A Second Meeting with Madara Uchiha

Uchiha Chen had obstructed their plans. Black Zetsu and Madara Uchiha could tolerate that, since plans could be changed. Even if this one failed, they could replace it with another.

But they would never allow Uchiha Chen to abduct all nine Tailed Beasts. Both Madara's plan to cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi and Black Zetsu's secret scheme to free Kaguya Otsutsuki depended on them.

Only by merging all nine Tailed Beasts could they create the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi, and free Kaguya Otsutsuki from the moon.

Their plan depended on one step after another. Failure was not an option.

So, if they hadn't crossed paths with Uchiha Chen so deeply before, they might not have cared even if he had obstructed them. But now, they had no choice but to face him again.

"What should we do now?" Black Zetsu asked helplessly. Madara might not care, but he couldn't afford not to. If Madara died, then so be it. At his age, his life was already being sustained by the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

But Black Zetsu couldn't afford that. He had waited a thousand years and spent that entire time preparing for this plan. Ever since he had gained consciousness, he had been working toward it for nearly a millennium.

In other words, his mother, Kaguya Otsutsuki, had been sealed away for almost a thousand years.

Throughout those thousand years, he had gone to great lengths to stir up hatred between the Sage of Six Paths' two sons. He had been laying the groundwork since the era of Asura and Indra.

Only in this generation had he finally managed to make their reincarnations believe him, successfully driving their conflict to its breaking point. This was their greatest opportunity yet. If they let it slip away, who