Village Hidden in the Rain!
You have seen it too.
Konoha acquired the Two-Tails and Three-Tails beforehand, and now they have secured the Six-Tails as well.
Konoha's ambitions are not small! said White Zetsu with a fanatical and bewitching tone.
The tailed beasts Konoha currently possesses are simply too many; counting their own Nine-Tails, they already have four tailed beasts. If we collect tailed beasts in the future, I'm afraid we will only be able to forcefully snatch them from Konoha, said the righteous wage earner Kakuzu in a solemn tone.
Just moments before, all the members of the Akatsuki had passed through leader Pain's Illusionary Body Flicker Technique to witness the real-time battle conditions of the Hidden Mist Battlefield sent back by White Zetsu.
Everyone was shocked by Jiraiya's strength.
The official members of Akatsuki all possessed Kage-tier strength, but the only one capable of suppressing Jiraiya was leader Nagato himself.
None of the others held absolute confidence in defeating Jiraiya, not even the so-called God Itachi whom people blew up to the heavens.
The Sage of Six Paths had only learned senjutsu to establish the foundation for defeating Kaguya. Uchiha Itachi with his ordinary Mangekyo was inherently weaker than Jiraiya by several tiers in the power system. Unless he could rely on a flash of brilliance and clever strategy during combat, he could narrowly and perilously defeat Jiraiya at best.
Leader! Should we advance our schedule? Kakuzu proposed.
The core members all knew about Akatsuki's plan.
Even if they wanted it to be secret, it could never truly be hidden, since their routine missions involved collecting the movements of tailed beast Jinchuriki.
Furthermore,
Akatsuki was not a thorough terrorist organization; its core manifesto was—peace!
Without a core ideology, the organization's members could not unite, nor could it achieve