"Uchiha Madara?!"
Orochimaru's eyelid twitched. "You're one of Uchiha Madara's people?!"
"Who knows?" Black Zetsu revealed an inscrutable smile and said, "However, I have Uchiha Madara's corpse here. Orochimaru, do you want it?"
Orochimaru narrowed his eyes, his golden vertical pupils and Rinnegan fixed tightly on Black Zetsu, yet he could not see through what Black Zetsu was truly thinking.
But if he really could use Impure World Reincarnation to summon Uchiha Madara, that would undoubtedly be a tremendous asset!
After all, this was a powerful shinobi who had stood alongside Senju Hashirama, the God of Shinobi. With Uchiha Madara, what was there to fear from that brat Uchiha Houka?
Orochimaru smiled coldly. "Fine. Hand him over to me once the Eight-Tails has been sealed!"
"No problem," Black Zetsu said.
Kisame Hoshigaki cut in at that moment. "What do you plan to do about the Allied Shinobi Forces?"
Orochimaru looked at Black Zetsu and smiled. "That's Akatsuki's business. It has nothing to do with me."
"How heartless. We're clearly partners in the same boat." Black Zetsu sneered, then said blandly, "I have a hundred thousand clones, and I've already dug up enough powerful corpses. Using Impure World Reincarnation, we should be able to hold off the Allied Shinobi Forces for a while."
"Fighting corpses, huh? That doesn't sound like much." Kisame Hoshigaki snorted. "Still, fighting the combined forces of the Five Great Shinobi Villages is sure to be interesting!"
"Kisame, even if war breaks out, your mission remains the same: capture the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki!" Black Zetsu said.
"The Nine-Tails won't be so easy to catch," Orochimaru said, pouring cold water on the idea.
Black Zetsu merely smiled without speaking, though he had other calculations in mind: if they truly could not capture the Nine-Tails, then they could only throw those