Chapter 146 : Appearance of the Reanimated Nagato!!

[Itachi was revived by Kabuto using the Reanimation Jutsu, and together with another Reanimation Jutsu revival, Nagato, they acted together. They met Naruto and Killer B on the battlefield.]

Fifth Hokage Jiraiya: "What? Nagato?"

Looking at the screen, where the Reanimated Nagato, looking as thin as a skeleton, appeared, Jiraiya's feelings were very complicated.

Ever since the video of Danzo's review, Jiraiya had a feeling.

The Akatsuki organization of Amegakure (Hidden Rain Village) was the same one that Yahiko founded years ago.

But now, as the Fifth Hokage of Konoha, he couldn't act rashly. Otherwise, he would've gone to Amegakure immediately to find out the truth and see whether the leader of the Akatsuki was really Nagato, who possessed the Rinnegan.

Now, the scene on the screen had confirmed his suspicions.

Nagato was indeed the leader of Akatsuki.

Now the question was, how did Nagato, who controlled the entire Akatsuki, die?

It couldn't be that Obito killed him, could it?

Was Obito's Kamui that powerful? Could he really deal with Nagato's Rinnegan?

Jiraiya was somewhat skeptical.

Obito's Kamui was certainly strong, enough to keep him invincible in a one-on-one fight.

Even if he couldn't win, he could use Kamui to escape.

But Kamui was better at defense and lacking in offense. As long as you were careful not to be sucked into Kamui's space, Obito's real combat power was, at most, the level of an elite jonin.

Could such Obito deal with Nagato?

"Wait, wasn't the leader of Akatsuki someone named Pain? Why has it changed to Nagato?"

No one could answer Jiraiya's question.

Even Orochimaru, who had once been part of Akatsuki, didn't know that Pain was actually a puppet created by Nagato using his Rinnegan.

But everyone in the room was clever, and they had already made their own guesses about Pain's true nature.

After learning that Nagato was the true leader, it became easy to guess that Pain, who appeared in public, was just a figurehead.

There were only a few possibilities.

Either Pain was Nagato's puppet, or he was deliberately placed in the public eye by Nagato.

Since Pain also had the Rinnegan and his appearance was similar to Yahiko's, things became clear.

Pain was a puppet created by Nagato using Yahiko's corpse.

Although they didn't fully understand why this puppet also had the Rinnegan, the idea of it being a puppet seemed almost certain.

"Danzo, that bastard really deserves to die. They should have been allies of Konoha." 

When Danzo's name came up, everyone looked furious.

The things that man had done were despicable.

Let's put it this way—whenever something bad happened in the ninja world and no one stepped up to take the blame, you could always pin it on Danzo.

"Wait a minute, remember the big incident recently about the female ninja who took Danzo's body to scam people? Couldn't it have been Konan?"

If Nagato hadn't died, Konan probably wouldn't have been in trouble either.

Regardless of Konan's strength, with Nagato backing her, she surely had a place in the Akatsuki organization.

With the entire Akatsuki supporting her, it made sense that after scamming people, she could quickly disappear from the ninja world.

"Tsk tsk, that guy Danzo. With such a big world of ninjas, why did he have to go to Amegakure? Now look, he's probably lost his head!"

"He probably wanted to seek refuge with Hanzo, hoping to survive by relying on Hanzo's demi-god reputation."

"But he didn't expect that Amegakure wasn't the same village he knew. Now, Amegakure belongs to the Akatsuki."

"The leader of the Akatsuki has a deep and unforgiving hatred towards him."

"Truly, it's a case of self-inflicted misfortune."

[When Itachi and Nagato still had their own consciousness, they couldn't help but give Naruto, who had activated the Tailed Beast Cloak, a lot of praise.]

[Then, Nagato and Naruto engaged in a bit of mutual flattery.]

[When Itachi asked Naruto about his younger brother Sasuke's situation, Nagato and Itachi's bodies started to be controlled by Kabuto, and they lost control.]

[Since Itachi and Nagato's consciousness was still intact due to the Reanimation Jutsu, the four of them began fighting while casually chatting.]

[So, continuing from the previous topic, after a series of questions filled with "brother complex" tendencies, the conversation came to a satisfactory end.]

[Itachi entrusted Sasuke to Naruto with peace of mind, expressing that he was quite optimistic about Naruto, who was now wearing the Tailed Beast cloak.]

[Then, Itachi, losing control, attempted to use his Mangekyō Sharingan, which triggered the crow he had left for Naruto earlier.]

[Thanks to the genjutsu he had set up in advance using Shisui's Mangekyō Sharingan, called {Protect Konoha}, Itachi was able to break free from the control of the Reanimation Jutsu.]

"Itachi is a complicated person, but I have to admit, he's truly a genius."

"Yeah, who would have thought that the Reanimation Jutsu could be broken this way?"

As they spoke, Hiruzen and Danzo looked towards Tobirama.

The creator of the Reanimation Jutsu, wasn't that their teacher?

"What are you all looking at me for?"

"Hehe, we just saw that Itachi managed to cleverly bypass your technique, and we were curious to hear your thoughts, sensei."

"I don't have much to say."

Tobirama shook his head and continued, "You all need to remember, there is no perfect jutsu in the ninja world. Every jutsu has a countermeasure. Just because you don't know it, doesn't mean one doesn't exist. The Reanimation Jutsu is a great example. If it weren't for the appearance of the light screen, I wouldn't have known it could be bypassed like this."

Even though he knew about this new way to break the Reanimation Jutsu, Tobirama had no intention of improving the technique.

Itachi's case could only be considered an exception.

Who told him he had a Mangekyō Sharingan that could modify others' wills? 

The control of Reanimation Jutsu is based on manipulating the will of the person performing it. Once this will is altered, the control of Reanimation Jutsu is naturally broken.

Over at Tobirama's office, everyone's attention was focused on Itachi breaking the Reanimation Jutsu control.

On the other hand, over by the Third Hokage's side, all the attention was on Naruto.

From the image on the screen, it was clear that at that point, Naruto had already perfectly activated his Tailed Beast Cloak.

"Does this mean that the Naruto on the screen has already become a perfect Jinchūriki?" 

"Wow, he's the first perfect Jinchūriki of the Nine-Tails. Even the late Mito-sama and Kushina couldn't achieve this, but Naruto has done it."

"He's truly the Child of Prophecy, so terrifying!"

Hearing the praise, Naruto couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

At this moment, the relationship between him and the Nine-Tails was even better than in the original story, all thanks to the image on the screen. 

As long as he greeted the Nine-Tails, he could immediately activate the Nine-Tails Cloak.

However, compared to the golden Tailed Beast Cloak in the image, he could only activate the red one for now.

There were two reasons for this. First, his body hadn't fully developed yet, so he could only handle the power of four tails at this point.

Second, the method of activating the two Tailed Beast Cloaks was different.

The red cloak was easy to activate; the Nine-Tails just needed to inject its power into Naruto.

The golden cloak was different. To activate it, Naruto would need to struggle with the Nine-Tails and defeat it, which would allow him to use the Nine-Tails Chakra Mode.

Since Naruto's relationship with the Nine-Tails, his strength, and his body weren't quite there yet, he naturally couldn't activate the Nine-Tails Chakra Mode.

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