The Elemental Nations were surprisingly nice when you weren't worried about being murdered by ninja.

After my meeting with Pein, the man had taken his time to tear his answers out of the Root ninja that Konoha had given him before coming down like the first of an angry god upon Danzo.

The man lasted all of five minutes with the information I provided them ahead of time.

Which was why we were dealing with Tobi.

Kakashi had activated his Sharingan with some effort which had allowed us to start working on some counter-measures to Obito's space-warping.

I got my samples of the Gedo Mazo (and a little help from Tenzo to turn those 'cuttings' into actual saplings) as well as a crash course in sealing to help them figure out how sealing worked.

The goal was to create a barrier technique that would seal off the Sharingan, or at least, certain powers related to the Sharingan.

Which was how we found ourselves in Ame drawing seals.

Well, I wasn't drawing seals, I was carving enchntment focuses into the rock.

"So that's what you have instead of sealing, huh?" Jiraya asked as he looked at the sigil.

I shrugged, "It's not quite the same thing. It's more like… having a combination jutsu, but you only need one person… sort of. There isn't really a direct translation. The problem is that my art and ninjutsu are similar enough that there are shared ideas, but they don't line up most of the time. I mean, yes, I can create giant blasts of fire, but in all honesty, light-speed death beams are easier for me while you guys have your elemental stuff, which has it's own strengths."

"Yeah, we aren't made of glass." Jiraya responded with a mocking grin.

I rolled my eyes, "Yeah, you get passive physical boosts from your system, but that's how things go. On the plus side, I also juggle three different Arts, so things even out for me. "

Jiraya stared at me, "Three arts?"

I nodded, "I've picked up things here and there and I mix and match as necessary. I haven't gotten into the physical boosts from one of my tracks yet, but that promises to hit hard and strong when it does."

"Huh… Does it have something to do with why that girl is breaking everything?" Jiraya asked.

I looked, and sure enough, Elizabeth was standing over a shattered plate, pouting as Angela sighed and paid the shopkeeper enough to cover the cost of the damaged crockery.

"Something like that." I respond before narrowing my eyes and sending a blast from my staff at him. "No perving on Angela."

Jiraya pouted and got back to painting the sealing array, "Do you think that this will work, by the way?"

"The word of Danzo's death should have spread, as will the work of Ame reconciling with Konoha and helping them clean house. Obito isn't going to let that slide. He might be a little reculsive, but even if Itachi has returned to our side Kisame is loyal enough to share information and Sasori's spy network should be informing him of events."

"Not to mention the work we did with Yagura." Jiraya grimaced. "Just removing Root Ninja from Water Country was enough to seriously imbalance things."

I looked at him, "By the way, have you found any 'lost' bloodlines from the bloodline purges among the Root Ninja?"

"A lot of them. About half of the surviving ninja were taken from Mizu."

I grunted, raising my staff and directing energy into the sigil, "What's the plan for them?"

"At the moment, the Mizukage still doesn't know that we have them, so Tsunade is considering keeping them a secret. Those bloodlines are valuable after all. Even if we just stud the surviving Root Nija, we should have the basis for a few more bloodline clans in Konoha."

I nodded, "You are passing them off as refugees from the original wars then? Clan members that you managed to dig up?"

Jiraya shrugged, "I have no idea what she's planning but it's that or sending them back to Kiri and it all honesty, they won't reintegrate well there. They have no emotions and have too many of Konoha's secrets that we can't send them back without draining what little semblance of a mind they have left and turning them into barely responsive husks."

I shrugged and got back to work.

The barriers we were creating were huge. Large enough to encompass all of Ame.

It was a good thing that Raven had salvaged those biotic towers because powering this thing on short notice would have been practically impossible without them.

And when the last mark was made, we settled in to wait.

The news of Ame's collaboration with Konoha had spread far and wide quickly, with many countries completely confused by Konoha's willingness to admit what exactly it was that Danzo had done.

What had stirred things up, even more, was when Mizu joined the party, revealing that Konoha had aided them in ending Yagura's reign and revealing the Genjutsu that had been placed on him.

With Suna's relatively (on a political scale) recent clusterfuck, things were basically a massive mess. Even the rulers of those countries honestly couldn't do much. Konoha had cleaned up after itself pretty much as soon as a new regime had been stabilised and the information brought to their attention, so the Daimyo could complain all they wanted, but without possibly pissing off their strongest military forces, there wasn't too much they really could do.

Well, they did publically punish them by forcing them to discount rates for civilian missions for the next few months, but in all honesty, the sudden surge in academy graduates from all the children born after the Kyuubi attack would be graduating soon, and the influx of D-Rank missions would be necessary, even if they did have to discount the D-Rank missions to get them.

Konoha and Mizu had managed to strike something of a deal for all the bloodlines that Danzo had attempted to steal away. Since they couldn't reasonably be re-settled in Mizu, the Root-Nin would be paired with willing partners from both villages before the parents returned.

I had actually managed to get my own hand into things, selling y services to ensure that both countries received a clone of the surviving bloodline carriers for each of the bloodlines.

I'd even managed to ensure the Uchiha clan had several new members, stemming from Itachi and DNA samples collected from the Sharingan implanted in Danzo's arm.

So… on a related note, Sasuke now had a 'dead or alive' reward in the bingo book.

I suppose that was the last straw.

The day that update to the Bingo Book took place, Tobi made his attempt.

And was soundly struck down in moments.

Without his little space-manipulation trick, he was defeated in moments.

Unable to escape from Nagato's chakra-draining grasp, Obito and the Zetsu fused to him were quickly locked down before they could really do much of anything.

Rendered unconscious and kept that way by keeping his chakra low, His eyes were carefully extracted from his body and preserved for later transplantation before it was time to take down the immense spatial-manipulation seal.

Huh.

That was easy.

I mean, to be fair, Nagato as still going to push for world peace, but he had found kindred spirits in Tsunade of all people, who had begun work with him on an alliance between the two ninja-villages.

The pact would be sealed with the resurrection of Yahiko and Nawaki, demonstrating the thing that would allow them to enforce this pact.

The true resurrection would be used to return several of history's strongest ninja to the world, those that - after questioning by both parties in the alliance - confirmed that they would dedicate themselves to the alliance first rather than either village.

The plan was to use this to become the dominant superpower in the region, centralising force in a manner similar to what Nagato had initially intended to do with the Juubi.

It also helped that, through the Akatsuki, The Gobi was in the hands of Ame, officially making them the equivalent of nuclear power in this world, if the Rinnegan hadn't already done that for them.

On a related note, Naruto's heritage got leaked after he was granted custody over the Mask Shrine. Apparently someone had overheard the young man going to Hinata for help managing his new estate - the mask shrine was part of a larger plot of land that had been granted to the Uzumaki - and word had spread.

Of course, I didn't help things too much by introducing the kid to Nagato and telling them about Karin's heritage.

With a sample of Itachi's blood, finding the base Sasuke was fairly simple, and pointing the two Uzumaki at the base in question was a simple thing.

Naruto had promptly decided that meeting the cousin that they were both unaware of was a brilliant idea and Yahiko had agreed with him, sending Nagato along with the s-class genin on a wild goose chase across Rice Country.

I kinda pitied Sasuke and Orochimaru.

Especially after finding out that Itachi had decided to join in to attempt to fix his screw-up with Sasuke.