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

The special climate of the Rain Country, which is in the rainy season all year round, makes the architectural style of the Hidden Rain Village unique.

Yuyin Village is full of tall buildings that are densely packed together. In order to prevent the water level from rising due to heavy rain, streets are built in the air between the buildings.

Therefore, the layout and structure of the entire village is extremely complex.

Most "first-time visitors" like Karin find it difficult to tell where they are.

It is even difficult to accurately judge whether you are on the ground or on a high building.

What's more, Karin is now running in a man-made tunnel with no end in sight and many complex routes, like the chaotically growing roots of a plant.

Fortunately, Karin doesn't need to find the way. She is just avoiding the butterflies that are scattered all over the Hidden Rain Village.

However, through Kagura's mind's perception, Karin also knew that the time she had to dodge had reached its limit.

The "butterflies" are shrinking their search range step by step, and Karin will have to face these butterflies head-on.

But now Karin has already delayed enough time.

"Five, six... these chakras are the same as what Naruto said..."

Surrounded by butterflies, Kagura's mind's eye also captured six extremely strange chakras.

These six chakras are exactly the same, powerful yet lifeless.

When these six chakras appeared, it meant that Karin's infiltration had successfully achieved the trapping purpose that Naruto had given her.

Feeling surrounded by butterflies, Karin stopped with no way to retreat.

She pulled the hood of her raincoat lower, making sure her face was indeed hidden from view.

Then Karin hooked the kunai with her fingers hidden under her raincoat, ready to fight.

Tear it——!

It was as if he was mocking Karin's decision to fight.

Suddenly, in the silent tunnel, a strange sound like paper shaking was heard.

Karin's eyes were focused, she knew the enemy was approaching.

Immediately afterwards, following the sound, Karin felt a gust of wind blowing towards her!

The tearing sounds became more and more frequent in the strong wind. Sensing the enemy charging towards her head-on, Karin no longer hesitated and threw the kunai in her hand through the blind spot of her raincoat.

At the same time as Karin threw the kunai, she also saw the appearance of the enemy who was very close to her.

A woman with short blue hair, a paper flower on her head, wearing a black robe embroidered with red auspicious clouds, and wings made of white paper on her back, flew towards Karin!

The woman's appearance was exactly the same as the "angel" that Karin had heard about in the Hidden Rain Village.

God's apostle——Xiaonan!

Karin threw out the kunai at just the right time. Konan charged straight towards Karin at such a high speed that Konan didn't have enough time to adjust her position to avoid the kunai shot by Karin!

But when facing kunai, Konan never thought of dodging from the beginning!

"This is!!!"

This is how the unexpected happened right in front of Karin.

The kunai did hit Konan.

It even hit Xiaonan's forehead.

But in the next moment, Xiaonan's whole body exploded and turned into scattered white paper!

Konan, who turned into countless pieces of paper, negated physical attacks like kunai!

After neutralizing Karin's attack, Konan began to counterattack.

These countless pieces of paper rotated and wrapped up Karin. The thin pieces of paper that had no lethality were stacked on top of each other and turned into a deadly weapon that could suffocate and restrain people.

There were still some remnants of the paper that had wrapped Karin. They were flying around Karin in the air and finally condensed into the figure of Konan.

"You are the guy next to Kyuubi..."

Xiaonan frowned, feeling a little alert about the identity of the intruder.

She had just pulled off the hood of Karin's raincoat and saw Karin's face clearly.

"Are you the only one conducting this invasion?!"

She tore open the piece of paper covering Karin's mouth, allowing Karin, who was originally suffocating, to breathe through her mouth, and questioned her harshly!

The perception ninjutsu that Pain performed in the Hidden Rain Village - the Rain Tiger Freedom Technique - indeed only detected Karin, the intruder.

No! wrong!

The Nine-Tails Jinchuriki possesses the space-time ninjutsu called Flying Thunder God!

It is no longer possible to make judgments based solely on the intelligence about the invaders provided by Yuhu's Freedom Technique!

Although Konan was puzzled as to why Pain's information was exposed, the most urgent task was to ask Karin where the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki was at the moment!

"Nine-Tails...Uzumaki Naruto, where is he now?"

Konan questioned Karin.

What he got in return was Karin's question: "Where do you think Naruto is?"

As Karin finished her words, two earth walls suddenly rose from the ground and top of the tunnel.

The tunnel was sealed at an astonishing speed, forming a cube-shaped enclosed space that trapped Karin and Konan inside.

Now Konan has no way to pass information to Pain through the paper clone.

This made it impossible for Pain to know that the intruder was Naruto.

No wonder Karin did not choose to meet Konan in the open air, but instead hid in the tunnel!

Such a highly targeted earth-style ninjutsu gave Konan a sudden shock.

She turned her head and looked behind her.

At the place where the kunai shot by Karin landed, a yellow figure appeared there at some point.

Naruto just stood there.

In one hand he held the kunai that Karin had just fired.

The other hand was forming a seal with one hand, and the ninja seal in the hand was the earth escape seal!

"Oops!!!"

Konan flapped the paper wings behind her and decisively distanced herself from Karin.

The next moment, Naruto appeared in front of Karin.

Naruto swung the Rasengan in his hand towards where Konan was originally, but it missed because Konan left!

If Konan had hesitated for even a second after leaving Karin, the Rasengan would have really hit her.

Konan's judgment was correct. The information revealed by Naruto had already shown that he had also marked the Flying Thunder God Mark on Karin.

Flying in the air, Konan looked down at Naruto.

Although Naruto's currently closed left eye made her curious.

However, before Konan had time to think about it, her attention was attracted by the Rasengan in Naruto's hand!

Flying Thunder God's instant attack failed against Konan, and Naruto quickly adjusted his offensive tactics. The Rasengan in his hand suddenly expanded and was no longer an ordinary chakra ball.

The change in the nature of the wind made the Rasengan in Naruto's hand spin faster.

In the blink of an eye, Naruto completed the transformation of the Rasengan!

Naruto threw the Wind Style: Rasenshuriken out of his hand and shot it towards Konan who was flying in the air!

Konan also immediately spread out the paper wings behind her, and countless pieces of paper turned into shurikens and shot out from the paper wings towards the spiral shuriken.

But how could the powerful cutting ability of Wind Style be blocked by these pieces of paper?

The spiral shuriken easily shattered the paper shurikens.

Finally, the Wind Style: Rasenshuriken hit Konan who was unable to dodge.

However, just like the kunai attack that Karin had used on Konan before, Konan used the same trick again and her whole body turned into countless pieces of paper.

Even so, the Wind Style Rasenshuriken still caught a large amount of paper and broke it into confetti.

But more pieces of paper managed to escape the attack of Wind Style: Rasenshuriken.

These pieces of paper fell from the sky like white paper rain.

"Karin, I'll leave this to you."

Faced with these large pieces of scattered paper, Naruto stopped taking action.

He called out to Karin, who had already broken free from her restraints.

After receiving instructions from Naruto, Karin grew several chakra chains from behind her body!

The chakra chains of the Diamond Seal wrapped around the earth wall created by Naruto, the top and ground of the tunnel itself - the entire cube-shaped enclosed space was reinforced by Karin's Diamond Seal.

This time, it was Karin who retracted the chains and forced the scattered pieces of paper to gather into a human shape again.

Xiaonan was tied up into a ball by the King Kong Lock.

The Uzumaki clan's sealing technique is not some low-level technique.

This time, she couldn't turn into paper anymore.

"Uzumaki Naruto, no wonder you were able to defeat so many members of the Akatsuki organization - where did you get the information about Akatsuki?"

Xiaonan didn't struggle either. She would not expose her ugly side by becoming a loser.

On the contrary, because the battle was over, she finally had time to think and became curious about Naruto's intelligence gathering abilities.

It was not until Naruto took the initiative to invade the Hidden Rain Village that Konan keenly discovered the abnormality in Naruto's intelligence gathering ability.

Not just the personal information of the members of the Akatsuki organization.

And information about the Hidden Rain Village...

Pain continued Hanzo's policy of isolation and established the real base of Akatsuki there, even deceiving the five major countries.

Naruto seemed to have already known everything about Akatsuki.

Unfortunately it was too late.

"I know more than you guess..."

Naruto approached Konan and stabbed the Flying Thunder God Kunai in his hand into Konan's abdomen.

Blood was oozing out of Konan's abdomen, but Naruto had no intention of stopping.

He rotated the handle of the kunai, allowing the kunai that penetrated into Xiaonan's abdomen to disrupt her internal organs.

The severe pain made Xiaonan start to lose his mind.

People whose minds are broken are more susceptible to being manipulated by illusions.

"If your target is not the tailed beast... maybe we can become senior and junior brothers with the same ideal..."

Hearing Naruto's words, Konan was speechless.

Uzumaki Naruto, does he even know about this kind of thing?

Konan endured the pain and looked up at Naruto, but was surprised to find that Naruto's left eye, which had been closed during the battle, was open.

The bright red left eye had black lines that looked like a four-cornered shuriken with a curved blade.

Mangekyō Sharingan...

With just one glance, Konan forgot the pain Naruto had inflicted on her.

Her consciousness became hazy.

When she wakes up again, she will be reborn.

But will she still be herself after her “rebirth”?

Before his consciousness completely dissipated and fell into darkness, Konan vaguely saw Naruto's left eye turn back into a three-magatama Sharingan.

She also heard Naruto whispering in her ear.

"Just drown in this cruel dream..."

"Senior Sister Xiaonan..."