At this moment.
Of everyone present, the most nervous person was Hinata.
Especially after seeing Sakura’s dream come true.
“Naruto-kun…”
Hinata clenched her little fists, her cheeks slightly flushed as she looked toward Naruto, who was still extremely excited about making the list.
“Naruto-kun, I really hope… your future wife is me…”
Above the pitch-black alternate dimension.
The video slowly began to play.
“”Ranking the Five Happiest Couples in Naruto””
“Second Place: Naruto—Hinata!”
The instant Hinata’s name appeared.
Outside the video, Naruto was utterly shocked.
“Huh, huh, huh? Hinata? That girl whose expression always gets weird whenever she sees me?”
Hinata, meanwhile, froze completely, her heart feeling as though it had been struck by a massive hammer.
Tears of happiness filled her eyes.
“That’s wonderful… That’s wonderful… Naruto-kun…”
Kiba grinned, revealing his teeth.
“I never would have guessed, Hinata. You’re actually going to marry Naruto!”
Shino kept his hands in his pockets and calmly said, “I told you, I noticed a long time ago that Hinata liked Naruto. Do you believe me now?”
Sasuke said, “I’m actually curious about how you and Hinata ended up together, Naruto.”
Naruto scratched his head and grinned foolishly.
“I’m curious too. Speaking of which, Hinata, you…”
He had intended to turn around and casually say a few words to Hinata.
But the moment he saw her, Naruto’s face instantly turned bright red.
White steam seemed to rise from his head, and he suddenly became awkward and flustered.
After all, this was his future wife!
Just then.
The pitch-black space above them suddenly lit up.
The video began playing.
The first person to appear on the screen, however, was none other than Pain’s Deva Path!
Deva Path Pain stood in a wasteland, surrounded by destroyed and collapsed buildings, with the bodies of Konoha shinobi scattered all around. Get faster updates on g.com.
His expression was indifferent as he spoke.
“Let the world experience true pain. Fear of pain can prevent war and thereby guide the world toward stability and peace.”
“That is my purpose!”
The scene changed.
The grown-up Naruto was lying on the ground, with black rods driven into both of his hands, seemingly pinning him down.
He raised his head and frowned at Deva Path Pain.
“But this kind of peace is nothing but a lie!”
Outside the video, countless shinobi who had been passionately discussing the identity of the Fourth Show-Off King, especially the higher-ups of the various villages, raised their heads amid the exclamations of those around them and looked toward the screen.
Then, when they saw Deva Path Pain’s purple eyes and the distinctive rings rippling across them, the Third Hokage, Fourth Raikage, Mei Terumi, Onoki, Kazekage Rasa, and the others all cried out in shock.
“The Rinnegan!!!”
“That’s impossible!!!”
“Isn’t that the eye possessed only by the Sage of Six Paths in the legends?!”
“How terrifying!!!”
“This man… Could he be the leader of the Akatsuki?”
Inside the alternate dimension, the gazes of countless shinobi instantly turned toward the area where the Akatsuki was gathered.
That suspicious man who was believed to be the Akatsuki’s leader, the one with black rods protruding all over his body who had always stood in the shadows…
He actually possessed the legendary Rinnegan?
This piece of information was like a bomb exploding, leaving every shinobi utterly horrified and causing enormous waves to surge through their hearts!
The Third Hokage said gravely, “The people in the Akatsuki are already extremely difficult to deal with because they all possess Kage-level strength. I never expected… that they would even have someone with the Rinnegan.”
Danzo’s eyes narrowed sharply.
“And judging from the surroundings in the video, the Akatsuki’s leader and Naruto seem to be in our Konoha Village… a Konoha Village that has been destroyed.”
The Third Hokage sighed.
“Will Konoha Village be destroyed by the Akatsuki in the future?”
At this moment, both the Third Hokage and Danzo felt a crisis unlike anything they had ever experienced before.
An organization whose goal was to seize the Tailed Beasts from the various villages and use them to create Infinite Tsukuyomi had a leader who possessed the legendary Rinnegan!
And in the future, it seemed that he would even destroy Konoha!
The amount of information revealed by this video was simply enormous!
As for the twelve young shinobi of Konoha, more or less, they had all heard the legends of the Rinnegan from their elders.
At this moment, they couldn’t help but feel somewhat frightened.
Over in the Akatsuki.
Deidara chuckled when he saw this.
“Boss, your information has been exposed.”
Nagato, controlling Deva Path Pain, calmly replied, “That’s even better. Perhaps they’ll give up resisting and simply hand over the Tailed Beasts.”
As he spoke, he couldn’t help but glance at the grown-up Naruto in the video.
Nagato had already noticed Naruto, the noisy little brat from the Konoha gathering area, when he entered the alternate dimension.
There was no other reason for it.
According to the information the Akatsuki had obtained, this boy named Naruto Uzumaki was the Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tails!
“If Naruto has been captured, did my future self ultimately succeed?”
Nagato murmured, a thoughtful look flashing through his eyes.
Judging from the previous videos, Naruto was able to hold a wedding, so he should have failed.
After all, if Naruto had the Tailed Beast extracted from him, he would have died.
There would have been no possibility of him holding a wedding.
But there was another possibility: perhaps his future self attacked Konoha after Naruto’s wedding.
As for the point in time when Sasuke and Sakura got married and had a daughter, perhaps the entire shinobi world was already living under the rule of his Tailed Beast weapons.
And if they could still live such happy lives under those circumstances, that would prove even more clearly that his ideology was correct!
Just like the Rain Village he currently ruled.
Giving the villagers a kind of suppressed happiness was still far better than war and destruction.
With this thought, Nagato controlled Deva Path Pain and stepped forward, placing himself fully within the sight of every shinobi in the alternate dimension.
His Rinnegan was filled with indifference as he looked down upon all the shinobi in the alternate dimension, like a god gazing down upon all living beings.
And the shinobi of the entire world also took this opportunity to see him clearly.
The leader of the Akatsuki truly possessed the Rinnegan!
Just then.
Naruto’s voice rang out, filled with displeasure.
“Hey, I’m talking to you, you weird guy over there. Why are you treating me like that?”
He had finally gotten the chance to show off in front of the entire shinobi world, only for everyone to see him being restrained.
Naruto was genuinely annoyed.