"Are you feeling very sad?" The other Six Paths of Pain didn't show themselves; only the Deva Path, created from Yahiko's corpse, acted as Pain's mouthpiece.
Gaara, with his large gourd on his back, looked out the window at the continuous drizzle.
He was used to the endless yellow sand of the Land of Wind, and suddenly coming to a country so rich in rain made him very uncomfortable.
The Land of Wind had a huge temperature difference between day and night, and for half of the 365 days of the year, it was harsh weather with flying yellow sand. If you went out then, you had to be wrapped in several layers of clothing to protect against the wind and sand, wear a windproof and sandproof headscarf, wear a long robe, and tie your pant legs tightly.
But if he dressed like that in the Land of Rain, he would break out in heat rash in less than half an hour. The Land of Wind was too dry, and the Land of Rain was too humid; neither was a good place to live.
As for whether he was sad or not?
From being a Village Kage to a Rogue Ninja, was he sad? Actually, not too sad.
The villagers and Ninja in that Village didn't trust him. He tried to gain more people's recognition, but that path was too tiring and too bitter.
Besides Temari, Kankuro, and a few others, who else was willing to trust him? Let it be.
He replied calmly, "I did my best. Whether they recognize me or not isn't really important."
He looked at Pain with a bit of curiosity: "Are you the leader of the Akatsuki Organization? What about your eyes?"
The distance between them was less than three meters, and those unusual eyes looked particularly striking.
Pain gestured for him to sit beside him.
"These are the Sages Eye, at least that's what my teacher once told me."
"Sage?" This touched a blind spot in Gaara's knowledge: "What do you Akatsuki Organization plan to do with these eyes? Dominate the Ninja World?"
Pain sneered, "Dominate the Ninja World? A bit narrow-minded. Would you like to hear me ramble a bit more?"
His attitude made Gaara feel friendly; the last person who was so friendly to him was a guy named Naruto.
"Anyway, I'm already a Rogue Ninja. Now I don't have annoying official duties to deal with. You can say whatever you want, and I'll listen."
Pain was expressionless: "They, or rather, including you, only see my eyes, but they never know or care that I am not the founder of the Akatsuki Organization. The founder was Yahiko, and Yahiko was the Ninja with great ideals. Yahiko did not hate the Ninja who killed his parents, nor did he hate the Five Great Nations. He believed that wars occurred because no one spread peace, and no one knew how to achieve peace."
Gaara stared at him, waiting for him to continue.
"You are the Fifth Kazekage, so you must know something about the Akatsuki Organization's past, right?" Pain asked.
Gaara thought back. Konoha was unwilling to disclose specific intelligence, only saying that the Akatsuki Organization was a cancer on the Ninja World, so he naturally conducted some investigations.
"I generally know, but I don't understand your early affairs."
Gaara was really too busy. Naruto becoming Hokage was after he was twenty, with Kakashi's foundation and Shikamaru's assistance, and he was still exhausted, being called "even a dog tied in the Hokage Building would do better than him."
Gaara was just 15 this year, with no foundation from predecessors, no capable assistant like Shikamaru, only an extremely terrible reputation. He was busy from morning till night and simply had no time to research the Akatsuki Organization's old matters.
Pain sighed: "Yahiko believed that the Akatsuki Organization should be an organization that spreads peace. He led us to travel between countries. Wherever there was war, there we were. We mediated, and if mediation failed, we joined the weaker side to make the war a stalemate, then gradually eliminated conflicts."
He said bluntly: "You are the Kazekage; you protect the peace of Sunagakure. Although they expelled you, I believe that some people still respect you in their hearts."
Gaara didn't say anything. He hadn't expected that those political players in Sunagakure could twist black and white so much, making things so dirty.
Pain continued: "You protect Sunagakure, Jiraiya-sensei protects Konoha, the Third Tsuchikage protects Iwagakure. You fight to the death with the belief of protection, and what is the final result? It is the Shinobi World War, where everyone goes to the battlefield for their homes, Shinobi Village, wives, and children, fighting to the death with strangers who have the same ideas. Lord Fifth Kazekage, how do you think this deadlock can be resolved?"
Gaara was speechless.
Pain spread his arms towards the window: "Narrow-minded Shinobi Village ideology cannot protect the Ninja World. Only the Akatsuki Organization can protect this world. When we possess absolute military power, we can become the arbitrators of conflicts, resolving them before a major war begins. Whoever instigates war, we will attack them. At that time, all peace-loving Ninja will join the Akatsuki Organization and become our strength. The Five Great Ninja Villages will become a thing of the past, and there will never be war in the Ninja World again."
Gaara had never received any proper education since childhood, and his outlook on life and the world had not fully formed. As a Jinchuriki, he had a bit of a strong-willed mentality: whoever could beat him, he would listen to them.
Now he felt that Naruto's approach to gaining recognition was a bit unworkable.
His thoughts unconsciously underwent some changes.
Ultimately, he was still too young.
He felt that what Pain said made some sense. Regarding the Akatsuki Organization's plan to collect Tailed Beasts, Pain had also told him, saying that once a Tailed Beast left a Jinchuriki, he would die.
Gaara was not afraid of death and had a spirit of sacrifice. Pain said he wouldn't drain him completely, just leaving a little would be fine.
After learning that Gaara had no interest in women, Pain invited him to join the gay boy band.
Before, there was one Konan among many men, but now Konan was captured, and Gaara joined, making it an all-gay group! Perfect!
The Ichibi Shukaku inside Gaara was terrified. He could feel the aura of the Gedo Statue and the Rinnegan, constantly urging Gaara to run!
Pain couldn't let a cooked duck fly away. The One-Tail Shukaku was extremely volatile, but in front of the Rinnegan, it was nothing. The Six Paths of Pain all came out, raising their black rods and beating it three times a day. Three days later, the One-Tail Shukaku was completely subdued, and Gaara also upgraded to a perfect Jinchuriki. Now, if the Jinchuriki said to go east, the Ichibi would absolutely not dare to go west!
Volatile? In front of the Six Paths of Pain, a Tailed Beast had no right to be volatile.
Nagato was training Gaara as his successor. His body was getting worse and worse, and the Masked Man harbored ill intentions.
To arrange a new future for the Akatsuki Organization, Nagato used Pain's mouth to teach Gaara various knowledge.
Gaara had high aptitude, but he had never received much education since childhood, and after becoming Kazekage, he was busy from morning till night, so his foundation was very weak.
Nagato used Pain to tutor him.
Ninjutsu, Bloodline Limit, Ninja World secrets, the power secretly controlled by the Akatsuki Organization—Nagato explained all this knowledge to him bit by bit.
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