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War.
It had begun.
The Jōnin sent by the four great ninja villages had indeed discovered the Akatsuki Organization's base in the Land of Rain and reported back to their respective villages.
The Kazekage of Sunagakure, the Tsuchikage of Iwagakure, and the Mizukage of the Hidden Mist Village, in cooperation with the Raikage from the Hidden Cloud Village, gathered four hundred ninjas and advanced together toward the Land of Rain.
In their opinion, four hundred was enough.
But when they arrived at the Akatsuki's base, they found that Nagato had already led the six paths of Pain along with Konan, Kakuzu, Hidan, Hiruko, and Kisame Hoshigaki to wait outside.
What shocked the Kage of the four great ninja villages was that five of those six paths of Pain were the five lords of the five great nations (either of lower status than or deposed by the Kage)!
What's more, they possessed the Rinnegan!
There were a total of seven pairs of Rinnegan at the scene!
