Starting as the mastermind behind Naruto

Chapter 280 Let's begin! (Sixth update!)

Konoha Village.

When Nagato and Konan rushed to Konoha with the Six Paths of Pain, the village had already been on high alert for quite some time, and the atmosphere inside and outside the village was tense before the great battle.

There was only one place that was relatively quiet.

The memorial stone on the back hill.

Obito Uchiha, resurrected through Edo Tensei, sat in front of Rin Nohara's tombstone, carefully wiping away the dust and placing a bouquet of flowers on it.

"Hmm, so you remember that she liked bellflowers the most?"

Kakashi Hatake's voice came from afar. He slowly walked in from outside and stopped in front of Rin Nohara's gravestone.

Kakashi took each step very evenly.

Just like he had walked through this memorial area countless times.

"I will never forget everything that Lin liked."

Obito Uchiha slowly stroked his mask, lowered his head, and said, "Kakashi, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you all be waiting for Akatsuki's invasion at this time?"

"It's alright, I'll be leaving soon."

Kakashi Hatake slowly knelt down and sat before Rin Nohara's tombstone, looking at Obito Uchiha and saying, "I just happened to come here to take one last look at Rin. Who knows, I might have died in this war!"

Kakashi Hatake looked up at the sky and whispered, "If I can die, I can see Rin often in the Underworld..."

Don't even think about it.

Obito Uchiha immediately interrupted Kakashi Hatake, coldly saying, "If you die in the war against Pain, I will send your body to Kabuto Yakushi or Orochimaru so they can resurrect you using the Impure World Reincarnation technique."

"Alright, let's not talk about that anymore."

Kakashi Hatake stood up again, bowed to Rin Nohara's tombstone, then turned and left, heading towards another grave.

After a while, Kakashi Hatake seemed to have thought of something and suddenly turned to ask, "Obito, I need to go check on Minato-sensei and my father. Are you going to stay here?"

"..."

Obito Uchiha was silent for a moment, then slowly turned to look at Kakashi Hatake: "I thought that when you saw me here, you would ask me about Pain or Nagato, or ask if I would be willing to turn back and help you resist the invasion..."

"Will you help us?"

Kakashi Hatake immediately asked a question.

Obito Uchiha stood up, left Rin Nohara's grave, shook his head and said, "No, I've already rescued Jiraiya for you, that's enough."

Kakashi Hatake tilted his head and continued, "So, will you tell us anything about Pain or Nagato?"

"Hmph, still the same as always, Kakashi!"

Obito Uchiha snorted coldly, his Sharingan beneath his mask fixed on Kakashi Hatake, and said in a cold voice, "As expected, you are the most qualified ninja in Minato's team, always so ruthless."

After saying that, Obito Uchiha opened his palm and chuckled, "Since you helped me get rid of the traitor, I'll tell you a secret!"

A strange red light flashed in Obito Uchiha's crimson Sharingan eyes, and his laughter became more sinister: "The only people who have come to invade Konoha this time are Nagato, Konan, and the Six Paths of Pain. I believe you should be able to seize this opportunity."

"What?"

Kakashi Hatake frowned and said softly, "So, all the other Akatsuki members went to attack Kumogakure to capture the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki?"

"That's right."

Obito Uchiha slowly lowered his arm and continued in a deep voice, "Because the power of the Rinnegan is strong enough, Nagato was absolutely confident in defeating Konoha. This information must be of great help to you, right?"

"..."

Kakashi Hatake nodded silently.

Indeed, this information, coming from Obito Uchiha, is highly credible and could greatly help them defend against the impending invasion of Konoha.

In this way, Konoha can deploy its ninja forces in a targeted manner.

Just as Kakashi Hatake was about to turn away and report this unverified information—which he no longer wanted to do at the graves of Minato Namikaze and Sakumo Hatake—he decided to leave immediately.

Obito Uchiha called out to him again, "Kakashi, you really are willing to use any means necessary to get information from me!"

After a cold laugh, Obito Uchiha looked at Kakashi Hatake and continued, "By the way, if you're willing to place a bouquet of flowers on Minato-sensei's tombstone, I can throw in another piece of information."

"…good."

Kakashi Hatake slowly tugged at his mask.

After a while, Kakashi Hatake placed two bunches of sunflowers in front of Minato Namikaze's grave and softly asked, "May I speak now?"

"certainly."

With his back to Kakashi Hatake, Obito Uchiha said coldly, "If you win this battle, then prepare to face Naraku Uehara's revenge!"

That brat is nothing like us; he's the kind of guy who'll stop at nothing to avenge his teacher.

Moreover, that kid is an extremely diligent and talented ninja, possessing ninjutsu talent no less than Nagato's.

If I'm not mistaken, he may have already fused his own bloodline limit through chakra nature transformation, but he's keeping it a secret.

Furthermore, he possesses more than one bloodline limit within him.

"etc…"

Kakashi Hatake's eyes widened slightly in surprise as he asked, "Are you saying that Uehara Naraku is actually a more difficult enemy to deal with than Nagato?"

"That's right."

Obito Uchiha nodded coldly and continued in a deep voice, "Uehara Naraku started following Nagato and Konan when he was twelve years old. They also regarded Uehara as the successor of Akatsuki and Amegakure. Their relationship was very deep."

After saying this, Obito Uchiha slowly clenched his fist: "Uehara Naraku always regarded Konan's words as the ultimate truth, so after you defeat Nagato and Konan, you'd better not be careless and prepare in advance to deal with Uehara Naraku's attack on Konoha."

"Is that so?"

Kakashi Hatake tugged at his mask and said softly, "I understand, but you just want to use us to kill Naraku Uehara, right?"

"Yes, I want to kill him too."

Obito Uchiha nodded, slowly loosening his grip, his voice sounding somewhat unreal as he said, "I dream about it."

This is the real truth.

Unfortunately, Kakashi Hatake didn't understand anything. He simply waved his hand and turned to leave to report the information he had obtained from Obito.

After taking a few steps, Kakashi Hatake suddenly turned to Obito Uchiha and asked, "Hey, Obito, are you really not planning to come back?"

"..."

Obito Uchiha's figure transformed into a space-time vortex and disappeared.

Kakashi Hatake glanced at the empty space with a sense of loss, then turned and left the area around the memorial monument. It was unclear how much he had actually remembered.

the other side.

The clay dragon was still flying around, bumping along.

Deidara was still diligently repairing his art.

To be honest, if they weren't afraid that Deidara would get so angry that he would detonate the clay dragon, Sasori and Sasuke would have given him a good dressing down long ago.

Yes, the situation has changed again.

Sasuke Uchiha finally couldn't take it anymore and made a few sarcastic remarks to Deidara. Deidara then threatened to detonate the clay dragon so that Sasuke would taste the flavor of art.

How the hell are you going to taste this?

This is practically asking people to risk their lives for it!

Isn't this asking everyone to perish together?!

Of course, Sasuke Uchiha would not back down, because he felt that he was good at lightning ninjutsu, which would be a perfect counter to Deidara's clay bombs.

The question is, will it be enough time?

If this enormous clay dragon were to explode, even Susanoo would likely be unable to withstand its power, and Sasori's puppet core would certainly be destroyed.

Damn, this business trip is so exciting!

Sasori of the Red Sand finally managed to quiet them down by virtue of his seniority, and they finally shut up.

Only Uehara Naraku sat quietly on his back.

Uehara Naraku ended his control over Uchiha Obito, quietly releasing his fingers and sighing softly, "It's really a bit embarrassing to praise my own strength..."

Yes.

While Sasuke Uchiha and Deidara were arguing, Naraku Uehara remotely controlled Obito Uchiha to leak information to Kakashi Hatake.

The reason why Uehara Naraku made Uchiha Obito appear at the memorial monument was because he happened to observe Hatake Kakashi's whereabouts.

All of this was Uehara Naraku's design.

Logically and emotionally, this encounter between Obito Uchiha and Kakashi Hatake was a flawless reunion of old friends.

All of Uehara Naraku did was to let Hatake Kakashi know one thing: that he had a very deep bond with Nagato and Konan.

Uehara Naraku listened to every word Konan and Nagato said.

If Konan and Nagato choose to forgive Konoha during the war, then Uehara Naraku can easily forgive Konoha as well, and might even help deal with Uchiha Obito and Uchiha Madara.

After a night had passed.

Deidara's voice woke everyone up: "Hahahaha...we're almost at the Land of Lightning!"

"..."

Uehara Naraku couldn't help but open his eyes and glance at Deidara.

Deidara's face was full of exhaustion; clearly, he had spent the whole night painstakingly adding and repairing to ensure his clay dragon could continue flying.

It seems that Deidara truly loved his art.

Although Deidara is an art-loving goofy idiot, the clay dragon he created doesn't fly too slowly. It's slightly slower than the ancient dragons, but not too slow compared to other summoned beasts.

However, there are some security issues.

Repairing things while flying is really a bit scary...

According to the information Uehara received, Nagato and Konan set off a little later than them. However, given the distance between Amegakure and Konoha, if they were to use the Archaeopteryx summoning beast, they would have already arrived near Konoha by now.

Uehara Naraku's estimate was correct.

Just as Kakashi Hatake was rushing to the Hokage's office to report that he had encountered Obito Uchiha and obtained information from him, Nagato and Konan had already infiltrated the outer defense zone outside Konoha Village.

"The Divine Paper Technique!"

Xiao Nan slowly spread out her palms, manipulating sheets of white paper to form a thick, large tree hidden in the forest. No matter how you looked at it, the tree had no flaws whatsoever.

This will be where Nagato hides.

Because this invasion of Konoha to capture the Nine-Tails involved facing numerous enemies, the Six Paths of Pain were the true main fighting force, and they were more suited to appear on the battlefield than Nagato.

Nagato slowly walked into the cave, asking softly, "Konan, are you also going to participate in the attack on Konoha? If so, let's use paper clones to act together with Pain!"

"Can."

Xiao Nan nodded.

She also happened to want to see a few people in Konoha.

The next moment, countless sheets of white paper split off from Konan's body, forming a paper clone that was difficult to distinguish from the real thing, and entered the ranks of the Six Paths of Pain.

Nagato slowly sat cross-legged inside the tree hollow, gradually raising his fingers, a glint of light flashing in his Rinnegan.

"Let's begin!"

Sixth!

Okay, the debt is paid off.

War begins tomorrow!

Finally, I would like to thank Abe-chan, Buxusky, and Gongzi Qianji, the three great masters.

The list of today's donations will be written tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)