The will of fire can't save the ninja world

Daming Mansion in the Land of Fire, night.

Since the new guests came to Daming Mansion, the secret defensive force has increased.

But for a truly top ninja, it's still almost the same as being undefended.

Nagato entered without warning and returned to his room.

He immediately took off his mask, stared at it for a long time, and suddenly threw it away angrily.

When he came to the bathroom, he rubbed his face vigorously, trying to let the cold water freeze all the distracting thoughts in his mind.

He recently heard that the Daming Mansion of the Fire Country was going to make moves against the Rain Country, so he went ahead to clear the last obstacle to the Rain Country.

Although this is not his dream, it is the dream of the people he once supported in the past.

Just think of it as a farewell gift - he advised himself.

In fact, he did it.

But he didn't expect to meet Xiaonan and the others.

I didn't expect that my mood was far less peaceful than I imagined.

He wiped the water droplets from his face and looked at himself in the mirror.

There is not much difference from before, except for the smile.

He looked at his face and then at his red hair.

I'm a little lucky that I covered it up early.

I was also a little annoyed that they didn't recognize me.

The conflicting mentality made him unable to calm down for a long time.

"At least, we won't owe each other anything from now on."

Nagato held up the water again and was about to wash himself off before going to sleep.

At this time, his ears twitched, and there was a slight movement in the room that caught his attention.

But soon, he relaxed again.

The familiar figure of Madara Uchiha appeared at the door. He leaned there and asked calmly: "Have you gone to the Land of Rain?"

Nagato was confused and explained: "I just went to collect a corpse. The reason why Sunagakure Village didn't win in the end was largely because there were not enough materials to reincarnate in the dirt, right? If Sansho Hanzo is included, maybe we

Can we do it again-"

Uchiha Madara interrupted: "You know that's not what I want to say."

Nagato choked and said angrily: "Then I say goodbye to the past. Is this a good reason?"

Uchiha Madara's proud height looked down at him and shook his head slightly: "No, this is a very good reason."

He turned back to the living room and continued: "I have never restricted your freedom. I just want to say that there is no need to hide this kind of thing from me. Do you know that not long after you left, Uchiha Yuye

You and Hinata Mio appeared in the Land of Rain?"

Nagato was shocked when he heard this. He no longer thought about washing up and chased out, "They..."

Nagato's strength is indeed enough to dominate the ninja world, but the prerequisite is that he cannot meet the top people.

Of those people, there were three on Xianyin Island.

With their hostile relationship, Nagato really encountered him alone outside and didn't even have a chance to escape.

Uchiha Madara sat down on the sofa and made himself a pot of tea. During this period of time, without Orochimaru helping him with chores, he felt tired for the first time in a long time.

He motioned for Nagato to sit down next to him and said: "They were naturally prepared to deal with Sansho Hanzo's matter in the past. The current changes in the Land of Rain are what they want to see, so they will naturally help at critical moments.

You can get the news from the Fire Country and know that they need help, but you have not considered the reaction of Xianyin Island after getting the news. It seems that your growth in the past few years has been affected by the war and is not very ideal."

Nagato was a little ashamed, it was indeed because he had not thought carefully about this matter.

Fortunately, he rushed over as soon as he thought of it. Otherwise, if he were to delay a little longer, he would really encounter the people from Xianyin Island and would not be able to come back.

Uchiha Madara just reminded Nagato and did not criticize him too much on this matter.

He changed the subject: "Tell me, how do you feel after not meeting your companions for a long time?"

Nagato was stunned for a moment when he looked at Madara Uchiha who was inviting him to sit down for tea.

Perhaps when he was mentally fragile, he looked at everything through a filter. At this moment, he had an inexplicable illusion that he was having a heart-to-heart talk with his parents at night.

Nagato concealed his emotions, sat down next to him, and said, "Actually, there's nothing to say. Maybe it's just that I was touched by the scene. I feel a little emotional when I see them who are familiar with them."

Uchiha Madara glanced at him: "Want to go back to the past?"

Nagato nodded, then quickly shook his head: "Who doesn't want to go back to the past? It's just that the past can never go back. They... are false after all."

Uchiha Madara looked at him: "You should know, that is their soul. Is the body important?"

Nagato sneered: "I do know that those are their souls. Ha, how could I not know? You have demonstrated it many times over the years, haven't you?"

What he was talking about was the scene of Orochimaru's filthy reincarnation. Nagato had indeed seen too many of them.

But it is precisely because I have seen too many.

Nagato said with a hint of resentment: "In the final analysis, it's just a way to manipulate the soul. Reincarnation in the dirt? No, it's not accurate to say it's a forbidden art, a ninjutsu, or a psychic. It's... just a...

This is a kind of soul puppetry. Our soul is the self, and our free thinking is the self. The soul that is controlled by others is no longer the same person."

"Uchiha Yuya resurrected them, just like Orochimaru, using them to control their souls to do what he wanted. They are now just more advanced... puppets.

"

"Rather than saying that I want to go back to the past, it is better to say that I want to gain stronger power in the future as soon as possible, kill Uchiha Yuya, and let them return to themselves and return to their true self!"

Uchiha Madara did not drink the tea hanging on his lips for a while.

To be honest, he was a little surprised.

It's not because what Nagato said makes sense.

Because Madara knows the truth, that kind of resurrection technique is more advanced than reincarnation.

More importantly, although he is an enemy, Madara does not think that Uchiha Miya will play with the souls of those two children.

Of course, this kind of misleading was what he did to Nagato, and it was strengthened with genjutsu and Sharingan.

But the problem now is that Nagato's reaction was more extreme than Uchiha Madara expected.

This is a bit embarrassing.

Because after talking with the Daimyo of the Fire Country, he gradually proposed Black Zetsu again to replace Orochimaru, and he himself was free now to prepare for his own resurrection.

Now that Nagato's loyalty has been tested, he has recently been hesitating whether to lend Nagato his Samsara Eye first and find an opportunity to let him resurrect himself with his life.

Through the resurrection of the Samsara Eye, he will be at his peak by then.

But now it seems that because of his influence, Nagato is now too repelled by things like resurrection from the dead.

Madara Uchiha doubted that if he proposed this plan, Nagato would also think that he would no longer be him after resurrection, so something would go wrong.

"Why......"

Uchiha Madara put down his tea cup and rubbed his forehead with a headache. This feeling of being trapped in a cocoon was very annoying.

And if this road doesn't work, Nagato is unreliable, and Kuro can't be trusted, then there seems to be only one way to get rid of the current physical predicament.

That is to raise one's life level to the dimension of an immortal, and use the jump in life level to offset the wear and tear on the body over decades.

In the end, you still have to get the tailed beast.

"What's wrong?"

Nagato heard Uchiha Madara sigh, and for a moment he didn't know if it was something he said that made Uchiha Madara dissatisfied, and he felt a little uneasy.

Uchiha Madara shook his head: "Nothing... By the way, Konoha sent people to Daming Mansion recently."

Nagato asked curiously: "Did the daimyo say the plan for two-way communication with Konoha?"

As the ninja village with the strongest Jinchūriki, Konoha is naturally the focus of their strategy.

Konoha's intelligence information needs to be obtained as much as possible.

The existence of Bai Jue is known to others, but it is impossible to rely solely on it.

We can only use the most primitive and effective method - to plant spies there.

This is the kind of two-way communication proposed by Daming Mansion.

Uchiha Madara smiled and said: "He actually wants to take this opportunity to get some experts from Konoha to protect his own safety and put pressure on us."

Of course, this pressure doesn't actually exist.

But it's the same difference as having a knife in your hand and not having a knife. The difference is not about the high winning rate when facing a ferocious beast, it's just about the comfort in your heart.

Uchiha Madara continued: "They proposed that Konoha send some ninjas to serve as guardian ninjas."

Normally, the ninjas around the daimyo usually have little relationship with their own ninja village.

After all, if even the guardians around him are Ninja Village, then if the Ninja Village has second thoughts, the threat to the daimyo will be even more direct.

This time the daimyo suggested that Konoha send twelve Jonin, and the price comparison was already beyond Konoha's expectations.

But Konoha, because of the daimyo's request, quickly agreed.

At present, the quota of ninjas has been determined and will be sent to them in a while.

These are all ninjas who have some reputation on the battlefield, from the Tsukiko family, the Shiranui family, and the youngest, Sarutobi Asuma from the Sarutobi family.

Uchiha Madara said: "Their candidates have been decided, and we will send them there immediately."

Only then did Nagato react, "You mean, I'm going to Konoha too?"

Uchiha spotted nodded: "We can't place all our hopes on that daimyo who doesn't go there for several years. We must have our own people to be reliable, and..."

Madara said that there was a rare hesitation here, as if it was difficult to speak.

He finally took a breath and spoke out: "After you pass, pay special attention to Minato Namikaze's... married life."

Of course, married life does not refer to weird things. That kind of thing could not be detected even if Nagato wanted to. Uchiha Madara was actually talking about when Kushina would become pregnant.

When they collect tailed beasts, the biggest obstacles are Senyin Island and Konoha.

The tailed beasts on Senyin Island were finally solved at the end of the war.

But Konoha's side is not only strong in power, but more importantly, the two Tailed Beast Jinchūriki themselves are also strong.

If you want to achieve your goal, you can only find some disgraceful moments.

This is indeed difficult for Uchiha Madara to say.

Although he is a ninja, Madara has always disdained being too carefree in his behavior.

But now the situation is pressing, and there are not many people around him who can be used.

Wait until then...it depends on the situation.

Nagato didn't think there was anything wrong with it. This was the way he understood ninjas to take advantage of someone's illness and kill them. It was a perfectly normal choice.

Uchiha Madara saw this and continued: "As for the identity, let me borrow the identity of the team member sent by the daimyo. Bai Zetsu will be with you."

Anyway, when the time comes, it won't be a big deal if one of the people sent by the Daimyo dies, and they won't be discovered when they come back.

And Bai Zetsu can be used as a parasite to help Nagato complete the form change. Even the Byakugan can't see through that level of disguise. Unless someone very close to him discovers some small details about the original owner, he won't be able to see through it at all.

After some explanation, Uchiha Madara left.

Nagato was lying on the sofa, somewhat unable to sleep.

I didn't expect that I would have to leave right after I came back, and to a strange place.

The name Konoha, at first he only knew that his parents died at the hands of Konoha ninjas.

Later it was the hometown of Mr. Jiraiya, then the birthplace of Uchiha Oya, the hostile ninja village on the battlefield...

"Konoha?"

…

The Fire Nation's Daming Mansion moved very quickly.

Two days later, two teams of guards and ninjas appeared outside Konoha Village.

The leader of the team was a jonin who was once responsible for guarding the daimyo of the Land of Fire.

"Nagaze, it's your turn."

The jounin registered the information and asked the team members to get their residence documents one by one.

The boy who was left behind looked like he had just grown up, and some of them were confused and followed suit.

And he is disguised as the combination of Nagato and Shiro Zetsu.

Bai Jue covered the surface of his body, making him look relatively strong. Compared with the bean sprouts of the past, no one could recognize him.

His identity was also secretly replaced. The original boy was a genius boy who was learning from the Daming Mansion Ninja.

Of course, saying he is a genius only refers to the standard of ordinary wandering ninjas.

If placed in Konoha, it would probably be above average, which would fall within the range of craftable materials.

Nagato received the documents and looked at the gate of Konoha with some emotion.

He is really here. He was clearly on both sides of the battle not long ago, but now he lurks in naturally. It feels inexplicable.

"After entering, study hard and watch well."

"Yashu, you are still young, you can apply to go to the Ninja School to check out the courses."

"Nagaze, you have basic self-protection capabilities. You can follow their ninjas to see how the commissioned tasks are performed."

The leader of the team took the trouble to explain their next mission.

There is a place for both young and middle-aged people.

As for what the leader and several adult ninjas were doing, they didn't say.

Of course, it is not difficult for Nagato to guess that their main task is to find out all aspects of Konoha.

From structure to power, from ninjas to civilians, from policy to public opinion.

They were definitely not simply looking for information for Madara Uchiha, but they had their own considerations in mind.

This kind of calculation can already be said to be a crisis of trust between the Daming Palace and Konoha.

Konoha might be able to sense it, but since the name is here, they don't dare to refuse directly.

Nagato soon settled in a location near the center of Konoha, together with two other people of the same age.

I have to say that although Konoha does not look as spectacular as the capital city of Damingfu, it is very warm and peaceful to live and work in peace and contentment.

Even a person like Nagato, who was orphaned because of Konoha and was at war with Konoha, has to say that Konoha is indeed a suitable place to settle down.

In less than half a month, he actually started to sleep in...

After interning at the mission commissioning office one after another, he gained some understanding of Konoha's methods of making money.

As for the target Uchiha Madara said he wanted to monitor, no movement has been seen so far.

Namikaze Minato is probably still busy, and the two of them can't see any signs of pregnancy for the time being.

"I'm afraid I'll have to stay a little longer."

As usual, Nagato finished breakfast and went to the internship office at almost nine o'clock in the morning.

While waiting, I saw the leader of the team for the first time in a long time.

The jounin looked at him slightly dissatisfied: "You should learn to enjoy it first."

Nagato said nothing, Nagasawa himself was a dull and upright person.

The jounin did not continue to criticize harshly, but said slightly seriously: "There is an important mission in Konoha today, and I have won a place on the team for you."

Nagato thought that he had finally come to life, and judging from the Jonin's attitude, the task seemed not to be easy.

The Jonin was about to say something more, but when he saw the white-haired boy coming out with the mission, he said in a short sentence: "This mission involves the internal affairs of other countries, how Konoha behaves, and the situation of the country over there. You can find

A chance to get to know each other better..."

Nagato nodded, but looked at the target he was going to follow this time, a little surprised.

That white-haired boy is Hatake Kakashi.