Trees Chapter 227 Do You Two Brothers Really Have to Bully This Poor Honest Man Like This?

Naruto searched for a long time before he saw Sasuke standing at the periphery of Amegakure's construction site, watching Kisame. Meanwhile,

Naruto searched for a long time before he saw Sasuke standing at the periphery of Amegakure's construction site, watching Kisame.

Meanwhile, Kisame was acting like a complete idiot, swinging Samehada at the air nearby while muttering to himself, "Uchiha Xiao your skills aren't bad."

"Sparring with you actually gives me a strangely familiar feeling..."

"It's so nostalgic~"

Kisame was happily fighting alone in the distance. He would occasionally let out an ugly laugh or exclaiming, ‘No pressure at all!’.

He even went as far as forming hand seals for Water Release Ninjutsu just for fun.

It can be said that he was having a blast.

Naruto turned to look at Sasuke and asked in confusion, "What is this guy doing?"

Sasuke shrugged and said nonchalantly, "Nothing much."

"This idiot insisted on sparring with me, so I hit him with a Genjutsu."

"What a weakling."

Sasuke thought that his Genjutsu wasn't particularly strong.

But he never expected this weird shark guy would play with his Genjutsu for more than an hour.

It was honestly hard to watch.

‘With such strength, you still have the nerve to ask for a spar against me?!’

"Ah...this..."

Naruto was a little stunned when he heard Sasuke's words.

‘Just how much do you two brothers have against this poor, honest man?’

‘Why do you keep bullying him with Genjutsu like this?’

‘This is just straight-up picking on the weak.’

Beep beep…

Just as the two were enjoying Kisame's solo battle, a message notification sounded on their phones at the same time.

Taking out their mobile phones and looking at it, Naruto and Sasuke found that it was from Pain, the leader of Akatsuki.

‘All members, assemble at the Akatsuki’s underground base immediately for a meeting! No absences or excuses allowed!’ Peace Through Pain.

When Naruto saw this message from his senior brother, he felt somewhat complicated.

‘Look at Senior Brother. He was lying at death's door just a few hours ago, and now, he is already summoning all members of the Akatsuki for a meeting. He is truly a model leader.’

‘And then there's the Hokage back in Konoha, who spends her days scamming people...’

‘Senior Brother is simply a role model for the entire Shinobi World!’

"Let's go! I feel that under Pain’s leadership, the Shinobi World will soon be on the path to peace!"

Naruto clenched his fists and shouted excitedly, which made Sasuke utterly baffled.

Sasuke had a strong feeling Naruto was being sarcastic.

After receiving the message, the two quickly made their way to the conference room in the underground base.

Kakuzu, Hidan, Sasori, and Deidara soon arrived at the room one after another, and only the seat of the honest man, Kisame, remained empty.

Pain glanced around and coldly asked, "Where's Kisame?"

"Didn’t I say no absences?"

Nagato felt so tired, ‘Why was there always someone missing every time we had a meeting?’

‘Look at the two newcomers, they arrived faster than any of the veterans the moment the meeting was called.’

Naruto and Sasuke were stunned when they heard this, and then the two immediately began communicating with their eyes, "Sasuke! Didn't you just lift Kisame's Genjutsu??"

"Damn it! You were the one who rushed me to leave earlier."

Naruto was speechless, ‘How the hell was this my fault now?’

Just as the two were communicating through their eyes, Kakuzu, who was sitting nearby, suddenly spoke up.

"I just saw Kisame seem to be training up there."

"I didn’t expect this guy to be so diligent."

Hearing this, Pain clenched his fists so hard they nearly cracked.

‘I gave you orders over and over, and you still ignored me like it was nothing?’

‘Do you even respect me as your leader?!’

"I’ll be right back."

With that, Pain swiftly left the conference room.

A few minutes later, everyone in the underground base felt the ground shake slightly, and then Pain dragged Kisame into the conference room.

Judging by Kisame’s bruised and battered face, it was clear Pain had beaten him up.

Naruto almost couldn’t bear to look at Kisame’s pitiful state, so he Sasuke with his foot and whispered, "You should go buy some sunflower seeds for Kisame later."

"Huh?"

Sasuke looked at Naruto in confusion, wondering what this kid was up to.

"Konan, let’s begin."

Pain had already taken his seat at this time, but he let Konan preside over this internal meeting.

Konan nodded, then stood up, looked at everyone present, and said with an extremely serious expression, "Due to our severe lack of funds recently..."

“The focus of all missions within the organization now will shift to raising money.”

Naruto: “???”

‘Wait…’

‘That can’t be right??’

‘The Akatsuki is running out of money??’

Naruto turned his head and glared at Sasori and Deidara.

‘Damn it!’

‘It seems that I have underestimated your ability to waste money!’

‘Seriously?!’

‘Are these two idiots really building a Death Star in Amegakure?’

Naruto strongly suspected that Sasori and Deidara had taken his 150 gold bricks and started recklessly splurging on some insane project.

Sasori and Deidara grew visibly guilty when Naruto stared at them.

The two guys, who had temporarily reached a cooperation, took out their phones under the table and began secretly messaging each other.

[Art is Truth: Sasori-danna... we will not be discovered secretly embezzling the funds for our research behind Leader’s back, right?]

[Sasori of the Red Sand: It’s fine. I handled the accountings. But next time, let’s take less. Otherwise, even Leader might notice.]

[Sasori of the Red Sand: And also, stop buying such expensive materials!]

[Art is Truth: Got it!]

After they finished communicating, they put their phones away, their hearts completely at ease.

The two secretly glanced at the leader, thinking at the same time, ‘It's okay, Leader is easy to fool, there will definitely be no big problem.’

Moreover, they hadn’t taken that much money, so even if they got caught, it wouldn’t be a big deal.

Meanwhile, the most nervous person in the room was Kakuzu.

His eyes darted around, and while sitting on the chair, he already made six small movements in just three seconds. He looked at Naruto for one moment, and then at Pain, fearing that his embezzlement of the gold bricks would be exposed.

After all, now that he thought about it, giving Konan that tiny amount of gold was indeed a bit too much.

When Konan’s gaze suddenly shifted toward him, the guilty Kakuzu broke out in a cold sweat.

Kakuzu was really scared now.

On one side was the leader of the Akatsuki with unfathomable strength, and on the other side was the boss who was rich enough to rival a country.

‘If they found out what I’d done...’

‘Not only would I lose my life, but I would also lose money!!’

"This time, we really owe it to Kakuzu. Without him, our organization wouldn’t even have the funds to operate."

Konan smiled in relief, but then she noticed something odd about one of their most reliable members.

"Kakuzu… why are you sweating so much?"

"Hahaha… N-nothing, I just feel a little under the weather..."

The boulder in Kakuzu’s heart finally dropped.

‘Fortunately, fortunately...’

‘It seems that I didn’t slip up.’

"I’ve accepted a mission in the Land of Fire..."

"A wealthy noble offered 500 million ryo to have us perform at his birthday celebration..."

Konan's face looked a little ugly when she said this. She was angry, but also a little relieved in her heart.

What made her angry was that the other party actually treated their Akatsuki as entertainers. Did he not know that every single one of them was a hardened Missing-nin who had bathed in blood!?

What relieved her was that...

The other party gave too much money. So completing this mission would fund the entire reconstruction of Amegakure.

Kakuzu slammed his hands on the table and stood up. Obviously, he was very excited about the mission that Konan mentioned, "WHAT?!"

"There’s actually a mission this good?!"