No, where does this portal come from?

When Itachi raised his head again, the three-magatama Sharingan in his eyes had turned into a kaleidoscope with strange patterns.

"Itachi...are you okay?" Hoshigaki Kisame asked tentatively, with Samehada in his hand ready. If Itachi showed any abnormality, he would step forward without hesitation and beat Itachi into a pile of meat paste.

At this time, the duo didn't have any deep feelings for each other, so Kisame wouldn't try to be affectionate with his teammates.

Looking at Hoshigaki Kisame's alert look, Itachi slowly shook his head: "...It's okay, keep going."

"The leader is still waiting for us."

Chapter 233 Akatsuki: What? I fight Sukuna?

Ten days later, Rain Village.

At this moment, Yuhu Zizai Jutsu had stopped being used after Nagato's body recovered.

The Rain Village, which has been humid and rainy all year round, finally saw the sun for the first time.

The dark clouds were blown away by the strong wind, and the people in the Rain Village looked up at the sky with great curiosity, trying to find out the reason why the sky cleared up.

For them, the sudden sunny day was like a miracle.

The dazzling sunlight also made them feel the warmth of light for the first time.

Tread-tap-

Rain-covered streets.

People stood in front of the door and looked up at the sky, not noticing that a group of strange figures wearing black robes with red clouds were walking into the Rain Village from all directions.

"Oh my - I didn't expect that after it rained for such a long time, the rain in Rain Village would suddenly clear up... What a surprise." A yellow-haired man with one eye covered by side bangs said with a hint of cynicism.

"But for me... it's still a good thing that it didn't rain. After all, the moisture would tarnish my 'art'."

"Heh—" A deep voice sounded from the side of Deidara, who did not want to reveal his name.

"The art you're talking about is those clay toys that only children play with?" The scorpion hidden in the red amber said with disdain.

Hearing this veiled ridicule, Deidara, who valued art more than his life, immediately exploded!

Of course, it didn't really explode.

Just a temper flared up.

"You are the one playing with toys! Or dolls that girls like to play with!" Deidara pointed at Kiryuuko.

Fei Liuhu turned his head and glanced at Deidara and said calmly: "I say again, this is a puppet, not a doll."

"And this is a 'higher art' that is hundreds of times more sublime than the 'art' you speak of."

"Higher art? That's hilarious! The so-called higher art is just playing with some dolls?

In my opinion, nothing compares to the art of explosions!"

"Art is explosion--" Deidara shouted excitedly, drawing the attention of the villagers who were still looking up at the sunshine back to him.

Looking at Deidara's foolish appearance, Scorpion chuckled disdainfully: "Haha - as expected, fools can't understand art."

"...Bastard!! Who are you calling a fool!!" Deidara yelled.

But when he saw that Jianxie ignored him and just continued to walk forward, Deidara snorted again and whispered softly: "If I didn't see that you are also a person with artistic talent, I would blow you up to the sky!"

After saying that, Deidara put his hands on his hips and took a few quick steps to catch up with Scorpion.

Scorpion and Deidara arrived quickly.

But Orochimaru arrived before them.

Hearing footsteps behind him, Orochimaru turned his head slightly to look at Deidara and Sasori.

When those iconic vertical pupils swept across everyone, it made people feel as if a giant python's tongue was licking their necks, giving them the illusion of goosebumps all over their bodies.

"Yo~ Scorpion."

"Is this the new person who will be your partner?" Orochimaru's slightly hoarse voice sounded in the space.

Fei Liuhu's eyes turned and met Orochimaru's snake eyes, but he did not answer.

"You're still as cold as ever." Orochimaru chuckled twice and moved his gaze to Deidara.

The chilling look made Deidara alert at the first moment, and he looked at Orochimaru vigilantly.

Just as the atmosphere was becoming increasingly tense, a deep voice rang out in the ears of several people: "Hey, Orochimaru, take your gaze away."

Immediately afterwards, eight figures walked out of the darkness.

It was none other than the Six Paths of Pain and Nagato and Konan.

"The leader?" Orochimaru looked at the eight people who appeared together.

When Orochimaru saw the seven pairs of identical Rinnegan, the smile on his face froze instantly.

"Is this... the Rinnegan? Or seven pairs..."

It turned out to be the legendary eye! ?

Orochimaru suppressed his smile and suppressed the shock in his heart.

"It's not seven pairs, it's one." The scorpion hidden in the red amber suddenly said: "Only one is the real body, the other six are just something like living puppets."

As the strongest puppeteer of the contemporary era, Scorpion could see at a glance that 'Pain' had a great deal of similarities with the living puppets he had made, and that the puppets were even more lifelike than his own.

This also gives Scorpio the illusion of meeting a confidant.

"Puppet?" Orochimaru's pupils shrank slightly when he heard what Scorpion said.

Orochimaru murmured softly, "Are those Samsara Eyes actually the symbols of puppets?"

"Or are these 'puppets' a 'jutsu' unique to the Rinnegan?"

Just as Orochimaru was secretly speculating, footsteps were heard again from the entrance behind him.

"Ha~~ It seems we are not too late~~" Feiduan walked into the cave with a sickle in his hand.

Behind him, Kakuzu followed Hidan with an expression of 'I don't know this guy'.

"You are indeed not too late." Nagato walked out from behind Pain and was officially exposed to everyone's sight.

"Huh? Who are you? How come I've never seen you before?"

"Is it the leader? That's not right... He feels different from the ones I've seen before..." Feiduan saw that the person who spoke to him was someone he didn't know at all, and scratched his ears in confusion.

He had seen the 'leader' before when he joined Akatsuki, but he had only seen the 'leader's' outline through the illusion body technique.

Even so, Hidan was certain that the outline and appearance of the person in front of him was different from the 'leader' he had seen before.

Before Nagato could reply, Orochimaru, who had recovered from his shock, spoke up: "It's different, but he should be the real leader."

"The real leader? What do you mean?"

"Could it be that the one before was just a puppet?"

As they were talking, Uchiha Itachi and Hoshigaki Kisame walked into the cave one after another.

When Uchiha Itachi saw Nagato and the Rinnegan in Pain's Six Paths Eyes, he was obviously stunned, but he still walked into the cave calmly.

"Itachi, look. Our leader seems very special~~" Hoshigaki Kisame looked Nagato up and down.

Uchiha Itachi didn't say anything after hearing this, but he kept his gaze on Pain a little longer.

Just as Uchiha Itachi was looking at Pain, Orochimaru walked up to his side without him noticing: "Itachi-kun, I always feel that you are a little different now than when you first joined a few days ago. What has changed?"

Orochimaru looked meaningfully into Itachi Uchiha's eyes.

However, at the moment their eyes met, Orochimaru's body suddenly trembled...

Then he came to the interior of the Tsukuyomi space and was tied to a pillar.

Before he could react, a sharp knife pierced his body.

Then came the second, the third...

After an unknown amount of time, Orochimaru returned to reality.

When Orochimaru returned to reality, he was suddenly drenched in cold sweat, and the fear on his face did not fade away for a long time.

This power...

Is that the Sharingan from just now?

No...that's not the three-magatama Sharingan.

So, what I just saw was a kaleidoscope? !

Thinking of this, Orochimaru raised his head, looked at Uchiha Itachi with scorching eyes, and gasped for breath: "Huh... What a terrifying power... I almost felt like I was going to die there."

"If there's a chance, could you let me study this power?"

"What do you think?" Uchiha Itachi switched his three-magatama Sharingan to a Mangekyō as a warning.

Seeing Uchiha Itachi's resistance, Orochimaru had no choice but to retreat, but the greed that remained at the corner of his mouth still revealed his thoughts.

Compared to the legendary Rinnegan, the Mangekyō Sharingan, which had just demonstrated its power to him, interested him more.

Although Hoshigaki Kisame, who was standing by, didn't know what had happened between the two, Orochimaru's words just now made him clear that there must have been a little friction between the two at the moment when he didn't notice.

Cross ——

The sound of footsteps spread throughout the cave, attracting everyone's attention.

What caught my eye was Uchiha Obito without his mask.

"This is Uchiha Obito, the member who replaced 'Zetu'." Nagato introduced to everyone.

"Replacing Zetsu? What does that mean? Is Zetsu done anymore?" Kakuzu asked in confusion.

Jue is an expert in daily intelligence work. Many tasks require it to help detect target information and then provide accurate directions for subsequent work.

Jue's departure also made Jiaodu feel like he had lost a great general.

In response to Kakuzu's question, Nagato said calmly, "Zetu betrayed Akatsuki."

"Or...Akatsuki discovered his true purpose for joining Akatsuki."

"His true purpose is to provoke the Fourth Shinobi World War, thereby resurrecting Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, the founder of Chakra, and then cleansing the world."

"After I discovered his purpose, Jue immediately betrayed the organization."

"So his position became vacant."

"But don't worry, although Obito's intelligence work may not be as good as his, he is worse than him in action." Nagato comforted everyone.

"Obito, you go back and form a group with Orochimaru."

"Yeah." Obito nodded slightly and walked to Orochimaru's side.

Orochimaru looked at Obito, scanning the person in front of him with interest.

Suddenly he said, "You are Minato's student, right?"

"His full name is Uchiha Obito. He's in the same class as Kakashi and Nohara Rin."

Seeing that Orochimaru had seen through his identity, Uchiha Obito nodded without any concealment and responded: "That's right."

"But I remember you died on the battlefield of the Battle of Kannabi. The information Kakashi brought back at that time was that you were dead."

"Could it be that you actually faked your death?"

Orochimaru was also very curious when he saw the fallen man reappear in front of him.

Even though he gave the Sharingan to Kakashi, he didn't actually die?

What kind of operation is this?

Facing Orochimaru's series of questions, Obito did not give any explanation this time. Instead, he said coldly: "Senior Orochimaru, don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask."

"Don't you know that curiosity kills the cat, Senior?"

As he spoke, Obito's Sharingan also turned into a Mangekyō.

It was only then that Orochimaru noticed that the eye that Uchiha Obito had originally given to Kakashi had been taken back at some point.

At this time, Obito already had dual Mangekyō Sharingan.

Seeing another Mangekyō Sharingan, Orochimaru instantly calmed down a lot.

Two Mangekyō Sharingan appeared in one day, which gave Orochimaru the illusion that the Mangekyō Sharingan was mass-produced...