"What did you say!"
Obito's old secrets were laid bare, and he was instantly both shocked and enraged, glaring furiously at Yasuo.
Yasuo completely disregarded Obito's gaze filled with killing intent and only sneered coldly: "There is also your share in the Uchiha clan massacre. Don't think I'll let you off easily!"
"You should count yourself fortunate!"
"Before I'm finished dealing with Itachi, I don't have time to come looking for trouble with you!"
"I will make you two live in hell!"
"How daring!"
Obito erupted in fury, slapped the table, and stood up, fierce light shooting from his eyes.
Yasuo also refused to show weakness; he suddenly stood up, glaring at him head-on like needle tip against wheat awn, very much as if a single disagreement would see them come to blows.
Just as Obito was preparing to strike first and kill off this guy who knew his background, a tremendous pressure suddenly descended from above, forcibly pressing the two of them back down into their original seats.
"Enough, both of you shut up!" Pain shouted angrily.
"Do not try to challenge my patience!"
"I'll say it again: internal infighting within the organization is not allowed!"
Seeing Pain lose his temper, Uchiha Yasuo immediately sat up straight, putting on the look of an obedient child. Smiling with narrowed eyes, he raised his hand and said: "Leader, I was only saying some information about Uchiha Obito; I wasn't stirring up any internal strife."
"It's all because he's too sensitive, afraid his old secrets would be exposed by me, so he threatened me, and that's why I only counterattacked passively."
"Hmph!"
Pain glared at him once, warning him to shut up, then stepped in to break things up and said: "This matter ends here. Whether he is Uchiha Madara or Uchiha Obito is not important."
"As long as he shares the same goal as the organization and can help us subdue the various countries of the shinobi world and let the world return to peace, then he is our comrade!"
Though he said this, in his heart he had actually already believed Uchiha Yasuo's information.
Previously, his wariness toward "Uchiha Madara" was purely because this person was too mysterious and his motives for acting were unclear, making it hard for him not to suspect that this fellow had some kind of scheme behind the scenes.
However, if his identity were known, then by carefully investigating his experiences and background, it would naturally not be difficult to make an accurate judgment about the aims of his actions and thereby determine whether he was enemy or ally.
On the contrary, when it came to martial strength, Pain did not care; after all, no matter how strong, it was only at the level of an ordinary human and could not be compared to him, this God.
Seeing Pain step in on his behalf, Obito had no way around it. He could only sit back down in his seat with an angry huff, arms crossed over his chest, glaring viciously at Uchiha Yasuo while pondering in his heart how to remove this variable in his plan.
"I understand."
Itachi, who had been sitting to the side and had not said a word since sitting down, suddenly spoke: "I have been observing you all this time and have also made some guesses about your information."
"The dōjutsu of the Mangekyō Sharingan are often unreasonable, but the reasons for their emergence can all be traced back."
"The Sharingan is the eye of the mind, and the Mangekyō Sharingan represents the most urgent wish in the owner's heart at the time of awakening."
"I recalled the situation back then. With a single stab I pierced through your heart, and then conveniently killed your father, mother, and younger brother as well, just like crushing an ant to death."
Uchiha Itachi also imitated Uchiha Yasuo's manner, beginning to use vicious language to provoke the other party.
Facing Uchiha Yasuo's eyes that looked as though they were spewing flames, Uchiha Itachi's lips also split into a delighted grin.
"When I slaughtered your entire family, what was your wish at that time?"
"With your beloved father, mother, and younger brother all collapsing before you, your most urgent wish should have been to save their lives, right?"
"So you developed a healing ability that transformed your ocular power into Yang Release."
"You previously said yourself that this ability was called 'Inaba no Hakuto'."
"According to legend, that name symbolizes healing and prophecy, as well as loyalty and repaying kindness."
"I can't see anything related to 'loyalty and repaying kindness' on you, so the dōjutsu of your two eyes should be 'healing and prophecy', right?"
"Enough, all of you shut up!"
Seeing the three Uchiha constantly exposing one another and flinging each other's information out, Pain grew even angrier.
"Adding another prohibition: from now on, no one is allowed to leak the information of any organization member to anyone, not even to people inside."
Uchiha Itachi had already said everything he wanted to say, so naturally he no longer objected and obediently shut his mouth.
Uchiha Yasuo stared fixedly at Uchiha Itachi for a moment, then suddenly broke into a smile.
"Well, if you think it's prophecy, then let it be prophecy."
Since the two of them stopped talking, the others naturally had no objections either, all withdrawing their gossiping expressions.
However, in everyone's eyes as they looked at Uchiha Yasuo, there were now several shades of peculiarity.
The ability of prophecy!
It truly was a powerful and practical ability!
Pain swept his gaze around. Seeing that everyone had settled down, he continued the meeting and said: "Since Uchiha Yasuo wants to be partnered with Orochimaru, and Orochimaru has no objections, then we will adjust things: Yasuo and Orochimaru are one team, Sasori and Itachi one team."
"Sasori, Itachi, do you two have any objections?"
Sasori and Itachi exchanged a glance and both shook their heads.
"Very good, then teams will be arranged this way."
"Next, back to proper business."
"Originally, the Akatsuki organization intended to hide its brilliance and develop secretly and slowly, until we had accumulated enough strength to gather all nine tailed beasts in one stroke, and then use the power of the Ten Tails to overthrow the rule of the Five Great Nations."
At this point, Pain paused. "I suppose the newcomers still don't know what the Ten Tails is. The Ten Tails is—"
"I know!"
Uchiha Yasuo suddenly raised his hand high again and interjected: "The Ten Tails is the source of all tailed beasts and the incarnation of the Divine Tree. After the Sage of Six Paths sealed the Rabbit Goddess, he cut apart the Ten Tails and turned it into the nine tailed beasts, and the body of the Ten Tails became the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path."
"After injecting the chakra of the nine tailed beasts into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, the Ten Tails can be revived, possessing world-destroying power."
Pain looked speechlessly at Uchiha Yasuo.
Good grief!
'Even I don't know anything about any Rabbit Goddess, and yet your information is more complete than mine—still claiming your dōjutsu ability isn't "prophecy"?'
"Fine, since you know, then I'll spare myself the explanation."
Pain paused, then continued: "Although the plan is perfect, accidents always come unexpectedly. What we need to do is handle the accidents and allow the plan to proceed smoothly."
"Since we have now clashed with Konohagakure, I imagine war will break out very soon."
"At present, the organization's preparations are still insufficient. We lack manpower, and various strategic resources are in shortage. The weapons of the Asura Path and the summoning beasts of the Animal Path all require large amounts of money and materials."
"Even if the Land of Fire wants to attack the Land of Rain, it still needs to investigate information first. We still have some preparation time."
"In regard to this, does anyone have any good suggestions?"
As soon as Pain finished speaking, he saw Uchiha Yasuo raise his hand high once again.
"What are you trying to do again?"
Pain immediately grew angry.
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