Akatsuki Had Never Accepted Their Orders

Pain lowered his head and looked down at everyone, the ripples in his Rinnegan unchanged.

"Akatsuki will not hand over a single member."

As his calm voice fell, Kakuzu's tense shoulders slowly relaxed.

Sasori hid within Hiruko, revealing no expression, but the metal tail spike behind him stopped swaying.

Neither of them spoke.

Yet that answer was enough.

Kakuzu had never joined the Akatsuki Organization out of loyalty.

As long as the payment was high enough, he could complete any mission and kill any enemy. In the past, nearly every shinobi who had teamed up with him had died by his hand.

But things were different now.

The Uchiha had placed a bounty of a full hundred million ryo on him!

Such an astronomical price was enough to drive every bounty shinobi in the underground world mad.

He naturally feared no one alone.

But the Uchiha's pursuit would not last merely a day or two.

Once he lost the protection of Amegakure and the Akatsuki Organization, he could encounter enemies coming for the bounty wherever he went.

One or ten, he could deal with them casually.

But what about a hundred? A thousand?

Besides, the truly frightening thing had never been ordinary bounty shinobi, but the Uchiha Family behind the bounty!

The current Uchiha was no longer the prestigious clan that had only just moved away from the center of Konoha two years ago.

Uchiha Ren had defeated Hashirama and then sealed Madara Uchiha head-on. His personal strength had already reached the pinnacle of the entire Shinobi World.

The Uchiha Shrine also had a large number of Kage Level experts.

Once a behemoth like that set its sights on him, even with five hearts, Kakuzu could not guarantee that he would survive forever.

Sasori faced the same situation.

Although he