The world I hear is completely different from yours.

Hanzo's office wasn't luxurious; it consisted of old desks and chairs. It wasn't that Hanzo was frugal, but rather that he hadn't worked or handled official business here for a long time. In the past, Hanzo handled official matters from his luxurious mansion and would never come to this dilapidated office building, which is why it appeared so run-down.

However, for some reason, Hanzo had no choice but to come to this dilapidated place to work today.

"Lord Hanzo, this is intelligence that just came from outside the village!" Yui respectfully handed over a scroll.

Hanzo looked at the intelligence report with a grave expression: "The army of the Land of Wind, under the pretext of searching for the Third Kazekage, has crossed the border and is conducting a large-scale search within the territory of the Land of Valleys. Other major powers, due to the suddenness of the incident, have not yet had time to assemble their armies, so they have only issued verbal protests to the Land of Wind?"

"Hmph!" Hanzo tossed down the scroll and said irritably, "These great powers, although they usually boast about how righteous they are, they don't care about the safety of our small country at all! We shouldn't have any hope for these great powers!"

"By the way," Hanzo asked, "I had you contact Danzo of Konoha before. Didn't he say he was coming to discuss dealing with the Akatsuki with me in the next few days? Why hasn't he come yet?"

Jieyi lowered her head: "Lord Hanzo, we just received a reply from Danzo, saying that he has to attend a meeting these days and can't get away."

"A meeting?!" Hanzo roared in fury. Danzo, if you don't want to come, then don't come. Is it really necessary to use such a lame excuse? A meeting? Why does a Konoha elder like you need to attend meetings for days on end? Do you think you're the Hokage?

Of course, Hanzo never expected that Konoha's Third Hokage, Tensei, would actually convene a meeting that lasted for several days at this time, and specifically demand that Danzo not be absent.

"What about the Anbu that Danzo promised to send to help?" Hanzo asked again.

Jieyi lowered her head even further: "Konoha hasn't responded to our questions."

Of course, Hanzo never expected that the Root organization's members were already under close surveillance by Tensei's direct secret agents and had no chance to leave the village. Meanwhile, those secret agents who had secretly defected to Danzo had all been dragged out by Tensei and thrown into the interrogation room.

"Damn it!!" Hanzo cursed viciously, "These untrustworthy bastards! The ninjas of the Great Nation are indeed all unreliable!"

Then Hanzo stood up. Since the guest he was supposed to meet wasn't coming, there was no need for him to stay in this dilapidated office building any longer. Instead, he prepared to return to his warm and luxurious home.

"Also, inform Akatsuki that the situation has changed due to the actions of the Land of Wind, so the meeting between the leaders, which was originally scheduled for a few days later, will be postponed for a while."

Considering that Konoha's reinforcements had not arrived on time, the increasingly cautious Hanzo decided to suspend the assassination plan against the Akatsuki leader.

Yahiko's lifespan is +1S.

Of course, Yahiko himself was completely unaware of this. At that moment, he was sitting in the conference room, looking at the short-haired girl across from him, who was wearing glasses and quietly reading a book.

Not long ago, their brother Nagato suddenly disappeared right under their noses, replaced by a girl with glasses who looked like a porcelain doll, and she even called herself "Nagato".

Therefore, Yahiko is faced with an ultimate dilemma: his good brother has suddenly become a rather lovely woman, how should he treat this former friend?

Just as Yahiko was fretting, Konan walked in with a strange expression and said, "Yahiko, two people suddenly came in outside, saying they want to join our Akatsuki organization, so I came to ask for your opinion."

As soon as he finished speaking, Yecang and Sasori walked into the conference room.

Before Yahiko could even speak, Yekura looked at Nagato Yuki sitting to the side with a shocked expression: "Didn't they say that the three leaders of Akatsuki were two men and one woman? Are you perhaps a legendary cross-dressing master?"

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PS: First update - The first meeting between the reborn and the people from another world.

Chapter Twenty-Three: I told you to go scout, but you just started killing people right away?

Yahiko didn't care at all about the term "cross-dressing master." After all, as a ninja, transforming to obtain information was nothing unusual. Similarly, it wasn't uncommon for male ninjas to transform into female ninjas and remain so for a considerable period of time to complete a mission. Moreover, to explain to the rest of the organization that male Nagato had become female Nagato, the title "cross-dressing master" didn't seem unacceptable.

"Sasori of the Red Sands?" Yahiko glanced at Sasori, who stood silently next to Yekura, and finally agreed to Yekura and Sasori's application to join.

Although Pakura and Sasori seem a bit strange, Sasori of the Red Sand is a renowned genius in the Sand Village, and Pakura, who can act with him, should not be weak either. Since they have come all the way to the Land of Rain to show their willingness to obey the Akatsuki's orders, Yahiko naturally cannot turn them away.

Moreover, for Akatsuki, which is currently short of manpower, recruiting as many powerful ninjas as possible to strengthen the organization is a very important task.

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Wearing the Akatsuki's Fire Cloud Robe, Pakura walked alone through the rain-drenched streets of Amegakure, pondering her next plan to find pleasure among the various ninja villages.

After being betrayed and murdered by her own village, Yekura, reborn in this era, no longer cares about ninja villages. Now, she only wants to live for herself, and what could possibly please her more than waging a bloody war between the ninjas of the various villages?

However, as a reborn individual, Pakura's knowledge of the future was not comprehensive. After all, all her information about the future came primarily from the intelligence provided by Kabuto Yakushi after her resurrection. At that time, Kabuto naturally knew very little about the early days of the Akatsuki organization, and consequently, Pakura only knew that the Akatsuki was a mastermind intent on world domination, and that its three core members were Pain, Konan, and Madara Uchiha.

Judging from their appearances, Yahiko should be the future Pain, and Konan hasn't changed much. So, using the process of elimination, could the remaining girl who looks like a porcelain doll and is wearing glasses be the future Madara Uchiha?

Ye Cang was speechless. So, the renowned Uchiha Madara, a super ninja on par with the God of Shinobi Hashirama Senju, actually disguised himself as a beautiful girl and spent his days sitting in the conference room reading books?! Impressive, impressive. It seems the thinking of super ninjas is simply beyond the comprehension of ordinary people like us.

Forget it, the demeanor of such a senior expert is beyond the comprehension of us juniors. Let's focus on our own tasks for now.

Although Yahiko was young, he wasn't stupid. He naturally wouldn't trust Pakura and Sasori so easily. As the saying goes, time will tell, and the loyalty and reliability of these two new members of Akatsuki would require a considerable amount of time and numerous missions to prove.

However, for these two newcomers to the workplace, a proper onboarding test is necessary; once they've been put to the test, their true abilities will be revealed.

Therefore, Yekura and Sasori have each been given a mission that they must complete independently as a test of their abilities. If they can successfully complete the mission and return alive, they will naturally become members of the Akatsuki organization; if they fail the mission, the Akatsuki organization will thank them for their efforts for world peace and find them a good burial place.

Yekura's mission is an investigation: to find out why "demigod" Hanzo suddenly requested a postponement shortly after his previously agreed-upon meeting with the leader of Akatsuki.

The task wasn't particularly difficult, since it didn't involve combat and was relatively easy to complete. However, Yecang didn't intend to finish it so easily.

Just as a new broom sweeps clean, newly hired employees naturally need to exceed expectations in their first task. Otherwise, how can they make their boss remember them and secure future promotions, raises, CEO positions, and the pinnacle of their careers?

Why not just make a big move and take out Hanzo directly?

Yahiko made a mistake here. He subconsciously assumed that Pakura and Sasori had understood Akatsuki's goal, which was "to achieve world peace without using extreme violence." After all, Pakura and Sasori had come all the way to join Akatsuki, so how could they not even know Akatsuki's basic goal?

Therefore, Yahiko issued this investigation mission simply to find out the reason why Hanzo broke the contract, so that he could have friendly negotiations with Hanzo again in the future.

However, according to the incomplete future information of the reborn Yekura, the Akatsuki organization is a mastermind that plans to collect the tailed beasts and unify the world. Therefore, Yekura naturally believes that although the current goal of this mission is to find out why Hanzo broke the contract, the real purpose is to kill Hanzo in the future so that the Akatsuki organization can secretly control the Land of Rain.

Therefore, despite being members of the same Akatsuki organization, a small oversight led to a major misunderstanding. Under this misunderstanding, Yahiko's ordinary investigation mission was interpreted by Yekura as an assassination attempt.

"To exceed the mission's objectives, we must assassinate Hanzo, the leader of the Land of Rain? If that happens, Akatsuki should be able to dominate the Land of Rain, right?" Yekura flexed her fingers. "It's been a while since I've fought, I wonder if my skills have become rusty?"

Hanzo, the "demigod," is a leader who has ruled the Land of Rain for many years and is always cautious in his actions. He not only has many Jonin guards on a 24-hour rotation, but he also rarely goes out and stays in his heavily guarded lair. As a result, many residents of the Land of Rain have forgotten what Hanzo looks like because they haven't seen their leader for a long time.

“Although they’ve somewhat forgotten Hanzo’s appearance, everyone still vividly remembers his heavily guarded mansion,” Yekura said, standing in a corner and looking at the luxurious house with its expansive courtyard in the distance. “After all, even the daimyo of the five great nations don’t own a mansion like that!”

At this moment, Hanzo was oblivious to the approaching threat, indulging in his daily revelry atop the high-rise building. Having lost his ambition, he had abandoned his daily training and become addicted to various banquets and dancers. As for his safety, he was always surrounded by at least four Jonin protecting him 24/4, plus hundreds of Chunin standing by nearby. What did it matter if he neglected his training and his strength declined?

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P.S. Bonus chapter, sorry it's a bit late.

Chapter Twenty-Four: Scorching Escape * One-Sword Cremation

"The defenses of the Land of Rain are really weak!" As a former hero of the Sand Village, how could Yekura be stopped by the defenses of such a small country? She quickly and easily entered the core area of ​​the mansion and hid in the basement of the high-rise building where Hanzo was located.

Standing in the basement, Ye Cang listened to the loud laughter and cheerful songs of the guests from the high-rise building. He cut his left sleeve, pierced his skin, and used his blood to draw strange spells on his left hand. "To be able to enjoy a nice banquet at the end of my life, I suppose those people upstairs should be content?"

The defenses around Hanzo were indeed very tight. The Jonin guarding him around the perimeter 24 hours a day formed a highly sensitive alarm system, which could detect any approaching enemies in time and delay their progress. Meanwhile, the Chunin stationed near the high-rise patrolled around the building, ready to provide support at any time, making it seem like a small fortress with multiple layers of protection.

Therefore, Yekura never intended to break through these defenses. The best way to assassinate an important figure in the fortress would naturally be to directly destroy the entire fortress and completely cut off the target's escape route.

After carefully drawing for several minutes, Yekura, whose face was slightly pale from blood loss, looked at his left hand, which was covered with jutsu formulas, with satisfaction: "I haven't neglected my daily training in the years since my rebirth. I'm stronger than before! This jutsu was originally developed by the future Land of Wind by studying the principle of the Tailed Beast Cannon. Combined with my own bloodline limit, it can bring my Scorching Release to its fullest potential!"

As her own chakra was injected, the spells drawn with her own blood on Pakura's left arm began to slowly wriggle, forming an exceptionally large pattern that began to emit enormous chakra fluctuations.

"Who goes there! Enemy attack!!" The Jonin guarding the high-rise building immediately noticed the chakra fluctuations in the basement and shouted a warning.

"Help! Help! There's something going on downstairs!!!" Shouts rang out, followed by the sound of a large group of people rushing into the basement.

Ignoring the outside disturbances, Yecang simply pointed his left hand at the tall building above him: "Scorching Release: One-Sword Incineration!!"

Instantly, a massive amount of flames engulfed everything, then coalesced to form a gigantic longsword that pierced directly into the sky!

The sharp, flaming longsword pierced through the basement floorboards in an instant, then shot upwards rapidly, penetrating layer by layer, finally piercing through the roof and soaring into the sky!

As it broke through upwards, the blade of the Flaming Longsword also grew thicker and larger, instantly expanding from the thickness of a person to a giant blade with a diameter of hundreds of meters. It directly enveloped the building, which was hundreds of meters in diameter, into the blade, like an extremely huge pillar of fire that illuminated everything between heaven and earth.

The massive fire blade was filled with scorching and violent flames, burning everything inside to ashes. In that instant, the large number of Chunin rushing towards them, the Jonin shouting alarms, the guests laughing and talking loudly at the banquet, and even the tall building itself, were all reduced to extremely fine black ash, which slowly drifted in the air, mixing with the rain that never stopped falling in the Land of Rain, as if a black rain had fallen.

boom!!!

A massive, charred black corpse crashed to the ground, shattering into several pieces. Its mangled form made it impossible to discern its former appearance, but Yecang easily guessed that it was the highly poisonous salamander that Hanzo was famous for. After all, in a high-rise building, the only person capable of summoning a giant summoning beast to shield someone from disaster in that instant was probably a former demigod.

"But do you think you can escape this calamity just by blocking a frontal impact?" Ye Cang smiled faintly. This technique is not that simple!

*Thud!* Hanzo landed weakly on the charred remains of the salamander, then rolled off and fell to the ground. Although he had managed to use his summoning beast to block the direct impact of the flames, he was still completely exposed to the air filled with the scorching chakra.

Pakura's Scorch Release chakra possesses an extremely terrifying burning ability. Although Hanzo was only eroded by this chakra for less than a few seconds, his limbs and body were already severely burned by the power of the Scorch Release, and the water in his body was rapidly evaporated. As a result, all of Hanzo's internal organs were dried out and cracked, and his brain in his skull was directly cooked under this terrible Scorch Release, like a boiling pudding.

"So my mission is complete now?" Yekura looked at his charred left hand with a helpless expression. "Being able to kill such an enemy so cleanly and efficiently, this hand of mine has been worthwhile." After saying that, Yekura took Hanzo's head and turned to leave quickly.

As a siege technique developed by the Land of Wind based on the Tailed Beast Bomb, even though Pakura added her own unique bloodline limit "Scorch Release" to increase the compatibility between the technique and herself, such a powerful technique was ultimately beyond Pakura's body's ability to withstand. Therefore, under the backlash of this technique, Pakura's left hand was completely ruined.

As the flames slowly subsided, the Rain Ninjas in the outer area rushed over to investigate what had happened.

"Ah! It's Lord Hanzo's body! Who on earth did this?!" one of Hanzo's trusted elders cried out in grief.

"It's someone from Akatsuki! I just saw someone wearing an Akatsuki uniform running that way!" shouted a Rain Ninja who witnessed Pakura's departure.

"The Akatsuki?!" The trusted elder thought carefully for a moment, recalling Hanzo's previous plan to join forces with Konoha's Danzo to assassinate their leader. He immediately understood everything: the Akatsuki had come to retaliate because their previous plan had been exposed!

With witnesses and motives both present, what else needs to be investigated?

"Pass down the order: the entire Rain Village will be mobilized to fight Akatsuki to the death and avenge Lord Hanzo!!"

"Avenge Lord Hanzo!!" All the Rain Ninja present raised their weapons without hesitation and shouted loudly.

The civil war broke out in the Land of Rain, making it the third country to be involved in the Ninja World War, after the Land of Wind and the Land of Valleys.

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PS First update

Chapter Twenty-Five: On Why Gaara Became the Calabash Brother Carrying Sand on His Back

Just as tensions were rising in the Land of Rain, the Land of Valleys had already completely surrendered to the blades of the Sand Village's army.

Without external assistance, the weak Valley Country was utterly powerless against the Sand Village's army, suffering a complete rout after less than a day of token resistance. The Sand Village's army rampaged through the Valley Country, plundering at will. As the other four great nations had not yet assembled their armies, their punitive expedition against the Wind Country, which had initiated the war, remained merely a verbal protest, without any substantial action.

The reason why it takes so long for the armies of the various great ninja villages to assemble is twofold. Firstly, the distribution and preparation of weapons, equipment, and logistical supplies for their massive armies requires a great deal of time. Secondly, the great ninja villages need to sort out their own complex internal conflicts before they can send out troops.

Take Konoha as an example. Konoha is located in the middle and occupies the most fertile part of the continent. As a result, it is surrounded by enemies on all sides. Therefore, if it wants to send troops to join the war, it is impossible to just deploy troops in the direction of the Land of Wind. Instead, it is necessary to deploy troops on other fronts to defend against other ninja villages.

So the question is, which ninjas from the village should be assigned to these fronts? You have to understand that the geographical environment of each front is very different.

The geographical environment of the battlefield is quite important for the combat effectiveness of ninjas, because the final power of many ninjutsu is largely determined by the geographical environment at the time of release.

For example, the power of Water Release techniques increases greatly when there is water nearby, but decreases greatly when there is no water. Therefore, in the original work, when the Second Hokage Tobirama Senju summoned a waterfall on a rooftop without water, the Anbu next to him praised him, saying, "As expected of a Grandmaster of Water Release, he can release such a powerful Water Release technique even in a place like this."

A waterfall of the same size could be summoned by someone of Zabuza's caliber on a body of water with abundant water. Kakashi, on the other hand, didn't take this move seriously at all, and even used his Sharingan to copy and paste it back exactly.

Similarly, sand control techniques are most powerful in the desert, but they are not very effective at killing sand on hills and plains where there is no sand. For this reason, when Gaara went abroad, he had to carry a gourd full of sand around, just like a gourd baby who had just been hatched.

When faced with a powerful enemy that a gourd of sand couldn't kill, Gaara had to expend extra chakra to shatter all the soil and rocks underground into sand before he could launch a large-scale sandstorm attack. This shows how significantly a suitable geographical environment can enhance a ninja's combat power, while an unsuitable geographical environment can significantly reduce the power of ninjutsu.

Therefore, when the Third Hokage, Tensei, convened a military conference, the elders and advisors of the Konoha Cabinet argued for several days incessantly about how to allocate Konoha's forces to the various fronts. This wasn't just about considering the compatibility of Konoha ninjas with the battlefield environment; it was about a more fundamental and crucial question: who should be given the limited opportunities to gain merit in battle?

Especially at this moment when the election of the Fourth Hokage is underway, having enough battle achievements may be the key to determining whether a person can rise to the position of the Fourth Hokage.

In the original story, Hiruzen Sarutobi also faced a similar choice. Ultimately, Konoha decided to send Minato Namikaze, their key prospect for the next Hokage, to the battlefields of the Land of Fire, the Land of Wind, the Land of Lightning, and the Land of Earth. This allowed Minato to shine with outstanding combat performances, establishing his reputation and laying the foundation for his future as Hokage. Meanwhile, the Uchiha clan, aspiring to the Fourth Hokage position, were dispatched to the battlefields of the Land of Fire and the Land of Water.

Yes, you read that right. The Uchiha clan, skilled in Fire Release techniques, was sent to the battlefield of Kirigakure, a place filled with water. It was here that the name "Shisui of the Body Flicker" became famous. Although the Sharingan clan ultimately won the war, their battle achievements were naturally not as impressive as those of Minato Namikaze.