Latest Developments in the Shinobi World and Akatsuki

"Puppet Technique, Yin-Yang Release, Taijutsu, plus Genjutsu..."

Inside the bedroom, Hinata sat at her desk, fiddling with the training notes she had painstakingly compiled.

A month has passed since the Three-Tails Incident ended. Naruto is currently training in Sage Mode at Mount Myōboku with Jiraiya; Sasuke has also received Itachi Uchiha's eyes, and once the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan are awakened, he can immediately transplant Hashirama Cells to awaken the Rinnegan; Hinata is also staying at home all day, learning Genjutsu and Yin-Yang Release.

However, as the mastermind behind the Shinobi World, Hinata cannot focus solely on training like Naruto and Sasuke, and she also needs to keep an eye on the Genin world's intelligence from time to time.

The Akatsuki accelerated its process of capturing the Tailed Beasts. Following the Three-Tails, the Four-Tails, Five-Tails, and Six-Tails also fell into the hands of the Akatsuki.

The Seven-Tails Jinchuriki was merely Genin from Takigakure and had no chance of escaping the Akatsuki's pursuit.

While the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki is troublesome, the Akatsuki also has Pain, Obito, Konan, Black Zetsu, Orochimaru, Kisame, Kakuzu, Hidan, and others. Their strength is only slightly less than that of Deidara and Sasori of the Red Sands in their prime.

With such power, the Akatsuki could have stormed into Kumogakure -on and kidnapped Killer B, the Eight-Tails.

Faced with the Akatsuki's aggressive tactics, the Five Great Shinobi Villages found it difficult to unite and even scheme against and harm each other.

In the years following the Third Shinobi War, relations between the Five Great Shinobi Villages did improve somewhat. However, since the Konoha Crush Plan, and with Hinata, the Five Great Shinobi Villages fought quite a bit over the 'Impure World Reincarnation' technique.

When a person dies, hatred is born.

The Five Great Shinobi Villages, who were hostile to each other, were unable to cooperate. Even when the Akatsuki took away the Tailed Beasts of each village, none of the villages made a fuss about it.

In fact, the situation in the Original Story work is roughly the same.

If Sasuke n't kidnapped Killer B, if the Raikage hadn't convened the Five Kage Summit, and if Obito hadn't impersonated Madara Uchiha and publicly announced the "Eye of the Moon" plan, declaring war on the Five Great Shinobi Villages, even in the Original Story, the Five Great Shinobi Villages might not have been able to unite!

The Raikage convened the Five Kage Summit to hold the other ninja villages accountable.

In Hinata previous life, Hinata had wondered if the Raikage's convening of the Five Kage Summit was because he already intended to unite the villages, but was simply too proud to say it aloud.

However, upon closer examination, this is absolutely impossible.

By the time the Five Kage Summit was held, most of the Akatsuki members were already dead. Even the Akatsuki Nagato, was killed by Naruto Uzumaki during the attack on Konoha.

This is true even in the Original Story, let alone the Five Great Shinobi Villages with their even deeper conflicts today.

Moreover, now that the Nine-Tails is in reserve, the Akatsuki only needs to obtain the Seven-Tails and Eight-Tails to directly revive Kaguya Otsutsuki.

"But..."

Once the Akatsuki obtain the Seven-Tails and Eight-Tails, that will be the time of Nagato's death.

Thinking about this, Hinata was also a little troubled.

Jiraiya currently focused on teaching Naruto Sage Mode and has no intention of going to Amegakure to investigate.

Thinking about it, it makes sense Original Story, Jiraiya went to Amegakure to investigate in order to find out the identity and abilities of the Akatsuki leader.

But now that Nagato has already revealed most of the information he needed to, and Hinata is able to directly confront the Six Paths of Pain, it's no longer important Jiraiya Amegakure to investigate.

Since Jiraiya went to Amegakure to investigate, Hinata couldn't go to Amegakure under the guise of 'rescue' to kill Nagato.

Hinata could leave a Wood Clone in Konoha, while her main body could use her All-Knowing, All-Powerful to go to Amegakure and have an Imperial City with Nagato.

However, once Hinata and Nagato go to war, Hinata's information will be leaked immediately.

Furthermore, Hinata will take advantage of Nagato's exhaustion to use the Tenseigan's Spirit Ball to control Nagato and use the Reanimation Jutsu to revive Madara Uchiha. Sasuke will also seize the opportunity to use the Rinnegan to fight Nagato for control of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and to obtain the chakra source of the Nine Tailed Beasts.

This is going to be a difficult problem!

If Hinata wanted to continue hiding in Konoha, she absolutely could not appear alone in Amegakure at that time without a mission.

"Well!"

Hinata sighed softly, "This is going to be difficult!"

"However... it's not like there's no way!"

Hinata really wanted to have a decisive battle with Nagato at the top of Amegakure, but if she couldn't have a fair fight, she would have to resort to ninja methods!

Assassination!

With her 'All-Knowing, All-Powerful' power, Hinata could easily injure Nagato's physical body by surprise, and then use Spirit Ball to control Nagato.

As long as no one sees Hinata appearing in Amegakure, it's fine!

"Obito will probably take this opportunity to steal the Rinnegan, right?" Hinata thought to herself.

Obito had been infiltrating Kirigakure for many years and had long since uncovered the truth behind Rin Nohara's death. Furthermore, Madara Uchiha's initial act of saving him was malicious, and he had even left a control seal within Obito's body.

This is the hatred of someone who killed their wife!

Moreover, Obito didn't want his life and death to be in the hands of others.

"That's settled then!"

"However, we still need to communicate with Black Zetsu beforehand to find out what the Akatsuki's next move will be!"

With her mind at ease, Hinata stopped worrying about these things and lowered her head to concentrate on learning Genjutsu.

The Land of Rain, the Amegakure.

As dusk settled, Deva Path Pain sat atop the protruding tongue of the giant statue, letting the fine drizzle wash over his shoulders, gazing at the panoramic view of Amegakure and reminiscing about his innermost thoughts.

It's been almost twenty years!

It has been almost twenty years since Yahiko died!

Pain... no, Nagato has also been meticulously planning for nearly twenty years, and now he is only missing the Seven-Tails and Eight-Tails to achieve final success.

Nagato's ambitions were about to be realized, but he felt no joy whatsoever.

If possible, he would never want to do these things.

Moreover, the closer Nagato got to success, the more inexplicable panic he felt, as if something bad was about to happen.

'Splash splash splash...'

Paper scraps fluttered around as Konan materialized behind Deva Path Pain: "He's here!"

Pain: "..."

That person... was once regarded as a mentor by Nagato, and was the guy who called himself 'Madara Uchiha'.

Although the other party had previously stated that he was severely injured and lost some of his power in his final battle with Hashirama Senju, recent events have caused Nagato to question his identity.

A person's strength may decline, but their strategies, methods, insights, and magnanimity will not change much as a result.

Before this, Nagato believed that Obito was Madara Uchiha because Obito had controlled the Nine-Tails to attack Konoha fifteen years ago.

However, with Obito's repeated failures, Madara Uchiha's identity began to seem somewhat undeserving.

He was a peerless powerhouse who dominated a region Warring States period, co-founded Konohagakure with Hashirama Senju, and ultimately fought Hashirama Senju at the Valley of the End.

Such a person...

Pain slowly rose to his feet and said calmly, "Let's go!"