Ōnoki was also silent for a while, according to the Anbu Ninja's report.
Besides a large area of destruction and these things at the scene, no clues about anyone could be found at all.
It seemed that these things were deliberately left behind for others to see, and it was definitely not left by the Lightning Kage.
The purpose was self-evident.
"It seems that the Fourth Raikage and the Eight Tails Jinchuriki are probably in grave danger."
Ōnoki slowly exhaled a breath of stale air. The death of his old enemy did not make him feel happy. Instead, it aroused a sense of inexplicable crisis.
Two Kage-level combatants had such an easy accident within their Land of Earth.
He couldn't figure out who in the Shinobi World could solve the A-B Combo so cleanly.
However, he could also be sure that the affairs of the Land of Rain had nothing to do with Konoha.
Could that man really still be alive?
Ōnoki was still thinking wildly.
"Tsuchikage-sama, what should we do next?"
"Do we need to continue investigating the Land of Rain? Or should we take this opportunity to attack Cloud Village?"
Kitsuchi expressed his opinion, but suddenly found his father glaring at him.
Then he floated up and punched him on the head.
"Ouch! Tsuchikage-sama, what are you doing?"
Kitsuchi looked at Ōnoki with some confusion.
"Shortsighted!"
Ōnoki looked at his son's stupid appearance and was furious.
"Are you an idiot? Immediately cancel all bounties related to the Land of Rain, and then send these things to Cloud Village."
"Understood."
Kitsuchi did not hesitate, and after agreeing, he walked towards the door.
"Wait."
Just as he was about to walk out of the door, Ōnoki called him again. Kitsuchi stopped in place with some doubts, waiting for Ōnoki's next words.
"You can vaguely express that Hidden Stone Village intends to cooperate with Cloud Village."
This made Kitsuchi a little embarrassed, and said.
"Is there really a possibility of cooperation between us and Cloud Village, given our hatred?"
"Stupid! There are never permanent enemies in the Shinobi World." Ōnoki scolded Kitsuchi again.
"If the Fourth Raikage and the Eight Tails Jinchuriki were not dead, they would definitely not agree to the cooperation, but if they really had an accident, with that woman's brain, she would definitely understand the benefits."
Kitsuchi was dizzy from Ōnoki's scolding, so he chose to give up thinking and do as Ōnoki said.
"Sigh—"
Ōnoki sighed deeply, suddenly connecting all the recent events together.
And the origin of this series of events seemed to have started from Konoha.
But soon, he thought of another thing.
The Sand Village was clearly next to the Land of Rain, but why hadn't there been any movement from the Sand Village for so long?
Could it be that something had also happened to the Sand Village?
"A troublesome autumn..."
...
Several days passed again.
Unlike the heavy atmosphere on the Hidden Stone Village side.
Everything in the Land of Rain was now developing steadily for the better.
After resolving the spies lurking in the Land of Rain and the A-B Combo, there were no more rats lurking in the dark.
However, a major event had recently occurred in the Shinobi World, and that was the new Lightning Kage of Cloud Village.
Cloud Village was a rather special village. This village had not shown itself to be very united. As early as the time of the Second Raikage, a rebellion had broken out, and even the Second Raikage had sacrificed himself because of it.
It was only when Kinkaku and Ginkaku died that the rebellion was suppressed by the Third Raikage, but the subordinates who had rebelled with Kinkaku and Ginkaku were not killed. Instead, under the Third Raikage's intimidation, they chose to submit.
When the Third Raikage sacrificed himself, those guys were thinking of causing trouble again, but the Fourth Raikage and Killer B's powerful strength suppressed them again.
This was why Mabui said that if anything happened to the Lightning Kage and Killer B, Cloud Village would fall into chaos.
And under the current circumstances, in order to prevent Cloud Village from rebelling again, Mabui directly pushed the remaining Perfect Jinchuriki of Cloud Village, that is, Yugito Nii, the Strongest of Cloud Village, to the position of Lightning Kage.
And such behavior undoubtedly caused a great shock to the Cloud Village. Although Yugito's strength was sufficient, she was actually from a Commoner background.
She could neither fully gain the support of the original Lightning Kage's interest group, nor was she liked by the rebellious elements in the dark. Now it could be said that she was barely maintaining the stability of the village entirely by her own strength.
However, Yugito Nii's strength was not as deeply rooted in people's hearts as A and Killer B. Such stability might not last long.
However, such an event did not have any impact on the Land of Rain. Even Naruto, who had personally resolved A and Killer B, was indifferent to it, as if it had nothing to do with him.
He was still busy with his own affairs.
Now that the situation in the Land of Rain had stabilized, Naruto had already planned to take Nagato back to treat his leg disability first.
Since Nagato's legs were injured by Hanzo the Salamander's Exploding Flame Formation, he had not recovered because he had to maintain the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and the Rinnegan. Now he could take him back for treatment.
Moreover, Naruto also planned to move the Eight Tails into Nagato's body. At this stage, it was estimated that only Nagato, who possessed the Rinnegan and the Uzumaki Bloodline, could use the power of the Eight Tails.
He was now occupying two Tailed Beasts alone, which was of no use. The Eight Tails' improvement to him could be said to be minimal. In the future, he could synthesize the Ten Tails and then take it out. Anyway, leaving a section of the tail would allow it to live.
Just as Naruto was about to call Nagato to go to Wave Country together.
"Leader, I'm afraid we'll have to wait in the Land of Rain for a while."
"Is there anything else?"
Naruto asked in confusion.
Nagato also said somewhat helplessly, "Not long ago, a member of the Akatsuki contacted me, and he is bringing a new member towards the Land of Rain."
"Akatsuki? Does the Akatsuki still have other members?"
"This... it's mainly because too many things have happened recently. If the other party hadn't suddenly contacted me this time, I'm afraid I would have really forgotten about him."
Nagato had a wry smile on his face, seemingly a little embarrassed.
When Nagato was preparing to attack Black Zetsu, Sasori happened to be in Hidden Stone Village performing the task of recruiting Deidara, and coupled with Naruto's battle with Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju, both of their emotions were unable to calm down for a long time.
So, for a while, they forgot about Sasori.
Naruto wasn't short on this bit of time, and directly asked, "When will they arrive?"
"It should be in the next day or two."
One day later.
Sasori stood in front of that big pit in the Land of Rain, unable to recover for a long time.
Where did you bring me? Is this still the Land of Rain?
And the little Deidara next to him had an equally dull expression, but on that dull face, a brilliant light burst out from his eyes.
"True art!"
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