After Nagato completed the hand signs, he glanced at Konan, the last person he held dear in this world, and then unleashed the "Rinne Rebirth Jutsu" with all the chakra he had. The Rinnegan in his eyes consumed its power at an alarming rate, and countless threads of chakra burst forth from his body.
These chakra threads scattered throughout Konoha Village, connecting with the bodies of the deceased villagers. Slowly, the souls of many slain villagers returned to their bodies, and more and more villagers were resurrected. Even Kakashi came back to life.
At that moment, Kakashi, who was conversing with his father in the afterlife, felt the call from the living world. Smiling, he said, "Father, it seems I won't be staying dead this time." Sakumo Hatake, as if he had anticipated this outcome, smiled and said, "You've taught a good student."
Although he wasn't sure if it was Yoruha who did it, based on what Kakashi had said about Pain's power, Kakashi knew that at that time, aside from Yoruha, no one in Konoha could have defeated him. Even Sasuke might have felt pressured. Of course, this was because kakashi wasn't fully aware of Sasuke's strength yet.
Kakashi also believed that Yoruha must have returned to the village. He smiled and said, "That kid finally came back. Konoha really can't do without him." Yoruha was the most outstanding student Kakashi believed he had ever taught, and he even regarded Yoruha as his only true disciple.
Even now, Kakashi felt that Yoruha might have become just as strong without him. Sakumo smiled and said, "Go back. With him in Konoha, at least for a while, I won't be seeing you again." Kakashi nodded, and his soul followed the guiding chakra back to the living world, returning to his body.
All the villagers and shinobi of Konoha were resurrected. Seeing the villagers gathered, Tsunade, who had been sent to a safe place to recuperate by Yoruha, smiled. "He did it."
Lying beside Tsunade, Sakura also smiled and said, "I knew they could do it." Tsunade looked at Sakura, "Sakura, without those two, Konoha might have become nothing more than a relic of history."
Sakura chuckled, "This was an unexpected event. No one expected the leader of the Akatsuki to be so powerful, not even the mighty Jiraiya-sama succeeded, and even Naruto, who learned Sage Mode, couldn't win."
This was indeed unexpected. Originally, Yoruha thought that even if Sasuke learned the truth about the Uchiha massacre and left Konoha, with Naruto in the village, things would end up as in the original story, with Naruto unleashing the power of the Nine-Tails to defeat Pain.
Who would have thought Naruto would lose, even after fully unleashing the Nine-Tails' power? In the original story, when Naruto defeated Pain, he hadn't fully unleashed the Nine-Tails' power.
On the other side, after casting the Rinne Rebirth Jutsu, Nagato's life force rapidly dwindled. In his final moments, he looked at Yoruha, "Yoruha, I hope you keep your promise."
Yoruha nodded, "Rest assured, I will ensure that the Land of Fire doesn't attack the Land of Rain."
"Please, change those mistakes, at least let the Land of Rain have enough to eat," Konan sobbed, her head bowed, unable to look up at Nagato. The three of them had been war orphans since childhood, and they regarded each other as the most important family in the world.
But after Yahiko's departure, now Nagato was leaving too, leaving her alone. Konan felt deeply saddened. Sensing that the people of Konoha Village had been revived, Yoruha said to Nagato, "I will keep my promise." Nagato glanced at Yoruha and said, "I believe you."
Even if he didn't believe it, at this moment, he could only say he did. Of course, Nagato truly trusted Yoruha, even though it was their first meeting. After speaking, Nagato's life force was completely exhausted.
His body fell limply. Yoruha turned away, not bothering with Konan. He had promised not to trouble her, especially since Konan had her own matters to attend to.
Naturally, Yoruha wouldn't lay a hand on her. Sasuke merely glanced at Nagato before turning to leave with Yoruha. The conversation just now had not only a significant impact on Nagato and Konan but also on Sasuke.
Always a bit of a lone wolf, he gradually learned to think about problems more rationally. Now, he fully agreed with the solution Yoruha proposed for dealing with the Uchiha clan's massacre. Originally, Sasuke had wanted to implicate the Third Hokage, but now he had abandoned that idea.
The Third was the Hokage, and if Sasuke were to become the Sixth Hokage, he couldn't associate the severe crime of the Uchiha clan's massacre with the Third Hokage. It would be too damaging to the Third's reputation, and by extension, to the Hokage's authority.
Moreover, the Third wasn't the main person responsible for the Uchiha massacre. It was just that his handling of Danzo was too lenient, merely dismissing him from his position as Hokage advisor and disbanding Root. And even then, the disbandment of Root was only temporary; Danzo later reassembled it, and the Third turned a blind eye.
This was the Third's mistake. After learning the truth of what happened back then, Sasuke clearly understood that there was no need to implicate the Third, nor could he. Any responsibility that could be shifted to Danzo should be, because he was the Hokage.
Now Sasuke felt no psychological burden; even if he became Hokage in the future, he wouldn't pursue the Third Hokage's mistakes. After Yoruha and Sasuke left, Konan used her Paper Jutsu to wrap the bodies of Nagato and Yahiko, flying towards the Land of Rain.
Konan's Paper Jutsu was a mysterious technique, allowing her to transform her body into paper, immune to many physical attacks, and summon numerous explosive tags, later giving Uchiha Obito a shocking display.
Those six billion explosive tags, if sold in the ninja world, could probably solve the Land of Rain's financial crisis immediately.
Konan's explosive tags weren't purchased with Kakuzu's funds; the price of explosive tags was extremely high, even among ninja tools, they were considered high-end and expensive, and they were consumables. The money Kakuzu earned was far from enough to buy so many explosive tags.
The same was true for Tobirama Senju's Mutual Multiplying Explosive Tags. Similar to Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique, it continuously summoned explosive tags from another dimension to detonate, and the explosive tags in that dimension were constantly replicated through techniques like Clone Technique or Shadow Clone Technique.
Konan's Paper Jutsu was actually quite powerful, but she rarely engaged in combat.
Her true strength was difficult to gauge.
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