"Things..."
"...have gotten even stranger."
When Uchiha Madara woke up, he discovered something extremely bizarre: the entire world had suddenly undergone strange changes.
His body had changed, reverting from his physical peak to how it had been when he was four or five years old.
When he tried to awaken the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, he found that the ocular power within his body had vanished. When he tried to awaken the Rinnegan, he found that the power of the Rinnegan had disappeared as well. The only thing left in his body was a small amount of chakra—and if Uchiha Madara remembered correctly, this was exactly the amount of chakra he had possessed when he was four or five years old!
"What exactly is going on?"
"Wasn't Uchiha Yue fighting the Sage of Six Paths? Why do I only remember that Kaguya Otsutsuki seemed to have died at the Sage of Six Paths' hands? Where are the memories after that?"
"Why have all the memories after that disappeared?"
Deeply confused by the situation before him, Uchiha Madara narrowed his eyes slightly. He knew that what he needed to do now was reclaim his former power.
That was right.
He was Uchiha Madara. Even if he had become someone else's lackey, he was still Uchiha Madara.
Uchiha Madara without power was incomplete. Since he had now returned to the form he had at four or five years old, coupled with the memories he retained, he felt certain that he could become even stronger.
After all, in some respects, being born with knowledge was a cheat code!
The Third Hokage had been reincarnated in the world of the Six Paths of Reincarnation and could climb step by step toward greater heights. How could Uchiha Madara, the great tyrant of the original Naruto story,