Starting as the mastermind behind Naruto

Chapter 281 A Large-Scale War

Konoha Village.

The Hokage's office.

After meeting Tsunade, Kakashi Hatake gave a detailed account of his encounter with Obito Uchiha at the memorial stone and told Tsunade about Akatsuki's invasion of Konoha.

Unfortunately, Obito Uchiha has already passed away.

Tsunade sighed softly. There was no point in sending more people to surround Obito Uchiha now, especially since the Akatsuki could invade at any time.

"Obito Uchiha said there were only two people who invaded Konoha?"

Tsunade clasped her hands together, looked up at Kakashi Hatake, and said in a low voice, "Do you think what he said is credible?"

"Strictly speaking, according to Jiraiya-sama's information, it should be eight people who invaded, after all, the power of the Six Paths of Pain is also very strong."

After Kakashi Hatake finished speaking, he frowned and continued, "Obito's words should be somewhat credible. After all, he needs our help to deal with Nagato, so he shouldn't be lying about this."

"If what he said is accurate enough..."

Tsunade slowly clenched her fists, looking out the window at Konoha, and said, "After we deal with Nagato and Konan's invasion, should we continue preparing to deal with that brat Uehara Naraku's invasion?"

"Um."

Kakashi Hatake nodded and said in a low voice, "Hokage-sama, if Uehara Naraku's strength is really as great as Obito Uchiha said, we must be prepared to deal with it in advance. After all, we have all seen Uehara Naraku's strength."

"yes…"

Tsunade sighed softly and said, "That brat Uehara Naraku was able to defeat you and Guy, and even crush Jiraiya's Sage Mode enemies. He was a powerful ninja to begin with. I didn't expect that even so, he still didn't use his full strength?"

"That's right."

Kakashi Hatake slowly tugged at his ninja headband, his voice tinged with a deep ache: "Because Uehara Naraku is the type of person whose strength increases accordingly when he encounters a powerful ninja..."

Putting aside other things.

Just back when he caused trouble during the Chunin Exams, Uehara was able to easily steal Might Guy's techniques, thus defeating Might Guy in his Shock Gate state head-on.

That ability is too powerful.

If he can steal anyone's techniques, who knows how powerful Uehara Naraku will be? Besides, he is already very strong, and he may even be hiding a bloodline limit he has developed himself.

"never mind."

Tsunade frowned, glanced at Kakashi Hatake, and said softly, "Right now, our priority is to deal with Nagato and Konan. We can deal with that brat Naraku Uehara after this war is over..."

Tsunade slowly clenched her fists, which she was kneading, and whispered, "I'm just worried about when those Akatsuki guys will attack..."

The outer defensive zone of Konoha Village.

A series of rustling footsteps approached.

The Konoha ninjas pricked up their ears in surprise, and each ninja involuntarily became more vigilant. Their gazes gradually shifted to the forest, watching as dark figures emerged from within.

The sunlight gradually began to fall.

Six orange-haired men dressed in black robes with auspicious cloud patterns, and a light blue-haired woman dressed similarly, appeared step by step in front of the group of Konoha ninjas, standing outside their defensive line.

These are the paper clones of Pain and Konan.

"That's... Akatsuki!"

The two teams of Konoha ninja responsible for the defense of this area stared at Pain with fear on their faces. They immediately split into two groups: one to intercept him and the other to report back to the village.

Asura Path Pain extended his palm, and cruise missiles flew out from his arm, blasting the group of Konoha ninja to smithereens!

However, this commotion also alerted those around them!

One of the Konoha ninjas even fired a signal flare before the missile arrived, and the red warning intrusion signal flare flashed in the air for a few seconds!

Someone in Konoha Village must have seen the red warning flare, and they'll definitely be on guard.

Another lucky Konoha ninja quickly rolled and escaped into the forest, fleeing towards Konoha!

The Six Paths of Pain seemed indifferent to all of this.

Their original plan was to launch a direct attack on Konoha.

Konan frowned, glanced at the red signal flare in the sky, and whispered, "In that case, Konoha will definitely be on guard."

"It's alright."

Pain gently shook his head and said softly, "When they realize that they can't defeat me even with all their might, they will understand what true terror is."

"..."

Xiao Nan slowly shook her head.

Seeing that her expression was not good, Pain explained again: "Konoha has always been very vigilant, and its internal defenses have long been in a state of wartime readiness, and are extremely tight."

"I will launch a large-scale offensive here, and when their elite forces leave Konoha to intercept us, I will use the Animal Path to infiltrate Konoha and summon us all into the village, thus luring them away from our base."

This explanation is barely acceptable.

Konan frowned and glanced at Pain, the Deva Path. "Do you really have this plan or are you just making it up on the spot to deceive people?"

Human Path Pain slowly walked up, extended his palm and pressed it against the head of a heavily injured Konoha ninja, activating the Heart Layer Submersion Technique.

After extracting the soul of the Konoha ninja, Pain slowly turned to look at Konan: "The Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, Naruto Uzumaki, is currently in Konoha. It seems this trip will definitely yield some results."

"That's good."

Konan nodded, a hint of worry in her eyes, and said, "I wonder how things are going on in Uehara? They'll probably be arriving at Kumogakure soon, right?"

"They'll be faster, won't they?"

Pain spoke softly, "Perhaps they have already captured Kumogakure."

Arrived my ass, captured my ass.

In Konoha Village, even the Akatsuki leader has made his move.

Back in the Land of Lightning, Uehara Naraku and his group were still struggling with Deidara's clay dragon.

After the clay dragon flew across the border of the Land of Lightning, one of its huge wings fell to the ground, and the entire dragon began to disintegrate, with countless pieces of clay falling from the sky.

If Uehara Naraku hadn't reacted quickly and grabbed Sasori and Sasuke, they would have been buried alive by Deidara's clay dragon.

"Hey, are you trying to get us killed?"

Sasuke Uchiha glared angrily at Deidara, then looked at the broken clay dragon piled up on the ground into a small white mountain. If they were accidentally buried in it, they would probably be dead!

"Don't talk to me..."

Deidara landed on the ground, riding his giant clay bird with a sorrowful expression. Looking at the completely broken clay dragon, he felt a sense of indescribable grievance.

He painstakingly sculpted this!

Moreover, he had been diligently adding and repairing the clay dragon all the way, so why did it fall apart as soon as he crossed the border?

This is so unfair to him!

Uehara Naraku rubbed his temples. According to the information from Yakushi Kabuto and the others, Pain's Six Paths had already begun to take action in the outer defense zone of Konoha, while they were still at the border of the Land of Lightning, mourning the art of a mentally challenged idiot.

Damn, that's utter nonsense!

Uehara Naraku rubbed his forehead, looking at Deidara's sorrowful face, and softly asked for his opinion: "How about we hear a sound?"

"..."

Sasuke Uchiha and Sasori of the Red Sand both cast puzzled glances at them.

"OK!"

Deidara's eyes lit up, and he nodded quickly, then put a finger to his lips: "Then you'll have to witness the true power of my art! Art... is an explosion!"

"Let's get a little further away!"

Sasori grabbed Deidara's clothes and then turned to Uehara Naraku: "Uehara, summon your summoning beast. Let's hurry up and prepare for the mission."

"Um!"

Uehara Naraku nodded hastily.

The next moment, a colossal ancient dragon landed beside them, lifted them into the air, and casually tossed down a massive fireball that ignited the clay mountain.

After riding the ancient dragon.

Uehara Naraku finally calmed down, slowly raising his fingers. His will descended upon Uchiha Obito, watching the war of Pain's invasion of Konoha on the other side.

At this moment.

The village of Konoha was in perfect order.

After receiving intelligence about Pain's invasion, the Konoha ninjas immediately began to act according to the original plan. Those who were to organize civilians to take refuge did so, and those who were to confront the enemy went to confront them.

Upon receiving the news, Jiraiya subconsciously frowned and asked, "Only Pain and Konan? Didn't you see Nagato?"

"no."

Tsunade shook her head and said in a low voice, "According to the intelligence from the front, there are only six orange-haired Rinnegan ninjas and one light blue-haired female ninja."

"Tsk, hiding now!"

Jiraiya tightened his clothes and said softly, "We'll go and confront Pain and Konan first. The other ninjas will go and search for Nagato's location to see if he's nearby."

Jiraiya slowly removed his oil-patterned headband, took a swirl headband symbolizing Konoha from Tsunade's hand, and put it on his forehead.

Fukasaku and Shima, who were on the ground, jumped onto Jiraiya's shoulders. They had been staying in Konoha, ready to fight at any time.

Standing behind Jiraiya.

They are all the strongest individual combatants in Konoha right now.

Kakashi Hatake, Naruto Uzumaki, Might Guy, Rock Lee, and two foreign aids: the Fifth Kazekage Gaara and the Fifth Mizukage Mei Terumi.

What they need to do is to disperse and attack the Six Paths of Pain.

The other Konoha ninja, Sunagakure ninja, and Kirigakure ninja were divided into seven battle groups, mainly to assist them in fighting one of the Pain puppets.

Let's go!

Jiraiya straightened his ninja uniform, which he hadn't worn in a long time, and led everyone as they leaped out of the Hokage Building and headed towards the area Pain had invaded.

Jiraiya leaped and bounded beside him, glancing at Naruto Uzumaki following closely behind, and asked softly, "Hey, Naruto, how's your preparation going?"

"Hmm, a dozen or so shadow clones are absorbing natural energy over at Mount Myōboku."

Naruto Uzumaki slowly nodded and responded loudly, "This Sage Mode should last a long time! There shouldn't be any problems!"

"Let's go then!"

Jiraiya leaped onto the walls of Konoha, looking down at the smoke rising in the distance, with the others standing beside him.

Behind them were seven massive battle groups, each with at least several hundred ninjas, ready to split up and support them at any time.

Another area.

Hinata Hyuga, the head of the Hyuga clan, led a sensory unit composed of ninjas from the Hyuga, Inuzuka, and Aburame clans, searching everywhere for Nagato's location.

On the Hokage Rock.

Kabuto Yakushi, along with the reanimated Minato Namikaze and Obito Uchiha, watched as the ninja force, led by Jiraiya and six others, surged out of Konoha like a tide.

"What a massive battle!"

Kabuto adjusted his glasses and chuckled as he asked, "Who will emerge victorious among the combined forces of Konoha, Sunagakure, and Kirigakure, and the leader of Akatsuki?"

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