Secret Meeting with Orochimaru

In the early morning, Obito gently pulled his arm from Tsunade's embrace, shaking it vigorously to soothe the numbness.

As the saying goes, there is no such thing as a plowed-out field, only an exhausted ox. Especially at Tsunade's ripe age, her soil was incredibly fertile.

What was even more perverse was her Yin Seal... seeing that he couldn't hold out, she would just release a bit of the seal and be fully revitalized. If it weren't for the Three-Turn Golden Elixir he had consumed, Obito might have truly died from exhaustion, meeting an early grave.

Obito rubbed his kidneys, wondering if he should stew that little turtle Guy to replenish his vitality...

Tiptoeing, he picked up his clothes, quietly closed the door, prepared breakfast, left a note for Tsunade, and headed out.

Tsunade slept for another hour before waking up with bleary eyes. She had cried twice last night and drank two large glasses of water; if not for the Yin Seal, she feared she would have been defeated. She really needed to be more diligent in her training from now on...

Come to think of it, their thoughts were surprisingly in sync. Truly a match made in heaven!

Waking up to find her little wolf-dog gone, her mood soured instantly. He called her "sweetheart" last night, but the moment she opened her eyes, he was nowhere to be found!

She grabbed her pajamas and threw them on. After getting up, she saw a lovingly prepared breakfast and a note on the dining table. It simply read: "Something came up, out for a bit," followed by a hand-drawn heart.

Tsunade put down the note and hummed a little tune as she headed to the bathroom to wash up, her mood suddenly brightening again...

Obito was already familiar with the Root base.

"To come find me so openly, Obito-kun, aren't you afraid of inviting trouble?" Orochimaru said in a raspy voice.

"I'm just here to catch up, what is there to fear? Besides, what is there in Konoha that could possibly scare me?" Obito replied nonchalantly.

"Fair point... please, come in." Orochimaru agreed.

"You've been excluded from the position of Fourth Hokage. Don't you have any plans?" Obito asked.

"Heh heh..." Orochimaru's sinister laughter sounded like a chilling gust of wind.

Combined with the environment of the Root base, it was a perfect match...

"I never thought he would let me become Hokage. Of the three of us, he favors Jiraiya the most. Jiraiya is the Will of Fire he promotes, Tsunade is his face, and I am merely the blade in his hand," Orochimaru said.

"An accurate analysis. But it seems he can no longer hold onto this blade. Don't underestimate your teacher; if things go wrong, you might just sacrifice yourself heroically in this war, becoming the perfect embodiment of the Will of Fire. He gets rid of you, and Minato smoothly inherits the Hokage position. Simply perfect."

"And what about you? That foolish woman is like a collar. No matter how fierce a beast is, once it wears a collar, it can only be a watchdog!"

"Orochimaru, have your wounds healed, or do you think you have the right to spout such nonsense in front of me? Don't think that just because you have some value, I won't kill you," Obito said irritably.

"Just a joke, Obito-kun. You really have no sense of humor. Tell me, what is your plan?" Orochimaru asked insidiously.

"The hardships of this war will far exceed the Third Kazekage's expectations. We don't need to rush; once the war reaches a stalemate, the Third will be begging us to join the battlefield!"

The original story didn't describe the Third Shinobi World War in much detail, but the information provided was significant. The major nations besieged Konoha, and although Konoha eventually won, the losses were heavy. Kirigakure had a man named Ao who possessed a Byakugan—and one must know that only the eyes of the Hyuga main branch are preserved after death!

The Hyuga is a large clan, but the number of people in the main branch is very small. Furthermore, this Ao encountered Shisui when he was still a child, forcing Konoha to send the Uchiha clan to war. From this information, one can infer the stalemate and difficulty of the war.

Of course, one cannot rule out the possibility that the old schemer, the Third, intentionally sent the Uchiha, who excelled in Fire Release, to fight the Kirigakure ninjas who excelled in Water Release, taking the opportunity to weaken the Uchiha's strength.

"Oh? What intelligence do you have?" Orochimaru asked.

"You don't need to know that. I came to see you for another matter. The Third Kazekage of Sunagakure was assassinated by Chiyo's grandson. You should know the name Sasori. Find him and give him this scroll," Obito said, handing a scroll to Orochimaru.

"Sasori, huh... I understand you less and less. I will deliver it to him." Orochimaru shoved the scroll into his mouth, wrapping it with his wet tongue before swallowing it into his stomach...

Even after Orochimaru took over as the leader of the Anbu, controlling Konoha's spies in other villages, he didn't know that the Third Kazekage was killed by Sasori! It was evident that Uchiha Obito's intelligence network was even more powerful than the Root, which had been deeply cultivated for years! How did he manage this? He was truly someone who made people want to send him to the laboratory immediately!

No matter how much Orochimaru speculated, he would never know that Obito had "heavenly eyes" upon arriving in this world.

Obito suppressed the rising acid in his stomach, waved his hand, and vanished from the room.

In Obito's mind, Sasori and Orochimaru were both extremely useful talents, but combat was not their greatest value!

For Obito's cosmic plan, Sasori was a key figure; the aerospace engineer of the Naruto World had to be him... Since the Otsutsuki could descend onto this planet, why couldn't he perform the reverse operation?

He believed Sasori would definitely be very interested in the contents of the scroll. Any child who loved machinery could not resist the temptation of Megatron! This was Obito's bait. He didn't know how Megatron would be built, but this bait was enough to hook Sasori!

Checking the time, it was still early. If he rushed to find old man Uchiha Madara now, he could still make it home for dinner... and after dinner, he could still...

Madara's location was on a peninsula in the north of the Land of Fire. The base was built under a giant skeleton, which shouldn't be hard to find.

It took Obito half a day to finally find the place. He didn't know what kind of animal the giant ribcage belonged to; the secrets of this world went far beyond just the affairs of ninjas. But the original story never mentioned it, so he would just have to explore it slowly in the future.

Inside the underground base, Madara sat on a stone chair in front of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path with his eyes closed. Without careful observation, one would think he was a corpse... his withered hair and skin held no signs of life.

"It seems we have a guest..." Uchiha Madara opened his eyes and said in a low voice, his single three-tomoe Sharingan still glowing crimson!