Kakashi stared at Naruto in bewilderment.
"What kind of joke is that? How could the Third do something so stupid? It wasn't as if he had no brains!"
Naruto's mouth twitched.
"That's hard to say. I came here for just one thing. When it really happens, I hope you can seize control of the ANBU again."
He paused, and his tone turned cold.
"Then launch a coup and slaughter the Konoha F4."
Kakashi's pupils tightened.
"Who are the Konoha F4?"
Naruto did not pick up on that. He had nearly forgotten that Konoha F4 was a joke left over from his previous life.
He narrowed his eyes and stared at Kakashi.
"This is what you owe the Fourth. If you don't want this utterly rotten mess to keep dragging on, then turn the ANBU inside out in your own way."
The moment he finished speaking, Naruto vanished with a Body Flicker.
All he left behind was a large residence and three Genin who had just woken up, still dazed.
Kakashi glanced at the three of them, his face full of disdain.
"Get back to the Academy and start over. None of you passed."
Elsewhere, Naruto was walking down the street when a crow flew over and landed on his shoulder.
Embedded in the crow's eye was a scarlet Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
Something buried deep in the consciousness could not be twisted around in just a day or two.
Years ago, Naruto had planted a thought in the deepest layer of Itachi Uchiha's instincts: help him destroy Konoha and sweep away the Ninja World. This sort of thing needed time to slowly reshape one's thinking.
On top of that, whenever Pain had nothing better to do, he kept feeding Itachi information, telling him about all the filthy deeds committed by the