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

"Are you serious?" Mei Terumi was no longer calm and had already stood up. She didn't realize her gaffe until Qing started to remind her.

"I won't lie about this kind of thing, and one of the people who targeted the Nine-Tails was a traitor from your village." Ye Lan didn't mind revealing this information to Mei Terumi. As long as he could achieve his goal, it didn't matter how much he said. At this time, Asuma came to Ye Lan and pulled his sleeve and said.

"It's not a good idea for us to take the initiative to tell Kirigakure this information..." Asuma said this because Kirigakure and Sunagakure are different. Their alliance is simply more like a declaration of non-aggression. Since the Jinchuriki of Sunagakure was captured by Konoha, the alliance has reached the level of a military alliance. Kirigakure cannot achieve this level of alliance.

"The most important thing is that when I came here, I didn't expect to meet people from Akatsuki, and the man with the Rinnegan is very likely the leader of Akatsuki." Ye Lan made such a judgment not only because of Tiandao's strength, but also because of his attitude of calling himself a god. How could a person like him be willing to be someone else's subordinate.

"Rinnegan? Are you sure you're not seeing things?" Mei Terumi had never seen Nagato and didn't believe that such a legendary thing could exist.

"That's right, the one who intercepted us was the one with the Rinnegan, and the one who killed the Frost Jonin was a man wearing a Uzumaki mask." Ye Lan described the situation at that time.

"Does the man wearing the Uzumaki mask have a Sharingan?" Unexpectedly, Mei Terumi directly described Obito's appearance. With this performance, Ye Lan became more convinced that the man had an unusual relationship with Kirigakure.

Seeing Ye Lan nod, Terumi Mei sighed and said, "It seems that I was really late."

Ye Lan did not respond, and kept waiting for Terumi Mei's decision. Would she tell him what happened in Kirigakure?

"Ao." Mei Terumi looked a little tired and called her assistant. Ao quickly stood up and went to Mei Terumi to listen closely. "Pass on my order. No one is allowed to approach this house. Everyone else, get out."

"Lady Terumi Mei, are you really going to..." As the most traditional ninja, Ao's thinking has always been rather old-fashioned. How could he tell outsiders about such a family shame?

"No need to say more, I have a plan..." Qing's opinion had little effect. Seeing that he couldn't stop Mei Terumi, he took his people out of the room.

Seeing this, Asuma looked at Shikamaru who was still sitting behind him, and asked him to leave the house. In the end, only Ye Lan, Asuma and Mei Terumi were left in the room.

"Now that everyone has left, it's time to get down to business." Mei Terumi looked at the empty room and couldn't help but feel relaxed.

"I guess you two know about the Blood Mist Village, right?" Seeing the two nod, Mei Terumi was not surprised. As a senior ninja, she would know something about the internal conditions of other countries. To some extent, the Blood Mist Village was also well-known in the ninja world.

"In fact, what you heard about the Blood Mist Village is much worse than the real situation. At that time, the village implemented the Blood Mist Village under the rule of the Fourth Hokage. Not only did they implement an elite policy in training ninjas, which made them kill each other, but even the elite jonins were sent to perform various dangerous missions, and if they failed, they would only die.

Many high-ranking officials in the village were dissatisfied with this policy and often had disputes with the Fourth Mizukage, and those people were eventually killed by the Fourth Mizukage. "

Ye Lan had come to Kirigakure when he was ten years old to carry out a mission to gather intelligence. He had some understanding of what Terumi Mei described, but he did not reveal it. He did not want to increase Terumi Mei's vigilance against him because of his previous mission.

"What hurt Kirigakure the most was that the ninjas from the bloodline families were dissatisfied with the Fourth Hokage's actions, and they even united and rebelled. The village was plunged into civil strife. At that time, Shimotsu was the Fourth Hokage's right-hand man, controlling most of Kirigakure's Anbu. With the Fourth Hokage being a perfect Jinchūriki, they quelled the rebellion without much effort."

The perfect Jinchūriki, Ye Lan finally remembered what he had overlooked. The Fourth Mizukage, who was the Jinchūriki, was definitely one of Akatsuki's targets. As the Fourth Hokage's former confidant, Shuang might know more than he thought. No wonder the other party would go to great lengths to kill Shuang, just to cut the grass and eradicate the roots.

Without pausing, Mei Terumi continued, "In fact, I had some doubts about the Yondaime at the time. I was somewhat familiar with him before he became the Mizukage, but after he became the Mizukage, he seemed like a completely different person, until one day Shuang found me and Qing..."

Mei Terumi paused as if she was recalling the past, "I am still a little surprised that he found us, and he scared Qing and me as soon as he opened his mouth."

Mei Terumi looked at Ye Lan and Asuma with some amusement and said, "You should have noticed that one of Qing's eyes is the Byakugan he obtained on the battlefield. Shuang asked Qing to use the ability of the Byakugan to observe the Yondaime."

"Qing and I couldn't believe that these were words that the Fourth Hokage's confidant would say, until he told us..." Mei Terumi suddenly looked at Ye Lan with some inexplicable meaning in her eyes.

"The Yondaime has actually always been controlled by a man with the Sharingan. The policies of the Bloody Mist Village are not his own wishes at all. The Hidden Mist Village has become what it is today because of the man wearing the Uzumaki mask." Mei Terumi gritted her teeth. The only person who could make her lose her composure like this was the mastermind behind the scenes.

How many heroes of Kirigakure died because of this disaster, and the Bloodstain Clan did not leave any descendants for them. Now there are no Bloodstain Ninjas in Kirigakure anymore.

"No, that's not right." Ye Lan frowned, he looked up at Terumi Mei and said, "The Sharingan does have the ability to control the tailed beasts, including me being able to subdue the One-Tail, but the Perfect Jinchūriki is an exception, and that man's Sharingan alone can't do it."

In fact, what Ye Lan was concerned about was why the man wearing the Uzumaki mask only showed one Sharingan. Even the ability of the Mangekyo only showed a virtual ability, as if the other eye could not be used at all. Maybe it could not be used at all, otherwise Ye Lan would definitely see a new Susanoo that day.

"I don't know much about this ability, but it's the truth. If it weren't for the Shimokage Jonin's discovery, Kirigakure would have continued to implement the policy of the Blood Mist Village, and I wouldn't have become the Fifth Mizukage."

Mei Terumi did not mention the details of that mission, and only mentioned it briefly afterwards. She was more concerned about the information about Akatsuki.

If the conflict between Konoha and Uchiha had not broken out, and there were only two people left in Uchiha now, Mei Terumi would not easily trust Konoha. She even wondered whether there was the shadow of Konoha behind the Fourth Hokage.

However, if you think carefully, the Nine-Tails Rebellion broke out in Konoha more than ten years ago, and the Uchiha clan was destroyed five or six years ago. At that time, Kirigakure was always under the control of the Fourth Mizukage. If someone from the Konoha Uchiha clan controlled the Fourth Mizukage, then the Uchiha clan would never have been destroyed, and in extreme cases, they might even have fled to Kirigakure.

"It's hard to draw any conclusions right now, but one thing I'm sure of is that the man is a member of Akatsuki, and Akatsuki's goal is to capture the tailed beasts, and the Fourth Mizukage happens to be their target. In addition, the Frost Jonin must know something, and the other party was targeting him when we were attacked this time."

"As for Frost Jonin, I'm sorry..." Mei Terumi sighed helplessly, "He didn't say much after the incident. He became completely silent. This time I just wanted him to relax, but it turned out to be a farewell forever."

This is really a problem. Is it true that the only way to call him back is to use the Impure World Reincarnation? It seems that Ye Lan made the right choice to leave Shuang's blood.

"Actually, there's one thing I haven't told you, but I feel it's somewhat important..." After Mei Terumi knew that Akatsuki's target was the tailed beasts, she decided to tell this information.

"The Yondaime's death was somewhat sudden, so we didn't have any good way to seal the Three-Tails at the time. In a sense, the Three-Tails no longer exists. We can only wait three years for the Three-Tails to be resurrected."

As expected, Ye Lan suddenly realized. He had never understood why Akatsuki suddenly disappeared. If he had not come to Kirigakure this time, he would not have seen them at all. It was as if they had disappeared from the ninja world. The accidental death of the Three-Tails forced this organization to wait another three years.

Because even if we gather all the other tailed beasts now, we will become the target of public criticism. It is better to wait until the three-tail is resurrected before taking action. In this way, all the tailed beasts will be collected before other villages can react.

Don't think that this is impossible. Concerning the matters of the tailed beasts, each village will keep it strictly confidential. When a village loses a tailed beast, they will never seek help from other villages at the first time. Instead, they will try their best to hide and solve the problem on their own.

This is what Mei Terumi did at the beginning. Even after signing an alliance with Konoha, she would not tell anyone about such things. It was only after Ye Lan exchanged information about Akatsuki that she learned about the death of the Three-Tails.

"It seems they will hide again." After hearing what Ye Lan said, Terumi Mei was not stupid. She knew that the other party's target was the Three-Tailed Fox, so she would definitely not act rashly at this moment.

"So when the Three-Tails is about to be resurrected, that's when Akatsuki will take action." Mei Terumi stroked her lips. At that time, no matter who was planning to target the Three-Tails, she wouldn't mind letting the other person taste the power of Dissolution.