Somewhere in Shinobi World Cave, the new Akatsuki has been assembled.
All Akatsuki members were wearing black red cloud robes and painted nail polish on their hands.
Among the Akatsuki members gathered here, except for Orochimaru and Kakuzu, all other members are present.
However, the leader is not Pain Deva Path who was cast from the corpse of Yahiko as in the original work, but Nagato himself who has Rinnegan, and beside him is Konan who has modified his appearance somewhat.
In the outside world's perception, Akatsuki headed by Nagato was driven out of Land of Rain after failing to seize power and became the largest Rogue Ninja collective organization.
As for Yahiko, he betrayed Nagato and Xiao Lan and became Right Hand, Hanzo of the Salamander's left. The reason why Hanzo of the Salamander was able to defeat Akatsuki so easily was because of Yahiko's betrayal.
Of course, this is only what the outside world knows.
The real meaning of Akatsuki is that Amegakure's white gloves are specially designed to handle things that are inconvenient for Yahiko.
At this moment, Akatsuki has gathered, Sunagakure Rogue Ninja, genius Puppeteer scorpion, Kirigakure Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist Kubikiribōchō Juzo Biwa, Kirigakure Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist Samehada Kisame Hoshigaki.
There are also Zetsu who claims to be a survivor of Kusagakure, and Akatsuki Intern Tobi.
"Dear colleagues, today let us welcome a new member to join the Uchiha Itachi who single-handedly destroyed the entire Uchiha Clan."
As Nagato's voice fell, a young man wearing a Konoha ANBU suit walked in from outside Cave. It was Konoha Forehead Protector that had been scratched, and underneath that Forehead Protector was a pair of blood-colored pupils, the legendary Sharingan.
But to the members of Akatsuki, these eyes are nothing. After all, no one who can join Akatsuki has some unique skills.
Especially their leader, Nagato, has a pair of Sage Eyes, the same style as Sage of Six Paths.
"Welcome new members to join."
Uchiha Itachi didn't speak, just looked around.
When his eyes briefly glanced at Tobi, he paused, but there was no big reaction.
Finally, it stopped at the leader Nagato. When he saw those eyes, he frowned slightly.
Land of Rain, Yahiko and Nagato clones who were working on the file heard a subtle vibration, and a Paper Butterfly flew onto the desk.
"This is Konan’s Butterfly Familiar, this is Akatsuki. Is there any new news over there?"
Yahiko took the butterfly and unfolded it into a piece of letter paper.
"Oh, Uchiha Itachi from Konoha has joined Akatsuki, Nagato, what do you think about this?"
"What do I think? I'm just a clone. If the main body has any thoughts, I should write them down in the letter."
"Oh, that's it. Sorry, I'm used to asking you questions. Let me take a look."
Yahiko quickly continued reading.
"Sure enough, it is indeed Nagato. Just as I thought, there is a big problem with this Uchiha Itachi.
After he slaughtered Uchiha Clan of Konoha, he actually stayed in Land of Fire for so long. Then he left Land of Fire and came straight to us, asking to join us Akatsuki.
There must be something wrong with this."
"Indeed, it seems that the purpose is a bit too strong. It would be okay if we didn't know that he stayed in Land of Fire for such a long time. Maybe we would also think that he wandered around Shinobi World after destroying Uchiha Clan, but it was found out that he stayed in Land of Fire for a long time, which is a problem.
My suggestion is to observe him for a while."
The clone Nagato on the side expressed his thoughts.
Yahiko nodded.
"You're right, the body Nagato also said the same, so if that's the case then let's let this matter be settled."
The clone Nagato thought for a while and finally said.
"After all, this matter involves Konoha and Uchiha. Please send a message to the teacher."
"Well, the main body Nagato also said that they have sent a letter to Teacher Tetsuya."
Land of Grass, Orochimaru took Sasuke with them when they left.
Without the body snatching incident in the original timeline, Sasuke's impression of Orochimaru was pretty good, especially since Orochimaru could teach him the ninjutsu of resurrecting his tribe. Sasuke Uchiha, who had a proud personality for a while, had a surprisingly good attitude when he met Orochimaru.
This surprised Orochimaru. After all, he thought that all Uchiha were the same, looking at people with their nostrils while raising their heads.
In fact, it was for his own good to send Sasuke to Orochimaru. After all, if he continued to stay in Land of Grass, he would live under the strange gaze of his tribe, which would be detrimental to the growth of Sasuke.
Sending him to Orochimaru, who doesn't have the same vision as the clan members, and who has Orochimaru's guidance, will definitely make Sasuke grow better.
Even when Orochimaru left, Tetsuya conveniently wrote down Lightning Blade's practice method and gave it to Orochimaru, asking him to teach it to Sasuke at the appropriate time.
After all, if there is no Lightning Blade, then Sasuke is still Sasuke.
"Next, we should have a leisurely time, and nothing major will happen until Naruto and the others officially graduate from the Ninja Academy."
Tetsuya was drinking tea and thinking about his disciples.
"Nagato The three of them have grown up now and can stand on their own, which is good.
It's time for Lin to find an opportunity to tell him that there is no such thing as a gap between life and death, and to let her go back to Shinobi World. It would also be good for her to see Naruto more.
Well, there is some trouble at Neji. This kid has started to raise his tail recently, and he has stolen the limelight in the Ninja Academy, which can be regarded as solidifying the reputation of the Hyuga Branch Family as a genius. It would be bad if this kid exposes his abilities other than Hyuga Clan. I have to remind this guy later."
Tetsuya was thinking here when a sound of footsteps came.
Shinada of the Salamander quickly came to Tetsuya and respectfully presented an envelope.
"Lord Daimyo, I have your letter. It was sent from Land of Rain."
"Oh, did Land of Rain send it over? I just said a few words to them, but I didn't expect a letter to come here. Thank you for your hard work, please go down and rest for a while."
Tetsuya took the letter and waved his hand to signal Shinada to go down first, while he opened the envelope and read the contents of the letter.
"Oh, it's interesting. Did Uchiha Itachi find Nagato and the others so quickly? No one has recommended them yet, so we went to them directly."
The content of the letter is not long, Tetsuya read it after scanning it twice.
In the letter, Nagato briefly reported on the current situation of Akatsuki, and then focused on Uchiha Itachi.
"Well, I stayed at Land of Fire for a while, so it seems that he was not recommended by Obito. In other words, Hiruzen Sarutobi should have noticed Akatsuki.
But Nagato and they didn't do anything big, how did Hiruzen Sarutobi notice it?"