With Nagato Uzumaki joining her, Chinatsu had effectively bought out the entire Akatsuki.
Back at the Akatsuki's old base, a certain masked man stared at the deserted hideout in silence.
Everything had happened far too suddenly. So suddenly that the unfolding plot had slipped beyond his control.
"Where did everyone go? I can understand the others being out, but how come even Nagato is gone?" Beneath his mask, Obito Uchiha's eyes were filled with confusion.
He had only stopped keeping tabs on the Akatsuki for a little while. How had it ended up like this? Panicking, Obito Uchiha hurriedly lowered his head, trying to find some clues in his memories.
A few days ago, the Akatsuki members' plans to capture the tailed beasts had all failed... Chinatsu seemed to have stopped them.
Chinatsu... Chinatsu Uchiha...
Obito had some impression of Chinatsu, though not a deep one. After all, he had been in Kakashi's class. When an accident in his youth had led to him being declared dead, Chinatsu had still been a very young girl. Later, under Madara Uchiha's influence, he had deserted Konoha outright, cutting ties with both the village and the Uchiha Clan.
He would later fight his mentor, Minato Namikaze, cause the deaths of both his mentor and his mentor's wife, and launch a war across the Shinobi World, trying to use "Infinite Tsukuyomi" to draw everyone into a "perfect new world." If Chinatsu had to judge him, he was another deluded soul who had gone astray, just like Nagato Uzumaki-only his symptoms were even worse.
Obito Uchiha tried to recall more about Chinatsu, but his memories from back then were too hazy. He couldn't remember anything.
"Whatever. All I need to know is that she's one of the two people Uchiha Itachi failed to kill back