"The Eight-Tails Jinchuriki isn't in Kumogakure right now. He's wandering around on his own," Zetsu reminded them with a laugh.
"Then we'll send someone to capture the Eight Tails during our operation in the Land of Iron," Nagato replied.
Although he didn't want to capture the Tailed Beasts too soon and risk falling out with Obito in the short term, he had no legitimate reason to oppose it under the circumstances.
"Leave the Eight Tails to me," Kisame said.
He had originally supported Obito's Eye of the Moon Plan, but Nagato's plan sounded good too.
In wars between nations, he had used the protection of his village's secrets from other countries as an excuse to kill comrades he'd spent every day with, all while living amid filth and betrayal. Kisame had long grown tired of that life. He'd begun to question the meaning of his own existence, then gone a step further and concluded that the world itself was false. That was why he yearned for a real world.
But, as Nagato had said, what if only one nation remained in the world? There would be no more intelligence wars between nations, would there? And the Hall of Truth had piqued Kisame's interest. Could someone like him, with so much blood on his hands, really fight to give the world a true future? He wanted to try. Even if he failed, he could still follow Mr. Madara and carry out the Eye of the Moon Plan.
"Are you going to the Land of Iron too, Leader?" Zetsu asked curiously after hearing Nagato. "Aren't we going straight to attack the Land of Water?"
"I want to see how the Five Kage really feel about this," Nagato replied. "Launching a surprise attack isn't my style. The only way to know what our