The Shadows Return to Their Villages (800 Monthly Tickets Bonus! Please Subscribe, Please Vote!)

The meeting ended quickly, but no one knew what each member of the Akatsuki Organization was thinking.

Perhaps everything would become clear once Pain captured the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails—or after the mission failed outright.

Aoba was in no hurry at all. Obito, hiding behind the Akatsuki Organization, had yet to jump out and claim to be 'Uchiha Madara.' Why fight Nagato to the bitter end first?

The best-case scenario would naturally be to wait until Obito used the name 'Uchiha Madara' to try to retake control of the Akatsuki Organization. Then he would smile faintly and shout, "Stop! From today onward, this organization belongs to me, Yasuo."

Then Hidan, Deidara, Kisame, and Sasori would line up behind him, glare at Obito with their chins raised, and say, "Who are you?"

Just thinking about it made him laugh like a squealing pig!

Obito's expression would surely be spectacular by then.

Trying to pick the peaches?

He had already stuffed them into his pocket. What could Obito possibly use to pick them?

A brazen robbery was more like it!

But the question was, could Obito win with only himself?

One day, he would tell everyone that he, Shimiya Aoba, was the super boss hidden deepest in the entire shinobi world!

Obito?

Madara?

Black Zetsu?

Every last one of them could stand at attention and line up to the side!

When they watched him take the stage, they had better remember to wave glow sticks and cheer him on!

Several days later, in Konoha.

"I will remember your life-saving kindness for the rest of my life. Once I return, I will immediately mobilize the elite forces in the village and send them here."

Mei Terumi, whose injuries were relatively light, had changed back into that same sexy outfit. She bid farewell with