"Getting close to Nagato isn't impossible, but there's no need right now. We can try this first and let Nagato fight Bai Ye.
If Nagato wins, everything will be easy. If he loses, you can find an opening to take control of him. Wouldn't that give us our chance?!"
Obito spoke calmly.
He had already thought this through while he was in Kirigakure.
At the time, he had faced two choices.
The first was to keep building up their strength according to the original plan.
But there was a problem with that.
Bai Ye's ambitions seemed to far exceed those of the previous Kage.
He was a Kage who wanted to expand.
And that would create a problem.
There was a very good chance Bai Ye would end up collecting the tailed beasts.
If they waited until then to act, it would be far too late.
The second choice was to abandon all their previous plans.
The risks were enormous, of course. As things stood, the Akatsuki hadn't even recruited all its members yet.
To capture the tailed beasts, they needed people first.
Jinchūriki weren't so easy to capture.
According to the Akatsuki's eventual plan, they would work in pairs to capture the tailed beasts together.
That way, they could seize several jinchūriki before the other nations had time to react.
Then Nagato or Obito himself could capture the two strongest, the Eight-Tails and the Nine-Tails.
The other tailed beasts could be left to the Akatsuki's members.
Most likely, that would work without any trouble.
But right now, they simply didn't have enough people!
More importantly, bringing everything forward like this was far too rushed.
There were bound to be plenty of holes in the plan.
Yet they had no choice.
So much so that Obito felt that if he