Chapter 102: Information Jiraiya
"Damn it! Using sealing jutsu is too cheap! If you have the guts, release me and let's fight again!"
As the thick fog dissipated, Sasuke Uchiha, whose body control had been seized by the Four Limbs Heavy Seal, shouted unwillingly.
"Sasuke-kun, are you still a child who hasn't graduated from the academy?" Karin retorted, her forehead full of black lines. "You were the one who wanted to fight the two of us alone and told Hinata and me to go all out. Now that you've lost, you're starting to act shamelessly?"
Sasuke Uchiha's expression instantly froze.
Hinata, who had landed, also kindly advised, "Sasuke-kun, you need to control your temper. Every time your strength increases sharply, you start to get carried away. That's a very fatal weakness."
Sasuke Uchiha's face flushed crimson.
Click! Click...
At this moment, the sound of a shutter being pressed continuously rang out.
Izayoi, while snapping ugly photos of Sasuke Uchiha, shook his head and sighed, "No good, Sasuke. I rarely want to capture your handsome appearance, but you got wiped out in less than ten rounds. It's truly unsightly."
"Shu... shut up!"
Sasuke Uchiha felt utterly ashamed at this moment.
If he had known this would be the result, he would never have been so careless just now.
In the future, when fighting Hinata and Karin, he must never use Fire Release again, otherwise, he would be giving the advantage to these two women with astonishing senses.
After Karin released the Four Limbs Heavy Seal, Sasuke Uchiha, too embarrassed to face the three of them and also afraid of Izayoi continuing to make fun of him, was about to teleport away.
"Wait, don't leave yet," Izayoi immediately called out to him, saying, "Now that your chakra is so enormous, it's perfect for you to be my assistant."
After speaking, Izayoi then said to the two girls, "Hinata, Karin, you two come and help me too."
"Yes!"
Hinata and Karin immediately nodded.
"Tch... what's the rush? It's not like there's no place for you to live," Sasuke Uchiha muttered softly.
Hearing this, Izayoi couldn't help but tease, "You wouldn't happen to be reluctant for me to move out, would you?"
"Who... who's reluctant!"
Sasuke Uchiha, having been called out, said angrily, "I can't wait for a despicable guy like you to move out quickly, so you won't tease people every day."
"Don't worry, my new house is super big. There will be a huge arena. You can come over to stay or fight anytime."
"Hmph... I don't care."
Bringing the verbally resistant Sasuke Uchiha and the two girls, Hinata and Karin, Izayoi arrived at Konoha's central street.
At this time, Izayoi's new house had already grown to its full size, after all, it wasn't a skyscraper.
Two more professional teams had joined, currently doing the interior decoration for Izayoi's new home.
Izayoi and the other three used the Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu to start assisting these professional teams, while also learning skills on the side.
In the future, if any problems arose, they could fix them themselves.
At the same time, Izayoi also discussed with the professional team responsible for the underground改造, mechanizing certain areas and installing some ninja tools.
Unlike the small fries who easily messed things up, the four geniuses were the master craftsmen's favorite apprentices.
They could understand everything after just one explanation and rarely made mistakes, greatly speeding up the progress.
At this rate, Izayoi's new house would probably be completed before December.
...
Amegakure, heavy rain poured down.
"Quick! Scatter! Even if we die, we must deliver this information back to Lord Raikage!"
Several figures wearing raincoats ran wildly on the muddy road.
The leader quickly issued instructions.
The figures behind him immediately turned into afterimages and dispersed.
One figure teleported into a small alley. From his shaking hood, a mask could be seen.
From the leader's words, it could be seen that they were Anbu from Kumogakure.
This Kumo Anbu bit his finger and, at a speed that the rain couldn't wash away the blood, quickly performed hand seals and slammed his hand on the ground, "Summoning Jutsu!"
With a poof, a gray wolf appeared in the alley.
The Kumo Anbu took out a scroll from his body and was about to stuff it into the gray wolf's mouth when a black shadow suddenly enveloped him and the wolf.
Boom—
A huge bull descended from the sky, crushing the man and the gray wolf on the spot. The latter didn't even have time to return to the summoning world.
Standing on the bull's head was a man with long orange hair, wearing a missing-nin headband, and an expressionless face—the Animal Path.
On the other side, a Kumo Anbu didn't even have a chance to use the Summoning Jutsu when a piercing sound of air being torn apart came from behind him.
Several tracking missiles flew over. No matter if the Kumo ninja teleported and flew or moved in curves, he couldn't shake off these missiles.
Helpless, the Kumo Anbu could only turn around and use Lightning Release, trying to shoot down the missiles.
Rumble rumble...
When the lightning hit the missiles, the Kumo Anbu realized that he had greatly underestimated their power.
The dazzling flames directly engulfed the rain and swallowed him.
By the time the explosion dissipated, the Kumo Anbu was already riddled with holes and on the verge of death.
The next second, a figure descended from the sky, landing a blow on the Kumo Anbu's neck, completing the final strike.
It was—the Asura Path.
The remaining Kumo Anbu were also instantly killed by the Six Paths of Pain in various ways.
Some had their chakra drained by the Preta Path and then their necks snapped.
Some were swallowed by the King of Hell summoned by the Summoning Path.
Others had their souls extracted. While dying, they also sent all the information about their team's mission and their actions infiltrating Amegakure to Nagato.
Only the leader of the Anbu squad successfully escaped Amegakure.
Just as he appeared at the foot of a rocky mountain, leaning against the cliff face and panting heavily, a hint of relief appearing in his eyes beneath his mask,
A indifferent voice suddenly pulled him back from heaven to hell.
"Almighty Push!"
Invisible gravity, like an unseen giant hand, grabbed the Anbu squad leader's body and slowly floated him into the sky.
No matter how the Anbu squad leader struggled, he couldn't break free from that invisible and intangible hand of God.
Above him, in the misty rain, a figure wearing a red cloud black robe descended.
Purple ripple eyes, exuding a chilling majesty, looked down at the Anbu squad leader. Tendo Pain said indifferently, "The cat-and-mouse game ends here."
Immediately, he raised his hand towards the Anbu squad leader and said softly, "Almighty Push!"
A miraculous scene immediately unfolded.
The astonishingly large rain curtain in the sky suddenly disappeared.
The Anbu squad leader floating in the air crashed into the rocky mountain below like an afterimage. Then, as the rocky mountain instantly shattered, the ground also caved in in a large circle.
Even more unbelievably, such a large commotion didn't even allow dust to rise before it was blown away by an invisible storm.
After instantly killing the Anbu squad leader, Tendo Pain didn't leave. Instead, he glanced at a rocky mountain on the left and said faintly, "Come out, Jiraiya-sensei."
As his words fell, a tall figure wearing a raincoat immediately appeared on the top of the rocky mountain.
Taking off the rain hat, a head of white hair was revealed—it was Jiraiya.
"So it really is you, Yahiko!"
Jiraiya looked at Tendo Pain in the sky with a complex expression, suddenly shouting loudly, "Yahiko, what exactly happened all these years?"
Tendo Pain didn't fight Jiraiya but slowly floated down to face him, saying faintly, "Didn't your shadow clones gather the information you wanted these past few days... Jiraiya-sensei?"
"That's why I'm asking, what exactly happened all these years?" Jiraiya questioned repeatedly with a sorrowful expression. "Are you Yahiko, or Nagato? Is the angel of Amegakure Konan? Why did I receive news of your deaths back then? If you weren't dead, why didn't you come to Konoha to find me, and why did you establish an organization like Akatsuki? Also, what exactly happened with Danzo Shimura and Hanzo? Why did you team up with Orochimaru to attack Konoha, and even capture Konoha's Wood Release ninja and steal the Scroll of Seals?!"
These questions had puzzled Jiraiya for a long time.
If he hadn't gone to find Tsunade, he would have immediately come to Amegakure to investigate after the Konoha Crush.
At first, he didn't believe his three disciples were still alive, thinking that the person who killed Nagato had used the Rinnegan or other abilities to turn his disciples into puppets.
So he was very cautious, only sending shadow clones to infiltrate Amegakure.
However, as the shadow clones gathered more and more information, he had to admit that his three disciples were indeed not dead.
But he was certain that something must have happened to his three disciples, or that something had already befallen one of them, otherwise, their personalities wouldn't have changed so drastically.
Tendo Pain remained expressionless in the face of Jiraiya's questioning.
However, after hearing that he had also captured the Wood Release ninja and stolen the Scroll of Seals, the zombie-like expression on Tendo Pain's face finally couldn't hold.
The corner of his mouth twitched almost imperceptibly, and he said calmly, as if defending himself, "Danzo Shimura is dead. I am very happy. But I didn't kill him, and I haven't been to Konoha."
"What?"
Jiraiya was slightly stunned, then glanced at the shattered rocky mountain, his face immediately filled with disappointment. "Whether you are Yahiko or Nagato, my disciples never used to lie. It seems you have really changed over the years. The ninjutsu traces you left in Konoha are exactly the same as the methods you used to kill that Anbu just now. This special ability is clearly the power of the Rinnegan. You can't fool me."
Tendo Pain: "..."
For the first time in his life, Nagato experienced the feeling of having a grievance he couldn't express.
He really couldn't understand how a being with the Sage's Eyes should have no equal in the entire ninja world except for himself.
Why did such a powerful person have no demeanor of a powerful person at all?
Slinging mud, wasn't that something only the weak and petty would do?
Why did fate bestow a second pair of Rinnegan on that person, making them his opponent in a trial of gods?
Was it because he was so righteous that he had to eliminate the guy who represented the darkness of humanity to become the true savior?
Perhaps wanting to salvage his image in his teacher's heart, Tendo Pain said arrogantly, "Gods do not deign to lie. With my power, I have no need to join forces with anyone. Since Jiraiya-sensei, you have investigated Akatsuki's information, then you should be very clear that Orochimaru is now a traitor being hunted by Akatsuki."
"The one who joined forces and assassinated Danzo Shimura, and captured the Wood Release ninja and stole the Scroll of Seals, is a mysterious person with a second pair of Sage's Eyes, also an archenemy arranged for me by fate."
"Nani? A second pair of Rinnegan?!" Jiraiya stared in astonishment, his eyes wide.
But soon, as if realizing something, his expression became strange. "Isn't it the seventh pair of Rinnegan?"
"..."
The number of times Tendo Pain was speechless today exceeded the total number since his transformation.
The majesty of God crumbled again.
But the person before him was his mentor, so he could only patiently explain, "Those people with black rods in their bodies are all my puppets."
Hearing this, Jiraiya's expression immediately turned sorrowful, and he said softly, "In other words, you really are Nagato."
Tendo Pain stared at the rain curtain expressionlessly and said faintly, "I will become God in the name of Yahiko, achieve true peace, and eliminate the endless wars."
"Is that why your Akatsuki is targeting the tailed beasts and jinchuriki? Do you want to collect all the tailed beasts?" Jiraiya questioned. "The peace brought about by such violent rule is not true peace at all."
"That's because your vision is limited," Tendo Pain said indifferently. "That's the difference between mortals and gods. Apart from that mysterious guy, no one in the ninja world can understand my thoughts now."
"And only that guy is worthy of being my opponent."
"Go back, Jiraiya-sensei. You have gathered enough information. My enemy now is not the Five Great Ninja Villages, but that opponent arranged by fate."
"If you are still not satisfied, then even if you are my teacher, I will kill you."
Leaving this warning, Tendo Pain's figure floated into the air, flying towards Amegakure.
"Nagato, I will definitely stop you!" Jiraiya shouted loudly at Tendo Pain's back. "Correcting my disciples' thoughts is my duty as a teacher!"
Tendo Pain ignored him.
Watching Tendo Pain's figure disappear into the rain curtain, Jiraiya murmured with a grim face, "The possessor of the second pair of Rinnegan, the hidden mastermind behind the ninja world... I didn't expect the situation to be this bad."
This trip to Amegakure had a huge impact on Jiraiya.
At first, he thought the Rinnegan of Nagato was the source of the disaster.
But he never expected that the leader of Akatsuki was actually his disciple.
It seemed that Yahiko's death had caused a huge change in the personality of Nagato, the child of prophecy.
However, through their conversation and his observation, Jiraiya found that Nagato hadn't become completely extreme, just gone down the wrong path.
He believed his disciple's words.
It was precisely because of this that the situation was even worse.
There wasn't just one pair of Sage's Eyes, but a second pair.
That person was the mastermind behind the Konoha Crush, and even Nagato didn't know the other's identity.
Why did he kill Danzo Shimura?
Why did he capture Tenzo, the Wood Release test subject?
And why did he steal Konoha's Scroll of Seals and a large number of scrolls?
Akatsuki's goal was to collect the tailed beasts, rule the ninja world with violence, and achieve an alternative peace.
But what about this mysterious person?
What was his goal?
The unknown was the most terrifying!
After his conversation with Tendo Pain, the mysterious person with the second pair of Rinnegan had become the most dangerous figure in Jiraiya's mind.
Thinking of this, Jiraiya decided to embark on another journey of wandering the ninja world to see if he could gather information about that mysterious person.
So, with a poof, Jiraiya turned into a cloud of white smoke.
It turned out this was also a shadow clone.
However, neither Tendo Pain nor Jiraiya noticed that in a distant place, another pair of eyes was watching them—it was Izayoi's Wood Clone.
(End of this chapter)
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