"Jeez, what's the situation over there?"
In five days and five nights, the Akatsuki organization had already sealed Shukaku. Even Matatabi had entered the final countdown stage of extraction.
In addition to taking some Food Pills to restore Chakra, all the members of the Akatsuki organization—like Sato and Namikaze Minato on the battlefield—hardly had a break. But at this time, they didn't show the slightest fatigue.
Deidara, who was part of the "atmosphere group," looked at Black and White Zetsu from time to time and asked.
Whenever he spoke, other members of the Akatsuki organization who were focusing on sealing Matatabi would also cast their eyes on Black and White Zetsu. Then, many people's gazes would shift to Yomi, who had his eyes closed. While concentrating on sealing the Tailed Beast, he seemed to be asleep, but in fact, he was multitasking.
Unlike the self-confidence he displayed five days ago, even though Yomi hadn't spoken for a few days, everyone could feel an aura of seriousness radiating from him.
This was the first time they had felt such an aura from this "old monster."
Therefore, even Deidara didn't dare to interrupt Yomi's concentration.
...The battle situation was not looking good for Yomi's clone.
Black and White Zetsu did not hide anything: "After five days and five nights of fighting, the Third Raikage, Third Kazekage, and Rasa (Fourth Kazekage) from Yomi's Reanimation Jutsu have all been sealed by the descendants of the Uzumaki clan on the opposing side."
"On the current battlefield, only the Fourth Hokage and Second Mizukage are left, restraining the Wood Style ninja and the descendants of the Uzumaki clan respectively."
"...That Wood Style ninja is so powerful!?"
Hearing Black and White Zetsu's words, Deidara couldn't help but widen his eyes and blurt out: "Didn't you say that the Reanimation Jutsu provides immortality and infinite Chakra? And that Fourth Hokage is still a perfect Jinchūriki? How did that Wood Style ninja survive until now? Does he also have infinite Chakra?"
"No, he doesn't have infinite Chakra."
Black and White Zetsu shook his head, and Black Zetsu said in a deep voice: "However, his Wood Style can absorb Chakra. If it weren't for the Fourth Hokage's Flying Raijin Technique, this battle would not have lasted five days and five nights at all. As long as the battle started, within half an hour, the Fourth Hokage would have already been sealed by the opponent."
"The opponent's Wood Style and the Adamantine Sealing Chains of the Uzumaki family are both capable of completely restraining Tailed Beasts."
The atmosphere of the cave fell into silence again.
At this time, Pain (Deva Path) suddenly said: "The sealing over these past few days has been hard work for everyone, especially Sasori and Deidara; your Chakra consumption is very serious."
"After Matatabi is sealed, leave the Jinchūriki's body to Yomi, and let Yomi send you away."
"...Tch, even if that guy doesn't need to send us off, Brother Sasori and I can leave safely... hmph!" Deidara curled his lips and spoke very arrogantly.
Everyone present could hear Pain's overtones. Neither Sasori of the Red Sand nor Deidara were opponents for Sato. To avoid putting them in danger, Pain was going to let Yomi take them away. But to preserve their dignity, Pain didn't say it so directly.
"...As expected of the second ninja after Senju Hashirama to master the Wood Style Kekkei Genkai. What a terrible brat."
At this moment, Yomi finally opened his eyes and sighed slightly.
"Yomi, is the battle over?"
Seeing this scene, the gazes of all Akatsuki members turned to Yomi one after another.
But this time it was not Deidara who took the initiative to speak, but the one who paid the most attention to that battlefield—to be precise, it was Black Zetsu, who was monitoring Namikaze Minato.
"Ah... I was tricked by that brat. It damaged the combat power of one of my aces."
Yomi said with emotion: "That brat has been hiding. In addition to the Wood Style of the First Hokage, the Water Style of the Second Hokage, and various Forbidden Techniques, he is also very good at Sealing Jutsu, just like that little girl from the Uzumaki clan."
"In the past few days of fighting, he actually secretly engraved formulas on my trump card, but he did not activate them immediately. Instead, he waited for the opportunity and then used Wood Style, contract-sealing formulas, and soul imprisonment to temporarily take away my control of the Fourth Hokage."
"And his purpose was to take away the other half of the Nine-Tails that the Fourth Hokage sealed into his own soul using the Reaper Death Seal, to help Konoha's Jinchūriki recover the Nine-Tails in his body."
Hearing the last sentence, the eyes of Pain and Black and White Zetsu suddenly flashed with brilliance.
It couldn't be better news for them, especially for Black Zetsu.
If the Nine-Tails Jinchūriki has recovered into a complete body, there is no need to pay an unknown price to get the other half of the Nine-Tails from Yomi—they just need to capture the Jinchūriki.
Sure enough, Yomi's next words couldn't help but make Black and White Zetsu and Nagato gloat.
Yomi said with a little regret: "It's a pity. I originally planned to use that half of the Nine-Tails to exchange for something with you, Leader."
"It doesn't matter. As long as our plan is completed, your dreams and ambitions will be realized," Pain said flatly.
"I'm going to get the ace back. I can't let them take the body of the Fourth Hokage away."
Yomi didn't hesitate and said, "After getting back the trump card, I will release the Split Entity and the Reanimation Jutsu. The strongest combat power in my hand is no longer a match for Konoha's Wood Style ninja."
"Thank you for your hard work. The seal will soon be completely over."
Pain nodded and said: "The corpses of the One-Tail Jinchūriki and Two-Tails Jinchūriki belong to you. After Deidara and Sasori lift the Five-Seal Barrier, you go and take those two corpses away."
"By the way, send Sasori and Deidara away."
"This reward is not enough. I also want three Jinchūriki corpses, and I can choose freely," Yomi bargained.
"Yes," Pain agreed without hesitation. Not to mention three, even if all the Jinchūriki corpses were given to Sato (Yomi), he didn't care.
"The Leader is generous as always. Then I will go there later," Yomi said with a smile, then closed his eyes again and continued to control the Split Entity over there.
At this time, Sato had also taken out the Nine-Tails from Namikaze Minato's body and put it back into Naruto's body.
For Sato's behavior, Kakashi did not object at all but told Naruto not to have any resistance. Half a Nine-Tails was already so powerful; if it were a complete Nine-Tails, then after Naruto mastered its power, he would definitely become a great force against Akatsuki.
Having witnessed the five-day and five-night battle between Sato and his teacher, during which they lost to the Second Mizukage many times and exhausted all their Chakra, Kakashi deeply understood the gap between them and the Five Kage.
After this rescue mission is over, Kakashi thinks it's time to propose to Master Jiraiya and Master Hokage that Naruto start learning to master the power of the Nine-Tails.
Konoha has Sato, a Wood Style ninja, and Karin, a descendant of the Uzumaki clan who mastered Adamantine Sealing Chains like his wife. With their help, Naruto will be able to quickly master the power of the Nine-Tails. And he doesn't need to be afraid even if he loses control; with Sato's exaggerated strength, he will definitely be able to suppress a rampaging Naruto.
Sato had no idea about Kakashi's thoughts.
When the Yin Nine-Tails turned into transparent red Chakra, penetrated Naruto's body, appeared out of thin air in the mental space of the Jinchūriki, and returned to Kurama's body through the iron cage, Sato ended the extraction.
"—"
And at this moment, a palm suddenly appeared out of thin air.
The Split Entity lifted the Dustless Bewildering Cover, stretched out his hand on the branch that bound Namikaze Minato, performed a technique that made Kakashi and the others stare wide-eyed, and disappeared out of thin air.
"How can it be..."
Kakashi's eyes widened, and he said in horror: "The Second Tsuchikage... he can also use the Flying Raijin Technique!?"