Unless Pain personally took action, with his real body and all six bodies deployed together.
Otherwise...
Relying on the other members alone, it would be practically impossible to breach Iwagakure and abduct its two jinchūriki.
Even Obito Uchiha could not do it.
So Deva Path Pain simply divided the members of the Akatsuki into groups of three and dispatched them to Kirigakure and Sunagakure respectively.
To be honest...
Setting the actual circumstances aside, Uchiha Minamoto thought quite highly of Deva Path Pain's plan.
But the problem was, how could he set the actual circumstances aside?
Uchiha Minamoto could leave the situation in Sunagakure alone.
But not Kirigakure.
"Juzo Biwa is currently in the Land of Earth, while Obito Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki, who are working with him, are in the Land of Waterfalls... That trio will need at least another three to five days to reach Kirigakure..."
After a brief calculation, Uchiha Minamoto settled on his schedule for the next few days.
"Now I still need some 'insurance'..."
With a thought, Uchiha Minamoto extended the sensory reach of [Heavenly Net] and immediately locked onto Kakashi Hatake's chakra.
"Still in the Konoha Military Police Force hospital? That's convenient."
[Divine Lightning]!
Uchiha Minamoto vanished from the Commander-in-Chief's Office in an instant, appearing in a special ward in the Konoha Military Police Force hospital.
Inside the ward...
Kakashi Hatake lay in bed, pale and listless.
He held a copy of Icha Icha Paradise in his left hand, but the unfocused gaze of his right eye made it clear that this former "Copy Ninja" was not paying any attention to the dirty book before him.
Even when Uchiha Minamoto appeared in the ward...
The distracted Kakashi Hatake failed to notice that another person had entered, having lost even a ninja's most basic vigilance.
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