Not long ago----
Black Zetsu had come up empty-handed again. This time, no matter what, he had to get to the bottom of it.
Once could have been a coincidence, an illusion, a hallucination—anything.
But twice?
That was clearly Mother Kaguya's telepathic resonance. How could it have appeared twice for no reason at all?!
There had to be some cause----
Using the Valley of the End as the center, he conducted an unceasing, carpet-like search throughout the surrounding area. The search radius expanded from ten kilometers, to fifty, to a hundred----
Days passed, yet he found nothing!
Although several Tailed Beasts had already been sealed, the Gedo Statue's Chakra was still far from what Mother had possessed at her peak----not enough to awaken her. Even if I asked her, she wouldn't be able to answer me----
For the first time in a thousand years, Black Zetsu experienced the frustrated emotion mortals so often spoke of.
Like a puddle of mud, he was splatted atop the head of Madara Uchiha's enormous stone statue in the Valley of the End when a Chakra sensation suddenly flashed through his mind like lightning.
"The Nine-Tails?"
Black Zetsu wriggled into the statue, sank into the earth, and sped through it. It left Konoha's barrier? When did that happen? I didn't even notice----
"Judging by the direction the Nine-Tails' Jinchuriki is traveling, their destination should be Sunagakure in Wind Country." Black Zetsu swiftly used a secret technique to report to Obito Uchiha at the hidden base.
"Sunagakure?"
In a dim, silent chamber lit by only a single candle, Obito Uchiha sat up from his bed. Covering half his face, he muttered in puzzlement, "Why go there?"
Why do you think?
It was only because Black Zetsu could not roll his eyes that he refrained from doing