First Visit to the Yamanaka Flower Shop! (Continued)

"Is that... you've mastered Natural Energy?"

"Correct."

Kabuto Yakushi smiled sinisterly and even stretched out his long tongue to lick his face.

At those words,

the air froze once more.

"Why tell us this?"

Deva Path Pain looked at Kabuto Yakushi, his eyes full of menace.

With a great battle imminent, Kabuto Yakushi had suddenly revealed his trump card.

What did he want from this?

Kabuto Yakushi waved a hand.

"I don't want anything. I'm starting to understand Lord Orochimaru better and better."

"I don't want to gain anything, but I don't want to be kept in the dark. Tell me every one of Akatsuki's goals, without hiding anything."

"Otherwise... you'd have a headache without my army of Impure World Reincarnation soldiers, wouldn't you?"

A red glint flashed in Obito's eye.

"Are you threatening us?"

Kabuto Yakushi smiled.

"Of course not. But after all I've done for the organization, wouldn't it be miserable if I knew nothing at all?"

Deva Path Pain and Obito looked at Baki.

Baki's expression changed. "Did your organization keep something from me?"

According to the version Baki had heard, Akatsuki was capturing the Nine Tailed Beasts and sealing them inside that strange statue to create a weapon capable of destroying the world,

then use it to hold the entire Shinobi World in check.

But from what Kabuto Yakushi was saying, that wasn't the whole story.

Obito and Nagato exchanged a glance. Then Obito immediately cast Sharingan Genjutsu on Baki.

It left Baki dazed and erased his memories of this conversation.

While he was incapacitated, Nagato told Kabuto Yakushi all of Akatsuki's plans.

By the time he finished, Kabuto Yakushi's smile had grown even more excited.

"Infinite Tsukuyomi? Heh, how interesting!"

"The windmill Lord Orochimaru wanted to see has spun somewhere no one expected..."

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