"Ugh..." Gaara rubbed his forehead and sat up, pretending to have a headache.
"Naruto, why are you here?"
"Akatsuki captured me. What about you?"
"Me too. What bad luck."
"What should we do? I heard Akatsuki is extremely cruel. Who knows what they'll do to us?"
Naruto put on a helpless expression.
At that moment, Itachi, hiding in the shadows, could no longer bear to watch. Naruto and Gaara's acting was simply terrible.
"This acting is utterly unbearable."
Roshi, the Four-Tails jinchuriki, also found it strange.
"Who exactly are you?"
Roshi sensed something was off. Naruto and Gaara's tones were far too fake.
Naruto had anticipated this long ago and directly released the Nine-Tails' chakra.
Gaara likewise released the One-Tail's chakra.
When the seal on Gaara had been removed, Haku had used a sword to cut off part of the One-Tail's chakra and leave it within Gaara's body.
Thus, part of the One-Tail's chakra still remained inside Gaara.
Naruto and Gaara's acting might have been fake, but the tailed beast chakra on their bodies was undeniably real.
Roshi froze for a moment, wondering if he had been overthinking things.
"How were you captured?"
"It happened like this." The moment Naruto heard the topic, he immediately became interested.
"A few days ago, all ten Akatsuki members came out in force. Every one of them was an incredibly powerful ninja, with strength beyond imagination."
"But who am I? I'm Naruto Uzumaki of Konoha, the future Hokage. Would I be afraid of them?"
"So I fought the Akatsuki members for hundreds of rounds, battling for three days and three nights until the sky darkened and the world lost its light."
Naruto talked endlessly, spouting a whole load of nonsense.
"Do you know there's a guy in Akatsuki called Pain? I beat him black