"As long as you're in the group that takes Pein, that should be fine."

"I'll focus on him then the tailed beast statue. Tobirama can help track the other Akatsuki members; he has ever seen them, I think."

"That seems like the limiting factor in splitting up."

She laughs. "I know how to find some of my old friends from my world - at least one of them was as good a tracker as Tobirama. So we could do as many as three groups, there."

"That first, then."

She consults with Tobirama - identifying the person of interest as 'the female Uzumaki, should be near a Hozuki and someone with unstable chakra,' and opens the portal herself, stepping through.

The Keres follows after her.

"Where'd you take Hisame?" the woman on the other side asks immediately - she seems to have been ready for them, flanked by two men - one, slim, with white hair and a massive sword, and the other enormous, with orange hair and a deep frown.

"It's good to see you too, Karin. I'm an alternate universe Hisame. We fixed the mind control on her, and she's recovering in another world, well away from all this. And, yes, that did require killing her - which I am sorry about."

The two men trade looks, while Karin frowns. "We'll want to see her - but for now, you've been picking fights here. What do you want from us?"

"We're taking down major threats to this world. Kabuto was ready to set an army of Edo Tensei against the world. The shadow was planning worse. We'd like your help with tracking down the Akatsuki's remaining members."

"As long as I get Kisame's sword, I'm good," the white haired man says, grinning.

Karin flicks her gaze at him, frowning deeper. "Alright. We're in," she says.

"Excellent! One of my alts controls Madness, by the way - she should be able to help Juugo with his rages. Probably best if after that we drop Suigetsu and Juugo on you guys' Hisame - we'll be moving fast against the Akatsuki, you understand."

"I don't think any of us have a problem avoiding fights over our head," she says. "Who are your friends?"

"Girlfriend and alts. And other interested parties."

"I can tell other Hisame likes you, so - I'll see how our Hisame's doing, I guess."

"But let's get the Akatsuki dead, first."

"Of course."

She opens the portal back, makes introductions, arranges for Juugo to get Glint's special touch, then drops Juugo and Suigetsu back on Naraka.

"How do we want to split up, then?"

"The trackers need to be separate. Elatra and I should be in the same group. We'll need you and the Keres to split up, unless Glint wants to bring another avatar along for transportation."

"I'd say, out of our eleven people - "

"My group can have Animus and Ellayania."

"Karin's group - perhaps Elatra, you, and the Keres. Between Elatra and my darling, you'll have mobility both in and across universes."

"Tobirama's group - Glint, Occlus, and Ebele."

"I'm fine pulling over an avatar for Karin's group - that'll also improve communication between our three groups in case an emergency comes up, since I'm synced with myself and can easily talk to Ellayania. Then we'll have equal numbers in each group, too, if the Keres moves over to Tentou's, and I also synergize well with Eliana."

"That seems like an efficient distribution."

So she arranges for there to be two of her, and they can split up into their respective groups.

And who are their targets?

Tentou's group has Pein - leader of the Akatsuki - and anyone around him, and then the statue containing the captured Tailed Beasts.

Karin's should have Kisame - shark guy with a nasty sword that Karin's usual teammate wants, used to be partners with Itachi so Karin is familiar - and the Zombie Twins, so named because they're close to immortal. One needs to be killed five times, the other probably needs to just be turned into an immortal sweetroll because he'll keep talking if you decapitate him, and he can with some setup inflict injuries he receives on his opponents - don't let him get your blood.

Tobirama's can take Deidara and Tobi - the later being actually Obito, yet another relative of hers, who can shift his mass in and out of a pocket dimension. Deidara does bombs. Including pretty big ones. Tobirama fought Obito in her world.

Sounds like they'll be having fun, then.