Naruto, starting with immortality, I'm going to buy up the ninja world!

Chapter 344 Recruiting Manpower

At the Akatsuki headquarters, Nagato sat on a stone chair in front of the Gedo Mazo, scrolling through his phone.

"Nagato!"

Obito, in his Hollowfication form, directly located Nagato.

Nagato glanced up at Obito, then continued scrolling through his phone, asking casually.

"You're back. Are you done with everything?"

"Well, I brought back some good news and some bad news."

Hearing this, Nagato raised an eyebrow.

"Weren't you busy with your own affairs? Never mind, let's talk about the bad news first. After all, so far, our Akatsuki's plans have been going smoothly."

"Itachi Uchiha is dead, and his body was taken away by his younger brother."

"Oh?"

This news made Nagato temporarily take his eyes off his phone.

"He's dead? In this duel between the Uchiha brothers, the older brother lost to the younger brother."

"Yes, Sasuke Uchiha is very strong, and he has also awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan."

"That shouldn't be the case. Itachi Uchiha has been awakening his Sharingan for a long time, while his brother has only been awakening it for a short time. Logically speaking, he shouldn't have lost."

As she spoke, Nagato suddenly thought of something.

"Oh, that's right. With Itachi Uchiha's sickly body, even if he didn't die at the hands of his younger brother, he probably wouldn't live much longer."

"Tsk, what a pity, our Akatsuki has lost another great general."

"It doesn't matter, he doesn't do much work anyway, and besides, I brought back some good news."

"So, what's the bad news?"

Obito said with a hint of smugness.

"I've found the Three-Tailed Beast."

"Three tails!"

Nagato's tone rose two points.

Although he had never met Rin, he had heard Yahiko and Konan mention that there was such a junior sister who was skilled in using the Flying Thunder God Technique and the Rasengan, and was also the Jinchūriki of the Three-Tails.

When he has nothing to do, his biggest hobby is chasing after Obito Uchiha.

However, despite years of fighting between the two, Rin has never used the power of the Three-Tails.

What happened this time that made Junior Sister Lin use the power of the Three-Tails, thus causing Obito to find out that she possessed the Three-Tails?

"Did you bring the Three-Tails back?"

Obito shook his head.

"No, the Three-Tails has been sealed away, and it's working perfectly with that Jinchuriki. I couldn't bring the Three-Tails back."

Hearing this, Nagato secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Although he knew that Rin, who had mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique, wouldn't be captured so easily, hearing Obito say that he hadn't captured the Three-Tails Jinchuriki still reassured him a lot.

Obito continued.

"However, none of these are problems. The most important thing is that I know that the Three-Tails has been resurrected, and I also know who its Jinchuriki is."

All that's left to do is defeat that guy, bring him back, and complete the seal.

“You’re right, but we still have one more problem to deal with.”

Nagato reminded her.

"Scorpion is dead, Itachi is dead, and we have lost many of our junior members in several large-scale operations."

Our upcoming mission to capture Jinchuriki will only become more difficult; it's time to reinforce our manpower.

"You're right, we really need to hire more people."

Obito knew that things would indeed turn out as Nagato had predicted, and he agreed with the suggestion to replenish manpower.

"How about this, contact Jue, he should be able to find suitable replacements."

As he spoke, Obito took out his phone and symbolically sent a message to Black Zetsu.

A little while later, an aloe vera plant sprouted from the ground.

Jue emerged from underground.

"Chief, you've been looking for me."

Although Nagato knew that Zetsu and Obito were in cahoots, he still continued his act.

“Absolutely! Our organization urgently needs to replenish its manpower. Do you have any reliable information that can help us expand our workforce?”

"Should we expand our manpower?"

Black Zetsu thought it over carefully. As the Akatsuki's intelligence agent on the surface, and the old ninja who secretly monitored the entire ninja world, he had never relaxed his collection of intelligence from all sides of the ninja world.

"There really was one. One of Orochimaru's students betrayed him. He stole the contract from Ryuchi Cave and practiced Sage Mode there."

However, they are currently being hunted down by Orochimaru's Sound Village.

Upon hearing this, Obito couldn't help but laugh.

"Heh, a village founded by a rogue ninja has produced a rogue ninja, how laughable."

Moreover, this guy is Orochimaru's disciple.

So, does this mean that Orochimaru's graduation ceremony will involve killing his own teacher, just like Orochimaru did?

If that's the case, then he has truly mastered Orochimaru's essence.

"Interesting. How strong is that guy?"

Black Zetsu replied.

"He is very strong. There are very few people in the ninja world who have mastered the Sage Mode, and he has mastered the most difficult Sage Mode in the Third Hokage's sacred land, Ryuchi Cave. His strength is naturally not weak."

Furthermore, when he fled Otogakure, he stole many ninjutsu that Orochimaru had brought from Konoha, including some forbidden techniques.

"Forbidden Technique!" *2

Upon hearing this word, Obito and Nagato exchanged a glance.

Obito was an unexpected rogue ninja who managed to steal forbidden techniques from Orochimaru.

Nagato, on the other hand, remembered the technique Tetsuya had taught him before; the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique seemed to be a forbidden technique of Konoha.

"I think we should make contact with this guy. What do you think, Chief?"

Obito looked at Nagato. Regardless of what Nagato thought, he intended to make contact with this rogue ninja from the Sound Village and see if he could recruit him.

"Yes, I think so too. Let's leave this task to you and Jue."

"Okay, leave it to us."

"We guarantee the mission will be completed."

After saying that, Obito left with Black Zetsu.

Nagato smiled as he watched the two disappear.

"Master Tetsuya is right. With bait like this, it's hard for a big fish not to take the bait."

At the border of the Land of Fields, a figure sped past, with a group of people relentlessly pursuing him.

"Stop right there, you traitor, don't even think about escaping!"

"Kabuto Yakushi, you can't escape!"

"Give up resistance, hand over what you stole, and come back with us to confess your crimes."

"Why waste words with him? Either come back with us, or we'll take his corpse back with us!"

Kidomaru shouted and drew his bow and arrow.

The drawing of the bow and nocking of the arrow were done in one smooth motion.

A golden arrow pierced the air, heading straight for Yakushi Kabuto's neck.

Just as the arrow was about to pierce Kabuto's neck, Kabuto suddenly turned around, a blue chakra blade condensing in his hand, and with a wave of his hand, he cut Kidomaru's arrow in half.

However, this also slowed down Kabuto's speed.

"A perfect opportunity! Spiritual communication, Rashomon!"

A huge and hideous demon-faced gate was summoned by Sakon and Ukon, directly blocking Kabuto Yakushi's path.

"Watch this! Whoosh!"

Jirobo plunged both hands into the ground and exerted force suddenly.

"Earth Release: Earth Mound Dumplings!"

Jirobo pulled a huge rock out from below and hurled it directly at Kabuto Yakushi.

Looking at the boulder that was hurtling towards him like a small mountain, Kabuto Yakushi chuckled dryly.

"Hey, hey, hey, don't go that far."