Summary: (Ep. #348) "Shinsei: Akatsuki" (新生・“暁”)
Akatsuki's leaders Yahiko and Nagato attend a meeting with the Rain's leader Hanzō. After receiving a message from Danzo who was under the code name Kanzō at the time. During the meeting, members of Akatsuki discover that Leaf's Root…
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Akatsuki's leaders Yahiko and Nagato attend a meeting with the Rain's leader Hanzō. After receiving a message from Danzo who was under the code name Kanzō at the time. During the meeting, members of Akatsuki discover that Leaf's Root division were attempting an assassination of the Akatsuki leaders attempted to stop them, but was killed by Obito (who wanted Nagato to witness reality) and Zetsu. Root and their leader Danzō are revealed to have plotted with Hanzō to end the Akatsuki's rebellion, capturing Konan and giving Nagato an ultimatum; kill Yahiko or they will kill their hostage. Choosing for him, Yahiko runs himself into Nagato's kunai killing himself. Enraged, Nagato uses the power of his Rinnegan to slaughter the Leaf and Rain shinobi by summoning the Gedo Statue as Hanzō escapes from their wrath. Nagato is finally driven by Obito's Eye of the Moon Plan. Then Nagato states that Yahiko, whose body is now the Deva Path of his Six Paths of Pain, will always be the true leader of the Akatsuki.
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