Trees Chapter 231 Let's Dance

After Naruto uploaded Obito’s photo, he suddenly noticed that the guy had straight-up deleted his previous post.

As a result, all of Naruto’s comments under that post vanished into thin air.

Naruto glanced at Obito’s account and smirked disdainfully.

‘Hah, is that it?’

‘Weren’t you barking so tough online earlier?’

‘If you have the guts to expose me, why are you so cowardly to delete your post and run away?’

Naruto plans to give the white-haired pervert some photos of Obito when he returns to Konoha next time. He wanted to see how the guy planned to keep hiding behind the scenes after that.

Sasuke, squatting beside Naruto, couldn’t help but marvel at how great of an invention this phone was.

From now on, whenever he needed to deal with an enemy, he could just have Naruto track their location, then follow the network cable and beat them up.

It's really convenient!

…

"Kurosaki Ichigo?"

"Do you have any ideas?"

As Konan looked at these two guys squatting in the corner and laughing from time to time, she was so angry that her temples throbbed in irritation.

‘Why can't anyone in the huge Akatsuki come up with a reliable idea?!’

Kakuzu was also very angry, but he couldn’t muster the same boldness as Konan when facing this rich boss.

"Huh?"

"What were we talking about again?"

Naruto looked up, looking confused.

The meeting had been going on for half an hour, and he’d spent the entire time arguing with Uchiha Obito online, so he didn't hear a word of Pain’s speech.

Konan sighed and massaged her temples.

"About the birthday performance of our Akatsuki..."

Whoosh…

The moment Naruto heard this, he sprang to his feet, with an ecstatic expression on his face. Seeing this, Sasuke subconsciously wanted to escape from here.

He always felt that this yellow-haired delinquent was going to do something stupid again.

"That’s easy!"

"We just got to do this... then this... and finally this..."

"Wouldn't it be easy to get 500 million ryo?"

Naruto's idea was very simple. First, have everyone learn the New Treasure Island Dance (Macho Version), and then perform it at a wealthy noble’s birthday banquet in the Land of Fire. (T/N: This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTxV251mRU0)

When Konan heard Ichigo’s plan, her eyes lit up, and the two nodded at the same time, indicating that this was worth a shot.

Nagato was probably slacking off, as even Pain just gave a silent nod without saying anything.

As for the others, they didn't dare to have any opinions.

Sasuke covered his face, feeling physically and mentally exhausted.

‘Damn it!’

‘I knew nothing good would come of this!!’

…

The next day, early in the morning.

Naruto had already gathered everyone in the rear courtyard of the luxury residence arranged by their wealthy client.

But because the videographer position was so important that no one else was qualified to do it, Naruto could only reluctantly take on the task of filming the performance for everyone.

The others just had to focus on dancing well, while he, the choreographer instructor Uzumaki Naruto, had to consider a lot more.

"Alright! Positions, everyone!"

"Let’s make this rehearsal a one-take wonder. Finish the performance by noon, collect the payment, and we can head back to base by evening."

Naruto held a megaphone in one hand, with a speaker and camera at his feet.

In front of him, the eight members of the Akatsuki Idol Group stood in a triangular formation, with Pain at the center.

Each of them wore a serious expression, but their poses were so ridiculous that Naruto was struggling not to burst out laughing.

Pain leaned back slightly and formed a heart shape with his hands on his chest. Konan crossed her arms in a double peace sign in front of her eyes.

Hidan made a javelin throwing motion on the far left of the team, while Kakuzu, who stood at the other end of the team, rested his left hand on his forehead while flashing a peace sign at Naruto with his right.

Deidara spread his arms wide, squatting slightly with his head tilted. Scorpion's posture was slightly stiff compared to this junior, and he chose a prayer-like pose, as if to praise the Cult Leader Naruto, which moved Naruto a little.

At the back, Uchiha Xiao Yan and Kisame struck a one-legged golden rooster stance.

Sasuke's expression was very bad. If not for the fact that he couldn’t beat a certain yellow-haired guy, and Itachi's position was still in Naruto's hands, he really wanted to go up and fight with this damn yellow-haired guy to settle things once and for all.

"Good! Great! Full of energy!"

Naruto’s voice trembled as he praised them, and then he pressed play on the speaker.

The upbeat rhythm of New Treasure Island began blasting.

Dun dun dun, dun dun dun, dun dun dun dun dun…

Everyone moved expressionlessly to the beat, swinging their arms and shuffling their feet in sync, their motions alternating between fast and slow, wide and sharp.

By the final segment, everyone in the Akatsuki Idol Group surrounded Pain, raising one hand high while twisting their hips and spinning in place with eerie precision.

"Perfect! One-take success!!"

"We can go home after performing at noon today!"

Naruto couldn't help but applaud everyone's performance.

He’d always heard that the Akatsuki was unmatched in group battles, but he didn't expect that the Akatsuki Idol Group would be just as formidable after rebranding.

‘Is this the strength of the strongest organization in the Shinobi World?’

‘Incredible!!’

"Hahahahaha!"

"This mission is really great!"

"Konan, if there are any more missions like this in the future, we have to take them!"

The Five-Hearts Missing-nin Critic of the Akatsuki Idol Group voiced his opinion. He felt that there was no mission in the world that was as easy as this one.

They can earn 500 million ryo just by dancing once!!

This was even faster than robbing people! Not only was Kakuzu tempted, but even Konan and Nagato were swayed.

Even the Slacker Duo, who are short of scientific research funds, are fantasizing about whether they’d get another money-making opportunity like this.

After all, the funds they could embezzle within the Akatsuki were severely limited.

"Don’t get your hopes up."

"Missions like this don’t come around every day."

Konan smiled bitterly at Kakuzu, but her words caught the attention of the choreographer instructor.

When Naruto saw everyone was still unsatisfied after the dance, his mouth suddenly curled into a smirk.

Thinking of everyone's performance just now, Naruto felt that it was not impossible for the Akatsuki Idol Group to debut for real.

"Alright, that’s enough. Let’s head to the banquet and get ready."

After the rehearsal, Naruto clapped his hands and asked everyone to go to the banquet.

After that, the performance of the Akatsuki Idol Group was unexpectedly explosive.

After all, in this Shinobi World where people had never seen such entertainment before, the New Treasure Island dance was a lethal weapon.

In particular, the client of this task was extremely satisfied, and he even took out an extra 300 million ryo as a tip, claiming it was his contribution to saving the world.

Everyone was very grateful, except for Nagato, whose emotions were complicated.

‘Seriously…’

‘At first, I just wanted to make the world understand pain so they would cherish peace.’

‘But…’

‘Why did it feel like we had skipped the pain phase entirely?!’

‘No!’

‘I couldn’t let Konan accept any more of these weird missions in the future!’

‘No matter how much money was involved, the Akatsuki would not take them!!’

…

At night, everyone packed up and set off on the road back to the base.

Konan was very excited to get her hands on 800 million ryo. She first kept some of the money to pay everyone for this mission.

Then, she handed 300 million to Kakuzu and asked him to arrange the money for Amegakure’s reconstruction.

And this time, since the money was too transparent this time, Kakuzu naturally didn’t dare to be greedy. He only embezzled 200 million, and then gave the rest of the money to Sasori and Deidara to arrange.

In short, everyone was happy with this mission.

But Naruto, who was walking at the back of the group, had a strange expression.

He held his phone and looked at the status update he posted in the afternoon, with a look of shock on his face.

Because he had just realized...

That post had gotten tens of thousands of likes and thousands of comments.

In other words…

The Akatsuki Idol Group was about to go viral.