Obito Uchiha

If one were to say that the chakra of Obito Uchiha gives off a very cold, sinister feeling—like a massive shadow that appears and vanishes in an instant—then the Zetsu beneath the ground feels even more bizarre. It is neither here nor there, like both an animal and a plant, seemingly alive yet simultaneously dead. It is simply not something that should exist in the natural world.

Such a nauseating sensation makes even Nagato feel that they are perverted. It is no wonder that Katsuyu developed killing intent toward them in an instant.

"Is someone coming?" Tsunade, seeing Nagato and Katsuyu both looking toward the east, asked Katsuyu, who was currently healing her.

Before Katsuyu could answer, a vortex suddenly appeared in the air in front of Nagato. Without any warning, a tall man with short hair, wearing a black robe with red clouds, appeared there.

He wore a yellow, spiral-patterned mask and was completely wrapped in clothing. The only thing exposed was his right eye, where a scarlet pupil with three black tomoe spun slowly, scanning everyone present.

In just a single moment, Tsunade reached the same conclusion as Katsuyu: this guy was definitely not anything good.

Unlike Nagato, who appears cold on the surface but radiates scorching life energy from within, Obito gives off a feeling of chilling cold—cold to the bone. It is as if his heart has already died, and he himself has become a dark, emotionless creature.

"Nagato, why did you come here?" Obito asked Nagato after scanning the surrounding environment.

At the same time, two aloe-like leaves emerged from the ground behind him, green and closed in a ring. The leaves continued to rise and opened, revealing a face that was half-black and half-white. Looking like a hermaphrodite, Zetsu also crawled out from the ground.

Like Obito, Zetsu was also wearing the Akatsuki's black robe with red clouds. Just after growing out of the ground like a pitcher plant, the more erratic white half of his personality, White Zetsu, spoke up: "Leader, this place was really hard to find." As he spoke, he playfully moved his body, as if doing morning exercises.

In an instant, with the addition of Konan and Nagato, four members of the Akatsuki wearing black robes with red clouds had gathered near the entrance to Shikkotsu Forest. It looked as if the Akatsuki had conquered Shikkotsu Forest.

Katsuyu's voice resonated in Nagato's mind once more: "Nagato, both of these people should be killed!"

Because he was in Sage Mode, Nagato could clearly perceive that both Katsuyu and Tsunade had developed intense killing intent toward Obito simultaneously.

The reaction of this slug and this woman made Nagato find the situation quite interesting. Because neither Tsunade, who had been shouting at him back in Konoha, nor Katsuyu, who had sprayed acid at his head the moment they met, had displayed such strong killing intent as they were doing now.

The personalities of Katsuyu and Tsunade seem very similar. When these two are shouting about fighting and killing, the killing intent in their hearts is actually not very strong. On the contrary, it is in moments like this—moments of silence amidst vigilance—that their killing intent accumulates deeper and deeper, like a beast maintaining its patience, preparing to deliver a fatal blow to its prey, creating a suffocating sensation.

"You've come," Nagato ignored Katsuyu's words and simply greeted Obito, "Madara Uchiha."

The simple greeting, because of those last four words, sounded like a thunderclap in the clearing, shattering the tense atmosphere into pieces.

Tsunade, standing to the side, couldn't help but let out an exclamation: "That's impossible!"

Large beads of cold sweat rolled down Hinata's face, and she covered her mouth with her hand.

For those in the know, the name Madara Uchiha carries a shocking weight. Anyone who understands the history of this guy knows exactly what that name signifies.

Maybe there's already background music playing in their heads, low and slow. I just wonder if it will clash with my own background music? Nagato thought to himself, deadpan.

"Is it true? Is it really that Madara Uchiha?" Katsuyu asked in his mind, sounding quite grave.

"Fake, just something used to fool people," Nagato replied to it immediately.

Katsuyu: "..."

"If it's fake, why did you say it as if it were real?"

Katsuyu felt like it was being driven crazy by Nagato, shouting inside his head.

"Be composed. You are a sage, after all; how can you be so agitated just by seeing a tiny human?" Nagato was unimpressed by Katsuyu's reaction.

Isn't Madara Uchiha just a loser who was defeated by Hashirama Senju? What's the big deal? It's just a drizzle.

As for Obito, Nagato's cold reaction left him a bit confused. He couldn't figure out why Nagato had suddenly run to Shikkotsu Forest, and why he had completely changed his appearance—his entire spirit and energy had shifted, as if he had fully recovered his health.

Obito used his Sharingan to subtly scan the shocked expressions of the people around him after hearing the name Madara. He asked Nagato: "What about the Nine Tails? I heard you didn't succeed in capturing it."

"I changed my mind. I will handle the Nine Tails in my own way. Of course, if you are in a hurry and want to take action against Naruto yourself, I won't object." Nagato deliberately raised the arm that had Obito's left eye transplanted into it to fix his hair, his eyes fixed on Obito's reaction.

There was only confusion in Obito's eyes. He felt that Nagato seemed to have changed and had become much more distant from him. How could this be? What happened to being each other's angels?

Nagato felt relieved, discovering that after covering the transplant site with Senjutsu Chakra, Obito could not use his Sharingan to peer into the situation inside. As long as he didn't use the power within the eye in front of Obito, Obito shouldn't be able to tell that he had transplanted Kakashi's eye.

After all, the observational power of eyes in this world is a complete mystery. Take this Obito Uchiha before him, for example; he had used Kamui openly in front of Kakashi and Hinata. But what was the result? Neither Kakashi's matching Sharingan nor Hinata's authentic Byakugan could discover Obito's true identity through the color of his chakra.

Conversely, Danzo, the scapegoat king of the ninja world, was exposed immediately after using a small genjutsu in front of a one-eyed man who had only transplanted a single Byakugan.

From this, one can see how pathetic Danzo was; he was just a complete loser. Even if such a person wasn't killed by Sasuke at the Five Kage Summit, he would probably have tripped and died on his way back to Konoha. In any case, he was doomed.

"How can this be? What about our plan?" Obito's voice was somewhat hoarse. He was completely stunned, feeling that Nagato was dropping the ball at a critical moment. He glanced at Tsunade and Hinata nearby and asked Nagato, "Who are these two?"

His gaze lingered on Tsunade for a moment, his eyes extremely cold, because he felt killing intent coming from her.

Tsunade had already recovered quite a bit of chakra, but she was deliberately maintaining her old-hag state, clearly not up to any good. Unfortunately, her opponents were all people with "hacked" ocular powers, so her behavior not only had no benefit but instead made people vigilant. Given the amount of chakra she currently possessed, how could she possibly be in such a weak state? It was clearly an act.

"This old hag is the Fifth Hokage of Konoha," Nagato said. "The organization's plan will, of course, continue; I am confident in that. How is the Eight Tails? Was the capture successful?"

"No, Sasuke failed."

Speaking of the Eight Tails, Obito was even more speechless. Sasuke had actually brought back an octopus tentacle—was he a tentacle enthusiast?

"Hee hee, the captures of both the Eight Tails and the Nine Tails have failed," Zetsu chimed in from the side. This guy always liked to gloat when others were unhappy; one could tell he was a master of sarcasm the moment he spoke.