"According to the information sent by the clone, the legendary immortal ninja Kaku should be doing a mission nearby." Zetsu, with half of his body underground, said the information he had collected.
Just as Jue finished his words, there was a sudden loud explosion, echoing throughout the forest.
"It seems we have found the right place, let's go over there." Tendo Pain walked towards the direction where the explosion occurred.
They are members of the admissions office of Akatsuki, Tendo Pain and Zetsu.
After recruiting Musashi last time, Zetsu found the traces of two powerful ninja masters at the same time. Nagato thought about it and finally decided to act separately, which would be more efficient.
After all, it is not easy to find the whereabouts of these people. If you miss the opportunity, it will be difficult.
Confident in his own strength, Nagato took Zetsu to find the legendary immortal ninja Kakuzu.
Let Musashi and Konan go together to find the genius puppeteer of the Sand Ninja, Scorpion of the Red Sand.
In the dense forest.
"Is this all the strength? It's really disappointing. It seems that the harvest this time is not good enough."
Kakuzu strangled a bald ninja with a bounty on his head with an expressionless face, and then threw the bald ninja to the ground casually as if he were throwing away garbage.
"I hope I can meet a ninja with a higher bounty next time." After doing all this, Kakuzu prepared to leave to look for a new ninja with a higher bounty.
Such an opponent was not even worthy of him resting for half a minute. He longed for a stronger opponent because the opponent's bounty would not be low.
"You can't leave yet." Jue's despicable voice reached Kakuzu's ears.
Kakuzu looked back and saw an orange-haired man wearing a black robe with red clouds and an unknown creature whose body was half black and half white and was covered by pitcher plant-like plants walking not far from him.
"Who are you?" Kakuzu turned around, narrowed his eyes, and stared at the two people of unknown origin with an oppressive gaze.
"We are the Akatsuki organization, and you must be the immortal ninja Kakuzu. Please join us." Tendo Pain directly invited Kakuzu.
"Akatsuki?" Kakuzu was a little confused. He seemed to have never heard of this name. It was probably a rubbish organization from some unknown place.
If Kakuzu was someone who was very concerned about the situation in Rain Country, he might know the existence of Akatsuki. After all, Akatsuki once had a certain scale in Rain Country.
But unfortunately, Kakuzu doesn't care about the political situation in the Rain Country. He only wants to make money.
The Rain Country is still a closed country and there aren't any people with big bounties, so Kakuzu wouldn't care about that kind of place.
"Akatsuki is an organization established for true peace. How about it, are you interested in joining?" Jue said with a smile.
"True peace, huh." Hearing Zetsu's words, Kakuzu sneered. As a real old man in the ninja world, he had seen too much. The so-called true peace was just a dream.
"I don't care about or have any interest in true peace. All I want now is money," Kakuzu refused.
Because an organization formed for the sake of true peace was simply ridiculous, he would never join such a team leader to play peace games with those kids and waste his time making money.
After being betrayed by the village, Kakuzu no longer trusted anyone. In this terrible world, Kakuzu felt that only money would not betray him.
For the sake of the village, he even did something crazy like assassinating the first Hokage, Hashirama Senju.
After realizing the despairing power of Hashirama Senju, Kakuzu felt that he was able to return because Lord Hashirama Senju was magnanimous and gave him a chance to live.
Even so, the village's top leaders punished him severely on the pretext that he had failed to assassinate Hashirama Senju, and widely stigmatized him in the village, saying that he was the culprit who failed in a key mission and caused heavy losses to the village.
At that moment, Kakuzu understood why the village asked him to assassinate Senju Hashirama, because the village had no intention of letting him come back alive.
But unfortunately, Kakuzu was lucky enough not to die at the hands of Senju Hashirama and escaped alive.
The village leaders failed to achieve their goal, so they used this method to slander him and kill him.
The reason for all this may be simply because his strength threatens their status.
Originally, the village was his belief, but the backstabbing by the top leaders directly caused Kakuzu's faith to collapse.
Kakuzu escaped from prison with hatred, seized the village's secret techniques, and used them to kill all the high-level officials.
From then on, the elite ninja Kakuzu of Takigakure no longer existed, only the bounty hunter Kakuzu.
"It doesn't matter whether you are interested or not, just join us." Tiandao Pain said calmly.
He was long past the age of seeking like-minded partners to achieve peace.
It would be great if the recruited ninjas share the same ideals as them and want to create a peaceful world, but if not, it doesn't matter, they are just tools to catch the tailed beasts.
Hearing Tendo Pain's strong words, Kakuzu clenched his fists, frowned and said, "What an arrogant way of speaking. It seems like another fool who overestimates his own abilities."
He felt that he had given too much shame to this non-mainstream stranger in front of him, who was covered with all kinds of nails, for daring to talk to him like this.
Dense black tentacles began to emerge from behind Kakuzu. This was the secret technique, Earth Wrath, that he had snatched during his prison break.
The reason why he can live to this day and still look like an ordinary middle-aged man is all thanks to this ninjutsu. Theoretically, if he keeps replacing his heart, he will never die.
"Although you don't look worth much, you have already angered me." The black tentacles behind Kakuzu had reached his shoulders, and he looked extremely scary.
"Hehe, you want to fight me? Come on." Tendo Pain laughed faintly. Here was another mortal who overestimated his own abilities and wanted to challenge the power of God.
Tendo Pain stepped forward and said, "If I win, you will join the Akatsuki organization."
After saying this, the aura of Tendo Pain became extremely terrifying.
When Nagato uses all his strength to control Tendo Pain, Tendo Pain's power will become even stronger and more terrifying, and a full-strength attack can destroy one of the five major ninja villages.
"You guy..." Feeling the sudden change in Payne's aura, Kakuzu felt something was wrong.
"Thunder escape? Pseudo-darkness!"
Kakuzu quickly controlled the lightning-attributed mask and spit out a lightning spear.
"Feel the power of God, Shinra Tensei!"
A powerful force burst out from Tendo Pain, and the Lightning Release that Kakuzu had just released disappeared without a trace in an instant, as if it had never appeared.
At the same time, Kakuzu himself was under tremendous pressure. He felt that every piece of flesh in his body was trembling under this tremendous pressure, as if he was heading towards collapse.
"Damn it." Kakuzu cursed inwardly. This time he had really hit a wall. He had a feeling that if that person wanted to, he could destroy all his hearts in an instant.