The Meaning of Living

After not seeing each other for so long, Qingfeng felt that Kurotsuchi's legs had grown quite a bit longer.

"Didn't you say you were going to raze Iwagakure to the ground? I'm standing right in front of you now. Go ahead and do it."

Uchiha Qingfeng: ...

This move of coming out to offer herself up to die truly left Uchiha Qingfeng at a loss. He had only ever heard of people courting death before; he had never expected to actually encounter something like this.

Kurotsuchi was gambling. She was betting that Uchiha Qingfeng would not make a move. Based on their few previous meetings, she believed that while Uchiha Qingfeng was no good person, he was not rotten to the core.

"Why must you do this? As long as you hand over the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, I guarantee that all of Iwagakure will remain safe. If it really comes to blows, it won't be something that can be stopped with a few words."

Uchiha Qingfeng had indeed begun to negotiate, and Kurotsuchi knew she had won her bet.

"What if I told you the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki isn't in Iwagakure?"

Every plan of the Akatsuki Organization was built on Killer B being in Iwagakure. If Killer B truly was not here, then where could the Tsuchikage have hidden the Eight-Tails?

It made no sense at all. Could everything said during the Five Kage Summit have been fake? They had not been exposed at the time, so it could not possibly have been a deliberate lie.

"You think I'll believe you just because you say that? Even if we have to dig up every inch of Iwagakure, we'll find the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki."

If they dug three feet into the ground, what they would dig up would not be the Eight-Tails, but Iwagakure's