Uchiha Madara is sitting on a stone chair, with white hair hanging on his shoulders, Three-Tomoe Sharingan is slowly turning in the darkness.
"He chose to go back." The voice was hoarse and low, "Kutsuki Baidiao's disciple is calmer than his teacher."
Black Zetsu half of his body emerged from the shadows on the ground, like a pool of living ink, with two round yellow eyes protruding from the darkness.
"If Yagura and Mizunotsuki Shigure reach a reconciliation, the civil strife in Kirigakure will be suppressed. Once a balance is established between the four tribes and Yagura, it will be difficult for us to find a breakthrough from Kirigakure. Do you want me to go there?"
Madara's fingers tapped on the armrest of the stone chair.
"No need. Kirigakure's internal fighting is over. The four tribes have won, Yagura has recognized it, and Genji has given the step. There is no point in you going now."
There was a pause.
"But Kutsuki Baidiao has been suppressing it for eighteen years. He can't wipe it out with his death alone. Those families who were crushed by Blood Mist Village, and the ninjas who lost their relatives, still have resentment in their hearts. If you can't use it now, there will be opportunities in the future."
His eyes turned to the closed stone door on the other side of the cave. Behind the door, Tobi was still screaming, and Obito Uchiha was still roaring.
He withdrew his gaze and looked at White Zetsu who had just returned from Kirigakure.
"After Karatachi Yagura returns to the village, Kirigakure's troop deployment will be adjusted. Mizunotsuki Shigure is not Kutsuki Baidiao. He will not put all his troops on the frontal battlefield."
"Do you need me to continue monitoring?"
"Start. Focus on two people. Mizunotsuki Shigure and Karatachi Yagura. Whether the two of them can truly reach a compromise will determine whether Kirigakure will remain monolithic or superficially harmonious."
White Zetsu responded and sank into the rock wall again.
The cave became quiet. Madara's Sharingan turned half a circle and his eyes fell back on the stone door.
Obito Uchiha's body has almost recovered.
The degree of integration of Hashirama Cells is better than he expected. The lignified tissue on the right half of the body has begun to interact positively with the native flesh, and the range and intensity of activities are increasing every day.
More importantly, this kid's mind is still as dead as ever.
Simple and stubborn, her mind is full of Kakashi Hatake and Lin. The more like this, the more complete the shape will be recast after being broken.
"Tobi." Madara spoke.
The stone door was pushed open a crack, and the half-finished face of Tobi squeezed out from the crack of the door. The round yellow eyes blinked. "Lord Madara called me?"
"Obito Uchiha's recovery training will start increasing from today. Within three days, I want him to be able to walk off the ground independently."
Tobi tilted his head. "Three days? He is still out of breath while running laps--"
"Three days."
Tobi looked at Madara's expressionless face, and wisely did not say any more, and retracted into the door. Its high-pitched voice came from the crack in the door.
"Obito Uchiha--Lord Madara said you were too slow--if you can't run out of this hole within three days, I won't let you go back to find Kakashi Hatake--" "What?! That stinky old man--let me go and I will run!"
The stone door was closed. Uchiha Madara sat on the stone chair, the pipelines behind him humming slightly.
Three-Tomoe Sharingan is turning slowly in the darkness, like three bloody stones sinking at the bottom of the water.
He had waited too long. It was so long that he almost forgot what the sun felt like on his skin. But it didn't matter. It would be soon.
Three days later, Obito Uchiha was able to run a full circle around the cave without losing breath.
The movement of the right half of the body becomes smoother and smoother, and the gray-white tissue generated by Hashirama Cells blends in well with the original skin.
Except for a layer of woody texture left on the right face, if you don't look carefully, you might think it is some kind of special scar.
He himself feels good too.
As long as he recovers for a few more days, he can leave this ghost place and return to Konoha, back to Team Minato.
I wonder if that bastard Kakashi Hatake protected Lin properly. Lin is so kind, so she must be bossed around by that cold-blooded bastard Kakashi Hatake.
Obito Uchiha moved his wrist and walked towards the stone door. Before he reached the door, the stone door opened by itself.
Tobi squeezed in through the crack in the door, his half-finished face rarely without the usual ungrateful smile, and something flashed in his round yellow eyes.
"Obito Uchiha, I just detected a piece of news outside." Tobi's voice was also different from usual, not as high-pitched, and lowered by half a degree.
"Kirigakure withdrew its troops. But before withdrawing, it launched a final raid. Kakashi Hatake and Lin were surrounded by Kirigakure's people."
Obito Uchiha's entire figure was struck by Lightning Release. His body moved before his brain, and he stamped his right foot on the ground and rushed directly out of the stone door, so fast that Tobi didn't even react.
With a bang, Obito Uchiha's whole body hit the stone door.
The stone door remained motionless.
"Old man! Open the door!"
Obito Uchiha punched the stone door, and his finger bones hit the rock with a muffled sound. Only a few grains of dust fell off the stone door, but a layer of skin was scratched on his fist.
He punched again and again, and the stone door was not even cracked. "Damn it!"
Obito Uchiha turned around and shouted deep into the cave.
"Madara! Open the door! Didn't you say I can leave after I recover? I want to leave now!"
There was no response from the depths of the cave, only a very low hum coming from the pipes.
Obito Uchiha kicked Shimen again, but of course Shimen didn't move. The soles of his feet were sore from the shock, and he took two steps back with a grin on his face.
"Let me help you."
Tobi walked behind Obito Uchiha, and his white body began to deform, wrapping Obito Uchiha from behind.
The gray-white Hashirama Cells tissue spread up like a living thing, covering his arms, legs, and torso, like a layer of white armor close to the skin.
Between Uchiha Setsuna, Obito Uchiha felt an unprecedented power surge up from his limbs. Hashirama Cells's vitality and Tobi's own chakra were superimposed, exploding in his meridians.
He clenched his right fist and cracked his knuckles. Subtle wooden textures appeared on the surface of the white tissue covering his right arm, and a dark green light faintly appeared deep in the textures.
One punch.
The stone door exploded. The entire stone door exploded from the middle, and the fragments flew out towards the outside of the cave, hitting the rock wall of the corridor and breaking into smaller stones that fell to the ground.
As the stone powder filled the air, Obito Uchiha had already rushed out.
His speed was so fast that his own brain had no time to react.
He walked through the corridor, rushed through the cracks, and climbed up the rock wall at a speed that even shocked himself.
He climbed up the rock wall of more than ten steps in three steps, and the force of his palm digging into the rock crack directly caused cracks in the rock. The moment he rushed out of the ground, the sea breeze filled his head and face.
He didn't even bother to recognize the direction. Tobi said in his ear to go north, so he ran north.
Tobi said hurry up, so he accelerated. White Zetsu's perception was tracking Kakashi Hatake and Lin's chakra, and Obito Uchiha followed the perception line and ran all the way.