Konoha New City, Residential Area.
Following the address given by Makoto, Konan arrived alone, making her way upstairs and stopping in front of a door marked with the corresponding number.
She stood in place, lost in thought for a long time before slowly reaching out and knocking on the door.
"I'm coming."
A voice sounded from inside—familiar, full of energy.
The door opened, revealing a young man with red hair, fair skin, and handsome features.
Compared to the person Konan had met earlier today, he looked completely different.
"Konan?"
Nagato stared at her in surprise, quickly realizing that something was off.
The Konan before him appeared much more mature, and her entire demeanor had undergone a drastic transformation.
Moreover, her outfit closely resembled the Akatsuki uniform he once wore, though it bore additional red cloud patterns.
Konan gazed at the youthful Nagato, opening her mouth slightly as her breath trembled uncontrollably.
"Is Yahiko... here?"
"..."
Nagato found her question even stranger.
After a moment of contemplation, he responded, "Yahiko is at work today… Konan, are you alright?"
He stepped aside, making room for her to enter.
Konan walked into the room and was immediately struck by the familiar arrangement of the space.
Though different from what she remembered, many details bore a striking resemblance—the frog cushions on the sofa, the three frog-faced nameplates at the entrance…
Despite the unfamiliar setting, these elements felt deeply familiar, causing her body to tremble.
Tears streamed uncontrollably down her face.
"Konan, you…" Nagato was caught off guard, unsure how to react as he watched her cry.
Konan suddenly grasped his arm, speaking in an urgent, almost desperate tone, "Where is Yahiko? I want to see him!"
"Yahiko is at work…" Nagato replied blankly, but seeing her near-hysterical state, he quickly added,
"I'll go get him right now! Just wait here for a moment."
Without hesitation, Nagato dashed out of the house, heading toward Yahiko's workplace as fast as he could.
Something about Konan today felt completely different—like she wasn't the same Konan he had known.
When Nagato stepped into Yahiko's office, he was even more shocked.
Because Konan was here too!
"Nagato? What are you doing here?" Yahiko asked, looking surprised.
On the desk, there was a lunchbox—it seemed like Konan had come to deliver lunch.
Nagato stared blankly at Konan and asked, "Konan, you… how…"
Konan appeared slightly flustered.
After clearing her throat, she replied, "I just came to bring Yahiko lunch…"
But Nagato's eyes widened in disbelief.
At this moment, he was certain—the Konan at home and the one standing before him were not the same person.
Their demeanors were entirely different, and even their appearances had subtle differences.
Swallowing hard, he looked at both of them and said, "You two, come home with me right now."
Yahiko and Konan exchanged glances, confused by Nagato's words.
Nagato already knew about their relationship, so there was no reason for him to be upset…
Konan asked, "Nagato, what's going on?"
Taking a deep breath, Nagato explained everything about the Konan at home.
Both Yahiko and Konan were stunned upon hearing it.
Frowning, Yahiko asked, "Could she be a spy?"
Nagato, however, pondered, "That Konan… she feels like the real Konan."
Konan suggested, "Let's go back and check. In Konoha, no matter who she is, she won't be able to cause any trouble."
Just then, there was a sudden knock on the office door.
"Come in."
"Lord Yahiko, this is a letter from His Majesty," a clerk said.
"A letter from His Majesty?"
Yahiko was surprised, quickly stepping forward to take it.
After reading it carefully, he fell into deep thought.
"What is it?" Konan asked, glancing at the letter in Yahiko's hand.
"Do you remember Lady Tsunade from the Ten Crown Guards?"
Both Nagato and Konan nodded.
Tsunade, one of the Ten Crown Guards, was actually someone from another world.
This wasn't common knowledge, but Yahiko, given his high position, was aware of the truth.
"His Majesty said that the Konan at our home also came from another world."
..............
In a dense forest outside Konoha, the terrain had been directly altered by Makoto, who then placed the Gedo Statue he had brought here.
He also set up special barrier techniques around the area, making the massive body of the Gedo Statue invisible from the outside.
Anyone who tried to approach would be redirected elsewhere under the barrier's influence.
Sealed within this Gedo Statue were all the Tailed Beasts except for the Nine-Tails.
Once the Nine-Tails was also injected, the Ten-Tails could be fully awakened.
However, Makoto was in no rush to do so—he was more interested in the Rinnegan at the moment.
The brand-new Rinnegan he had brought from the alternate world was identical to the one originally from this world, both belonging to Uchiha Madara.
After mastering the ability to wield the Tenseigan, Makoto also attempted to control the original Rinnegan of his world and discovered a slight difference between the two.
This difference stemmed from the power of the Naraka Path.
The Naraka Path had an ability to summon the King of Hell to devour the souls of others.
The Rinnegan from the alternate world contained many more souls than the original one—these were the souls Makoto had brought over from that world.
In other words, those souls also had counterparts in this world.
Makoto released these souls one by one and soon discovered someone special—Shizune!
He hadn't noticed it before, but while he had revived Konoha villagers in the alternate world, Shizune had been one of those whose soul was extracted by the Naraka Path.
Thinking back, she was indeed absent from the Fifth Hokage Tsunade's side afterward.
"Are there any remaining female bodies in the research facility?" Makoto asked Kabuto.
"There are. Lady Tsunade only used one back then," Kabuto replied.
Thirty minutes later, inside the Biological Science Research Institute—
Shizune slowly opened her eyes, finding herself in an unfamiliar room, lying on a strange device, and wearing an unfamiliar outfit.
Instinctively, she tried to spring up, but as a medical ninja, she immediately sensed something unusual about her body.
"Who are you?!" Shizune questioned warily.
"Have you forgotten how you died?" Makoto asked directly.
Shizune froze, and then, as realization struck, her eyes widened in shock.
She glanced around, noticing that this place didn't resemble any kind of hell.
Was she… alive again?
"You're not dead now. I brought you back to life," Makoto said.
Shizune gradually calmed down and asked, "Where is this?"
"Konoha."
"Huh?" Upon hearing this, Shizune instinctively looked around again.
As the assistant to the Fifth Hokage, she had never known of such a place existing in Konoha.
"This is Konoha from another world. I went to your world and helped Konoha defeat Pain. Since your soul had been extracted by him, I brought you back with me when I returned."
"..."
Shizune listened, half understanding and half doubting.
To her, what the other person was saying sounded utterly absurd.
"It doesn't matter if you don't believe me," Makoto said.
"If you can move, then follow me."
Shizune hesitated for a moment.
The other person didn't seem to have any ill intentions—otherwise, she wouldn't still be alive and well.
According to what he said, she really had been killed by Pain.
With that in mind, she followed Makoto as he led the way out of the Biological Science Research Institute.
Makoto took Shizune straight to Tsunade's residence.
Along the way, Shizune kept looking around.
Some parts of this Konoha resembled what she remembered, but it was far more prosperous than the one she knew.
However, she couldn't figure out where the Hokage Rock had gone or what that giant figure in the distance was.
After knocking, the door was opened—by none other than Shizune herself.
The Shizune inside the house initially thought the Emperor had come to see her master, Tsunade.
But then she saw the woman standing behind him, someone who looked exactly like her.
"Your Majesty…"
"Is Tsunade here?" Makoto asked.
"Y-Yes… they're both here," Shizune stammered slightly in response.
"Hmm."
Meanwhile, the Hokage Shizune widened her eyes in shock upon seeing another version of herself.
"Shizune, who is it?" a voice called from the living room.
"It's… His Majesty…" the Shizune at the door answered.
There was a brief silence inside before Makoto saw Tsunade walking over.
"Lady Tsunade…" Hokage Shizune couldn't help but call out upon seeing her.
Makoto spoke directly, "This is Shizune from another world. That should be enough explanation for you. Her arrival here was an accident, so I'll leave her in your hands from now on."
After Makoto finished speaking, he disappeared from the spot, leaving behind two Shizunes and one Tsunade, all staring at each other in bewilderment.
At that moment, the Tsunade from the inner bedroom, having heard the commotion, also walked out. "What's going on? Who came?"
The moment she saw the two Shizunes—one inside and one outside the door—she froze in shock.
"Come inside first," Tsunade quickly said to the Shizune from the original world.
In the living room, two Tsunades and two Shizunes sat on the sofa, all staring at each other in silence.
"So, you're saying… this Shizune is also from another world?" the Hokage Tsunade murmured in thought.
She turned to the Hokage Shizune and asked, "When exactly did you come here?"
Hokage Shizune replied, "At the time… I was killed by Pain. The person who brought me here just now said he revived me."
"I see…"
So, it was during Pain's attack on Konoha…
The Hokage Tsunade pondered for a moment, then smiled at the original Shizune.
"Don't worry, you're safe here. I'm also from another world, though I arrived a little later."
After Pain's attack on Konoha, the Fourth Great Ninja War followed, and that war had ended within just a few days.
The Hokage Tsunade took her time explaining everything in detail to the Hokage Shizune.
She felt a strong sense of closeness to her since this was the Shizune from her own world.
Once Shizune had wrapped her head around the situation, she couldn't help but ask, "Then… can we go back?"
"…This world isn't bad either," Hokage Tsunade said.
"The person who brought you here is this world's Fifth Hokage. He unified the Five Great Nations and established the world's only empire—he's the Emperor of the Empire."
The Hokage Shizune looked at the two Tsunades in front of her and the other version of herself, still feeling like she was dreaming.
Shizune smiled and said, "Lady Tsunade is right."
She gazed at the version of herself from another world, feeling an indescribable sense of strangeness.
She thought to herself, So this is what Master must have felt back then…
"This world is quite different from yours. For example, in this world, Rin and Obito are still alive."
Hokage Shizune was shocked. "Really?"
Shizune chuckled. "You'll see for yourself soon enough. Rin, Kurenai, and Anko will be surprised when they find out another me has arrived."
Hearing those familiar names, Hokage Shizune gradually began to lower her guard.
So… all of this is real…
............
At Yahiko's Home
In the living room, Yahiko and Konan sat in the middle of the couch, while the two versions of Konan sat on either side of them.
"The Emperor has already told us about you," Yahiko said, addressing the Konan from the other world.
Ever since he walked in, she hadn't taken her eyes off him.
When he first opened the door, he had a feeling that she was about to rush forward and embrace him, but upon seeing the Konan beside him, she held herself back.
"Mm." The Konan from the Akatsuki of the original Hokage's world responded quietly.
Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan exchanged glances before Konan finally spoke to her other self.
"You came here… do you have a purpose?"
The letter from the Emperor had only mentioned that she, like Tsunade, was from another world—nothing more.
The Akatsuki's Konan was silent for a moment before she spoke in a sorrowful tone.
"In my world, Yahiko is dead."
At these words, Konan and Nagato instantly felt their breaths hitch.
After a brief pause, the Akatsuki's Konan continued, "Before I came here… Nagato had also died."
"…"
The three of them fell silent.
After some thought, Konan asked, "Can you… tell us about your world?"
Her world…
The Akatsuki's Konan finally shifted her gaze away from Yahiko and caught sight of the wooden flip plaque near the entrance, bearing the three of their names.
It was something Jiraiya-sensei had taught them—to flip it to the red side when they were home and to the white frog side when they left, with the white frog symbolizing I'll be back soon.
Back when they lived in a war-torn and difficult environment, this was how they reassured each other of their safety, a sign that their small family was still intact.
The Akatsuki's Konan remained silent for a long time before she finally spoke.
"We founded the Akatsuki… we had many like-minded comrades…"
She began recounting everything—how they formed Akatsuki, how Hanzo the Salamander betrayed them, how Yahiko sacrifice himself, how Nagato changed the organization… all the way to Nagato's death.
Time passed, and the only voice in the room was hers, as Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan quietly listened.
When the room finally fell into a long silence, Konan gradually came back to her senses from the sorrow that had settled in.
Everything her counterpart had spoken about made her instinctively put herself in her place—experiencing all the pain as if it were her own.
Yahiko was gone forever, and so was Nagato...
Konan couldn't even begin to imagine what a life like that would be like.
Suddenly, she stood up and quickly stepped forward, embracing the other Konan—embracing herself.
"It must have been so painful..."
Pain...
The Akatsuki's Konan had thought she had long since grown numb to it.
But today, when she saw Yahiko again, she felt the weight of that pain once more.
She had never truly moved on from Yahiko's death.
In response, she slowly lifted her own arms, wrapping them around the Konan before her, burying her face in her counterpart's embrace without saying a word.
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