Uchiha Obito.
A fool who, from the bottom of his heart, was filled with kindness and love for the world.
But that was precisely why Uchiha Madara had taken a liking to him. Otherwise, with so many geniuses in the ninja world, why would he have chosen a dead last?
According to his original plan, he would first let the kid properly forge feelings and Bonds in the war, then do this and that, followed by that and this... and the boy would come to trust him and fall under his control.
Not just anyone could serve as Uchiha Madara's stand-in!
And yet.
Who would have thought?
He had merely taken a little nap.
That pure idiot with the fine qualities he had spotted back then had now... become like this?!
What had that kid experienced during this time?
Had the ninja world decayed this quickly?
He clearly had not even had time to do anything yet!
Uchiha Madara took a deep breath and tried to calm himself. Looking at the Spiral Face White Zetsu that had once again pulled him out of the dirt, he said evenly, "So, the plan has gone wrong?"
"It's not exactly wrong, Madara-sama!" Spiral Face scratched his head, not knowing how to explain it. The intelligence from this period had truly left even the White Zetsu astonished.
They had genuinely never seen anything like it before!
What an eye-opener!
"We've been watching that kid. It's just that there's been a tiny, tiny..." He pinched his fingers a little apart. "Accident! And of course! He truly is the stand-in chosen by Madara-sama! That kid has Madara-sama's imposing presence from back in the day on the battlefield. Oh, and he even came up with an advanced version of that ninjutsu. Its power is quite terrifying. The