"Black Zetsu... Zetsu?"
Nagato was visibly stunned. He could not imagine that the person Naruto considered most dangerous was neither himself, nor Obito, nor Madara Uchiha, but the inconspicuous Zetsu within the Akatsuki.
A smile curled across Naruto's lips as he continued, "Nagato, I once told you that most of the White Zetsu Obito commanded came from humans who had fallen under the Infinite Tsukuyomi a thousand years ago. But have you ever wondered why there had been no records of White Zetsu over the past thousand years? Where had they all gone?"
"Before Obito took control of them, who controlled them?"
"Black Zetsu!" Nagato had learned to answer first, only to be frightened by his own words.
If Black Zetsu had truly lived in the shinobi world for over a thousand years, then he was indeed far more terrifying than Obito and Madara Uchiha. No one knew how many preparations Black Zetsu had made over those thousand years, or how many hidden trump cards he still possessed.
Perhaps Madara Uchiha and Obito Uchiha had merely been Black Zetsu's pawns.
After seeing Nagato out of the room, Naruto wiped away nonexistent sweat from his forehead and gazed at the pitch-black night beyond the window, lost in thought for a moment.
For him, stopping Madara Uchiha from collecting the tailed beasts was not difficult.
Defeating Madara Uchiha would be easy, but finding him would be rather difficult. Naruto had no grasp of the movements of Iwagakure's and Cloud's tailed beasts, while Hidden Ridge's Seven-Tails had already been captured by Madara Uchiha.
Rather than searching aimlessly for Madara Uchiha, it would be better to wait for Madara Uchiha to come to him.
Besides, his greatest enemies were not Madara Uchiha, but Isshiki, who was currently hiding somewhere in an Alternate Space, and