Waiting for the Ship

Land of Fire coastline.

After traveling for so long, the Uchiha clansmen were exhausted. After all, they were ordinary people, not shinobi.

So the entire Uchiha Clan rested by the shore.

Another reason was that they were waiting for ships.

There were two thousand people, after all. One or two ships would not be enough to carry them all.

The ships' capabilities also had to be taken into account.

That left them with very few ships to choose from.

Nagato had remained out of sight for a reason.

Many factions already knew that Konan was a member of Akatsuki.

The information released earlier had been that Obito had seized the Rinnegan and killed Akatsuki's leader.

If Konan stayed with Nagato, people would immediately suspect that he was Akatsuki's leader.

For now, Yahiko stayed with Nagato instead.

Once the journey was over, none of that would be a problem anymore.

Although Nagato was blind, he had awakened the Mind's Eye of the Kagura, so it only caused minor inconveniences in daily life.

At least it was far better than when he had been crippled before.

For the moment, he was not in a hurry to deal with his eyes.

Shamu had given him several solutions. One was cloning.

However, since Nagato no longer had any eyeballs, he could only clone an entire body and then remove its eyes.

It would take time for the clone to grow eyes that matched Nagato's size.

The second option was transplanting someone else's eyes. The choices before him now were—

ordinary human eyes, Sharingan, and, according to the message Shamu had just sent back—

Byakugan as well.

Nagato once again marveled at how good the benefits were when following Shamu.

He had not been in a hurry before.

That was because he had awakened the