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"If I have time, I can also give you some pointers on taijutsu. But don't worry, you are still Jiraiya-senpai's disciples!"
He stated this solemnly.
"Eh...is that so?"
Yahiko listened in a daze, his little face filled with disbelief, and his tears stopped without him even realizing it.
He sniffed and turned to look at Jiraiya with a somewhat helpless expression.
Jiraiya was also taken aback by Sakumo Hatake's words, and froze on the spot for a moment: "Sakumo, you—!"
Sakumo Hatake smiled slightly and winked at Jiraiya: "What, am I wrong? Jiraiya-senpai—"
He paused, gestured to the two tearful children, and added meaningfully, "You should be coming back to see them soon, right?"
Jiraiya was stunned for several seconds before he came to his senses.
He paused for a moment, then finally broke into a hearty smile, giving Yahiko and Konan a thumbs-up: "Of course! Don't worry, you crybabies! I'll come back to see you whenever I have time!"
"I'm not a crybaby!" Yahiko wiped his nose and retorted loudly with red eyes.
Xiao Nan, who had been holding back her tears, burst into laughter at the scene, bursting out of her tears with a "pfft".
She blinked hard, holding back her tears, and a long-lost smile bloomed on her face.
The somber atmosphere inside the room vanished, replaced by a warm and hopeful ambiance.
Nagato stood to the side, completely dumbfounded: What the hell was going on with this development?! He couldn't understand it at all!
He, the person involved, was completely bewildered: the cruel farewell he remembered had been rewritten into such a tender scene, leaving him, the "person who experienced it," utterly baffled!
This change is too big!
[Ding! Nagato's emotional fluctuations have been detected! Emotional value +400!]
……
in the audience.
Obito was completely dumbfounded!
He leaned back in his chair, unable to come to his senses for a long time.
What are you doing?
Was his statement really that powerful?
Are Nagato and his two companions going to follow Kakashi's father, Sakumo Hatake?
Is it such a big deal?
Are they planning to join Konoha?
[Ding! Emotional fluctuations from Uchiha Obito have been detected! Emotional value +800!]
Chapter 180 Kakashi had met Pain before.
However, despite the unexpected developments in his dream, Obito did not feel the slightest tension or unease.
Anyway, it's just a dream, and it won't really affect his Lin!
Compared to all that, what Obito is actually more curious about now is: how will Kakashi react when he sees what just happened?
After all, Kakashi had personally witnessed Pain's Deva Path!
If he were to see his father, Sakumo Hatake, returning to Konoha with Pain...
Just imagining that scene made Obito's lips curl into a smile, revealing a mixture of schadenfreude and anticipation.
For a moment, Obito actually started to look forward to what would happen next.
……
time flies.
As dawn approached, the dream quietly ended, and everyone who had been caught up in it awoke from their slumber.
An inn in Amegakure Village.
Jiraiya slowly opened his eyes, his expression indescribably solemn and complex.
Jiraiya still vividly remembers the hint of resentment that Konan showed him in his dream.
The fact that Xiao Nan made that expression means that something serious must have happened to one of the three of them.
Nagato appeared in my dream, and Konan was sitting in the audience...
It's not hard to guess who got into trouble.
"Something's happened to Yahiko!"
With this information.
Jiraiya quickly deduced the truth: the guy who called himself Pain was probably someone Nagato had turned into some kind of puppet after Yahiko's accident, using the power of the Rinnegan.
Despite having deduced the truth in his heart, the weight of the truth still made Jiraiya feel suffocated.
He slumped down, his head bowed in despair. In his dream last night, he had at least entrusted someone else to look after his three children; yet in reality, he had simply walked away and ignored them completely back then…
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but laugh bitterly, his deep regret turning into a long sigh: "I'm such a failure as a teacher."
……
Meanwhile, far away in the Land of Rain, inside a tower, Nagato suddenly opened his eyes and awoke from his slumber.
"Hoo—" Nagato stared blankly at the ceiling, his chest heaving rapidly.
It took him several seconds to come to his senses. Recalling the bizarre experience in his dream last night, he still felt as if he had been in another world.
"Yesterday's dream felt incredibly real... but it was also far too bizarre..."
Nagato muttered to himself, his pale face filled with confusion.
The events in his dream still leave him somewhat bewildered.
Just as he was completely bewildered, the door creaked open from the outside.
A wisp of dampness, accompanied by the sound of rain clouds, seeped into the dimly lit room, along with a slender, graceful figure.
As usual, Konan carried in a basin of water, placed it skillfully on the low table beside the bed, and then leaned down slightly to help Nagato get up: "Nagato, are you awake?"
She asked in a low voice.
At this moment, Xiao Nan's pretty face had a strange expression, and her hesitant manner clearly indicated that she was still struggling with the various things in last night's dream.
However, Nagato was lost in his own thoughts and didn't notice the strange expression on her face.
Nagato pursed his slightly chapped lips, his voice low and hoarse: "Konan, I had a strange dream yesterday..."
Before he could finish speaking, he felt Xiao Nan's delicate body tremble slightly beside him.
Konan's eyes widened suddenly, and she asked in a trembling voice, "Is it about Yahiko and Konoha's White Fang?"
"How did you know?!" Nagato's heart skipped a beat upon hearing this, and her previously calm face suddenly changed color. "Konan, did you have the same dream yesterday too?"
His Rinnegan pupils contracted slightly, a surge of intense shock and confusion welling up within him.
Upon hearing this question, Xiao Nan's expression became even more complicated, and for a moment she didn't know how to explain.
She paused for two seconds, then finally shook her head with a wry smile: "I... saw your dream."
At this point, Xiao Nan herself felt that what she said was really absurd, and it became somewhat difficult to explain.
"You...you saw my dream?!"
Nagato was stunned, his exhausted face filled with question marks—what kind of explanation is this?
What does it mean to "see" his dream? He was so confused that he almost doubted he was still asleep.
Seeing Nagato's bewildered expression, Konan quickly recounted the bizarre experience that had happened to her the previous night in a few words.
From being sound asleep at home, she suddenly finds herself in a mysterious audience; to witnessing the scenes in Nagato's dream, and the people she meets who appear in the dream... Konan's narration is brief, but it is packed with information.
After listening, Nagato remained silent for a long time, trying to process what she had heard.
After a long pause, he finally frowned and asked, "So, the masked man and Jiraiya... they both showed up last night too?"
“Yes,” Xiao Nan nodded slightly and added, “And… they seem to be very familiar with that place.”
Upon hearing this, Nagato's expression became increasingly uncertain, and doubts began to grow in his mind.
He pondered for a moment, then suddenly seemed to remember something and asked in a low voice, "Is that guy... still in Amegakure?"
Xiao Nan shook her head and replied, "I went to look for him as soon as I woke up, but someone reported that he left quietly as soon as the dream ended yesterday, and we don't know where he went."
As she spoke, Konan frowned, clearly very concerned about Obito's whereabouts.
However, after listening, Nagato merely narrowed his eyes slightly and did not pursue the matter further.
……
At this moment, Obito is in a deep underground cave somewhere in the Land of Rock.
A large army of white Zetsu, all looking exactly alike, stood neatly in the center of the cave, each face facing the same direction.
Before them, Obito Uchiha stood with his hands behind his back, slowly pacing and surveying them, his whole body exuding a terrifying, chilling killing intent.
"Hmph—" Obito stopped in front of the line, his sharp single eye scanning the hundreds of White Zetsu clones. His brows furrowed more and more, and his face was darker than the shadows deep in the cave.
He suddenly spoke in a deep voice, questioning the trembling figure standing beside him: "Didn't you say all the White Zetsu were here? Where are the Uzumaki White Zetsu?"
The dark figure was half-integrated into the wall, with only one face visible – it was the sinister Jue.
Hearing Obito's chilling question, Zetsu was quite embarrassed and helplessly shrugged, "Uh... how would I know? That guy is pretty independent, you know that..."
"Is that so?" Obito narrowed his eyes and stared at Zetsu, his voice growing colder and carrying a deeper meaning: "Didn't you send it out on some mission?"
“I…” Jue’s half of his body trembled involuntarily, and he didn’t know how to answer for a moment.
He secretly groaned to himself: Obito has become increasingly difficult to please lately. He suspects him of being behind things if anything goes wrong, which is really exhausting.
He was about to say something in his defense when he met Obito's dangerous gaze from his crimson Sharingan. He shuddered and swallowed back all the words he wanted to say.
Obito stared at Zetsu for a few seconds, seeing that the guy's expression was blank and didn't seem to be faking it, before letting out a cold snort and waving his hand to interrupt: "Enough! No matter what, bring him back to me immediately. I have important things to ask him!"
Zetsu glanced furtively at Obito's dark and gloomy face, and dared not utter another word. "Yes, I understand!"
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