Deep beneath the Hokage Building, half of Black Zetsu's body slowly sank into the rock.
His mood could not have been worse.
That brat Qian Ye had completely derailed his plans.
At the battle of Kannabi Bridge, not only had Obito failed to turn to darkness, Qian Ye had actually set him back on the right path.
Even that old bastard Madara Uchiha had bought into Qian Ye's supposed vision of a unified empire.
Worse still, Qian Ye had established his own power base in Hidden Leaf.
The Uchiha clan had even begun following his lead.
If this brat was allowed to keep running wild, the thousand-year plan to resurrect his mother would be utterly ruined.
Black Zetsu sped through the earth, soon arriving directly beneath Konoha High-Security Prison.
Security was tight here, and many dangerous prisoners were held deep within its dungeons.
Black Zetsu slipped through a crack into a dark, damp solitary cell.
A gaunt man with disheveled hair sat on the stone bed.
His eyes were sunken, with a faint, dark-red bloody gleam flickering within them.
He was a surviving orphan of the Chinoike Clan.
Years ago, the clan had been ostracized and expelled by the Uchiha clan, and its remaining members had been hunted down. They harbored a bone-deep hatred of Hidden Leaf.
Black Zetsu silently poked his head out of the earth and watched the man with a cold smile.
"Do you crave revenge?"
The gaunt man jerked his head up, a beastlike growl rising from his throat.
"Get lost!"
"Quit playing your spooky tricks in front of me!"
Black Zetsu wasted no words. He split off a mass of black sludge and sent it burrowing into the man's mouth and nose.
The black sludge forcibly invaded the man's mental world and seized control of