Chapter 258 — The Rain Has Stopped
Because of the Rinnegan, Nagato's body had already been greatly depleted.
"I'll take him back to Orochimaru. Let's see if he can make use of him."
The battle had ended swiftly, and Fugaku dispersed his Susanoo.
His gaze shifted toward Konan, who lay unconscious near the entrance, having been blasted away by Nagato's Shinra Tensei and knocked out when she hit the wall.
Fugaku neither liked nor disliked Konan. But since Nagato was already dead, leaving her alive meant leaving behind a ticking time bomb—and Fugaku had no intention of doing that.
Konan was undeniably beautiful, though her makeup was heavy. With a lighter look, she would easily be considered a true beauty.
But Fugaku was not a man swayed by every woman he encountered. He already had a wife at home who was in no way inferior to Konan.
After thinking for only a moment, Fugaku stepped forward, drew a kunai, and stabbed it into Konan's slender arm.
The sudden, sharp pain jolted her awake. The moment her eyes opened, she was greeted by a pair of Mangekyō Sharingan.
She didn't stand a chance—Konan immediately fell back under Fugaku's genjutsu.
He had her write down her Paper Ninjutsu and reveal the Akatsuki's hidden funds.
With the technique scroll secured, Fugaku used genjutsu to guide Konan through the Akatsuki base and directly to their vault.
In the original timeline, Konan used 600 billion explosive tags against Obito—an absurdly exaggerated amount that showed just how wealthy the Akatsuki were.
Although this was long before that event, the organization had clearly accumulated quite a fortune.
Inside the vault lay a total of one billion silver taels.
It couldn't compare to the staggering wealth Fugaku looted from the Hidden Cloud Village, but it was still a substantial amount.
With Konan leading the way, they encountered no resistance. Fugaku created multiple shadow clones, and it took all five clones more than an hour to seal all the silver taels into storage scrolls.
Once he secured everything, Fugaku didn't hesitate. He pulled out his kunai and drove it straight into Konan's heart.
As she neared death, Konan snapped out of the genjutsu. Her eyes widened as she stared at the expressionless Fugaku, whispering something he couldn't quite hear.
It sounded like Yahiko.
Perhaps, in her final moments, she saw Yahiko in a hallucination.
After Konan's life faded completely, Fugaku sealed her body into the same storage scroll as Nagato's.
With everything finished, Fugaku stepped outside.
The rain had stopped.
Nagato was dead, so the Six Paths of Pain could no longer maintain the Rain Tiger at Will Technique.
The downpour that had persisted for so long finally ended.
However, the sky remained gray and heavy, as if it could rain again at any moment.
Fugaku looked around briefly, then summoned his Complete Body Susanoo.
The massive figure immediately drew the attention of everyone in the Hidden Rain Village.
Amid the startled shouts below, the colossal Susanoo took two thunderous steps, leapt skyward, and ascended like a fighter jet—piercing straight into the dark clouds and vanishing from view.
Inside the pentagonal crystal on Susanoo's forehead, Fugaku was protected from the lightning flickering through the clouds.
He examined the glass container holding Nagato's Rinnegan, contemplating whether to fuse them with his Eternal Mangekyō.
The system interface indicated that fusion was possible.
But unlike last time—when it clearly stated that fusing Itachi's Mangekyō would evolve his eyes into the Eternal Mangekyō—this time, the system did not specify the final result.
Fugaku's current Eternal Mangekyō was extremely powerful, having already merged both Itachi's and Shisui's Mangekyō.
Only Obito's Mangekyō remained unfused, but he only possessed one—the other was still with Kakashi.
If he fused the Rinnegan now, what would it become?
A standard Rinnegan-dominant evolution?
Or… would it ascend into the Rinne Sharingan, like the one on Ōtsutsuki Kaguya's forehead?
The Rinne Sharingan was the highest form of ocular power—the progenitor of both the Sharingan and the Rinnegan, born from the God Tree itself.
It combined the ripple patterns of the Rinnegan with the crimson color and tomoe of the Sharingan, possessing the abilities of both.
Madara awakened it only after absorbing the God Tree.
If Fugaku obtained it, he wouldn't just reach the Six Paths level—
he would stand at the very peak of it.
Either outcome would grant him a monumental leap in strength.
After thinking for a moment, Fugaku put the glass bottle away.
Now was not the right time.
The fusion would take seven full days, and he wanted to fuse Obito's Mangekyō first for an additional power boost.
Only then would he fuse the Rinnegan.
There was no rush to return to Konoha.
His next goal remained unchanged: acquire a resurrection method before going back.
Kakashi's Mangekyō wasn't going to sprout legs and run away.
Unless Kakashi defected—which was highly unlikely.
The Complete Body Susanoo sped across the sky, leaving the Land of Rain behind and entering the Land of Wind's airspace.
Although the Land of Grass was closer, Fugaku chose to head for the Land of Wind first.
He intended to find Chiyo and obtain her Reanimation Technique.
The resurrection technique in the Land of Grass required taking Ryūzetsu along, and he had no intention of bringing someone with him while traveling to the Sand.
So it made more sense to retrieve Chiyo's scroll first, then head to the Land of Grass afterward.
Ryūzetsu should be around Naruto and Sasuke's age—but Fugaku wasn't completely sure.
He would figure it out when he arrived.
The Reanimation Technique was a forbidden jutsu secretly developed by the Hidden Sand long ago.
Fugaku had confidence he could acquire it.
The Land of Wind was vast, and without radar or advanced navigation, it took Fugaku considerable effort to locate the Hidden Sand Village.
If he had proper navigation, his Susanoo could have reached it within a single day.
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