in the Land of Rain, the women in this country must be more juicy than those in the Land of Fire, right?'
"Together?" Gamabunta said, as it also likes to soak in hot springs.
Jiraiya looked down at Gamabunta's huge body, secretly thought there is a high probability that the Land of Rain does not have a hot spring that can accommodate it.
But speaking frankly would hurt the toad's heart too much, so he changed the subject calmly: "I will report to Minato first."
...
Land of Fire.
Konoha.
In the living room of Minato's home, after the messenger toad squatting on Minato's shoulder conveyed Jiraiya's safety, everyone present was relieved.
"I didn't expect that with Jiraiya's strength, he would be hunted down so embarrassingly."
Hiruzen felt the pressure after a long time, and couldn't help but take out the tobacco pipe and took deep two puffs. His chest suddenly felt like it was being opened, and feels a lot more comfortable.
Minato frowned and said: "According to Shisui and Jiraiya-sensei's information, in Akatsuki, apart from Nagato, even Six Paths of Pain also owns Rinnegan. What's going on?"
Kanpū calmly reminded: "Maybe it's… puppets?"
"Puppets?" Minato frowned.
Kanpū slowly expressed his guess: "Rinnegan is known as Sage Eyes, and is also known as the eye that controls life and death. Regarding the controls of life and death … Maybe Rinnegan can make living or dead people into puppets."
"There is indeed such possibility."
Shikaku said after some thought, "Throughout the thousands of years of Shinobi World's History, only Sage of Six-Paths has Rinnegan, which shows how rare Rinnegan is! Even if Rinnegan reappears in the Shinobi World after thousands of years, it is unlikely that there will be seven pairs at once! So I agree with Kanpū's speculation that Six Paths of Pain are most likely puppets made by Nagato with the Rinnegan!"
At this time, the messenger toad said: "Jiraiya has sent some information about Six Paths of Pain. He said that the capabilities of Six Paths of Pain are weird, but it seems that everyone is can only use a related ability. Jiraiya intends to use shadow clone to continue to go to Amegakure to inquire information about Akatsuki and Six Paths of Pain. Once there are more information, I will notify you immediately, Minato."
Minato, Shikaku and the others' eyes lit up when they heard this.
Rinnegan is Sage Eyes, so how can the Shinobi with Rinnegan only have one ability?
Think about Sharingan and Byakugan. The former has functions such as enhancing Genjutsu and copying Ninjutsu, while the latter has capabilities such as see-through vision, two-kilometer vision, 360-degree panoramic vision, etc., both of which are more than one capabilities, and Rinnegan, who is above Sharingan and Byakugan, has only one ability?
Who would believe such thing?
So, they all concluded that Six Paths of Pain must be puppets made by Nagato!
After telling Jiraiya of this information through the messenger toad, Minato took a deep breath and said: "It has been confirmed that Amegakure is Akatsuki's base, but the specific information has to wait until Jiraiya-sensei's shadow clone find out more. During this period of time, we should focus on Advisor Danzo."
After chatting for a few more words, the light in the living room of Minato's house slowly dimmed.
...
Back at his mansion, Kanpū yawned and went back to his bedroom to sleep. When he passed by Karin's bedroom, he found that there was a light inside and there were soft sounds coming from it.
'Staying up so late, is she practicing judo?'
(✪ω✪)
Kanpū gently leaned on the sliding door and pressed his right ear against the corner to eavesdrop.
|･ω･`)
After hearing for a while, Kanpū frowned slightly. He vaguely heard words such as Sasuke and Naruto, but the specifics are unknown, but what is certain is that there are two girls inside the room!
It isn't practicing judo, but discussing double-yin washing board? (A/N: This is the term used for stocks trading, which means that the two people in the room are concerned about Konoha's economy, don't think about it)
'What should I do?'
'Should I rush in to stop them?'
'But girls of this age needed their faces, and if I rushed in recklessly, they would not be able to raise their heads in the future.'
After hesitating for a while, Kanpū finally sighed and left.
...
The moonlight is beautiful tonight, and the soft moonlight is like a layer of silver veil, shrouding the Konoha's Gate.
The two gatekeepers, Izumo and Kotetsu are on duty again tonight.
The two grew up together, enrolled together, graduated together, did missions together, and became gatekeepers together. They have been inseparable for so many years. It stands to reason that two stinky men should be tired of being together every day, but they have endless things to talk about every day.
Tonight, the two are leaning against the gate, chatting around, discussing what happened in Konoha in the past day, and the atmosphere is very lively.
On the transparent ground illuminated by the moonlight, a small white snake slowly moved towards the gate.
When Kirigakure's envoys arrived in Konoha, Orochimaru actually arrived at Konoha too, but instead of going through the main gate, he tried to pass through the barrier around Konoha.
Unfortunately, after Orochimaru defected, Minato changed the barrier outside Konoha, which directly led to the complete failure of Orochimaru's method of passing through the barrier silently. Coupled with his fall out with Danzo, without insider or spy, he can only crawl in pitifully little by little at night.
Izumo and Kotetsu were chatting happily, plus the moonlight is so silver that it was almost the same color as the white snake on the ground, neither of them noticed the snake.
A few minutes later, the little white snake passed through Konoha's Gate smoothly, got into a sewer familiarly, and quickly disappeared.