Chapter 75 - Chapter 77

On the side of the rain villages kage tower a man was walking up it. He was walking up the side of the tower with his thoughts in constant motion. He was perplexed about how easy he reverted back to the killer he ones was.

'Maybe I haven't changed at all?' Dragon watched the clouds in the sky that was pouring down rain on his face.

"NO!" He yelled out and an incredible wind pressure appeared around the entire tower and blew away the rain together with the clouds from the area of the kage tower.

'I can't doubt myself. I must find a balance.' Dragon took a deep breath and rain ones again started pouring down on his face.

He finally reached a window with a size of two doors. Dragon took a step inside and jumped onto the floor of the tower.

Inside the tower, there was a strange warmth present. Like the lord of the tower cared for the buildings state. The feeling of the tower wouldn't lead you to believe it housed a group of killers.

He heard voices in the distance, and he immediately identified one of them as Itachi. But he had no idea who the others belonged to. And frankly he didn't care at this moment. He knew they belonged to the Akatsuki and that was all he needed to know about them for now.

He started walking through the narrow corridors, completely masking his presence so no one would detect him. He did this for no particularly good reason. He was just curious if someone in this group of savages had some skills to their name.

If they could at least sense that someone was standing here on the other side of the door. Then maybe they needed a better position inside the empire. Powerful and completely loyal soldiers are hard to come by.

"My master, you have arrived." Alucard came walking through the wall. He was using his abilities to simply walk through the wall like it wasn't there to begin with.

"Let's go inside." Dragon put his hand on the door and pushed it open.

All the eyes inside the room turned in their direction. The group of powerful killers all had their respective weapons ready as soon as the door flew open. Their awareness even though it couldn't detect Dragon was top tier.

"Stand down!" Alucard's voice echoed out inside the room and forced the members to go down on their knees.

"No need for that Alucard. Release them." As Dragon's voice sounded out the Akatsuki members all got their bearings back.

"My name is Portgas D Dragon. I am the emperor of the Gotei. Sit down, shut up and listen." Dragon walked inside and sat down on the chair by the table. It was Nagato's chair, but he didn't dare to say anything at this moment in time.

Dragon walked inside and spoke with the demeanour and aura of a true emperor. The Akatsuki members couldn't help but feel like ants, or even dust rats in front of this mighty presence.

"What are your orders, Your Majesty," Nagato said while standing behind Dragon.

"I have held your mission back for years. I have wanted to resolve this worlds problems with words and my great patience. But that is no longer entirely possible. Action is needed now." Dragon said and scanned each member carefully.

The always cocky and arrogant members were stone silent. As soon as they felt that terrifying gaze sweep over their bodies, their blood almost froze solid entirely. A tailed beast could barely be considered a puppy in front of this person.

"Your targets are from three tails all the way to seven tails. one tail, two tail, eight tail, and nine tail is for me to go after. Alucard will provide you with the general location of your targets. There is no time limit. I don't care how long it takes."

Dragon took a breath and the air inside the room seemed to disappear when he sucked in to breath. He breathed out and a mighty wind storm swept passed the members and sent them crashing into the walls of the room.

"You will go in pairs of two. Nagato will assign you your partner in this mission."

"Nagato, after you are done with everything here. You shall go and eliminate Orochimaru's new sound village. It's filled with rouge ninjas."

"No witnesses!" Dragon voice echoed out inside the room and all the people present felt the anger and desire to kill inside the voice of their emperor. The members of the Akatsuki were all struggling to get up from that attack earlier.

This wasn't Dragon, the kind and loving father. This was the long-forgotten killer hiding inside Dragon's body. After many years, he had ones again showed his face.

"Yes, your majesty." Nagato said and the other members also joined in.

Alucard was standing behind Dragon as well. Though he was the only one that wasn't terrified of Dragon's aura. He was similar to Dragon in the way that it was hard to really place his level of strength.

He and Bradely were the only ones that could really stand up against Dragon's might and still smile calmly. They were his strongest followers and they had the power to back that up.

"Your mission starts as soon as Nagato assigns you your partner. Do not fail me!" Dragon stood up and looked at them all ones more.

"Itachi, Your brother was attacked by the Kumo. He is fine now, Shisui is taking care of him. Take this as extra motivation to complete this mission." Dragon said to Itachi and got a nod back in return.

Anger and worry was visible on him and Itachi felt his resolve strengthening. And Itachi finally figured out why Dragon was so angry. Sasuke and Naruto were always together, so if his brother was attacked then the chances of Naruto being there was very high.

Dragon waved his hand and a gust of wind appeared and his body vanished into thin air like magic.

"Okay, let's begin assigning the pairs." Nagato said and took up a scroll from the table.

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