Naruto: Naruto's Uchiha girlfriend is too arrogant

Chapter 416 Payne

The tall tower of Amegakure Village.

The cold rain relentlessly pounded against the thick metal panels outside the tower, producing a continuous pattering sound.

Pain sat on the edge of the tower, listening quietly to Konan's report behind him. His face, which belonged to Yahiko, was expressionless, as if he were wearing a meticulously crafted mask.

"Orochimaru has sent word." Konan's voice held a barely perceptible tension. "He betrayed Akatsuki."

"It doesn't matter." Tiandao's voice was low and calm. "The vacant positions have already been filled by newcomers."

"No, that's not the problem. He joined another organization—[Ember]."

"And the message he brought was... that Menma, the leader of [Jin], wants to talk to us."

"...Let's talk?" The Rinnegan of the Heavenly Path shifted slightly. "What does he want to talk about?"

Just moments before, a white snake had mysteriously bypassed all the guards and appeared directly in front of Konan, spitting out a small scroll before dissipating into smoke. This unique and unsettling method of transmission immediately made her realize that Orochimaru was behind it.

The contents of the scroll made her feel that things were spiraling out of control.

"Menma...he knows our plan. He asked us to give up capturing the Tailed Beasts."

"At the same time, he demanded that we hand over 'Ban' and 'Jue'."

"However—Menma clearly stated in the message...that the guy who calls himself 'Uchiha Madara' is actually Uchiha Obito."

Konan and Nagato had always harbored doubts about the mysterious masked man who called himself "Uchiha Madara" and manipulated the Sharingan and space-time ninjutsu.

Now, "Menma" has directly revealed his identity as "Uchiha Obito." Konan's first reaction is... who is Uchiha Obito?

Konan immediately mobilized the intelligence network to search, and the result puzzled her even more—it was just an unknown Uchiha boy who had already died in the Third Shinobi World War according to records.

A Chunin who had long since died, and Madara, who was known as the "Shura of the Ninja World" during the Warring States period?

The gaps and contradictions between them are unbelievably large.

A chilling killing intent flashed across Pain's Rinnegan. "Give up on capturing the Tailed Beasts..." His voice remained calm, yet it carried an icy chill. "He's being far too delusional."

More than the true identity of "Ban" he was concerned about was the provocation that the other party was trying to obstruct the plan to achieve peace.

"It seems that [Jin] is determined... to wage war against us?"

He stood up and looked down at the rain outside the tower.

"Gather all the members of Akatsuki."

"I will wait for him here. They will experience firsthand how foolish and futile it is to defy God."

"...I understand." Konan responded softly, but the unease in her heart did not dissipate. She understood Nagato's will and was also aware of the near-invincible power and confidence granted by the Rinnegan.

Pain—or rather, Nagato, who controls the Six Paths of Pain—was somewhat wary of the strength shown by Menma and his [Jin] organization (such as the rumors of attacking Konoha without killing anyone and supporting Konoha in the fight against Orochimaru). However, according to intelligence, Menma possessed power at the level of "completely destroying a village".

And he, possessing the Rinnegan, is also able to do this, and even do it more "thoroughly".

In Nagato's understanding, the Rinnegan is the supreme eye technique, the only path to "understanding pain and creating peace." He does not believe that anyone in this world can truly contend with the power of the Rinnegan.

"Sorry to bother you."

A sudden voice broke the oppressive silence inside the tower without warning.

"!!!"

"!!!"

Pain and Konan turned around abruptly at the same moment. The purple light of the Rinnegan suddenly sharpened. Pain raised his hand, and the power of the Rinnegan was ready to be unleashed. The paper behind Konan immediately condensed, and huge angel wings suddenly unfolded. Countless sharp paper spikes rapidly condensed in the air around her, pointing directly at the source of the sound.

Behind them, where there was nothing, a pitch-black void tore through reality. A figure slowly stepped out from that void "door".

The first thing that catches the eye is that iconic fox mask, which is widely circulated in the shadows of the ninja world but rarely seen by anyone.

Faced with this overwhelming and imminent threat of destruction, Menma simply stood quietly before the Gate of the Void.

He didn't even consciously mobilize his chakra.

"Well..."

The voice emanating from beneath the mask carried a hint of helpless gentleness, completely out of place with the tense atmosphere on the scene.

"Don't get so agitated."

Menma's gaze fixed on the face of Tendo, the face that belonged to "Yahiko." Then, in a calm, factual tone, he uttered his first sentence—

A single sentence that could shake the hearts of those who knew the inside story.

"Nagato... Konan."

The very first sentence easily tore away the mysterious veil of "Pain Six Paths" as "gods," pointing directly to the true name of the manipulator behind them.

Pain's pupils contracted almost imperceptibly for a moment. Although the puppet body had no real physiological reaction, the shock and chill that was transmitted back to his original body through chakra was very real.

Xiao Nan looked at Mianma with a mixture of wariness and deep suspicion.

Ignoring the increasingly dangerous energy fluctuations around the two, Menma took a step forward, and the void gate quietly closed behind him.

"Let's have a heart-to-heart talk."