Naruto: The Information Broker from the Uchiha Clan.

Following the Five Kage Summit, the five great ninja villages accelerated their efforts to establish the Allied Shinobi Forces.

Preparations for the mobilization of supplies and the allocation of resources among the five major states and prefectures began gradually.

Meanwhile, countless reconnaissance and sensory ninjas immediately surrounded and sealed off Amegakure. No one in the Rain Country's leadership dared to object, and Amegakure was essentially sold to the Five Great Ninja Villages.

"Cough cough..."

Amidst the coughing, blood trickled from the corner of Nagato's mouth.

The Super Shinra Tensei that destroyed Konoha had already brought his body to the brink of collapse.

For a long time, his body had been barely hanging on, and he had already given it his all for the sake of the final Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails.

"Nagato..."

Konan's eyes were filled with worry. Since the battle in Konoha, Amegakure was not without medical ninjutsu, but it was meaningless to Nagato's body.

His legs had been crippled long ago by Hanzo's Fire Release technique, and his body had been drained of its strength by the Gedo Mazo. Although his Super Shinra Tensei was powerful, its foundation was all in Nagato.

"Xiao Nan..."

Nagato slightly raised her head and looked out the window at the gloomy, rainy day.

The sky was overcast, and a light drizzle was falling incessantly. The weather seemed just like that day, when I collapsed unconscious on the ground. If it weren't for Xiao Nan, I might have died long ago...

In the days after my parents passed away, from that day until...

That period was the happiest time of my life...

"In the end... I still couldn't fulfill Yahiko's will... I can feel that I'm nearing my limit."

"This body can no longer hold on."

Tears welled up in Xiao Nan's eyes. She could also feel that she had reached her limit after holding on for so long.

After Yahiko died, Nagato became her will, but now Nagato is also leaving.

So what should she do next?

Konan is not stupid. A woman who can defend against Obito with 600 billion explosive tags is definitely not stupid.

She knew very well...

All the members of Akatsuki were rogue ninjas. Their obedience to orders, despite their unruly nature, was largely due to the power of Pain's Rinnegan.

But I alone cannot make them obey my orders.

Not to mention...

That guy who always goes by the name Tobi and calls himself Uchiha Madara is still eyeing us covetously.

The formation of Akatsuki, and the guidance he provided to Nagato after the destruction of the previous Akatsuki, were all orchestrated behind the scenes by him. It was because White Zetsu obeyed him that Akatsuki possessed such strong intelligence capabilities.

"As long as I'm awake, he won't appear."

Nagato no longer proclaimed himself a god; in the face of life and death, he seemed to have seen himself clearly.

"Just like back then, his final burst of power before death shows that his eye technique is not unbreakable."

"But similarly, with White Zetsu around, he must be watching our every move. He wouldn't be willing to give up such power."

Konan clenched her fists: "His abilities aren't truly insurmountable. If he dares to come, I'll show him who the leader of Akatsuki really is!"

Nagato shook his head slightly: "It's meaningless... Of the three of us, one of us has to be able to see that day... the day when true peace arrives..."

"Yahiko, like Jiraiya, always held the naive idea that if people trusted each other and their chakra was connected, the world could truly be at peace."

"Yahiko's death showed me that this is impossible. But I am not a god after all, and even a god cannot predict what the future will hold..."

Nagato caught her breath; although she spoke without pausing, it was clearly very difficult for her.

"That guy has his own purpose, and even those eyes shouldn't be his ultimate goal. Power... isn't everything, after witnessing the dark side of this world."

After he finished speaking, Nagato remained silent for a long time.

Xiao Nan wiped her eyes, but tears kept falling uncontrollably.

Did the three orphans who relied on each other to survive that year end up with only themselves left?

Yahiko said that he needed to learn ninjutsu and possess power to change the world. However, after Jiraiya left and the true Akatsuki was destroyed, he was not happy despite having power.

instead……

Those years, the days of risking getting beaten up and struggling to survive, were the happiest days of my life...

"I want to too..."

Konan was interrupted by Nagato before she could finish speaking.

"You still have things you need to do... Minami."

Nagato smiled; it was the first smile he had shown since Yahiko's death.

"You must go and see the future of this world in my place and in Yahiko's place, and see if true peace will come."

As he spoke, Nagato stretched out his hand and pointed it directly at his own eyes.

"Nagato!!!"

"puff."

With a soft sound, a pair of Rinnegan were handed to him in his hand.

"To this day, I still don't know what these eyes have given me. Minami, take them and leave as soon as possible."

"White Zetsu wouldn't dare to do this in this room. But if you leave, it will find you. Time is short, but you've been preparing for a long time, haven't you?"

"If he wants these eyes, kill him if you succeed, and if you fail... just give them to him."

As soon as she finished speaking, a pair of Rinnegan eyes were thrown over. Konan, with tears streaming down her face, could only catch them and put them into a test tube.

Then, Nagato's bloodshot eyes stopped looking at Konan and turned to look out the window.

I can't see it, but I seem to be able to feel it.

"Yahiko must have been waiting for me for a long time..."

"That bastard entrusted his will to me with his own life, but in the end, he still failed to fulfill it."

"Perhaps naive people can ultimately achieve their naive ideas, right? Isn't that possible?"

"In the Pure Land, Yahiko will probably beat me up, right? After all, that guy is quite naive..."

The already weakened body, which had been clinging to life, now showed only the look of death on its face.

……

The door opened, and Xiao Nan walked out with a blank expression.

The time Nagato held on was her last time. As long as this chakra didn't dissipate, even the masked guy wouldn't dare to make a move.

The powers of the Six Paths of Pain are combined into one, and over the years they have been checking and balancing each other.

"Lord Angel."

Nodding to the guards of Amegakure, Konan left the tower.

Far behind her, a white figure emerged from the ground: "Hehe...so I guessed right..."

As soon as he finished speaking, an origami butterfly fell down.

"boom!!"

With a deafening roar, the white Zetsu was blasted into pieces.

After a long while, ripples appeared in the space.

Masked Obito stepped out from among them, glanced casually at the White Zetsu fragments that had sunk to the ground, and then turned his head to look at the location of the tower.

"The Rinnegan... Such eyes are the key to becoming the Ten-Tails' Jinchūriki."

"A dying person has no value anymore. And since that guy doesn't need to be resurrected, he's meaningless in the first place."

Then, the masked Obito headed straight for the tower.

In the dimly lit room, the door was pushed open without restraint, and Nagato was still looking towards the window, his eyes now empty from their sockets.

Obito didn't seem surprised; he neither asked any questions nor made any moves.

"What are you looking at?"

"I want to see the future of this world..."

"I will usher in a new era of true peace."

"hehe……"

"What are you laughing at?"

Nagato coughed up blood: "If you really are Uchiha Madara, someone betrayed by your own clan and forced to leave the village alone, you shouldn't be able to understand peace, right?"

"A person who cannot even govern an entire race cannot bring true peace to this world... The person I see is definitely not you!"

Masked Obito remained silent.

After a long while...

These eyes of yours are a gift from me.

"Ahem! Are you talking in your sleep?"

"The red hair comes from the bloodline of the Uzumaki clan. Only the Uzumaki clan, who are also descendants of the Sage of Six Paths, can barely maintain the power of the Rinnegan."

Obito's voice was very calm: "Your parents, those Konoha ninjas, what do you think the probability of such a coincidence is? And I... just magnified those probabilities."

The moment the words left his mouth, Nagato broke free, but immediately fell to the ground.

He was so weak that even standing up was a luxury.

"you……"

Are you surprised?

Obito's single eye, hidden beneath his mask, looked at Nagato: "After all, how can one seek true light without experiencing the darkness of this world?"

"Only pain, profound inner pain, can give you true strength. After that, you seem to have found your anchor, haven't you?"

"Only through painful torment can one truly understand the suffering of this world. Coincidentally, both Hanzo and Danzo have become my means to obliterate the means by which you have just found the light."

"puff!"

Spitting out a mouthful of blood, Nagato collapsed to the ground and clenched his fists with all his might.

He wanted to get up, get up and punch this guy! He wanted to torture this guy to death, just like he killed Hanzo!

"That woman won't escape..."

Masked Obito said calmly, "She doesn't have the constitution to withstand the Rinnegan. From the moment she left this tower, she couldn't escape my sight."

Having said that, Obito turned away, no longer wanting to talk to a dying man.

"hehe……"

Nagato's laughter was so grating that it made him stop in his tracks.

"On the night the Uchiha clan of Konoha was wiped out, during the time you disappeared like a dog, you did the same thing..."

"I'm just a pawn, so what about you?"

"You can't possibly be Uchiha Madara... The records in the documents, and the memories that old man from Iwagakure spoke of, don't match you at all!"

"You and I are both just pawns!"

"You're afraid. You're afraid of the person who showed up that night. If he does, all your goals will be in vain!"

"You didn't kill me because you wanted Sasuke Uchiha to take revenge himself? Then you will inevitably die at Sasuke Uchiha's hands in the end!"

"Ahem!"

"This world... shouldn't be like this..."

……

Masked Obito left, not refuting the words of a dying man.

He was indeed afraid of that person, and it was definitely not Madara Uchiha.

But if the chess player can't return, and the real mastermind has already been taken away by that guy, why can't I become the chess player?

The space rippled, and Obito Uchiha disappeared from Amegakure.

……

After a long time, Nagato finally closed his eyes, exhausted, with only a slight throbbing in his chest.

An arm reached out, grabbed his mangled body, and pulled him into the space.

……

"Boom boom boom..."

Endless explosions echoed as explosive tags pierced through Obito's masked body.

The second time, Obito felt the fear of death.

After awakening the power of his eyes on that rainy night, he handled everything with ease, whether it was fighting the Fourth Hokage during the Nine-Tails' rampage or later single-handedly slaughtering the police force.

His ability to become ethereal allowed him to immediately establish himself as the victor, unassailable by any attack.

Aside from that person, this is the second time that the ability might be cracked.

The mask shattered, and a Sharingan with three tomoe eyes looked at the woman in the distance.

"Your ability is about to expire, and you won't get Nagato's eye! You'll only die here!"

"Whether you are Madara Uchiha or not is irrelevant now. These six hundred billion explosive tags are your death ritual!"

"Boom boom boom..."

The endless explosions continued, forcing the joint search forces outside Amegakure to retreat again and again.

Such an explosion poses a threat even greater than a Tailed Beast Ball. The continuous explosions, with the detonating tags flying around under control, are practically a natural disaster.

The explosions finally stopped after a long time.

Panting, Xiao Nan still looked warily into the distance, but the next moment...

"puff!"

A kunai came flying at him; he dodged to avoid a fatal blow, but was still pierced through the shoulder.

The origami flew past again, but it passed right through his body.

How is that possible?

Xiao Nan frowned, constantly manipulating the origami flying everywhere.

soon……

"puff!"

The chill that ran through her heart made her freeze in place.

"At the cost of a three-tomoe Sharingan, I can render your attacks meaningless."

Obito, now wearing a white vortex mask again, reached out and took the test tube containing the Rinnegan.

"These eyes are mine to begin with..."

Obito reached out again, intending to take it into another dimension.

But the next moment...

"Snapped!"

The spatial portal opened, and a slap landed on Obito's hand, flipping him over.

It was so fast that even its passive, ethereal ability couldn't react in time.

"Get lost!"

A voice came, and Obito, who had been calm just moments before, changed his expression drastically and immediately opened the alternate dimension and went inside.

He was so familiar with that voice that he dreamed about it every day years ago.

The fear of death made him flee without a second thought.

Uchiha Itachi is dead, and no one knows better than him how terrifying this guy was.

Run! Run! Run!

……