It's better to be a rebel ninja than to be a Hokage

(Note: The timeline of Akatsuki's destruction is after "Chapter 66: The Seal" and before "Chapter 67: Another Sharingan")

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In the past, the strife-filled Warring States Period was ended by Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, and the ninja village system replaced the family system of the Warring States Period.

Ninjas are no longer simply mercenaries operating outside the national system, but have been incorporated into various countries and become part of the country.

Although this result successfully suppressed the chaos of the Warring States Period, it also made it impossible for small countries to shake the big countries.

Small countries can only rely on big countries and sacrifice their own interests for them.

But there are occasional exceptions.

The Rain Kingdom, a small country surrounded by the three big countries of Fire Kingdom, Wind Kingdom and Earth Kingdom, once severely defeated the ninjas of the big countries in the Second Ninja War.

The ninja leader of the Hidden Rain Village, which belongs to the Land of Rain, Hanzo of the Salamander is so powerful that even the big countries are in awe and admire him.

Even the young Orochimaru, Jiraiya and Tsunade were defeated by Hanzo of the Salamander. Hanzo, who valued talent, spared their lives and gave the three of them the title of "Three Ninjas" which later became famous in the ninja world.

However, the hero grew old, and the old Salamander Hanzo gave up his youthful dreams. The Rain Kingdom eventually became like other small countries, relying on big countries for survival.

Fearing retaliation from the ninjas who had fallen out with the big countries during the Second Shinobi World War, the Hanzo regime, on the one hand, made friends with the big countries and actively responded to the Joint Chunin Exams that represented national friendship, on the other hand, it implemented a policy of seclusion in the Hidden Rain Village, blocking the Rain Country to reduce the infiltration and influence of other countries.

However, the closed policy did not save Hanzo's life as he had hoped. Instead, it allowed the Rain Country to avoid the attention of the five major countries and quietly develop a new force.

The force that replaced Hanzo's regime in the Rain Country, but still maintained the false existence of Hanzo's regime to the outside world, was exactly the mercenary organization composed of rebellious ninjas from various countries that coveted the tailed beasts owned by the five major countries.

--"dawn".

Yuyin Village, high tower.

In the legend of the Hidden Rain Village, the god who killed Hanzo of the Salamander lives there.

God's apostle, a beautiful angel with memorable blue hair, will bring everyone's blessings to God into the tower and let God know.

But in the private legends of the people, the omnipotent God does not actually need to rely on angels to know everyone's blessings.

The country is as its name suggests, the Rain Country, with heavy rain pouring down day after day.

This is the most common sight in the Rain Country where it rains all year round.

But the rain in the Hidden Rain Village is a blessing from God.

God knows everything in the rain.

At this moment, in the Hidden Rain Village, the highest level God's Tower can only be entered with the permission of the angels.

The God who lived there also knew about the third person who came uninvited besides God and the angels.

An orange spiral mask emerged from the darkness, and in the center of the hollow spiral of the mask was a bright red three-magatama Sharingan.

The red auspicious cloud robe with black as the base color only becomes visible after the visitor completely walks out of the darkness.

He is one of the only remaining members of the "Akatsuki" organization who calls himself "Afei".

Uchiha...

"spot."

God whispered the masked man's name.

The short orange-haired god is also wearing the Akatsuki uniform.

Is the being that leads "Akatsuki" actually a god?

However, facing God, Uchiha "Ban" showed no respect at all, and even called God's name directly: "It seems that I came back at the right time. You have completed your mission...Pein."

The three-magatama Sharingan under Uchiha "Madara"'s mask stared at the pair of purple eyes in the God's Eyes with several spiral circle lines.

He continued, "Your success in capturing Vulpix is ​​a rare piece of good news recently."

"But the current situation is completely different from what we expected at the beginning! There are still four tailed beasts, the One-Tail, the Three-Tail, the Eight-Tail and the Nine-Tail, that are not under the control of Akatsuki. The Nine-Tail Jinchuriki who disappeared for three years reappeared and severely damaged Akatsuki in a short period of time!"

In response to Uchiha "Madara"'s praise, the angels beside Pain had a different opinion.

The angel expressed her dissatisfaction to Uchiha "Madara" on behalf of God, and her tone was as if... Uchiha "Madara"'s status was above that of God.

"Xiao Nan..."

Pein shouted the angel's name, stopping her from speaking: "It is meaningless to apportion responsibility for what has happened. What is important is how to deal with the next four tailed beasts..."

Pein looked at Uchiha "Ban" and explained the current situation:

"Once the Tailed Beast Capture Plan is launched, it must be completed in a short period of time. Otherwise, once the five great nations react, Akatsuki will become the target of public criticism. Moreover, Akatsuki's combat power has been severely reduced."

"So even though there are only a few of us left in Akatsuki, it is even more urgent to capture the remaining tailed beasts."

This is how Payne sees the current situation.

Only by gathering all the tailed beasts in the world together can he reform this wrong ninja world.

"That's exactly why I came to see you."

Uchiha "Madara" has the same idea as Pain.

But that wasn't the whole reason he came to see Payne.

He has his own purpose.

Uchiha "Madara" looked at the strange eyes in Pain's eyes.

Pain possesses the legendary Six Paths Sage's eyes, the Rinnegan.

With eyes like that, it's understandable that Pain would think he's a god.

But this eye... after Black Zetsu, who had been monitoring him, disappeared, perhaps it would be of some other use to Uchiha "Madara"... no, it should be said that it might be of some other use to Uchiha Obito.

But Pain is still useful at the moment, and his assistance is needed to capture the tailed beast.

And Payne is indeed more difficult to deal with nowadays.

But fortunately, the difficult one is only Pain, not Nagato who controls Pain.

The real "body" that controls Pains and others who have little remaining vitality to survive in the world can be tired to death if he is just a little more diligent in capturing the tailed beasts.

Therefore, Uchiha "Madara" had already made the decision.

"Next, I'll trouble you to go to the Sand Village and bring back the One-Tail."

Uchiha "Madara" handed the capture of the One-Tail to Pain.

As for him...

"I'll deal with the Three-Tails that was reborn after the death of the Jinchūriki. There is a difference between the Jinchūriki and the Tailed Beasts. As long as you suppress the Jinchūriki, you can deal with the sealed Tailed Beasts with your power... But the Tailed Beasts without the Jinchūriki are different. I will use the Sharingan to bring it back."

"Where are the remaining two tailed beasts?"

Pain had no objection to the distribution of the capture of the One-Tail and the Three-Tail. What he was curious about was the Eight-Tail and the Nine-Tail that Uchiha "Madara" did not mention.

"They're both very troublesome."

Uchiha "Madara" bluntly expressed the difficulty of the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki Killer Bee and the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki Uzumaki Naruto.

"The Eight-Tails Jinchuriki is very powerful in his own right, and he is also a perfect Jinchuriki who is in tune with the minds of the tailed beasts... He lives deep in the Hidden Cloud Village, and is not an opponent that can be quickly defeated. Once we get into a protracted battle with him, the Jounins of the Hidden Cloud Village will be able to provide support... And the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, as the brother of the current Raikage, even joined the battle to lure the Raikage himself into joining the battle."

Among the five Kage of the five major countries today, the one who needs the most attention is not the Hokage of Konohagakure, the leader of the five major countries.

But it is the fourth Raikage, Ai, who protects the Hidden Cloud Village.

The third Tsuchikage, Ohnoki, is like a living fossil of the ninja world. He has witnessed and manipulated many right and wrongs, and even has a bloodline elimination that is above his bloodline limit.

But he is no longer in his prime after all. He cannot immediately end the fight with anyone who is strong enough to fight him, and getting stuck in a protracted war will be disadvantageous to him.

Although the fifth Mizukage Mei Terumi has two bloodline limits, he is just a marginally respectable ninja among the backbone generation of the Hidden Mist Ninjas who are in a period of transition after the long-standing blood mist policy of the Hidden Mist Village came to an end.

In addition, the fact that she was able to succeed the Mizukage may also be related to the fact that she is a bloodline limit ninja. In the Land of Water, bloodline limit and blood mist policy both contain extremely deep political significance.

The fifth Kazekage Temari was just a kid who was born in peacetime after the end of the Third Ninja World War.

The current level of ninjas in the Sand Village may be much lower than that in the Mist Village. The reason why Temari was able to become the fifth Kazekage was not because her strength or prestige was recognized, but because she was the only one who could control the actions of the One-Tail Jinchuriki, and her control over the One-Tail Jinchuriki was not complete.

It would be more accurate to say that her control over the One-Tail Jinchuriki was the One-Tail Jinchuriki actively restraining himself for her.

Therefore, the fifth Kazekage Temari can be said to be the least powerful of the five Kage today. Her power as Kage has long been replaced by the advisory group of the Sand Village.

As for Tsunade, the fifth Hokage.

She has a noble background and her strength has been recognized in the previous Ninja World War. Although her political methods are gentle, they should not be underestimated.

However, judging from the information Zetsu had obtained, Tsunade is now unable to fight for some reason.

Compared to Tsunade, Jiraiya, who surrounds Tsunade and is one of the three ninjas together with Tsunade, is more troublesome.

But Jiraiya has been away from the village for a longer time. If Akatsuki's target is Konoha, there will be many opportunities to take advantage of.

By that time, Danzo Shimura, who has an opposite political stance to the Hokage, might use the "Root" to take the opportunity to make some small moves against the Hokage.

Therefore, in the opinion of Uchiha "Madara", it would not be too difficult to deal with the above four Kage.

Let’s talk about the Fourth Raikage again. He became famous together with the Fourth Hokage in the Third Ninja World War.

Compared to the genius Minato Namikaze who died young, Ai is now at the peak of his powers, and the powerful aggressiveness of the Hidden Cloud Village also makes the Cloud Ninjas more energetic than the ninjas from the other four countries.

"So the prerequisite for capturing the Eight-Tails is to either defeat the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki quickly at a speed that Kumogakure cannot react to. Otherwise, we need to find a way to get the Raikage to leave Kumogakure Village so that we can take action against the Eight-Tails."

This is what Uchiha "Madara" thinks.

As for the capture of the Eight-Tailed Fox, we still have to wait and see.

"And what about the Kyuubi?"

At this time, Konan intervened in the conversation between Madara and Pain about the tailed beasts.

"That guy is even more troublesome. He has even disappeared from the ninja world again. This time, he has also cut off the information about Uchiha Sasuke and prevented him from obtaining it."

Uzumaki Naruto, before Uchiha "Madara" came to the Hidden Rain Village, he arranged for White Zetsu to conduct intelligence search.

But Uzumaki Naruto was obviously wary of White Zetsu, and White Zetsu finally only gave Uchiha "Madara" a reply that the search was fruitless.

"But that guy probably won't take any action in the short term."

Uchiha "Madara" expressed his own judgment.

White Zetsu had already told him that Sasuke was also on the verge of death during the battle with Itachi.

In his opinion, Uzumaki Naruto disappeared again at this time in order to protect and treat Sasuke.

He would even be happy to see Uzumaki Naruto disappear for a while in the current situation.

"Although that guy... the Nine-Tails' Jinchuriki is the most difficult to deal with among the three Jinchuriki at present, his situation is actually the easiest for us to take advantage of."