Chapter 463: The Three-Year Period is Up
"It's just a minor injury, nothing to worry about. Your younger brother is now at a crossroads. No matter which choice he makes, once he takes that step, there's no turning back. This... I think you know very well."
Itachi stared at him for a while. "Sasuke will make his own correct choice. I have always trusted him."
In reality, he had always treated his younger brother like a baby, "afraid to drop him if held, afraid he'd melt if kept in the mouth." Thinking of Sasuke's situation, his heart felt as if it were being twisted by a knife.
Itachi found his partner, Kisame, and the two left the Land of Rain that same day, heading for Konoha Village.
Obito was urging Itachi to go to Konoha to cause trouble, little knowing that at this very moment, Ino and Izumi were already at his doorstep.
Because Kakashi would occasionally throw things into the Kamui dimension, Obito had been forced to move all the Sharingan he had collected.
A cunning rabbit has three burrows; he understood this principle. Izumi had only discovered one of the places where he hid the eyes.
Obito's lessons in vigilance and traps were definitely a failing grade. Ino dismantled the traps without much effort and walked right in.
An entire wall was covered with Sharingan. To suddenly see this scene, even Ino felt a bit uncomfortable, as if dozens of people were staring intently at her.
Did Obito not feel guilty seeing these eyes every day? His grandmother had indeed died of natural causes, but on the night of the massacre, were there no acquaintances of his among the dead Uchiha? Could he feel nothing with the eyes of his acquaintances staring at him every day?
Ino truly felt that the people of the Uchiha clan had something wrong with their heads. Her desire to avoid the great pitfall of the Mangekyō Sharingan became even more urgent. She did not want to become like this.
"Those are my eyes..." Izumi said sadly, pointing to a pair of eyes on the shelf.
Ino wasn't worried about Obito returning at all. If Obito dared to show his face now, she would snatch his Kamui Sharingan.
She took down the eyes and handed them to Izumi, saying, "You can take your eyes and rest in peace in the Pure Land. It sounds a bit strange to say, but I was actually there a few days ago. It's very quiet there, and the environment is nice, suitable for living. No one will disturb you. Or I could send you to find Itachi. You choose."
The two three-tomoe Sharingan merged into Izumi's spirit body. The chakra of the same origin converged, and the originally quite listless spirit, nourished by the Sharingan, instantly became spirited.
Ino saw it clearly. Izumi's spiritual energy had surged by a large margin. If she still had a body, with her current spiritual energy, she could probably awaken the Mangekyō.
Witnessing the death of a close friend could awaken the eyes, but in truth, how could a friend be closer than oneself? There is great terror between life and death. That level of mental stimulation could also awaken the Mangekyō. It's just that when you're dead, you're dead, and a dead person can't use the Mangekyō.
Izumi was quite hesitant. "I... I don't know."
"Then go back and think about it slowly."
Ino took all 79 Sharingan from the three rows on the wall.
The top row was three-tomoe, very few in number. The middle was two-tomoe, and the bottom was single-tomoe. Many of the eyes were not in pairs; it was unknown whether they were lost or had been used.
With these eyes, it was enough to completely transform Kimimaro's corpse into a brand-new ocular power manufacturing machine! Itachi and Kisame had just left the Land of Rain when they received a message from Pain. The two had to stop and project their chakra out of their bodies in the form of "thought." The "thought" was received by the Rinnegan, and the nine members of the Akatsuki soon appeared as rainbow-colored ripples on the nine fingers of the Gedo Statue.
The nine members of the Akatsuki were Pain, Itachi, Kisame, Kakuzu, Hidan, Deidara, Gaara, Tobi (appearing in place of Obito), and finally, Zetsu.
Pain was the first to speak. "We've received intelligence from the Land of Water recently. Many of the previously normal shipping routes have become very dangerous. The storms at sea are several times more frequent than usual, and fishermen often go missing. The sea seems to have suddenly become restless. Some say there is a monster at the bottom of the sea, others say the Dragon King is angry and wants sacrifices. There are all sorts of stories."
The members of the Akatsuki immediately understood. This probably meant the Three-Tails was about to revive, or had already revived.
Back then, with the death of the Fourth Mizukage, Yagura Karatachi, he had taken the Three-Tails with him, making the Akatsuki wait for three years for nothing.
Now, the three-year period was up! The Akatsuki was going to make a comeback!
Nagato had been studying the Gedo Statue with his Rinnegan for these past few years and had made some progress. He believed there was a certain order to the sealing.
He controlled Pain to say, "I have already captured the Five-Tails' jinchuriki. This fellow was no match for me. Everyone, assist me in sealing the Five-Tails first."
The members looked at the foot of the Gedo Statue. There was a tall figure lying on the ground. Judging by the style of the armor, it was indeed the Five-Tails' jinchuriki from the Hidden Stone Village, the 2.28-meter-tall steam ninja, Han.
The nine members of the Akatsuki began to use the "Nine Phantom Dragons Seal" to extract the Tailed Beast chakra from Han's body. It was the first time everyone was doing this job. Pain said it would take three days. Deidara complained a little under his breath, and Kakuzu also thought it was delaying his money-making. The rest remained silent.
In the Akatsuki, Pain's strength firmly suppressed the others. No matter how unwilling they were, they could only obey the order. The nine heroes began to form hand seals with great effort, using the Gedo Statue to extract the jinchuriki's chakra.
Gaara watched as his fellow jinchuriki, Han, was suspended in the air, a large amount of Tailed Beast chakra being extracted from him, without any expression. The Hidden Sand Village had had large chunks of its territory swallowed up by the Leaf and Stone during the war. He now had no good feelings for the ninja village system at all. In his heart, he completely agreed with the "end war with war" ideology formulated by Yahiko and Nagato and was willing to give his life for it.
Three days later, the members of the Akatsuki went their separate ways.
Kakuzu and Hidan went to capture the Two-Tails' jinchuriki. The difficulty of this mission was that Yugito Nii was always in the Hidden Cloud Village. No matter how capable the two were, they didn't dare to just enter the village to capture her. They needed to find a way to lure her out.
Deidara and Gaara went to find the wild Three-Tails. Finding the Three-Tails in the vast sea would take a lot of effort. Both of them had the ability to fly, which would make the search relatively quick.
Itachi and Kisame went to capture the Four-Tails' jinchuriki.
The Four-Tails' jinchuriki had been captured by Konoha once before. Rōshi's vigilance had increased considerably, and he was always hiding in the mountains. Finding him would also take some time.
Pain had no trust in Obito and Zetsu whatsoever. After sending out the three teams, he immediately announced their dismissal.
Sasuke didn't actually care if he was a Jonin or a Chunin. What he cared about was revenge. This was his entire motivation for living so far.
While Sakura was pondering how many children to have in the future, and whether to have boys or girls, he had no longing or expectation for the future.
After practicing hard for half a month and believing he had mastered the Mangekyō Sharingan, he came to challenge Ino.
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