Chapter 23 It’s obviously me first

Afterwards, most of the ordinary members of Akatsuki went back to rest contentedly, leaving only a few important core members to discuss follow-up countermeasures.

Nagato spoke first and asked, “Are we really going to carry out this mission given by Hanzo?”

Shiba Qinghe thought for a moment, nodded and said, “From the map, the location where the Sand Village team is roaming is very close to our base. Even if we are not doing anything to help Hanzo, we must deal with this group of Sand Village ninjas just for the safety of our own base.”

By the way, he also did not forget to further criticize Akatsuki’s current organizational structure.

“In addition, this incident also reveals that our intelligence work is really poor!
Even Hanzo got the news that a Sand Ninja appeared in an area so close to our base, but we knew nothing about it before! This is a serious disqualification! “

When he mentioned “disqualified”, his eyes pierced Yahiko without any hesitation.

He has always been like this, his rebellious nature is always shown openly.

But as the leader, Yahiko could only be completely speechless because of his criticism.

Because at this time, the Akatsuki organization is indeed not doing enough in many aspects.

It is not without reason that Shiba Kiyokawa described them as a makeshift team.

Then Shiba Qinghe suggested, “Let Xiaonan and I lead the team to handle the next mission. Nagato, you should take this opportunity to select a group of perceptive ninjas from the organization to be responsible for intelligence gathering. We can’t always be blind and know nothing about our surroundings!”

This matter is extremely necessary!

In the future, he was planning to assassinate Danzo’s minions who were sent to the Rain Country in advance. How could he talk about countering Danzo in his current state of being completely in the dark?
Nagato, who was just called out, was startled and subconsciously let out a socially anxious cry, “Huh? You’re actually going to leave this to me?”

He looked at his good friend Yahiko, then at Shiba Kiyokawa, with an embarrassment on his face.

He’s just a little dull, but not stupid. Isn’t this clearly a division of Brother Yahiko’s power?
Seeing this, Shiba Kiyokawa smiled gently. Although her smile was gentle, Nagato found it hard to resist.

“Nagato, you should know the current situation of your Uzumaki clan in the ninja world, right? You have seen what happened to Aunt Xiangye before. Looking at the entire ninja world, there are more than just the Kusagakure ninja village that want to capture and imprison the Uzumaki orphans.

If you don’t have good information, what if another ninja from another ninja village covets the blood and heritage of the Uzumaki clan? Do you want to watch your aunt fall into the abyss again?

Nagato, if you don’t have power, you can’t protect anything. Your aunt Xiangye has suffered so much before, you don’t want her to get into trouble again, right?”

At that moment, Nagato was completely shaken.

Originally, Yahiko’s position in Nagato’s heart was unparalleled, and Shiba Kiyokawa alone could not shake it.

But unfortunately, during the previous journey to Kusagakure Village, Shiba Kiyokawa forcibly implanted a new weakness in Nagato!
The blood connection, the long-lost family affection, the gentle maternal love, coupled with the pitiful life experience and experiences, made it easy for Uzumaki Kaoru to enter Nagato’s closed heart!

At that moment, even the childhood friends who grew up together could only lose completely.

From another perspective, could this be considered another kind of childhood sweetheart who came from nowhere? Shiba Kiyokawa thought for no reason.

Although this has nothing to do with love, Yahiko is still desperate this time, his poetry is defeated, his money is gone, and there is nothing he can do…

After struggling for a few seconds, Nagato finally nodded and said, “Okay, then I’ll be in charge of the intelligence work, Brother Yahiko. I won’t take up too much manpower.”

Given Yahiko’s personality, he couldn’t say no even though he was sad at this moment.

He forced a smile and encouraged, “Don’t worry, Nagato. It’s okay if you need more manpower. I will take care of other things in the organization.”

He couldn’t blame Nagato for something like this, but he couldn’t help but sigh in his heart.

Why is this happening? It was obviously me first… Konan, Nagato, it was obviously me who knew you first…

After arranging this, the party ended that night.

Shiba Kiyokawa believed that Nagato could handle the intelligence work well, because in the original work, after he turned evil, he was the only one who took on the intelligence blockade work of the entire Akatsuki organization.

Although that was aided by the bug-level ability of “Rain Tiger’s Freedom Technique”, it at least demonstrated that Nagato had the ability to identify and filter a large amount of complex information.

Shiba Kiyokawa is still very optimistic about this.

The next morning, he and Konan selected three team members and prepared to set off to the intelligence location provided by Hanzo of the Salamander to deal with the Sand Village ninjas who had sneaked in.

At the same time, a hundred kilometers away, the Sand Village group marked by Hanzo had just finished a night’s rest and were packing up their things for camping at night.

The leading senior ninja spread out a map, examined it carefully for a moment, and then waved his hand to call everyone over.

“After a few days of reconnaissance, we can basically confirm that the target that the bandits call a big fat sheep is the organization called ‘Akatsuki’ in the southern part of the Rain Country.”

The Sunagakure captain pointed to a location on the map. “They have a good reputation in the local area and often help the poor. However, they recently got a lot of surplus supplies from somewhere, so they were targeted by the surrounding bandits. According to reliable intelligence, their base should be near this area.”

Someone in the Sand Village Ninja Team laughed and said, “So, by killing that gang of bandits a few days ago, didn’t that mean we helped the Akatsuki organization? Then it would be reasonable for us to ask them for some reward, right?”

Another puppeteer from the Sand Village said cruelly, “Are you satisfied with just a little reward? Canaan, you are too kind. I don’t know how many small organizations like this are destroyed every day in the ninja world. Wouldn’t it be better to just kill them all?”

The captain of Sunagakure nodded, not caring about his teammate’s cold-bloodedness at all, and instead affirmed: “The war between the village and Konoha is now in a stalemate. Our foundation is still far behind Konoha. Even with the advantage of a surprise attack, it is difficult to make up for the gap.

At this time, every extra supply can help the village recover some of its losses on the front battlefield, so this time we must get all the supplies of the Akatsuki organization and bring them back to the village!

If we encounter resistance, let the Rain Ninjas from these small countries feel the gap between them and the big Ninja Villages!”

At this point, every Sand Ninja around was as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood!

Except for one female ninja who had not gathered around the captain from the beginning, and had been standing not far away, leaning against a tree and resting quietly.

The captain frowned and raised his head to question.

“Did you hear what I just said, Ye Cang?”

Ye Cang glanced at the man impatiently, and gave a cold and distant “hmm” as a reply.

Captain Sunagakure was very angry, but he couldn’t do anything to her.

Because if we really talk about strength, Ye Cang is far above him!
The other party was exiled to a small country like the Land of Rain only because he was not liked by the newly appointed Fourth Kazekage.

The captain can only use the only confidence that can suppress Ye Cang: identity!
“Ye Cang, I am the captain now!”

Ye Cang lazily said “Oh” again, and then added, “Okay, you have the final say, I hope you don’t regret it.”

Not only is the sentence structure wrong in this scene, but even the person being angered is the opposite.

After saying that, Ye Cang walked away as if nothing had happened.

On the contrary, the captain of Sunagakure was so angry that he wanted to slam the door.

(End of this chapter)