Tsunade felt somewhat ashamed. The Land of Rain had never been able to settle down, and Leaf Village bore part of the blame.
As Hokage, Tsunade had to abide by the will of the Land of Fire and Leaf Village. Tsunade could sympathize with refugees from other countries, but she could not harm Leaf Village's interests because of her own sympathy.
They chatted for a while.
Jiraiya proposed going alone to investigate Amegakure and gather intelligence on Akatsuki.
Tsunade disagreed. "Jiraiya, it's too dangerous for you to go alone."
Jiraiya said with some pride, "I'm one of Leaf Village's Sannin."
Tsunade fell silent for a while before finally agreeing.
Battles between Ninja were intelligence wars. If they could learn the Akatsuki leader's abilities beforehand, they could formulate a surprise attack plan, raid Rain Village, and eliminate Akatsuki.
But this mission was extremely dangerous.
Every individual Akatsuki member was an S-Rank Rogue Ninja, each possessing the strength to fight a Kage.
Together, the two posed a potential threat capable of destroying a Great Ninja Village.
The members were already this strong, so how powerful must the leader be to command such unruly people?
This mission was more dangerous than every mission Jiraiya had undertaken before.
Yet only Jiraiya could infiltrate them. He was one of the Sannin, and when it came to intelligence gathering, no one in all of Leaf Village surpassed him.
Leaf Village's Intelligence team still knew nothing about Akatsuki, while Jiraiya had already discovered that Akatsuki's leader was in Rain Village.
"I'm really sorry. I always make you play the role that gets the short end of the stick!"
Jiraiya laughed. "Why are you suddenly saying that?"
Tsunade was somewhat downcast. "You were originally the one who should have become Hokage. The Third Hokage also believed that the