"Sasori, what do you think? Feel like charging into Sunagakure and taking a shot at the Fourth Kazekage?"
Sasori of the Red Sands merely gave Kakuzu an indifferent glance.
Then he controlled his meticulously crafted puppet, [Hiruko], moving toward the vast deserts of the Land of Wind.
Sasori of the Red Sands' reply drifted into Kakuzu's ears on the wind and sand.
"Orochimaru has already left..."
"What a shame..."
Kakuzu tore off his red cloud black cloak, then reluctantly tossed the [North] ring in his hand into the sand.
Although he cared a great deal about this ring made from chakra crystal.
This thing really was not something he could casually carry around!
Kakuzu had no idea whether continuing to wear this [North] ring would bring the [Sharingan] down on him first, or attract the [Rinnegan] first.
Whatever happened, there was one thing Kakuzu could be sure of.
Whether it was the inheritor of the Sage of Six Paths' [Sage Eye].
Or that God of Shinobi of the New Era.
Neither was someone an ordinary ninja like Kakuzu could afford to provoke.
It was time to leave the Akatsuki...
Kakuzu checked the direction Sasori of the Red Sands had left in, then chose a different direction and began moving.
The hearts with wind and earth attributes that Obito Uchiha had destroyed earlier had yet to be replaced with fresh ones.
He happened to be within the Land of Wind now.
This country had more Wind Release ninja than any other country.
Kakuzu could look for new hearts here.
The missing-nin from Takigakure gradually vanished into the wind and sand as well.
With that.
The One-Tail capture plan fell apart completely.
And the Akatsuki also broke apart.
Meanwhile, in Konoha.
Uchiha Minamoto did not yet know that the Akatsuki was about