I just returned to Konoha and found that all my clan members were gone.

"What's the matter?" Ye Lan said to Gaara who stopped him.

"Gaara!" Before Gaara could say anything, Temari, who had been following him, rushed up, not understanding why Gaara stopped Ye Lan.

"Temari, I'm fine. I just have some questions I want to ask Mr. Ye Lan." Gaara did not say anything harsh to her as usual, but comforted Temari.

Ye Lan: "So, what's the matter?"

Temari had been calmed down by Gaara. He looked at Ye Lan and said, "Mr. Ye Lan, since the last time you saw Shukaku, it has become much quieter and no longer noisy. But no matter what I ask it, it won't respond to me. Do you have any good ideas?"

Temari looked at Gaara in surprise. He had been much quieter since the last time Gaara went berserk. She thought Gaara had figured something out, and it turned out to be Ye Lan's fault. But would the One-Tail be afraid of Ye Lan?

"Actually, I don't have any great suggestions on this. I'm not a Jinchūriki, and I don't have any friends who have a Jinchūriki." Ye Lan didn't hide too much. Apart from knowing that the Sharingan can restrain the tailed beasts, he really didn't know much about how the Jinchūriki get along with the tailed beasts.

"Is that so... Sorry to bother you." Gaara's eyes dimmed a little. In fact, he wanted to solve Shukaku's problem better. In case Shukaku got angry again one day in the future, he would also be affected.

Seeing Gaara's somewhat lost look, Ye Lan thought for a moment and said, "When I was on a mission in the Land of Water before, I heard that the Fourth Mizukage was the perfect Jinchūriki who could completely control the power of the tailed beasts. I think to be able to do this, one must not only have great strength but also be able to communicate with the tailed beasts. If you really don't know what to do, then hurry up and train yourself. No matter what you do, you need strength."

Gaara, who was about to leave, stopped after hearing Ye Lan's words. "Perfect Jinchūriki..." It was the first time that Gaara heard this term. After listening to Ye Lan's introduction, he knew that it was a very powerful force. Ye Lan was right. He needed more training now.

"Thank you, Mr. Ye Lan." Gaara bowed after listening. Temari didn't expect Gaara to become so polite. Although she didn't know what Ye Lan said, she also bowed to Ye Lan like Gaara, as a way to express her gratitude for Gaara's change.

"That child looks a bit like Naruto..." Ye Lan turned around and found that Hong had come behind him.

"Are you done with your work, Red Jonin?" Ye Lan asked.

Hong waved her hand and said, "Don't be so polite. You saved my life. You can just call me by my name. We are done now. We can return to Konoha anytime. This mission is finally coming to an end."

"Then I will obey your command, Red."

"You are really as polite as Hongdou said, and you don't look like a fifteen-year-old child at all." Hong and Hongdou are very good friends, and they often go shopping and drink together.

"Have they confirmed the next Kazekage of Sunagakure?" Ye Lan didn't want to continue this topic and asked about other things. Hong, who had signed the contract details with Sunagakure, might know something about their next decision.

"No, I heard from the top leaders of Sunagakure that they haven't decided on the next Kazekage yet." Hong shook her head. The current Sunagakure is weaker than Konoha, and they can't even select a Kazekage.

"Is that so? If there is no confirmation after a while, Gaara might become the Kazekage..." Ye Lan said, touching his chin.

"Gaara, no way, isn't he the Jinchūriki?" He was a little surprised to hear Ye Lan's analysis.

"There is no hatred in his eyes now, and he has become more normal. His teacher is Maki, who is quite prestigious in Sunagakure and will help him. Also, the Fourth Mizukage is also a Jinchūriki. There is a precedent for this."

After listening to Ye Lan's analysis, Hong also felt this possibility, but she didn't expect Ye Lan to be able to see so far.

"Has the Sand Village found any trace of Deidara's escape or Sasori's? " Ye Lan asked again about Akatsuki. He had seen many Sand Village ninjas running out of the village in the past few days. You know, they don't have many tasks to do now.

Hong sighed and said, "No, we searched the entire village and found no trace of Deidara's escape. Chiyo went to the scene of our battle herself and found nothing."

"It seems that there will be no more risks on the way back. Their people are estimated to have left the Kingdom of Wind." Ye Lan was also helpless. He finally caught Deidara but he let him run away like this. He originally thought that he could get some information out of Deidara's head.

Rain Country

It rains all year round in this country and the air is always very humid, so no crops can be grown, resulting in a large amount of money being needed to buy food every year.

There is a tall tower in the center of the Hidden Rain Village. Some people have entered it one after another. If Ye Lan were here, he would find a few familiar faces. Not only Itachi and Kisame, but also Deidara, whose arm has been reattached, and Scorpion have all come here. I didn't expect that the headquarters of Akatsuki is in the Hidden Rain Village.

"What on earth does the leader want to call us together for? How long has it been since we all got together? I still have to go on a bounty mission." Kakuzu with green pupils said with a stern look on his face.

"The leader called us here to announce something important. Please wait a moment." Hei Baijue came out at this time to calm down the emotional crowd.

Itachi and Kisame sat quietly aside. Neither of them were talkative people. When everyone was present, a man and a woman finally arrived.

They were all wearing Akatsuki uniforms. The man had a yellow hedgehog head and some unknown ornaments on his face. The most shocking thing was his eyes, which were exactly the same as the legendary Samsara eyes. The woman had short blue hair, a slender figure, and a paper flower on her head. She was a rare beauty.

"Is everyone here?" Payne looked around, but no one else made eye contact with him. The pressure from the Rinnegan was too great.

"Next, the organization will suspend the plan to capture the tailed beasts..." Pain announced the organization's next decision, which surprised everyone else, and Hidan said it casually.

"Why tentatively? Is it because Itachi and Sasori's groups both failed? We can't give up all our efforts, leader!" This guy pissed off the four people, and Kisame even drew out his Samehada sword and couldn't help but want to cut him.

Seeing the members about to fight, Pain was also troubled. The members were indeed strong. They were all rebel ninjas who had not been captured by the various ninja villages. They all had strange tempers. It was not that Pain had not thought about having more people to act together to improve the combat power, but in such a situation, if there were more people, they would probably have internal conflicts before they could fight the opponent. Two people in a team was already the limit. So every time they had a meeting, they would not gather together if they could, and they would use Pain's illusion body technique to conduct it.

Looking at the few people who were about to take action, Pain began to shout loudly: "Quiet!" An unimaginable pressure covered the entire venue. As the leader of Akatsuki, Pain's strength was unquestionable, and the members instantly became obedient.

"There was a problem with the Three-tailed Jinchuriki of the Kirigakure, and he died unexpectedly. Even if we catch the other tailed beasts, we will have to wait for three years, and then we will be passive. So during these three years we have to dilute the attention of other villages on us, and we will take action when the Three-tailed is about to be resurrected." After hearing what Pain said, everyone understood that capturing the tailed beasts would naturally cause the wrath of the ninja villages. Generally speaking, they had to be captured quickly when other villages didn't react. Once targeted by those ninja villages, it is very likely that other villages would join forces to deal with Akatsuki, and then the plan could not be implemented.

It will take another three years for the Three-Tails to be resurrected. What Akatsuki is doing now is to reduce the attention it gets, develop slowly, and wait until other ninja villages are no longer paying attention before taking action.

"So, what do we do now?" asked the oldest Kakuzu.

Hiding in the room, Nagato sighed as he thought about the difficult life of Yugakure. He controlled Tendo Pain and said, "Make money."