While Houka and the others discussed important matters inside the tent, Uchiha Sasuke stood some distance away, watching them with a... complicated expression.
The Fourth Shinobi World War was over, but proud as he was, he found it difficult to accept such an ending.
He had traveled across mountains and seas to return from overseas, only to get beaten half to death by Uchiha Madara before he could even properly show off. When he had finally been on the verge of death and met his ancestor, that rotten old man had proven utterly awful—he had promised him an inheritance, yet withheld it at the very last moment!
This was simply outrageous!!
If the Sage of Six Paths had not been dead for over a thousand years, his bones reduced to ash, Uchiha Sasuke would have used Impure World Reincarnation to bring that old bastard back and teach him how to be a kind, generous elder!
He had already given Naruto an inheritance, so why not me?
The more Uchiha Sasuke thought about it, the more unbalanced he felt. He was miserable beyond endurance, unable to sleep at night these past few days, his hormones practically thrown into disarray.
Naruto, that dead last, received the Sage of Six Paths' inheritance. His strength has already far surpassed mine.
Sitting on a boulder, Uchiha Sasuke's eyes shone brightly as he thought, The only way to surpass him now is to evolve my Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan into the Rinnegan!
Uchiha Sasuke had considered transplanting Terumi Mei's Rinnegan right eye, but even Uchiha Madara, after becoming the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki and transplanting a Rinnegan left eye, had been no match for Naruto. So even if he took Terumi Mei's Rinnegan right eye, he still could not defeat Naruto.
After pondering for a while, Uchiha Sasuke's eyes