Back then, Tobirama Senju had used the Flying Thunder God Technique to kill Uchiha Izuna with a sneak attack. It was utterly despicable. At the thought of that damned Tobirama Senju, killing intent surged in Madara Uchiha's eyes.
The Uchiha should never have practiced the Flying Thunder God Technique. Yet Black Zetsu had just told him that Uchiha Yi had mastered it. Madara was deeply displeased. How could an Uchiha learn that technique? Had they all forgotten Izuna's death?
At that thought, Madara fell silent again.
It wasn't just Izuna. By now, even he, Madara Uchiha, had probably been forgotten by the Uchiha.
He remembered leaving Konoha and finding no one willing to follow him. Bitterness welled up inside him. Izuna had asked him to look after the Uchiha, but in the end, he had failed. He hadn't betrayed the Uchiha. The Uchiha had betrayed him.
Madara's loyalists: Come on. When Madara asked us to defect from Konoha, we waited at the back gate for ages, but he never showed up. Seriously, who does that? You're defecting from Konoha, and you leave through the front gate? Besides, when you walk out the front gate, nobody thinks you're betraying the village!
Madara was filled with resentment and disappointment toward the Uchiha Clan. The Uchiha in Konoha had lost their pride. They were lambs kept in a pen, no longer worthy of the Uchiha name.
"Is that boy strong?" Madara had grown interested in Uchiha Yi.
"He defeated Hanzō, so he can't be weak. His Lightning Release is formidable, too." Black Zetsu recalled Uchiha Yi's earlier fight. If he hadn't known the boy was an Uchiha, he might have thought he was watching the Raikage fight.
From what Black Zetsu had seen, Uchiha Yi was certainly no weaker than the current Third