A one-eyed man in a mask appeared out of nowhere in the crater.
The Masked Man was, of course, Obito Uchiha, but Tuoye hadn't revealed any information about him to Konoha.
So Jiraiya and the others didn't know who he was. They only assumed he was the one pulling the strings behind everything.
"Masked Man, are you the leader of the Akatsuki?"
As soon as Obito appeared, he ignored Jiraiya entirely and merely glanced at everyone.
Then he stood beside Deva Path Pain, leaving himself wide open, and tried to take Pain's corpse.
Since Obito had appeared so mysteriously, Jiraiya didn't attack recklessly.
But the Masked Man was being far too brazen. He seemed completely defenseless, bending down to pick up Deva Path Pain's corpse.
Jiraiya couldn't take it anymore. The opening was too obvious, and the pose was just too perfect!
"Sage Art: Needle Jizo!"
Jiraiya's hair transformed into countless senbon needles and shot forward!
Clang, clang, clang!
The senbon needles made of hair, infused with Senjutsu Chakra, shot toward the Masked Man like a torrential downpour.
Empowered by Senjutsu Chakra, these hair senbon were even more powerful than ordinary iron senbon, and there were far more of them.
Countless senbon needles pierced straight through the Masked Man's body.
Yet the Masked Man didn't seem to feel a thing.
"What's going on?"
Jiraiya was shocked.
He immediately attacked with Fire Release, but that couldn't hurt the Masked Man either.
That was when everyone got a clear look at the Masked Man's only visible eye.
"Sharingan!"
Itachi, who had been silent all this time, spoke up.
"Be careful. His ocular technique is Space-Time Ninjutsu. Physical attacks won't work on him."
"Itachi, do you know who he is?"
Kakashi found the man strangely familiar, but couldn't place him, so he turned