A Special "Guest" Arrives (Third Update)

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The crimson light in his pupils.

The slowly rotating black Tomoe.

The red-and-black Akatsuki Cloak, which partly concealed his face.

The calm yet chilling presence.

This figure was none other than Uchiha Itachi, who had completed a mission in the capital of the Land of Water three months ago and, in the process, unexpectedly discovered Naruto's true identity!

Ever since returning from the Land of Water,

Uchiha Itachi had been looking for a chance to come to the Land of Snow alone.

And over the past few days,

he had finally found the opportunity.

Although Akatsuki members were free to act as they pleased as long as they completed the missions assigned to them by the organization, whether that meant taking on a side job to destroy a country or slaughter a village, or simply going somewhere to rest for a while,

Nagato never interfered.

But there was one condition:

they couldn't do anything that would harm the organization's interests.

The rogue ninja of Akatsuki knew all too well what kind of relationship they had with the organization. More importantly, none of them knew whether they were being watched. Even someone as powerful as Uchiha Itachi was no exception. There were too many strange people in the organization, especially that Venus flytrap-like figure called "Zetsu"!

His infiltration and concealment abilities

were a real headache even for Itachi.

Fortunately, the organization was still relatively "harmonious" at this stage.

Under normal circumstances,

Nagato wouldn't deliberately assign someone to watch another member.

There had to be at least a basic level of trust.

Itachi had still needed