Chapter 288: Konan's Gamble! Whitebeard and Konan!

Some time ago, two members of the Akatsuki disappeared.

After those two members disappeared, there was no news of them, as if they had disappeared in the ninja world, which made Konan think... did they already die at the hands of Whitebeard?

If they really died, then it was indeed the most severe loss for the Akatsuki in the past two or three years.

And this heavy loss was caused by the Whitebeard Pirates.

But what Konan didn't expect was that one of the two missing members, Orochimaru, suddenly appeared in front of her!

When she turned her head towards the direction of the snake-like voice, she saw Orochimaru appearing in a female body form.

Even though Konan's mentality was as calm as water, at this moment, she still couldn't help but widen her beautiful eyes a bit, her pupils slightly contracted.

So Orochimaru wasn't killed by Whitebeard, he's still alive. And this guy is on the Moby Dick of the Whitebeard Pirates!

What's even more surprising is that Orochimaru on this ship, is just like a person who has nothing to do.

Tsunade also looked at Orochimaru, "Do you recognize her?!"

Orochimaru walked over unhurriedly, he answered with a somewhat ambiguous smile, "I'm very familiar with her!"

Orochimaru continued to say, "In the Akatsuki, this woman's status is not low, second only to the leader."

When his words fell, the people around were all very shocked.

"Hey hey hey... so, she is a big fish?" Kisame's palm was on the hilt of the Great Sword·Samehada, his eyes slightly squinted, with a bit of caution.

With such a special identity, they naturally can't treat her as an ordinary member of the Akatsuki.

"Konan, I didn't expect to see you here, what a coincidence!" Orochimaru stretched out his long tongue and licked his dry lips, the White Tiger in his mouth was Konan's code name.

"...Orochimaru, you really surprised me." Konan was silent for a few seconds, she could only squeeze out this sentence.

Obviously, Orochimaru's sudden appearance caught her off guard.

This was beyond Konan's plan and her expectations.

The situation seemed to be getting a bit complicated, making her feel a bit out of control.

"Hehe, there's something even more surprising for you!" Orochimaru laughed wantonly, "Sasori is also here!"

Konan: "!!!"

Orochimaru kindly explained, "Actually, we didn't really betray the Akatsuki, we were just captured by the Whitebeard Pirates and couldn't escape. What I mean is... Sasori and I are their prisoners."

"The moment I saw you, I thought you wanted to rescue us, but now it seems... that's not the case."

Konan was shocked at Orochimaru's appearance, and Orochimaru was also curious as to why Konan would come to this place?

This woman came here alone and approached the Whitebeard Pirates, what was her purpose?

"Gurarararara!"

Just then, a hearty laugh echoed throughout the Moby Dick, with Whitebeard sitting on a large chair, overlooking the group of silly sons and daughters in front of him.

With Whitebeard's Observation Haki, he could naturally see what was happening in front of him, and with his hearing, he could know what they were saying, and he could even see the little brat from the Akatsuki.

"You little brat from the 'Akatsuki', are you trying to provoke the Whitebeard Pirates?"

After taking a sip of wine from his jug, Whitebeard squinted his eyes and said with a hearty smile.

Konan took a deep breath, suppressing the shock in her heart, and looked at Whitebeard who was sitting at the bow of the Moby Dick.

She first said to the people around her, "My visit is not malicious, let me go and say a few words with Whitebeard-dono, should be okay, right?"

Having said that, she made a move to walk forward.

The next second, the large sword Samehada was directly placed on her shoulder, the barbs on Samehada's body pressed against Konan's throat.

And on her other shoulder, a cane sword was held against it, obviously Shisui had suddenly drawn his weapon, and the blade of the cane sword was also against her throat.

Her back was pressed against a Kunai, just a few inches forward and it could pierce her heart, obviously Kakashi was holding the Kunai against her.

Kisame grinned, "We won't let you use any tricks on Pops, if you make any moves, we will kill you! Let's go!"

Konan's heart sank.

These guys were indeed difficult to deal with, she knew Hoshigaki Kisame was not joking, and she knew this was not a meaningless warning.

But she wasn't too afraid of this kind of physical attack.

She kept her face unchanged, step by step, until she came to Whitebeard, only two meters away from Whitebeard.

At this distance, she could see Whitebeard's face when she looked up.

To be honest, although the Akatsuki had repeatedly received information about Whitebeard and had seen pictures and portraits of Whitebeard, this was the first time Konan had seen this man's face in person.

The aura emanating from him was quite surprising to Konan.

His physique was even more daunting to the naked eye.

"Whitebeard-dono..."

Konan pondered, "According to the information we have on you, you have a very special perception ability. This special perception ability of yours should be able to feel that I have no malice in me."

Whitebeard glanced at Konan with his hollow eyes, his tone somewhat domineering, "You little brat, if you have something to say, say it straight, don't beat around the bush."

Konan's words choked, and the previous organized remarks were interrupted.

She could only give up the prepared remarks and went straight to the point, "Whitebeard, to be honest... I have a piece of information about you that I think you will be interested in. Even, you can feel very angry about this information."

"If this information is spoken out, I will definitely be labeled as a 'traitor', but we Akatsuki do not want to be hostile to the Whitebeard Pirates. Even if I will be labeled as such, I want to prevent this from happening."

Konan continued, "Whitebeard, you should know that in our organization, there is a person who calls himself 'Uchiha Madara'."

Just as Konan's words were spoken, Kakashi's voice came in, "'Uchiha Madara'? Is it the guy with the spiral mask?!"

Konan responded, "Yes."

Kakashi's tone was complicated, "Is it related to Obito again..."

Konan was slightly stunned, "Obito?"

A strange name made Konan a little unexpected, she didn't know what this name had to do with UchihaMadara?

Kakashi also frowned, a little confused, "Don't you know that 'Uchiha Madara' is Uchiha Obito?"

Konan: "???"

Uchiha Obito?

Uchiha Madara? 

But the strange information learned from the pirate's mouth almost made her whole person almost crash.

Could it be that the guy who claimed to be Uchiha Madara, his real name is actually Uchiha Obito?

In a short moment, Konan almost forgot what she came here for.

Just listening to Kakashi's voice again, and with a tone of urgency and questioning, "What's wrong with Obito? Is he brewing some kind of conspiracy?"

Could it be that everyone knows that "Uchiha Madara" is Uchiha Obito, and only Akatsuki didn't know about it?

Konan flashed this thought in her mind, but soon she threw this idea behind her, because now is not the time to think about this problem.

The current situation has far exceeded her expectations.

She could only respond with a complex expression, "Uchiha Madara captured people related to the Whitebeard Pirates... he wants to use them as hostages to threaten you Whitebeard Pirates."

Konan's mentality gradually stabilized, and she slowly said, "The ones he caught are four kids, one is called Haruno Sakura, one is called Nara Shikamaru, one is called Akimichi Chouji, and one is called Rock Lee."

"What?!!" Naruto and Ino almost exclaimed in unison.

Naruto's face was full of shock and incredulity, "Shikamaru, Chouji, Lee, were they caught by that guy called Obito?!"

Ino was dumbfounded, "Chouji and Shikamaru, were they caught? Were they taken hostage?"

"Oh?" Whitebeard raised his eyebrows, and there was a bit of chill in his eyes, "This little brat who borrows others' names to do evil, his methods are really insidious and despicable!"

Even if the Whitebeard Pirates caught hostages, they would not use hostages to threaten others.

For example, in a battle some time ago, the Whitebeard Pirates did not take the Fourth Raikage as a hostage to threaten the ninjas of Kumogakure Village.

They just showed the Fourth Raikage to let the ninjas of Kumogakure Village see what their Raikage is like now.

The method of using hostages to threaten others is very despicable in Whitebeard's eyes.

The one being threatened was actually the Whitebeard Pirate Crew, which stirred up a surge of killing intent and anger in Whitebeard's heart!

A faint Conqueror's Haki leaked from Whitebeard, affecting Konan who was closest to him.

Konan only felt a terrifying aura pressing down on her, making her feel as if a huge boulder was pressing on her heart, making her feel a bit uncomfortable.

'Such a terrifying aura... Is this the aura he used to faint thousands of Kumogakure ninjas? It's like a humanoid tailed beast, even more terrifying than a tailed beast.' Konan was horrified, but she tried not to show her emotions on her face.

Konan said, "I revealed this information to the Whitebeard Pirate Crew for two reasons... One is to prevent the Akatsuki organization from being implicated by that guy's actions. The second... is that I am showing goodwill to the Whitebeard Pirate Crew and to you, Whitebeard-dono."

"I want to use this special information, and the life of 'Uchiha Madara' as a letter of recommendation, to join the Whitebeard Pirate Crew!"

Konan said seriously without mincing her words.

"Hehe... Really?"

Orochimaru was shocked by Konan's words, he murmured with interest, "The second in command of the Akatsuki organization, wants to leave the Akatsuki and join the Whitebeard Pirate Crew, isn't that a bit strange?"

Konan retorted, "You're wrong, joining the Whitebeard Pirate Crew and being a member of the Akatsuki organization, there's actually no conflict in between, right?"

"The Akatsuki organization may have had some conflicts with the Whitebeard Pirate Crew before, but those are individual conflicts with the pirate crew. At least, I have no conflicts with the Whitebeard Pirate Crew."

"What is your purpose?" Naruto asked with a frown, "Someone like you wants to join our Whitebeard Pirate Crew, you must be up to no good!"

Konan glanced at this Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, she calmly said, "I want to use your power to kill Uchiha Madara, is that considered to be up to no good?"

Shisui said, "When you revealed Obito's information to us, didn't you already achieve your goal? Why do you need to join us? Why join the Whitebeard Pirate Crew?"

Konan said, "I want to be by your side, to see what your purpose really is. You've stirred up so many waves in the ninja world, I don't believe that the purpose of your pirate crew is that simple."

Konan was very honest, almost bluntly saying - I just want to infiltrate the Whitebeard Pirate Crew, and I want to use Obito's information as an exchange.

This is the entry point Konan thought of!

Konan doesn't know much about the Whitebeard Pirate Crew, but not too little either.

Looking at the many events the Whitebeard Pirate Crew has caused in the ninja world, the only characteristic of the Whitebeard Pirate Crew is that they are very upright.

They are clearly a pirate crew, but they do things that are more upright than any ninja village.

If she wants to infiltrate such an organization, careful planning and fabricating lies are actually useless.

Especially since Whitebeard has that strange perception ability, maybe this ability can sense whether she is lying or not.

In this case, Konan decided to be straightforward and focus on a "trade"!

She thinks this is a kind of open plot.

But she also knows that if the Whitebeard Pirate Crew is ruthless enough, not caring about the safety of those four kids, then her open plot will have no effect. Maybe she will be left here and can't go back.

Konan is taking a gamble.

She feels that for the future of the Akatsuki organization, a gamble that stakes her life... is worth it.

Whitebeard's smile on his face carried a hint of danger, "So that is your purpose that makes you want to join my Whitebeard Pirate!"

Konan, under the pressure of the Conqueror's Haki leaking from Whitebeard, forced herself to look up and meet Whitebeard's gaze.

Even if this aura suppressed her to the point where her palms were sweating.

But Konan still maintained her composure.

"Yes!"

She said these two words decisively.

There was a certain honesty in her determination.

"Gurararararara!" Whitebeard laughed instead of getting angry, his laughter echoing through the sky, quite hearty: "You little ninja brats, each of you really has 'ideas'! You're also one of the few 'honest' brats I've seen in the ninja world!"

Whitebeard grinned and said, "Kid, what's your name?"

"Konan!" Konan didn't make up a fake name for herself, there was no need to lie to a man like Whitebeard.

"Gurararararara! Then you stay until we kill that despicable little brat!"

Whitebeard declared with his Haki.

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