Ansura

I think they had just finished a mission of retrieving Orochimaru's spies from Land of Wind, who were being pursued by platoon of Sand Village ninjas led by Chiyo, in which Takeshi showed them that Art indeed is an explosion, then they met up with Akatsuki Trio, where akatsuki is in its early days, Takeshi gave a dead rat to Nagato previously and this time he gave a live rabbit who peed on his hand.

Dude welcome back, hopefully things get better for you.

Damn, Yuji cursed Megumi while dying.

He's expecting morality from a ninja ? career thieves and assassin's ?

Seems more of a mix with on lower end of his power scaling, in the comics Darth Vader is far too OP

Its not fate, its match fixing, they planned who will fight whom because of popularity the tournament will have.

especially since they had weeks to prepare