Orochimaru-Sensei Wants to Poison Someone?!

"Obito, are you okay?!" Minato flashed to his side, concerned for Obito—and for the One-Tomoe Sharingan in his eyes.

At Obito's feet lay a pile of shredded book pages, all torn apart in his rage just moments ago.

Hadn't he bought an annual membership at Masaichi Gym?

Obito felt like he had gotten ripped off. He was going to the battlefield—how many days would that waste? Wasn't Masaichi just making money off him for nothing?

So, the last time he left Masaichi Gym, he had taken a book from the front desk.

The contents of that book!

Bastard! Aaaahhh!! Bastard!!!

It was about how the real young master of the Uchiha clan head's family had been switched at birth by the nanny. The nanny's son took the real young master's place, and when he grew up, the fake young master still could not awaken his Sharingan. Meanwhile, the nanny's son—the real young master—awakened a One-Tomoe Sharingan after suffering abuse.

Only then did the clan head realize that the children had been switched, so he secretly acknowledged the real young master and brought him home.

Why secretly? Because the clan head and his wife had developed deep feelings for the fake young master. They feared that if his identity was exposed, he would be bullied by his classmates at the ninja academy.

The later plot was as fucked-up as it could possibly get!

The fake young master bullied the real young master in every way imaginable.

The clan head and his wife favored the fake young master at every turn. Even the real young master's fiancée stood with the fake young master.

In the end... the fake young master developed heart disease, and the only compatible donor was the real young master. That beast of an Uchiha clan head used the Sharingan to control the real young master and sacrificed him.

Obito had thought there would be some kind of twist.

But in the end... the fake young master fulfilled the real young master's dying wish by marrying his fiancée. The whole family lived happily ever after, and he even named his child after the real young master to commemorate him.

???

At that point, Obito had not awakened his Sharingan yet. Then he saw the second volume. A handsome transfer student had suddenly arrived at the ninja academy, and my childhood friend hopelessly fell in love with him.

At the end, the handsome transfer student and the protagonist were both kidnapped. The kidnappers must have been idiots, because they made the childhood friend choose between the two. Only one could live.

The childhood friend chose to save the handsome transfer student.

The protagonist chose to kill himself so they could be together.

That damned sense of immersion!!

His One-Tomoe Sharingan had awakened just like that.

After hearing why Obito had awakened his Sharingan, Minato, Kakashi, and Rin had no idea what to say to him.

Just because of a book?

"Don't question me! Damn it, if I hadn't torn it up, I would've shown it to you, Sensei. Sensei, tell me yourself—what would you do if Kushina fell in love with someone else while she was in school?" Obito had been so irritated by Kakashi's disdainful gaze that even awakening his Sharingan no longer made him happy, and he hurriedly explained himself.

"Hiss." Minato put himself in that situation. If Kushina fell in love with someone else? He might as well die.

"Kakashi, Obito does have a point." Minato gave an awkward smile, clearly agreeing with Obito.

"They are nothing but pointless emotions. Other than making us lose ourselves and money, they give us nothing." When Kakashi spoke during this period, anyone who heard him wanted to strangle him.

Orochimaru greatly agreed with Kakashi. Feelings were the most boring thing in the world.

He had read Obito's book before.

Interestingly enough, it was this very book that had prompted his decision this time.

And the book's author was currently mourning his masterpiece. He had spent an entire night writing it! Only Orochimaru-sensei had read it, and now it was gone?

Masaichi felt as shattered as the book itself.

For Rin to live, he could only resort to such underhanded means.

Konoha's upper ranks had made a rather absurd decision: they had sent the Uchiha, who excelled at Fire Release, to fight the Hidden Mist ninja, who excelled at Water Release, in the Hidden Mist Village.

In theory, as long as the Uchiha's firepower was fierce enough, the Hidden Mist Village would have no chance to capture Rin.

Question: how could the Uchiha rapidly increase their firepower?

Answer: awaken their eyes.

That was how this book came to be.

The effect was excellent. Obito awakened his eyes immediately after reading it.

Masaichi felt that his understanding of the Uchiha was almost on par with the Second Hokage's.

To make an Uchiha awaken their eyes, all one had to do was stimulate them. The worse their mental state, the more likely they were to awaken the Sharingan.

The book's two stories—one about the real and fake young masters, and one about childhood sweethearts losing to a newcomer—were obviously not comprehensive enough.

So Masaichi still had a whole pile of stories he would write whenever he had time.

Stories targeting little-brother obsessives, pure-love devotees, filial children... all the tragic romances from his previous life were available.

As for the Uchiha rebelling after they grew strong.

His teacher's Impure World Reincarnation had something to say about that.

Over the next few days, the atmosphere within the team became very strange.

When they arrived at the Hidden Rock Village front line, even Jiraiya, who was stationed there, was stunned for a moment. Why had Orochimaru come along with Minato?

Inside the tent.

Jiraiya had not seen Orochimaru in a long time, so he suggested they have a meal together. Halfway through the meal:

"Orochimaru, if you dare do anything that harms Konoha, I will..." Jiraiya shed his usual frivolous manner, his face more serious than ever before.

"What will you do?" Orochimaru sneered.

"Well, I'm just kidding. How could you possibly do anything that harms Konoha?" Jiraiya burst out laughing. "Let's not talk about that. Eat, eat."

"Not necessarily. Maybe I want to do it right now."

Jiraiya frowned, and Orochimaru frowned as well.

"Hehe, you really know how to tell a cold joke, Orochimaru. You're still just like you were as a child, huh?"

"I suppose so, Jiraiya."

Not long afterward, the two exchanged a glance and both laughed.

That night, Jiraiya called Minato over. "Orochimaru is targeting you. Be careful lately. Inspect anything you eat or use thoroughly."

"Yes!" Minato had an active skill called Taking Advice.

Meanwhile.

Orochimaru summoned Masaichi and took out a tub of protein powder from a summoning scroll, telling Masaichi to deliver it to Minato.

Orochimaru was giving protein powder to Minato?

How was that any different from a weasel paying respects to a chicken?!

Then there could only be one truth.

"There's poison in it?!" Masaichi's heart leaped into his throat, pounding wildly.

Poisoning the protagonist's father to death just like that—who would not be nervous?

He was not nervous because he was afraid. He was excited. If Minato was poisoned to death, then Konoha would have no Naruto story in the future, only an Orochimaru story and a Masaichi story.

With the most promising successor dead, Hiruzen Sarutobi would surely lose heart. The position of Hokage would then be Orochimaru's for the taking.

The position of Hokage was within reach.

Sensei, you had finally come to your senses.

Orochimaru never lied. He had even dared reveal his thoughts while eating with Jiraiya earlier. He frankly nodded; there really was poison in the protein powder.

"Hiss!" Seeing Orochimaru admit it, Masaichi hugged the tub of protein powder and paced back and forth through the tent, a thoughtful look on his face.

After a long while, he said:

"Sensei, I think we should do this."

Give the protein powder to Obito and have Obito invite Minato to drink it. That would do it.

Before long, Obito would fake his death anyway.

Minato would die, Obito would disappear too, and the matter could only become one of Konoha's great unsolved mysteries. Even if Hiruzen Sarutobi guessed that they had poisoned him, did he have any evidence?

Even if Obito was found later, by then, the dust would have settled. Sensei would already be Hokage, and the truth would no longer matter.

As for whether Obito would drink it.

Some time ago, Kakashi had bought protein powder from him at an outrageous price. Obito stole Kakashi's every day to drink it, believing that every sip he took meant one less sip for Kakashi, making Kakashi weaker!

So Obito probably would not be so greedy that he drank this tub of protein powder.