{Apartment Building #13, Amegakure}
{4:53 PM, 21st July 13 Yrs ANB}
{3rd Person POV}
"Well, you care for the normal citizens then your former leader might have I'll give you that." Ren nodded, and Konan stiffened as he indirectly mentioned Hanzo.
"Plus you are doing a better job at making sure that no one harms the interests of Ame citizens so that's a plus. But because of your lockdown on Ame, the quality of life surely should have decreased." Ren pointed out.
"You insist on a lockdown to make sure that the news of Hanzo's death likely wouldn't spread right, because if it did then Suna would want to invade you for your land. They really are desperately in need of water... So if Hanzo's death was known to the world, then a lot of eyes would focus on Ame and another war would start."
"But isn't that already happening, a war is brewing, and like it or not Ame is going to be involved." Ren shrugged.
"So why not tell the world that Hanzo's reign is over and instead of 1 S-rank shinobi, any invading village had to deal with before, now they would have to deal with 3 of them if you try to fight in the Land of Rain. Trust me no one would dare to cross your borders..." Ren logically pointed it out. He knew the main reason the news of Hanzo's death wasn't well known was because of Akatsuki and their mysterious plan.
Konan pondered for a moment and asked, "How do you know there are three S-rank shinobi in Ame?" She asked.
"Well, you did show up with one as part of my welcoming party. And there was a wannabee Uchiha that sneaked into my room. He was strong too, not to mention the presence filled in the rain. To do that you have to have at least an S-rank shinobi constantly using the jutsu with massive chakra reserves." Ren shrugged, he wasn't going to play dumb.
He didn't know what was wrong with Konan but since she was genuinely listening he didn't mind speaking these facts. He was ready for a fight anyway, he just wanted a distraction to disperse a shadow clone to write down all the info he had seen, but then again didn't have time. Plus he didn't have any interest in talking to Hiruzen right now.
Konan thought about all the things Ren spoke about, logically what he said made sense, although exposing 3-4 S-rank shinobi would instantly make Ame the biggest threat in the world and get focused pretty hard. She didn't mind the idea of exposing just his and Nagato's presence.
It would not only boost the economy but also open up Ame for a lot of other necessary supplies. Plus with a fledgling medical program, she was sure Ame could thrive.
Ever since Yahiko's death, their plans and way of operating have changed. At its birth, Akatsuki was a mercenary organization that fought against Hanzo's control in the shadows. With Yahiko's sacrifice, Nagato got access to a deeper understanding of the Rinnegan and the mentality of superior force emerged in their mind.
That was how 'Pain' was born. When they realized that to achieve peace strength was the most important thing. Madara and Zetsu soon joined both of them and slowly Akatsuki came to be.
'Yahiko would have loved the idea,' Konan thought as she sighed, no matter how logical the idea sounded it didn't fit with the mentality they were in right now.
Konan looked at Ren, he was standing in front of her, and the distance between them had remained the same. His dark locks fell onto his forehead as he stared at her with his intense eyes.
'He's sincere in these ideas, there are no malicious thoughts in those eyes...at least for now.' Konan judged Ren before she nodded.
"What about our progress in medical ninjutsu?" Konan asked, she didn't know why she lingered, maybe Ren's optimism and similarity had gotten to her. Which was strange cause Ren didn't show a hint of enthusiasm.
"Surprisingly good actually, at the rate at which everyone is progressing we should move onto actual healing in another week or so. Speaking of that I might need you to arrange a couple of fish tanks and a couple dozen fish to start practicing." Ren replied he wasn't lying, he was judging them by his standards and it didn't take any of them a lot of time to learn the basics.
"Alright," Konan nodded, a strange calm settled into the room and after a while, Konan nodded again seemingly confirming her belief before she started walking away. Was it weird for an S-rank shinobi to walk when she simply used her weird paper ninjutsu to sneak into his room? Sure.
Did he complain? No.
He walked her to the door and opened it for her.
"Come to the hospital a little early tomorrow, we have some things we need to discuss," Konan spoke before her body disintegrated into sheets of paper which flew away.
'...Alright, what the fuck was that?' Ren thought, his brain couldn't process what happened as he closed the door. His chest twitched in pain as he realized he hadn't finished healing himself when Konan interrupted him earlier.
Ren wasn't sure what was going on but a notification that came in front of him indicated to him that he had passed some sort of test that he was subjected to. A quick glance at his active quests notification revealed to him what had changed.
'Somehow I joined the Akatsuki...'
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[EPIC STORY QUEST ALERT!]
[Akatsuki!]
[Throughout the history of the known Shinobi World, 9 calamities have existed. These demons, also known as the 'Tailed Beasts' are named according to the number of tails they had. Hashirama Senju and Mito Uzumaki showed the power of a Jinchurki and since then each of them had been captured by the 5 Great Shinobi Villages and been used to fight in their wars. An Organization is stirring in the darkness with its motive unknown, will they bring doom to the world or will peace finally ussher on the elemental nations.]
[Main Quest: Stop the Akatuski's Final Plan.]
[Side Quest I: Kill a member of the Akatsuki.]
[Hidden Quest I: Kill a Bijuu delaying Akatsuki's plan by 3 years {Repatable}.]
[Hidden Quest II: Join Akatsuki]
[Hidden Quest III: ???]
[Hidden Quest IV: ???]
[Rewards:]
[Main Quest Completion: 3 Level up.]
[Side Quest Completion: 1 Level up.]
[Hidden Quest I Rewards: 2 Level ups {Collect}]
[Hidden Quest II Rewards: 5 Level ups,{Collect}]
[Hidden Quest III Rewards: ?, ?, ?]
[Hidden Quest IV Rewards: ?, ?, ?]
[Failure: Eternal Sleep]
{This is an epic quest and is Mandatory}
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AN - For those of you who are wondering about this chapter, I changed the previous notification on chapter 87. Ren couldn't be a member of Akatsuki then, he had just joined Ame. Now the situation is changing...