Ryuma Aburame casually accepted a mission and left Konoha.
Because Root often engaged in shady business, Danzo would sometimes delegate tasks to the Black Market Exchange.
After all, the Ninja who accepted missions at the Black Market Exchange would do anything for money, making them very useful.
Danzo was a frequent visitor to the underground Black Market Exchange, which was precisely why he knew that the Akatsuki Organization, once dedicated to peace, had now become a mercenary group that would accept any commission as long as the price was right.
At a Black Market Exchange within the Land of Fire, Ryuma Aburame successfully handed Danzo's scroll to a peripheral member of the Akatsuki Organization, instructing him to deliver it to their leader, and paid a portion of the deposit.
Three days later.
Danzo's scroll successfully fell into the hands of Deva Path Pain.
The current Akatsuki Organization was still just a ragtag group.
The official members of the Akatsuki Organization included Nagato's Pain, Konan, Black Zetsu, Kakuzu, Sasori, and Uchiha Setsuna, who wore a mask and called himself Uchiha Madara in front of Nagato, also using the alias Tobi.
Now, under the intervention of Black Zetsu and Uchiha Setsuna, and because Yahiko had died due to the conspiracy of Hanzou and Danzo Shimura, Nagato, driven by hatred, had come to identify with Uchiha Setsuna's ideology and accepted his ideas, turning the Akatsuki Organization into a mercenary group, now gathering large sums of money in preparation for capturing the Tailed Beast.
Since Kakuzu and Sasori were currently out executing missions, only Black Zetsu and Uchiha Setsuna remained at the Akatsuki Organization's base.
After reading the scroll, Deva Path Pain summoned Black Zetsu and Uchiha Setsuna, who were currently at the base.
Deva Path Pain tossed the scroll in his hand to Black Zetsu: "The two of you, take a look. A Ninja from an unknown village has explicitly found a peripheral member filtering missions at the Black Market Exchange to hire us for a mission."
After Black Zetsu and Uchiha Setsuna finished reading the scroll, their eyes narrowed slightly: "The Nine-Tails Jinchuriki of Konoha is about to give birth, and they want to hire us to assassinate the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze?"
Deva Path Pain said: "Correct. The other party has already paid half the deposit, totaling 30 million ryo, with the remaining 30 million ryo to be paid after the job is done. Although the person hid their identity, they must be someone from Konoha; otherwise, they wouldn't know such detailed intelligence."
Black Zetsu asked: "Can the intelligence contained within be confirmed as true?"
Deva Path Pain replied: "It cannot be confirmed, but I personally believe the intelligence should be true. The other party has no need to deceive us. 30 million ryo is not a small sum; if it were just a deposit, a reward of 60 million ryo would only require 10 million ryo. However, to be safe, if we accept this mission, we must verify it. The scroll states that when the Jinchuriki gives birth, the delivery room will be set up outside Konoha Village, so we only need to monitor movements outside Konoha Village to confirm the authenticity of the intelligence. Therefore, do you think we should accept this mission to assassinate the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze?"
Black Zetsu and Uchiha Setsuna exchanged glances.
Subsequently, Black Zetsu asked Deva Path Pain: "Then what are your thoughts, Pain? Do you want to capture the Tailed Beast now?"
Deva Path Pain shook his head and said: "No, the Akatsuki Organization is not ready yet. Capturing the Nine-Tailed of Konoha, one of the Five Great Ninja Villages, would immediately make us the target of everyone. Now is not the time to begin the Tailed Beast capture plan. However, I think we can accept this mission. A total of 60 million ryo is a very considerable sum of money for us right now. Furthermore, if we can really kill Minato Namikaze, it would be a painful blow to Konoha. Tobi, your Mangekyo Sharingan can control the Tailed Beast, right?"
Uchiha Setsuna nodded: "The genjutsu cast through my Mangekyo Sharingan can manipulate the Tailed Beast, though it cannot last very long."
Deva Path Pain said in a deep voice: "Konoha is developing too well right now. If we let Konoha continue to develop, it might be very difficult to capture their Jinchuriki in the future, especially given Minato Namikaze's Flying Thunder God Technique, which is hard to counter. Therefore, if the intelligence is true, then we will accept this mission: assassinate Minato Namikaze, release the Nine-Tailed, and Tobi, you will control the Nine-Tailed to attack Konoha."
Black Zetsu and Uchiha Setsuna agreed: "We also think this mission can be accepted."
Deva Path Pain's gaze turned to Black Zetsu: "Then Zetsu, you will infiltrate the Land of Fire and investigate the authenticity of the mission's intelligence."
Black Zetsu agreed: "Good."
Then Deva Path Pain looked at Uchiha Setsuna: "If the intelligence is confirmed to be true, then Tobi, you will act with me."
Uchiha Setsuna also agreed: "Yes!"
Uchiha Setsuna was eager to do so; he hated Konoha quite a bit and wanted to take revenge on Konoha.
After all, Senju Tobirama, who was once the Second Hokage, had caused him indelible trauma.
This mission was just the thing to let him take revenge on Konoha.
...
Time flew by.
There were only about two months left until Uzumaki Kushina's delivery; the countdown had already begun.
Shindai's puppets had been selling quite well recently, but Shindai hadn't been making any puppets, and the orders were piling up.
Moreover, Shindais Dream House was currently closed to prevent further orders, and those who had paid deposits had them returned.
The reason Shindai did this was because Uzumaki Kushina was about to give birth.
Although Shindai wasn't sure if something would happen that day, he always had a bad premonition in his heart, feeling that something was going to happen.
Shindai's research was currently at a bottleneck, and he was clutching his head, looking incredibly troubled.
"Not enough Chakra. There's no way to fuse the magnetic fields. What should I do? And I don't have 'Chakratons' (tons of Chakra). Isn't this making things difficult for me?"
Shindai had been trying to completely fuse the positive and negative magnetic fields while maintaining their original properties, so that when he wanted to use them, he could make the positive and negative magnetic fields interact and explode with power.
But the moment the positive magnetic field and the negative magnetic field touched, they would burst with power, immediately knocking Shindai away; there was simply no way to control it.
The reason for this was that Shindai didn't have enough Chakra, because Shindai's attempt to fuse them while maintaining their original properties consumed a massive amount of Chakra, and he couldn't maintain it for more than a few seconds before his Chakra ran out.
Uchiha Hikari, who had nothing to do, had been watching Shindai conduct research at the base recently. Although she couldn't understand it, it was entertaining to watch.
Uchiha Hikari advised: "Stop pulling your hair. I'm afraid you'll pull it all out."
Shindai lowered his hand that was clutching his hair and started rubbing his face instead.
Shindai asked somewhat gloomily: "Ashita Natsu, tell me, is there any way for me to suddenly have a massive amount of Chakra?"
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