While Ning Feng was pondering this, Konan, behind him, had already brought the kunai in her hand across her body with a clang, her eyes flashing with intense coldness.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Several sharp whistles rang out, and the other Akatsuki members, Yahiko and Nagato, appeared behind Uchiha Minato as well.
Their wary, solemn gazes reached into the distance and settled on the figures who had suddenly appeared.
Even Uchiha Minato himself could not help frowning slightly. Amegakure really is lively tonight.
In the sinister gleam of Ning Feng's Mangekyō Sharingan, the ninja at the front wore purple clothing and a ninja hat, his eyes cold to the extreme.
Behind this purple-clad ninja, several Iwagakure Anbu ninja also radiated murderous intent.
At the sight of the ninja leading them, Ning Feng's gaze chilled slightly. "To think that Iwagakure would go so far as to send the Four-Tails and Five-Tails Jinchūriki to assassinate me!"
His words stunned not only the purple-clad ninja and the Iwagakure Anbu experts before him, but also Nagato, Konan, and the others.
They could clearly see that only Roshi, the Four-Tails Jinchūriki, had come this time. There was no sign at all of Han, the Five-Tails Jinchuriki.
"As expected of Uchiha Minato, the Third Rain Shadow. You could even sense the Five-Tails Jinchuriki's presence!"
A cold voice slowly rang out. The rain falling over Amegakure was suddenly blown silently aside by terrifying steam, and a red-clad ninja wearing a ninja hat quietly revealed himself.
He was none other than Han, the Five-Tails Jinchuriki known as the Steam Ninja.
The two had led the Iwagakure Anbu here for a simple purpose: to join forces to kill Uchiha Minato and put a complete end to Amegakure's rapid development.
In the few days since Uchiha Minato had taken control