"Not curious."
"You! Are! Curious!!!"
"Not curious."
Looking at the utterly unmoved Naruto Uzumaki, Madara Uchiha pursed his lips helplessly. "You little brat. You're just as good at spoiling the mood as Hashirama."
Seriously, that stone tablet recorded every secret in the Shinobi World!
Would it kill him to take a look?
"Hahahaha... Madara, I never thought I'd see you get shut down."
Hashirama Senju burst out laughing at Madara Uchiha's frustrated expression.
"Hmph!"
"I spent so long plotting and did so much..."
"If those pawns hadn't been so useless, I would have achieved my goal long ago."
Madara Uchiha refused to concede.
"Madara, do you really think you're the one playing this game?"
Naruto Uzumaki looked at Madara Uchiha and spoke slowly.
"What do you mean?"
Madara Uchiha shot Naruto Uzumaki an irritated look.
If Obito Uchiha had been a little stronger, his plan would have been foolproof.
He had devised a whole series of plans while he was still alive.
Steal Hashirama Senju's flesh, transplant the Rinnegan into Nagato, choose Obito Uchiha as his Successor, leave Black Zetsu behind to carry out his will...
That included founding the Akatsuki, exploiting internal discord to weaken Konoha's forces, collecting the Tailed Beasts to revive the Ten-Tails, using a binding seal and Black Zetsu to control Obito or Nagato and bring himself back to life, then becoming the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki and carrying out the Eye of the Moon Plan...
He had laid out the entire plan before he died.
He had made the world his board and every living soul his pawn.
If he wasn't the one playing this game, then who was?
"Madara, you're nothing more than another pawn on the board."
Naruto Uzumaki spoke evenly.
"Nonsense."
"My plan may have failed in the end, but that doesn't make me